Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5574, for Eliphalet Porter, Rhode Island

SERVICE
NUMBER
B 9
Porter, Eliphalet Mehitable
W 557.4
CONTENTS

Let. to J. H. Edmonds April - 1838
Notification sent to J. H. Edmonds 1830 to claim his pension Vt. N. H.
2530
New York Roll
Eliphalet Porter
4 Rhode Island line private 1777. 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Sept. 1818 and forwarded to Morris S. Miller, Esq. Ulster New York.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 $ 37. 60
Semi-annual acct ending 4 Mar. 1819 48. 00
arrs 4 mos. 21 ds. $ 85 60
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Encida Brundage

Eliphalet Porter Jr.
14 Oct. 1818.
Cotton
M. S. Miller Esq. Relieve?

SCHEDULE, containing the whole estate and income of Elphalut Porter
25 one Cow and a two year Old heifer 10 a Wooden Clock 8 4 Pigs 16 Household furniture with about Sixteen Dollars 6 Farm utensils with about Sixteen Dollars 65
No income
I am in debt five hundred Dollars to one man for which There is a judgment against me and my property is liable to seizure and sold at any moment
Elphalut Porter
Sworn to and declared, on the 8 th day of Sept 1820, before M c Millan
Final Judge of Oneida.
State of New-York. Oneida Common Pleas. } A Court of Record by Of the Term of Sept 1820. } Statute.
The whole of these proceedings were had in open Court ; and in the opinion of this Court the total amount in value of the proper- ty exhibited in the above Schedule is Sixty five ————— dollars and no more.
I, FRANCIS A. BLOODGOOD, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Oneida, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court : And I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Sche- dule is Sixty five ————— dollars and ————— cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighth day of September, 1820.
Harris A. Woodgood

STATE OF NEW-YORK. Oneida Common Pleas, ss.
On this 8 th day of Sept 1820, personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, being a Court of Record, Elphalut Porter aged 59 years, resident in Whiteston in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: Enlisted in 1776 in Sumner Co. Willys Regt Comt for a year and served out his time In 1777 Enlisted for three years in Swayze Co. Pheasant Regt Vermillion Brigade and served out his time Honorably discharged from both services -
That he has received a Pension, and the number of his pension certificate is 2,530 That he is by occupation a Farmer in good health but has no farm - And has received assistance of the John of Whiteston towards the maintenance of his family for eight years last past
That the number and names of his family residing with him: their ages and capacity to contribute to their support is as follows, viz.
His wife Abigail aged 53 in tolerable health Grand Son Thomas aged 14 years with one hand crippled John Childs off another hand John 13 years in full health Son disabled A Daughter Mary aged Nine years of very delicate constitution and full health
Elph. Porter
AND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Sworn to and declared, on the 8 th day of Sept 1820.
Elphalut Porter
Before M c Miller Just Judge of Oneida

State of New-York, } ONEIDA COUNTY, ss. }
I MORRIS S. MILLER, First Judge of the county of Oneida, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Eliphalet Porter did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, on the Continental Establishment, for the term of nine months or longer, as stated in the declaration hereto annexed. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of
H. S. Miller First Judge of Oneida.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } CLERK'S OFFICE OF ONEIDA COUNTY. }
I do certify that the above signature, and the signatures to the certificates, of the affidavits hereto annexed are in the proper hand writing of Morris S. Miller, the First Judge of the county of Oneida. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of this Court. Dated the 15 — of May 1818.
J. Wm. Woodgood
Before me. } H. S. Miller First Judge of Oneida
State of New York } Oneida County } ss.
John H. Handy being sworn saith that he knows the above named applicant Eliphalet Porter and believes him to be a man of truth and veracity; and that he this deponent fully believes the matters set forth in the above affidavit to be true. Sworn this 14 th of April 1818. John H. Handy
Before me. H. S. Miller First Judge of Oneida

State of New York } Oneida County }
Eliphalet Porter. — being duly sworn saith that he is a resident of the County of Oneida and State of New-York — that he is Fifty six years old and upwards — that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support — that he never had any pension allowed him by the laws of the United States that he served as a soldier in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment four years — he enlisted in 1776 in Sumner Company, Willis' Regt. Connecticut line and served therein one year the term for which he enlisted. In 1777. he enlisted in Savage's Company Sherburne's Regt. Varnum's Brigade and served therein three years. — He was honourably discharged — Discharge lost.
Sworn this 14 Apr. 1818 }
Before me. }
H. J. Miller
First Judge of Oneida
Eliphalet Porter
State of New York } Oneida County }
John H. Handy — being sworn saith that he knows the above named applicant Eliphalet Porter. and believes him to be a man of truth and veracity; and that he this deponent fully be- lieves the matters set forth in the above affidavit to be true
Sworn this 14 Apr. 1818 }
John H. Handy
H. J. Miller
First Judge of Oneida

