Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,605, for Lamuel Luce, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Luce, Samuel Mehitable
N. 24,605
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M r Samuel Luce Born Dec r 14 th 1754.
M rs Melitable Daggett Born Aug st 3 rd 1755.
M r & M rs Luce Married May 25 th 1784.
Orrendea Luce Born Sep r 19 th 1785.
Charlotte Luce Born May 11 th 1791.
Dukes County ss; Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
4838 in the County of Dukes County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts do give evidence Testify and say that the above record on family bible has been in the house of Samuel Luce my father (who was my father ever in my remembrance & I am now fifty three years of age) my Parents informed me it was made by one Mr. [blank] formerly resident in Tisbury my father also Samuel Luce died on the [blank] day of July 1832 previous to his death he obtained a peremptory certificate under the Law of 1832. my mother was never married to any other person but the aforesaid Samuel Luce and my mother still remains unmarried.
Dukes County ss December 22
1838
Orrendea Luce
Then and there personally appeared
then over

Luce, Samuel Mass W24603
The above named Overseer  Luce and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition before me and I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Overseer  Luce who is a person of credit and full faith and is to be given her Testimony.
Dukes County ss ( Thomas Dunham, Justice of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Daniel Fellows Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Dukes County do hereby certify that the above named Thomas Dunham is now a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Dukes County and the above signature is his hand and seal in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court, this 28 th day of December — 1838.
Daniel Fellows -
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Dukes County

27093 Massachusetts.
Samuel Luce of Dukes Co. in the State of, who was a private in the Co. M. H. commanded by Captain Smith of the _____ commanded by _____ in the .. Mass line for 9 months, 14 days private
Inscribed on the Roll of. Mass at the rate of 30 .. Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 - day of Jan'y. 1834 and sent to Thomas Dunham Esq. Holmes Hole Mass
Arrears to the 14th of Sep 1833 $ 76.10 Semi-ant. allowance ending 14 th Mar 34 - 15 22 $ 91.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George F. Norton Clerk, Book E, Vol. 2 Page 34
Sam l Luce died 14 th June 1832 the Widow Nehulable will be entitled to receive $41 70

1112 Massachusetts. Mehitable Luce widow of Samuel Luce who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Report
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30, Dollars 44, Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of August 1848 and sent to G. S. Balfinch Boston Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 83 Vol. 2,

29178
Samuel Luce Mehitable Luce - the Widow claims Liscburg Dukes Co Mass
Adm 9-11 days Private
Capt Smith
Thomas Dunham & Holmes Hole Mass

State of Massachusetts Dukes County ss At a special Court of Probate begun and held at Tisbury County aforesaid on the sixth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared Mehitable Luce widow of Samuel Luce aged seventy eight years who being first sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration  that she  is  the  widow  of  the  late  Samuel  Luce  deceased  and  that  she  well  remembers  of  her  husbands  being  in  the  company  of  Capt  Nathan  Smiths  and  verily  believes  that  he  served  in  the  army  the  space  of  nine  months  or  more  that  her  late  husband  Samuel  Luce  died  on  the  14th  day  of  June  eighteen  hundred  and  thirty  two  she  hereby  relinquishes  every  claim  whatever  to  a  pension  or  annuity  except  the  present  and  declares  that  to  the  best  of  her  knowledge  that  her  husbands  name  nor  her  name  is  not  on  the  pension  roll  of  any  state That she well remembers of her husbands being in the company of Capt Nathan Smiths and verily believes that he served in the army the space of nine months or more that her late husband Samuel Luce died on the 14 th day of June eighteen hundred and thirty two
She hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that to the best of her knowledge that her husbands name nor her name is not on the pension roll of any state
Mehitable her Luce
George mark Attearn Judge of Probate
Also at the Court aforesaid personally appeared Jonathan Lock and Malachi Luce and Thomas  and who being first sworn according to Law made the following declaration That during the time of service in the company of Capt Nathan Smiths commanding the of Troops belonging to the State of Massachusetts they well knew the above mentioned Samuel Luce that he belonged to said company and did duty in the same during all the term term of nine months or more That they verily believe that the aforesaid Samuel Luce died at the time that Mehitable Luce state aforesaid and that he was in seventy eighth years of age when he died
Jonathan his Lock
Malachi mark Luce
Sworn to day and year above written
before George Attearn Judge of Probate

