Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,007, for Ferman Lorion, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Lorion, Ferman or Loselton, Forman
S. 46007 B.L. 97 1581-100
New York Agency & residence
CONTENTS

No.
File # 46,007
Rev'y war
Name: Simon Losefson
Rank: Private Comp'y: Capt Golden
Reg't: Col Hazen's N.Y. Rev'y.
New York Canadian Refugee } Agency.
RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st Issue. { Comm'g
2d Issue. { Comm'g
3d Issue. { Comm'g
DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
1st Issue. { Sent to
2d Issue. { Sent to
3d Issue. { Sent to
Act 14th July, 1862. Blk. G. Vol., Page
Registering Clerk:
Disability. { Rejected Claim insid.

Herman Loselton N o 1581.

(Copy)
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
22 April 1829
Sir :
Your claim, under the abovementioned act, having been examined, you are found to be entitled to the pay of a Private of Infantry in the Continental Line. The amount which may be due, accordingly, will be remitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) S. D. Ingham.
Secretary of the Treasury
Mr Forman Loselton, Rouses Point, Clinton Co. N.Y.
A True copy. J. A. Dickinson, Clk. Treas. Dept. Haysburg Regiment. 9 Dec. 1829.

Herman Sossman's Revolutionary Pension Claim.

No. of Original paymt 933 REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
1587
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
11 April 1829.
Ferman Loselton of Rouses Point in the County of Clinton in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Goslin 's company, in Col Hazen's regiment of the line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary W. L. Dickins.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
14 th April 1829
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Firmin Lovillon in the Col. Hazen's Regiment . It further appears that Firmin Lovillon is now on the pension list of the any agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month.
John Hagner Aud

In the person of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled 'An act for the relief of Certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution' approved on the 15 th of May 1828 I Herman Soslton of Rensselaer Point in the County of Clinton in the State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war & continued in its service until its termination, at which period I was a soldier in Captain Gustin's Company in Genl. Hasey's Regiment of the New York line and I do declare, that I afterwards received Certificate for the rewards of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolution of Congress passed the 15 th of May 1778 - And I further declare, that I was not on the 15 th of May 1828 on the pension list of the United States -
Witness My hand this twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundreds twenty Nine -
Herman Soslton mark
Before Me Calvin H. Averill a Justice of the Peace in the County of Clinton in the State of New York personally appeared this day Nicholas Constantin and Solomon Ream of the said County who did severally make oath that Herman Soslton by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reported and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated - Witness My hand this twenty third day of March A.D. 1829.
C. H. Averill J. Peace
I Smith Mead Deputy Clerk of the Court of the County of Clinton in the State of New York do hereby certify that Calvin H. Averill before whom the foregoing Affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace & duly empowered to Administer oaths -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this 26 th day of March A.D. 1829.
Smith Mead Deputy Clerk of the County of Clinton

Ferman Loselton;
Revolutionary Claim for U.S. Bounty Lands.
Not returned in Hazens Regt.

State of New York, § County of Clinton. p.
I Herman Soselton aged Eighty two. years, do. upon oath testify and declare that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy Six I enlisted for the term of "during the war" and served in Captain Gostins Company under the command of General Moses Warren and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war when I was regularly discharged from the Regiment commanded by General Warren I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty lands promised to me on the part of the United States, nor have I ever assign- ed or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever.
Therefore Know all men by these presents that I Herman Soselton of said do hereby constitute and appoint Calvin H. Averill of Champlain in the County of Clinton and State of New York to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of war of the United States a Warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid, and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empow- -ered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed
attest.
Herman his X Soselton mark
Witness
Bela P. Gayton.
The above application having been transmitted to this office by Bela P. Gayton the Warrant is sent to him, at his request
W. G.

