Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1323, for Josiah Shaw, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continental Mass.
Shaw, Josiah Mary
W 1323 B. P. K. 40685-16a-55-
CONTENTS

3351.
New York.
Simon Shaw. 4
Private Massachusetts Line 176 1 year in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 th of April , 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of Oct 1818 and sent to Simon Fisher Esq. Dolhi New York
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 at 6/30.  33.60 Semi-annual all's ending 1 st March 1819.  48.00 $81.60
Bailey
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Revolutionary claim

2843
New York Albany Mary Shaw widow of Josiah Shaw who served in the Revolutionary
1843
war, as a Private Mass. Service
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of Nov r / 53 and sent to
Henry Kellogg Normal Comdt.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853. Page 85 Vol. A
245270
1853

245. 270 C Old man. S. W. 5 May 16. '76
Mary Shaw. m. d. Isiah Shaw. p. m.
East Allen.
May. 1841.
Paul. act
Willam Sept. 30 1857. Oct. 1. 1857.
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Rev. J. A. Houghton Athens, St. St. New York
Vol I-1-84

Application of Mary Shaw of Meredith Delaware Co. N.Y. for Bounty Land under the Act of Feb. 1855
7115.270

State of New York } ss. County of Delaware }
On this 5 th day of May 1856, before me, the undersigned a justice of the peace, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, within and for the county and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Shaw, aged seventy nine years, a resident of the town of Meredith, in the county of Delaware & state of New York, who being duly sworn, according to law declares that she is the widow of Gasihah Shaw deceased, who was a private in a company commanded by capt. Allen (as she thinks) that her said husband entered the service in the revolutionary war was in the battle of Stillwater Brattlehill and served most of the war as she has been informed by him and she further says that her said husband drew a pension during his lifetime for some ten or twelve years and she would refer the deponent to the records of the department for the proof of his service.
She further states that she was married to the said Gasihah Shaw in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen by Elder Isaac Lake in the town of Delhi County of Delaware State of New York and that her name

1. That her said marriage was Mary 2. Bundy and that her husband died at 3. Delhi in Nov. 1844 or about that time and 4. that she is still his widow and she 5. further states that there is a private record 6. of their marriage in their family bible 7. and she further states that in the last 8. three years she has drawn nearly six dollars 9. Her  certificat  was  issued  date  10  Nov  1855 10. aged from the Pension department on account of the services of her said husband and she trusts that the department having thus recognized the services of her said husband will not require stronger proof from her.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act granting additional Bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who have engaged in the military service of the United States" approved March 3 rd 1855. She further declares that she has not received a warrant for Bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, neither has her  her said husband ever received any land for her services to her knowledge. I believe he has not received any, but this statement did make

a declaration one year ago last March for the sum of five hundred dollars and having received no response from the same, she concluded that the same was either never received or never sent. She thereby appointed Parks
Boonshaver has been most helpful at every turn to facilitate this her charge.
to arrest the described Mary Ann Shaw  or  to  any  other  person  on  the  day  and  year  first  above  mentioned  and  I  hereby  certify  that  I  know  the  said  deponent  Mary  Shaw  and  believe  her  to  be  as  a  foresaid  stated  and  that  she  is  at the  time  wherein  stated  and  further  that  I  have  no  knowledge  in  this  her  affair .
• T. G. B. ... justice of the peace
Between York and S.S.
Account of Salacca 3

The above named applicant for Bounty land that he has known her for the last two years last past that he has examined her family record that he believes the same to be genuine that it is contained in a book purporting to be the family bible and an entry made on a blank leaf on the or attached to the cover "April 12 th 1812" show- ing as the deponent believes the time when said bible Bible was it was printed in 1811 and that the said rec- ord as far as relates to the marriage of the said applicant and the soldier whose name is as follows and is in the hand writing of the said Francis Shaw
"Joseph Shaw & Mary Brandy married July 28 1811"
which is an exact copy of the same, and that the said deponent is not interested in the claim. Subscribed and sworn to the day and year first above written A.S. Boonhouse justice of the peace
State of Miss - York Delaware County Clerk's Office
and a witness of the Dele- the s in the Seal of

May 2nd. 1856. personally appeared A. G. Bronhauer Esq. said he and Sarah A. Whitney wife his and have credible grounds to believe that the facts of said deposition are true to the best of his knowledge. A. G. Bronhauer Esq. known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing deposition.
State of New-York, Delaware County Clerk's Office
I, BENJAMIN CANNON, Clerk of the County of Delaware, and and also Clerk of the Courts of said County, do hereby certify that A. G. Bronhauer Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition purports to have been taken, was at the time of taking such deposition, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Delaware aforesaid, elected and sworn, and duly authorized by law to take the same, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this 5 th day of May 1856.
B. Cannon
CLERK