Let to C.W. Bennett 12 apr 57 " 3 Undelivered 25 c per 1834 " U.S. Dist Atty " " " See Court Book
2786
Michigan
Respectable Porter widow of Eliphalel Porter
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private.
R & Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March , 1848.
first July
Certificate of Pension issued the third day of Jany 1857 and sent to
C.W. Bennett Present
Entered on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 375 Vol. 2

6221 Mehitable Porter.
Mrs. Mehitable Porter Her husband died 13 Feb 1781
6221. Mehitable Porter- N.Y. Act of July '38

State of New York
Wayne County. ss:
On this twenty fifth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, personally appeared in open Court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas held at the court house in and for the said county of Wayne, Abigail Porter a resident of the town of Hone in the county of Wayne aforesaid, aged Seventy three 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. 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
That she is the widow of Eliphalet Porter, who was a private Soldier in the War of the Revolution; now deceased.
She further declares that she was married to the said Eliphalet Porter or about the first — day of June in the year A.D. 1781 — that her husband the said Eliphalet Porter died on the thirteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty one. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz; at the time above stated.
That she has no personal knowledge of his revolutionary Services, but that he was a pensioner of the United States &

deemed a pension under the act of Congress of 1818, prior to his death. and hereby refers to the affidavit of her service filed by him in the War department at Washington on ob- taining his pension, in 1818 or 1819.
That she has no record of her marria- ge with the said Eliphalet Porter and does not know that any such record is in existence. but for further proof of such marriage she refers to the affidavit of her sister Sarah Jane hereto annexed and she hereby declares that she is the identical person referred to in said affidavit, Whitcomb Porter
Subscribed & sworn to Open Court, Wayne Coun- ty, Sept Term 1839. J. Chapman Clerk Wayne County.

State of New York
Chautauque County ss. Candace Sage of Fredonia in said County, aged Eighty- years, Last April being duly sworn says that she is the sister of Mehitable Porter widow of Eliphalet Porter late of Newhartford in the County of Onondaga, a Revolutionary Soldier deceased. That she has known the said Mehitable from her infancy and she, the said Mehitable was married to the said Eliphalet Porter at Berlin in the State of Connecticut on the first of June day of in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one and she this de- ponent was present at their wedding and saw them married They were married by the Rev. Mr. Day  Hann — I said — I saye Sworn to before me this 27 th day of May 1839
Orion Ford Commissioner of Deeds in & for said County
State of New York Chautauque County ss. I, George W. Tew Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Orion Ford Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Affidavit, was on the day of the date thereof a Commissioner of Deeds in & for said County, duly appointed & authorized to take the same, and further that I am well acquaint- ed with his hand writing & verily believe the signature thereto subscribed is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my official seal, this first day of October, A.D. 1839.
G. W. Tew Clerk

State of New York
Onondaga County } ss. Parsheba Morrill of Pompey in the said county being duly sworn, saith, that she is now seventy years of age, that she was born in the town of Berlin, County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, that she resided in the said town of Berlin until she was nineteen years of age, - that she is a sister to Mehitable Porter, of Clyde, the wife of Eliphalet Porter deceased, who was a Pensioner of the United States, - that the said Eliphalet & Mehitable were duly married at her mother's house in the said town of Berlin & State of Connecticut, during her said residence at that place, - that she was not an eye witness to the said marriage, but was well informed & verily believes such to be the fact, - that she was present with the said Elipha- let & Mehitable at her mother's house, the next morning after they were married, and saw them load up their goods & remove to the place where they commenced house keeping. - And this deponent further saith, that for the space of ten years she re- sided within a half of a mile of the said Eliphalet & Mehitable in the town of New Hartford & County of Oneida, & that during her life she has made frequent visits at the house of the said Eliphalet & Mehitable, & knows that they lived together up to the time of the said Eliphalet's death, as husband and wife, & further saith not. -
Sworn & Subscribed the 30 th day of April 1840 before me Levi Wells Justice Peace
Parsheba Morrill

Onondaga County ss. } I Levi Wells the Magistrate before whom the foregoing Affidavit was taken, do hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with Mrs. Parshua Morrill who made the said Affidavit, and know that she is a person of good moral character & respectability, and that her Affidavit is entitled to full credit. — Given under my hand at Pompey the 30 th day of April 1840. —
Levi Wells J. P. —
State of New York } Onondaga County } I Elijah Rhodes Clerk of said County do certify that Levi Wells before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken and who signed the certificate above was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and truly believe his signature thereto to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 2 nd day of May 1840 E. Rhodes C. R.

