Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,600, for Ezekiel Osborn, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Osborn, Ezekiel Lucretia
W. 26,600
B.L.W. 5205-160-55
CONTENTS

Reported
142, Connecticut Lucretia Osborn widow of Ezekiel Osborn Con who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33. Dollars 77.
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of June 1848 and sent to
Dee Cee Charlton East Windsor Hill Conn ts
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 325 Vol. 1

39653 } See March 3/55 } April 3/55
Lucretia Osborn wid of Ezekiel Osborn Dec;
Capt: Hezekiah Parsons. 4" Ch. Regt. of Mil.
Revolutionary War
Widow Rev Pension At: 160 Acres Aug: 27 1855
5205 ip Aug 29/55 J. H. Charlton East Windsor Hill Conn
Osborn Feb 48 142
Vol. 0, page 113.

to take the government from the hands of the British Ministry on the 30th June & I should like to know any knowledge of the proposed arrangement there was a strong likelihood of the Government to take up the subject. The question of the thought in said that aged Englishmen who being under seven years of age shall be the said Major that she is the General Gordon's Officer who was promised for the and her said husband to whom she was the last known when formerly with the date of Oct 2 nd 1848 & as the date of her marriage & the death of her said husband she has leave to sell the Commission of Purchase to the British his office but as her whereabouts unknown shall be paid to her in the sum of thirty three dollars & cents some cents Nov 10/42.
The further discussion of the subject will be deferred until after the close of the Church Synod at Williams.
The writer declares that this is her first very application for Bounty Land. That she has never received any, whether any. Not she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining Bounty Land to bring the same in with her list of March 3 rd 1855.
Luisebrauerei
The present sign of Santa Monica & Santa Monica County have the least number of constituents than any other District and the foregoing discussion has signed acknowledgment in the said Santa Monica District inasmuch as that a majority of the applicants & statement of the opinion that while the Municipal Council the respondents have not to be
John E. Tyson
Mr. Edward L. Klemke

The foregoing deposition and affidavit was read to and subscribed before me, in the usual form above written and I certify that I knew the affiants to be credi- ble persons, that the affidavit is the true and represents her self to be a true representation to me & I certify that she is the identical person who obtained the pension for her late husband's service, and that he is still a widow; that that I knew no in- surance in this matter.
West Tupper Chautauqua, N.Y. July 18th My commission expires with the expiration of the latter part of the year 1853. Notary Public of Chautauqua County.
No 39653

Emeline Hunter for Lucretia Osborn Sept - 1844
Thos H. Hymann

Ezekiel Osborn was born in the year 1754.
Ezekiel Osborn was married
I Emelie married to Lucretia Basset of East Windsor in the year 1793.
do hereby Ezekiel Osborn died in the year 1826. lived with Mrs. Luc...
Lucretia Osborn his wife was born on the year 1770.
That by Ruth Osborn his daughter part of a was born in the year 1794. Ruth Osborn died in the year 1820. Lucretia Osborn was born 1797. Lucretia Osborn died in the year 1822. Emeline Osborn was born in 1804. my granddaughter Melissa Allen was born 1815. I went to school it ... I have no knowledge of any earlier record of the family and am quite sure I should know if there was any earlier.
Emeline Hunter
Sworn to and subscribed before me, on this 23rd day of September 1844; and I certify that the deponent is a credible person, known to me.
Jesse Charlton Justice of the peace
Dated at East Windsor in Hartford County Conn on the day and year last named.
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace
House of Representatives Dec 11th 1844
I certify that Jesse Charlton subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a justice of the peace for the County of Hartford State of Connecticut.
Thos H Seymour W.C. Hovey Gov

PSALMS, HYMNS, AND SPIRITUAL SONGS OF THE
Old and New TESTAMENT, Faith- fully Translated into English Metre:
For the Use, Edification and Comfort of the Saints in Publick and Private, especially in NEW-ENGLAND.
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Eph. V. 18, 19. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit: Speaking to your selves in Psalms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the LORD.
James V. 13. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing Psalm.
The EIGHTEENTH EDITION.
EDINBURGH, Printed by RICHARD WATKINS, One of His Majesty's Printers. MDCCXLI.

