Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,084, for Isaac Mason, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Esther
Mason, Isaac
No. 17,084
Sarah
CONTENTS

Albany 2,448
Sarah Mason widow of Isaac Mason
who died on the 27 April 1815 of Franklin Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Parsons of the Reg't. commanded by Conn. in the Conn. State Troops line for 12 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 1/3 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of Feb. 1838 and sent to Jesse Smith East Windsor Hill, Conn.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 38. 250. Semi-annual allowance ending 4th Mar. 39. 16. $ 266.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 — }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2 Page 113
Let to Hon. Orrin
Holt Jan. 24, 183
do. Hon. J. M. McKim, Feb. 23
Duplicate certificate issued 12 March '39, was sent to Hon. G. Holt, Washington, Con. —

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the act of Congress of the 4 th July 1836 State of New York } ss.
County of Franklin on this 9 th day of October A.D. 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Franklin aforesaid Sarah Mason a resident of Chateaugay in the county and State aforesaid aged 87 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 third Section of the the act of Congress passed July the 4 th D. 1836 that she is the Widow of Isaac Mason formerly of Windsor Goshen (which is now the town of Ellington) Tolland County Connecticut. Who was a private Soldier in the army of the revolution & who served in sev- eral distinct periods of that War. Viz, That in the month of April - 1775 he enlisted into a company of State troops, commanded by Capt. Hierekiah Parsons which went to Roxbury, near Boston, where he served from the first of May until past the middle of December 1775. As she expects to prove.
And she further declares that the next year she believes in the part of August her said husband enlisted into a company commanded by Capt. Simon Wolcott of East Windsor in Connecticut that he went - down after the company had got to New York, with several other persons, to fill up the company which went down in June 1776 that he staid and performed a tour of duty until about the last of December 1776. She further declares that her said husband performed a tour of duty at New London for three months. She thinks it was un- der Capt. Fitch or Capt. Simeon Buel but she cannot hear that any person who served with him are living to testify for her
Her said husband was drafted and went one or two Shorter tours, which she cannot now prove but if she can obtain any proof before her case is decided she will have it sent
She further declares that she was married to the aforesaid Isaac Mason at Windsor Goshen now called Ellington, in Tolland County Con- necticut on the 28 th day of June A.D. 1770 sixty eight years ago last June that there was present at her marriage & who are now living Widow Anna Carpenter & Mrs. Abigail Wright. She was married at the House of her

Mother & was married by the Rev. John Bliss then pastor of the Congregational Church in said Windsor Goshen (now Ellington as aforesaid).
That her said husband died in the Town of Windsor in Vermont on the 27 th Day of April A.D. 1815.
And that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sarah Mason
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. (to wit) on this 9 th day of October A.D. 1838.
In testimony whereof I Wriah D. Meeker Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Franklin & State of New York hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before said Court this 9 th day of October 1838 in the matter of the application of Widow Sarah Mason for a pension.
Whereupon I do hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Malone in the County of Franklin aforesaid on the day and year above written.
Attest
W. D. Meeker Clerk of Franklin County Courts

Lucia Weston
Widows
1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850

Jonathan Mason of the town of Chateaugay in the County of Franklin and in the State of New York - hereby certify that I am well knowing to the fact that Isaac Mason the husband of the widow Sarah Mason died in the town of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont on the 27 th day of April A.D. 1815 and that the said Sarah Mason still remains the widow of the said Isaac Mason & that she has never again inter married
Jonathan Mason
Sworn to and subscribed on the 9 th Day of October 1838 before me State of New York { Henry B. Smith Justice of the
County of Franklin } On this 9 th day of October 1838 personally appeared before me Henry B. Smith a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Franklin (aforesaid) Jonathan Mason who has subscribed the foregoing certificate and made solemn Oath to the truth of the same and I further certify that he is a credible person In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Chateaugay in the County & State aforesaid this 9 th Day of October 1838. Henry B. Smith Justice of the peace
State of New York } I, Micah D. Meeker, Clerk of Franklin County } Franklin County do hereby certify That Henry B. Smith Esquire whose name is subscribed to the above certificate as a Justice of the Peace is as a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn. That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and that I firmly believe his signature above written is genuine Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 9 th day of October 1838 Micah D. Meeker, Clerk