Ray  WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____
5574
Mchitable Porter
Widow
Eliphalet Porter
Post. Rev. War
Act: _____
Feb. 28/48
Index:—Vol. _____
16
Page _____
135
[Arrangement of 1870.]

V N. York Mehitable Porter
let. to C. D. Lawton 9. Dec. 1839 to Hon J. R. Strong 11. Dec. 1839 " to same January 23, 1840. to same March 5. 1840 to same 16. April 1840 to C. D. Lawton 21. Aug. 1840
Act July 1838

FREE
Hon. L. P. Waldo Court of Pensions Washington D. C.

G S Lawton Memorandum Glyde Wayne County N York
J. R. Strong
J. R. Strong at Mrs. Pitmans

Mrs. Porter. Widow of Eliphalet Porter late a Revolutionary Pensioner &c.
I sent the application of the widow duly authenticated to the Pension Department in October last, by Mail.
Please enquire how the case stands &c. &c.

New York Albany
Mettable Porter
Reported
widow of Eliphalet Porter
who was a Private
in the Revolution
 Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of Dec. 1843 and sent to
W. G. Raymond Esq., N. York 
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book S Vol. 1 Page 111

6151
New York
Mehitable Porter, widow of Eliphalet Porter,
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 18 th 1818 and who died on the 13 th September, 1821. of Wayne Co: in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Garagi's Co: of the regt. commanded by Col: Sherburne in the R. Island line for 2 Years,
Inscribed on the Roll of New York (Albany) at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of April 1841 and sent to C. S. Lawton, Elyde, Wayne Co: New York.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $ 400.—
Pemi-annual allowance ending
$ 400.—
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by W. H. Tyler Clerk, Book A Vol. 2 Page 98.

2. 10 C.W. Leinert (c18/50)
Reported Jan 4/49
2786.
Michigan Nehitale Porter widow of Eliphalet Porter who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Jan 1849 and sent to
Mason Branch Stockbridge Ingham, Mich.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 375 Vol. 2 ,

April 16 1840.
cut out Portland Office to Mr. Tolmie H. H. Spaulding
Not McIntosh Porter
J. R. [unclear] M. [unclear] J. L. Edwards 6,000 of Paris Washington D.C.

House of Representatives
April 14. 1840
For J. L. Edwards
Conner of Petham
Sir.
I send you the enclosed certificate in the matter of the application of Mrs. Abigail Porter for a pension at the rate of £ 5. per annum out of the 5 th year of the reign of George the 4 th County N. York
He writes to me as follows - "In closed I send you the certificate of Mr. Bland the Magistrate before whom Mrs. Sayre's affidavit in favor of Mrs. Porter was taken certify- ing as to eligibility. Will you do me the favour of sending it in at the Pension Office & oblige &c. This is what Mr. Edwards in his letter of the 5 th instant requested & I think will effectually supply the deficiency."
Respectfully Yours
J. R. Sturges

July 21 1840. NY
Miss. Abigail  Abigail  Stille  Stille Foster
18 3/4
L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington Dist. Col.

Chicgo July 16. 1840
J. L. Edwards. Esq Comm r of Pensions Dear Sir
Inclosed I send you an additional item of testimony upon the application of Abner Noble Porter for a Pension. It seems to me that this, under all the circumstances of this case, is suf- ficient. I hope you will be pleased to regard it so. Please let me hear from you soon & oblige your obt servt, C. D. Sanborn

Mehitable Porter Wid: of Eliphalet N York
Act July 7 1838
Marned 1781
deed 13 th Sept: 1821
Allow $ 80 per ann.
private 2 years.
R Hine. Col. Shuburne Savage's Co.
C. D. Laughton Esq. Attys, Wayne Co NY

Apr 17. 1844.
my dear Inimitable Peter,
[Handwritten initials or mark]
J. L. Edwards Esq Comm r of Pensions Washington Dist. Colo.