P S A L M S H Y M N S I Emeline Hunter a resident of East Wind- sor in Hartford County & State of Connecticut do hereby depose & say, that I have lived with Mrs Lucretia Osborne for Forty years past.
That by recent search within a few weeks, we have found among the old and worn out Books a part of a Bible which belonged To Mr Ezcheel Osborne; husband of Mrs Lucretia Osborne, that we separated the within leaf which contained the origin- al record of the Family, and which was made before I can remember; and when I went to school it was an old book, and I have no knowledge of any earlier record of the family and am quite sure I should know if there was any earlier
Emeline Hunter Sworn to and subscribed before me, on this 23 rd day of September 1844; and I certify that the depo- nent is a credible person, known to me,
Jesse Charlton Justice of the peace Dated at East Windsor in Hartford County Conn on the day and year last named Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace
House of Representatives Dec 11 th 1844
I certify that Jesse Charlton subscrib- -ing to the foregoing certificate is a justice of the peace for the County of Hartford State of Connecticut.
Thos H Seymour W C Hlayden Comg ee

FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
MARRIAGES.
Job Belknap & Clarissa Booth were married May 25 th 1784
Atkinson Mansell & Betsey Booth were married June 1787
Seth Booth & Clarissa Prior were married Sept. 1790
Ezekiel Osborn & Lucretia Booth were married Octob 1793
Abiah Judel & Lucretia Osborn were married May 15 th 1794
John Osborn & Sylvia Booth were married March 1798
Jacob Mitchell & Anna Booth were married May 1798
Ephraim Booth & Nancy Taylor were married Nov 1805
Samuel Reed & Selinda Booth were married February 1809
Levi Booth & Mary H. Parker were married Nov 22 nd 1818
Moses Ferrance and Clarissa Belknap were married Sept 5, 1821, Aaron Long and Clarissa Ferrance were married March 30, 1826,

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
BIRTHS.
Ephraim Booth the son of Caleb Booth was born January
1741 Elizabeth Gaylord the daughter of Eliakim Gaylord was born November 16 th 1744
Anna Booth born July 1765
Betsey Booth born Dec r 7 th 1769
Seth Booth born April 6 th 1769
Lucretia Booth born Jan 8 th 1771
Sylvia Booth born June 17 th 1773
Anna Booth born Jan 17 th 1775
Clarissa Booth born Oct 9 th 1776
Ephraim Booth born Aug 2 nd 1779
Chloe Booth born Aug 25 th 1780
Ruth Booth born Aug 30 th 1782
A still born Son.
Levi Booth born Feb y 22 nd 1784
Selinda Booth born July 31 st 1788
Polly Booth born June 30 th 1793

11218
Lucetta Osborn
Con:
Act. 7. July 38
Mr 92 C 06
Adm.
  1775-  7 mo 4 C    1776  2.    "  2.     11 mo 4 C  

State of Connecticut } Hartford County, } ss East Windsor.
On this 30 th day of July 1844, Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of East Windsor in Hartford County now sitting Mrs Lucretia Osborn, a resident of said town aged Est Seventy three years; who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838.
That she is the widow of Ezekiel Osborn, formerly of said town who served several campaigns in the Revolutionary War.
That about the first of May 1775, he enlisted into a company of State troops, which was commanded by Capt d Hezekiah Parsons, that he marched to Roxbury near Boston and served as a private soldier until about the middle of Dec r 1775, for a period between seven and eight months.
That he then, about the 20 th of January 1776, enlisted into a company of State troops, commanded by Captain Jonathan Wells, which served at Cambridge, & Roxbury, until April 1776; that he served as a corporal in this town, and for a period of between two and three months, for the exact period she refers to the said Captain Jonathan Wells pay roll, now in the pension office with the papers of Catharine Bower sent with her application under the act of July 4 th 1836.
That the said Ezekiel Osborn, went into the service the third time when all the

Militia of Connecticut were ordered to New York in August 1776; that he went as a Serjeant, in Coll Nath Terry's Reg, in Capt Lemuel Straight's Company of Militia, or Mr Terry might have been Maj Commandant, & Coll George Pitkin Commandant; that he served from August to October for a period of about two months.
That he again served as a Serjeant in the Summer of 1778, in a Company which went from this County to the Northern part of New York to Crown Point, that he served this tour about three months, making in the whole period of his service which she is able to prove Fourteen Months Seven or or More as a private and the Remainder as Corporal and Serjeant. she has heard that he went in two tours more, but she does not know of any other living who was with him than Captain Jonathan Pisco, who has testified in the case.
She furthermore declares, that she was married to the said Ezekiel Osborn, at the house of her Father in the month of October Seven hundred and ninety three, by the Reverend Christopher Miner, a Baptist Clergyman, who lived in the adjoining town of Enfield, our family being of that persuasion, and usually attending his Meeting. She does not know whether there is any public record of her marriage, but the family record which she presents to the Court is a true record, and the oldest record she possessed. She further declares, that her said husband died at said East Windsor on the 20 th day of March 1806, and she is now a widow and that her maiden name was Lucretia North.

