Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16685, for Rufus Price, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Price, Rufus Ruth
N 16685
CONTENTS

11.344
Var Norton Rufus Price
of _____ in the state of _____ who was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb of the Conn. C. line, for the term of 2 Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Var Norton at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 of June 1819 and sent to M m Hall Richland Oneida Co. N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 289.24
Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 Sept 1820 10 25 4 $ 339.24 30 35
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
in fund Nov 12. 1822, that he would make vestors & rent to J. C. Davis Richland New York
Richland N.Y. 1820 to Charles Hays

State of New York } Cortland County } ss
On this 6th Day of April 1818 before me the sub- -scribed one of the Judges of the Court of common Pleas County personally appeared Rufus Pierce aged sixty-six years resident in the said District who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war." That he the said Rufus Pierce enlisted in Dollars in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Solomon Dills of the Connecticut Line that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the Month of June 1775 when he was discharged from service in Roxbury state of Massachusetts he then received an Ensigns Commission in the Continental Army in the second Connecticut Regiment. Commanded by Colonel Charles Webb Esquire and Company Commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Hinckley dated January first 1777 and continued in the service of the United States as Ensign second and first Lieutenant until about the 3rd Day of March 1779 when his resignation was accepted in very honorable and flattering terms by Major General Putnam at Trumbull in the state of Connecticut that during the time he held the com- -missions as above stated he was in the Battle of White Marsh and Monmouth besides various skirmishes - and that the above mentioned Discharge Commission and acceptance of my Resignation has been casually lost or mislaid and that he is in the present circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support and that he has no other income now in his power of his said service except the annuity affidavit of William Huntington Esquire
Sworn and declared before me the Day and year aforesaid
Rufus Pierce
Wm Hall Judge of Cortland Common Pleas

After which judge be as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Philip Price did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the foregoing declaration against the common enemy I know him to be in red and circumstances evidence transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress Wm H Hall Judge of Poughkeepsie Com Pleas
Clerks office I certify that William Hall is a judge of the court of the common pleas of the county of Poughkeepsie Joseph Davis clk

Rufus Price. Ensign. 1 st and 2 d Lieut. Colonel M ch s Regt Conn ct icut line 1777 to 1779
admitted
Lieut Price
Correct by P.
h

This may Certify that I W m Huntington of Watertown County of Jefferson & State of N. York have been personally & intimately acquainted with Col o Rufus Price, now of the town of Richland in the County of Onondaga - from Early Life, that Our Parents were Inhabitants of the town of Bolton in Connecticut where we resided till the commencement of the Revolutionary war, on the first of April of the year 1777 I engaged in the service of my Country for the term of three years in Capt a Jehabub Minkley Company & Col o Charles Webb Regiment - That he the said Price was my Ensign & served in that Capacity as an able & respectable Officer until he was advanced to the Lieutenant - I being my Captain water & in his family served to make my knowledge of his services & merits more perfect I have also read the Declaration of S d Price wherein he applies for the benefit of the Pension Law, sworn before judg Mals and believes his statements there to be perfectly correct and just W m Huntington sworn to a Subscribed before me this 2 nd day of June 1818. David W m Brubaker Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Jefferson N.Y.

Jefferson County
Certify that David W. Brinkley is a Justice of the peace in and for this County and duly qualified to act as such. Bury Skinner Clerk
Clerk's Office
New York
June 2 nd 1818

11344
Rufus Price
Passion Popus

1520 State of New York Albany County } }
On this eight day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty appeared in open Court, being the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Albany, and a court of Record, possessing a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, proceeding according to the course of the Common Law and keeping a record of its proceedings, also having power to fine and imprison. Rufus Price aged sixty eight years in the month of August last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows. In the second Connecticut regiment in the company commanded by Captain Ichabod Skinner in the Connecticut line in the Continental establishment and the said Rufus Price further says that his original declaration is dated on the sixth day of April 1818 and has received a pension certificate the Number of which is 11.344 as inrolled on said Certificate - Said certificate being for the pension of a Lieutenant having commenced said service as ensign and having been promoted to a Lieutenancy before his discharge - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818. And that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposal of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 th March 1818 and I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed to wit, 1 Iron Kettle of five pails, 1 Tea Kettle 1 Spider, 6 Tea cups & saucers 3 earthen Bowls 4 do plates (small) 6 Table plates (earthen) 1 6 qt. pail (tin) one earthen

