Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5393, for Thaddeus Morehouse, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
born
Morehouse, Thaddens Thaddens Anne
W 5393 BLt 7093-160-55,
CONTENTS

Cir. D.P. Booth Aug 21/55
Ad 70 50 - no 2466
34.897
Act March 3/55 April 2/55
Anne Morehouse, widow of Thaddeus Morehouse and
Private
{ Coon Line
Regt Col. Washington
Co. A Troops
War of Revolution
Rec Pension Act July 3. 1853
Mr. H. S. 70
Burytown
Co. 160 acrs Sept 28/55
Dodge
Adm
D B. Booth Danbury Connecticut
Vol. 1162 - 88. 10

2,466 Connecticut Anna Morehouse widow of Thaddeus Morehouse Can n who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 46. Dollars 66.
Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of Octr. 1853 and sent to
D. B. Booth. Danbury Ct.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3. 1853, Page 62, Vol. a
Reg 3 m 55-34897

7954 Connecticut
Thaddeus Muckout of Fairfield in the State of Conn who was a Pr in the Conn commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg commanded by Col Waterbury in the Conn line for service. Com no 19, Ser 1 & no 425,
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of 46 Dollars 60 Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of June 1833 and Rev. Thomas Danbury, Conn
Arrears to the 4th of March $93 32 Pension allowance ending Sept 1 1833
$1166 5/8
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by C. D. Bullock Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 3 Page 27

Thudadeus, Morchoune
24/7/92

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss
On this 25 th day of July 1832, personally appeared in Open Court, before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the said County & State, now sitting at Danbury, in and for the said District, the same being a court of Record.
Shadrach Marsh, a resident of Danbury in the said County, aged Eighty three years, who being first duly sworn, according to law and on his oath, made the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he was born in Fairfield in said County, on the 9 th day of October 1748, and has no other record of his age, than an entry thereof in his family Bible, made by himself thirty years ago, from information derived from his Parents.
He removed to Danbury aforesaid previous to the Revolutionary war and has there ever since resided; excepting that he resi- ded in Suffield in said State in the years 1805, 1807 & 1808; and on each occasion when he entered the ser- vice of the United States, as hereinafter mentioned, he re- side in said Danbury. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officers and served as herein stated. - So. wil.
1 st That some time in the month of March 1775. he enlisted at said Danbury, for the term of nine months, in the Connecticut State Troops, in the Regi- ment commanded by Colonel David Waterbury, in the battalion commanded by Captain Noble Bowditch. Ezra Stevens & James Clark, were Lieutenants and Daniel Hickok was Ensign. He joined the said Regi-

at Stamford, proceeded to New York, and after remaining a few weeks, proceeded with said Regiment up the North river to Half Moon Point. He was also in the service at the taking of St. Johns & Montreal. He was engaged in the thickest of the Battle when the Fort at St. Johns was reduced. He enlisted as a Private at said Danbury; served at said military in the month of April, when the company joined the Regiment at Stamford a few days. At the City of New York he was chosen a Corporal and served in that capacity until the arrival of the Army at St. Johns, when he was appointed a Sergeant in said company; and continued to serve thereafter, as orderly Sergeant thereof until the end of the Campaign. His appointment under the hand of said Noble Benedict is herewith now presented. He had the honor to be of the party selected by General Montgomery to take possession of the Citadel on the surrender of Montreal.
He served the full period for which he enlisted - to wit - nine months, and arrived at his home in said Danbury the 8th day of December 1775.
That in the month of October 1776, or about the 1 st of November, he was drafted, or called out, to serve two months, in the Militia of Connecticut at Housenick in said County of Fairfield; he served the said term at said Housenick as a Sergeant, in the company commanded by Captain Richard Pratt.
There were no Regular Troops stationed there at the time, and but a small body of Militia, perhaps from three to five hundred, the whole were under the command of General Wooster; after performing the said service he returned to his home in said Danbury, about the 1 st of January 1777.
In this period of service, he served

in the capacity of Sergeant: he is not confident as to the year, but has a very strong impression it was in the year 1776.
3 d That when the British Troops proceeded up the Hudson River, and it was supposed to be their intention, to effect a junction with the Army of General Burgoyne, an alarm was made, and he entered the service as a minute-man, in the Regiment of Continental Militia, commanded by Col. Joseph P. Cooke: There was no Captain of the company in which he served; but it was commanded by Lieutenant David Boughton. Richard Barnum was Ensign. Eleazar Dyer had been Captain of said company but had been killed, a few months previous, when Danbury was burned by the British. The Regiment marched from Danbury, the day after receiving notice; and he thinks, it was in the latter part of the month of August 1777, or early in September they first marched to Pockhille in the State of New York. Then proceeded immediately to Fishkill on the Hudson River. After remaining there about two weeks he proceeded with said Regiment, again to Pockhille where it was supposed the enemy were about to effect a landing. At this latter place the Troops under the said Col. Cooke, encamped, and remained six or seven weeks: he was not engaged in any battle; but there were skirmishes occasionally between said Corps, and plundering parties of the British. He knew Colonel Meigs of the line of the Army, & he commanded the Troops a part of the time, both at Fishkill & Pockhille. He was discharged, and returned home about the 1 st of November 1777. In this period of service, he served two months, and in the capacity of a Sergeant. The Officers under whom he served, and all his fellow soldiers, are now dead,

But he has no documentary evidence, nor knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to the last mentioned service.
4th. In the Month of July 1777, when the Towns of Fairfield, and Norwalk were burned, he volunteered to serve, and did serve in the Militia of said State of Connecticut, at said Fairfield and Norwalk and at New Canaan, in said Fairfield County; he served at this time two weeks, under Major Porter of the Militia as a Sergeant. Richard Brannan was Captain of the Company in which he served, at Fairfield near the Church, he was engaged in a smart action with the British Troops, Several were killed on each side. He has been of the impression, that said Porter was of the Militia - but he may have been a Continental Officer. Of all the service aforesaid, he here produces all the evidence in his power, He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the Army of any State.
Maddens his Mark
He was an able man

The said Thaddeus Morehouse hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid in Open Court - Thaddeus X his Morehouse mark
We Levi Osborn a clergyman, residing in the town of Canterbury and Isaac Innes - residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Thaddeus Morehouse who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Eighty Three years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid in Open Court - Levi Osborn Isaac Innes
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Levi Osborn who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Canterbury and that Isaac Innes who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Canterbury and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Albert Edward Taylor Clerk
I, Edward Taylor Clerk of the County of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thaddeus Morehouse for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of My said - Office, This 28th day of July 1932.
Albert Edward Taylor Clerk

State of Connecticut, Fairfield County ss.
I Reuben Booth of Danbury in said County of Fairfield Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the said County and State do hereby certify to all whom it may concern, that Edward Taylor Esq. who hath signed and certified the foregoing proceedings of the said Court, is Clerk of the said Court of Probate and was Clerk as aforesaid at the time of signing and certifying the same - And that the said signatures above written which purport to be the signatures of the said Edward Taylor are in truth his hand writing - And that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such Clerk -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in Danbury aforesaid the 25 th day of July 1832 -
Reuben Booth Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury Connecticut -

We the undersigned Inhabitants of the Town of Danbury, do hereby certify, that we have known and been acquainted with Shaddeus Morehouse, who hath applied for a Pension for Revolutionary services. That he sustains and has ever sustained a high reputation for integrity and truth. We have this day heard the Declaration made by him before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in Connecticut for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, and that he is generally reputed, and believed in said Danbury to have served as therein stated and from our knowledge of his high sense of honor and strict regard for truth we fully believe that he so served.
Daniel B. Cooke
Sam d H. Phillips
Sam d Hildreth
Darius Hays
Isaac Dyer
S. H. Boon
Nathan Bulkley Jr.
July 25 th 1832 Sworn in open Court. And the said Court of Probate certifies that the Deponents sustain good character for truth, and are credible witnesses.
Attest Edmund Taylor Clerk

State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss. s. d.
I Reuben Booth Judge of the Court of Probate for the district of Danbury in the said County and State do hereby certify that all the within named respondents are personally well known to me to be gentlemen of the first respectability in the community in which they respectively reside.
Witness my hand this 25 th day of July 1832 -
Reuben Booth Judge of the Court of Probate for the district of Danbury Connecticut

He denounced in the pulpit of Connecticut in September the last winter campaign, two months under the command of General Scott. I was in the same town, having written him at the time - I think in August that he denounced a brigadier, Phil. D. Scott. As I truly recall it - his letter received reached me before I had returned and reached home. 1846 - David Root
July 24 th 1882 Sworn and Subscribed in open court and the said Court of Probate certifies that the Deponent sustains a good character for truth, and is a credible witness. Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk The within March 1775 interlined before signing Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

I Abel Benedict of Danbury in the County of Fairfield aged ninety years being then known to depose and say that in the month of July 1779. the said Moorehouse said Danbury demed in the Connecticut Militia two weeks or more at Fairfield Springfield and New Canaan in said County of Fairfield - said Moorehouse was engaged in a skirmish with the British troops at Fairfield - was present at the time and demed also in the Militia of the said State -
Abel Benedict
July 25 th 1832 Sworn and subscribed in open Court and the said Court of Probate certifies that the Deponent is a credible witness & sustains a good character for truth
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