all which will more fully appear by the proof annexed.
Lucretia Osborn
Sworn to and subscribed, before said probate court on the day and year first named; and I certify that the said Declarant produced to the court her large Family record of Marriages, Births and Deaths, in a form inconvenient to transmit with her papers & which document has every appearance of being genuine, and of a good many years duration, and which she has sworn to be a true record in which it is recorded that Ezekiel Osborn and Lucretia Booth were married October 17 th 1793. And that Ezekiel Osborn died March 20 th 1806 And the court declares the opinion that the said record is true.
In testimony whereof, I Beriah Sexton Clerk of said court do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said court on the 30 th day of July 1844 And before signing a oath there was interlined, "And that Ezekiel Osborn died March 20 th 1806"
B. Sexton. Clerk.

Lucretia Osborn Dec.

I Jonathan Pasco, a resident of East Windsor in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut aged 83 years, do hereby depose and say, That I served in several Campaines in the Revolutionary War, for which I receive a Pension. And I further depose and say, that in the time of said War, and ever after, to the period of his death, I was well acquainted with Ezekiel Osborn, an inhabitant of said East Windsor, and I am well knowing to the fact that he served in the Army of the Revolution. That he enlisted in the Spring of the year 1775 into Captain Ezekiah Parsons company of State Troops, and went to Roxbury and Cambridge and served thro the Campaine: and immediately, or a short time after that company completed their tour of duty, which was I believe for seven or eight months, he enlisted again under Captain Jonathan Wells, and served until the Spring of 1776, at Roxbury & Dorchester for a period of two or three months, and the last tour I understood he served as a corporal, and after he returned he went down to New York in August 1776 when all the Militia were called out he went in Capt Lemuel Stoughton company, in Col Nathaniel Serry's Regiment, and served at & near New York for a period of about two months, as say And again he went up to Lake George in the year 1778, in the Summer time I was with him in this tour & he performed duty as a Sergeant we were commanded by Col Jonathan

Wells of East Hartford in this Town which was for a period of three months.
After the War I lived a near Neighbor to the said Ezekiel Osborn & I am well knowing to the fact that he was married to his present widow Lucretia Osborn, something more than Fifty years ago; & the said Ezekiel Osborn has been dead about thirty eight years; & his former Wife is now a Widow, & still lives in my neighborhood.
In presence of } Laura Ann Pasca }
Jonathan his X Pasco mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this 25 th day of July 1844 And I certify that the Deponent is a credible witness well known to me.
Before me Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace
Capt Jonathan Pasco Deponent

I Homer Read, Town Clerk and Regis- ter of the Town of East Windsor, in the County of Hartford, and State of Connect- icut do hereby certify.
That previous to 1820, when a new Law went into operation enjoin- ing under a legal penalty, that every person who solemnized a marriage should cause it to be recorded in the public records of the town where it took place,
There had been but very few marria- ges recorded for fifty years the practice had nearly discontinued. And I find no entry of the marriage of Ezekiel Steele and Lucretia Booth under any date.
Sworn to and subscribed at said East Windsor on the day of July 1844 and I certify that the deponent is town clerk Register as he has stated & is a respectable & credible witness.
Before me Jesse Charlton Justice of Peace
the Deponent is a credible person and of sound memory.
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of Peace

I Solomon Terry, do hereby depose and say, that I am Clerk of the Baptist Church & of the second Ecclesiastical Society in pulp & have custody of its records and I certify, that there are no entry of Marriages, in said records, under any date, and I have no reason to believe that Elder Christopher Meiner left any Marriage records, I have never seen or heard of any.
Dated at East Windsor July 26 th 1844 Solomon Terry - Clerk
Sworn to and subscribed before me, on the 25 th day of July 1844. And I certify that the Deponent is a credible and respectable person & is as he has stated stated, Clerk of said Church and Society.
Attest Jesse Chandler Justice of Peace
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the 26 th day of July A 1844 And I certify that the Deponent is a credible person and of good memory.
Attest Jesse Chandler Justice of Peace