And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter to their satisfaction that the above mentioned Samuel Luce was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as the certificate signed by Edward D. Bangs (shown in said Court) doth certify and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jonathan Luce and Malachi both of Distillery Luce who have signed the foregoing certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that the foregoing declaration made on oath by the aforesaid Metable Luce whom we believe to be the widow of the aforesaid Samuel Luce is entitled to full faith and credit
George Thean Judge of Probate
I Cornelius Marchant Clerk and Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Dubes County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this tenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Cornelius Marchant Register

V1523
Mehitable Lane of Samuel Massachusetts
admitted
P. - Jan 4. 1852 p 30. 1854
Capt Smith Col Mass. Militia
died 14 Jan 1852
3 - 1852 - 1858
7 July 1852
30 July 1852
Commissioner of Pensions & his wife Mehitable Lane
Holmes Hall and

Holmes Hole Sep. 7 th 1838
Dear Sir
enclosed is the depositions for the purpose of obtaining a pension for Mrs. Mehitable Luce, her husband Samuel Luce obtained a pension under the Law of 1832 in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1832 I found his name on the pay roll of one Nathan Smith who commanded a company of State Troops stationed on the Island of Martha's Vineyard about the year  1776 1776 or 1777 his wife and the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts gave me a certificate from those papers specifying the term of service & said certificate is now in the War or pension office at Washington as well as the pay rolls of Nathan Smith. please to write to Thomas Dunham at Holmes Hole Massachusetts
I have the honour to be your humble servant
Thomas Dunham
Lewis Cag. Commissioner of Pensions

Dukes County ss { State of Massachusetts { on this Sixth day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before Theodore G. Mayhew Judge of Probate being a court of Record within and for the County aforesaid Mehitable Luce a resident of Tisbury in the County aforesaid aged eighty two 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 Samuel Luce late of Tisbury deceased who was a private Soldier in a Company of State Troops stationed some time on the Island of Martha's Vineyard said Samuel Luce then residing in Tisbury when he entered the service said Company of State Troops was commanded by one Nathan Smith to which Regiment said Company belonged to she does not know he continued in said Company about one year to the best of her knowledge she further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Luce on the twenty fifth day of May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four That her husband the aforesaid Samuel Luce died on the fourteenth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and thirty two That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four or at the time above stated and she is now still unmarried said Samuel Luce had a certificate that he was entitled to a pension from the John Adams the pension office at Washington and she claimed what money was due to him from the pay office at Boston after his death
Mehitable Luce
Dukes County ss { State of Massachusetts, September { Sixth in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight Then and there personally appeared the above named Mehitable Luce

who being sworn according to Law made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration and I further certify that the said Melchior Luce deponent is a person of truth and full faith and credit ought to be given to her
Testimony said Melchior Luce being old and infirm is the cause of taking this deposition not in court. Theodore G. Mayhew Judge of Probate
I Cornelius Marchant, the register of Probate within and for the County of Dukes County do hereby certify that Theodore G. Mayhew is Judge of Probate within and for the County of Dukes County and the above handwriting is his proper signature in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this Sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
Cornelius Marchant { Register of Probate