I Levi Stone of Kent in the County of Newfield and State of Connecticut, aged seventy seven years being only seven do depose and say, that I had resided Morehouse near of Danbury in the County of Fairfield in the said State, in the Spring of the year 1778, and believing in the month of March enlisted in the Regiment of Connecticut State Troops commanded by Colonel David Waterbury in the Company commanded by Captain Noble Benedict. The said company being said Regiment were raised for nine months, and I believed at the time and have ever since believed that I enlisted for the term of nine months. He served in the said Company in the northern campaigns of that year, and at the taking of St. Johns and Montreal. He served the whole campaign - I had knowledge of his services, for I served in the same Company with him - His time expired and he returned home in the month of December of that year -
Levi Stone
July 25 th 1832 Sworn and subscribed in open Court and the said Court of Probate certifies that the Deponent sustains a good character for truth and is a credible witness
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss. d. s.
On this 28 th day of February 1833, personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the said County & State, Isaac Sutton at Danbury in said Co. the said District the same being a Court of Record. Theodore Morehouse a resident of Danbury in the said County, aged eighty three years and upwards who being first duly sworn was doing so had, both at his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act "to enlarge the period June 4 th 1832, supplementary to his original declaration made before said Court for the same subject on the 28 th day of July 1832 - That he still perfectly recollects that after his service in the campaign of 1775 in Col. Waterbury's Regiment, he returned to his residence in Danbury above said on the 8 th day of December of that year and was in the service of his Country until that time - But for reflection upon the subject since making his said original declaration he is satisfied that his service in said Regiment in that year, was seven months only - And that he entered said service on the 15 th day of May 1775, instead of March as stated in his said original declaration - And he therefore claimed a Pension under said Act for seven months service only in that year, and for the other

terms of release stated in his said original declaration - And he prays that this supplemental declaration may be accepted in addition to his said original declaration, and in amendment thereof. And thereupon renounces his application for a Pardon under the said. Let there be his said declaration as amended hereby - Given under my hand & sealed this 28th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three Attest - Edward Saylor Clerk
State of Connecticut New Britain County ss.
I Edward Saylor Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of New Britain in said County and State do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas D. Dorr for a Pardon. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my said office this 28th day of February 1833 Attest - Edward Saylor Clerk

David Weed of Danbury in the County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, aged Eighty five years being duly sworn, do hereby de- pose and say that he hath known Mather Marchand of said Danbury since his early childhood - the latter being required to state more particularly the facts relating to his connection relative to the service of said Marchand with the army raised and commanded by Captain Richard White of the Connecticut militia, in the year 1776, there is stated in the description of this Department made to the General Government for the District of Danbury in said county and state on the 24th day of July 1832 this Department further that the said Mather Marchand, early in the month of November 1776 was drafted into the service of the United States, in the town of New Milford - that he proceeded to Danbury in said County of Fairfield under the command of said Captain Richard White, and there served with his Regiment to near Woodbury two months and a half when he was Captain Peter Looney - being Marchand was a military post near the lines - and was during said term occupied by a body of militia of the number of two or three hundred the whole under the command of General Mather - said troops were an embodied corps and called into the said service of the United States by competent authority - This Regiment was drafted into the said service at the same time above mentioned when said Marchand was drafted; he marched to said Danbury with said Marchand served there with him in the same company during said term, and returned to said Danbury with said Marchand at the expiration of said term of two months, about the 18th day of January 1777 -
David Weed

State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } ss.
Be it known that on the 25 th day of February 1833 before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in said County a late person called appeared in open court David Wood and being first duly sworn, made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
And said Court finds that the deponent is a man of a good character for truth, and a credible witness.
Attest. Edward Taylor Clerk

A Benjamin Beck of New Fairfield, in the County of Kingsfield aged twenty one years being duly sworn, do hereby say, that I am acquainted with Thaddeus Morehouse of Newbury in the said County, who hath resided for a long time past here in Newbury, and been acquainted with him ever since I was of the age of ten years. That in the year 1777 when the British Troops were about to invade the State of New York, General Burgoyne in the latter part of September or in the beginning of October, the Militia of the State of New York, adjacent to the State of Pennsylvania, were called into the service of the United States, upon the requisition of General Patton of the Continental Army.
This Regiment then belonged to the company of Militia commanded by Captain Daniel Hickok in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Plank of the Continental Militia. The said Thaddeus Morehouse then belonged to another Company commanded by Lieutenant and adjutant Doughty. The said Regiment in the month of September or October was called into the said service upon the requisition of said General Patton and after said and thereby marched at Ridgefield in Connecticut Kingsfield and some marched to Pockokille.
None of said Pockokille is in the State of New York. and there encamped and remained several days. A part of said Regiment then marched up on the east bank of said Hudson River as far north as Redhook. and a part returned to Pockokille and there encamped - and said Regiment was disbanded at the expiration of six weeks.
The said Thaddeus Morehouse remained in the said town of Pockokille in the

said company commanded by lieutenant Doughty, and was a sergeant in the said company & received a discharge - and said company belonged to the same Regiment of Militia commanded by Colonel Cook -
Benjamin Beck
State of Connecticut Newfield County ss
Be it known, that on the 28 th day of February 1833 before the Court of Probate for the District of Newbury in said county and State personally appeared in person Benjamin Beck and acknowledged the foregoing deposition, and being duly sworn, made known as to the truth of the same - And the said Court doth certify that the said Benjamin Beck is a man of a good character for truth and credit as a witness. The words "David Ward" erased and the words "Benjamin Beck" substituted in the attestation -
Attest Edward Gay in clerk

State of Connecticut, Fairfield County 3 rd . d.
I here bear Witness of and certify in the county of Fairfield aforesaid, Judge of the court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in said County and State, do hereby certify that all whom it may concern, that Edward Taylor Esq. since who hath signed certified the foregoing proceedings, I have can't understand the taking of the annexed deposition in block of the said court of Probate and was like a deposed said at the time of signing, attesting and after the the same duly appointed and sworn. And that the foregoing signature which purports to be the signature of the said Edward Taylor Esq. is in his proper hand writing - and that full faith & credit be had to his judicial acts as such block.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at said Danbury this 25 th day of February 1833 -
Stephen Post Judge of the court of Probate in the District of Danbury Connecticut -

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss.
On this 19 th day of March A.D 1853 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in said County and State Anne Moorehouse a resident of Danbury in said District County and State aged 85 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 law of the United States passed February 3 rd 1853 - That she is the widow of Thaddeus Moorehouse, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and paid at the Connecticut Agency at the rate of forty six 66\frac{2}{3} dollars per annum - She further declares that she was married to the said Thaddeus Moorehouse on the 7 th day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifteen and that her husband the aforesaid Thaddeus Moorehouse died or about on the 5 th day of June A.D 1837 - She further declares that she is now a widow and that she has never heretofore applied for a pension.
Anne Moorehouse
Sworn to and subscribed this 19 th day of March A.D 1853 before me
In presence of -
W. H. Root
Notary Public
Dated 12,1200 1853 Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury -

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss.
Be it known that before me David B. Root Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in said County and State duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared James H. Robinson of Grand Forks, State of New York & Polly M. Taylor of Danbury, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut  affirmed and made oath in due form of law that Anne Harkness who signed the foregoing declaration in their presence is personally known to them - that she is now the widow of Thaddeus Harkness who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and that she is the same person she represents herself to be
James H. Robinson Polly M. Taylor
Subscribed to me this 19 th day of March A.D. 1853 before me
David B. Root Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss.
I William P. Stevens, Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in said County and State do hereby certify that David B. Booth before whom the foregoing proceedings were had was, at the time of executing the same and now is Judge of said Court duly elected & qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. And that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Thaddeus Morehouse above named was at the time of his death a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States - that the said Thaddeus died at said Danbury on the 5 th day of June 1837 and that the said Anne Morehouse is now living and is the widow of the said Thaddeus.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Danbury in said County and State this 19 th day of March 1853 —
Wm P Stevens Clerk

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss.
On this 21 st day of March A.D one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me a Notary Public authorized to administer oaths for general purposes within and for the County and State aforesaid Anne Morehouse aged eighty seven years, a resident of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Thaddeus Morehouse, deceased, who was engaged in the revolutionary war, as a private and sergeant in the Connecticut Continental line and who was inscribed on the pension list on the 28 th day of June 1833 at the rate of forty six dollars and eighty six cents per annum - and she further states that as the widow of said Thaddeus Morehouse, she was inscribed on the pension list on the 15 th day of October 1853 under the act of February 3, 1853 at the same rate as her said husband, to wit, at the rate of forty six dollars and eighty six cents per annum - and she further declares that she is unable to state the times when, or the places where the services of her said husband were performed, and for proof

of the demise of her said husband in the said revolutionary war she refers to the application of the said Haddens Morehouse and the proof accompanying the same, now on file in the Pension Office in Washington and for proof of her said marriage and such other facts as may be necessary to assert this claim. she refers to the application and the proof accompanying the same in which her pension was granted, now on file in the Pension Office. And she further declares that ever since the death of the said Haddens Morehouse, she has remained and still is the widow of the said Haddens and has never since his said death intermarried - She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land, to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1853.
Anne Morehouse
We Ezra Abbott and Fanny Chickutee residents of Danbury in the State of Connecticut upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Anne Morehouse in our presence

and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
Esra Elliott
Jenny Hester Hester
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Volney Public

I, Mrs. Taylor of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Conn- ecticut being duly sworn do depose and say that I am thirty six years of age and was acquainted with Thaddeus Mackinse and Anne Mackinse from the death of the said Thaddeus and have been acquainted with the said Anne ever since his death and do depose and say that she is now the widow of the said Thaddeus and has not intermarried since his death. The facts and circumstances from which I derive my knowledge are that the said Anne is my own aunt and I have been frequently in the habit of visiting her excepting during the time that I was absent in the United States Arng from 1840 to 1845. Had she been married I should have known the fact. I live immediately opposite to her house, and she resides now where she has for a great number of years before and since the death of said Thaddeus, and before and ever since that time she has had a niece of hers residing with her whose name is Sarah Fergus on . Mrs. Taylor.