Solomon Terry Esq Clerk of Baptist Church

I Sylvia — Osborn, a resident of the town of East Windsor, in Hartford County and State of Connecticut, do hereby depose and say, that I have been well acquainted with Ezekiel Osborn, formerly of this town, from my childhood, & also with his present Widow, Lucretia Osborn, formerly Lucretia Booth. I was present at their wedding they were married Fifty one years next October, or in October Seventeen Hundred and ninety three, she was then about twenty two years old. She said Ezekiel Osborn died Thirty Eight years ago last March; and the said Lucretia Osborn still remains his widow, and still lives in my neighborhood.
I have often heard the said Ezekiel Osborn tell of his services in various places, in the army of the Revolution, but do not remember, myself, so distinctly as to testify how long he served, or all the places. They were Married by Rev Christopher Meiner, a Baptist Minister who has no Family remaining, and has no Successor in this place.
Sylvia Osborn
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the 26 th day of July A 1844 And I certify that the Deponent is a credible person and of sound memory.
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of Peace

Montague Mass Sept 4, 1835,
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M rs Sylvia Osborn
East Windsor Conn

Montague Sept 2 nd 1835
Dear Aunt agreeable to your Request I will now copy your Family Record Job Belknap & Clarisa Booth were Mar- ried May 25 th 1814 Ephkins Munsell & Betsy Booth were Married June 1787 Seth Booth & Clarisa Frier were Married Sept 1796 Ezekiel Osborn & Lucretia Booth were Married Oct 1793 Jehiel Frier & Lucretia Osborn were Married May 13 th 1814 John Osborn & Sylvia Booth were Married March 1798 Jacob Mitchel & Anna Booth were Married May 1798 Ephraim Booth & Nancy Day Cor were Married Jan 1805 Samuel Reed & Selinda Booth were Married Feb 1809 Levi Booth & Mary Harker were Married Feb 22 1818 Moses Severence & Clarissa Belknap were Married Sept 5, 182 Aaron Long & Clarissa Severence were Married March 30 1826 Ephraim Booth was Born 1741 Elisabeth Gaylord Born Nov 10, 1744 Anna Booth Born July 1765 Betsy Booth Born Feb 7 th 1767 Seth Booth Born April 16 1769 Lucretia Booth Born Jan 8, 1771 Sylvia Booth Born June 19 1773 Anna Booth Born Jan 17, 1775 Clarisa Booth Born Oct 9 th 1776 Ephraim Booth Born Aug 2, 1778 Chloe Booth Born Aug 23, 1800 Ruth Booth Born Aug 31 1782 A Still Born Son Levi Booth Born Feb 22 1786 - Selinda Booth Born July 31 1800 Polly Booth Born June 30 1793 Anna Booth Died May 1760 Ruth Booth Died April 9 th 1794 Anna Mitchel Died Jan 12 th 1815 Elizabeth Booth Died Jan 30 1816 Job Belknap Died Jan 8, 1817 Betsy Munsell Died Oct 21 1817 Moses Severence Died Oct 20, 1823 Ephraim Booth Died Aug 31, 1826 Aaron Long Died Sep 13, 1829 Clarisa Long Died March 16, 1834
Mrs Sylvia Osborn Family Record Present
Henry et Gunn

I, Sylvia Osborn, Widow of John Osborn late of East Windsor in Hartford County deceased, do hereby dispose and say, that I am the person who testified to the Marriage of Ezekiel Osborn and Lucretia Booth, at said East Windsor in October 1793; in addition to my remembering that this was the time, by the force of memory, I had in my possession the annual letter, and copy of Record, which I received from Montague, in Massachusetts, in September 1835. When my sister Clarissa Booth, who married Job Belknap removed away with her husband, she carried with her the Record of my fathers family; as the Births, Marriages, and deaths.
As I had not any family record of my own, I sent up to Montague to a relation requesting him to copy the family record of my said father, Ephraim Booth, with such additions as had been made to it; And I received in September A 1835 the annexed copy of the record, which I fully believe is in all respects a true record; In which my own age as, I have always understood it, and the date of my own Marriage, is correctly stated, and also the age of my Sister Lucretia Osborn as I have always understood it, and also the date of her Marriage in October 1793 as I remembered it to be, when I testified to the fact several months since.
State of Connecticut
Sylvia Osborn
Hartford County, ss East Windsor, On this 20 th day of January A 1845, personally appeared before me the subscribing authority Mrs Sylvia Osborn, and then and there made solemn Oath to the foregoing certificate by her subscribed in my presence, she is known to me as a credible witness
Attest Jesse Giverton Justice of Peace

Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26 600
Smerelia Osborn
Widow of
Ezekiel Osborn
Bin New-ha
Act Feb 2nd 1848
Index: Vol M Page 104
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No. 39653
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received April 3, 1855.
Ezekiel Osborn Rev: War
Warrant No 5215-160-55
J. H. Charlton East Windsor Hill Conn.