pease 16 qt stone pot, earthen pudding pan, 3 tin Milk pans, 2 water pails, 1 Half pint tumbler 1 qt. decanter 1 Gal- lon bottle (wood), 1 fire shovel & tongs 1 pair cast iron Andirons 1 chest with a drawer 1 old sink 1 old table 1 silver watch, small looking glass 2 chairs 2 table cloths 4 towels 1 Trap Skimmer, an old set of Shoemakers tools, one rule 1 very old bridle 1 bake kettle, 1 churn, 1 candle stand. And likewise one half of the following stock on yoke of Oxen three Horses, two cows, one three years old heifer, b. 2. years old eight calves 21 Sheep 12 Lambs nine swine one old waggon, one plough, one set of drag teeth one axe, one old set harness, one old bridle, four hoes, one shovel, one fork, one rake. Real property. I have a deed given to me and Isaac Price jointly for twelve acres of Land part of Lot No 49, in the Selkirk tract lying in the town of Richland County aforesaid Also a deed of sixty four acres of Land part of Lot num- ber fifty Selkirk tract lying in the town of Richland County aforesaid given to me and Isaac Price joint- ly with twenty acres of improvement, and one log house I have jointly with Isaac Price a receipt from Benjamin Wright of about three hundred dollars for which he has verbally promised to give to us a contract for 100 acres of Land, this declarant further says that he has received four hundred and thirty dollars under the acts of Congress passed March 18 th 1818. entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war which has in part been appropriated for the purchase of the Land named in the schedule and in the discharge of debts of this declarant - And this declarant further says that he owes jointly with Isaac Price one hundred and fifty five dollars more than he or they have due to them

And this declarant says that he is by occupation a shoe- maker that he has not the ability to perform much labor, that he has an inflammation in one of his eyes which affects him greatly, that his family consists only of his wife whose age is sixty years with usual health for a person of her age - Sworn and declared in open court { Rufus Price before me this 8th day of June 1820 } Ottumwa B. B. Grigsby County Com. Justices
Ottumwa County } Clerk's office } {
I Joseph Davis Clerk of the County of Ottumwa do hereby certify that the forego- ing and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is five hundred twenty nine dollars and eleven cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court and subscribed my name this 14th day of July 1820
J. Davis Clerk Ottumwa County

See letter July 29. 1839 to H. G. Vorce
Albany 800 Ruth Price widow of Rufus Price who died on the 1. September 1829 of Oswego Co. in the State of N. York who was a Lieut. & Ensign in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Webb in the Connecticut Conn. line for 1 year 2 mos. 14 days Lieut. 144.22 9 " 13 " Ensign 94.30 $288.52
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 288 Dollars 52 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of April 1837 and sent to James J. Pettit Pulaski, Oswego Co. N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March '37 1721.12 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4. Sep. " 144.26 $1865.38
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3. —

State of New York County of Oswego } ss.
On this 25 th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before the court of Common Pleas of the County of Oswego aforesaid at a court of Common Pleas held at the courthouse in the village of Pulaski in and for the County aforesaid - Ruth Price a resident of the Town of Richland in said County of Oswego and State of New York aged 77 years on the 29 th day of November in the year of our Lord 1836 who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 - That she is the widow of Rufus Price who was an ensign in the army of the Revolution - That according to this applicant's best recollection said Rufus Price received a commission in the army of the Revolution as Ensign previous to the marriage of this applicant to him - or sometime in January in the year 1777 - That he continued in the Revolutionary Army as Ensign - and Second and First Lieutenant until the third day of March & according to the best of this applicant's recollection in the year 1779 - which was the year subsequent to the marriage of this applicant to him - That he received his commissions in the Continental Army in the Connecticut Line - in the Regiment under Colonel Charles Webb and Company commanded by Capt. Schabod Hinkley - He was finally discharged honourably from the service by Maj t Gen l  Israel Putnam at Redding in the State of Connecticut on the 3 rd day of March A.D. 1779 - That previous to his being an officer in the Revolutionary service he enlisted in Tolland in the State of Connecticut in the Connecticut Line of troops in a Company commanded by Solomon Wells and served in said Company in the United States service until December 1775 - That in each case he volunteered - That he was in the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey and also in the battle of White Marsh and in many skirmishes & rencounters - That he applied for and procured a pension under the act of Congress passed about the year 1818 and for a more particular and minute description and statement of his terms & length of service and Rank & other matters applicable to his service this applicant refers to the same on file in the war department in Washington - save the annexed certificate for pension That she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim. She further declares that she was married to the said
Rufus