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield }
On this 27 th Day of March 1855- personally appeared Isaac Taylor who being duly called to the foregoing affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth of the matters therein contained - And I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Isaac Taylor and believe him to be a credible witness
David P. Root Notary Public

Sarah Ferguson of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut being duly sworn do depose, and say that I reside in Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut and have been from the death of Thaddeus Morehouse and ever since been acquainted with Anne Morehouse who is the widow of said Thaddeus - I resided in the family of the said Thaddeus from his death and have ever since lived with his widow the said Anne and I depose that she is now his widow my opinion and knowledge of her widowhood is based upon the following facts, that I am her niece and am well aware of the fact and she has been married since the death of said Thaddeus Sarah Ferguson
State of Connecticut County of Fairfield } On this 31 st day of March 1855 Personally appeared The above named Sarah Ferguson

and made solemn oath to the truth of the matter contained in the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed. And I certify that I am acquainted with the said Sarah Ferguson and that she is a credible witness.
David B. North Notary Public
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26 Shadys Morehouse Connecticut
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of
   Period when the service was rendered Duration of the claimant's service Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.      
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this day of personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. } Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? { To an Officer. } Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?  7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____; For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the petitioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of these witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[k] The notes from [a] to [j] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[l] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[m] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[n] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

. and 1812 ers Section RL
May 6, 1930
Mrs. James E. Osborn Broadview Farm Dowagiac, Michigan
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.5393, it appears that Thaddeus (the name also appears as Thadeus) Morehouse was born October 9, 1748, at Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and moved, sometime prior to the Revolution, to Danbury, Connecticut.
While residing in Danbury, Connecticut, he enlisted and served with the Connecticut Troops as follows:
From May 1, 1775, as a private, corporal and sergeant (his sergeant's warrant was dated at St. John's, November 19, 1775) in Captain Noble Benedict's Company, Colonel David Waterbury's Regiment, was in the battle of St. John's and at the taking of Montreal, at which place he was one of the party selected by General Montgomery to take possession of the citadel, and served until December 8, 1775.
From about November 1, 1776, two months as sergeant in Captain Richard Shute's Company.
From about September 1, 1777, as sergeant in a company commanded by Lieutenant David Boughton, Colonel Joseph P. Cooke's Regiment, was in several skirmishes and was discharged about November 1, 1777.
From July, 1779, two weeks as sergeant in Captain Richard Barnum's Company, under Major Porter and was in a skirmish at Fairfield.
In the years 1806, 1807 and 1809, he again resided in Fairfield, Connecticut.

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He was allowed pension on his application executed July 25, 1832, while residing in Danbury, Connecticut.
He died June 5, 1837.
The soldier married August 7, 1815, Miss Anne or Anna Taylor. Both were then of said Danbury.
She was allowed pension on her application executed March 19, 1853, at which time she was aged eighty-five years and resided in Danbury, Connecticut.
There is no reference to children.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Elias Morehouse.
Lidon's date of death not in RB Very truly yours
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