Isaac Mason Rufus Bush

I Rufus Bush a resident of Enfield in Hartford county, in Connecticut, hereby depose and say, That I am a Soldier of the Revolution that I served in several campaigns of the Revolutionary War; That I served in the first part of the war viz in the year 1775, from the 1 st of May until past the middle of December of that year; I was in Capt Nehemiah Parsons company which was attached to Lt Col George Pitkin Regiment; as is more fully set forth in my own Declaration to which I would refer; I receive a pension under the act of 1832.
There served with me in this campaign Isaac Morrison then of Windsor Goshen; now called Ellington in Tolland County; a man with whom I was well acquainted, & whose services I well remember. I understand he removed away from Ellington a number of years ago but I do not know where he went.
Rufus Bush
State of Connecticut
Hartford County } to Enfield
On this 1 st day of October A D 1838 personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public of & for the State of Connecticut Rufus Bush, a resident of Enfield aforesaid who then & there made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed & he is a credible person, known to me in testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name & affix my Seal of office, the day & year above named.
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public

whereof; I do hereunto subscribe my name, & affix my seal of office at said East Windsor on the day and year first named.
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.
Jesse Charlton Not. Public

I Hezekiah Mansell, a resident of East Windsor in Hartford County Conn. Hereby depose and say, That I served in several campaigns in the Revolutionary War, for which I receive a pension. In the year 1776 I served in Captain Simon Wolcotts company, in Col d Fisher Hays Regiment; I enlisted in June & served to 25 of Dec r 1776 having served something more than six months.
There served with me in the same company, Isaac Meason then of Windsor Goshen, (the same that is now the town of Ellington in Tolland County) When Capt Wolcotts company marched to New York the company was not full; & Lt. Hezekiah Wells the 2 nd Lt, was sent home to enlist & bring on more men; These came down with Lt Wells to the Camp at New York Eleven Men, three of the men were from Windsor Goshen: viz, Isaac Meason above named; & Aaron & Daniel Slade: my belief is that they enlisted in August & served, viz the said Meason served till we were all discharged & so did the Slades, I remember well that Meason, viz the said Isaac Meason, was a good soldier.
Hezekiah Mansell
State of Connecticut } Hartford County } ss East Windsor on this 20 th day of September A D 1838, personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut, Hezekiah Mansell, who subscribed the above Deposition in my presence, & then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the same, & he is a credible person, well known to me, In testimony

whereof; I do hereunto subscribe my name, & affix my seal of office at said East Windsor on the day and year first named.
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.
Isaac Newton My Minister

Marriage
Recorded

I James Moore hereby certify that in the records of Marriages solemnized in this town, and entered on its public records, I find an entry, of which the following is a transcript. Isaac Mason of East Windsor & Sarah Benton of Tolland, were to each other married, Twenty eighth June A D Seventeen hundred and seventy.
The above is a true copy, of the record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record, in fair legible figures as follows, "Isaac Mason of East Windsor & Sarah Benton of Tolland were to each other married 28 June A D 1770."
I James Moore ————— above named depones and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the town of East Windsor in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, and that the above is a true extract, from the records of said town of East Windsor with the exception above named as certified by me James Moore, Clerk of the town of East Windsor
(State of Connecticut.) Hartford County ss. East Windsor on this day of October 1838 personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton, a Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut James Moore — Esq., who has signed the foregoing deposition, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, before me, and he is a creditable person, and is now Clerk of said town of East Windsor In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Notary Public at said East Windsor in Hartford County the day of — October A D 1838 Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.

I Anna Carpenter of Tolland in the County of Tolland, Connecticut, widow of Reuben Carpenter formerly of said Town, depose & say, That I was Born March 1 st A 1745, That I was Married Sept 11 th A 1766, That my second child Reuben Carpenter was born Sept 12 1769, That the next season the forepart of the summer I think, but the month I do not exactly remember, I was sent for from Tolland, where I then lived to go to Ellington, or as it was then called to Windsor Goshen, to attend the wedding of my Sister Sarah Benton, who was Married at that time, viz in 1770 to Isaac Mason, of said Windsor Goshen, now Ellington. I carried up my child, Reuben, with me, I saw my said Sister Sarah married at that time by Rev John Bliss then Pastor of the Congregational Church at said Windsor Goshen. The record of my age, & of my Marriage & of the Birth of my children now lying open before us, in my large family Bible is the true record of all those events, entered in said family Bible many years ago. I remember well that my Brother Isaac Mason, went into the Army at several different times, that he was gone at one time more than Six months & one time he let out his small farm, when he went away, & his wife went to live with her Mother; where Isaac Mason went to serve in the Army I cannot say, but I know he was gone,

at several different times, and in the whole according to the impressions on my mind not less than Fifteen months.
In presence of
{ Same A Carpenter Solomon Carpenter
Anna her Carpenter mark
State of Connecticut
Tolland county, ss Tolland on this 19 th Day of September A 1838, personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton, a Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut Widow Anna Carpenter, a resident of Sd Tolland, who then & there signed the foregoing certificate before me, & made solemn oath to the truth of the same, & she is a credible person
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of my said Office on the day & year above named.
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public
Anna Carpenter Jesse Charlton Sept 19