Rufus Price on the 7 th day of May 1778 in Tolland Tolland County in the State of Connecticut by the Reverend Nathan Williams & according to the laws and customs of that State - That said Nathan Williams is dead and that her husband the aforesaid Rufus Price died on the 1 st day of September 1829 - and that she, this applicant, has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed - That this applicant was born in said Tolland County November 29, 1759 as appears from the family Records kept by her late husband Rufus Price, her father's name was Grant -
Taken subscribed and sworn in open court this 25 th day of February A.D. 1837 } H. M. Matthews Clerk of Oswego County Courts
Ruth Price
State of New York } County of Oswego } ss On this 25 th day of February A.D. 1837 personally appeared before the court of Common Pleas of said County of Oswego & in open court Isaac Follows a resident of the town of Richland in said County of Oswego & who being first duly sworn ac- knowledged that on his oath depose and say that he was pres- ent at the Marriage of the late Rufus Price to Ruth Price on the 7 th day of May 1778 in Tolland County in the State of Connecticut by the Reverend Nathan Williams - That they were duly married according to the laws & customs of that State - That he was personally acquainted with said Rufus Price from his marriage until his decease in the town of Richland in said County of Oswego in September 1829 - and has been acquainted with said Ruth Price the widow of said Rufus Price from the time of the marriage until the present time - That said Ruth Price has not married since the decease of her said husband Rufus Price & still remains his widow & resides with one of their children in said town of Richland by the name of Isaac Price where she & her late husband, Rufus Price, resided at his decease - That said Ruth's maiden name was Ruth Grant - Taken subscribed & sworn in open court } Isaac Follows this 25 th day of February A.D. 1837 } H. M. Matthews Clerk of Oswego County Courts

State of New York } County of Oswego }
ss On this 25 th day of February 1837 personally appeared before the court of Common Pleas of said County of Oswego in open Court Samuel Vorce a Resident of the town of Richland in said County who being first duly sworn according to form doth depose in his oath and say that he has been personally acquainted with the late Rufus Price & his wife & widow Ruth Price for 33 years last past - That the said Rufus Price died in the said town of Richland in said County of Oswego in September 1829 - That he has for 28 years last past resided within 3 miles of Isaac Price's the son of said Rufus & Ruth Price & with whom his widow Ruth Price from the decease of said Rufus Price to the present time has resided. That the families of said Isaac Price & his deponents are intimate & that said Ruth Price has not married since the death of said Rufus Price in the year 1829 but continues to remain the Widow of said Rufus Price - That this deponent was at the funeral of the said Rufus Price in September 1829 - That said Rufus Price deponent has seen in the hands of said Rufus Price during his life time a certificate for a pension under the laws of the United States for a yearly pension of two hundred and forty dollars - That he was reputed to be an officer in the army of the Revolution in the Connecticut line - That said Rufus Price & Ruth Price have four children now residing in said town of Richland, to wit, two sons, & two daughters, the youngest of whom is about thirty six years of age as this deponent believes -
Taken Sworn & Subscribed in open Court } This twenty fifth day of February A.D. 1837 } A. H. Matthews Clerk of said court
Samuel Vorce

State of New York } County of Oswego } ss On this 25 th day of February 1837 personally appeared before the court of Common Pleas of said County of Oswego for open Court Samuel Vorce a Resident of the town of Richland in said County who being first duly sworn according to form of the deponent in his oath and say that he has been personally acquainted with the late Rufus Price & his wife & widow Ruth Price for 33 years last past - That the said Rufus Price died in the said town of Richland in said County of Oswego in September 1829 - That he has for 28 years last past resided within 3 miles of Isaac Price's the son of said Rufus & Ruth Price & with whom his widow Ruth Price from the decease of said Rufus Price to the present time has resided That the families of said Isaac Price & his deponents are intimate & that said Ruth Price has not married since the death of said Rufus Price in the year 1829 but continues to remain the widow of said Rufus Price - That this deponent was at the funeral of the said Rufus Price in September 1829 - That said Rufus Price deponent has seen in the hands of said Rufus Price during his life time a certificate for a pension under the laws of the United States for a yearly pension of two hundred and forty dollars - That he was reputed to be an officer in the army of the Revolution in the Connecticut Line - That said Rufus Price & Ruth Price have four children now residing in said town of Richland, to wit, two sons, & two daughters, the youngest of whom is about thirty six years of age as this deponent believes -
Taken Sworn & Subscribed in open Court } This twenty fifth day of February A.D. 1837 } A. H. Matthews Clerk of said court
Samuel Vorce