THE CHRONICLE & DEMOCRAT is published in NORWALK (Conn.) over the Store of W. J. STEELE, Esq. every Wednesday, at $2 per annum, where delivered by a carrier or Post-rider, payable quarterly in advance. Subscribers calling for their paper at the office (residing out of the limits of the Carrier) $1.50—the same by mail, when paid in advance; if not, $2 will be charged. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted conspicuously on moderate terms. J. LAYDEN, Editor and Proprietor.
CHRONICLE AND DEMOCRAT.
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POETRY. My Queen's Address. The gentle Spring, renews o'er the land, In every vale, and grot, and bower; And scatters from her bonny hand The balmy breeze, the choicest flower. Her footsteps are the verdant green; Her smile is in the sunny ray; Her voice is heard in every bough That greets the ear from lonely dell. From forest shade and valley springing; Bright forest pall, and cheerful bell, Of hoary headed winter bringing Oh! may your lives, companions gay; Dear partners in this happy scene, Be one enduring, nor darkness, intervene. Nor cloud, nor darkness, intervene. May friendship glad the festive hour, Where happiness shall play her part, And laughing love assert his power. On every fond and youthful heart, And may the teasing little god Be to us lucky in his blindness; And it o'er us he holds a rod, Oh! may it fall with bonnet kindness.
The Times. These times of unexampled worldly wickedness Even rich men, brave by nature, faint the air; With sounds of apprehension and despair; While tens of thousands, thinking on the affair, New moon who suffer for the day, And minds not stunted or unfeigned are grieved, Smile, healthy Children of the God of Heaven, Are cheerful at the rising sun in May. What do we gather hence but former faith That every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath; That virtue and the faculties within Are vital, and that riches are akin To fear, to change, to cowardice, and death! Wordsworth.
The Farmer's Song. Ye brown robed rustics and lords of the soil, Come, let a short duty amuse you awhile; For Farmers who live by the sweat of the brow, O! join in a song as they follow the plough. With Gulland, and Gulling, and Dobbie we go, While our fields loud re-echo geep up & gee O! We Farmers awake at the dawn of the morn, When the thrush mounts the pine-top from bramble and thorn; While loungers lie snoring, our labor goes on, With our bright cattle moving brisk over the lawn. In days of our sires, but a short while ago, It was deemed a dishonor to plough and to hoe; And now 'tis the pride of the greatest of men, To trim the green cornfields and mow the sweet grain. Our bloodstained imported with gowans & trash, Our corseted dandies may wear for a dash; But fine Yankee homespun, the world must confess Is far for a King's or a President's dress. But hark, what foreboding is heard in the street? "Hard times," is the by-word from all that we meet; Still the breast of the farmer a cheering hope feels While his crops fill the valleys, and flocks crown the hills. Some growing ambition, their purse getting back To fill up their coffers resort to the bank; But wealth the no lasting purchase by toil, And the Farmer's best stock is a Bunt of rich soil, With Gulland and Gulling and Dobbie they'd go, And their fields loud re-echo geep and gee O!
The Dumb Waiter. I cannot very understand, (Said Henry to his aunt) Why a dumb waiter this is called,— Upon my word I can't! For I have often heard you say It moves very well; Why then, the waiter is called dumb, I cannot think, or tell. Between you, say, the difference know, For once attention lend; While without speaking this attend, Yet speak without attending!
MORAL. What a Wife should be —and what a good one may be—is beautifully portrayed in the following translation from the French:—"It is her happiness to be ignorant of all the world's calls pleasure, her glory is to live in the duties of wife and mother; and she consecrates her days to the practice of social virtues. Occupied in the government of her family, she reigns over her husband by complaisance; over her children by mildness; and over her domestics by goodness. Her home is the residence of filial order, peace, sweetness, and good health. Economical and studious, she prevents and dissipates the evil passions; the indulgent, who claim her charity, are never repulsed; the licentious avoid her presence. She has a character of reserve and dignity, that makes her respected; of indulgence and sensibility, that makes her beloved; of prudence and firmness, that makes her esteemed. She diffuses around her a mild warmth, a pure light, which vivify and illumine all that encircle her."
Indian Corn. —All, or nearly all, the accounts we have published of great quantities of Indian corn, agree in two particulars, viz: in not using the plough in the after culture, in not earthing, or but very slightly, the hills. These results go to demonstrate, that the entire roots are essential to the vigor of the crop; and that roots, to enable them to perform their functions as nature designed; must be near the surface. If the roots are severed with the plough, in dressing the crop, the plants are deprived of a portion of their nourishment; and if they are buried deep by hill-ing, the plant is partially exhausted in drawing out a new set near the surface, where alone they can perform all their offices. There is another material advantage in this mode of cultivating the corn crop—it saves a vast deal of manual labor.—Cultivator.
Centinelage of the far west. —The following curious fact connected with this scene is from an editorial article in the last Arkansas Times: "If the editor's seal is as thick as Mr. Yell's, it would take to break it a kick so hard that it would go the continent like an earthquake!"
Fools are ever in extremes.
AGRICULTURE. [From Gannett's new work on the Americans.] When the condition of society in America will be compared with the English system of farming, then the progress and prosperity of the United States will on the decline—What is the farming system in England but a sort of a roll to the landless system, which, though it may have its advantages to the proprietors where it is once established, cannot benefit a country where it is to be newly introduced. And what is the Irish system of "tenantry at will" but one of the many melancholy forms under which the misery of her people is entailed from one generation to another? It is not the unfortunate state of society which, in America, diminishes the number of gentlemen farmers; it is the unexampled prosperity of the country, and the distribution of wealth throughout the whole population, which raises them at once above the condition of servitude. Whoever emigrates westward, goes thither on his own account; for if he be an honest man he can buy land on credit, or for a trifling amount of cash; and under such circumstances it is not to be supposed he will hire himself out to others. The present condition of the United States is such that her are exempted from labor, and even these are not proud of their distinction. No disgrace attaches to industry; nor does the term "gentlemen" necessarily imply a man who has nothing to do. Large real estates neither contribute to the general prosperity of a country, nor are they very congenial with liberal institutions. The present prosperity of France, and of some of the minor states of Germany, is universally allowed to be produced by the division of property; and where such a division can be effected in the outset without injustice to any one class of society, it would be absurd and criminal not to promote it. No hired laborers can be expected to do as well as he who works for himself; and it is therefore the interest of the country at large to have as many proprietors as possible. The greatest quantity of labor will be produced by the greatest number of persons interested in it; and the greatest profits realized where they are obtained with little assistance from others. These truths are so generally understood, that even in the late diets of Hungary and Transylvania the lower nobility wished to change the law of expropriation of the peasantry by allowing them to possess freehold estates by the same tenure as themselves; because, they observed, your property when divided, will be worth more than it is entire, and you shall sell the fragments for more than the whole.
The New York Commercial Advertiser gives a pleasant account of a late ploughing match of the American Institute on Long Island. After the strife in the field there appears to have been an encounter of wits at the feast: Gen. Talamante President of the Institute, presiding. Popular Festivals are justly vindicated in the following paragraph from Col. Stone's speech on this occasion— Mr. President, I am somewhat partial to the celebration of festivals, and the indulgence of innocent recreations. I think that in this respect, that the ancients were wiser in their generations than we are. Relaxations of body and mind are necessary alike to the elasticity of both. We have all become militarians, and have not the time to spare for even rational amusement. Still, Mr. President, I cannot but think, that our ancestors who celebrated the appropriate festival of the harvest home—those who danced joyously around the Maypole, and twined the garland for the fair brow of the Queen of May—were on the whole, a happier people than those of our own time. We are all laborious and care worn. They had frequent seasons of throwing off their cares, and with light hearts could reinvigorate their constitutions, and reactivate the spirits, by rural sports among flowers and groves, and fountains.
Popularity. —The Speaker concluded with the following toast— The Plough and the Press. —Essential alike to prevent the sterility of marriage and of press.
Endeavour and Economy. An more industriously connected than people generally seem willing to admit. The man who can but his out according to his data—who can satisfy his appetite with chop, though, at the same time, not spending a farthing of his earnings, suspensions, or the thousand other evasions which he who has not the power of self-control is constantly exposed to. What then such a man may have been accustomed all his days" to the solips and the delicacies of "roast beef and plum pudding," he can dispense with them at any time; they are bound to disengage with his finances; and it is far better to have even the pudding alone—say, and without plums—to than to go into bed in debt for a sumptuous dinner. No matter how honest a man may be, how pure soever his intentions, the moment he becomes involved in debt, that moment he sacrifices his real independence; he ceases to entertain that independent and honorable kind of feeling, which can long up his spirits to endure every privation, and plod on steadily into the haven of contentment. The honest Franklin illustrates a noble example of that independence which economical men can achieve on their possessions. We have an anecdote on point, in the
Congregation. —A public assemblage in a spiritual theatre, where all the performers are professors, but where very few of the professors are performers. Taking them one with another, said the Rev. S. S. S. I believe my congregation to be the most exemplary observers of religious ordinances; for the poor keep all the feasts, and the rich all the fasts.
Romance. —We were amused the other day at hearing a hostess, who was carrying a lobster under his arm as big as a baby—singing: Oh my love is like the red red rose, Just newly blown in Jany, On my love has not such pretty claws I vow I'll eat them soon!
A writer on school discipline, says, without a liberal use of the rod, it is impossible to make boys escape!
AMUSEMENT. A captain of the U. States Infantry, when serving with Gen. Jackson against the Indians, was put under arrest, and not being brought to a court martial on a considerable time, he tendered his resignation. The following is the conclusion of his letter:—"In leaving the service, I am not abandoning the cause of Republicanism, but yet hope to brandish the glittering steel in the field and carve my way to a name which shall prove my country's neglect; and when this mortal part shall be closed in the dust, and the soul shall wing its flight to the regions above, in passing by the pale moon, I shall long my lot on brilliant Mars, and make a report to each superlative star! and arriving at the portal of heaven's chancery, shall demand of the attending angels to be ushered into the presence of Washington."
Female Expression. —The celebrated Judge Paine, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was induced by a friend to go to an assembly to see a noted beauty who was there. When he arrived there, on being asked how he liked her appearance—"Pudge!" exclaimed the cynic, "do you call her handsome?—she has no more expression than a bowl of milk!"
Borrowing. —"My friend wants to know if your mam will lend my mam your mam's pize-axe to make our hog a hen coop?" "Oh certainly—and when you go home just ask your mother if she'll be kind enough to lend us a keg of that fickle butter she bought to-day, that's a nice little man; and just clean us a mess of them poots and eels that your father caught this afternoon, and bring them down with the butter, my dear—and I'll certainly give you the first bright cent I find in the ashes." "I guess, on the whole," said the boy, "we shant want that pick-axe of yours."
Poor Pigs. —A country editor, in alluding to a rival town says that "it takes several of their pigs to pull up a blade of grass; that they are so poor, the foreman seized the spear in his mouth, the balance having taken each other by the tail, when they all gave a pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether; and if it breaks, the whole tumble to the ground, for want of sufficient strength to support themselves. It takes three or four to make a shadow."
Tolerable Tough. —A man was saying in company that he had seen a juggler place a ladder, in open ground, upon one end, and mount it by passing through the rounds, and stand upon the top erect. Another, who was present, said he had no doubt of it, as he had seen a man who had done the same thing, but with this addition, that when arrived at the top, he pulled the ladder up after him!
As not gaining a victory the most glorious thing in the world, observed a lady to the Duke of Wellington at the time of the occupation of Paris by the allies. The Duke retorted, "It is the greatest of all calamities, except a defeat."
Irish Wit. —A gentleman wishing to know the price of coal, and observing an Irishman standing near a load, of which he took him to be the owner, enquired—"how is coal now?" "Black as ever, your honor!" was the ready reply.
My dear, said a lady to a little girl, "What is the matter with your mother?" "She's got the rebellious fever, ma'am." "A somewhat common disorder."
MYSTERIANS. A Chapter on the Times. Every body talks about the times!—While one accounts for the commercial difficulties, in one role—another maintains exactly the opposite. There is one thing, however, in which all must agree, who have any power of observation, viz: that, as a people, we have gone ahead in speculation, on the high pressure principle. In a country, where the resources are but partially developed, and where the population is unavailing in enterprise and intelligence—overliving in all the legitimate branches of trade would be likely to grow out of the race of competition. But when the difficulty is quadrupled, by an unbroken mania for speculation, the consequences—fearful in anticipation—are awful in experience. The experience is upon us. Shall we learn wisdom in its review.
We were conversing, a day or two since, with a merchant of our city, whose locks have whitened by the lapse of years, and who has passed through all the troubles and reactions, which have marked our commercial history during the last forty years.
"We are in the midst of a very extraordinary state of things," said he, "produced by extraordinary means. In a country, which, for the extent of territory, the vastness of its resources, and the energy of its people—stands out unrivalled and unequalled in the catalogue of nations, for nearly twenty years, we have enjoyed a degree of prosperity astounding to remember. Our population has stretched from the Atlantic to the shores of the Pacific. Our commerce has whitened every sea, and the din of our manufactures is heard in every village. Wealth has poured in upon us in an unbroken stream. Fortunes have been easily made—perhaps too easily, for this has proved one of our greatest evils. It has induced men from the sober paths of trade—from the workshop and the field—eager to amass an independence by some bold adventure and shadow speculation. By the great facilities we have possessed, property of all kinds has been artificially increased in price—expenses of living have been artificially enhanced, as the producers have been drawn away by the phantom of speculation—until the bubble has burst, and left us weak from having run ourselves out of breath in a race of unholy adventure—not so much in the legitimate branches of trade, as in lots, town plots, wild land and other wild schemes, that would not have been dreamed of in olden times."
It is an important consideration that nothing but production adds to the solid capital of a country. Take men away from manufactures and agriculture—and in the same proportion you diminish the productive wealth of the nation. Besides, every producer thus artificially induced into the channels of trade or speculation, becomes a consumer, and contributes to enhance the necessities of life. It is beyond a question, that one great cause of the high price of all the necessaries of life, has been the alarming mania for speculation, which has induced thousands and thousands from the sweet paths of agriculture into the bewildering mazes of fortune seeking. There are in all our large cities—thousands and thousands of idle drones, who ought to be pushed from their speculative idleness—pushed upon the very streets of the community—are the plough, the loe and the harrow—and be made to earn an honest living instead of virtually eating up what other men produce.
Let us have more work and less bubble. —As to the cost of our living, it is made up and submitted to you. The petition and answer having been read, judgment was then entered, which passed decidedly in favor of the petitioner. On the part of the plaintiff the cause was submitted without argument, but the counsel for the defendant resisted the decree by a long and feeling speech, in which he alluded to the solemnity of the marriage vow, the mutual duties it imposed on the parties, and the want of a sufficient cause in that case to dissolve the bonds of matrimony.
During the investigation, the parties were both in court. The husband was apparently young and simple, and for a mere boy, and there was nothing in his appearance suggesting his appointment. The wife seemed somewhat older, and looking somewhat superior. She is a fine woman, with dark hair, black eyes, and very expressive face; she manifests deep interest in the trial.
The jury after retiring a few moments, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The parties were still in their seats behind the bar, some six or eight feet distant from each other, the wife asked a gentleman by whom she was sitting for his wife, as it to train her finger wide, she lifted the edge, rose to her feet, passed a moment, turned pale, her eyes flashed fire, and then suddenly sprang forward with the drawn knife, and aimed at her husband a deadly blow. But fortunately a lady who was standing by, saw her get the knife, and at her motion threw the blow about at the expected time, suspending her hand, and actually saved the arm of the intended wife, and detected the knife from the other party. It was aimed, but not returned to her purpose, she threw the knife with a
perhaps be new to most of our readers, it will be, it is among those things which we hear repeating. Did it possess much quality, the wholesome lesson it teaches, cannot be too frequently given. One way previous to the Revolution, while walking in the streets of Philadelphia, he was thus abruptly brought to by a jolly son of Neptune:—"Say slipshoed young man, Ben Franklin!" "Yes." "Are you the man who invented the lightning rod?" "Yes." "Then for God's sake, don't burn off!" "On, owner, how to make it for all his crew on nothing else."
The story of the saw dust pudding, after dictation, when brain-pudding, was originated somewhat after this fashion:—Franklin conducted an independent paper in Philadelphia, which had given offence to a certain class that would not tolerate every body in their own way and the leaders of this party (some 15 or 20) informed him that he would be frowned down unless he submitted to their will. He proposes to explain and fixed the time at his own house, where the gentlemen were invited to dine. On the day appointed, he requested Mrs. P. to employ two pease in the purchase of a peck of wheat bran, and to make two puddings of it, one for each end of the table, as he was to have 15 or 20 friends to dine with him. When the company met, the two puddings were served on the table without any other dishes; &c. having been seated, each person was invited to his slice. Their curiosity led them to try it; they examined each other's countenance; and were soon satiated with their fare.
"Friends, will you be helped to more?" inquired the host. "No, no," exclaimed they all, as with one voice; "we have had enough. But what means all this?" "Why, it means to tell you," replied the philosopher, "that these puddings cost two pence; and fifteen friends say they have had enough. Know, then, that as long as Benjamin Franklin can satisfy 15 friends with two pence, he never will sacrifice the independence of his paper."—N. Y. Sun.
The Hardness of Love. —A Fact—The Rutherford (N. C.) Gazette, gives the following narrative of a recent occurrence, which took place at the Superior Court of Yancey co.
About two years since, a man named John Wilson, married Elizabeth Ray, of that county. They lived together about 7 weeks, when some disturbance took place which caused their separation. Six months ago the husband filed a petition for a divorce, declaring that he was young and inexperienced when married, and was not required with her true character; that her conduct during the time they lived together was insupportable, and by him could not be endured. She answered, that they had known each other from their infancy, and that she knew her character and circumstances in life perfectly well when he married her, and had taken her with his eyes open to all her frailties; she positively denied ever having been guilty of any misconduct during the time they lived together, but that she acted towards him the part of an affectionate wife. She further asserted that when he was about to leave her, she made no charges against her, but gave as a reason for separation, that he did not love her ever loved her; that his friends had induced him to sue her merely for her property and that he had ascertained he could not enjoy life with a woman he did not love.
The first court an issue was made up and submitted to a jury. The petition and answer having been read, judgment was then entered, which passed decidedly in favor of the petitioner. On the part of the plaintiff the cause was submitted without argument, but the counsel for the defendant resisted the decree by a long and feeling speech, in which he alluded to the solemnity of the marriage vow, the mutual duties it imposed on the parties, and the want of a sufficient cause in that case to dissolve the bonds of matrimony.
During the investigation, the parties were both in court. The husband was apparently young and simple, and for a mere boy, and there was nothing in his appearance suggesting his appointment. The wife seemed somewhat older, and looking somewhat superior. She is a fine woman, with dark hair, black eyes, and very expressive face; she manifests deep interest in the trial.
The jury after retiring a few moments, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The parties were still in their seats behind the bar, some six or eight feet distant from each other, the wife asked a gentleman by whom she was sitting for his wife, as it to train her finger wide, she lifted the edge, rose to her feet, passed a moment, turned pale, her eyes flashed fire, and then suddenly sprang forward with the drawn knife, and aimed at her husband a deadly blow. But fortunately a lady who was standing by, saw her get the knife, and at her motion threw the blow about at the expected time, suspending her hand, and actually saved the arm of the intended wife, and detected the knife from the other party. It was aimed, but not returned to her purpose, she threw the knife with a
heard at her husband, and turning made a most furious attack on her whose hand had arrested the blow and thwarted the wicked design. The Court ordered her into custody; she was arrested & borne out of Court, making the most wild and terrific exclamations—calling to her husband in the most wild and impassioned language, and seemed to be almost deranged.
Her conduct was strange and unaccountable, but all who beheld agree that she much loved her husband. Her heart was devoted to him, and sooner than see him pledged to another, she would see him die—that, too with her own hand, in the presence of the Court and multitude that surrounded her. She remained in jail until the next morning, when she was brought before the Court, and required to give bond and security for her good behavior for the next 20 months.
The object of the husband in seeking the divorce is said to have been a marriage with another woman; and the knowledge of his intentions is supposed to have driven his wife to frenzy.
Bowing to the Ladies. —A volume on Etiquette recently published, has the following: "If you meet a lady of your acquaintance in the street, it is her part to notice you first, unless indeed, you are very intimate. The reason is, if you bow to a lady first, she may not choose to acknowledge you and there is no remedy; but if you bow to you—as a gentleman cannot cut her."
Well, for a vile macum of politeness —a stand of work on Etiquette, the above is exceedingly droll, and transposes our traditional ideas of civility. Our dancing master, when he first taught us the Chacuse—the Dose-dos, &c. &c., to make our bow on entering the ball room, and on going out, always added by way of episode—"Bend sir your civility to jour to the lady—pull of your chapeau ven you see dem, and put on your gloves ven you stand upon a condition." General Washington, who was a perfect Chesterfield, returned the salutation of an old colored gentleman, in the street by taking off his hat, saying to a friend, who remonstrated—"You would not desire to see a black man excel me in politeness." No lady ought to speak to a gentleman first, unless, indeed, they are on the most friendly terms; no lady should put herself in a position to be met by a gentleman who could be guilty of such rudeness. A ball to our acquaintance, a partner in advance, a slight acquaintance at an evening at the drawing room, it may not be desirable to cultivate or encourage beyond a mere bow in recognition, which nobility refuses to return. Civility must never be misconstrued, and if a gentleman presumes upon a courteous recognition to be familiar, a lady's self respect and dignity will point out the remedy. Graciousness, condescension, courtesy and amiability are all bright gems in a lady's diadem, which gives lustre to virtue.—Prize, stiffness, and humor are thorns on the opening rose.—N. Y. Star.
The Family of Logues. —The crier of a neighboring County Court was upon a certain occasion, required to go to the Court House door and as is usual in the absence of a witness, call out for Philip Logue, one of the sons of Erin, who was summoned in a case then pending. The man of the button accordingly stepping to the door, sung out at the top of his voice, "Philip Logue!" A wag of a lawyer, happening to be passing at the time, whispered in his ear, "Epilogue also,"—"Epi Logue," sung out the crier. "Deralogue," said the lawyer in an undertone. "Deca Logue," again sung out the crier at the top of his voice. "Apologue," whispered the lawyer. "Apolo Logue," reiterated the crier, at the same time exultantly want the whole family of the Logues. "Prologue," said the persevering lawyer. "Pro Logue," sung again through the halls of the Court House, from the stenographer's lungs of the public crier, attracting the attention of every body, and shocking even the tempers of the dignitaries on the bench themselves, who, not understanding the cause of his querulousness, despatched the Sheriff, with all haste, to stop the constable from the further summonses of the family of the Logues.
The husband for Earth. —A young female named Lucille Le Grand was married in Canada a few days since by her Cousin. She is represented to have possessed singular personal beauty, united with the more interesting charms of an original and highly cultivated mind. The session glided in the blissful dowl, and it was said that he murdered Lucille because she was too good for a world like this. There might have been some truth in this theory, but his practice was execrable.—Vain Ego.
Men, like books, have at each end a blank leaf—childhood and old age.
The shortest day of our year comes in winter—A fit emblem of your life, at once dark, cold and short.
He who doubts giving light to the people is like a man who builds a house without windows for fear of lightning.
A marriage delay is a contradiction in terms and heaven is ages older than hell.
Mr. Dolly. A young man and his mother John is dead. Dolly was a very good boy. (And had poor John.) Your Dolly.
John Dolly. A young man and his mother John is dead. Dolly was a very good boy. (And had poor John.) Your Dolly.

