Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27,436, for Aaron Jepherson, Rhode Island

SERVICE
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16 9
Jepherson Aaron Deborah
H 27 436 B L H 15407-160-55-
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262
Massachusetts
Deborah Gipherson
Worcester in the State of Mass
who was a R in the commanded Captain of the commanded in the
Widow of Aaron Gipherson deceased late a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 76 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of 1836 and sent to Churches Housatonic Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $421.68 Pension allowance ending Mar 1837 38.33 $460.01
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1839. }
Recorded by N. H. Addison Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1 Page 54
4 July 1850
Letter R. P. Church June 7. 1837

Vol. I. 38.
126670 { Act. Mar. 30 May 10th / 55
Deborah Lapham, widow Aaron Lapham, Pri; Deborah Lapham (wid) Aaron, Pri; Revolutionary Soldier Widow has been presumed
45 Rev: War.
AD: 160 Acres, Feb: 5 1856.
Map July 36 - B. D. W.
Rev. Gregory & Son Markhead Mass

To the Hon. Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester. ~
The deposition of Oren Bruley of Charlton. ~

I Ruth Bullen of lawful age do testify and say that I was well acquainted with the widow Deborah Jefferson of Douglas in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts widow of Aaron Jefferson late of said Douglas deceased - and that I was present and witnessed the marriage of the said Deborah to the said Aaron at the Douglas aforesaid sometime during the summer of the year One Thousand seven hundred and seventy seven. That she was married by my father Adams Street at his house in said Douglas, he being at the time an ordained Minister in said town of Douglas, and that the said Aaron and Deborah Jefferson then lived as next neighbours to my father's where I then resided.
Ruth Bullen mark
Worcester ss.
On the eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and thirty nine the aforesaid deponent was examined as sworn agreeable to law, to the deposition aforesaid by her subscribed. Taken at the request of the said Deborah Jefferson to be used at the Court of Probate for said County.
The said deponent being aged and infirm is the cause of taking this deposition.
Presus Mixed Justice of the Peace.

I Paul Dudley of Douglas in the county of Worcester & commonwealth of Massachusetts years of lawful age Depose & say, that I am personally acquainted with Deborah Jefferson of Douglas, live in her neighbourhood & have known her from early life, & that she continues the widow of Aaron Jefferson of Douglas, late deceased, & has never been the wife wife of any other man. She sustains a fair & irreproachable moral character, & is entitled to full credit for truth & veracity. - Her husband the said Aaron Jefferson, has always been reputed in this town & neighbourhood to have been a "good soldier of the Revolution, & to have done much service therein."
And further your deponent saith not. Paul Dudley
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County } ss. Douglas October 13 - 1836. Personally appeared the above named Paul Dudley, a man in good repute for truth & veracity, & made oath that the above depositions by him subscribed is true. - Before me, - R. P. Church, justice of the Peace for Worcester County.

The intention of marriage between Mr Aaron Jeperson and Mrs Deborah Sherman both of Douglas has bin published as the law directs.
Douglas July 14. 1777 Wm Dudley town clerk
There copy of records of sd town
Attest Samuel Balcom { Town Clerk of Douglas
October 22 nd 1836
herewith. Oct. 22. 1836. Then personally appeared Samuel Balcom also known as and made oath that he is the Clerk of the town of Douglas, and that the above is a true copy from the records of said town
Before me
Isaac Barker Judge of the Court of Probate for said County.

I Lippitt Eddy of Barrhill in the state of Rhode Island & now in Douglas in the county of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with the late neighbour to Stephen Jefferson of the Douglas late deceased. I enlisted into the United States Revolutionary Service on or about the sixteenth day of June 1778 in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Archibald Crary for nine months. This Regiment was composed of men, part of whom were enlisted for one year & part for nine months. When I joined the aforesaid Regiment I was placed in a Company commanded by Capt. Abraham Southerland in which Company I found the late Stephen Jefferson, & served therein with him nine months. The late Stephen Jefferson enlisted as aforesaid for one year, which I knew from the following circumstance. When we were paid off I was present & saw the late Stephen paid for one year's service, & his time was made up from the sixteenth day of March 1778. I joined the 2 d Regt. at Providence, & went from there to North Kingston where we staid about two days & nights, & from there to South Kingston where we staid seven weeks, & from there we went to a place called Boston Neck, a few miles distant from our station at South Kingston, at which place we staid about forty eight hours, & from there returned by way of South & North Kingston to Warren, all of which above named places were in the state of Rhode Island, & from the Warren to Slade's ferry in the state of Massachusetts where we staid about three days, & from there to a place called Haverland's ferry where we crossed over on to Rhode Island.
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We were on Rhode Island about one month during which time, I was sick with the Camp Distemper & was thrown into the hospital & also during this time, was fought the battle on Rhode Island and the D r Jefferson, with our Regiment was in the engagement. —
When we left Rhode Island returned back to Howard's ferry where we staid five or six weeks, & from there to Little Compton in the State of Rhode Island where we staid about four months, until the expiration of our enlistment. — He said too, Jefferson served with me during my nine months service as above stated, & I know of his enlistment for the term of one year from the circumstances above mentioned.
I never knew any other Storm Jefferson in sd Douglas or in the service than the one above mentioned. — I have always been acquainted with Deborah Jefferson of sd Douglas, the widow of sd Storm Jefferson, & know that that they here always lived together as man & wife, & that she is a woman of good moral character, & entitled to full credit for truth & veracity. — She has never been married to any other man than the above named Storm Jefferson. —
And further your Deponent saith not.
Lippitt his Eddy Commissary of Massachusetts Worcester County
ss. Douglas October 13-1836 Personally appeared the above named Lippitt Eddy, a man of high repute for truth & veracity, & made oath, that the above Deposition by him subscribed, is true Before me — B. Church Justice of the Peace for Worcester County.