State of New York County of Columbia On this 5th day of May A.D. 1856 personally appearing before me a justice of the peace in & for said county John D. White and Sarah A. Whitney who are to me known to be the persons described in and who witnesses know to me to be the persons described in and who say that they are each well acquainted with Mary Shaw since their acquaintance for twenty years that they have known her (She is now forty years old) that they have known that they were acquainted with Josiah Shaw her late husband having known him for twelve years previous to his death Mrs. Whitney for two years previous to his death that she said Josiah Shaw and Mary Shaw lived together as husband & wife and were expected so to be that deponents never heard the fact of their marriage disputed or questioned that the said Josiah Shaw died in 1844 and the said Mary Shaw has been since that time and still is reported to be his widow which deponents believe to be the fact that she has never been married since

her said husband's death and still is his widow and that her said husband was the identical man mentioned in said in her declaration when and further that they were present and saw her execute the above declaration and make with thereto in due form of law and further that they, deponents do re- side in Delaware County, Oregon and further that they have no interest in her claim.
Sworn to and subscribed
Before me this 5 th day of
May 1856
J. G. Beinhauer justice of the peace
John G. White Sarah M. Whitney.

Direct to Parks Boonhower Delhi Delaware County N. York

WAR DEPARTMENT,
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE.
WASHINGTON, February 23, 1923.
Respectfully returned to
Margaret Shaw O'Donnell, Box 331, Trumansburg, New York.
The records of this office show that one Josiah Shaw served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Capt. William Reed's Company, 3rd Regiment, Continental Troops, and that he received pay for the months of September, October and November, 1776.
This organization was raised in the State of Massachusetts, and was one of the regiments, organized in compliance with a resolution of Congress of November 4, 1775, which provided that the men be enlisted in the Continental service to continue to December 31, 1776.
The records also show that one Josiah Shaw served in that war as a private in Capt. Moses Leavitt's Company, Col. Abraham Drake's Regiment, raised out of the regiment commanded by Col. Jonathan Houlton to re-enforce the Northern Continental Army at Stillwater, September, 1777. He entered the service September 8, 1777, was discharged December 1, 1777, and was in service three months and eight days. This was a regiment of the Hampshire Militia.
No record has been found of the service in the Revolutionary War of any other person named Josiah Shaw.
It does not appear from the records of this office that a man named John Phillips served as a general in the service of the Revolution.
The collection of Revolutionary War records in this office is far from complete, and it is suggested as a possibility that additional information can be obtained from the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston, Massachusetts, or from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
The Adjutant General.

State of New York } ss. Delaware County }
On this 18 th day of July, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and state aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Shaw aged Seventy seven years a resident of Meredith in the state aforesaid who being duly sworn according to Law declares that she is the widow of Josiah Shaw deceased, late of said Meredith who was a regular in the army of the United States in the war of the rebellion and who at the time of his death or decease, was a pensioner under the Laws of the United States. She further states that she was married to the said Josiah Shaw in Delhi, in the county aforesaid on the 28 th day of July A.D. 1844 by one Isaac Lake a preacher of the Baptist Church authorized by law to perform the marriage ceremony, and who has since deceased, and that her name, before said marriage was Mary Bundy, that her said husband died at Meredith aforesaid on or about the 16 th day of November A.D. 1842, and that since that time she has remained and still is a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty or pension to which she may be entitled under the act passed by the last Congress of the United States.
Witnesses present.
Mary her X Shaw mark
J. A. Law, Justice of Peace
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and date first above written, and I further certify that said Mary Shaw, owing to bodily infirmity is not able to write, and therefore affixed her mark to the above deposition.
J. A. Law, Justice of the Peace

