Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18900, for Sylvester Lincoln, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
mass
Lincoln, Sylvester Chipman, Deziah
W. 18900
CONTENTS
Former widow

2916 New York Albany Deziah Chipman widow of Sylvester Lincoln M h who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Aug 1847 and sent to Elisha Wallis Mayville Chautauqua Co. N.Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 40 Vol. 4

State of New York
Chautauqua County , ss. On this twenty third day of January 1843 personally appeared before the undersigned Thomas A. Osborne judge of the county court in & for the county of Chautauqua, who attended for that purpose in consequence of the inability of the declarant to attend the court of which he is a judge, Deborah Chipman, a resident of the town of Chautauqua in said county, aged eighty two years on the sixth day of September last, 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 acts of Congress passed July 7, 1838 and the 23 d of August 1842 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of Sylvester Lincoln who was a private in the army of the Revolution. That according to the best of her knowledge & belief he served under Captain Oliver Soper in Col. Timothy Walker's Regiment. That he entered the service as a volunteer on the next day after the battle of Lexington, which she thinks was Monday the 20 th day of May 1775. That he then lived at Tanneton, about thirty miles from Boston. That on Sunday night the alarm was given & news received of the battle. That he was then an orphan, apprenticed to the Shoemaker's trade, at one Job Pitts, who being unwilling to let him enter the service, Sylvester then having about six months longer to serve, before coming of the age of twenty one years, bought his time, agreeing to pay out of the first monies received, and Monday morning repaired to Boston, & entered the service. That he was in the battle at Bunker Hill in June, & in all the battles of that season in & about Boston. That he was retained at Roxbury during the summer, & returned on a visit home in the fall, where he stayed but a short time, when he re-entered the service & enlisted under Lieut. Simeon Cobb in Capt. Oliver Soper's company of Col. Timothy Walker's regiment on the sixth day of October 1775 & served therein as a private. That he continued in the service until he was taken prisoner by the British on the 15 th of September 1776 at the surrender of Fort Washington, in which he was then stationed. That he was in several battles in the vicinity of New York, & in the battle when the Fort was taken, as declarant has often heard him relate. That he remained a prisoner in the "Sugar House" at New York until January 1777 when he was permitted to return home, on parole. That he was after that often out against the enemy on alarms, & applied to rejoin the army but was advised by his officers not to do so, until an exchange could be effected, as it would violate his parole, & subject him to great penil. De.

declarant does not know whether he was ever re-exchanged or not. Declarant does not know for how long he enlisted, but knows it was for a term of years & has no doubt it expired while he was a prisoner on parole. The above facts are copied from a declaration made by declarant on the 30. May 1842 now on file in the Department, & declarant now as then, corrects one of the above statements, to wit, that the said Sylvester was only under obligation to serve the said Jos. Pitts until he was nineteen, instead of twenty one years of age, & that the purchase of six months of his time was in the fall & not spring of 1775. That on his return home in the fall, Pitts was dissatisfied with his absence through the summer, when Sylvester settled with him in full for that & bought the remainder of his time, which would expire on the 15. May 1776 & agreed to pay therefor out of the first monies received by him, & that he did pay therefor according to said agreement.
She also declares that she was married to the said Sylvester Lincoln on the twenty eighth day of February 1781. That no public record of her marriage was ever made, nor has she any family record thereof, but she remembers a certificate of marriage was given by the Rev. Peter Worden a Baptist Clergyman of Cheshire, the place of her marriage, & which certificate was afterwards burnt in the house of declarant & her husband, which was consumed with nearly all its contents. That for evidence that no record was kept of her marriage she refers to the certificate of the town clerk of Cheshire hereto annexed, & for evidence of her marriage to the deposition of her sister in law, Abigail Brown, annexed to & filed with her former declaration, and that her husband the aforesaid Sylvester Lincoln died on the eleventh day of July 1819. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, unless his being a prisoner on parole, & serving in case of alarms, continued him in the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 viz: at the time above stated. She further declares that after the death of the husband aforesaid, she was married to Daniel Chipman on the 27: day of April 1823, that he died on the 23: day of April 1832, and that she is still a widow. She refers to all the proofs annexed to her former declaration. She also declares that from the infirmities of age & rheumatic affections, she has been unable to get out at all to meeting, and is unable to attend the court, in the room where it is held, & therefore has procured the attendance of the