Clyde April 9, 1841 Wayne County New York
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions Sir
The enclosed affidavit of Mrs Sage permeated in answer to your letter of the twenty-first August 1840 will as I believe complete the proof in the case of Mrs. Meritable Porter for a Pension. It has been delayed sometime in consequence of the new carriage of letters and the difficulty of getting Mrs Sage who is quite old and infirm before a magistrate. She resides at a distance of over 150 miles from this place.
By looking at your letters of the 5 March 17 th April and twenty first August 1840 I think you will find that the enclosed affat answers all objections. Have the goodness to give this case an early hearing and oblige
Your Obedient Servant C. D. Sawton

Utica, Oneida Co, New York
March 30: 1838.
Jas L. Edwards, Esquire,
Sir:
Eliphalet Porter, late of Paris in this County, deceased, drew a pension as a revolutionary Soldier, it is supposed under the act of 1818. He enjoyed his pension about 18 months, or two years, and died in 1821. He served during the whole war. His widow is now seeking to obtain the pension under the act of July 24: 1836, but unfortunately, the certificate of the pension and all other papers in relation to the same are lost, so that we find it difficult to obtain such a description of the pensioner, to be inserted in the widows declaration, as you may require. May I ask you to turn to the files in your office, and inform me when the said Eliphalet Porter was pensioned, and such other dates & facts as you require to be inserted in the widows declaration. The only evidence of his pension we have is a letter from you in the following words:
"
War Department 2530
Pension Office Oct. 30: 1820
"
Sir:
"
You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary of war has directed your name to be continued on
"

11
The pension Roll,
I am, Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant
J. L. Edwards
"To Mr Ephraim Porter-
Oneida County New York."
This probably will enable you to find Mr Porter's name on your files, and you can give me the information I desire with little trouble. Where the husband was a pensioner the declaration required by the widow is merely, I believe (as regards proof of his service) a reference to the evidence of his services on file, and you will understand that the object of this communication is to obtain such a description of reference to the files as you require. That I may be sure to have the widow's declaration correctly drawn I annex a form of the declaration, with the blanks to be filled, which you will please fill in the manner required, & return the same to me with as little delay as may be.
Yr M o obt Servt
John H. Edmonds

State of New York Oneida County ss:
On this _____ day of 1838 personally appeared before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Mehitable Porter, a resident of Paris in said County aged seventy one years who being first sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the fol- lowing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4: 1836: That she is the widow of Eliphalet Porter, who was a private in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary war and for such services was pensioned by the said United States
Mr Edwards will here insert the date of the pension by a reference to the files in his office & such other information as he requires to be inserted in declarations of this kind & then return this to me.
J.H.C.
She further declares that she was married to the said Eliphalet Porter in the month of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two; that her husband, the aforesaid Eliphalet Porter died on the 13th day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty one; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to, & subscribed, on the day and year above written before _____

Certificate required by the 12th rule
I certify that M rs Abigail Porter the person named in and who subscribed the foregoing declaration is a person of integrity and veracity & entitled to full credibility.
Mr. Edwards will please say whether the foregoing forms an oment.

From T. R. Strong U.S.
Doctor Brump Acting Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.
Yours
Mr. Lee
Jan. 10. '40

Washington Jan'y 9 th 1840.
Doctor Green acting Commissioner of Pensions Sir.
I enclose a letter and papers rec d from E. D. Lawton Esq., one of my constituents, who resides in the county of Wayne State of New York, and request to be informed of the determination in the case to which the they relate as soon as convenient after it shall be made
Respg your obed Servt T. R. Strong

March 3. 1840
Miss Porter
R. Strong H.R.
L. Edwards Esq. Committee of Selection Washington D.C.

House of Representatives March 2 d 1840
J. S. Edwards Esq.
Committee of Pension
Sir -
I have recently rec d a letter from S. D. Lawton Esq. Clyde, Wayne County New York a letter from which the following is an extract
"It seems to me that the War de- partment have adopted a hard rule in requiring two witnesses positively to the marriage in cases like the widow Porters. The certificate that I sent to them from Berlin Conn. showed that there were no records of marriages kept in the time when she was married or if there were they had been destroyed so that the want of record proof in her case is or forms no presumption against her witness & it seems to me that if the department will look into the case in that point they will reverse their decision. I write if convenient

you would suggest this point & then it strikes me that is force in it"
Will you do me the favor to consider the point suggested by Mr Lawton & write me your answer
Very Respectfully Yours
J. R. Strong

6221 Oct. 16. 139
N.Y.
7 July 1838
Richardson
J. L. H.
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commr. of Pensions Washington Dist. Colo

Clyde Oct. 10 th 1859.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Sir
Enclosed is the application of Mehitable Porter, widow of Eliphalat Porter a private in the war of the Revolution, deceased.
You will perceive that her husband was a pensioner & drew a pension under act of 1818, & that the evidence of his service was filed in your Department in 1818 or 1819.
I believe her application & the accompanying evidence are full & all correct, & that her right to a pension under act of July 7. 1838 is undoubted.
Please attend to her claim as soon as possible, for she is poor & needy, & send the warrant to me or to her at this Post office, & oblige yours &
C. D. Samson

