Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16057, for Samuel Piper, New Hampshire

SERVICE
N.H.
NUMBER
Piper, Samuel Sally
N 16057
CONTENTS

Lt P. Carrigan Apr 26 1841
ret
3517
New Hampshire
Sally Piper, widow of Samuel Piper, decd.
who died on the 15 September 1816 of Herkimer Co. (at the State of N. H.) who was a H. drum. and matross in the Company commanded by Captain Revere of the Regt. commanded by Col. Whipple in the N. H. line for 12 m th 1 st H. 1 st m th drummer 1 st m th Matross 9 th m th private
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 188 Dollars 84 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of July 1841, for Lt. P. Carrigan Concord N. H.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1841 $1888.40 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th p 41 94.42 $1982.82
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Recorded by S. M. Gundy, Clerk Book C. Vol. 1. Page 35

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Francis Whittier is an acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Winnipiseogee duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the eighth day of January 1833 and will expire on the 28 th day of December 1844 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 20 th day of November 1839
Josiah Stevens, Jr. Secretary of State.

Aaron Whittmore
The word mostly was inserted before signed in sixth line from the bottom second page Aaron Whittmore
Henry Pipina Declaration

State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss
On this twentieth eighth day of March
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine personally appeared before Aaron Whittermore one of the justices of the court of common pleas for said county Sally Piper a resident of London in the County and State of Massachusetts and Cook two years of age and who first being 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 9th A.D. 1855 entitled "An act granting half pay of pensions to certain widows, that she is the widow of Samuel Piper who was a soldier and she sincerely believes also an officer in the Army of the United States in the War of the Revolution and served in the same according to her best recollection which is before her and the best information she can now obtain is as follows Her said husband whilst in the War fought under Capt. Jonathan Robinson in Col. Hoffs Regiment to go to New York & was wounded

Capt. John Newcomb of Strattonight Bathurst in said N. C.
after that he enlisted in Capt. Samuel M c Connell's Company in Col. Hays Regiment, but she believes this company holds the year of Lieutenant's pay and that he received eight months under the first enlistment and eight months under the second after that he served at Bathurst for about twelve months. He thinks this was in the year 1778 and that during said service he acted as Captain commanding a Company and that the whole time of his service both as a private and Officer is the year 1776, 1777 and 1778 and perhaps some other year or years extending to nearly three years But all her and husband's fellow soldiers and other officers being as she believes dead and her now  late late husband's
Children and they being a large family having mostly gone far from her now she having removed from her old family seat which has been sold to strangers as to her husband's estate and papers in current use as by her record acknowledgment where she is declared and she must rely on the War Department to which she respectfully refers for proof of her claim and at

were effected it would be a subject of inquiry whether her husband or herself took proper care of her commissions or discharges papers relating to her services in said war whether due she try to preserve any facts of these services in her memory thereof till it is too late to learn them by any living testimony therefore she cannot pretend to accuracy in her statements but hopes and prays she may not injure her claim by attempting to declare the truth while the impressions of her memory does not permit her to do so in to her case. Surely she needs all the provisions of the law made in these cases having been reduced from a State of affluence to extreme poverty & even hard to be borne but harder for those who have seen better days especially when the misfortune is united with sickness & the infirmities of age
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Dyer on the 10th of February in the year Eighteen hundred and eight and that her husband the said Samuel died on the 10th of September in the year Eighteen & sixteen that she was not married to him at the time of his leaving the service but that the marriage was

Then followed the post of January Seventeen hundred
Twenty five viz. at the time when Sabbat
Sally Piper
witness Mary Piper Elizabeth Piper
Given hand subscribed on the day and year as above written
before
Aaron Whittmore
State of New Hampshire Merrimack ss. March 28 th 1839
I have taken the declaration of the said Sally Piper on the day and year above mentioned, and she at the same time subscribed and made solemn oath to the truth thereof according to her belief being an able by reason of bodily infirmity to appear in court Aaron Whittmore
The word mostly was interlined before signed in sixth line from the bottom second page Aaron Whittmore
Sally Piper Declaration

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Silas D. White is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Straberg duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the twentyfirst day of May 1837 and will expire on the twentyfirst day of May 1842 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this twelfth day of Nov 1839
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.

Certificate of Marriage of Sally Piper

Samuel Piper of Stratham & Sally Norris of Pembroke Married February the fifteenth one thousand seven hundred and eighty.
I hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the records of the town of Pembroke in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire with the exception of the date which is expressed on the records in fair legible figures thus (Feby 15 th 1780)
Benjamin Cushing Town Clerk
I Benjamin Cushing above named depose & say that I hold the Office of Clerk of the town of Pembroke in the County of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire, that the above is a true extract from the records of said town, with the exception above named as certified by me
Benjamin Cushing Town Clerk
State of New Hampshire } Pembroke Nov r 17 th 1838 Merrimack ss
Sworn this 17 th of Nov r 1838
before me Aaron Whittmore ju d of the Peace

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Philip Carrigen is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Merrimack duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 14th day of August 1835 and will expire on the 14th day of August 1843 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this twentieth day of November 1839
Josiah Stevens Jr. Secretary of State.

6378
Sally Piper N. H. widow of Samuel Act of July 1835.

I Thomas Brown of Loudon in the county of Herkimack and state of Richenapshire aged sixty three years justice of the peace in and for said county do testify and declare that I was well acquainted with the late captain Samuel Piper of said Loudon who was reputed a revolutionary soldier and husband of Sally Piper who is a claimant for a pension by virtue of his services in the war of the revolution and I do further testify and say that according to my best re- ollection the said Samuel Piper died at Loudon afore- said on the fifteenth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen and I do further testify and say that the said Sally Piper has never intermar- ried since his death and remains his widow still
Loudon Oct. 19th 1839
Thomas Brown
State of New Hampshire
Herkimack ss. Novm 19th 1839.
me Thomas Brown in name said Thomas Brown personally appearing to said Thomas Brown made solemn oath to the truth of this affidavit before me.
Philip Carrigain
Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that the said Thomas Brown is a respectable Magistrate well knowing the facts he has stated and a competent & credible witness.
Philip Carrigain

6378
Early Paper, etc. H. William of Gannal Dec. 1845.
Philip Morgan Concord NH Agent Case in the car Care of Hon. Franklin Pierce.

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- Affidavit of John Piper

I, John Piper of Strafford County of Rockingham State of New Hampshire, aged seventy three years and upwards, do testify and say that I was born in the town of Strafford and have ever lived in the town except a part of one year, that Samuel Piper resided in Strafford in the time of the Revolution and was born the title there of Lieutenant I was acquainted with him as a companion & citizen — after the war was over he moved to London in this State I always understood that he married a Lady by the name of Jones of the town of Pembroke in this State — My father's name was Samuel Piper he never was in the Army of the Revolution he married a Mrs Robinson and I never knew any other Samuel Piper who lived in Strafford at that time except these two men.
Strafford Dec. 22. 1840.
John Piper
Strafford New Hampshire Strafford Dec. 22. 1840. Rockingham Co. — I have personally appeared the above named John Piper and made affirmation that the above deposition by him subscribed is true according to the best of his recollection and knowledge before me. Samuel T. Foster of the Peace.
I James Tapp do hereby certify that the above named John Piper is a man of strict veracity and truth, J. Tapp

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of _____ a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1776 Drummer Huggins N.H.   Drummer Walker   Drummer Walker   1776 12 mos Private William Pickering William Pickering N.H.   1778 12 mos Capt Malcolm St. Catherine   1779 12 mos Major Samuel Hemenway   1780 12 mos Major Defeated Piscataqua Harbor  
Battles engaged in, _____  Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____  Date of application for pension, _____  Residence at date of application, _____  Age at date of application, _____  Remarks: _____
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

1921 Nov. 23 Hist. to Mrs. H. A. Gibson
N. B.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16057
1802, Ohio Y. 1802 1802, Ohio 1802, Ohio
Act May 19, 1802
Index: Vol. 11 , Page 131
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1322 Grand Ave. Everett, Wash. Nov. 1, 1921
U.S. Pension Dept. Revolutionary Section, Rec. M.K.
Dear Sirs:
I am a descendant of Lieut. Samuel Piper of New Hampshire Militia 1779-1780.
Also of William Cheney and Elias Cheney of Antrim New Hampshire.
Will you please send me the Military Records of these two men and any data you may have concerning their families.
Yours truly,
(Mrs. H. A.) Edna S. Gibbons
NOV 7 1921

5228 Sally Rife — widow of Sam. Rife — act 1836, Let to Philip Carrigain 7 Dec 1840, to same 22 Dec. 1840.

Sally Piper
Wid of Samuel
N.H.
Ad July 4 1876
Marrd 1786
died 1816
Allow.
12m 10 Lst. 167.10
1/2 m Dm 5.44
1/2 m Mallns 6.25
3 m 10.
pcars $188.84
Philip Campain Esq
Concord
N.H.

St. 26. 6379. Mary Piper, widow of Francis.
late Mrs. J. Piper. May 3. 1840.
Act of July 1838.

V When Sally Pipers explain Statements to be annexed within additional Declaration
Ad July 4 1836
Philip Carrigan Esq. Concord N.H.

V
Widow Sally Pipers explanatory Statements to be annexed to her within additional Declaration.
Ad July 4 1836
Philip Paniganian Esq. Concord N.H.