said judge at her residence.
Deborah X Chipman mark.
Sworn & subscribed by the said Deborah Chipman making her mark, she being unable to write from rheumatic affections, & palsy of age, before me, a judge of the Chem. Co. Com. Pleas, & I certify that decedant is unable to attend court, from rheumatism, & the infirmities of old age, & that decedant is of unimpeachable integrity, whose statements are entitled to implicit credence.
T. A. Osborne

State of New York } Chautauqua County } I, John G. Hinckley Clerk of Said County and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for Said County do hereby certify that J. A. Osborne Whose Signature is Set to the Certificate of proof or Acknowledgment of the foregoing instrument in writing and thereon written was on the day of the date of Said Certificate a Judge of the County Courts in and for Said County Duly Commissioned and Sworn and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the

State of New York }
Chautauqua County ss. I, John G. Hinckley Clerk of said County and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that J. A. Osborne Esq. whose signature is set to the draft of the foregoing deposition and therein written was on the day of the date of said draft a Judge of the County Courts in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn to - And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe the signature J. A. Osborne Subscribed to said draft is genuine. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County this 23 d day of January 1843.
J. G. Hinckley Clerk
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Deziah Chapman
N.Y.
Recd 7 July 38
23 Aug. 42
Hon S. N. Clarke H. O. R.

I Abigail Brown of Castleton in the county of Rutland & State of Vermont, aged eighty four years, do upon, testify & say, that Sylvester Lincoln late of Bethany in the county of Greene & State of New- York, was an elder brother of mine. He entered into the revolutionary army, about the time of the Saratoga- battle. But whether a little before or after that, I cannot tell. I think he was engaged in the service, as a militia man for some time, before he enlisted into the continental army. I do not recollect the names of the officers under whom he served. But I do know that he was in the service almost constantly, from the time that the British came into Boston, till he was taken prisoner at Fort Washington. He was engaged in defending that fort, when it was surrendered, and was then & there ta- ken a prisoner by the British and by them detained a prisoner till the first of January following. The British then permitted him to come home on parole. After this he went to Rhode Island and offered again to join the army, but the officers refused to receive him on ac- count of his being on parole. And further said not Witnesses } Rimri Howr } Her Abigail X Brown mark
State of Vermont } Rutland County } Castleton March 11 th A. D. 1843 Personally appeared Abigail Brown, who signed the above affidavit, and made oath that the same contains the whole truth & nothing but the truth
Before me Rimri Howr Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Abigail Brown, that she is a person of truth, and her intellects to appearance remain unimpaired.
Rimri Howr Justice of the Peace

STATE OF VERMONT. Rutland County Clerk's Office, ss.
I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that Simon Howe Esq. was at the date of the certificate to which this is annexed a Justice of the Peace
within and for said county, duly commissioned: that his commission is dated on the ninth day of November A. D. 1842, and will expire on the thirtieth day of November A. D. 1843; and I verily believe his signature to the same is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Rutland in said county, this fifteenth day of March A. D. 1843, F. W. Hopkins

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18900 Deziah Chipman widow of Sylvester Lincoln Pr. Rev War
Act: Feb 29 48
Index:—Vol. 14 , Page 132
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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NY
Let to H. A. Osborne June 22 d '42 " " S. M. Clarke Jan. 11-43 " " S. M. Clarke July. 20 th 1843
act 4 July 36

I will accept for Mrs Chipman a pension for eight months service with the understanding that this shall not prejudice any future claim which she may be able to establish by satisfactory proof
House of Reps
Feb. 11. 1843
S. Clarke

Mayville January 2 nd 1844 Hon d J L Edwards
Dear Sir Inclosed you find a New Declaration of Dyziah Chipman and Sir if you should grant her a New Pension Certificate Please forward the same to me and you will oblige your Humble Servant Elisha Wallis
Hon d J L Edwards Com r of Pensions