STATUTE LAWS
State of Connecticut. Passed May Session, 1837.
AN ACT relating to Joint Stock Corporations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened,
Sec. 1. All corporations organized & established under the provisions of this act, shall be capable to sue, and be sued, and be impleaded, at suit and be answered unto, at law and in equity, in all cases where they have a common seal, and the same to alter at pleasure, to elect in such manner as they shall determine, all necessary officers, to fix their compensation and define their duties, to ordain and establish by-laws for the government and regulation of their affairs, and the same to alter and repeal, and to employ all such agents, mechanics, and other laborers, as they shall think proper.
Sec. 2. Any number of persons, not less than three, by articles of agreement in writing, have associated, or who shall associate according to the provisions of this act, under any name by them assumed, for the purpose of engaging in and carrying on any kind of manufacturing or mechanical or mining or quarrying or any other lawful business, and who shall comply with all the provisions of this act, shall, with their successors and assigns, be and remain a body politic and corporate, under the name by them assumed in their said articles of association.
Sec. 3. The amount of the Capital Stock in every such corporation, shall be fixed and limited by the stockholders in their articles of association, and shall in no case be less than four thousand dollars, nor more than two hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of $25 each.
Sec. 4. The purpose for which every such corporation shall be established, shall be distinctly and definitely specified in the articles of association, and it shall not be lawful for said corporation to direct its operations, or appropriate its funds to any other purpose.
Sec. 5. When any number of persons shall have associated, according to the provisions of this act, any two of them may call the first meeting of the corporation, at such time and place as they may appoint, by giving notice thereof in any one or more newspapers printed in the County in which such corporation is to be established, or in any adjoining County, at least 15 days before the time appointed for such meeting.
Sec. 6. The stock, property, affairs and business of every such corporation, shall be under the care of, and shall be managed by not less than three Directors, who shall be chosen annually by the stockholders, at such time and place as shall be provided by the by-laws of said company, and who shall be Stockholders, and shall hold their offices for one year, and until others shall be chosen in their stead.
Sec. 7. Every such corporation shall by their said name, have power to purchase, take, hold, occupy, possess and enjoy to them and their successors, all such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all such property, goods, chattels, and effects, of every kind as shall be necessary for the purpose of said company; and such other lands, tenements and hereditaments as shall be taken in payment of, or as security for debts due to said company, and the same to let, lease, sell, alien and dispose of at pleasure.
Sec. 8. The Directors of every such corporation shall choose one of their number to be President. They shall also choose a Secretary and Treasurer of said company, and each officer as the by-laws of the company shall prescribe, who shall hold their offices until others shall be chosen in their stead. They shall be chosen in the subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, by installments, in such proportions and at such times and places as they shall think proper, by giving such notice thereof as the by-laws of said company shall prescribe. And in case any Stockholder shall neglect, or refuse payment of any such installment for the space of sixty days after the same shall become due and payable, and after he, she or they shall have been notified thereof, the stock of such negligent Stockholder shall, by the Directors, be sold at public auction, giving at least thirty days notice thereof in some newspaper, printed in the County where the business of such corporation is transacted, or in an adjoining County, and the proceeds of such sale shall be first applied in payment of the installment called for, and the expenses attending it, and the balance shall be refunded to the owner thereof, and such sale shall in all respects entitle the purchaser to all the rights of a stockholder, to the extent of the shares so bought.
Sec. 9. A majority of the Directors of every such corporation, convened according to their by-laws, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and a majority of the Stockholders present at any legal meeting shall be capable of transacting the business of said meeting, and at all meetings of such Stockholders, each share shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote.
Sec. 10. The Directors of every such corporation for the time being, shall have power to fill any vacancy which may happen in their Board by death, resignation or otherwise, for the term of one year.
Sec. 11. It shall be so provided that an election of Directors in any such corporation shall not take place at the annual meeting, or any adjourned meeting, unless a notice thereof has been given to each Stockholder at least ten days previous to the time of such election.
corporation shall not thereby be dissolved, but an election may be held at any time within one year, to be fixed upon, and notice thereof to be given by the Directors.
Sec. 12. The books of every such corporation containing their accounts, shall at all reasonable times be open for the inspection of any of the Stockholders, and as often as once each year a statement of the accounts of said company, shall be made by order of the Directors.
Sec. 13. Every such corporation may increase its capital stock, and the number of shares therein, at any meeting of the Stockholders, specially warned for that purpose—Provided, that the amount so increased shall not exceed the amount authorized by this act.
Sec. 14. The stock of every such corporation shall be deemed and considered personal property, and be transferable only on the books of said company, in such form as the Directors of said company shall prescribe. And said company shall at all times have a lien upon all the stock or property of the members of said company invested therein, for all debts due from them to said company.
Sec. 15. Before any corporation formed and established under the authority of this act, shall commence business, the President and Directors thereof shall cause their articles of association to be published at full length in two newspapers printed in the County in which said company is located, or in an adjoining County—They shall also make a certificate of the purpose for which said company is formed—the amount of their capital stock—the amount actually paid in the names of their stockholders, and the number of shares by each respectively owned, which certificate shall be signed by the President and a majority of the Directors of said company and deposited with the Secretary of this State, and a duplicate thereof with the Town Clerk of the town in which said company is to transact its business, and said Clerk is to transact Town Clerk shall respectively record the same in his books, and within thirty days after the payment of any installment called for by the Directors of said company, a certificate thereof shall be made, signed, deposited and recorded as aforesaid.
Sec. 16. If any such corporation shall increase its capital stock as before provided, the President and Directors of said company shall within thirty thereafter make a certificate thereof which shall be signed, deposited, and recorded as in the preceding section is provided.
Sec. 17. Every such corporation shall annually in the month of January make a certificate containing the amount of their capital actually paid in—the amount invested in real estate and the amount of their debts and assets at the time of the making of such certificate, as nearly as the same can be ascertained, with the name of each stockholder, and the number of shares by him held at the date of such certificate—which certificate shall be signed by the President and Secretary of said company, and deposit with the Town Clerk of the town in which said company transact their business; and whenever any stockholder shall transfer his stock in any such company, a certificate of such transfer shall forthwith be deposited with the Town Clerk as aforesaid, who shall note the time of said deposit, and record it at full length in a book to be by him kept for that purpose, and so transfer of stock shall be valid as against any creditor of such stockholder, until such certificate shall have been deposited according to the provisions of the foregoing section.
Sec. 18. The certificate required by the 15th, 16th, and 17th sections of this act, shall be made under oath or affirmation by the persons subscribing the same; and if any person shall, as to any material fact knowingly swear or affirm falsely, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and suffer the punishment prescribed by law for that crime.
Sec. 19. If the capital stock of any such corporation shall be withdrawn & refunded to the Stockholders, before the payment of all the debts of the company, for which such stock would have been liable, the Stockholders of said company, shall be liable to any such creditors of said company, in an action founded on this statute to the amount of the same refunded to them respectively as aforesaid—Provided always, that if any such Stockholder shall be compelled by any such action to pay the debts of any creditor of said company, or any part thereof, he shall have right by a bill in Chancery to call upon all the Stockholders of said company to whom any part of said stock has been refunded, to contribute their proportionable part of the sum by him paid as aforesaid.
Sec. 20. If the Directors of any such corporation shall declare and pay a dividend when the company is insolvent, or any dividend the payment of which would render it insolvent, knowing such company to be insolvent, or that such dividend would render it so, the Directors assenting thereto shall be jointly and severally liable in an action founded on this statute from all debts due from said company, at the time of such dividend.
Sec. 21. If the President, Directors, or Secretary of any such corporation shall intentionally neglect or refuse to perform the duties required of them respectively by the 15th, 16th, and 17th sections of this act, such of them so neglecting or refusing shall jointly and severally be liable in an action founded on this statute for all debts of said company contracted during the period of any such neglect and refusal.
Sec. 22. If any corporation organized
and established under the authority of this Act, shall violate any of the provisions of said Act, and said company shall thereby become insolvent, the Directors ordering or assenting in such violation, shall jointly and severally be liable in an action founded on this statute for all debts contracted after such violation as aforesaid.
Sec. 23. This Act shall be taken to be a Public Act, and take effect from and after the day of the passage thereof, and may at any time be altered, or amended or repealed, by the General Assembly. And the General Assembly may at any time for just cause, rescind the powers of any corporation, created pursuant to the provisions of this act, and prescribe such mode as may be necessary or expedient for the settlement of its affairs.
STILLMAN K. WIGHTMAN. Speaker of the House of Representatives. EBENEZER STODDARD, President of the Senate. Approved, June 10, 1837. HENRY W. EDWARDS.
AN ACT in addition to an Act concerning BANKS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened,
Sec. 1. That the several Banks in this State, which by their refusal to redeem their bills, and pay their other debts, in the lawful currency of the United States, have violated their Charters, and have no legal sanction for this proceeding, be, and they are hereby continued, and the Acts incorporating the said Banks, and in amendment thereof be confirmed and established, Provided however, the said Acts shall at all times be subject to be modified, amended, and repealed by the Legislature; and provided also that said Banks shall in all respects comply with the provisions and requirements of this Act.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the incorporated banks within this State be authorized to issue notes for sums not exceeding $100, nor less than $5, payable on demand in the notes of other incorporated Banks which are current in the cities of New-York and Boston, which notes so issued shall be at all times receivable at the Banks issuing the same, for any debt due to said Banks, subject to the conditions herein specified, namely:—
Those Banks whose capital stock paid in does not exceed $100,000, may issue an amount in the Notes or Bills in circulation shall not exceed seven-tenths per centum on their capital actually paid in.
Those whose capital stock paid in exceeds $100,000, and does not exceed $200,000 may, with their other notes or bills in circulation shall not exceed 60 per cent. of their capital actually paid in.
All of which notes shall be negotiable by delivery and payable to bearer, Provided, that the description of notes herein authorized to be issued and made payable in other notes as aforesaid, shall not at any time exceed three-fourths of the whole amount of the circulation of such Bank.
Sec. 3. This Act shall continue in force until the rising of the General Assembly in May next, during which period it shall not be lawful for any Banks in this State, nor for any officers or agents of any such bank, directly or indirectly, to sell, dispose of, or part with their specie, or gold and silver bullion, or any part thereof, belonging to such Bank or Banks at a premium.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all the Banks of this State that shall avail themselves of the provisions of this act, shall pay their bills or notes in specie, at their respective Banks, whenever the banks in the cities of New-York and Boston shall have resumed specie payments.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any incorporated Banks in this State, shall fail to redeem their respective bills issued by virtue of this Act, in specie, after the banks in the cities of New-York and Boston shall have resumed specie payments, and after presentment, and demand made for the space of thirty days thereafter, such Banks shall be deemed to have forfeited their Charters.
STILLMAN K. WIGHTMAN. Speaker of the House of Representatives. EBENEZER STODDARD, President of the Senate. Approved, June 10, 1837. HENRY W. EDWARDS.
Paper Money.—Paper money is not only a delusion,—it is a positive and palpable lie. It is 'the telling an untruth, knowing it to be an untruth,' a promise to pay in the precious metals knowing that it is neither intended nor possible to do so. And so intentionally fabricating its value and value, that all commerce is disordered by it, is in the condition of a man who is always either getting drunk or getting sober.
Connecticut Legislature
Friday Afternoon, May 9th.
Justices appointed for the Counties of New Haven, Fairfield, Windham, Hartford and Litchfield, with amendments. Bill relative to Imprisonment for Debt returned from Senate—passed 16 to 18.
Report of the Com. on N. Haven City Bank, accepted—bill repealing charter taken up, negatived, yeas 86, nays 97.
Evening. Resolutions concerning N. H. City Bank, taken up, and the yeas and nays being ordered on the question and nays being negatived, yeas 71, nays 105.
Resolution that the Joint Standing Com. on Banks, examine & report such sum as they find due for investigating the affairs of the Banks, passed.
Report of Com. repealing charter of Quinebaug Bank, negatived. Resolution appointing Joel Hinman and J. O. Phelps Com. to investigate Judicial expenses, adopted.
Resolution appropriating $840 to L. N. Prior, E. Seeley, E. S. Scarns, for investigating N. Haven City Bank, taken up, ref. to Com. on Banks.
Report of Com. on Military Returns, accepted and passed. Joint Standing Com. on Incorporations reported leave to withdraw on petition of Bejah Malle
ry and others, J. D. Lounsbury, &c. accepted. Bill condemning doings of Assessors and Boards of Relief, passed.