# The undersigned travelled hundreds of miles to find said Aaron Martin or the chest. But Martin never was a resident long any where. He moved from London to Meredith in this State and from Meredith to Skowhegan on Kennebec River in Maine and from Skowhegan to Methuen Massachusetts from whence he wrote to me with some appearance (though hardly enough) of shame that Capt. Dipeus revolutionary papers and Manuscripts were destroyed as his widow has above stated.
Philip Briggan

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Laron Putnam is an acting Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and for the county of Belknap duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the Eighth day of January 1833 and will expire on the 28th day of December 1844 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 21 st day of
June 1840
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.

State of New Hampshire } Merrimack ss. }
On this first day of October Anno Domini 1840 personally appeared before the Hon ble Aaron Whittimore one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Merrimack which is the Court of Record.
Sally Piper a resident of Loudon, in the County and State aforesaid, aged Eighty Four years and upwards who first being sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following additional declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4 th 1836 - that she is the Widow of Samuel Piper, who was a private and an officer in the War of the Revolution, and in the year 1775 entered in the public service, and enlisted in this State, either at Stratham (where he then lived) or at Portsmouth, as a drummer, under Capt. Wiggins, and afterwards as a Katrap under Capt. Salter. Under these he served some months; she cannot say how long - and the residue of that year he served under Capt. Moore of Lyndeborough. He afterwards enlisted again in said Stratham, in September 1776 under Capt. Robinson and marched to the State of New York, through Danbury in Connecticut; and she

2 cannot state the length of his services under Capt. Robinson, and can only say he was absent a long time in the public service, under this or some other enlistment or appointment. He afterwards, namely in the year 1779 served a number of months as Lieutenant in Capt. Brannells Company, in Col. Mooneys Regiment - And after this, namely in the year 1780 as appears by the old revolutionary records of this State, served as a Lieutenant or Commander of a Company, raised for the defence of Piscataqua Harbour, from June to December in that year, or about that time.
She farther declares, that she was married to the said Samuel Piper on the 15 th of February in the year 1780, and that her said husband, the aforesaid Samuel Piper, died on the 15 th of September, in the year 1816, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herunto annexed. Sally Piper
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
Aaron Whittmore
State of New Hampshire Merrimack. ss
I hereby certify that that I attended at her residence as aforesaid and took the aforesaid additional declaration. She being unable by reason of bodily infirmity to attend court Aaron Whittmore
J. C. C. P.

Widow Sally Pipers
Widow Sally Pipers
additional Declaration
Additional Declaration
Additional Declaration

The undersigned Claimant begs leave to add the following explanatory statements to said additional declaration. Her faithful Agent Col. P. Garrison heard, by letter from her son Jonathan Piper, living in Senesce Co. New York, that his said father namely her said husband's first service was as a drummer, and secondly as a Matros, and he thought that these services with the service under Capt. Moore, were all in 1776 - and also thought that her said husband was not in the public service before that year. Her said Agent, exhibited to her the said letter to that purport, and as her said Agent had not then found any record of her husband's services before those under Capt. Robinson in 1776. - She and her Agent thought it best not to claim for services in 1775, as she did not wish to declare for any to which she could not safely make oath. - And it was under this impression that her first declaration was made and sent to Washington. - And long after this her said Agent found in the A. W. Revolutionary Records, her husband's services under Capt. Wiggins as a drummer, and as a Matros under Capt. Salter, which agrees with the nature of the service, but not with the year; for it seems that the services under Capt. Wiggins, Capt. Salter and Capt. Moore were all in 1775. Beyond this she respectfully entreats the Hon. Commissioner to indulge her by overlooking the following more important error. She was married in February 1780, and as her said Agent could not find by long researches, or hear in his travels far and near, of her said husband's services after 1779,

4 she made her said first declaration under the Act of 7 th July 1838. She supposed he was acting properly, and though she had some impression that her husband served as an officer in the harbour of Portsmouth, after she was married and removed from Pembroke to Stratham; she did not tell her Agent of this fact, even if she realized it in her memory. She was so ignorant of pension laws, she did not know it made any difference. - But since her said Agent has discovered in the old N. H. Records, her husband's services, as a Lieutenant from Jan y to December in 1780, it has revived many facts in her memory that otherwise she might never have thought of. She now remembers that her first child was born after she had removed from Pembroke to Stratham before she removed to London and about or near the same time her said husband left the service. And she thinks she can remember hearing her said husband often speak of Col l . Mooney and of Capt. Runnells - and of Capt. Moore of Lyndeborough - and she begs leave to assign the following true reason of her imperfect acco- -unt of her said husband's services. He kept in a ch- est all his revolutionary manuscripts, letters, commissions &c. which when her said son moved to the State of New York, he left in the care of her son in law S. Martin who carried on a paper factory at Meredith Bridge village in this State and the S t . Martin foolishly and imprudent- ly worked said manuscripts up as paper rags - She had sup- -posed these might acquire for her said husband's services after his enlistment under Capt. Robinson in 1776 till he served

25 as a Lieutenant under Capt. Runnells in Col. Moneys Regiment in 1779 and she still thinks that he served as an orderly sergeant or ensign in the State of New York before he served as a Lieutenant. If this should prove to be a fact as she absolutely needs she is obliged to claim the whole extent of the provision that the law will afford her. For few indeed have been the cases of such singular and complicated misfortune as has fallen to her hard lot. reduced from a state of affluence and ease to pinching penury and want; her beautiful family seat sold and in the hands of strangers; driven from the shelter of the roof where she had hoped to spend the rest of her days her children scattered far and wide in different States and rather needing aid than able to afford her any. Thus turned from house and home on the cold world and obliged to bear all the infirmities of age in utter destitution her case exhibits one of the most bitter and dismal instances of the sad vicissitudes of human life. She does not pretend that adversity and poverty furnish any argument in support of her claim; but she humbly hopes they may enlist the good feelings of your Honor appointed to decide upon all cases under the humane law of a beneficent Government made expressly for the benefit of the dying relics of the heroes of the Revolution; and judging from your Honor's past policy and indulgence she is confident

6 you will not permit her case to suffer by her ignorance of the form of application, the form and mode made more uncertain by her conscientious reluctance to swear to any facts of which she is not certain and in this humble confidence her grateful thanks and prayers mingling with the spirits of the pious dead will during the long remnant of her life ascend to Heaven for its choicest blessings in your honors behalf. And notwithstanding this humble hope it is with undissolvable anxiety and solicitude she subscribes her name to the premises intended to explain and confirm her accompanying additional Declaration and some particular circumstances relative to the subject.
Sally Piper
James L. Dyer Dorothy Dyer Elizabeth Dyer
Witnesses to the signing of the said Sally Piper

# The undersigned travelled hundreds of miles to find said Aaron Martin or the chest. But Martin never was a resident long any where. He moved from London to Meredith in this State and from Meredith to Skowhegan on Kennebec River in Maine and from Skowhegan to Methuen Massachusetts from whence he wrote to me with some appearance (though hardly enough) of shame that Capt. Dyer's revolutionary papers and Manuscripts were destroyed as his widow has above stated.
Philip Benigain

Wrenn of Rep?
Washington Jan y 31 st 1851
James D Heath Esq. Commissioner of Pensions -
Sir
I have to request that you will furnish for my examina- tion the following pension papers on file in your office -
Very Respectfully
Yours - Orin H. Hovey
1 Elizabeth Crane widow of Peter Crane of Mass ts - pensioned under Act 1838 2 Samuel Clark of New Hampshire Act of 1832 - 3 Sally Piper widow of Samuel Piper 3577 of New Hampshire - Act 1836 - 4 Jerusha Wheeler widow of Abel Whee- 1062000 of Mass ts - Act of 1836 - 5 Elizabeth Warner widow of Samuel 3257 Warner of Mass ts Act 1836 -

It seems that Mr P. had come from Shurton to Pembroke as Mar. 1780, as then went to London. Dublin off as then died
Gen a Fogg states that Piper had charge of a guard of some time, or Exeter in 1779 he thinks
Allday with  Col d Buggins 71 down 1 st Drum Saller - 76 Mat. debt 1 st Mat. " 3 76 " 3 mpr. C of R Reborn " 6-16 D. Runnib. 79 80. debt 80 6 "
Allday morn & Fri. 8n 71. claw held cut in hand in  the  the  the  the
Also July 4 1812
1 12. 2 00 melt 3 p.
1. 11

A Samuel Piper served in Capt Runnells 6 th Mooneys Regt in 79. as Lieut 6.16 days.
a Sawd Piper was in Capt Niggen's regt No 75 one of the name served in Mass from May 1. to Jan 71. 76 not one served in Robison Co from Sept 76 and - - McConnells Co. July 77 2nd.
M c Starbird a witness states that in May 1780, Sawd Piper of London was a Lieut in the continental service, commanded a Co at Badger Island near Port of N.H. 7 m. P. Starbird says he was the Ensign - Neither of these names are on the rolls.
I am satisfied that there were more than one of the name: which was the husband -
Thomas's husband is said to have been a Lieut in 79 guards present at Bunker

June 24. 1780
Ez. Gile a full capt of a company to be stationed at near Pats
Saml Piper Lieut. to be in Dec. 11 - See Sec. Pat Cert.
Piper up was det. as Lieut of the 6 th Co. paid $300.12. for his Co of 60 men - Dec 27. 1780; "being the "pay-roll of his Co" See Sec cert.
Copies of orders for promotion on the Com'y of Lieut. Piper & men, from 25 Aug. to Nov. 3 rd : See Sec cert. some time (for 2 men, 18 men - 1 man - 2 men 19 men & 18 men) See orders
M c Piper am dec.
75. a drum a pri. Capt Maggin
" " Capt Sallie
" " Capt Mone. up
Sept 76
Robinson.
79 6. 16. Lieut.
Runnels be morrey
to Dec. 27 80 6. mo "
2711 183 5.49

Mar 28. '39 dec of Sally Piper wid of Saml. pb 50 M 80 S. d. 1816
76 3 mo. Capt Robinson - On roll.
77 8 " Da En. in Cap McConville Co # 2 Moore
10 " -
78 12 " a Captain
Sec cat. dals pb 40 order to pay Capt Salton dal pb 16 1776.
do do fa serv in 76 under Robinson
do do - - 75 Salton Moore ca. 8 mo.
3 The widow, husband was of Stratham near Pab ...
# Capt McConville & Saml Piper were born of Rochester 77 78
They had children in the 1770s and 1780s. One was born in 1776 and another in 1780. The last one was born in 1780.