I Baptiste Martin aged seventy one years do upon oath declare that I have been long acquainted with Herman Soseiton who has subscribed the above declaration in my pres- -ence and well knows to me that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be, and further I know or do believe that he did perform the military service therein stated
Attest
W. H. H. H. M. H. H. H.
Baptiste his Martin mark
Before me Calvin H. Merrill Esquire personally appeared the above named Herman Soseiton sub- -scribing to the foregoing declaration and in my presence acknowledged the same of his free act and deed. And Calvin H. Merrill personally appeared Baptiste Martin who having subscribed the above certificate of identity both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the deposition by them respectively subscribed this fifth day of August 1829
C. H. Merrill Justin Pease
In testimony that the above written Calvin H. Merrill was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments in the State of New York at the above date and that his name there sub- -scribed appears to me to be his usual signature. I have hereunto affixed the County seal and subscribed my name and quality at Plattsburgh this fifth day of November 1829
Smith Mead Dep. Clerk of Clinton County

German Simon Charles Gascon

No. 2 1/4 March 1831.
250.
Revolutionary Claims
895
Under the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved 15 th May 1828
Before me John B. Skinner a justice of the Peace for the County of Clinton in the State of New York personally appeared this day Ferman Lorion alias Ferman Loselton who made oath that he is entitled to pay under the above mentioned act as a surviving Corporal in Col: Hazens Regiment of the army of the Revolution, that to his knowledge he has never received a pay certificate from the Treasury department; and that if one has ever been forwarded to him it has never come into his possession - that he on the third day of March instant received through the hands of David B. McKel Esquire two letters from the Treasury department one dated December 9 th 1830 and the other dated December 11 th 1830 each inclosing a draft for forty dollars for pay allowed him under the act above mentioned.
Witness my hand this fourth day of March 1831
Sworn to & Subscribed
Before me
Ferman his X Lorion alias Loselton mark
J. B. Skinner Justice Peace
State of New York
Clinton County ss Benjamin Mooers of Plattsburgh in said County being sworn doth depose & say that Ferman Lorion alias Loselton signed the above affidavit by making his mark in the presence of this deponent, and that he this deponent recognizes the said Ferman Lorion alias Loselton as having served in Col Hazens Regiment during the Revolutionary

War and that by a reference to the original Roll of the officers & Soldiers of the said Regiment as made by this deponent in the year 1783 a copy of which was lately sent by him to the Treasury department the said Ferman Lorion alias Lassetton is put down "Ferman Lorrillon Corp" but that the person now present and who signed the above affidavit is the identicle person who served in said Regiment Sworn to and subscribed this 4 th day of March 1831 } Benj Mooers Before me G. B. Skinner Justice Peace
Note The nearest Branch Bank of the U.S is at Burlington Vt The most convenient Post office is at Plattsburgh
I George M. Beckwith Deputy Clerk of the Court of the County of Clinton in the State of New York do hereby certify, that John D. L. Skinner, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace, and duly empowered to administer oaths-
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court this fifth day of March one thousand eight hundreds and thirty one -
Geo. M. Beckwith, D. Clerk.

46007
Fenman Loselton
Canadian Refugee
For investigation into the frauds of these pensioners See official report & other papers on file in Case of John Gauley File No 46.358

German Lovelton 1587.
Revolution auf Tonkin & China
(Evidenz in support of)
Rec d 20 April 1899.

State of New York } County of Clinton } S.
I, Nicholas Constantine of Reavis Point in the County aforesaid, being duly sworn doth depose and say that Serma Loselton, who has lately applied for a pension from the United States, was a soldier in Captain Goshin's Company in Col. Hazen's Regiment in the New York line of the Army of the Revolution - that the deponent was also a soldier in the same Company & Regiment from 1776 until the close of the war in 1783, and is now to the fact, that said Loselton served the period of time that this deponent did & that he was discharged in 1783 as a during war's man. That this deponent was present when said Loselton signed his name to the declaration applying for his pension, & knows him to be the same individual person who served as aforesaid - And further deponent says that he is now this tenth day of April 1829 -
C. N. Avery J. Dean
Nicholas Constantine
State of New York } County of Clinton } S.
I, John B. Viret of Reavis Point in the County aforesaid, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was a soldier in Col. Hazen's Regiment in the New York line of the Army of the Revolution & served through the whole war - that Serma Loselton above named in the Affidavit of Nicholas Constantine was a soldier in the same Regiment with deponent, and that according to the best of deponent's recollection & belief said Loselton served through the whole war and was regularly discharged as a during war's man - And further deponent says not -
John Viret
Given before me this Eleventh day of April 1829 -
C. N. Avery J. Dean