Mayville Sept the 5 th 1843
J L Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir
Inclosed you find the Declaration of Deziah Chipman Requesting a New Pension Certificate Please Forward the same to me to oblige your Humble Servant
Elisha Wallis

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Mayville Chautauqua County Sept 1. 1848
Hon. J. L. Edwards Sir inclosed you will find the Declaration of Deborah Chip- man H. Please forward to me the necessary papers to enable her to draw her pension and allowance
Your Humble Servant Elisha Wallis

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New York Albany
Deziah Chipman former widow of Sylvester Lincoln who was a private in the Revolution
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 twenty sixth day of Jan y 1844 and sent to
Elisha Wallis Mayville New York.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book a
Vol. 1 Page 104

6989 Albany, New York
Deziah Chipman, formerly widow of Sylvester Lincoln
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 11 th July 1819 of Chautauqua in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Soper of the regt. commanded by Col. Walker in the line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of February 1813 and sent to Hon. S. N. Clarke, House of Representatives
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $133.30 Pension allowance ending
[Act July 7, 1838.]
§ 23. August 1842
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book A. Vol. 2. Page 92.
Reported
let to Elisha Waldo, May 8 1843
Rev. Mr. to Elisha

NY. Dec 29. 1842
Deputy Attorney
[Signature] Dis 36-

House of Reps.
Dec 29. 1842
Hon J. S. Edmand. Dear Sir,
At the request of Mr. Elisha Wallis I send you the enclosed certificate from the Town Clerk of the Town of Cheshire Mass. I also enclose his letter to me on the subject of the application of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Desire Shipman for a pension, and have to request that if the records of your office, furnish any evidence that would make out an equitable claim for the old lady to a pension, you will furnish me with it, so that it may be presented to Congress by way of petition.
I have the honor to be, very truly,
Your obt servt
J. S. Clarke

Pension Office,
February 10 th 1843.
Sir
I have the honor to inform you, that the declaration of Dezieh Chipman, under the act of 7 th July 1838, has been examined and filed. The testimony is sufficient to shew that she was married to her first husband Sylvester Lincoln before January 1794, and that he served eight months in 1775, at Boston. But no evidence has been found of the service in 1776, during which it is alleged he was captured in Fort Washington, nor has any been furnished by the Claimant.
I have the honor to be Very respectfully, Your obedt Servant
J L Edwards
Hon. Naley A. Clarke House of Representatives.

Mayville, Chan. Co. N. York June 18. 1842
Dr. Sir.
Enclosed are the papers on which the widow of Silvester Lincoln asks a Pension. They are so put together by the clerk, that the first becomes last. That marked "A" is the widows declaration, setting forth the enlistment & services of the soldier. That he was taken prisoner, released on parole. Married & after marriage served several times on alarms, even while on parole. &c.
B. Shows the enlistment, or rather the fact of service , by the return on record in Boston. The term of enlistment would not be found there, but the secretary by his letter, which I enclose, refers to records in your office, which please examine.
C. Proves the marriage of the applicant to Lincoln, & also the services of Lincoln, as set forth in declaration.
I should any further information or explanation be wanting which I could get from address me, but if you send Pension Certificate, direct it Elisha Wallis Esq. of this place, son in law of the old lady, & with whom she lives.
Very Truly Yrs.
J. A. Groom
Hon. James L. Edward Comr. of Pensions

Secretary's Office
Boston, May. 10. 1842
Sir
I enclose a certificate of all which we can find concerning Sylvester Lincoln. The roll does not indicate how long he served. Most of the Massachusetts rolls are in the Pension Office at Washington - perhaps if you would get some member of Congress to examine them for you more evidence of Mr. Lincoln's services might be found. I return your money, as I make no charge for services rendered to Rev's Soldiers or their widows.
Yours, &c
John D. Sleeper
Sec'y of the State
Mr. T. A. O'Horne.