Dec 21 1840
Thomas J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City.
Ans D. 7/4

Concord N.H. December 16 th 1840.
Sir
Your favour of the 7 th instant proving the prompt & just attention of your Department to the impatient claim of the Widow Sally Piper is this moment received. There are (no doubt) many of the services of her deceased husband yet unproved & unaccounted for. I have ascertained that he was in public service on Rhode Island, and in Fishkill, N.Y. and in Charlestown & Cambridge (Mass.) and besides he must have passed thro' intermediate grades of rank, between a private or drummer, and a Lieutenant but it would be madness and folly in the claimant after passing many long years in adversity and penury thro' the improvidence & wickedness of her children and relatives, to waste time and money in searching for evidence, when a comfortable provision already awaits her, and to last through the close of the closing evening of her life and she therefore wholly submits the decision of her claim to your Honour, feeling confident and happy that she is in safe and honourable hands.
In her behalf therefore I accept of your award of the amount of her husband's services contained in your aforesaid favour viz. 18 Months and 16 days - of which she is to draw the pay of a Lieutenant for 12 Months and 16 days, and the pay of a private for the residue, (Presuming that she is to be placed on the pension roll under the act of 4 th July 1836 according to her additional Declaration, and shall expect her Certificate of Pension accordingly, as soon as may be convenient to the Department to send it to me by Mail to this place, having some other concerns for the Department as soon as this is closed.)
It will afford the Widow Piper extreme gratification to find that her husband is recorded as an Officer in the war of the revolution, and also that so handsome a provision for her necessities in old age will ensue.

with the little
I have the honour to remain with great gratitude on the Widows account and the most profound respect on my own
Sir
Your honour very obedt servt
Philip Carrigain
Esq. A.
gent v. Attorney to Widow Sally Piper, Widow of Capt Samuel Piper (of London N.H.) deceased
Honb J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington

Sep 6-1-40
Com
Wm Lloyd Pike N.H. Carr
Free
J. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions War Department City of Washington

Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions War Department City of Washington

Concord N.H. Aug. 25. 1840.
Sir
Your welcome favour so accommodating to the wishes and circumstances of Mary Shirley of this state was duly received, and its purport immediately transmitted to the claimant.
Your prayers and the prayers of many a poor widow already arise that Heavens choicest blessings may fall on your honour for administering so humanely the provisions of a beneficent government for their relief administration requiring the exercise of so much wisdom and patience to toil through, and without wrong either to the claimants or the government and over difficulties and through perplexities undamountable by the greatest abilities without long experience. These difficulties and perplexities I am certain (if certain of nothing else) never have been duly appreciated.
Permit me to say that we hope soon to add to the number of the grateful thanksgivings constantly invoking benedictions on your honour, the name of the venerable claimant Widow Sally Piper. My most excellent friend and neighbour, Hon. Franklin Pierce has handed me your reasonable requirement of July last in relation to her case. After long research in the files of our State Records I have found new evidence to

substantiate her claim and in a few weeks we shall send on documentary evidence and the affidavits of living witnesses accompanied with her additional Declaration which I respectfully presume will satisfy the Department of the merits of her application.
I have the honour to remain with perfect respect
Dear Sir
Your very Obedt. Servt.
Philip Carrigain
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions City of Washington

Concord, New Hampshire, June 29 th 1811
Dear Sir, I received by the kindness of my friend, Mr. [?], the enclosed letter from Mrs. [?], dated April 15 th & April 22 nd , in which she states that she is in a state of great distress, that the name of the Regiment she was in is found in the rolls of Capt. Samuel Pennock, and that she had served in 1779 10 months & 15 days, and that she is now in the 80 th year of her age, and that a Samuel Piper has also served 8 months in 1775 under Capt. [?], and that she is now in a state of great distress. She therefore desires a supplemental declaration of service, establishing the identity of her husband with this declaration, and that she might at the present time, if she will so desire, receive a pension for 10 months & 15 days or a lump sum and 7 months more a year.
The widow is now about 80 years of age, and has greatly failed within these few months past in strength, mind, & memory, which were much impaired before by age & sickness, and I should not think it just to try to induce her to declare more than she clearly recollects.
Previous to her declaration which is in your Department, I wrote by her advice to her son Major Jonathan Piper of Bennington, Genesee Co. (New York) who is about 55, and the most intelligent of all her immediate family. He writes that his father served in the Revolution in 1776, and also that he served in the first year, and that it is a document, which probably was his service under Capt. Wiggin in 1775. He also spoke of service under Capt. [?], but he did not know.

was in 1775. He also wrote to me that his father left a chest of ancient papers containing his letters, commissions, contracts & etc., which in the year 1781, when he moved to New York, left in the care of his brother in law Aaron Martin of Shrewsbury, on the Somerset River which I found the said Martin had a list of the contents of said papers, with a single old continental paper bill given by the father to the said Jonathan, which was part of the said father's papers for services in the Revolution, which his said son still retains, is all that remains of said highly valued chest of revolutionary papers. The said Major also wrote me word that his father was an officer about two years, and the last year commanded a company in Portsmouth N.H. but this might have been in the service of the colony. I have a list of officers in our Secretary's Office in the year 1776, a small bundle of papers, in which was a Receipt signed by some of the municipal officers of Portsmouth, I think dated 1780. The said Jonathan formed a company & charged it to Samuel Piper. This estate has been the other Samuel Piper, of the town of Penobscot, who tells me that this said Samuel Piper was not a man of credit or responsibility at all, and that he was a man of no consequence. I have been extremely careful and wide with my pen, and I have not at the present time taken a copy of it, if any Secretary. I have since received and searched in vain for it, and have paid a lawyer, and the said Mr. Clement the same fees, and obtained for me a copy of it. The claimants husband was a native of Stratford, New Brunswick, in New Brunswick, and was in Penobscot at the time of the Revolution. His family name was Francis & he was reported as being the same as Capt. Piper, who was in Penobscot in 1783, and 1784, and 1785. He was not in service & I thought it a beautiful estate in Penobscot where he settled and died, in 1816 leaving his widow, and a son. * The widow now lives with her youngest son Samuel in said London.

family of children in kindlier circumstances, now sadly reversed. I think it is probable that in some of his journeys from Pembroke to Portsmouth, when about marrying and quitting the service, he sign- ed the said receipt which perhaps I ought not to have spoken of and cannot now be produced. I was aware of the advantage to her the proof would be that he had entered the service after marriage.
If I might venture to extend this letter without evidence, I would say that from all I can learn after a long and diligent investigation the subject, I sincerely believe that the claimants husband served under Capt. Moore Wiggins, a Sister in 1775, and that he passed through some intermediate grades of service before passing from a drummer or private to a Lieutenancy, and that the same was an Capt. Samuel H. Cook who belonged to Pembroke, was by another
Several Papers also signed a pensioner some years since at Dorchester N.H. and belonged with said Command to said Pembroke, and now resides has passed. It is in my mind that the claimants husband entered at Dartmouth in 1775 under Capt. Mathew, the name says he was mustered by John Wentworth. I have talked with after this in Dartmouth, Connecticut and afterwards at Short Hills Plains in New Jersey, where I lost him. Confident that some certifications would be required on the subject of his service and as confident, that the evidence of former service is greatly to her advantage, I have travelled more in search of her than of other persons. I have indeed had in my long travel and researches much testimony, but not such as I could presume to offer to the Department as evidence. I have supposed it possible that some evidence might be found of her services as an Officer.

in the Patent Office Records, and I have written to my friend, Mr. [?] man lately N. C. in relation thereto, but the widow's life may not be till the records are made, and she may have a competency by your honour's decision. There is a charm in the case which the personal state of the thoroughbred Records does not supply, and it is a part of its history that [?] any of our Revolutionary papers were sent to Washington, a part of them were sent by an officer in which contained part of the Secretary's notes at Ender's, [?] the close of the War of the Revolution. Although I have expended more time labour & money about this case, than it can bear, I shall retain any thing I could not so good any thing else I might be [?], nor do I wish that any part of the same funds established by a benevolent government for widow [?] In the [?] the Department has probably been troubled with letters of [?] in [?] Claimant, and as her Agent and Attorney submit entirely to the decision of the Hon. Commissioners of Pensions, who will please to forward her Certificate to me in the [?] Hon. Mr. Pierce, Senator of the U.S. aforesaid.
I have the honor to remain most respect- fully Sir
Your very obedt. Servt. Philip Carrigain
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington.