State of Connecticut, ss. Hartford County. I Charles A. Goodrich, Clerk of the Town of Berlin, in the County & State aforesaid. — Do certify that I have examined the Records of said town, and do not find any Record of the Marriage of Eliphalet Porter to Mehitable formerly of said town Paige, said to have been Celebrated in the Year 1781. — I further certify that it appears, that formerly it was not customary for the Marriages — to be entered on Record, in the town Clerks Office. — Charles A. Goodrich Town Clerk.
State of Connecticut ss. Hartford County. — • Be it remembered that on this 26 th day of Dec. 1839. before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid, Personally appeared Charles A. Goodrich, to me known as the Clerk of the Town of Berlin; who subscribed the foregoing Certificate in my presence, and made Oath in due form of law, to the truth of the same. — Before me. Horatio Cridley Just. of Peace
State of Connecticut ss. Hartford County. I Joseph Whittlescy, Pastor of the third Congregational Church & Society in the Town of Berlin & County aforesaid. Do certify that I have examined the Records of said Church and do find no records of Marriages kept

by the Rev. Nathan Fenn, the first & former Pastor of said Church. — And do further certify that, I have been credibly informed that the Records of Marriages, kept by the Rev. Mr. Fenn, after his decease, were inadvertently destroyed & lost; which information I fully believe is correct. — —
Jo. Whittlesy - Pastor 3 d Cong. Ch.
State of Connecticut ss. Hartford County, — Be it remembered that on this 25 th day of December 1839. before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Hartford aforesaid, personally appeared Rev. Joseph Whittlesy, who subscribed the foregoing certificate in my presence, and made Oath to the truth of the same, in due form of Law. —
Before me. — Horatio G. Gileley, Just. of the Peace

I, ROYAL R. HINMAN, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern,
THAT Noreutio Gidley Esq is
and for more than six months last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Gidley
in Court and Country.
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 26 th day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and 39
And I certify that the signature of said Gidley hereunto annexed is genuine.
R. R. Hinman
Secretary.

HN H. R. Strong
18
Mr C D Lawton Clyde
NY
Feb 1 1849

County of Chautauqua ss: I, Orm Ford — a Commissioner of Deeds in & for said County, do hereby certify that Camelia Sage of the town of Pomfret — in said County who took an affidavit a few months since before me in relation to the application of Mehitable Porter for a pension is a person of good moral character and that her statements are entitled to full credit & belief.
Dated
Orm Ford

Mehitable Porter March 2 Feb

U.S. Dist Atty Office Detroit Nov 22. 1850
Sir.
I am in receipt of your letter of 20 th inst., and therewith the order upon which William Martin received the pension allotted to him due to Honorable Peter Wilson of Elphinstone Road, on 4 th March last.
I am My respectfully Your obedt Servt
G. E. Hark U.S. Dist Atty Per clerk
20
Hon. L. H. Vail Commr Pensions Washington D.C.

Washington.
September 14, 1850.
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions & Sir.
I have the honor herewith to enclose the affidavit of Mrs. Mehitable Porter, Pensioner, of Stockbridge Mich o as an application for a certificate of Pension (in place of the one granted her and recited in the affidavit) under the provisions of the Act of July 7, 1838. &c. I am informed that the ground upon which this application is based, are that her husband enlisted for or served "during the War"; that her marriage took place in the year 1793. and that she has been a widow 29 years. I am also informed that the proof relative to the date of marriage is on file in your office. Mrs. P. further informs me that her husband received $96. a year pension, being 16 \frac{2}{3} more than that granted her. She also, as will appear by her affidavit, asks for the Bounty Land to which her husband was entitled.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t
C. W. Bennett

Washington
March 7. 1851
Hon. J. E. Heath Court of Pensions & Sir.
I have the honor to enclose herewith the application of Mrs. Melitable Porter widow of Eliphalet Porter decd. for arrears of Pension.
Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t
C. W. Bennett

Pension Agency at Detroit Nov. 18. 1854
Sir
I wish you would cause to be sent to me or to George E. Hand Esqr. U. S. District Atty for Michigan residing at Detroit - Voucher No 10 in Abstract of Payments to Pensioners under Act of July 2. 1848 of my Quarterly account ending March 31. 1854 - Mehitable Porter Pensioner.
I believe this Voucher was forged by William Martin an invalid Pensioner and a Notary Public in this State.
Recently he presented a Voucher for the payment of Mehitable Porter's Pension from March 4. 1854 to Sept. 4. 1854 which is a forged instrument. Mrs Porter being dead. I caused him to be arrested, he has been examined for want of Bail, is now in Prison awaiting the action of the Grand Jury.
From the best information I have as yet been able to obtain, I am satisfied that Mrs Porter died in September 1852 or Sept 1853.
Very Respectfully
Your Ott Servt
Elisha Taylor
Pension Agent
Hon S. P. Waldo
Commr of Pensions
Washington. D. C.