State of New York Delaware County } ss
On this thirteenth day of July 1853 before me a justice of the Peace in and for the county and State aforesaid came Samuel Shaw of Meredith aforesaid aged 68 years, to me personally known, who being duly sworn according to Law deposes and says that he is a son of Josiah Shaw deceased of Meredith aforesaid who was at the time of his death a pensioner of the United States, - and who died on or about the 16th day of Novem- ber 1842 leaving a widow, to wit Mary Shaw, whose appli- cation for a pension, as said widow is hereto annexed. Said Samuel Shaw further deposes that he was cognizant of the marriage of said Josiah Shaw and Mary Shaw (now his widow) at the time when the same was solemnized and knows that said Josiah and Mary continued to cohabit as man and wife during the lifetime of said Josiah. Said Deponent further says that he has examined the family record, contained in the family Bible in the possession of said Josiah Shaw during his life-time, and finds therein, in the proper hand writing of said Josiah Shaw, an entry of his marriage to said Mary Bundy on the 28th day of July 1814, and this deponent further says that said Mary Shaw , since the death of said Josiah Shaw has remained a widow Samuel Shaw
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13th day of July 1853 S. A. Law Justice of the Peace

State of New York Delaware County ss.
In this deposition, says only, was before me a justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Isaac the of Menden in the county aforesaid, aged seventy two was who being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he was for many years personally acquainted with Josiah Hain, now deceased, who was at one time of the United States that he was informed about the year 1840 or 1841 that said Josiah Hain was married to Mary Dundy; and further says that said Josiah Hain and Mary his wife continued to cohabit as man and wife, living in the town of Delhi until until the death of said Josiah, since which time said Mary has continued to reside in the town of  Delhi  until  the  present
The word "Delhi" 4th line from bottom interlined before signing & the word "aforesaid" next line below erased
Isaac Burr
Sworn and subscribed before me this 11th day of July 1853, and I further say that said Isaac Burr and Samuel Hain whose affidavits hereto attached are both personally known to me to be one and the same respectable and honest man.
William Easton Justice of the Peace

Know all men by these presents that I, Mary Shaw of Mendota, in the County of Delaware and State of New York, do hereby make and constitute Henry Kellogg of Norwalk, in the State of Connecticut my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my behalf to receive from the proper officer of the Government of the United States any pension, or back pay or other money which may be adjudged as due and payable to me under or by reason of an application this day made by me for a pension. In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my name and seal at Mendota this 13th day of July 1853.
Witnesses
W. H. Hance A Law Justice of Peace
Mary her X Shaw mark
State of New York } ss Delaware County }
On this 13th day of July 1853 before me came Mary Shaw to me personally known, and acknowledged the above power of Attorney to be her act and deed, and I further certify that said Mary Shaw owing to bodily infirmity is not able to write her name, and therefore makes her mark.
A Law Justice of the Peace

Josiah Shaeo
3351
Oct. 1814
Letter
Charles Hathaway
Delhi N.Y.
Nov. 1812

State of Vermont County of Franklin
On this twenty ninth day of June A.D. 1818 said right hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Andrew Spence Esquire Judge of the Circuit Court of Sessions, being a court of Oyer and terminer and General Court Sessions, having the power to hear and determine and keeping a record of their proceedings, held pursuant to an act entitled An Act concerning the circuit courts, sittings and the courts of Oyer and terminer and Gaol delivery passed April 5. 1813. Josiah Shaw aged sixty two years, residing in the town of St. Albans in said County of Franklin who being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he has heard that the proceedings in the rec- itation was as follows, that in the year 1775 or 76 he served as a minuteman under Captain William Reed in Col. Fletcher's regiment about eight months. In the fall of the same year he enlisted as a common soldier in Captain Reed's company of regular continental troops in Col. Fletcher's re- giment in which company he served as a common soldier from twelve to eighteen months. That he afterwards served about nine months in Captain Joseph Warner's company in General Mann's Brigade (during which time he was present at the battle of General Burgoyne - that the date of the original enlistment of this deponent transmitted to the Secretary of War was as the deponent believes on the 29 th day of April 1818 being the day it was sworn to before Cidean Fisher Esquire a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Franklin that he has received a pension certificate the number of which is 3351
And the said Josiah Shaw as solemnly swears that he has been a resident citizen of the United States ever

Since the revolutionary war, and that I have not since the 18 th day of March 1818 nor at any time by gift sale or otherwise or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an act 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 18 th of March 1818 and that I have not nor have any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than is described in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Subscribed & sworn to
Isiah Shaw
in open court June 27 th 1820.
H. K. Phelps Dep. Clerk.
Schedule of Property
1 cow, 1 2 year old heifer, 1 old horse, 3 sheep, 3 chickens, 1 kettle, 1 testament, 2 bedsteads, 1 plough, 4 hens with 10 chickens, 2 shoats, 1 table, 1 pot, 1 spelling book, 1 axe, 1 hoe, 1 family bible, 1 set tea cups & saucers, 1 tea kettle, 1 small cook kettle, some old pamphlets, 1 hoe, one scythe, 1 pitchfork.
I have not-enclosed"> I have not so much wearing apparel and bedding as is necessary for my family.
I have no trade and am by occupation a farmer and am now able by my own labour to support my family comfortably. I have no real estate, nor do I hold any land by lease. I have in my family a wife & two children. My wife is 43 years of age & of very delicate health. One of the children that lies with the oldest whose name is Alva is 5 years old & unable to render me any assistance. The other one named Oliver is about 3 years of age. I have three other children & one daughter by a former wife, their names