Barman Loretton (copy Voucher)

12 March
Copy
910
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
Before me Calvin H. Averill a Justice of the Peace for the County of Clinton in the State of New York personally appeared this day, Heiman Lasseton of Rouse's Point in the County of Clinton in the State of New York , who exhibited to me a certificate issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, numbered 8950 and dated the Seventeenth of August 1829, setting forth that he is entitled to pay, under the above-mentioned act, as a surviving Private of Infantry in the Col. Hazard's Regiment N.Y. line of the Army of the Revolution; and the said Heiman Lasseton then and there made oath that he is the person named in the said certificate, and, in testimony thereof signed his name to this affidavit.
Witness my hand, this Third day of March in the year 1830.
Sworn and subscribed before me this third day of March 1830 C.H. Averill J. Peace
Heiman Lasseton mark
Note. The most convenient Branch Bank of the U. S. is at New York The most convenient post office is at Rouse's Point - Clinton Co. N.Y.
I, _____ Certify, that was sworn, was, at the time, a and duly empowered to administer oaths.
Clerk of the Court of the County of _____ in the State of _____ do hereby before whom the foregoing affidavit for the said County,
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this day of _____ in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty
The above affidavit was taken before the Justice that his former one was _____

State of New York Clinton County ss
St John B Skinner being duly sworn doth depose and say that about the year 1830 he became acquainted with Finton Lockett who was introduced to this deponent by the late General Benjamin Moores who was adjutant of Col; Hazens Regiment in the Revolutionary army as deponent has been informed and verily believes, and this deponent was then informed by General Moores that said Finton Lockett had served in said Regiment during the Revolutionary war and had then lately been placed on the pension Roll of the United States. And this deponent further saith that said Lockett then exhibited to this deponent his pension certificate and made the requisite declaration to entitle him to draw his pension. That said Lockett called on this deponent from time to time as his Pension became payable to him the necessary papers made out for the purpose of drawing his pension until March 1832 at which time after having drawn his pay he left his pension certificate with this deponent for safe keeping and went to Canada since which time this deponent has never seen said Lockett as he verily believes until within a few days past when he was brought to this place (Plattsburgh) by his son; and this deponent further saith that he has had the possession and custody of the said certificate from the time above mentioned until the present, and has no doubt but verily believes the person now here who has made his affidavit of identity before Peter I Roberts Esquire is the identical person who has heretofore drawn the pension under and by virtue of the said certificate and is the identical person named therein.
Sworn and subscribed this 24 th day of August 1839 before me
J. B. Skinner
And I certify that deponent is a credible witness Peter I Roberts Justice Peace

State of New York Clinton County ss
Alexander Margis being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has been acquainted with Firman Loselton since the year 1830 and knows him to be the identical person named in the pension certificate now exhibited to Peter J Roberts Esquire sworn and subscribed this 24 th day of August 1839 Before me { Alexander Margis } And I certify that deponent is a credible witness. Peter J. Roberts Justice Peace
State of New York Clinton County ss:
Alex Loselton being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is the son of Firman Loselton and knows him to be the identical person named in the pension certificate now exhibited by him to Peter J Roberts Esquire. That when the said Firman Loselton came to the residence of this deponent in Canada in the spring of the year 1832 he was sick and has continued sick and has been so sick and infirm as to be unable to travel from that time to the present and has constantly remained with this deponent's Brother until they came to this place (Plattsburgh) together a few days since. Sworn and subscribed this 24 th day of August 1839 Before me { Alex s Loselton mark } And I certify that deponent is a credible witness. Peter J. Roberts Justice Peace Witness E. H. B. S. Minner