Hon. Philip - Carrigan
Concord
West Parish

551 Fort Washington Feb y 16 th 1776 In place to pay unto Capt. Titus Salter on his order the balance due unto us on the Motters company Pay roll delivered in by him & his Receipt shall be a sufficient discharge from your most Humble Servant
Samuel Piper (6 names)
Received Feb y 22 Feb y 1776 of Nicholas Salter the sum of forty six Pounds, Three Shillings Three pence in full balance due on his L t Shall remain due to the persons whose names are herein mentioned Titus Salter
State of New Hampshire Office of Sec y of State
Feb y 27 1840
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from the original now in this office
For testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State
Josiah Stevens
Sec y of State

June 22 - 1780 The Committee appointed to Appropriate the sum to be raised &c have appropriated sixty men to be raised for the defense of Penetagua Harbour & to continue in service until the last day of December next unless sooner discharged. Whereupon being considered voted that the same be accepted. -
June 24 th 1780
Voted that Capt. Gabriel Hall be captain of the company of sixty men to be stationed at & near Portsmouth. that Samuel Piper be lieutenant and John Haskell be ensign of the said company and that they be commissioned accordingly. -
State of New Hampshire Office of Sec'y of State, August 17 - 1840
I hereby certify that the foregoing are true extracts of the Journals of the House, June Session 1780
In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State
Garick Hovey Sec'y of State

This certificate is made for Carl Philip Larsson Concord N.H.

December 27-1750
Voted that the pay and of said Samuel Piper be increased for the repair of Penetanguishene Harbour amounting to three hundred pounds, twelve shillings & eight pence in Bills of the New Emission be allowed & paid out of Treasury by order of the President to be said Piper be giving security in common form.
State of New Hampshire Min of Sec y of State
August 17-1840
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from the Journals of the House seen April 1750.
In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto affixed the seal of said State
Jonathan Stevens Sec y of State

No. 1
Same as No. 2

Winter Hall for seventy four men including officers enlisted by Col William Whipple by order of the Genl Court for the State of New- Hampshire to reinforce the Army at New-York
James Robinson left
Samuel Dyer Private Time enlisted -
Sept 23 County £ 6. Travel 2.10 Total paid £ 8.10.
February 1st 1776 Then may certify that at the request of Col Wm Whipple I mustered & paid off the seventy four men specified in the foregoing Roll agreeable to the same & ordered there to Stratford in Connecticut & that they were all found efficient & well equip'd with Fire arms
Joshua Wentworth Muster Master State of New-Hampshire
Secy of State's office Feb 13-1840
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true Extract from the original Roll now in this office In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State.
Josiah Stevens Secy of State

2 Hon. Philip-burgan
Commodore
W. H. Smith

The subscribers belonging to left bank Moor's transfer's in the Hecks Argument do hereby acknowledge that we have recd of James Walder Jr four dollars each money in full satisfaction for the Augmented tract which was promised us by the testimony of Mrs Hampshire
Samuel Piper
1775 Oct 17 Recd of James Walder Jr fourteen Pounds eight Shillings for the following persons viz
Andrew Cunningham Which money I promise to deliver to the above men on demand
Samuel Moore left
State of New Hampshire Affidavit of Sec'y of State Feb 26-1840
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from the original now in this office, and that the list of names of which Samuel Piper was of the number appears to be a list of men present & evidently signed by each man as some of them made their mark, the list containing the names of fifty one men. The list upon the back of the same paper evidently is a list of men

who were absent as it is all in one hand copy of which Andrew Cunningham is of the number & contains twelve names which is signed by Capt. Moore
In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State which thereunto -
Seal of State

Secretary Stevens, Secy of War.
1. V. M. Culliford, in proof of June, 1861, being a Revolutionary Officer and commander of Company in Southworth in 1775. P. W. Emerson is the acting Sergeant, and Bickford the Commissary.
W. ( )

Portsmouth August 25 th 1780 Sir I have to deliver provision for seventeen men four days belonging to Last Pipers Company John Hubbard Ensign The Bulford Garrison
Portsmouth Sept 26-1780 Sir I have deliver three days provision for eighteen men belonging to Last Pipers Company John Hubbard Ensign To Company Bulford
State of New Hampshire Office of Secretary of State, August 3-1860. I hereby certify the foregoing is a true copy of the original now on file in this office. In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Secretary of State

Portsmouth Aug t 8 th 1780 I have deliver provisions for myself and one man we being in the quarters of those Troops to be stationed in this Place as Continental - five days each. Saml Phipps Lieut To Com d Belford
Portsmouth August 13 th 1780 I have deliver provisions for two men for eight days belonging to my my quarters. Saml Phipps Lieut The Belford Com d !
October 24 th 1780 I have to deliver three days allowance for nineteen men belonging to Lieut Phipps quarters E. W. Edmuns O f Sergeant To Com d Belford
Nov r 7. 1780 I have to deliver two days allowance for nineteen men belonging to Lieut Phipps quarters. E. W. Edmuns O f Sgt To Com d Belford

Continental Island Nov r 3 1780
A Provisions Return of Lieut. Genl. Phipps commanding company of Eighteen men to draw provisions for four days. Genl. Phipps Lieut. To Lieut. Birkford
State of New Hampshire Office of Secretary of State
August 1 st 1840
I hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies of the originals now on file in this office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State.
Josiah Stevens
Secy of State

Langd Island Sept 5 1780
Sir, I mean to deliver prisoners for seventeen men of my company for three days To S r Bulford A. Com d Genl Peter's Fort At time being
Janick Stevens S t of State
The foregoing papers are for Col. Philip Schuyler Greenwood N.Y.

Philip Carrigains Spain.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Philip Carrigan is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Strabane duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 14th day of August 1838 and will expire on the 14th day of August 1843 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 21 st day of June 1840
Josiah Stevens Jr. Secretary of State.

London in
I William Burleigh of the County of Merrimack and State
• of New Hampshire a revolutionary soldier, and pensioner, aged Seventy nine years do testify and declare that I served in the war of the Revolution, and in the Massachusetts line in the year 1778. Col n Jackson was my Col n and Captain Cleveland commanded the Company in which I serv'd. • I afterwards serv'd during said war in the New Hampshire Line in the year 1780: and in the Regiment commanded by Col n Henry Dearborne and in the Company commanded by Lieut. Capt of Exeter (New Hampshire)
I enlisted in the publick Service in the town of Stratham, in the County of Rockingham in said State of New Hampshire, and was then, and ever after well acquainted with Capt Samuel Piper lately of London aforesaid, but who then belonged to said Stratham, from whence he removed to said London, with his family after the war, where he lived till his death which happened in September 1816.
As we both had lived and enlisted in the same town, and both had finally removed to the said town, and both were revolutionary soldiers (though part of his publick service was as an officer) we often saw each other, and met and conversed relative to our trials during the revolution and in consequence of our intimacy, and frequent conversations I became acquainted with his publick services therein and the names of the different officers under whom he served, and the times of the different services though I cannot pretend to state accurately the lengths of all those services - But I know the fact of those services partly from my own knowledge and observation, partly from conversing with him, & others, and partly from testimony read to me, which has refreshed my memory, so that I am positive that what I now declare is the truth. Said Piper, first service was in Portsmouth in said County of Rockingham, as a drummer under Capt Wiggin, and as a Matross under Capt Salter; in which year he also serv'd I believe all the residue of it under Capt Moore of Lyndeborough whom I have heard him

speaks of with friendship, and respect very frequently. He afterwards in September 1776 enlisted in the publick services again at Stratham aforesaid under Capt Robinson and in the Regiment I believe commanded by Coln. Whipple and march'd to Danbury (Connecticut) and after that to the White Plains in the State of New York but to what place in that State he afterwards march'd, and how long he serv'd, and in what grade, I cannot state positively as in this particular my memory fails me. I have an imperfect recollection that he was out a long time under this or another enlistment, & rose to the rank of Ensign, but cannot make out to any thing certain in relation to this part of his publick services — But he certainly in the year 1779 serv'd in Capt Samuel Runnells compe- ny and in Coln. Mooneys Regiment as a Lieutenant in said company for sever- al months, and in 1780 after his marriage which was in February of that year, he serv'd as a Lieutenant in Portsmouth Harbour I believe from June to December of that year — A man by the name of Gile was appointed Captain of said company, but as I have always understood he perform'd no service, and all the duties of a commander devolv'd on said Piper, and said company was always call'd Lieutenant Pipers company. There was another Samuel Piper who belonged to and enlisted in Pembroke in this State and who serv'd in the war of the Revolution un- der Capt Samuel M c Connell of the same town was always a private in the services, and died some years past I believe a Pensioner in the Town of Dorchester in this State. These two namely the last mentioned Samuel Piper, and the first named Samuel Piper, were all the Samuel Pipers that I knew or ever heard of that were in the Revolutionary War. The first named Samuel Piper who died in this town namely in London aforesaid in 1816. married Sally Norris of Pembroke aforesaid, now his widow and a claimant for a pension by virtue of his long and varied service both as an officer, and soldier, during the Revolution — The said the said claimants husband was always a correct and respon- sible and respectable man, and by his conduct rose from a drummer and Mates or private to a Lieutenancy or command of a company — He cund a valuable farm