Wm H Scott
one was only advised only one etc. see my letter for Jonathan Luce
April 18, 1927
Mrs. Arthur H. Sproat 1307 East Ninth St., Pueblo, Colo.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 34605 it appears that Samuel Luce was born December 14, 1754.
While a resident of Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts he enlisted and served as a private in Captain Nathan Smith's Massachusetts Company in the defense of the seacoast as follows:
From October 6, 1775 to December 1, 1775; from January 18, 1776 to June 1, 1776; from September 1, 1776 to November 21, 1776. He died June 14, or July 14, 1832 in Tisbury, Massachusetts where he had always lived.
Soldier married May 25, 1784, Miss Mehitable Daggett born August 3, 1755. She was allowed pension on her application executed September 6, 1838 while a resident of Tisbury, Massachusetts where she had always lived. Their children were:
Orrendea born September 19, 1785, living in Tisbury in 1838. Charlotte " May 11, 1791, married.....Norton, living in Tisbury in 1853.
Erroneously pensioned as Samuel, and filed this way until I found it on erroneous carried on Mass. records as Lemuel, but neither used in his later life. O.K. -
Respectfully, WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

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3200
RD
Massachusetts
Inheritable Suce.
widow of Samuel Suce , Decd: who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June, 1832 and who died on the 14th: June, 1832. of Duke Co in the State of Massa — who was a private in the Comp y — commanded by Captain Smith of the — commanded by — in the Mass: Mil a time for 9 months & 4 days —
Entered on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 30 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th: day of June 1839 and sent to Phoebe Dunham, Holmes, Hole, Mass:
Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839 $ 91.32 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 15.22
$106.54
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M c Stewart Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 Page 104

2631.
Massachusetts
Mehitable Duce
widow of Wm. Duce
who was a Private
in the Mass line
for 9 mo & 14 days
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars & 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Nov. 1843 and sent to
David Davis Edgerton Mass
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 6 Page 47

WIDOW, &c.
1927-Apr-18-First to Mrs. A. S. Ferrat mpt 17
File No. 24605
Mehitable Spence Widow of Samuel Spence Brinsboro
Act Feb 2nd 1848
Index: Vol A , Page 447
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Daughters of the American Revolution
VICE REGENT MRS. JUSTUS R. FRIEDLINE 1728 WOOD AVE., COLORADO SPRINGS
RETIRING REGENT MRS. JOHN C. BUSHINGER 115 BATTERSON ST., MONTE VISTA
RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. ARTHUR WALL 1687 HIGH ST., DENVER
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MISS MARY SHAW CONGRESS HOTEL, PUEBLO
TREASURER MRS. J. H. BLOEDORN FORT MORGAN
NATIONAL OFFICER REPORTER GENERAL TO SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION MRS. GERALD LIVINGSTON SCHUYLER 1244 DETROIT ST., DENVER
STATE REGENT MRS. HERBERT ALLEN BLACK 2201 GREENWOOD ST., PUEBLO
AUDITOR MRS. JOHN R. COEN STERLING
CONSULTING REGISTRAR MRS. P. J. MCHUGH 137 REMINGTON, FORT COLLINS
HISTORIAN MISS ELIZABETH DOTEN 1006 F ST., GREELEY
LIBRARIAN MRS. A. R. NOWELS 507 S. 7TH ST., LAMAR
CHAPLAIN MRS. JAMES B. FOLEY ROSS AND 3RD STS., ALAMOSA
Pueblo Colorado February 16. 1927
1307 East Ninth Street
Hon. Winfield Scott Commissioner of Pensions;
Dear Sir;
Will you kindly tell me if you have a pension record for either of the following described men.
We have Samuel Luce born 1752 about twenty-three at the time of the Revolution resident of Tisbury moved to Conway Mass (1783) and later to Goshen, where he died June 14, 1832. He married Betsey Luce Aug 1770. She was the daughter of Joseph Luce born 1725, resident of Tisbury, mariner, married Deborah Wollen about 1745. His death unknown.
The above Samuel Luce was the son of Jonathan Luce born 1722, about fifty-three at the time of the Revolution, resident of Tisbury, married Unama Oct. 1743. He died July 1791. Have the three named Samuel, Joseph and Jonathan a Revolutionary War record.
A reply will be greatly appreciated, and thanking you for the same, I am, Very truly yours, (Mrs. Arthur H.) (Mrs.) Helen French Sproat