9331
Connecticut
Lucretia Osborn
widow of Ezekiel Osborn who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 20 Mar 1806, of Hartford in the State of Conn. who was a Pri in the Company commanded by Captain of the the Conn line for 11 Mo 4 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 33 Dollars 71 3/4 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of May '48 and sent to Jesse Charlton East Windsor
Total amount, $ Conn
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J. L. Swann Clerk, Book Vol. Page 89

6919 Connecticut,
Sueretia Osborn widow of Ezekiel Osborn , who was a Private in the Rev. War.
2 Certs: 1 act 1838 1 " 1843 & 1844
Reported
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33 Dollars 75 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of May 1840 and sent to
Jesse Charlton , East Windsor Conn.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book
Vol. 2
June 17. 1844 Page 55

11218 Lucretia Osborn Conn.
Let. to Hon. J. H. Saymon.
Aug. 16 th 1824
" to Same Sept 13. 1824
" Do 19 Nov. 44, Same, Dec. 14. 4
Cat July 7. 38

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168 Aug

Hon. J. J. Seymour, Mail 15 West- borne Gardens 16 May 1845.

Feb. 28 of 1901 at 11:30 AM at the

Washington Dec r 5 th 1844
J. L. Edwards Esq r
Sir
Herewith I send you a letter and deposition in the case of Lucretia Osborn to which your attention is respectfully requested
Respectfully
Yours &c
Thos H. Sayman

Hartford April 5 th 1845
J. L. Edwards Esq. Com ty Prisoners
Sir
I am anxious to hear from the case of Mrs. Lucretia Osborne , to which I called your attention before leaving Washington. A certain part of the marriage was left with you at the time. Allow me to expect a favorable answer soon.
Respectfully
Your obedient
Thos. S. Seymour

Wadsworth August 10 1840
J. L. Lawrence Esq.
Sir Sir
I send you herewithal brief in the case of the application of Elizabeth Banta for a pension; also the declaration and accompanying papers in behalf of Mrs. Lucinda Osborn. The original payroll of Col d Jonathan Wells Comp- any at Cambridge the winter of 1776 with the roll will find with the papers of Catherine Banta of East Windsor Conn. sent on by Mr. Chittenden some time since - claiming under the act of July 4 th 1836. Be good enough to turn your attention to these cases as soon as you can conveniently oblige
Respectfully Your obedient Servant Thos. Whymann

Hartford Conn
May 6 1865
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 14 th April 1865. I hereby  now state that it does not appear that any papers have been used from me or any other person in the case of Lucinda  Asborn since the date of a letter from me of December 14 th 64, I have to inform you, that just before hearing Wash-  ington , I called upon you at your office, and placed in  your hands additional, and to my mind most conclusive evidence in that case. The evidence consisted of the Mail  record , and other papers, which you took from me, and I understand you to say that you would examine them

and decide upon the case was I sat by the front windows of the Revenue Office at the time, and you took the papers from me, and laid them upon the table by the window. I again urged the hope, that the subject may be taken up, and the case disposed of upon the testimony which I have filed in the office.
I have the honor to be Respectfully Concluded T. H. Seymour
J. L. Edwards Esq Custom House Washington

Hon J. S. Edwards Commission of Pensions Washington D. C.

Cast Windsor 11 Jan y 21. 1845
Hon d Sir
The annexed records containing among other entries that of the marriage of Frederick Osborn & Lucretia Booth in Oct 1793, I accidentally found to be in possession of Mrs Sylvia Osborn a sister of Mrs Lucretia Osborn; after I had sent the last proof, in the case of said Lucretia.
It seems to me that there cannot be a shadow of doubt that it is the genuine document (it is claimed to be); and if so, that in addition to the proof heretofore sent it will satisfy your mind, that there is no reasonable doubt that Mrs Lucretia Osborn's marriage took place (as she claimed in her declaration), in Oct 1793 and as the record now sent declares it to have been.
Yours
Hon d J. L. Edwards Commission of Pleas
J. H. Charlton