State of New York
Clinton County ss Alexander Ferricol of the town of Chazy in the County of Clinton being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was a soldier in Col Hazens Regiment of Refugees during the Revolutionary war and is now a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and was well acquainted with Ferman Sasetton who was also a soldier in the same regiment - And this deponent further saith that he was examined before Genl Benjamin Mooers & Col David B McNeil commissioners appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to the services and identity of the said Ferman Sasetton and at that time recognized the said Ferman Sasetton as the identical person who served in the said Regiment and who was a Pensioner of the United States - And this deponent further saith that he has this day seen the person who lately made his oath of identity before Peter J Roberts Esqr (as deponent is informed) and knows him to be the identical person who served in Col Hazens Regiment during the Revolutionary war - the same identical person whose case was examined by Genl Mooers & Col McNeil and the identical person named in a pension certificate in his possession numbered 895 dated August 17 1829 & signed by S D Ingham Secretary of the Treasury
Sworn & subscribed this 21 st day of September 1839 Before me I certify that Deponent is a credible witness & cannot write his name by reason of his right arm having been broken. Peter J. Roberts Justice of the Peace Witness J. S. B. Skinner
Alexander his Ferricol mark

State of New York Clinton County
David B. McNeil of Plattsburgh, in the county of Clinton being duly sworn doth depose and say that about the year 1830 or 1831 he this deponent in connexion with the late General Benjamin Moore, was appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury a commissioner to examine into the correctness and validity of the claims of certain Canadian Refugees to a Pension from the United States for services rendered during the Revolutionary war in Col Hazens Regiment — That he this deponent and the said General Moore, in pursuance of said commission did investigate the claims of sundry individuals and amongst others the claim of Ferman Loselton, who had been previously placed on the pension Roll, and found him fully entitled to a pension under the law of 1828 and reported in his favor to the Secretary of the Treasury and afterwards he this deponent received from the Secretary of the Treasury a draft for the back pay then due to said Ferman Loselton and paid the same to him and took from him the receipt required and forwarded the same to the Department at Washington — That subsequently he this deponent saw the said Ferman Loselton in Plattsburgh at several occasions when he came to draw his pension. And this deponent further saith that the person now here (who made his affidavit of identity before P. J. Roberts Esq. as deponent is informed) is the identical person whose case was examined and a favorable report made thereon as above mentioned; is the identical person to whom this deponent paid the back pension as above stated and is the identical person named in an original pension certificate in his possession Numbered 895, dated

the seventeenth day of August 1829 and signed J D Ingham Secretary of the Treasury Sworn & Subscribed this 21 st } day of September 1839 } D W McNeil Before me & I certify that } Deponent is a credible witness } note the words "on several occasions" erased before swearing. Peter J. Roberts Justice Peace

State of New York
Clinton County ss. I John B. L. Skinner being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was present at the times when the affidavits of David B. McNeil Alexander Ferriss & Antoine Le Blanc were severally subscribed and sworn to before Peter J. Roberts Esqr. and was also present when Ferman Gasetton made his declaration & affidavit of identity before Peter J. Roberts Esqr. in the month of August last for the purpose of drawing the arrears of pension due him from the United States, and knows that the person seen by the said deponents and alluded to in their affidavits is the identical person who made his declaration & affidavit of identity as above stated.
And this deponent further saith that some time after the Cholera year in Canada, (as it is usually denominated & which was the year 1832,) this deponent heard from some person who had come from Canada that the said Ferman Gasetton had died of the cholera. And this deponent further saith that he afterwards wrote a letter to the Honorable William Hogan then member of Congress or to the then Secretary of the Treasury explaining the reason why he this deponent endorsed as Attorney the draft sent the said Ferman Gasetton for his arrears of pay and in that letter mentioned the fact that the said Ferman Gasetton was dead and he this deponent at the time believed it to be true on the information received as above stated and never had any reason to believe to the contrary until the said Ferman Gasetton came to Plattsburgh in the month of August last with his son. And this deponent further saith that on seeing the said Ferman Gasetton who is now here he immediately recognized him as the identical Ferman Gasetton who had several

years ago been introduced to this deponent as a Revolutionary Pensioner by General Mooers and whom this deponent had supposed on the authority above stated was dead. And this deponent further saith that he wrote the said letter in good faith supposing at the time that the said Ferman Goselton was actually dead and when called on by the said Ferman Goselton and his son in August last this deponent was under the impression that he had forwarded to the department at the time of writing the said letter the pension certificate of the said Ferman Goselton, but on searching found the said certificate filed away with the papers relating to his pension.
Sworn & Subscribed this 23 d day of September 1839 before me and I certify that deponent is a credible witness.
H. A. D. Skinner
Peter J. Roberts Justice Peace