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Novem r 14 th 1833.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Lemuel Luce as a private is borne on a Pay Roll of Capt. Nathan Smith's Company, where he is allowed from October 6 th to the 1 st of Decem r 1775. two Months. 2=
Lemuel Luce's name is found on a Roll of Capt. Nathan Smith's Company, where he is allowed from Jan y 15 th to the last day of Feb y 1776. One Month and fourteen days. 1=14
Lemuel Luce's name is borne on a Roll of Capt. Nathan Smith's Company, where he is allowed from March 1 st to June 1 st 1776. three Months 3=
Lemuel Luce's name is found on a Roll of Capt. Nathan Smith's Company, where he is allowed from Sept r 1 st to Novem r 21 st 1776. two Months & twenty days. 2=20
End.
Edward D. Bangs Ly
9=04

Massachusetts Samuel Luce p s $30,44. Act 7 June 1832 to what time paid?
Rev: Office.
Dec: 5, 1838.
Due 14 June 1832 p s to that period
14

Dec 1. 1884 G. M. [?]
Hon. J. L. Edwards commissioner of Pensions Washington District of Columbia
Mark a
for a Pension

Holmes-Hale (Massachusetts) Decem. 11th 1833
Hon. Sir
I send you inclosed an application for a pension for Mehitable Luce widow of Samuel Luce with the documents inclosed please to direct letters and documents of the same to Thomas Dunham at Holmes-Hale Massachusetts
I am Sir your humble servant
Thomas Dunham
To J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of pensions

Major Jan. 18. 1839
2 Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington
147 1/2 N o 15 23
not '38 (Dept of Columbia)
Jakey

Holmes - Hole January 10 th 1838
Dear Sir
Inclosed is a family Piece with the deposition of Orendea Luce the day of the death of Samuel Luce is not mentioned in the deposition as she could not recollect the exact day the day may be found in other depositions now in your office I thought best to take her deposition on the family Piece Mr John Reed a member of Congress from Massachusetts is acquainted with my hand writing and character for 25 or 30 years past I hope Mrs Luce will obtain a pension as she is an honest person and poor
I am with respect your humble servant
Thomas Dunkann
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Mr B
Look in the papers from the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts marked Defence of the Sea Coast

I Pruhamer Daggett of Tisbury in the County of Dukes County State of Massachusetts aged seventy six years do give evidence testify and say That I was well acquainted with Samuel Luce and his wife Melitable Luce They were citizens of the Town of Tisbury and lived in said Town during their whole lives. They were married about the year seventeen hundred and eighty four one Shubal Lott a Justice of the peace performed the marriage ceremony according to the usual form practiced in that day they lived together as husband and wife during the lifetime of said Samuel Luce said Samuel Luce died about six years now past and his late wife Melitable Luce is at present unmarried
Pruhamer Daggett
Dukes County ss. State of Massachusetts August fourteenth 1838
Then and there personally appeared the above named Pruhamer Daggett and made solemn oath in due form of Law to the truth of the above Deposition by her subscribed before me and I further certify that the said Pruhamer Daggett is a person of good character and full faith and credit may be given to her.
Testimony
Thomas Dunham Justice of the Peace
Dukes County ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts I Cornelius Marchant Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Dukes County do hereby certify That the above named Thomas Dunham is a Justice of the Peace in Dukes County and I believe the above signature to be his handwriting In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court thereunto this Sixth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight
Cornelius Marchant Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Dukes County

Holmes Hole September 19 th 1838
Dear
I am sorry to trouble you with this letter to correct a mistake I made during the last week.
I had acted as attorney for one Mehitable Luce of the Town of Tisbury County of Dukes County State of Massachusetts. Widow in collecting proofs of the services of her husband Samuel Luce in the company of Troops stationed on the Island of Martha Vineyard in the War of the Revolution. not I having made out the papers in due form as I expect accompanied with proper vouchers etc instead of despatching them to you I by mistake directed them as follows nearly
To Lemuel Laps Commissioner of Pensions on his succession in that office at Washington I ought to have directed them to J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions at Washington
I would be glad if you would take the out postage from the Post office at Washington and consider it as directed to yourself and act on it according to its merits
I am with respect your humble servant
Thomas Durstson To James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