Letter to Hon. J. W. Seymour
Feb 18
1845

East Windsor February 18 th A 1845
Honored Friend.
In order to afford the Commissioners of Pensions every degree of evidence in relation to the marriage of Mrs Lucretia Osborn which it is possible to obtain, I made application by letter to Mr Henry A Gann of Montague, Massachusetts, a descendant of Ephraim Boote, the father of Mrs Osborn
We cut from the Bible of Mrs Osborn Sister Clarissa Buel the record she had of the Births and Marriages of the different members of her fathers family, by which record, it will be seen, that Mrs Osborns declaration of the time of her Marriage, is fully corroborated. I do not think that it will be judged necessary after examining the letter & record sent from Mrs Sylvia Osborn, but being willing to do all that is possible in the case justly, to strengthen the proof; I send with the letter I received from Mr Gann, the record from her sisters Bible.
After you have shown this to Mr Edwards, I wish you bring it back with you, that it may be returned to the owner at Montague.
The last record sent on the

with the deposition of Mrs Sylvia Osborn, a sister of the declarant, was sworn to as having been re- ceived at the time stated 1835. This is not sworn to, but it carries its evidence in its own honest face, or I am greatly mistaken.
I remain Sir, with the highest respect, Your obedient Servant,
James H Charlton Agent by Jesse Charlton.
Dear S. H. Seymour Warden of Rep d Washington D. C.

M. ...

I Abadiah Hulburt, a resident of Enfield in Hartford County Connecticut do hereby depose and say, That my age is Forty eight years. That I have kept a school, nearly every Winter for twenty seven years past: and that in the year Eighteen Hundred & forty one; or four years ago last winter I kept the District school in the North Society of East Windsor: in which the Wid- ow Lucretia Osborn, widow of Ezekiel Osborn, resided: & that a part of the time I boarded at her house; & that, while there, at her request, I copied a record of her family on paper prepared for that purpose & of a size to be framed: that I copied it from a leaf in an old Bible.
I have no reason to believe; & do not believe, that she requested this to be done in reference to any application for a pension. During my residence in her family I never heard any thing said respecting her intending to apply for a pension. Mrs Osborn is a woman of good character, and I have not the least doubt that the copy I made was a true & correct statement of the date of the events put down.
Abadiah Hulburt
Sworn before me, at said Enfield on the 8 th day

May A 1845; and I certify, that I am acquainted with the deponent, & have known him as a School Master, for several years, & he is a credible person, and disinterested witness.
Jesse Charlton Justice of the peace
State of Connecticut, ss.
Office of Secretary of State. }
I hereby certify that Jesse Charlton, Esq r , whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, is, and since the 20 th day of June last past has been a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hartford, - duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, as appears of record in this office.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of said State, at Hartford, this tenth day of May, A. D. 1845.
Dan l P. Tyler Secretary of State

No 11218
Lucretia Osborn M rs of Ezekiel Low
act 7 July 1838
Adm o 11 mo. 40 p m - $33 77 p m ann
Adm o 3 March 1843 and 17 June 1844
$33 77 p m Ann
11 o act 1843 - 7824 " " 1844 - 585
Jesse Charlton East Windsor
Conn.

East Windsor Ct May 9 th 1845.
Sir
Learning from the Hon J. H. Seymour, that the proof he last left with you had been mislaid or overlooked, in the case of Lucretia Osborn; which proof was very important, being the records of two other Sisters of Mrs Lucretia Osborn and being evidently of several years date and agreeing exactly in the facts stated: I had no apprehension that after the examination of them, there could be a doubt in your mind, that Mrs Lucretia Osborn had fully established the period of her marriage: And that, she had established it by "proof of the highest order!" agreeable to your letter of Dec r 14 1844. But if that proof is lost I do not know how it can be replaced; But I have complied with your requisition in your letter of Sept 13 th 1844; Viz, have shown " when " " by whom " & from what data it was made."
~ In answer to that letter, of Sept r 13. 1844. I sent, what was suggested as a second alternative. Viz, the Obituary Notice of the death of Mrs Osbornes Daughter,

as this took less time than it would to go to the residence of the man who copied the record, and as I supposed from Dr Crumps letter it would be equally satisfactory.
And I beheld with surprize, in your letter of November 19. 1844, that tho it was in strict compliance with the alternative requisition, yet you took no notice of it whatever. But again demanded "when", "by whom" and "from what" the large family register was made.
The only reason why I did not send immediately to the man who copied the record, was as I have stated, in the first instance, and after I had obtained the record of Mrs Sylvia Osborn the sister of Mrs Lucretia I thought you would be fully satisfied, and require nothing more.
I have now obtained the disquisition of Mr Hurlburt the school master who copied the record for Mrs Lucretia Osborn, and send it herewith
I have the honor to be very respectfully.
Your Obedient servant
J. C. Charlton
Hon J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Family Register
Mr. Ezekiel Osborn Miss Lucretia Booth
Was born in 1754 Was born Jan. 1771 Were Married Oct. 1793
Ezekiel Osborn died March 20 th 1806
   NAMES BIRTHS DEATHS   Month Day Year Month Day Year     Ruth Osborn born Nov 29 th 1794 May 21 st 1820   Lucretia Osborn born Jan 17 th 1797 Jan. 1 st 1822   Emeline Osborn born April 8 th 1804                                                                                                          