Report of Directors, Warden, &c. of State Prison, acc'd—Resolution granting State tax of one cent a dollar, passed. Resolution authorizing Treasurer to borrow $25,000 for use of State, passed.
Com. on Rail Roads &c. reported adj. verse on resolution to loan the credit of the State to the Hartford & New Haven Rail Road, report accepted, resolution negatived. Joint Select Com. on sub-
ject of laying out highways by County Courts, reported, and accepted. Com. on School Fund reported on report of Commissioner, accepted. Com. on subject of Work Houses, reported a bill: continued to next session. Bill to suspend the act abolishing imprisonment for Debt, read twice and postponed indefinitely. Resolution allowing 15 days attendance and travel to members, passed.
Com. on Road & &c. reported on petition of J. L. White and others, and petition of Sherman and Redding Turnpike Co., continued to the next session. Resolution appointing R. R. Hinman and J. Brown Com. to examine affairs of Talbot Mountain Turnpike Co. passed.
Saturday, June 10. Resignation of W. J. Street, as Director of Fairfield County Bank, accepted; and T. S. Husted appointed. Res. app. Caleb Pond and Calvin Day Auditors of Treasurer's Acts, passed. Bill for an act relating to Surplus Revenue, passed. Bill for Assessment of Taxes, relating to drawbacks on liq. passed. Res. appropriating $50 to clergymen acting as chaplains, passed. Res. instructing delegates in Congress to apply for appropriation for monument to Capt. N. Hale. Bill repealing charter of N. Haven City Bank, lost in the House, passed Senate. House reconsidered and concurred, yeas 91, nays 40. Bill repealing Stamford Bank charter, came from Senate lost.
Resolution appropriating $801 22 to investigating Com. of City Bank, passed. Resolution appointing John C. Palmer and I. N. Prior, Commissioners to examine Banks in this State, amended in Senate, Chauncy F. Cleveland inserted in room of I. N. Prior; House reconsidered and concurred. Select Com. on disqualification of members of the House to hold seats, reported, and accepted.
Resolution appropriating for monument to Nathl. Hale, amended in Senate, house reconsidered and concurred. Bill relating to mortgaging machinery, came from the Senate amended, house agreed.
Both Houses being together for adjournment, assembled ready, and after a short address by the Governor, and prayer by the Rev. Dr. Haves, they adjourned sine die.
EPITOME OF ACTS
Passed by the General Assembly, May Session, 1837.
An Act allowing School Societies to transact business at special meetings. Allowing School Societies and districts to warn meetings by copy on the members.
Repealing the law providing the drawing of Some in Mystic River. Making Ledyard a Probate district. Fixing the Superior Court to be held at New London, first Tuesday of September.
Repealing the Cornhill Law. Allowing Town Clerks nominate Assistants. Requiring Writs before Justice of the Peace to be returned within 30 days after service.
Repealing so much of the law on the subject of Inhabitants, as respects corporal punishments. In addition to An Act to provide for the sale of Real Estate of Idiotic Lunatics or distracted persons in certain cases.
Validating the doings of a Town Meeting in Ashford, October 1836. Repealing an act regulating School Societies passed May 1836.
An act directing Commissioners to allow the Claims against the estate of Insolvent Assignors, under the act of 1828, which became due after the assignment.
An act allowing certain Petitions to the General Assembly, to be recorded at any time in the session without fee.
An act providing that the County Courts of Litchfield be held on the 2d Tuesdays in April and the 2d Tuesday in October.
Authorizing a Justice of the Peace, to appoint an appraiser, in certain cases, where the town in which the land lies, is interested.
Allowing suits by and against Co-partnerships, in the company name, in certain cases. Providing a distribution of arms, on returns to be made to the Commissioners, or before the 1st of August next.
Making two bank Commissioners, &c. Allowing Executions to be collected out of the tolls of Turnpikes and Bridge Companies, on certain conditions.
Authorizing not less than three persons to be associated as a body politic for manufacturing purposes. Abolishing Imprisonment for debt. Extending the act "in addition to Civil Actions," passed 1832,—to the machinery, engines and implements in manufacturing or mechanical establishments.
Allowing 12 1-2 cents as toll for Mail and Accommodation Stages on Turnpikes, unless a different rate be provided by the Charters. Repealing the 2nd Section of the Act to prevent the spreading of the Canada Thistle.
Validating the acts of the Deputy Sheriff, done after the expiration of the Sheriff's term, and before a successor is appointed. Abolishing freehold qualifications for Jurors in all cases.
Explaining the Act for the assessment of Select Men to give immediate notice to the Comptroller when paupers become chargeable. Confirming the doings of Assessors and board of Relief.
Allowing two years to grant Administration on intestate Estate, which has been unknown and is discovered. Allowing Sheriffs one dollar for setting a prisoner at the bar of a Court in any one case.
Suspending the operation of Act prohibiting the circulation of Small Bills, passed 1835, till July 1st A. D. 1838, provided the Banks redeem the small Bills in Specie and issue no notes under $5, after July 1st, 1837.
Relating to the Charter of Banks, which have suspended specie payment, and allowing them to issue bills payable in Notes current in the Cities of New York and Boston,—forbidding them to part with their Specie at a premium, &c. 16 Divorces granted.
THE VETO.
The following is the Message of the Governor, which was sent to the Senate on the last day of the session, containing his reasons for withholding his signature from the Bill repealing the charter of the City Bank at New Haven.
age of this Act, but in my mind it is obvious to strong legal and Constitutional objections. For these reasons I do not approve the Bill, and therefore return it to the Senate, the House in which it is understood to have originated.
I deem it proper that the relation in which I stand to this bank should be fully understood. I own no stock in this bank in my own right, nor am I interested in it in any way, excepting as Trustee. In this capacity there is stock standing in my name, the property of a widow and orphan children.
HENRY W. EDWARDS. Executive Office, Hartford, June 10, 1837.
For the Chronicle & Democrat. New-York June 16, 1837.
Mr. Editor: Considerable complaint has recently been made against Mr. Wightman, the late Speaker of your State, in consequence of his reading a letter to the House directed to him from me. In justice to Mr. Wightman, I will state that, it was read by my request, and below you have a copy of the same, which you will please publish in your next paper, and charge my account for the same, with also the explanation. If any errors can be found in the letter I will cheerfully correct them. Yours, &c. J. F. HENRY.
New-York, May —, 1837. To the Speaker of the House Representatives, Legislature of Conn.
Sir:—
My attention has been recently drawn to the report of the Bank Committee to the Legislature, now in session, respecting the affairs of the Stamford Bank: considerable is said respecting the "former Cashier." I am the "former Cashier," and will briefly state to you some of the facts, and will thank you to communicate the same to the House over which you preside. First. The Bank which it appears, that the paper discounting was done in the city of New-York, was done without their knowledge or consent. On that head I wrote before the Committee, that I was requested to purchase the same by John W. Leeds, President of said Bank. I laid the same before the Directors at a full meeting of the Board, and no objections were made by them, and the first knowledge I had of there being any dissatisfaction regarding the transaction, was at the examination before the Bank Committee in Feb. last. The Bank say they had no alternative but to keep the paper. There was, in my opinion, a number of "alternatives."
First, if they did not approve of the transaction, and had mentioned the same to me, I should have certainly returned to New-York with the paper, and then have disposed of it at the best rates I could.
Secondly, They could have remitted to New-York all the discount over 6 per cent.
Thirdly, They could have notified my bondsmen that they considered them liable for the same; and fourthly, they could have discharged me from their employ, for making an operation of that kind. The paper so purchased was all paid some 15 months since, & the Bank realized 4 a $500 by the transaction, & they paid me my expenses for so doing.
As regards the "special deposits," so called, the Committee admit the sum was $80,000. It can be proved, that the Bank had something of this kind in contemplation long before they commenced operations. The Directors signed these checks, and we had in the Direction, 3 of the ablest lawyers in Fairfield County, and not one of these, ever to my knowledge, made any objection to the same. It was perfectly known to the whole, approved by them all, and never did I hear a solitary voice in opposition.
As regards the Directors being totally unacquainted with Banking, it can be proved with little or no trouble, that three of them were Directors in the Fairfield County Bank, years before the Stamford Bank was in existence or thought of. This fact was never mentioned till the examination in February; and if they were "unacquainted" with some parts of the business, they certainly "understood" making dividends much better than I did. For my report to them stated that only 3 per cent. could be declared, and they decided 6 1-4 per cent.
The third and last charge was the circulation of $1 notes after the prohibition law was in effect. On that head the Bank say I suffered "individuals" to take the notes from the vault, on their leaving checks for the same. The fact was, the sum of $340 was taken in this manner, and it was done, it is true, by two "individuals," but those two "individuals" were both Directors; and it was done in the presence of the President and approved by him; and these notes were taken for the purpose of circulation, and it can be proved that they were circulated by those Directors.
At the examination in February, only one Director besides the President, was examined. In the Direction there is 11 Directors, and had they all testified, the Committee would have made 1 presume, a different report.
In making these remarks, I have no wish to interfere with the charter, for many of my personal and political friends are stockholders, but simply to let you and the representatives of my native State understand that on and after her exit, it is in my power to satisfy them that no transaction was made by the bank in my official capacity, but which was approved by all the Directors of the Stamford Bank, while I was Cashier thereof.
If you will have the goodness to communicate the same to the R. presents.
tives by reading this letter, and excusing all grammatical errors, you will much oblige, sir. Respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. F. HENRY. Former Cash'r of the Stamford Bank.
STAMFORD BANK.
Mr. EATON.—Since my last communication, this Bank has gone through a fiery ordeal, as anticipated, and has come out of the fire, with the skin of its teeth, as Paddy would say—many thanks to the Hon. J. C. Loomis of the Senate, S. Raymond Esq. of the House of Representatives, and the casting vote of the Lieut. Governor. The charges against this institution it is said was got up by the ex-Cashier, and fanned into a flame by some individuals disappointed in the distribution of the stock; but the storm has passed and the charter is safe. It now remains for the Directors and Stockholders to manage this institution with the utmost care and circumspection, which I trust they will do, and place it on a footing with the best in the State.
At the adjourned meeting of the Stockholders on Monday last, the committee made their report by which it is ascertained that the Bank is not only sound and solvent, but has not sustained any material losses; indeed they cannot point out one of any magnitude. Were the former agents (in New York) to pay the balance in their hands, which has been very much reduced, the Bank will be on as good or better footing than many others in this state. I am much gratified Mr. Editor, to see this Bank taking the lead in the issue of small notes, and flatter myself, the holders will see their interest in keeping them in circulation, as they are much wanted at this particular time for change, and are perfectly safe by the restrictions in the late act of the General Assembly.
A SMALL STOCKHOLDER.
All the same.—The fierce whig leaders in the large cities ("great sores," as Mr. Jefferson called them,) are venting their wrath, and they are full of wrath and calumny; these hot heads are venting their anger against our government, the best government the world. They know not why they do so—but they do just so. They are disappointed and vexed—their plans have failed—their bubbles have burst—their airy castles have vanished, and they must seek a somebody, and so they rave against the government. It is all nonsense, but no matter for that. The more desperate their case, and the more groundless their cause, the fiercer they are, & the louder they talk, and the more they write. But all this don't mend the matter in the least—and they know it will not, and cannot. Yet they scold away, at the top of their voices.—Reg.
State Prison Report.—The report of the warden of the state prison is a document that cannot but give great satisfaction to the public. It shows that the institution not only maintains its former prosperous condition, but has yielded a larger income than in any former year. The number of prisoners is 201, and the profit to the institution, after defraying every expense of its support and management for the year ending March 31st, 1837 was $7,139 91. The amount of profits since October 1, 1827, as stated in the report, is $21,331 63.
The report concludes as follows:— "It will be seen by contrasting the time and one half years that this prison has been in operation, with the last nine and a half years of the Newgate prison, that it makes a difference of saving to the state, for the support of their convicts during that time, of $121,533 63, viz:—It cost the state over and above all their earnings, to support the Newgate prison nine and a half years previous to October 1st, 1837, the sum of $700,000. Add to this the profits of the present prison for the same space of time ($1,333 63) and it will show a saving to the state of $121,533 62." These are facts so "trumpet-tonged" of the ability, integrity and good management of the present popular and indefatigable Warden, that comment is unnecessary.—Hartford Patriot.
Wonderful Effects by Lightning.—On Saturday last, Mr. Edmund Clark, of New Milford, had 61 sheep killed by lightning. The sheep were all under a small tree together when the thunder shower came over. Some of them were standing upright, dead, next day, and the greater part were lying in the same situation upon the ground. We have often heard of two or three out of one flock having been killed; but never knew a case where a flock of 61 were killed with one stroke by lightning.—Litchfield Sun.
The Ben Sherrod had on board $230,000 in specie, which is now circulating between the banks of the Mississippi.—It would have been safer in the Banks of New Orleans, whence it was drawn. It is said that out of 23 females on board the Ben Sherrod, recently destroyed, but 2 or 3 escaped.
Printers' Proverbs.—Pay thou the printer in the day thou owest him, that the evil day may be far off, lest the good man of the law send thee the bill, Groggling.
Remember him of the quill, and the dolt around him, and when thou wisdest thy daughter to a man of her choice, send thou into him a boundless slice of the trial loaf.
Borrow not that for which thy neighbor hath paid, but go and buy for thyself of him that hath to sell.
Thou shalt not read thy neighbor's paper, nor molest him in peaceful possession of it, lest thou stand condemned in the sight of him that driveth the quill, and thy character be hanked about by poor criticism.