I Abigail Brown of Castleton in the county of Rutland and State of Vermont aged Eighty three years, being duly sworn, do depose, testify and say, That Sylvester Lincoln was my brother and was about two years older than myself. That at the commence- ment of the Revolutionary war, we lived at Taunton, in the State of Massachusetts & about thirty miles from Boston. The said Sylvester was an apprentice to Job Pitts learning the Shoemaker's trade. On account of the frequent alarms and interruptions on account of the war, he was of little profit to his master and he let him have his time. The said Sylvester enlisted into the army at Boston at the commencement of the war, and was at Boston most of the time, only coming home occasionally, till the British evacuated Boston after the Battle of Bunker Hill. He then went to Rhode Island and from there to New York. He was taken a prisoner by the British at Fort Washington and imprisoned in the Sugar House, in New York where he remained about seven weeks, when he was discharged on parole, the Americans having no prison- ers to exchange for those taken by the British. After this, he did not engage in the war except at times of alarms. I do not know that he was ever exchanged. He once went to join the army after he was discharged as afore- said, and the General told him that he must go home that it would not do for him to be in the service till he was exchanged. How long he was in the service, or under what officers he served, I cannot tell. I was present and saw him married to Desire Briggs. He was in the winter of 1781. They raised a family of five eight children. He died in the town of Castleton Bothwell, Genesee County and State of New York. When there were  were the said Sylvester used to turn out, notwithstanding his being on parole, and I am positive that he frequently turned

out on such occasions after the time of his marriage I further say that the Spring after the war was closed, the said Sylvester, with his family, removed to this place, (Castleton Vermont) I and my husband moved here a little afterwards. The said Sylvester lived here with his family in the same neighborhood with us till about the year 1803 or 1804 when they moved to Bethany aforesaid And further this deponent saith not
Witness
Vincent Howe
Ebenezer Wallis
Her Abigail X Brown Mark
State of Vermont
Rutland County ss } Castleton March 29 th A.D. 1842 Personally appeared before me Vincent Howe, first Assistant Judge of Rutland County Court, Abigail Brown, and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned, made solemn oath, that the fore- going affidavit by her subscribed, contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Vincent Howe Judge as aforesaid
I also certify that the said Abigail Brown is personally known to me, that she is now of sound mind & memory and a person of strict integrity
Vincent Howe Judge as aforesaid

STATE OF VERMONT. RUTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, ss.
I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that Simon Howe Esq. was at the date of the certificate to which this is annexed a Brother the County Court and qualified to act within and for said County, duly commissioned; that his commis- and satisfy the same. sion is dated on the fifth day of November A. D. 1841, and will expire on the thirteenth day of November A. D. 1842; and, I hereby believe his sig- nature to the same is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland in said county this Second day of April A. D. 1842.
F. W. Hopkins

C. B.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, May 10 th 1842.
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 Chester Lincoln is borne in "a true list and return of Capt. Oliver Sopers Company in Col. Timothy Walker's Regiment," dated October 6 th 1775, in which it appears he served as a private from Taunton. The aforesaid Return is signed by "Simeon Cobb. Lieut. C."
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John D. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of New York
Chautauqua County, ss. On this thirtieth day of May eighteen hundred and forty two, personally appeared at her abode in the town and county of Chautauqua, before Thomas A. Babbitt a judge of the court of Common Pleas in & for said county, who attended for that purpose, in consequence of her inability to attend the court of which he is judge, Deborah Chipman, a resident of the said town and county, in the State of New York, aged eighty two years on the sixth day of September next, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, say, that from the infirmities of age, & rheumatic affections, she is unable to attend the court, in the room when the same is held, and does not think it probable that she would be able to attend the term thereof, to be held on the fourth Tuesday of June next, by reason whereof, she doth on her said oath, before the judge aforesaid, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836, and the act explanatory of said act, passed March 3. 1837: That she was married to Silvester Lincoln, who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution. But according to the best of her knowledge and belief, he served under Captain Oliver Soper, in Col. Timothy Wallis Regiment. That he entered the service as a volunteer, on the next day after the battle of Lexington, which she thinks was Monday the 20 th day of May 1775. That he then lived at Taunton about thirty miles from Boston, that