I Abigail Wright of Coventry Connecticut depose & say; That I am well knowing to the fact That Isaac Meason, of Windsor Goshen, as it was then called; but which is now the Town of Ellington, in Tolland County, Connecticut, was Married to my sister Sarah Benton, at the House of her Mother in the Spring of the year I believe of 1770. The next year after my said sister was Married to said Isaac Meason, she had a Daughter Lydia Meason, she was born in September When I counted but one Month of being twelve years old & this I well remember: so that she must have been in Sept 1771.
I was present at the marriage of said Isaac Meason, to said Sarah Benton, they were Married by the Reverend John Bliss, then Pastor of the Congregational Church, at said Windsor Goshen, now Ellington.
I have a record of my own age in our large family Bible, made many years ago, & that says that I was Born Oct 22 - Seventeen hundred fifty nine.
I well remember that when I was on a visit to my sister after I had removed from said Ellington, or Windsor Goshen, to Andover a parish in the town of Coventry Connecticut I returned to said Windsor Goshen, on a visit to my sister, and I then found that her said Husband was gone into the Army; my said sister then had two Children Lydia the eldest, & Jonathan named after his Grand father. My said sister & her husband removed up to Windsor in Vermont, more than fifty years ago, where the said Isaac Meason died

more than twenty years ago. Deponent has heard from her said Sister Mason two months ago she was then living, and she had never again intermarried.
Margail Wright
State of Connecticut Tolland County, ss. In Coventry on this 19 th day of October A 1838 personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut Mrs. Margail Wright who has signed the foregoing certificate and then and there made solemn oath to the truth of the same; and she is a respectable & credible person, whom I have known several years. In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name & affix my Seal of Office in the day & year aforesaid
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public
15 th Sep Margail Wright Sarah Mason

I hereby certify That there is remaining in this office, Books & files of belonging to the pay Table of the War of the revolution, in which it ap- pears from an original pay Roll of Capt Menekhi- ah Parsons company, which was attached to Lt Col o George Perkins Regiment, of which the following is the Style and Title viz 10 th Comp. 4 th Regiment And in That Roll Isaac Meason is credited for services performed in said company from 16 th day of May A 1775 until the 21 st of December. 6 = 5 ds
And I further find that Capt Simon Wolcott is credited for services performed in the year 1776, in the following manner viz The United States D r To the State of Connecticut for sundry expenditures for Bounties Wages, Hospital Expense, Lost Baggage & paid to the troops of the United States Capt Simon Wolcott "Guys"; "76 For Equipping 66 "4 For Subsisting 186 " " Amount 22 " 7 " 6 Total Amount 274 " 11 " 6 Specie Value
And I further certify That I know of no Rolls of Capt Simon Wolcotts company remaining in this office.
Thurey Kilborn Comp r 3

Payment to be made at Albany by T. W. Olcott, Esq., Agent for paying Pen- sioners, in the Agency of Albany, N. Y.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A Vol. 2 - Page 113 by
R. Burdin Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, Sarah Mason of New York - widow of Isaac Mason, deceased - who was a Private during the War of the Revolution - is entitled to receive Thirty three - dollars and thirty three cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September. This certificate is issued in lieu of one dated 28 Nov 1838, for same amount, which has been lost or mislaid.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twelfth - day of March - one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine
J. B. Poinsett
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. §
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Nov 16. For Sarah Mason
6, Charlton E Windsor Conn
widow of Isaac Mason died July 4, 1836 $ 33:33 per ann
Rev. Mr. Townsend Commissioner of Pension Washington
Send cut to Jesse Charlton East Windsor Hill Conn
Nov 16

J L Edwards Comm of Pensions
Jesse Charlton 3 Windsor Hill Conn
Jesse Charlton, Esq East Windsor Hill, Connecticut

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17084
Sarah Mason
Wid. of
Isaac Mason
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4. 1836
Index:—Vol. M Page 8
[Arrangement of 1870.]