State of New York
Clinton County ss Antoine Le Blanc being duly sworn doth depose and say that he resides in Nicholet in Lower Canada and has known Ferman Loselton a Revolutionary Pensioner for twenty five years past - that he lives a neighbor to Louis Loselton a son of the said Ferman Loselton and with whom the said Ferman Loselton resides when at Nicholet.
That some time in the year when the cholera raged in Canada and as this deponent believes in the year 1832 the said Ferman Loselton was very sick and became deranged, or crazy and was constantly watching an opportunity of running away from his family for fear of the cholera - that some time during that year the said Ferman Loselton did escape from the house of his son and was wandering abroad in the woods for three days - that nearly all the neighborhood turned out and searched for him and found him in the woods on the third day after he had left his sons house - that during the time he was so absent + before he was found it was reported and generally believed that the said Ferman Loselton was dead - That after the said Ferman Loselton was found and brought back to his family he continued sick and became so infirm that he could not walk about, nor leave the house; and has continued to be sick and infirm to the present time, so much so that he has not been away from home since the said Cholera year (1832) until some time in the fore part of the month of August last when he left Nicholet in company with his son Alexis Loselton to come to Plattsburgh to draw his pension.
And this deponent further saith that he has been informed and has understood for several

years past that the said Ferman Loselton was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and that he is the identical person named in the pension certificate in his possession numbered 895, dated August 17 th 1829 & signed S D Ingham Secretary of the Treasury.
Sworn & subscribed this 23 rd day of September 1839. before me & I certify that Deponent is a credible witness, Peter J Roberts Justice Peace Witness J. B. B. Kinner
his Antoine X Le Blanc mark

Herman Loselton's Revolutionary Claims 3. Mar. Payt. 1830

12 March
910
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
Before me Calvin K. Dreville a Justice of the Peace for the County of Clinton in the State of New York personally appeared this day, Heerman Lovell of Rouse's Point in the County of Clinton in the State of New York , who exhibited to me a certificate issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, numbered 895 and dated the Seventeenth of August 1829, setting forth that he is entitled to pay, under the above-mentioned act, as a surviving Private of Infantry in the Col. H. A. D. Regiment of the Army of the Revolution; and the said Heerman Lovell then and there made oath that he is the person named in the said certificate, and, in testimony thereof signed his name to this affidavit.
Witness my hand, this third day of March in the year 1830.
Sworn and Subscribed before me this third day of March, 1830 C. K. Dreville J. Peace
his Heerman X Lovell mark
Note. The most convenient Branch Bank of the U. S. is at New York The most convenient post office is at Rouse's Point, Clinton Co. N.Y.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of the County of _____ in the State of _____ do hereby certify, that _____ before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was, at the time, a _____ for the said County, and duly empowered to administer oaths.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this _____ day of _____ in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty
The above Affidavit was taken before the same Justice that his former one was -

Sept 13
Mr Evans,
James J. Howard Esq. Somerset Esq. then Esq. City of Washington

Albany Sept 9. 1839.
The enclosed afft. was intended to accompany the claim for the last 6 months of the agency of your wife in the same for the pension.
I lately forwarded to the third auditor, Vanshor in the case of Simon Loatton, claiming his pension from 4 March 1832, under the Act of April 6. 1838.
In reply I have received a letter from Mr. Hagen, a copy of which is enclosed -
I now enclose the affidavits of St. John B.L. Skinner, Asst. Manager, Salesis Loatton, being of the same tenor as those which were sent to Mr. Hagen with the other Vouchers -
I beg leave to refer you particularly to that of Mr. Skinner, who is a respectable Member of the Bar, & I believe a County Judge, which, it appears to me, very satisfactorily establishes the identity of the Pensioner -
If you should deem it sufficient, will you know the goodness to give the necessary order for the pay- ment of the claim - But if not, please inform me what further evidence is required as to the identity of the claimants, and if possible it shall be furnished.
I am S r Edwards Esq r Commissioners of Pensions War Dept
Very Respectfully Your obed t Serv t Leonard Jenkins
Please return this as it is written in great haste