on Sunday night. The alarm was given & never received of the battle. That he was then an orphan, apprenticed to the Shoemakers trade, at one Job Pitts, who being unwilling to let him enter the service, Silvester then having about six months longer to serve, before coming of the age of twenty one years. Bought his time, agreeing to pay out of the first monies received, and Monday morning repaired to Boston & entered the service. That he was in the battle at Bunker Hill in June, & in all the battles of that season in and about Boston. That he was stationed at Roxbury during the summer, & returned on a visit home in the fall, when he stayed but a short time, when he re-entered the service, & enlisted under Lieut Simeon Cobb in Capt Oliver Soper's Company, and Col. Timothy Wallcut's Regiment on the 6 th day of October 1775, & served therein as a private. That he continued in the service until he was taken prisoner by the British on the 15. September 1776, at the surrender of Fort Washington in which he was then stationed. That he was in several battles in the vicinity of New York, & at the battle when the Fort was taken, as declarant has often heard him relate. That he remained a prisoner in the "Sugar House" at New York until January 1777, when he was permitted to return home on parole. That he was after that often out against the enemy on alarms, & applied to rejoin the army, but was advised by his officers not to do so, until an exchange could be effected, as it would violate his parole & subject him to great peril. Declarant does not

know whether he was ever exchanged, & has often heard him say that he did not know whether he was ever exchanged or not. Declarant does not know how long he enlisted for, but knows it was for a term of years, & has no doubt it expired while he was a prisoner on parole. She further declares, that she was married to the said Silvester Lincoln, in February 1780 and after her marriage, he several times turned out on alarms against the enemy, but then & until the end of the war, considered himself & was considered by his neighbors as a prisoner of war on parole, & as such forbidden to enlist again as a regular soldier. That about a year before she was married, she moved to Cheshire in the said state of Massachusetts, where also the said Silvester had also removed, & where they were married. That she does not know whether any public record of her marriage was ever made, but that she remembers a certificate of marriage was given by the Rev. Peter Worden a baptist clergyman of Cheshire who married, and which was afterwards burnt, in the house of declarant & her husband, which was consumed with nearly all its contents. That her husband the said Silvester Lincoln died on the eleventh day of July 1819. That she was afterwards married to Darius Chipman who died on the twenty third day of April 1832, and that she was a widow on the 4. day of July 1836 and still remains a widow as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. Declarant, on further reflection, desires to state

that the said Silvester was only under obligation to serve the said Joseph Joseph Pitts his master until he was nineteen years old, that he did not in the spring of 1775, buy any of his time, but his master being dissatisfied with his absence through the summer, he settled with him in the fall, and that Silvester then bought the remainder of his time, which would expire on the 15. May 1776, and agreed to pay therefor out of the first monies received by him, and that he did pay therefor according to said agreement.
Jeriah X Chipman
Mark I Thomas A. Osborne, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, holden in & for the County of Chautauqua, where the above declarant resides, do hereby certify that the above named Jeriah Chipman, is from the natural infirmities of age, & from a disease called the Rheumatism, with which I am credibly informed & believe, she has been afflicted for several weeks past, unable to attend the court of which I am judge, and I do not think, from present appearances, that she will be able to attend the court above named, at its next session. I have therefore attended at her place of abode & administered the foregoing oath, after hearing her narration of facts, reducing them to writing, reading them over to her, & her subscribing the same, by making her mark, she being unable from long disease & rheumatic affections, from writing her own name. I also certify that I am acquainted with the said Jeriah, that she was of sound mind & memory for a person of her age, & of unquestioned truth & veracity, May 30 th 1842.
T. A. Osborne
State of New York
Chautauqua County } ss
I John G. Henckey Clerk of said County & also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County do hereby certify that Thomas A. Osborne Esquire was on the day of the date of the foregoing Certificate a Judge of the County Court held in & for said County duly Commissioned and sworn. And further that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & verily believe his signature "T. A. Osborne" above written to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court & County this tenth day of June 1842.
John G. Henckey Clerk