House of Reps
Jan'y 19 th 1839
Sir
I have the honor to transmit sundry papers from Mr Charlton two of which I wish the Dept to return to me and to facilitate the business I send a copy of Capt Walcutt's Roll - of similar those papers which I ought to have presented some time since I therefore beg of the Dept to examine them as early as convenient
Very respectfully, your Obt Servant
Orin H. Hull
Hon J. L. Edwards Com of Pensions Washington D.C.

May 1861
To the care of Hon. Orin Holt & to be opened by him, & to J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington.
P. C.

East Windsor Hill Hartford County Conn
Hon d Sir
Dec 4 th 1838
Your kindness in times past emboldens me to trespass still further on your patience & happy shall I be to be able to do anything that will ac- commodate you Sir
The Commissioner of Pensions sent me a Certificate for the Widow Mason of the State of New York (formerly of Ellington). He called the service just 10 Months it was 10 m & 17 days and this will make for the poor wom- an in the first drawing a difference of $14.00 & as she is very poor this will be worth saving to her.
If Sir you will try to have the alteration made in two or three days if convenient it would be a favor most thankfully acknowledged
Your Ob t Serv t
Jesse Charlton

Apr. 1.
Sam Smith C. T. Miller
J. Edwards Esquire. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
REC

East Windsor Hill Hartford County
Conn.
March 28
1838.
Sir.
In relation to the certificate of Sarah Mason Widow of Isaac Mason, As I had received the first certificate by Judge Niles, & have sent to Mrs Mason at Chautauqua N Y, and as you made out a second one on which was written that it was issued in lieu of one supposed to be lost in transmission: as I have sent the widow the first by which her papers will be made, to draw her money; may not the pension agent, if he was informed by you of the supposed loss of the first, & the issuing of the second; think there is something suspicious in the papers made after the first or lost one , if you do not notify him that the first was found & the second one returned to you. I did not know but some impediment might be met in applying for the payment unless you notified the agent how the matter stood. You will therefore excuse me, as it is to prevent delay & trouble to the widow. I am Sir, very respectfully Your Obedt Servt.
Jesse Charlton
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Nov 16 Con-
Sarah Mason
Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

East Windsor Hill Hartford County
Conn Nov 13 th 1838
Sir
I have this day returned the papers of Sarah Mason; with the letter of the Gov r & of Hon. J. Fiercey, member of Congress, & the Secretary of State with a copy of our Statute. Will you not examine that before you act on any matter of my cases. I have taken many depositions, as Notary, understanding from our Statute that the power was given fully in the law sent; viz our Statute of 1833.
Mr Merriman assured me this morning before Mr Fiercey that in an application he made for the Widow Sarah Rockwell of Hartford County, the only evidence in the case was taken before Ebenezer Goodale Notary Public & the Certificate was signed him. I think Sir an examination of our Statute will satisfy you at once.
I am very respectfully your Not te Serv t J. F. Charlton J. L. Edwards Esquire

J. L. Edwards Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

East Windsor Hill
Hartford County Conn.
Dec. 27 th
1838
Hon d Sir:
The certificate sent for Widow Sarah Mason; Widow of Isaac Mason, being less in amount of time by 17 days than it ought to be I returned it for amendment 3 weeks since . His first tour in Capt Hezekiah Parsons company, as shown by Comptroller's certificate was Six mo s & five days; His second tour in Capt Simon Wolcott's company, was from Aug 13 th 1776 to Dec 25 1776, four Months & 12 days see Hezekiah Mearns's certificate, and I have in my possession by borrowing & which I must return Capt Simms Wolcott's Roll of the enlistment the only Military paper except his commission which his family papers I have sent that to Genl Holt that he might send it you, & then return it to me, that I may return it as I promised for I must not violate my promise at any rate. I sent a copy of it some time ago, certified by me, to be a true copy, but it was sent back as not of any use.
And on the Roll of Captain Richard Abbes company, which was attached to Col o Jonathan Wells Reg t viz the 19 th Reg t of the Conn s Militia

which at the time of Arnold's defection was called out, to go to West Point; and on that Roll Isaac Mason is credited for services, as a Corporal, in that detachment from the 22 nd to the 30 th of September 1780. The copy lies before me; the original is mislaid or lost; this fact I assert to you on my honor and under my Seal of office as solemnly true. but if this last cannot be allowed without a different form of Evidence, & a new declaration you can do as you judge proper, but the seventeen days, which was accidentally omitted you will feel no hesitation to add.
The widow's application is under the law of 1836; she was married 68 years ago, as not far from 90 & greatly needs what can be done for her, in allowing all she is entitled to.
With great respect Sir, I am your Obedient Servant.
Jesse Charlton
And in certification of what I have said of the six days at West Point I affix my Notarial Seal. on the day first named at my office in East Windsor Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.