Copy Third and 4 th Letter to L Franking Reports P. Southern claim

Treasury Department Third Auditor's Office
September 5. 1839
Sir,
Your letter of the 31 st inst enclosing the pension claim of Norman Sosselton has been received. Under regulations the claim was referred to the Commissioner of Pensions for a special order for its payment, has been returned with the following answer to the application "In the case of Norman Sosselton a pensioner under the act of the 15 th May 1828 I have to inform you that such has been the lapse of time since he received his stipend the most unquestionable evidence as to his identity is required, before an order be given for the payment of the amount due. The claim must now therefore remain suspended until evidence of the identity of the pensioner is obtained to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Pensions—
Very respectfully Sir
Your ob t Serv t
Peter Hagner Aud r

Rouses Point Clinton County N.Y. Jan-first 1830.
Sir
I hereby acknowledge to have received from the Secretary of War of the United States Land Warrant No 1581 granted to German Loselton a Canadian Refugee, belonging to Haren's Regiment, of the Army of the Revolution.
I am Sir most respectfully your Obedient Servant Bela Edgerton.
Hon
John H. Eaton Secretary War.

Thiman Losellon
1915
Ref. # 6455

Herman Lopelton
Oct 15 May 1828
See letter to L Jenkins
V3. Sep 1839. & papers
Within — do. to same
Sept. 20. 1839 — do. to 3?
And to S t John B. L. Skinner
Sept. 30. 1839
6455

of _____ in the State of _____ who was a _____ in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the _____ line for _____
Inscribed on the Roll of _____ at the rate of _____ Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the _____ day of _____

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
6455.
P. O.
Surman Swinton
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Sept 30
Cam
add G. H. of Herman Losellin acc 28. 933.
J. G. Edwards Esq Cam Pensions Washington City
PAID

Plattsburgh Sept 23 d 1839.
Sir
I have been informed by S t Jenkins Esq r that the proof of identity in the case of Ferman Gosselton was not satisfactory to the department.
I herewith send you the affidavit of Col M c Neil late Collector of the Customs & special commissioner to examine the validity of this claim among others. & Alexander Ferriss a soldier who served with Gosselton & who was examined before the commissioners, both of them positively identifying the person now making this claim as the one who was at that time on the Pension Roll. - In addition I send the affidavit of Antoine Le Blanc (Anthony White) stating the sickness & confinement of the old man for the seven years past, and explaining how the report of his death was first in circulation and my own affidavit explaining how it happened the report of the old man's death reached Washington.
I presume this will be satisfactory & that the claim will now be allowed
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully Yours
abt
Ser t
J. B. B. Skinner
J. L. Edwards Esq r

Albany September 16. 1839.
James L. Edwards Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions, Sir,
Your letter of the 13 th inst. respecting the case of William Lovelton, is just received.
Being ignorant of the manner in which business is transacted between the Treasury office and yours, I supposed, when I enclosed to you the affidavits of Mr Skinner & others, identifying Lovelton, that you had not seen the affidavits transmitted with his application for pay, to the Third Auditor, and I there- -fore thought it proper to send you them enclosed in my letter of the 9 th inst. - altho' left with me for a different purpose, under a misapprehension on the part of Mr Skinner, that they would be required at the Agency.
But it would seem from your very brief letter in reply that I have committed an error in sending you the affidavits referred to, and also in requesting to be informed what further evidence in the case would be required - If I have erred in so doing,

I trust the explanation I now give will be sufficient to show that the error was unintentional.
Not having communicated with Mr. Skinner, who left the papers with me, I am not aware that any further evidence of the Pensioner's identity can be procured, but, believing as I do very confidently, that the testimony on that point already furnished, is amply sufficient, I have to request that you will submit the case to the Attorney General, if consistent with the rules & practice of your Office, as nothing short of his opinion to the contrary, will satisfy me that the evidence now in your possession does not abundantly establish the identity of the applicant with the Pensioner whose name he bears -
I am, Sir,
Very Respectfully
Your obedt Servt
Leonel Jenkins.
On reading your letter to the Third Auditor, of which a copy is contained in his to me of the 5 th I do not discover any evidence that the affidavits transmitted to him in Loretta's case, had been submitted to you, though it might perhaps be inferred - If I had so understood it, I should not have sent you the other

Sett of affidavits -
11 1831