Cheshire Mass { Aug 2
18 5
Oliver Wallis Esq Mayville N. York

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3 d of March 1833 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7 th 1838
State of New York
Chautauqua County, ss. On this 3 d day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County Deziel Chipman personally known to me and who I know has drawn a pension under the act of July 7 th 1838 of Chautauqua in the county and State of said, aged eighty 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 3 d day of March 1833 granting pensions to widows of persons who died during the revolutionary war - That she is the widow of Deziel Chipman and was the widow of Chester Dinsmore who was provided in Captain Oliver Coaper's Company in the Regiment of Col. Walker of the Massachusetts Militia in the Army of the Revolution and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7 th 1838 is twenty six dollars and fifty six cents - She further declares that she is still a widow and has not remarried since the death of her husband.
Subscribed before me Jesse Root S.P. attesting witness to my hand and seal Elisha Waller Deziel Chipman her mark I certify that the foregoing declaration was made before me and that the person whose name is subscribed to the same is known to me to be the person described to me and known to me to be the person who executed the same.
State of New York Chautauqua County ss.
I Alvin Plumb Clerk of said County and also Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Jesse Root, Esquire whose name is subscribed to the jurat of the foregoing declaration and also to the foregoing certificate, was on the day of the date of said jurat and said certificate a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Elected and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and truly believe the signature "Jesse Root" subscribed to said jurat and said Certificate genuine -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court and County at Mayville this 3 rd day of January 1844.
Alvin Plumb Clerk

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Meziah Chipman
$26:66 per a
Elisha Wallis Mayville N.Y.

Walter Wallis Dear Sir
Chesham August 11 th 1842
Yours of the 27 th inst is at hand, requesting me to certify whether our record goes back to the year 1781. In reply I say it does not it extends no farther back than the year 1793.
I hereby certify that our Chesham Book of records to record marriages has no marriages recorded previous to the year 1793.
James O. D. (V) Van Alst

Apr 5, 1843,
NY
Sezahloshuan
John L. Edwards Esq. Com of Pensions Washington
Recd

Mayville March 28 th 1843
J L Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
Agreeable to the understanding between you and Mr Clarke when he accepted of eight months pension for Mrs Chipman I have sent to Vermont and have got another Affidavit and I herewith transmit it to you which I think is plain and conclusive in evidence that Silvester Lincoln was in the service of the Revolution constantly after he entered at Boston untill he was captured at Fort Washington and that was the 15 th of Sept r 1776 and then in prison untill the first of January following which makes the year 1776 for which we claim a Pension for Naziah Chipman — this affidavit is from Abigail Abigail Brown the sister of Silvester Lincoln the only person living who knew him during the Revolution — I understand that there is a late act passed extending the five year Pension for one year from the 4 th of March I most of all please send me the act or declaration — Sir I have the Honor to Be your most Oble Servt Elisha Wallis
Hon J L Edwards Esq

State of New York } Chautauqua County } ss:
On this thirty first day of August 1848, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Beziah Chipman a resident of the town of Chautauqua in the County of Chautauqua and State of New York. Aged eighty seven years, who being by me 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 the 2 nd February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Sylvester Lincoln, who was a private in Capt. Oliver Soper's Company; And the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of 17 th June 1844 was twenty six dollars and sixty six cents. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on this 31 st day of August 1848 day and year above written { Beziah her Chipman mark before. Rich d . O. Green S.P. }
In presence of Elisha Wallis Chautauqua County ss:
I Richard O. Green a Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above declarant (Beziah Chipman) and know her to be the same person who drew a pension under the act of 17 th June 1844, as set forth by her, in the above declaration.
Given under my hand this 31 st day of August 1848 R. O. Green S.P.
State of New York } Chautauqua County } ss: Clerk's Office }
I Matthew P. Brown county Clerk of said County, and Clerk of the Courts in and for said County, do hereby certify that Richard O. Green Esq., whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the

Declaration of Beziah Chipman and also to the foregoing Certificate was on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected and sworn, and further that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice and truly believe that his signature to the said Oath and Certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this thirty first day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
M. P. Bennett. Clerk of Chautauqua County
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