East Windsor Hill
Hartford County Conn
Dec 27 th 1881.
Hon d & B ld Sir.
In the case of Sarah Meason Widow of Isaac Meason, formerly of Ellington, whose pension certificate I returned to your care, because the time allowed was by mistake call 17 days up than what was fully proved; I again addr ess you: I have stated in my letter to Mr Edwards, left open for your inspection, the particular points, on which, by casting his eye, he will perceive the mistake.
I have also sent to you, Capt Simon Wolcotts original roll of indictment the only Military paper, except his commission which his family have preserved: this roll, I borrowed giving my word to return it, you will please shew it to Mr Edwards if he wishes to see it but I wish you to return it to me as soon as convenient.
And as Mrs Meason is very old & poor, I wish, very much, that this alteration might be made & the certificate sent as soon as may be, I thought it my duty to ask that this might be added as evidently her due, & I doubt not it will soon be done.
With gratitude for your favors in time past, I am Sir, respectfully yours.
Jesse Charlton
Hon. Orin Root, House of Rep. Washington D. C.

East Windsor Hill; Hartford County, Conn March 22 nd A 1839.
Sir.
I received this morning, from Gen Holt, the perman certificate of Sarah Mason, issued in lieu of one dated 28 th Nov 1838 which has been lost or mislaid.
When Mr Niles returned from Washington he brought me on the first which you had found & given to him: & in your letter to him of Feb 23, you say, in relation to the length of the period of Mr Masons services. "the service in '75 was Six months & 5 days". "her late husband joined Gays Reg 13 th Aug '76, was discharged as is known in Dec the uncertainty of the last term might have been expected to."
I have a few words further to say, Please hear me: By the terms of the enlistment they were to serve till Dec 25. And there are no documents in our public offices which shew that they were discharged a day before that time.
Andrew Youngbury Esq one of the most exact & true men in state in his Declaration & in his deposition with the papers of Sarah Willson that they were discharged on that very day, Zereshah Mansell the last man living of Capt Simon Wolcott company in Col Gays Reg, stated that they were discharged the 25 th of Dec, & if they were allowed in their pay a few days for getting home, as they state they did not reach home until about the first of Jan ry . I thought Mrs Mason was entitled to more than the allowance for 10 Months. If in the first tour it was Six months & 5 days, & in the 2 nd from August 13 to Dec 25, it must be more than 10 Months & as she is very needy I thought it my duty to ask that she might have what seemed to be her just due. As I had made arrangements for her to get her money on the one brought me by Judge Niles

I herewith return the one granted in lieu of that which I received this day from Gen Holt; though I am loth to relinquish the 17 days & its rate of allow- ance which in the 8 years would have made $15 dollars difference with the poor old lady and would have accrued solely for her benefit & not in the least for mine.
I am with sincere respect & confidence.
your obed Servt.
J L Edwards Esq } Jesse Charlton. commissioner of } Pensions

J. L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Huron

It appears by the Roll of Capt 3 Hezekiah Parsons company of State troops at Roxbury in D 1775 That Isaac Mason served from May 16 th to Dec r 21 st , 1775 6 m 5 ds
see Comptrollers Certificate sent with the papers.
And from Capt Simon Wolcotts Roll of inlistments in his company * which was attached to Col o Fisher Gays regiment That the service of Isaac Mason commenced on the 13 th day of August 1776 & from the Deposition of Hezekiah Munsell sent with Mrs Masons papers that they were dismissed on the 25 th of Dec r 1776 And the Deposition of Andrew Kingsbury Esq sent with the Application of Sarah Willson formerly widow of Samuel Dix shows the same fact. * This Roll belongs to his grand
daughter. I solemnly aver the said Roll gives the date Aug 13 th D 1776
This being the case, ought not the certifi- cate to be for seventeen days more time, viz for 10 m 17 ds
Knowing that you wished to do right I have returned the certificate that an alteration may be made.
With the highest respect & esteem Sir, I am your Obed t Serv t .
Jesse Charlton
East Windsor Hill. Conn
J L Edinards Esq commissioner of pensions Washington D C