and seat, on which he always lived (after his removal with his family from said Stratham near the close of the revolutionary war) till his death.
He was a generous and hospitable man, and though he kept a house of entertainment for travellers, yet all revolutionary soldiers were entertained by him, free of any expense. I often met many of those at his house, now also sold, farm and all, and his said widow left destitute. I am perfectly sure that it was the said Widow Claimant namely the said Sally Pipers husband who served in the war of independence in 1775 under Capt. Wiggins, & Salter, & Capt. Moore, and in 1776 under Capt. Robinson all as a private. I am also if possible still more certain that the said Samuel served several months as a Lieutenant in Capt. Runnells company in Col. Mooneys Regiment, (I think Col. Mooneys given name was Hercules but cannot say positively) & also as a Lieutenant or commander of company in 1780 on an island in the harbour of Portsmouth. I have often heard the said Capt. Samuel Piper talk of these services and speak of Capt. Moore, & Col. Mooney, & Capt. Runnells and others, & he was a gentleman of such perfect credit and veracity that the utmost reliance might safely be placed on all that he said, and he died as he had lived esteemed, respected & beloved and lamented, by the whole town & indeed by all who knew him - I am also well acquainted with the amiable & venerable Claimant she that was formerly Sally Norris of Pembroke, now said Capt. Samuel Pipers, widow of London aforesaid, for whose benefit I make this affidavit which is true as far as I recollect, and I sincerely regret that I cannot recollect more, particularly as to his services after he left Capt. Robinsons company in 1776, till he served as a Lieutenant under Capt. Samuel Runnells in Col. Mooneys Regiment.
London May 30th A.D. 1839.
W. Burleigh W. Burleigh
State of New Hampshire
Herrimack St. personally appearing the said William
managing whom I have heard him

Burleigh, who is I believe a man of perfect credit, truth, and veracity, and also of sound mind, and memory, and after the affidavit had been distinctly read to him, made solemn oath to the truth of the same, and also subscribed thereunto his name thereto.
before me Philip Carrigain Just of Peace
William Burleigh Affidavit

Jonathan Fogg of Pillsbury in the County of Merrimack
and State of New Hampshire a private soldier in the war of the rebellion, and a pensioner aged 84 years and upwards do testify and declare that I am well acquainted with Capt Samuel Piper deceased of Concord in this State and County, and knew him from his boyhood before his entering the public service as a private, and after his service there- in, on several visits, till his death which was at Concord aforesaid in the year 1815. I mean the deceased Capt Samuel Piper who married Sally, dau- gher of Pembroke, in February 1780, who is now his widow and petitioning for a pension by virtue of her deceased husband's services as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
And I do further testify that I saw the said Samuel acting as a drum- mer under Capt Higgins in Portsmouth in 1775, and I am also knowing of his serving that year in said Portsmouth as a - Wat of under Capt Salton who I have no doubt he also served that year under Capt Mowat Lyndon- ough, but I was not knowing to this part of his service, except by hearing him and others speak of it, for in that year he was from Cambridge, near Boston, under Capt Lewis Dearborn, by the way of Roxbury to Dorchester, and was later prisoner in the Battle of Bunker Hill, and was not released from captivity till I was sent by water to New York City after a long imprisonment. But some years after (while at Epping in this State, I distinctly remember, I think it was in the year 1779) the said Piper commanded some soldiers who were a guard & had in custody a number of Tories, who were put safely in Exeter jail in this State. Exeter is near Epping where I have lived since. I know where Piper resided when not in service, adjoining Exeter. This was I think the first time that that I saw him after I had seen him in Portsmouth in 1775. The circumstance of his putting the Tories in Exeter jail made a great noise in the

Country, and a vast crowd were present, fearful that some of the Prisoners would escape, and I remember it was known said if Piper remained the Guard were ready to escape. I remember the circumstance as well as if it took place yesterday but cannot be positive as to the year, but think it was in 1779. The next time I saw said Capt. Samuel Piper as near as I now can recollect was in the year 1780 after he was married to said Sally Norris in Pombroke. I at that time saw him in Portsmouth open air, and he then was in command of a Company stationed on Continental Island for the defence of Portsmouth Harbour. Soon after the War he removed from Stratham or Portsmouth open air to London open air, with his wife and young family. In London he owned a large and beautiful estate and kept a great tavern where all old soldiers were always welcome. I spent a great deal time of time in his house, and often met there Ensign Timothy Gleason who was also a revolutionary soldier and a neighbour of said Piper and that he often conversed (as did soldiers) of revolutionary affairs. I heard said Piper and Gleason who was a Schoolmaster often speak of Capt. Hovey under whom both had served and I heard said Piper often speak of Capt. Hovey and Capt. Russell. Capt. Piper also showed me two commissions which he received in the service and some continental paper money which he received as part payment for his services. I think one of the commissions was a Lieutenant or Captain & the other an Ensign. There was another Samuel Piper who was also in the revolutionary service, and died at Dorchester some years since in the State. He belonged to Pombroke and was a private under Capt. Samuel M. Cornett of said Pombroke. He was very intemperate, and as I have often heard was publicly punished in the Army for taking things that did not belong to him. He never was promoted from private, and was not respected in account.

of his habits either in, or out of the service. The Capt Samuel Piper of London who is the principal subject of this Affidavit was always respected and beloved from the time he was a boy in Strat- ham, and first entered the service, and also in the army, where he served in different grades, and for many years, and in said London, where he was always their first man in Town Affairs and often I believe their Representative in the Legislature, and was respected in life, and lamented in death by all who knew him.
Sir, Widow the said Sally Piper, widow was the daughter of David Norris Esqr of Pembroke, who was also a respectable character, and out in the Revolutionary War. I have known the said Widow for up- wards of 55 years and she was in her youth & in middle age, one of the most beautiful and amiable women, that I ever saw, and she and her said husband, were an affectionate & likely couple, and brought up a large family, but their children have been very improvident, and scattered far and wide, some as I understand in the State of New York, & some in Maine.
She is now living in London aforesaid, & I am grieved to the heart, to say poor and destitute. She has never intermarried since her said husband's decease.
I am certain as I can be of any thing that the substance of what I have above stated is the real fact, but it is impossible for me now at this advanced stage of life, to separate what I saw, from what I have heard from Capt Piper and others, in frequent conversations with him, as I had great confidence in all he said, as he was a Gen- tleman of undoubted veracity, & not addicted to boasting. I often dined at his house in London aforesaid, and he used to entertain me, and other soldiers, charging me nothing for expenses, and he used to work on his legs for me, occasionally, charging me nothing for his labour, when we worked for him.
Yours J. Fogg

State of New Hampshire
Concord N.H. October 21 st A.D. 1839
Personally appearing the said Jonathan Fogg, who is a perfectly credible witness, as far as his memory serves him, and subscribed, and made solemn oath, to the truth of this, the within Affidavit before me.
Philip Carriggin Justice of Peace
Jonathan Fogg

I Eleanor Gleason of London in Merrimack County, in the State of New Hampshire, aged eighty years & upwards a pensioner of the United States through the bounty of a beneficent Government by virtue of the services of my late husband Ensign Timothy Gleason (also a pensioner) for which great blessing under Providence I hope I am duly grateful, do testify and declare that I was well acquainted with the late Capt Samuel Piper of this town, who died I think in September D r 1815. I was also well acquainted with his widow Sally Piper of this town and have known her ever since she and her said husband and family moved in — Her name before her marriage was Sally Norris and she lived in the adjoining town of Pembroke and when the said Samuel married her he lived in Stratham nigh Portsmouth in this State, and after their marriage they removed to said Stratham during the Revolutionary war, where they lived for some three years he staying part of the time with a company of soldiers which was encamped in Portsmouth, and after this they removed to this town, where he purchased a large and beautiful estate, and brought up a large family of children only one of whom I believe is living in said London, and the estate is sold out of the name and the widow left destitute. I knew her whole history for no two families in town were perhaps more entitled than yours, and there seldom has been a more exemplary family, and I was told an excellent woman. My said husband entered the service in the very commencement of the Revolution, and served as a clerk under Major Weezy on Great Island in the harbor of Portsmouth and afterwards in the same year namely in 1775 as

under Capt. Lane in Col. North's Regt. as an Artillery Man gaged — and he served also in Rhode Island in 1779 as an Ensign and Quarter Master, in Capt. North's Company in Col. Hovey's Regt. most. And as the said Capt. Samuel Piper the said Widow Sally Piper is his widow, served also in the harbor of Portsmouth in the year 1775 as well as at other times, and both had served under a number of officers therein under different officers, and both had risen from private to officer, and had served from the beginning till near the close of the war, after which (Piper had moved to this town they were often together (as said Piper was one of the Selectmen of the town and my husband Town Clerk occasionally) and often talking in my hearing of their trials, & perils in the war of the Revolution, and I cannot distinctly swear whether my recollection of their services arose from my said husband's account of them, or from said Piper, or from both, or from my said husband's manuscripts. I remember the said Capt. Piper say that he entered the service as a drummer, and left it as commander of company. I think I have heard him often mention the names of Capt. Hovey of Lyndeborough, & of Capt. Brannell and of Capt. Hovey, the last officer was also often spoken of by my husband. The affidavit of William Burleigh of this town (who was a Revolutionary soldier) has been read to me. The said Burleigh is a conscientious and credible witness, and I perfectly agree with him, and believe all that he has declared in his affidavit. And I fully believe and am as certain as I can be of any fact that I did not myself see that the said Samuel Piper, who served in Portsmouth harbor in 1775 and under Capt. Hovey of Lyndeborough in the same year & under Capt. Robin- son in 1776, as a private, & afterwards as a Lieutenant, in the year 1779 under Capt. Brannell, in Col. Hovey's Regiment; and after this in the year 1780 (after his marriage) in the harbor of Portsmouth, as a