Pay  WIDOW, &c.
1930 - May 6 - Hist. To Mrs James E. Osborn - Exh.
File No. 5893
Mrs. House Widow Sheldahl House Wit. Rev. Haas
Act: July 29/58
Index: — Vol. M , Page 60
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York County & City of New York ss
On this 8 th day of August 1853 Personally appeared before me a Commissioner duly and legally empowered to administer oaths and to take the acknow- ledgements of deeds and other writings within said state - Elias A. Taylor a resident of said city and county of New York who being duly sworn according to law to the deponent and witness say that he was present at the wedding and marriage of Anna Morehouse by the name of Anna Taylor to Shaddeus Morehouse both then of Danbury in the county of Fairfield and state of Connecticut That said marriage ceremony was per- formed by the Rev Nathan Buckley then of said Danbury and then a clergyman of the Baptist denomination of Christians on the 7 th day of August 1815 - That said Shaddeus Morehouse was engaged in the service of the American Army in the Revolutionary war and did receive up to the time of his decease at said Danbury to wit until the 5 th day of June 1837 a pension from the United States Government - That after the time of his said marriage with the said

Anna as above stated the said Shaddens and Anna continued to live together as husband and wife until the said 5 th day of June 1837 - the time of the said Shaddens death - That since the said 5 th day of June 1837 the date of said Shaddens decease as aforesaid - the said Anna has not intermarried but has con- tinued to live and now is sole single and unmarried and the widow of the said Shaddens Moore house - And that she is now of the age of eighty five years - and has made application from the United States for a pension under the act granting pensions to certain widows of Revolutionary officers and soldiers -
Eliza D. Moore
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
(M c V. G. Everidge)
Comm. of Secy.