Payment to be made at Detroit, by
E. P. Hastings Esq Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Michigan
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 375 Vol. 2
Geo. H. King Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Mehitable Porter , widow of Eliphalet Porter , who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars and  cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 4th day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty nine .
W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

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In to $96 per annum de d g former pay at $80 per annum comm 9 1 July 1848
C. W. Barnett Present
Oct 22 1850 C. W. Barnett

Washington
October 23. 1850.
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comr of Pensions Sir.
I have the honor to enclose herewith the Pension Certificate of Mrs. Mehitable Porter, under act of 2 d Feby. 1848, as required by your letter of the 8 th inst ant , relative to her claim for an increase of Pension.
Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t
C. W. Bennett.

1850 TO CLEMENT W. BENNETT,
Power of Attorney.
Dated
185
Mr Cole
Mr. John H. Sherman Clerk of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
L.P.
The foregoing Power of Attorney is hereby acknowledged before me this day personally appeared Clement W. Bennett, known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and the seal of the said Notary Public this _____ day of _____ 1850.

Know all Men by these Presents, THAT I,  Mehitable Porter
of the town of Stockbridge and State of Michigan have made, and by these Presents DO make, constitute and appoint, CLEMENT W. BENNETT , of the City of Washington , and District of Columbia , Attorney at Law and Agent for claimants, my Attorney both in law and in fact, for me, and in my behalf, and in my name, or in his own name, or otherwise at his discretion, to ask, apply for, obtain, recover, and receive from the Secretary of War, the Commissioner of Pensions, the Pay-Master General, and from any office or department of the United States' Government, or any officer or person connected therewith, all sums of money, arrearages of pay, extra-pay, bounty lands, pensions, claims, allowances or property of any kind, that may be due, or become due to me, for, or on account of my military or other services, or for supplies furnished by me, to, for or on account of any officer, agent, or other person in the employ or service of the United States, for which I have now or may hereafter have any claim under or by virtue of any enactment of the Congress of the United States, or in any way whatever; and I hereby authorize my said attorney, to take all lawful means for the recovery of the aforesaid, or any part thereof; to attend to the final adjustment of all business now pending before either of the offices, or officers above mentioned, in which I am interested; to give all necessary discharges; to make compromises if he deem it expedient, and to do all other acts in the premises that I myself could do were I personally present, and attorneys under him to appoint for the above purposes, and again at his pleasure to revoke: hereby revoking all like powers heretofore executed by me, and also hereby granting to my said attorney, CLEMENT W. BENNETT , all my power and authority in the premises, firmly and irrevocably, and ratifying whatsoever he or his deputies shall do lawfully by virtue hereof.
Elish Root Porter a Revolutionary Soldier
Witness my hand and seal, this Sixth
day of September A.D. 1850
Signed, sealed and executed in the presence of } Two Witnesses. H. N. Forbes Mary E. Otten
Mehitable Porter  SEAL. Mark
State of Michigan } ss. County of Ingham }
On this Sixth day of September 1850 personally appeared before me the above named Mehitable Porter to me known, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
H. N. Forbes J.P.
State of Michigan } ss. County of Ingham }
I hereby certify, that H. N. Forbes Esquire, before whom the foregoing Power of Attorney has been acknowledged, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of such acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County and State, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to take the same.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Ingham County Court, (a Court of Record), this 7th day of September
A. D. 1850 Henry D. Atwood Clerk. By John Clements Deputy

Affidavit of Meritable Porter for arrears of Pension dated Feby 17 th 1857.