I Jacob Blackman of Thompson in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut & now in Douglas in the County of Dorchester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Seventy eight years. Depose & say that I was personally acquainted with Aaron Jefferson of sd Douglas from his youth to the time of his Decease, & that he enlisted with me into the Revolutionary Service of the United States sometime in the month of January 1776. - We were mustered at Providence in the State of Rhode Island, & received our arms and acoutrements, & then marched from Providence to Newport in Rhode Island under a Capt Kimball & there joined Colo. Lippitts Regt where we served together in the aforesaid Company & Regiment until sometime in the succeeding autumn, at which time we were forced to New York. - Capt Kimball at this time resigned his commission and Capt Benjamin Hopper took the command of our Company & the sd Aaron Jefferson & myself marched together in sd Hoppers Company & in sd Lippitts Regt for New York & north of New London & New Haven in the State of Connecticut & joined the army under General Washington at "Harlem Lines" just below Fort Washington. - We soon retreated by way of Mile square to White Plains & were in the Battle at that place. After the Battle at White Plains we then marched to Peekskill where we crossed the Hudson River & marched to the forks of the Delaware River & from there to Trenton & Princeton & was in the Battle fought at those places. - The Battle at Princeton was on the 2 nd day of January 1777. - We then marched

to Norristown where we remained a few days until the terms of our enlistment expired, when at the request of our officers we went to Peekskill where we were discharged. — During all the abovenamed time the sd Thomas Jefferson served with me in the same Company & Regt. & we often "mess'd" together. — I never knew any other Thomas Jefferson than the one above mentioned. —
And further your Deponent saith not.
Jacob Blockman
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County ss. — Douglas October 13-1836 Personally appeared the above named Jacob Blockman a man of good repute for truth and veracity, & made oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed is true Before me — P. P. Church Justice of the Peace for sd Worcester County.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, May 3. 1855.
I Hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed,
Enoch Brown was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wight Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of Massachusetts } ss. COUNTY OF Worcester
On this Sixteenth day of April , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five , personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Deborah Tipheron aged 94 years, a resident of Douglas in the State of Massachusetts who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Aaron Tipheron deceased, who was a Private in the War of the Revolution , and in the company commanded by Captain  Revolutionary Pensioner under the 3 Section of the law Regiment of 4 July 1786 , at the rate of $76.46 per month in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th of June, 1812. Deborah Tipheron as per Pension Certificate given 28 November 1836 No. 262.
that her said husband at Worcester , A. D. 18 1812 , on or about the 18th day of June , and continued in actual service in said war for the term of three years and was honorably discharged at Worcester , A. D. 18 1815 ; but that, to the best of her knowledge and belief, her husband never received any written or printed discharge,
She further states that she was married to the said Aaron Tipheron in Worcester , on the 10th day of February , A. D. 18 1800 , by one Dea. Tipheron , and that her name before her said marriage was Deborah Tipheron that her said husband died at Douglas , on the 30th day of October , A. D. 18 1828 ; and that she is now a widow. And she begs leave to file the evidence upon which she was pensioned, as foreseen in many of all the facts & details of claims including such particulars thereof are not set forth in this.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "Act approved March 3, 1855," and prays that the certificate thereof may be sent for her to JAMES GREGORY & SON, of Marblehead, Mass.; and declares that she has not received a Bounty Land Warrant under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
Exams and Interlineations made before signed.
Enoch Brown Justice of Peace Deborah Tipheron Mark.