State of New York } County of Oswego } ss
J. Maninus W.
Mathews Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Oswego aforesaid in the State of New York hereby certifies that on this 25 th day of February A.D. 1837 Ruth Price - Isaac Fellows & Samuel
Vance came personally into court and in open court subscribed the affidavits by them respectively as annexed made - and each separately attested on their corporal oaths respectively taken & administered to them according to law to the truth thereof.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court of Common Pleas of Oswego County this twenty fifth day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.
Maninus, W. Mathews Clerk of said County Court
State of New York } Oswego County } ss
This certifies that Ruth Price Isaac Fellows & Samuel Vance
who have deposed as in the annexed depositions set forth & taken this day in open court before us are each persons of respectability & credit & good reputation & that their statements respectively are entitled to full credit - February 25 th 1837
Hiram Hubbell Alvey Skinner Lowell Johnson
Judges of the court of Common Pleas of the said County of Oswego
10 Feb 1837 Subp to Broom Court Feb 24th 1837
1460 Subp to Broom Court Feb 24th 1837 Subp to Broom Court Feb 24th 1837

May 13, 1935.
H. Minot Pitman 88 Summit Avenue Bronxville, New York.
BA-J/ILL Rufus Price W. 16685
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Rufus Price and Captain Alexander Tedford, of Virginia.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of an Alexander Tedford, under any spelling of that surname. The record of Rufus Price is given herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 16685, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Rufus Price was born in August 1751; the day and place of his birth, and names of his parents are not shown. He resided with his parents in Tolland, Connecticut, before the commencement of the Revolutionary War.
While a resident of Tolland, Connecticut, he enlisted some time in April 1775, and served six months as private in Captain Solomon Willes' company, Colonel Parsons' Connecticut regiment; he enlisted in June 1776, and served six months as private in Captain Birge's company, Colonel Sage's Connecticut regiment; he was commissioned January 1, 1777, ensign in Captain Ichabod Hinckley's company, Colonel Charles Webb's 2 nd Connecticut regiment, was promoted to Lieutenant, was in the battles of White Marsh and Monmouth and continued until March 3, 1779, when he resigned. His service as Lieutenant amounted to one year, two months and fourteen days.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818, at which time he resided in Richland, Oswego County, New York. He had been among the first settlers of that town.
The soldier died September 1, 1829, in Richland, New York.

Rufus Price married May 7, 1778, Ruth Grant, who was born November 29, 1759, in Tolland, Connecticut, in which town they were married. The names of her parents are not shown.
Ruth Price, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed February 25, 1837, at which time she resided in Richland, Oswego County, New York. She lived then with her son, Isaac Price, who lived with his family in part of the house occupied by his parents in 1829.
In 1837, two sons and two daughters of Rufus and Ruth Price, were residents of Richland, New York, the youngest about thirty-six years of age; the only name designated was that of Isaac Price, with whom the soldier's widow resided. One granddaughter, Andra Vorce, lived with the soldier in 1823, at which time she was aged twelve years; the name of her mother was not given. One Samuel Vorce of Richland, in 1837, stated that he had resided within a few miles of the soldier's son, Isaac Price, for about twenty-eight years; no relationship to the family was stated. In 1839, one H. C. Vorce resided in Pulaski, New York, at which time he inquired about the widow's pension; his relationship was not given.
Reference was made to Elijah Price, who was deceased in 1825, and to Ralph Price, both of Richland, New York, but their relationship to the family was not stated.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in
New York at The Branch Bank of the U States
[Signature]
Adonai

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Rufus Price late a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Twenty dollars per month, to com- mence on the 6th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 11th day of June one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. L. Edwards, in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War.

Rufus Price placed on N.Y. Rev. Roll June 4. 1819 & dropt. Sept. 1820.
Respecting ap m to be re- stored, see letters to R. Price July 24. 1823. to H. Hubbell 7 May - 9 June - 22 July & Aug. 17. 1829.

Ins. E. B. E. C.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
Mar. 24/94 Phil. Hist. to Gen Buttress Asst Sec. War Dept 1906 July 11 - History to Mrs. Geo. A. Davis. C
1905. May 13 - Hist. to H. Miss Pitman J.L.L.
File No. 16683
Smith Price Widow of Reuben Price Lieut Rev War
Act July 4th 86
Index: Vol. M , Page 141
[Arrangement of 1870.]