State of Michigan } On this 17 th day of February 1851 (one) personally Ingham County } appeared before me Horatio N. Forbes one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Mehitable Porter a Revolutionary Pensioner who having been first duly sworn declares that she is the identical Mehitable Porter named in a certain certificate of pension of which the following is a true copy
Department of the Interior
Widows Pension
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2 nd 1848 Mehitable Porter Widow of Eliphalet Porter who was a private in the Revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum commencing on the 4 th of March 1848 and continuing for life unless she should again marry in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage deducting former payments at the rate of eighty dollars per annum
Given at the Department of the Interior this third day of January One thousand Eight hundred and fifty one
Alex r H. H. Stuart
Secretary of the Interior
Seal Examined and Countersigned J. S. Evans
Acting Commissioner of Pensions
She makes this affidavit for the purpose of procuring the arrears of pension to which she has reason to believe she is justly entitled under the acts of Congress passed as follows namely the Act of March 3 rd 1837 granting pension for five years to Widows of Revolutionary Soldiers who were married before the first of January 1794. the act of March 3 rd 1843 granting pen-

Sworn for one year to said Widows also the act of June 17. 1844 reviving said act of 1843 and extending said pension four years. she solemnly declares that she never received more than the sum of Eighty dollars per annum as will appear by an Examination of her former until the same has been granted her by virtue of her present certificate and as her said Husband the said Eliphilet received the sum of ninety Six dollars per annum during his lifetime and that by virtue of the aforesaid acts of Congress the Widows of said Soldiers were to receive the like sum of ninety Six dollars per annum she therefore claims the arrears now as she believes to be justly her due and prays the Commissioner of Pensions and the Secretary of the Interior that an examination of her claims be ordered and Justice done her in the premises
Sworn to and subscribed her before me this 17th day of Mehitable X Porter February 1851 Mark H. N. Forbes Justice of the Peace
I certify that the aforesaid Mehitable Porter made her mark to the foregoing she being unable to write in consequence of bodily infirmity and old age H. N. Forbes Justice of the Peace

State of Michigan
Ingham County 3p
I. Peter Low Clerk of the
County Court in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Horatio N. Forbes Esquire whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the County Court aforesaid is a Court of Record
Given under my hand and Seal of Office at Mason in said County this 19 th day of February 1858
P. Low Clerk

State of Michigan
Ingham County 3 rd Be it known that before me Horatio N Forbes a Justice of the Peace of said County and State duly authorized by Law to administer oaths personally appeared Mehitable Porter and made oath in due form of law that she is the Identical person named in an original certificate of Pension in her possession of which I certify the following is a true copy
War Department Widows Pension
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2 nd 1848 Mehitable Porter, Widow of Eliphilet Porter who was a private in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum commencing on the 4 th of March 1848 and continuing for Life unless she should again marry in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage
Given at the War office of the United States this 4 th day of January one thousand Eight Hundred and forty nine
{ Seal }
Examined and countersigned J L Edwards
W L Marcy Secretary of War
commission of Pensions
that she has not intermarried but continues to be a Widow that she now resides in Stockbridge in Ingham County, Michigan and has resided there for four years last past and that previous thereto she resided in Elba Genesee County, New York of which statement I am fully satisfied, that she now makes this affidavit for the purpose of procuring an increase in the above amount of pension as she believes she is fully entitled thereto, and also all arrearage of pension belonging to her, and further to procure the amount of bounty land due her as the Widow of the said Eliphilet Porter none having

ever been drawn by him or by said applicant. nor by any authority granted by her previous to this date
Sworn to and Subscribed } Mehitable her X Patter. this Sixth day of September 1850 } mark before me K. N. Harbison of the Peace
State of Michigan, I hereby certify that Process of Ingham County vs. James Elyon before whom the forgoing affidavit purports to have been made is a Justice of the Peace of said county duly authorized according to Law
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Soyham County Court About of the record this 7 th day of September 1850. Henry B. Atwood Clerk By John Clement Deputy

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United States of America
State of Michigan Ingham County
Be it known that before me Mason Branch a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Mehitable Porter of the Town of Stockbridge and County aforesaid and made oath in due form of law, That she is the Widow of Eliphalet Porter who was a private in the army of the Revolution and died on the 13 th of September 1821 and that she is the identical person who has drawn a Pension under the act of Congress passed March 3 rd 1843 and June 17 th 1844 on account of the Revolutionary services of her husband the late Eliphalet Porter and she now makes this application and affidavit for the purpose of obtaining a Pension under the act of Congress passed February 2 nd 1848
That she has never intermarried and remains the Widow of Eliphalet Porter above mentioned, that she now resides in the Town of Stockbridge Ingham County Michigan and has for the space of two years last past and previous to that she resided in the Town of Elba in the County of Genesee and State of New York Mehitable X Porter mark Mason Branch Harvey Atkley Witness
To the truth of which statements I am fully satisfied from my personal knowledge of the above named Mehitable Porter and on the testimony of Harvey Atkley to me personally known
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 9 th day of October 1848 Mason Branch Justice of the Peace