Hartford Nov 14 th 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq
At the request of Mr Charlton, who has applied for a pension for a Miss Mason, I would hereby certify that a Notary Public, in Boston, is, by Statute authorized to administer oaths.
With sentiments of Respect Your Most obedt W. H. Ellsworth

East Windsor Hill
Hartford County
Conn
Dec r 13
1838
D r Sir.
I thank you for your early attention to the papers of Mrs Sarah Mason, her advanced age, & her respectability, together with her extreme indigence made it a case in which I thought I ought to ask this favor.
Both the taxes of service, were distinctly proved, by living witnesses, & fully corroborated by the Comptrollers certificate.
But, as I knew of one Roll of Capt Simon Wolcotts company in possession of his Grand daughter, I borrowed it to copy I promised to return, it to her, & shall not fail to do it. I have repeatedly sent original pay rolls to the pension office, & there I have a right over them, by gift or purchase, I cheerfully do it; but occasionally they are viewed by fund as a relic they will not part with; in such a case, I can do nothing more than send an attested copy, under my seal of office; If they are of

no sort of use; I will not trouble you with any more.
In regard to a Notary Public having a right to take Depositions. The Statute Law of Connecticut passed A.D. 1833. Edition of 1835 page 354 is the following. Respectfully yours. Jesse Norton
Sec 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate & House of Representatives in General Assembly convened, that it shall be lawful for any Notary Public to administer an Oath, and take depositions in any case, in which a justice of the peace might administer or take the same, and also, to take acknowledgements of Deeds.
Sec 2. That all grants, Deeds of Bargain & Sale, and Mortgages of Land, executed by any grantors resident in any foreign State, or Country without the limits of the United States, and acknowledged to be his or their free act and deed, before any Notary public, or justice of the peace, in such foreign State or Country, shall be valid as if acknowledged before a justice of the peace in this State.
Provided that this act shall not affect any suit now pending.
I Royal A. Newman Secretary of State for the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing beginning at "Section first" is a true copy

of an act passed as is therein stated entitled "An Act authorizing Notaries Public to and minister oaths passed 1833.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, & affix the Seal of the State of Connecticut at Hartford in said State on this 13 th day of Novem- ber A.D. 1838.
Horace Wilkinson Secretary of State

16. Sarah Mason N.Y.
certificate re 10 Dec 28 referred to Mr. Sylvester can not be found
Issue duplicate for 10 mo. pri 33 33/100
H.W. O. Mott Wellington Co.

I Jesse Charlton a resident of East Windsor in Hartford County in the State of Connecticut of lawful age depose and say,
That I am the Attorney for Widow Sarah Mouson, widow of Isaac Mouson, formerly of Windsor Goshen, now called Ellington, in Tolland County Connecticut, the said Sarah Mouson now residing in Chateaugay, State of New York.
That I prepared and transmitted her application for a pension under the act of July 1836.
That I received (in December 1838, (according to my best recollection) a pension certif- icate for the said Widow Sarah Mouson, on examining it I found it to be predicated on a less amount of time that I thought was clearly proved by the docu- ments sent and supposing to be an accidental mistake in the in the computation of the time which the department would cheerfully rectify I then immediately enclosed it in a wrapper directed to J. L. Edwards Esq, Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C; and put it into the post office, I believe into the post office on East Windsor Hill Connecticut but it is possible I might have put it into the post office at Hartford, as I sometimes put letters into that office, & do not keep any record or minute into which office I put them, but I put this into the one or the other post offices and there left it to be sent to the Commissioner of Pensions that the error might be rectified and the certificate returned to me: But I have never received that certificate or any other in the lieu or place of it, and learning from the letter of the Commissioner of Pensions that it

had not been received at the Pension Office as by his letter dated January 24 th AD 1839
And I do not know or believe that it has been sent to any other person. And
Dated at { I hereby request that it may be sent to me
Jesse Charlton
State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss Hartford
On this 27 th day of February AD 1839
personally appeared before me Ralph R. Phelps One of the Justices of the Peace for Hartford County Jesse Charlton a resident of East Windsor in Hartford County Connecticut a credible person well known to me, who has signed the foregoing certificate & made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me
Ralph R. Phelps Justice of the Peace.

I, ROYAL R. HINMAN , Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern,
THAT
Ralph R. Phelps Esq. is
and for more than Six months last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certifi- cates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Phelps
in Court and Country.
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 27 th day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
And I certify that the signature of said Phelps
hereunto annexed is genuine.
Royal R. Hinman
Secretary.