I Lucretia Osborn, (formerly Lucretia Booth,) a resident of East Windsor, in Hartford County & State of Connecticut, in the 74 th year of my age, do hereby depose and say; That the within record, is a true record of my Family; that it was copied several years since from minutes which they had kept in the Family, but she cannot now find the original minutes, & believes they are lost or destroyed by time. That this record was made years before she had any expectation of a Pension; and without any reference to that event. That she believes the ages of her Husband and herself are truly stated: And further she knows, and she deposes, that the date of her Marriage and of the Birth of her Children, and of the death of two of them, is correctly and truly stated, and set down in the within record.
Lucretia Osborn
Sworn to and subscribed, before me Jesse Charlton one of the Justices of the Peace for Hartford County, and I certify that the deponent is a credible and respectable woman, and of a Mind and memory unimpaired; & that her statements & declarations are entitled to full credit.
Done and dated at East Windsor aforesaid on this 26 th day of August 1844
Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut
Hartford County Sept 5 1844
I certify that Jesse Charlton whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the Peace for said Hartford County, and the above is his genuine signature.
2 nd Helymou ill C
1 st England
Comrs.

East Windsor Conn May 13 th 1845.
Sir.
Your letter of the 10 th inst d to Hon T. H. Seymour, respecting Lucretia Osbornes case, has been communicated to me.
My letter to you, of the 10 th , you have undoubtedly received: and that you found to be, in strict compliance with your requisition, of Sept r 13. 1844.
I beg leave Sir to ask your attention to one circumstance in relation to the record of Sylvia Osborn : this record was sent to her, as she has disposed, from a relative in Montague Ms; at her request, & copied from the record of her fathers family. The letter was mailed in Montague, in September 1835, and received by her in that month of Sept r .
The letter has every appearance of having been sent from the Post Office in Montague, at that period; and I doubt not that the copies of Mails sent if they are preserved in the General Post Office, will shew, that a letter was sent from Montague to East Windsor on the day of the Post Office mark: and from the little intercourse, by Mail, between the two places, it is not probable that another will be found in three months. As I keep the Post Office, I can speak with some confidence on this point. And you will perceive that this letter & record, were sent between nine & ten years ago, before the existence of the acts of 1838, or of 1836: And that it was not sent to Lucretia Osborn or any way for her benefit.
And Sir if you will examine that letter, & record, and then say, that you believe it spurious, or falsely prepared, to support a fraud; or that it is anything but a true & honest docu

ment, I shall cease troubling you in the case.
But if admitted to be so, it fixes the date of Ezekiel & Lucretia Osbornes Marriage beyond any reasonable doubt as decisively as if found in the Town records.
There is also, with the documents I sent, a Leaf from the Quarto Bible of the eldest sister of Lucretia Osborn: Mrs Clarissa Belknap, which contains the record of her fathers family: this I sent after to Montague, and it further corroborates Mrs Osborns claim, as to the date of her Marriage.
So there is now before you, four distinct papers, purporting to be records of the family of which Lucretia Osborn is a Member; and these coming from different sources, at different periods, are without discrepancy: and without the slightest mark of forced accommodation.
I honor vigilance in a public officer, but impossibilities should not be required. Mrs Osborn is an honest & pious woman, and is not prompted by any artful children or expectants to get money, for them and the case is as honest a one as I ever sent.
I might enlarge but I know your time is precious.
I have the honor to be, with very great respect, Your Obedient Servant.
J. H. Charlton
Hon J L Edsards Commissioner of Pensions. Washington 6 D 6