Lieutenant or commander of a company, in the war the identical Capt Samuel Piper who was the husband of Sally Piper his widow now living and claiming a pension by virtue of her deceased said hus- band's services in the War of the Revolution. The said Claimant's name before her marriage was Sally Dyer of Pembroke (which does not include join Louden, a part of Concord interspersing) an immaterial error in this affi- davit. My said husband died in this town in February 1827, and the said Claimant also in September 1816. Eleanor Gleason
Louden September 3 d 1840
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss. September 3 d 1840
Personally appearing the said Eleanor Gleason who is a conventional & credible witness and of sound mind & memory (for one of her eyes) and subscribed this affidavit by my acting her name, and made return into the
Philip Carrigain
Justice of Peace.

Glenn Gleason
April

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Josiah Stevens is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Merrimack duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 19 th day of May - 1840 and will expire on the 19 th day of May - 1845 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 21 st day of
June 1840
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.

I Philip Carrigan of Concord in the County of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire Esquire aged up- wards of sixty five years do testify and declare that I was in his life time well acquainted with Capt. Sam- uel Piper of Concord in said State & County when in life the husband of the widow Sally Piper the present Claimant, that my father owned a farm and large estate in said Concord, adjoining said Pipers and often much under his care and superin- tendence, and he was also the said Pipers family Physician and transacted much business with him, that I often was at the said Pipers house in Concord and am well acquainted with his handwriting & that the signatures to all the original orders in the office of the Secretary of this State (certified copies of which accompany this affidavit) dated Portsmouth August 8 th and 13 th 1780 for provisions directed to Lt. Dickford Commissary and that from Gangdon Isl and September 5 th and that from Continental Isl and November 3 rd (both) of 1780 are the genuine signatures and actual handwriting of said Capt Piper, the deceased husband of his said Widow Sally whose claim to a pension the accompan- ying evidence was taken to support.
And I do further testify that the follow- ing marked words are a literal extract

of a letter to me from said Capt. Pipers son, Jonathan, dated Bennington Green Co. N.Y. June 2d 1839. Speaking of his said Father he writes that he "Served as a Lieutenant in a company (I believe) commanded by a Capt Kennelly of the New Hampshire line. He served in Rhode Island and Fishkill."
Concord Nov. 19 th 1840. B. Philips Conigais
State of New Hampshire Mannah vs Nov 21-1840
I am Philip Leavens who is a person entitled to full credit afforded & made out to the foregoing before me Joseph Stevens Justice of the Peace

Without Daniel Root

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Levi W. Wadsworth is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Belknap duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 21 st day of May 18 59 and will expire on the 21 st day of May 18 64 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 21 st day of
June , 18 60
Josiah Stevens Jr. Secretary of State.
Levi Wadsworth Justice of the Peace

I Daniel Knox of Pembroke in the county of Merrimack in the State of New Hampshire aged 79 years Testify and say that I was well acquainted with Samuel Piper he resided in said Pembroke During the Revolution war and was out in the service as a private I never understood that he was an officer in the army the said Samuel Piper after the war was over Moved to Dacuster in the county of Grafton in said State of New Hampshire and there d. d I lived in about one half mile where he and his Parents resided
I also was acquainted with Samuel Piper of Stratham in said State who Married his wife in said Pembroke (Sarah Norris) and lived in Lauders in said State and there resided until his decease he had the reputation of being an officer in the Revolution war
Pembroke September 14 1840
Daniel Knox
State of New Hampshire
Sep t 14 1840
Merrimack ss
Subscribed and sworn to before
Mr Aaron Whittmore justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the said Daniel Knox is a reputable witness.
Aaron Whittmore justice of the Peace

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Herbert Knight is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Stratham duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 17 th day of June 1836 and will expire on the 17 th day of June 1841 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 21 st day of
June 1840
Josiah Stevens Jr. Secretary of State.
is Just said to be a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office

I herewith Dudley of Dunstable in the County of Hampshire & State of New Hampshire aged eighty five years Do hereby say that I was well acquainted with two men by the name of Samuel Piper who it is said served in the war of the Revolution one of the said Samuels was from the Town of Stratham in this State & the other Samuel came to Dunstable to live when quite young from parts to me unknown the Samuel which came from Stratham Married his wife in my immediate neighborhood whose maiden name was Sally Davis who is the applicant for a pension The marriage took place in February AD 1780 they afterward moved to the Town of Londonderry in this County a distance of fifteen or sixteen Miles from said Dunstable where the said Samuel spent the residue of his life he was a gentleman of respectability he was for many years a Deacon & I believe a member of the State Legislature the other Samuel Piper soon after the war moved to the Town of Dunstable in this State where he spent the remainder of his days I had a perfect knowledge of the Character of this last mentioned Samuel & know that he was never qualified for nor could not have ever been an officer in the State that the said Sally Piper the present applicant for a pension is the widow of the said Samuel of Londonderry and that she has never intermarried with any other person since the death of her husband to my knowledge
Given under my hand this 10th day of March 1865 Dudley of Dunstable Then the foregoing was personally acknowledged before me and made solemn oath that the same is true to the best of my knowledge is just and true

...and sayeth that the said Francis Dilling who subscribed and made oath to the truth of the within affidavit is an honest and respectable man and a credible witness. Hiram Knowl, Junior of year

John Stuart affidavit -
of Hon. T. Vance Senate U.S.

I John Starbird of Durham in the State of New Hampshire aged eighty five years, a pensioner of the United States, do hereby say, that I was formerly well acquainted with the late Samuel Piper of Landers N. Hamp. who was a native of Shattuck N. Hamp and a resident there about the year 1780. In May
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that J. A. Richardson is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Shofford duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the twenty first day of June 1837 and will expire on the twenty first day of June 1844 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this tenth day of
January 1840
Josiah Stevens, Jr. Secretary of State.

I John Starbird of Durham in the State of New Hampshire aged eighty five years, a pensioner of the United States, do hereby say, that I was formerly well acquainted with the late Samuel Piper of Londonderry N. Hamp. who was a native of Southam N. Hamp and a resident there about the year 1780. In May of that year he was a Lieutenant in the Continental Service and commanded a company of which I was the ensign stationed at Badger's Island in Portsmouth harbor to guard a security for gun shop then building there, and which was afterwards given to the French - there was no higher officer connected with said Company than Lieut. Piper - He the said Piper was on duty there as commander of said Company about seven months, when we all were disbanded. The said Piper had been in the service previous to that time, but I am unable to state when or where it was performed - After our discharge I was at said Piper's house in Southam, and he also has visited me in Durham -
John Starbird.
State of New Hampshire Stafford Jy 3
January 8th. 1840. The above named John Starbird personally appearing made oath to the truth of  acknowledged the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. before me, John A. Richardson, Jus. Peace
I further certify that the said John Starbird is a credible witness
J. A. Richardson, Jus. Peace

Sally Piper MK

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH HICKSON, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Saron Whitham is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Merrimack duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the twentysixth day of May 1839 and will expire on the twentysixth day of May 1844 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 26 th day of January 1841
Josiah Hickson Secretary of State.
The above named Saron Whitham is also a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the county of Merrimack in said State. Josiah Hickson Sec'y of State

Know all men by these presents that I Sally Piper of Loudon in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, now resident in Pembroke in said County, widow of Samuel Piper late of said Loudon deceased, a revolutionary Officer and soldier, do hereby make, constitute and appoint Philip Carrigain of Concord in said County Esquire my true and lawful attorney and in my name to procure a pension for me as the widow of said Samuel Piper, agreeably to the laws of the United States, and for this purpose, to procure any further evidence which may be needed to establish my claim to such pension, to do all things needful and proper to obtain from the War Department a certificate and all other papers necessary in the premises. And as said Carrigain has hitherto been my sole agent and attorney in procuring the evidence and transacting all the business towards the obtaining of my pension, I hereby authorise him to complete the same, and do all such acts as I might lawfully do in the premises. hereby revoking all other powers of attorney by me made excepting those I have made to said Carrigain.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25 th day of January A.D. 1821
Signed, sealed & delivered
Sally Piper
in presence of Barnum Doe Salmon D. Dole

State of Northamptonshire
Merrivack J. January 25 1841 Personally appearing the within named Sally Piper acknowledged the within instrument by her signed to be her free act and deed
Before me
Aaron White Vice Justice of the peace

Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions War Department. City of Washington