126 James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions at Washington (District of Columbia) Richard W. Mac Millan Esq. Sept. 20th

Dec 14 J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington (District of Columbia) fpts 1000 P. 1000

Holmes. State of Massachusetts. Decem. 7 th 1838 Dear Sir
some time in September last. I sent by mail to your office the Deposition of Mehitable Luce widow of one Samuel Luce late of Tisbury, County of Dukes County, deceased for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of Congress of July - 1838 said papers contained the deposition of one Nathan Dugget touching the marriage of said Mehitable Luce with Samuel Luce. By mistake I directed the cover of these papers to Lewis Cope, Commissioner of Pensions on his successor in office I afterwards wrote to you informing you of the same having received no answer to those letters I wish you would be so good as to look into the Army Documents of Massachusetts (Revolutionary) sent to your office in 1836 and in the pay rolls on file (marked Defense of the Sea Coast) you may find the name of Samuel Luce in the company of Capt. Nathan Smith who was commander of a company of State Troops stationed on the Island of Martha's Vineyard about one year during the war of the Revolution I have seen the name of Samuel Luce on the pay roll when the papers were in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I took a copy of the same attested by the Secretary and Samuel Luce obtained a per pension certificate for the same I therefore said Sam Samuel Luce served about 11 months I wish you would send me the time he served according to the pay roll and I must like take new Depositions and send them to your office to so that the widow Mehitable Luce may obtain her pension now due I remain your humble servant
Thomas D. Dummer To J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Dukes County ss.
I Daniel Fellows, Clerk of the judicial courts within and for the County of Dukes County, hereby certify that Theodore G. Mayhew Esq. is the Judge of Probate for Dukes County, that the within signature is his own hand writing, and that full faith & credit ought to be given to all his Acts & Doings in his said capacity. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said court, this 28 th Day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
Daniel Fellows - } Clerk of the judicial courts

Dukes County ss Commonwealth of Massachusetts I Thomas Durham of Tisbury in the County of Dukes County Commonwealth aforesaid do give evidence Testify and say That Samuel Luce was an inhabitant of and resident in Tisbury ever since my remembrance that he and Mehitable Luce lived in a house together as husband and wife within one mile and a half in distance from my house and home for more than thirty years. I obtained a pension for Samuel Luce which was paid to Mehitable Luce after the death of her husband (Samuel Luce) I obtained a certificate myself (in June 1832) from the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the State house in Boston which was sent on with other papers to the office of the Commissioner of Pensions or to the Secretary of War (I have now forgotten which) I do not now recollect the time he served in Nathan Smith's company by said certificate but I think it was about eleven months I have no doubt but it may be found in the papers of the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington The papers in which I found the name of Samuel Luce were marked Defence of the Sea coast
Thomas Durham Dukes County ss Tisbury December 27th A.D. 1838. Therefor
Dukes County ss Commonwealth of Massachusetts Tisbury December 27. A.D. 1838. Then and there personally appeared the above named Thomas Durham and and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him signed before me and I further certify that the above named Thomas Durham is a person of truth and full faith and credit ought to be given to his Testimony
Theodore G. Mayhew Judge of Probate for the County of Dukes County