  160     26.66     7.55     Dr. $  194.22        Crs.  94.30         288.52  
James I. Pettibone Esq. Pulaski County of Oswego New York
  21.24     2.10     12.17     9.13     20.2   

H. C. Vorce
29. July 1839
OL

471 War Dept Pension Offce July 29. 1839
Sir,
In answer to your enquiry I have to inform you that Ruth Price is entitled to what her husband would have drawn under the act of June 7. 1832 had he been alive when the law passed, viz. $194:22 per annum for one year, 2 months and 14 days service as Lieutenant, and for 9 months and 13 days as Ensign $94:30 per annum, making $288:52. Under the law of March 18. 1818 he drew $240 per annum. The last mentioned act allowed that sum to every commissioned officer who served nine months in the continental establishment. A greater length of service, even in the highest grade, gave no greater pension to any one under the act of March 18. 1818.
W m H. C. Vorci, Pulaski, N. York

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Mr. file 16685
Rev. War.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Rufus Price , 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.     Tolland Conn -   Hpl. 75 6 mos. Solomon Willes Spencer Conn.   June 76 " Birge Parsons   Jany 77 Ens. Ichabod Hinckley Sage   ? Lt. Chas. Webb   Sept 3 79 resigned at Redding  
Battles engaged in, White Marsh, Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Tolland, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Hpl. 6, 1818: allowed.
Residence at date of application, Richland, Oswego Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, 66. b. Aug.
Remarks: Sol. mar. May 7, 1778 at Tolland Conn. Ruth Grant (born Nov. 29, 1759 Tolland Co., Conn.) + died Sept. 1, 1829 Richland, N.Y. Mrs. appln. Feby. 25, 1837 Richland, N.Y. b
Very respectfully,

H. MINOT PITMAN ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW 122 EAST 42ND STREET NEW YORK
88 Summit Ave Bronxville, N.Y.
April 20, 1935
Division of Rev. War. Records Veterans Administration Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:-
Will you kindly let me have the pension record of RUFUS PRICE . I understand he applied for a pension in 1818. He was b. Coventry, Conn. 1751 and d. Richland N.Y. 1829
Also the pension record, if any, of Capt. Alexander Telford of Virginia, killed at the Battle of Guilford Court House.
I desire these records for a descendant from these two men, on whose ancestry I am working.
Very sincerely
H. Minot Pitman

GEO. A. DAVIS
STRAWBERRY HILL
FRUITS—GREEN AND DRIED
MEXICO, N. Y.
Mexico, N. Y. June 27 1906
Mr. Pension Department Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Your favor of Will you please send me the Resolution any War Record of Rufus Price of Holland Conn Wife's name Ruth—Grant—
Rufus Price after war closed moved to New York State and died in Richland Oswego Co NY
Yours Truly Mrs Geo A Davis
Mexico Oswego Co N.Y.

July 29
FREE
Mr. J. L. Edwards Campion of Pensins Washington
800 - del 18 Ruth Price

Palaski July 22 nd 1889
Dear Sir
I would merely ask the question why Ruth Price draws forty eight dollars and fifty four cents more per month than her husband Rufus Price ever drew. The most that he ever drew was two hundred and forty dollars and she draws and has been drawing for years two hundred eighty eight dollars and fifty four cents. This seems to be a mystery about it. her unprincipled son is boasting that it was done by intrigue.
Ruth Price resides in Richland Astoria Co. Or.
Yours with respect W. G. Vorce

State of New York } Oswego County } ss.
Simeon Done and John Wood of the town of Richland in said County being duly sworn say that they were on the 3 d day of June 1823, personally acquainted with the real estate mentioned in the Schedule of property sworn to by Rufus Price in open Court on the said 3 d day of June, as appears by the Certificate of Hastings County's Judge, now here present attached to the original Schedule, Which estate is therein described as "Real property — twelve Acres of land part of Lot No. 49 in the Selkirk Tract lying in the town of Richland & County of Oswego, Sixty four Acres of land part of lot No. 50, Selkirk Tract" And from our knowledge of the said land at that time and up to the Year 1826, it is our judgement and belief that the one undivided half part of said seventy six Acres was at no time worth more than two hundred sixty nine Dolls. & fifty cents — being at that time but about one fourth cleared and a part of it included in the bed & banks of Salmon River — And further saith not. —
Subscribed and sworn this sixth day of August 1829, before me Hiram H. H. H. Com. for taking Aff. &c.
John Wood Simeon Done

Mar 6. N.Y. July 26 33 cts.
Pension Office Washington D.C.