Concord Dec r 11 th 1846.
Dear Sir,
Enclosed is an authenticated Certificate of the Town Clerk of Pembroke of the marriage of Samuel Piper with Sally Lewis (omitted in my letter of the 27 th ult) which I respectfully request may be placed on the files of the Department with the other papers belonging to the old and important case of the Widow Sally Piper, in support of whose claim I then forwarded a packet of evidence including her additional Declaration &c all which I hope has been duly received.
Your Honour will please to observe that in that packet are several certified orders found in the N.H. Records, drawn by Lieutenant Samuel Piper &c. for provisions for his company stationed for the defence of Piscataqua Harbour in 1780. It appears that Elias Gil was merely an nominal Captain, and that in fact a Captain's duty was performed by said Piper, who was indeed the actual Commander, and it was probably from this circumstance that he derived the title of Captain, which he ever after bore during life, and that the vote of the General Court of New Hampshire of December 29 th 1780 was that the pay roll of Lieutenant Samuel Piper's company amounting &c. &c. be paid to the said Piper. I would then respectfully enquire of the Department, if Lieutenant Piper during this service performed the duty of a captain, if he is not entitled to Captain's

pay?
This company was raised for this service in June 23 d 1780, and discharged December 27 th of the same year, after a service of six months, for which time said company was enlisted.
I have made the above suggestion as to the officers pay to be allowed merely from a sense of the duty which I owe to the concern of the unfortunate claimant, for whose case I could not feel a stronger interest, even if she was my own Mother.
I am as certain as I can be of any thing not directly visible to the eye, in said I have no more doubts of it than of my own existence; that claimants husband served under Capt Munnell in 1779, but have no more evidence on this point. I was promised same from Stratton which has not appeared.
I have the honor to remain my respectfully, Sir.
Your very obedient Servt.
Honk J. L. Edwards
Philip Craighead
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that James Folsom is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Rockingham duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 29 th day of June 1835 and will expire on the 29 th day of June 1841 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 25 th day of
January 1841
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Philip Carrigan is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Merimack duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the sixth day of August 1835 and will expire on the sixth day of August 1845 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this twenty seventh day of November 1840
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.

I Sally Piper of Seaborn County of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire but now a temporary resident of my sister, the Widow Doe, in Pen- brooke in said County, I the said Sally being the Widow of Capt Samuel Piper of said Seaborn deceased and a claimant for a pension by virtue of the services of my husband both as a soldier and an officer in the War of the Revolution, do constitute and appoint Philip Carrigain of Concord in said County & State Esquire, my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to to collect & transmit evidence to the Pension Department of the War Office in support of my claim, and to do all lawful acts that he may deem expedient in my success therein, Hereby revoking and annulling all other power of Attorney, to any other person or persons of ever kind having or unknowingly made and given any for the said purpose, and establishing and confirming the said Philip Carrigain as my sole and only Agent, as indeed he has always been from the commencement of my application for a pension, and hereby authorizing and requesting the Hon. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions to send him in said Philip the Certificate, whenever it may please the said Worthy Commission to grant it.
Witness my hand and seal this 14 th day of November 23 1840 Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of us
Leah A. Doe Dolly Doe
Sally Piper
State of New Hampshire Merrimack ss November 14 th 1840. The said Sally Piper acknow- ledged this instrument by her signature to be her voluntary act and deed.
before me Philip Carrigain
Just. of Peace etc.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Jason Whittcomb is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Strabane duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the third day of July 1837 and will expire on the third day of July 1842 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this third day of December 1840
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.

State of New Hampshire Merrimack ss. 3 Town Clerk's Office.
Pembroke November 25 th 1840.
"By Rev d Teachers Colley."
"Last Paper of Stratham & Sally Norris of Pembroke Married Feb y fifteenth Nineteen hundred & eighty."
I certify, that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "July 15 th 1880."
Jacob Sawyer, Town Clerk.
I Jacob Sawyer above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Pembroke in the County of Merrimack & State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me.
Jacob Sawyer, Town Clerk.
State of New Hampshire. Merrimack ss. 7 Pembroke November 25 th A.D. 1840.
Sworn to before me.
Simon Whittmore Justice of Peace.

Hon Franklin Pierce
Senator in Congress from N.H.
in City of Washington.

Concord N. H. July 13 th 1840.
My dear Sir,
I write to you here, as for a day's time, so extremely tedious and lengthy, that I have feared you would not find time especially near the letter the desire to read it. The prospect you was to interest you, that Lewis Flanders of Readfield near Augusta & Hallowell in the State of Maine, has married the Widow Piper, to whom he was related by marriage out of Boston, where when she was living, and has since lived with her youngest son Samuel, and started for said Readfield. The proba- bility is (as has been suggested) that she has not yet gone to Readfield. (She being now about 84 years of age, & not able to travel so far) but will stop somewhere not far off, as in the eastern part of this State, till September 1 st and then draw her pension. Mr. Fland- ers motives for this subduction, were doubtless to secure for his own purposes, the whole sum that she will be draw from a benevolent Government for her support & maintenance.

My dear Sir, I want you to have the goodness to take charge of the "Sifilid" of the West from Paris to whom I have recently written. It will be a long and arduous task, but I sincerely ask you, Sir, to take it up, for I am sure you will do it with much pleasure. There are few from whom I am willing to receive favours; but I assure you from my heart I am most grateful for them. Aesop, in one of his fables, to show that grateful returns the most impossible sometimes, fables from a famous animal, tales of a mouse, that has been saved by a Lion from the claws of a cat, which actually saved the Lion's life afterwards by gnawing the fragments of the net in which the noble animal had been caught. But I do not, one day, nor ask you to do from inter- est, when I have some humanely done would prompt a noble and generous heart to do it, and I am greatly mistaken if the substance I have of which does not strike you as an act of chivalry and noble, worthy, and dishonour. I read with much interest in the Globe and Spectator relative to ancient Persian legends. It is to be published in

The Patient: The weather is extremely hot, and dry for the time being. Hoping your health will be preserved, and the season will close pleasantly, and you will have a happy return to your family & friends. I have the honor to remain as ever and as ever your old friend & very close friend Philip Carrigan
Hon. Franklin Pierce
Senator in Congress from N.H.
in City of Washington

Hon. J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions War Department City of Washington

Concord - see Hampshire Nov 26 th 1840
Dear Sir,
I repeat respectfully, instead of the Department that the claim of the Widow Sally Piper may be examined as soon as convenient agreeably to the accompanying additional Declaration, and the evidence both from the record, and from other testimony, that goes to its support.
The letters from the Department in relation to her claim, viz. one of Decem r 7 th 1839. signed by Mr. Crump, and others of April 13 th of April 23 rd and of July 3 rd all of 1840 & signed by you from your Station, have come to me, through the hands of Honk. Franklin Pierce, and I believe their contents. With respect to the services under Capt  N o Connell, the claimant is convinced they were not by her husband and disclaims them. They were probably by the other Samuel Piper, who died some years since at Dorchester in this State, as he and Capt N o Connell lived in the same town, viz. Pembroke; but claimants husband lived in Stratham, nigh Portsmouth. There were two Samuel Pipers, in the New Hampshire line, one of whom namely, the claimants husband was an officer, a Lieutenant under Capt Russell's Co. & c. This could not have been the Dorchester Samuel Piper, as his habits in the army were notoriously bad, and bad. Mr. Fogg the within Department said he was publicly whipped for stealing. I softened the expression in his affidavit, and indeed he was so sanguine, and so replet with friendship for him and gratitude to the claimant and her deceased husband, that I was fearful he went too far and untrue his affidavit till the present time. But subsequent intelligence has convinced me, that he has told the truth, & passing over and that he actually saw and knew Piper in Exeter, in about the year 1779, commanding the guard that had in custody some Tories for the jail, in that town. The widow says she remembers of hearing of it, but as it was before her marriage she could only have known it by hearsay. - Mr. Wiggins of Stratham promised to send me some proof of this fact.

but perhaps under the restrictions that I suggested he has despaired of obtaining any legal evidence, on this point. I had expected to have found in our Secretary's Records, some account of this service, by some charge for this special duty, and have searched fruitlessly, weeks and months. The Secretary also and his Deputy have long looked for this purpose in vain. The said service of guarding the Prison etc. may have been included as so much time of his service under Capt. Kennells, and therefore no separate account has been made of it.
On account of my Father and the said Capt. Piper, being very intimate friends, and acquaintances, during their lives, and the great confidence which the Widow Claimant has put in my fidelity, I have endeavoured to deserve her confidence by attending to her case (which although it has real merits, laboured under extraordinary difficulties) in sickness and in health for these three years past. I had hoped to have obtained some important testimony in Maine & Vermont and went for that purpose, but sickness deposed the effect of my journey, but perhaps the evidence sought for, was not attainable at either place.
His Son from Genesee Co. N.Y. writes to me, that his Father served in three campaigns, as a private, a Musician viz. a drummer, and that he served in Rhode Island, and in Fish Kill N.Y. and I think it highly probable that Capt. Piper held some commission such as Sergeant, although before he was Lieutenant. But find no evidence of it in immediate records.
The aged Claimant might well surmise the time it would take to hunt other evidence, and the attempt might be abortive.
She has hitherto gratefully accepted whatever amount you or your office of the Department, may all vicariously have considered, but justly in opposition to her and she is of the same opinion, but she hopes the allowance may be liberal with her desire centering at present in one wish, which is to buy up and get an option of part of her late family estate. Its restoration to comfort and prosperity has been would not be a bad subject for a Novel. I expected, indeed was promised the aid of my illustrious friend the Honk. Franklin Pierce, in reorganizing and forwarding to the Department, the enclosed evidence with the Additional Declaration, explanatory statements, &c. But as he had been so