Dukes County ss Commonwealth of Massachusetts on this twenty second day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight before me Thomas Dunham a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Dukes County personally appeared Abigail Dunham aged seventy one years who being duly sworn according to Law doth say that she was present at the marriage of Samuel Luce with Mehitable Daggett now known by the name of Mehitable Luce she was married according to the usual form in the year of our Lord 1784 in the Spring of that year. That she was well acquainted with Samuel and Mehitable Luce that they lived together as husband and wife until the death of said Samuel Luce which was in the year 1832 the said Mehitable Luce is now unmarried and never had any husband but said Samuel Luce Abigail Dunham
Dukes County ss I hereby certify that the above named Abigail Dunham is well known as a person of truth and full faith and credit ought to be given to her Testimony Thomas Dunham
Dukes County ss Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Daniel Fellows Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Dukes County do hereby certify that the above named Thomas Dunham is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Dukes County and the above signature is his handwriting in Testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 28 th day December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
Daniel Fellows - { Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas

Dukes Co N.Y. Nov 16 th 1853
Hon
L. P. Waldo
Com d . of Pensions
Sir
Being a surviving child of Mehitable Luce, widow of Samuel Luce,
Be pleased to allow my agent Mr. Young to examine the papers on file in your office upon which Mehitable Luce was pensioned by the United States
Yours Sir
Respectfully
Charlotte L. Norton

Melitabla Sun Witnes of Sam. Luce Map. Role Archap 1838.
R. W. Young

3751
Mr. Luce
$30:44 per am
David Davis, Edgarton, Mass.

Declaration of Mehitable Luce
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3 d of March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7. 1838.
State of Massachusetts.
Dukes County ss.
On this fifteenth day of June 1843 personally appeared before David Davis Esq. one of the justices of the peace for the County of Dukes, Mehitable Luce a resident of Tisbury in the County aforesaid aged eighty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3 d of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of Lemuel Luce who was a Soldier in the Massachusetts Militia and served in the Company commanded by Capt Nathan Smith and that she received a pension (she thinks) of twenty two dollars a year under the act of July 7. 1838. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Mehitable Luce
Sworn to and subscribed on the day abovenmentioned
Before me
David Davis Jus. of the Peace

I hereby certify that the within named Metetable Luce is a person of good moral character, and that for veracity and truth she is entitled to full faith and credit. And that in my opinion the statements she has made are correct
David Davis jus. of Peace
State of Massachusetts } (Dukes County ss. }
I Barnard C. Marchant Register of the Court of Probate, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that David Davis is a justice of the Peace in and for said County duly com- missioned and qualified and that his Commission was dated on the 18 th day of February 1839 and that it will expire on the 18 th day of February 1846; and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of the County this Eleventh day of July 1845.
Barnard C. Marchant

Hon J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Eagartown July 13. 1843
Sir. Herewith I forward you the claims of Caroline Smith and Mehitable Luce for pension. Answers to which I presume you will forward as soon as convenient. Mrs Luce could not remember the exact amount of pension which she received under the act of July 7. 1838; but thinks it was about Twenty two dollars. I trust that it will be no hindrance to her receiving her pension. She is quite infirm in mind and body.
I am with
much Respect
your obt Servt
Daria Davis
Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Notable Price
All
Admitted
G. S. Bulfinch Boston Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston July 26 1848
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Bartlett Allen was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Lakes County,
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.
M c Duffie Secretary of the Commonwealth.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss. July 19. 1848
County of Dukes COUNTY,
On this nineteenth day of July 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid,
Mehitable Luce a resident of Tisbury in the county of Dukes aforesaid aged ninety three years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth 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 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Lemuel Luce who was a resident of said Tisbury and who was a private in the War of the Revolution and is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of 17th June, 1844, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late husband aforesaid, at the rate of thirty dollars and forty four cents per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Mehitable Luce mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day } Before me,
and year above written,
In presence of Bartlett Allen & Charlott Luce Bartlett Allen Justice of the Peace.
I Certify, That the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner, as she declares.
Bartlett Allen Justice of the Peace.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss.
COUNTY,
Clerk of the and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly and that his signature, above written, is genuine.
the Seal of said Court, this 18
CLERK.

McIntire Sue Massachusetts.
Suspended
for let 5 Dec 38 Thos Dunham dr. 14 Dec 38.
Act 7 July 1838