Samuel, Abel, Josiah & Rebecca the three oldest have families are poor and unable to render me assistance, Josiah the youngest of the three left me when about 18 years of age & was to give me 50 dollars for the remaining part of his term he has paid me about half of it. I have no other relations from whom I have the least reason to hope for any assistance I now own a small debt amounting in the whole to about sixty dollars & have no means of discharging them except out of the above mentioned property or by the proceeds of my own labor, which is barely sufficient to support my family.
Josiah Shaw
I Aaron R. Phelps Deputy Clerk of the County of Franklin do hereby certify that the forego- ing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are true copies from the records 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 schedule is Sixty dollars.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 9 th day of August 1820.
A. R. Phelps Dep. Clerk

Josiah Shaw
App d for pension 29 April

State of New York } Schenectady Co. } ss
On this twenty ninth day of April 1810 before me one of the judges of the court of common pleas in & for said county of Schenectady a personally appeared Joseph Shaw of the town of Schoharie in said county, a Delaware aged sixty one years & upwards who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in or- der to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to pro- vide for certain persons engaged in the land & marine service of the United States in the revolution- ary war" That he the said Joseph Shaw enlisted in the town of P'keepsie in the com- monwealth of Massachusetts in the be- ginning of the year 1776 in the company commanded by Capt. William Reed of Ab- bington in said commonwealth for one year & was attached to the regiment then commanded by Col. Bailey (he thinks his given name was Luther) in the Massachusetts line in the service of the United States - That he continued to serve in said corps till the expiration of the year for which he enlisted. Shortly after his term of service had expired he enlisted into a company commanded by Capt. Joseph Warner in the Massachu-

sets line, for nine months & was attached to a regiment, the commanding officer of which is not now recollected, but it was un- der the command of Gen. Lincoln - and continued to serve in said corps till the term of his service had expired - He served also in a company of minute men in Massachusetts for about eight months before he entered into the regular service - At the time of the expiration of his first en- listment into the regular service he was sick in a hospital at Faxon on the Morgan of Hudson river & did not receive a discharge not being then with his com- pany - As soon as he recovered he enlisted into the nine months service & served thro the term & took a discharge but can not now distinctly remember what became of it but believes it was burnt when his fathers house was burnt nearly forty years ago, in Cummington in Massachusetts - He was in the battles of Bunkerhill, Kingsbridge, Stillwater & at the capture of Burgoyne & in various skirmishes - That he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for his

support & that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid Josiah Shaw Colonel in her
Delaware ss. I, Gideon Fincke one of the judges of the court of common pleas in said county of Delaware as aforesaid do cer- tify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Josiah Shaw did serve in the revolutionary war as station- the preceding declaration, against the common enemy - and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Re- ment of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress - Dated Delhi Delaware county N.Y. 29 April 1810 - Gideon Fincke

11341 4111 561 58 155 111 1035 3801 11
In testimony whereof Gideon A. Wells is an Image of the court of common pleas in open court and that the signature to the within certificate & foregoing affidavit is his, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court this 7 th May 1818 H. B. Phelps Dep. Clk
Josiah Shaw 29 April

71184.
August 3, 1925.
Mrs. William Wallace 6726 Honore Street Chicago, Illinois
Madam:
I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W-1323, it appears that Joseph Shaw enlisted in 1775 and served eight months as a private in Captain William Read's Company, Colonel Bailey's Massachusetts Regiment and was at the battle of Bunker Hill.
Early in 1776 he enlisted at Roxbury, Massachusetts and served one year as a private in Captain William Read's Company, Colonel Bailey's Massachusetts Regiment and was at the battle of King's Bridge.
Shortly thereafter he enlisted and served nine months in Captain Joseph Warner's Massachusetts Company and was at the battle of Stillwater and at the capture of Burgoyne.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 29, 1818 while residing in Delhi, Delaware County, New York aged sixty-one years.
He died November 11(or 16)1842, at Meredith, New York,