We David Holman and Mary Bates residents of Dallas in the State of Mississippi upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Deborah Lapham in our presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. and that she is now a widow
David Holman
Mary Bates
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year 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.
Emack Brown
Justice of the Peace.
State of _____
County.
We, _____ and _____ having been duly sworn, depose and say, that we well knew who was a _____ in the war of _____ whose widow now applies for bounty land; that we knew him for more than _____ years before his death, which occurred at _____ about _____ years ago; that we know that he died about that time, because
that we have known his said widow from his death to this time, that she is now unmarried, and that we are disinterested.
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this _____ day of _____ A. D. 18_____
Justice of the Peace.
It is hereby certified, that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, by the affidavits of _____ and _____ of the said County and State, whom I know to be credible persons, and who swear that they have no pecuniary interest in the result of the foregoing application; that _____ the applicant for bounty land in the foregoing declaration is now unmarried, and that she is the widow of the late _____ who was a _____ in the war of _____ and that the said died at the time above stated.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, this day of _____ 18_____
Justice of the Peace.
126.6/70

451
Sec.
On Gray's roll $71.19.10 = 11 mo -
no rolls of Lippett for '76
admt
23 mo
$76.66
R. D. Church Douglas Mass

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4 th July 1836.
State of Massachusetts } Worcester County — ss.
On this twenty second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty six personally appeared before the Court of Probate of the sd County of Worcester, Deborah Jefferson a resident of the town of Douglas in the sd County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy seven 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 July 4, - 1836.
That she is the Widow of Aaron Jefferson of the aforesaid town of Douglas late deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary army of the United States.
The sd Aaron Jefferson enlisted into the Revolutionary army aforesaid, sometime in the month of January 1776, which I well recollect, being at that time under matrimonial engagements to him, & our parting at that time is still fresh in my recollection. — I know the circumstances of his enlistment only from the account given of them by himself & others. — He enlisted at this time for one year, was absent during that time, & for the nature and circumstances of that service, see the Deposition of Jacob Blackmer hereto annexed. — He sd Aaron Jefferson returned, sometime in

the winter of 1777 & I was married to him sometime in the month of July of the year 1777, the precise day, not being within recollection.
The sd Aaron Jefferson remained at home after our marriage, & we lived together until sometime in the month of March 1778, when he again enlisted into the United States army for the term of one year, left home for that purpose, & was absent that space of time & for the particulars of which term of service see the Deposition of Lippitt Eddy hereto annexed. — I have often heard the sd Aaron Jefferson relate many particulars of his service in the army, among which I recollect, particularly, the battles of White Plains & Princeton, in the first year's service, & the Battle of Rhode Island in his last year's service. — The sd Aaron Jefferson performed several short tours of service, "called alarms" one of which I recollect, took place in July of the year 1779, at which time he left his home, & went somewhere into the State of Rhode Island & was gone about a fortnight, but the particulars of the service I do not recollect, if I ever knew.
She further declares that she was married to the sd Aaron Jefferson sometime in the month of July in the year Seventeen hundred & Seventy Seven. — The marriage is not recorded in the town records, but the publick instrument is there recorded the town clerk's certificate of which is hereto annexed. — The sd Aaron Jefferson died on the thirty first day of October Eighteen hundred & twenty five, & the sd Deborah Jefferson has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. — The

evidence of the marriage is contained in the deposition of Ruth Bullen hereto annexed who was present at said us married. —
Deborah Geo Jefferson mother
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me J. M. Barton Judge of the Court of Probate for said County
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after a full investigation of the matter agreeably to the requisitions of the bar department, that the substance of the said Affidavit was a volun in the bar of the Petitioner and serve a granted to the declaration of service; and that the said Deborah Jefferson was married to the said Aaron Jefferson and has remained his widow since his decease as in her declaration is also set forth. J. M. Barton Judge of said Court of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss.
I Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Deborah Jefferson for a Pension. That R. P. Church whose name is affixed to three of the annexed affidavits is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Worcester

and that the signing is by himself -
I further certify that the annexed affidavit signed by Ruth Dullin, as stated, to be sworn to before Rufus Mixer, who is a justice of the Peace for said County duly appointed & sworn - and that the signature is in his own hand writing -
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand, and affix the seal of the said Court of Probate, this 24 th day of October 1836.
Hugh S. Wheeler Reg d of the said Court -
Please to direct the proceedings on this case to Robert P. Church Esq d of Douglas. Massachusetts - settle
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 27.436
Deborah Jefferson Widow of Abraham Jefferson Rev War
Act July 4 '36
Index: Vol. D , Page 375
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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