Lucretia Osborn.
Admitted
Sesse Charlton East Windsor Conn.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2 nd February 1848, entitled An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution.
State of Connecticut, Hartford County, Ss East Windsor.
On this Sixth day of May A.D. 1848, personally appeared before me William Barnes one of the Justices of the Peace for said County; Widow Lucretia Osborn, a resident of said Town of East Windsor, aged 77 years; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2 nd February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served in the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Ezekiel Osborn, who served as a private in the army of the Revolution in the manner set forth in her declaration made under the act of July 7 th 1838. That the annual amount of the pension she received under the act of 17 th June 1844, was Thirty three dollars & Seventy seven cents!
She further declares, that she is still a widow.
Signed Lucretia Osborn
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written Before me. Wm Barnes, Judge of Probate & Justice of Peace
I further certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the identical person she claims to be.
In testimony whereof I Michael Sexton Clerk of Probate for East Windsor or District do hereby subscribe my name, & affix the seal of said Court, on the day & year above written.
B. Sexton, Clerk

Daniel Phelps Certificate

I Daniel Phelps a resident of East Windsor in Hartford County & State of Connecticut aged Eighty one years, when comes the 9 th of October next, and I do hereby depose & say; That I was well acquainted with the late Ezekiel Osborne, of this town; the husband of the present Widow Lucretia Osborn: & I was also well acquainted with their Daughter, Ruth Osborn, both of whom have been dead many years; I have this morning of the 23 rd of September 1844, been to the graveyard, near by my house, & where the said Ezekiel, & the said Ruth both lie buried & both have grave stones erected at their graves. The inscription on the grave of the said Ezekiel Osborn, is "that he died March 20 th 1806 in the 51 year of his age.
And that, on the said Ruth Osborn is that the following "Ruth, Daughter of Ezekiel & Lucretia Osborn died May 21 st A 1820, aged 25 years"
Daniel Phelps
Sworn to, and subscribed before me, on this 23 rd day of September 1844, And I certify that I am well acquainted with the said deponent and he is a credible & respectable man whose testimony is entitled to full credit.
East Windsor Hartford County Conn Sept 23 rd 1844
Attest Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace

State of Conn. Hartford Conn Hartford Oct 7 th 1881
I certify that Isaac Charlton whose name is subscribed to the within certificate is a Justice of the Peace in and for said Conn and that his signature purports to be his and that genuine signature, with which I am bound to acquaint
Me
Thos H. Seymour Secy at large Dist Comm.

J. P. Kirtland Esq. Mansfield Conn
Dec 19 - 21 - 1844
Musics & Pension business.
Hon S H Seymour
Member of Congress
Washington City D C

Mansfield, Lt. Dec. 19
Free
Dec 19 - 21 - 1844
Ansvers &
Pension Inmiss.
Hon B H Seymour
Member of Congress
Washington City D C

Mansfield Conn Dec 19 th 1844
Hon B H Seymour
Sir I had the honor about a week since of addressing a line to you on the subject of a pension in favor of Mrs. Isabella Richards since then I have received a certificate from Mr. Edwards but which is incorrect as he has only put down the service of her husband as a Private whereas the proof of service which I procured from the office of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts under seal of said State certified that her late husband served nine months one day as a Sergeant I write therefore respectfully request you to call on Mr. Edwards and have the mistake corrected as it makes a large difference in the amount of the arrears of which her children stand in great need
Yours Respectfully
Samuel D. Hawes

East Windsor Nov 22 nd 1844
Sir.
Yours of the 19 th is received.
In the letter of the acting commissioner, Col l W m Crump Esq., of Sept 13 th 1844, he says; "That proof should be adduced to establish satisfactorily when, by whom, and from what data was it made". I sent to have the family again make diligent search among their old Books to find, if possible the old Bible, & they found what there was left of it, and I have sent it, with the deposition of Mrs Hunter, viz the leaf which contained the record.
The acting commissioner, further says, in his letter above quoted; "If her daughter Ruth, represented to have died in 1820, left a family Register, showing her age", "Or if there be any obituary or epitaph showing her age it might remove the difficulty".
The latter requisition, I think, was exactly complied with and I thought would be satisfactory.
The difficulty of finding public records of Marriages in Connecticut is very great, in East Windsor before 1820 there had not been one twentieth part of the marriages recorded; and in Hartford a still less proportion as the Hon. Mr Seymour can inform you.
We must send the record as we find it, the years, but not the months are given in any of the entries; but that can excuse raise no suspicion against the entry of the marriage, some people we know are much more particular than others in making their records.

some put down even the hour when such and such a child was born.
I am fully satisfied that the case is an honest one, as was ever sent to the Department, the Widow is a woman of sound memory, & of exemplary piety, and if there should be any need of it, I can get the certificate of the whole parish that her character is above all suspicion.
I am Sir, most respectfully, your Obed t Serv t
J. A. Charlton " " "
Hon J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.