He married at Delhi, New York, July 28, 1814, Mary Bundy. She was allowed pension on her application executed July 13, 1843 while residing at Meredith, New York, aged seventy-seven years.
In 1820 the soldier referred to his children Alva, five years old, and Oliver three years old and to Samuel, Ansel, Josiah, and Rebecca by a former wife whose name is not stated. Samuel was sixty-eight years old in 1853 and lived in Delhi, New York.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

Norwalk, March 18 th Dear Mr. P. Waldo -
As per Ireland please find renewed Declaration with the proper certificates attached. It here should still be my infor- -mality - please notify Henry Allcott Norwalk - Ct. & much oblige
Yours, &c.
A. H. Bryant

1919 Apr. 23. Hist. Soc. N.H.
Discontinued
1822 Feb. 30. Rich. & Margaret
1825 Jan. 10. etc.
1825 Feb. 11. Dist.illers, W.H.
Blair, Wis.
1925 Aug. 6 - Heir to Mrs. Wm.
Wallace (see entry in Ch. Shaw -
Wallace Josiah Shaw - S-30699) m. 8/4
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1323
Mary Shaw,
Widow.
Josiah Shaw,
Prio. Rev. War.
Act: Feb. 8. 1853.
Index: - Vol. 8 Page 204
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No. 685
Stearns

✓ No 2736
Mary Shaw, widow of Josiah Shaw
Let to Henry Kellogg Oct 1/53 Ry
Rev 9 Act 3 d February 1853

July 23, 1853. Appel of Mary Shaw, widow of Isiah Shaw,
Mess Ditch, Delaware Co. N. York.
Recd 3 d Feb. 1853. Verm. $96 per annum Commencing 3 d Feb. 1853 Rev.
Henry Kellogg. Newark, Pa. Conn.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business

Pension Office Nov. 8. 1853.
Sir,
Please certify the line to which the within named pensioner was paid; and, if in your power, the date of his death. Very respectfully Your obed. Servt.
J. C. C. For the Commissioner
J. Burt Esq. 2 Candidates Present Jeremiah Shaw, Act 1818 - # 8. p. m. - Died 11 th November 1842, Paid to his death.
Thos. G. Bend Actg. Auditor

H. Keeney, Esq.
April 1
Bureau of Pensions Dept. of the Interior Washington D.C.
Gentlemen
Will you please send me the Revolutionary War record of Josiah
Shaw of Delhi New York.
He was my great grand father. I desire the record to complete application to the D. A. R.
Thanking you for the favor.
I am
Respectfully
Mrs. A. H. Colonel A. Blair

ION D APR 18 1912 U. S. OFFICE

DR. N. W. JIPSON
4310 INDIANA AVE.
CHICAGO
Apr 16, 1912
Commissioner Peabody
Dear Sir:-
I am desirous of learning information concerning Josiah Shaw of Delhi, Delaware Co N. Y. who was a pensioner of the Revolutionary war. I would like to know his rank, age at enlistment, place at which he enlisted and all the facts obtainable

DR. N. W. JIPSON
4310 INDIANA AVE.
CHICAGO
as a matter of family history. I should also like to know the place of enlistment and age at enlistment of Rubin Jipson whose widow was a pensioner of the war of 1812 in New York State. Thanking you in advance for any information you may be able to give me
I am
Very truly yours
N. W. Jipson 4310 Indiana Ave Chicago

Bundy Mary Shaw, widow of Josiah Shaw
Sec n { Married, 28 July 1814 X { died at Delhi perempt of Nov. 1842
X duly verified ( where witness is entitled to the resided ) copy of family record.
Good care
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Romeo July 21 st 1893
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
I herewith transmit the application of my Mother for a pension under the law passed last session. Will you please place the application on file & inform me of its receipt - also of any movements in the declaration as showed by list -
Yours & C. Henry Kellogg, to A. C. Biglow,

105.270

House of Reps. May. 15, 1857
J. Minor Esq. Dear Sir,
Yrs I have with thank you, two applications for Bounty Land, One in behalf of John Tyrrell of Bellin, Del. Co. N.Y. & one in behalf of Mrs. Mary Shaw of Meredith in the same County & State,
Very Respectfully &c.
J. H. Hughes

Stear

Brief in the case of Mary Shaw, widow of Joseph Shaw Delaware County and State of New York act 3 d February 1853
Claim, ("original," or "increased" )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of 18 th March, 1818. —
Marriage proved by duly verified copy of family record
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Henry Kellogg Esqr Newark,
Name and residence of Agent
Connecticut
H. Gibbs Examining Clerk.