State of Michigan } County of Saginaw } S.S.
I hereby certify that the within named Mehitable Porter is sick (and confined to her bed (and unable to write her name) she therefore has made her mark in presence of the foregoing named witnesses Dated Stockbridge Oct. 9 th A.D. 1848
Asa P. Farnick Justice of the peace
State of Michigan Mason County
Clerks Office
I Geo. Southworth Clerk of said County and also Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that Mason Branch Beyer before me was the within Acknowledgments was made & whose name appears to the above Certificate was at the date thereof & still is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County duly elected & authorized to act as such & that full faith & credit are due his official acts & further that I am acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice & truly believe the above signature purporting to be his is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County at Mason this 13 th day of Oct 1848
Geo. Southworth Clerk

4476 R.
Sep. 22. 1843
Melitable Porter
Oct 1843.
$80 per a
W.C. Raymond Elba N. York
Elba
Commissary of Food Washington City D.C.

STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. County of Genesee
On this Sixteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty- three before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid
personally appeared Mehitable Porter a resident of the town of Elba in said county, aged Seventy Eight 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 3d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolu- tionary war:
That she is the widow of Elphalet Porter who was a private in the Army of the Revolution
She further declares that she was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the said act was Eighty Dollars
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day } and year first above written.
J. Laing Justice Witness Wm. C. Raymond
I Certify that the above declarant is personally known to me.
J. Laing Justice
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. County of Genesee
I, Horace M. Johnson clerk of said county, do hereby certify that Samuel Laing was on the day of the date of the above jurat and certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, duly appointed and qualified, and that the signature above, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of of- fice and subscribed my name, this Eighteenth day of September 1843.
H. M. Johnson Clerk by M. G. Johnson sp. clerk

Elba N.Y. Sept 18 th 1843
J. L. Edward,
With this I send you an Application for a Pension Certificate for Mrs. Mehitable Porter who was a Pensioner under the Law of 1838. She has no means of ascertaining now what Regiment her husband served in during the War of the Revolution, her former Certificate was returned to the War Department.
If this application is sufficient to entitle her to a Certificate you will please direct it to
M rs . C. Raymond
Elba Seneca Co.
N.Y.

State of New York
Chautauqua County ss. Condace Sage widow of Abram Sage of Fredonia in said County being duly sworn says that she is well acquainted with Abigail Porter, widow of Eliphaleth Porter late and has known her for upwards of sixty years, that the said Abigail was married to the said Eliphaleth on the twenty seventh day of June in the year 1782 that she, this deponent, was present at the marriage, and well recollects the same. That this deponent was then the wife of the said Abigail's brother Abram Sage who is now deceased, that she, this deponent, had then been married to the said Abram about three years, and then had two children, the youngest then about six months old, and that they then lived in a house built by her father in law David Sage for them near by the house of said David Sage, that the said marriage took place at the house of David Sage, the father of the said Abigail now deceased in the town of Berlin in the State of Connecticut which was a story and a half house of wood unpainted and was situate about two miles east of the Parish church in said town and about five miles west of Middletown, That they were married by the Reverend Nathaniel Funn, then minister of the Parish and a congregational or Presbyterian minister, now deceased. That the said Abigail's father and mother and also this deponent's husband Abram Sage, and Jonathan Sage, and David Sage, brothers of the said Abigail and Anna Sage & Lois Sage Sisters of the said Abigail all of whom are now deceased were present at the said marriage, and that Bathsheba Sage a younger sister of the said Abigail was then sick and lay upon a bed in an adjoining room and was not able to come into the room to be an eye witness of the ceremony. And that subsequent to the said marriage the said Abigail and Eliphaleth always lived together as man and wife until the time of the death of the said Eliphaleth, and raised a family of children.
Condace Sage
Chautauqua County ss. I hereby certify that on this fifteenth day of March 1841 the above named Condace Sage personally came before me and subscribed and swore to the foregoing deposition in due form of law, and I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Condace Sage and that she is a person of good moral character, and her statements are entitled to the fullest credit. And the words "and Jonathan Sage and David Sage" in the above deposition, were interlined and noted before execution.
Allen Hinkley Justice of the Peace

State of New York Chautauqua County ss
I John G. Hinckley Clerk of Said County do hereby certify that Allen Hinckley is a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County: that his Term of Office commenced on the first day of January A. D. 1839 and that the same will expire on the last day of December A. D. 1842. And further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature "Allen Hinckley" subscribed to the depositions within Deposition is genuine -
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said County this 18 th day of March A. D. 1841.
John G. Hinckley Clerk
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