Dear Sir
Danbury May 25 th 1853
Any communication relative to the enclosed may be addressed to me Dear S r P. Waldo ! Truly Yours. Comm d of Pensions — L t B r Booth

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I Anna Blackhouse of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut being duly sworn do depose and say - That I have made an application for a pension under the laws of the United States of the 5 th February A.D. 1883 as widow of Thaddeus Blackhouse deceased, who at the time of his death was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States - And I further depose that I have caused diligent search to be made to procure record evidence of my marriage with the said Thaddeus, but have been unable to find any records, but and from what I can learn no such records exists or if it does, I am unable by diligent search to find the same - Anne Blackhouse
signed in presence of }
Sarah Ferguson W. F. Taylor
State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield }
Danbury Subscribed and
sworn to before me this 7 th day of September
1883
William F. Taylor Notary Public

Income department Comptroller's office
October 12 th 1853.
Hon. Louis R. Waldo. Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir
I transmit to you
the following papers.
1 st A News Paper styled the Chronicle and democrat published in Norwalk Connecticut on Wednesday the 21 st of June 1837. containing a notice of the death of Thaddeus Morehouse at Danbury Connecticut on the 5 th of said June. 2 nd The deposition of Elias O. Taylor dated the 8 th of August 1853. in the City of New York. proving the inter marriage of Thaddeus Morehouse and Anna Taylor at Danbury on the 7 th day of August 1815. 3 rd The affidavit of Anna Morehouse of said Danbury, that she is the person who has applied for a pension under the act of February 5 th 1853. as the widow of Thaddeus Morehouse

who at the time of her death was a Revolutionary pensioner; that she has caused diligent search to be made, to procure record evidence of her marriage with the said Thaddeus Monehouse, that she has been unsuccessful, and does not think a record was made of it.
These papers were left with me by my Nephew Oliver Whiting who has recently returned from Connecticut in ill health. I had a letter by mail from my niece Mrs Eliza W. Botsford dated the 4 th affirming me, that her brother the said Oliver would hand some papers to me, in regard to the application of Anne Monehouse for a pension as the widow of the said Thaddeus Monehouse.
I was acquainted with this person when she was Anne Taylor, about 50 years ago. She taught school, and my niece Mrs Botsford was one of her pupils. I knew Mr Monehouse and he was called Sergeant Monehouse.
I have not seen either of them since May 1806. and did not know, that she, who was

Miss Anne Taylor was living until the receipt of said letter; but what she has said or shall say, is the truth, as she venly believes. She impressed as many young minds with a sense of high morality, as any female of her day.
Her acquaintances, as well as herself, will thank you, for an early examination of her application, and proof.
Most Sincerely
Yours
Elizabeth Wintney

State of Connecticut Comptroller's Office Hartford Sept. 14 th 1855
I certify, that on application for evidence of the service of Thaddeus Morehouse, in the company commanded by Capt. Noble Benedict, in Col. Waterbury's Regiment, in 1775. I have examined the documents remaining in this office, and find the name of Thaddeus Morehouse on a Pay Roll under the following heading viz. "Pay Roll of Capt. Noble Benedict Co. in the Regt. of forces of the United Colonies under the command of Col. David Waterbury raised in the Colony of Connecticut, commencing on the day in which they entered said service and ending with the time of their dismission including time for the discharged to get home," when the said Morehouse is credited with service as a private from May 12 th to Dec 13 th 1775 = 216 days.
Alex. Merrell Comptroller by W. Robinson Clerk

Mrs. J. Minor      Atwood Sept 24. 1855 Defi.
Enclosed please find "record evidence" to establish the services of Thaddeus Mackay, the deceased husband of Anne Mackay who has applied for bounty lands. The number of her application is 34.897.
Truly Yours,
D. B. Booke

June 15. 1853
N o 2095
App d of Anna
Morehouse widow of
Thaddeus. Fairfield Co.
Col: 3.46.66
9954
Act 3 d Feb. 1853
$46.66 Per Ann
Com-Feb. 1853
Rev:
D.B. Smith
Danbury
Cl:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Pension Office, Official Supl.

Brief in the case of Anna Morehouse, Widow of Thaddeus Fairfield County and State of Connecticut , act 3 d Febry, 1852,
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of 9 th June, 1832,
Evidence of marriage by the affidavit of Elias D. Taylor, of the City of New York, who was present.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
D. B. Root Esq. Name and residence of Agent Danbury, Ct.
A. B. Carpenter, Examining Clerk.

MRS. JAMES E. OSBORN BROADVIEW FARM DOWAGIAC, MICHIGAN
March 1 - 1930
Commissioner of Pensions - Washington D.C.
My dear Sir: -
Will you kindly examine your files and give me the Revolutionary War Service of Eliab Morehouse and where in N.Y. was taken sick and sent home to Conn. and died not long after his return. His wife's name, Sarah. Petcheu -
Also is there a Rev. War record of Thaddeus Morehouse of Fairfield, Conn. He died between 1783 and 1785
And kindly oblige
Mrs James Osborn
Dowagiac - Mich

No 2095
Anna Morehouse Wife of Thaddeus
Let to D. B. Root. Aug. 27 53
Act 3 d Feb. 1853.

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2464
Dear Friend, I am truly yours affectionately yours D. C.
1000

No. 34897
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received April 7, 1855.
Thaddeus Morehouse Rev: War
Warrant 7093-160-55
D. B. Booth Danbury Conn

To Thaddeus
Morehouse
Greeting
By Virtue of the power and Authority to me given I do by these presents Witnesseth that I have reposed special Trust and Confidence in Your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct and Appoint you the said Thaddeus Morehouse to be a Sergeant of my Company the sixth Company in the Fifth Regiment raised by the Genl Assembly of Connecticut and commanded by David Waterbury Junr Colonel
You are hereby Carefully and Diligently to discharge the duty of a Sergeant and to be ready at a moment's warning to lead your men forward and to receive from me or any of your Superior Officers according to the Rules of War Instructions as you shall from time to time receive from one or any of your Superior Officers according to the Rules of War
Given under my hand at St Johns this 14th day of Novemr 1775
His Excellency Capt

I Alst B. Gregory being duly sworn the deceased: and that I from my know- ledge that the
Meriden, Haddam W. 5393 Conn.
in living in the country of his said in the state of Connecticut aged 78 years and say that I was well acquainted with Noble Benedict late of the town of varied with his handwriting, having seen him by some his later, and his handwriting than as given, I fully believe that the entire signature signature said Noble Benedict, is in the his handwriting.
Alst B Gregory
May 25 th 1832 sworn & subscribed in pre- sence and said Court certifies that said Alst B. Gregory the foregoing is a true witness - Attest Edward Sayre Clerk
July 6.