exclusively engaged during the remainder of the late Presidential campaign, & 11/10 in all parts of the state, and with unexampled eloquence the reflection of the Press the result, as regards her attention, is a subject of as much less interest. I furnished her a copy of the Additional Declaration as with a synopsis of the evidence, and have the satisfaction to see that she receives his approbation.
I would observe that the Clements signatures to the Additional Declaration, and to the explanatory statements appear different. The first is very Whittier after reading slowly and distinctly the Additional Declaration as given her hand which she held the pen over the explanatory statement to which she was not accustomed a sweeping of the whole work, was also used to her difficulty and in returning to show she held the pen while her young niece left first at the giving her hand. This accounts for the difference.
I had no idea till this minute of sending to the Department this rather odd lady's unusual letter. I meant to have others been had it transcribed, but the clerks are all engaged, and as you are solicited for the interest of the poor & unfortuante widow urged me to send it immediately, with all its imperfections, which I pray your Honor will suppose is only taken off of paper. I could have written more decently as to the mere penmanship. But I will not increase the evil of its great length, by adding any thing further. This then I say with sentiments of the most profound respect.
I remain Hon. Sir
Your very obedt Servt
Philip Carrigan
Wm Lloyd J. D. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions etc.
Washington City

Sarah Peper N.H.
Free
Hon ble Franklin Pierce Esq y
Hon. F. Pierce Senate N.H.
Senator in Congress from N.H.
City of Washington.

Cincin March 7 th 1840
Dear Sir
The enclosed are two certificates under our State Seal, making some credit for Great Piper -
I have sent two other certificates in another enclosure of the same date - I remain hastily but very respectfully your very grateful friend.
Philip Carrigain
Hon d Franklin Pierce Senator in Congress from D. C. (City of Washington)

Hon. Franklin Pierce Senator of U.S. from N.H. now in Washington City
Free
Hon. Franklin Pierce Esq. Senator of the United States from New Hampshire
F. Pierce
Senate N.H.
City of Washington

Concord March 7th 1848.
Dear Sir
Enclosed are two certificates that may bear something in favour of the claim of the widow Sarah Piper. In another enclosure are two other certificates also in favour of the said claimant. They are all under the State Seal. You will have the goodness to present the Department of War with the additional evidence to Mr. Starbuck's Affidavit sent you by Brother Fowler, as you may deem most available for the claimant's benefit.
I shall in a few days send you on some additional testimony in favour of the claim of Mary Shirley. I have neither time or health to express my feelings of gratitude to you for your kind & prompt attention to both these claims.
I have the honour to remain most respectfully
Your obliged servt.
Philip Carrigain
Hon. Franklin Pierce Senator in Congress from N.H. Washington City

Concord N.H. Feby. 5 th 1846.
Sir.
Herewith enclosed are two Affidavits relative to the claim of Mrs Piper. The first confirming the identity of her deceased husband - and the second tending to prove a months additional service in Rhode Island - As to the service in 1775 which is referred to in a letter from the Department of December 7 th ult. as this was before her connection with her late and only husband she can't be supposed to be very accurate as to the facts.
She says she thinks she has often heard him and the old soldiers talk of being with Capt. Moore, but whether they meant Capt John Moore - Lyndborough or Capt. Daniel Moore of Ourfield she is not positive. She was led to suppose it was the Lyndborough Capt. from the Department having found Samuel Piper's service in his company which she thought and hoped might turn out to have been her husband.
But she submits entirely to your decision, and is duly grateful for your candour indulgence and patience to her long and complicated claim.
The other accompanying papers are produced by another letter from the Department of December 23 rd last stating that a suggestion had been made that Mrs. Sally Piper is soon to be put under guardianship &c. &c. and that her certificate had better be delayed till that step is taken.
I read this letter with astonishment. Mrs. Sally Piper the claimant is the most amiable and intelligent old Lady that I have ever known and enjoys the best constitution mental and physical.

Age appears to have made little impression upon her. Except in her hearing and sight and as for the latter suitable glasses may afford a remedy.
She has borne adversity with wonderful fortitude and resignation. Her Sons are scattered far and wide.
One only her youngest living in London named Samuel from his father. I believe this her favourite son is the only child she has (certainly the only one in New England) who has or can have children. On this favourite sons children who are her only grandchildren (and promising and industrious) she intends to entail the principal part of her estate.
As to her being put under guardianship - If this is not some mistake in the name the suggestion came indirectly from a man by the name of Prescott who has long in vain importuned the claimant to act as her Agent but knew nothing about her case, or any other. This is the man who wrote to your Honour about her case and induced Mr. Fowler also to write which he would not have done had he not have supposed that Prescott was authorised (in consequence of my sickness) to act as he said as her Agent, which was a naked unqualified falsehood.
But this man interfered not only without her leave or consent, but directly against her remonstrances.
He is no relative lineal or collateral, but may be a small creditor to some of her needy connections.
He is an officious intermeddler who as the prospect of the claimant have brightened, has become nearly insane to forward a claim for some of her money. The world contains but few such characters - I hope but few even among the yankees. She and all her children put implicit confidence in me, which I endeavour to deserve. Indeed were they to put any confidence in Prescott it would make a strong

reason (as she says) that a guardian should be appointed over her.
I assure you my dear Sir in addition to the evidence herewith enclosed that there is no move-ment from any quarter to put the Claimant under Guardianship. And there is not the merest shadow of a probability that there will be, nor even the sha-dow of a shade that it would succeed, if an at-tempt should be made.
There is no law of this State, or of any other to put a Lady of her ability, and capacity (which are of the first order) under guardianship without their consent.
She is now comfortably situated at the house of her youngest Sister Mrs. Poe also a Widow, in Pembroke who is a worthy (and as property is estimated in this State) a wealthy woman.
Among the papers enclosed is a new power from her to me drawn by a respectable attorney of her cho-ice, and legally executed.
I grant my other was not as I took her acknow-ledgement when the deed was to myself.
But supposed as I had furnished all the availa-ble evidence for years past, at her request, the Certificate would have come, without requiring a strictly legal instrument.
I shall deliver it to her immediately after it is received, and she will no doubt make a prudent use of the proceeds, as she is an extremely good manager and perfectly able to take care of her own concerns. May I not therefore respectfully hope the Cer-tificate will no longer be withheld?
I remain Sir very respectfully &c.
Wm. Col. Govt. &c. &c.
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions, &c.
Philip Carrigan

Secretarys Certificate in favor of Widow Piper N o 2 Jan 6 1841

Payroll of Captain David Moore's Company in Col John Stark Regiment to Aug 11 th 1775-
Warner Samuel Piper Hawk Private Service of County May 1 June in service 3-8
Master Roll for seventy four men including Officers enlisted by Col William Whipple by order of the Genl Court for the State of New Hampshire to reinforce the army at New York
Warner Samuel Piper time enlisted Oct 23 County 6 Portsmouth Septm 1776
Joshua Washburn Master Master State of New Hampshire Office of Secretary of State August 29 1839
I hereby certify that the foregoing are extracts from the original rolls in this Office In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State Josiah Stevens Secy of State

State of New Hampshire Merrimack Ss
I James Clarke Register of the Court of Probate for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that there does appear on the records or the files of said Court, nor has there been to my recollection any application for the appointment of a Guardian over Sally Piper the widow of Capt Samuel Piper late of Loudon in said County deceased
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this thirtieth day of January 1841
James Clarke Register

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Benjamin Lovins is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Rockingham duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 14 th day of June 18 37 and will expire on the 14 th day of June 18 42 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 28 th day of
January 18 41 Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.

I Simon Wiggin of Newmarket in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged Eighty-one years do testify and depose that I was well acquainted with Samuel Piper that was a Volunteer from Stratham New Hampshire with me in the Army of the Revolution in the year 1778 in the Month of August in that year we marched to Rhode Island and were attached to the Company commanded by Capt John Folsom in the Ridgemen Company commanded by Col Thomas Bartlett I know said Samuel Piper to be in the service at that time with me one month the above Samuel Piper Resided in Stratham and the same and the same man that was said married Sallady Morris of Pembroke I know no other Samuel Piper that ever was in the army from Stratham
Simon Wiggin
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss - December 8 th 1840
Then the above named Simon Wiggin personally appeared and made Oath that the above named affidavit by him subscribed is in his belief true
Before me ¶ Benjamin Loveren Justice of the peace The above Deponent Simon Wiggin is in my belief a man of truth and veracity Benj t Loveren - Justice of the peace

Affidavit of Simon Weygien
21 38

State of New Hampshire
Merrimack Ss
I, James Clarke, Register of the Court of Probate for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify, that there is not on file, or on the Records of the Court of Probate for said County, nor has there been to my knowledge, any application for the appointment of a Guardian over the person and estate of Sally Piper widow of Captain Samuel Piper late of Concord in said County deceased.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this twenty third day of January A D 1841
James Clarke Register