State of New-York,
Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH
County of Delaware, and also Clerk of the Courts of said County, do hereby certify that The Hon. William Gleason Jr. Esquire before whom the annexed depositions pur- ports to have been taken, was at the time of taking such depositions a Justice of the Peace  Circuit Judge in and for the County of Delaware aforesaid, elected and sworn, and duly authorized by law to take the same, and that his signature thereto is genuine. and also to the said Certificate annexed
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this fifteenth day of October 1853
Benj Cannon Clerk.
and the ...

State of New York
I the undersigned Clerk of the County Court of the United States for the District of Columbia do hereby certify that on this fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three before me the subscriber the County Judge personally appeared Mary A. Shaw aged seventy four years, a resident of the town of Georgetown in said County and State, who being duly sworn according to law, deposes and declares that she is the widow of John Shaw deceased, late of the District of Columbia who was a regular in the army of the United States in the War of the Rebellion, and who at the time of his decease was a Pensioner under the laws of the United States. She further deposes and states that she was married to the said John Shaw in 1814 by Rev. Isaac Lake, an Elder in the Baptist denomination, and authorized by law to perform the marriage ceremony, who has since died, and that her said marriage was a very happy one - that her said husband died at Washington on the 10th day of November A.D. 1842, and that since that time she has remained still a widow. And she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Pension to which she may be entitled under the act passed by the last Congress of the United States. - That the said John Shaw's house now personally owned by her in said District is the old family home where she had prior to her marriage a home of her own and was always happy in her family by having such a kind husband. After the death of her said husband she went to the District of Columbia and has since resided in the house of her daughter, Mary A. Shaw, who is now the owner of the house and lot for the term of her natural life.

marriage, & containing the record of other marriages in her family) was made by her said husband himself not a great while after her marriage with him, & that the same is in his own hand writing which record is in the words & figures following viz. "Isaiah Shaw & Mary Brundage" "Maria July 28 1814"
And she Mary Shaw further deposes, saying that she has had a shock of the palsy, is unable to go to the place where all the county courts & courts of record are held in said county, & that for several months she has not been aware of the hearing of the above entitled cause. Mary her Shaw Mark N. Lynde - Witness to her signature And I the undersigned County Judge do certify that said Mary Shaw is a reputable & credible person & I have no doubt of her apparent inability & inability fact that she is unable to attend before me concerning the matters in the cause & by the evidence has some reason to believe that she has some statutory proof with the 14th day of October 1853 - & I certify she is unable to attend. Glenn G. Warner County Judge of Delaware County, New York
It is to certify that the within copy is a true copy of the original
on this 14th day of October 1853 personally appeared before me Abraham is now a Quaker  Abraham of the Town of Delhi in said County as a person known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing deed, that he is the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 14th day of October 1853 Glenn G. Warner County Judge

they say that he believes that his own father & the said - Mary were truly & legally married on 4th Feb 1817 - that soon after the death of his mother they were to be married, his said father & mother's sister Mary then Mary's daughter came to his house & he there learned from them that they were married & that they always thereafter lived together as husband & wife were always reputed to be such at the time of his father's death & so he now says he has no doubt that they were legally married & he now says Mary Shaw is still the widow of said David Shaw - & that as far as he is well acquainted with the said family he has never known him spoken of by any other way than as his father & mother's son & that in his house he has great many years in his father's family & that the records of his father's marriage with said Mary Shaw formerly Miss Bland, with records & figures showing the same.
Asian Shaw & Lucy B. ...
married July 28 1814" by me his
like father's own handwriting with a kind of writing, he is somewhat different than, or as if different, so that he merely believed it was his father's. (I have since been furnished a check for his father's own signature - the note to that effect.) I am still there.
of ... before the the 19th day of October 1859
Dear Glasgow, we can't
Bridge of Sussex county in the state of New York
4122 G Road, P.O. Box 100, Pines of Sullivan County, NY

Commissioner of Pensions, Independence Nat. Washington D.C.
Dear Sir. Can I get any information concerning one Josiah Shaw who served in the Revolutionary War and who was buried at Delhi Delaware Co N.Y.
Or have you any information of a General John Phillips of the Revolutionary War.
Yours sincerely Margaret Shaw O'Donnell Box 387. Pnemauberg N.Y.
RECEIVED

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of _____ a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1775 1775 Private Private 2 1775          
Battles engaged in, _____ Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____ Date of application for pension, _____ Residence at date of application, _____ Age at date of application, _____
Remarks: _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.