Pulaski - Richland P.O. Onondaga County - New York - Feb 25 - 1837
Sir
Enclosed are the papers & application of Ruth Price - Widow of Lieutenant Rufus Price. for a pension under the act of July 4. 1836
L. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions
Yours very Respectfully James J. Pettit

Richland N.Y. 8 Augt.
Pension Papers,
Free
50
Aug. 15-1829
James L. Edwards, Esq.
War Department,
Pension Office
Washington City

Richland N.Y. 7 th Aug. 1829.
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir, Under date of 22 d July, You inquire relative to the life lease of Rufus Price, "Under what circumstances did he obtain such lease? Is not the property the same he once owned? And if so, how did he dispose of it?"
You also state that, "The total value of the land should be mentioned also"
As to the first inquiry, I enclose herewith a certified copy of the Deed from R. Price to Isaac Price, of all his right and title to the real estate mentioned in his Schedule of the 3 d June 1823, being an undivided half part of the land there partially described, and for which Deed he rec d the Lease, of which I fow d You a copy in my last, The circumstances, or reasons that prompted the old Gentleman to make this exchange, were fair and honorable on his part, and are apparent to all acquainted with the premises, and which you can in part discover from an examination of the Lease & Affidavits. The land deeded being of poor quality, with little improvement and no buildings, whereas by the lease, the old Gentleman acquires a title to part of a house some Orchard &c. And for which he gave not only the Quit claim Deed but some other property as I understood from them at the time the writings were made in 1826.
You will find a negative Answer to your 2 d Q. by an examination of the copy of the deed herewith sent & the Lease above referred to — The Deed also explains the 3 d Q.
As to the value of the land, in which I understood you to refer to the land deeded we knew of no better way to ascertain it than by the two men who appraised the annual value of the premises leased — Their opinion you have in the enclosed Affidavit, And I deem it unnecessary for me to add any thing to my former statement as to their Characters &c.
You already have a Certificate of my Official Character as Com. for taking Affidavits &c. If that is not sufficient

one can be forwarded bearing date at the present time.
Mr Price & his wife are both, from age & infirmities, unable to labor any, and of course feel more sensibly the need of that assistance which the old Gentleman conscientiously believes is due him from his country, and which if granted he can live but a short time to enjoy.
Please let me hear from you as soon as you have examined this matter.
Very respectfully,
Your Obedt. Servt.
Hiram Hubbell

Last evidence
Received 6. July 1829.

Richland N.H. 20 June Pens. Office 6th July 1828
Free
Person
War Department Pension Office Washington City

Richland Oswego County N.W. 30 th June 1829.
Sir,
Enclosed I forward to You a certified Copy of the life lease mentioned in the Schedule of Rufus Price
Also an Affidavit relative to the worth or annual value of the fifty Acres of land mentioned therein.
You state that it is important "to know whether the property is worth more or less to the claimant than what it appears from the Schedule to be worth"
I could think of no more proper course to ascertain this than by the Affidavits of two capable, judicious & disinterested men from an actual examination of the premises - such an Affidavit is now forwarded to you which I trust will be satisfactory.
I consider it unnecessary to forward our Clerk's Certificate as to the Official character of the Com s taking the Aff. as I so lately sent you one with the other affidavits
Col. Price was among the first settlers in this town, but on account of the infirmities of usually attendant on persons of the age of himself & his wife they are unable to labor, and are in some measure dependant upon their children for the necessaries of life - And as Mr. Price has always sustained a worthy and respectable standing in society, and been firmly attached to our Republican institutions and particularly to our present worthy Chief Magistrate, I should very much regret if he could not now obtain from Government that compensation which he believes they honestly owe him, and which he cannot long live to enjoy.
Very respectfully Your Obd t Servt. Hiram Huddell
James L. Edwards Esq.

Isaac Price
To
Rufus Price & Ruth his wife
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Seasson
Certified Copy D
Dec 30. 41.

sec. d.
Know All men by these Presents, that I Isaac Price of the Town of Richland, for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars, received to my full satisfaction of Rufus Price and Ruth his wife this ninth day of March, 1826, have demised, let and leased and by these presents, do demise, let and lease unto the said Rufus and Ruth, to have, hold, use and occupy during their or either of their natural lives, the following piece of Land, to wit: - Fifty acres to be taken off from the East side of lot N o four on the turn to first township, Scriba. Patent to be divided from the residue of the lot by a line parallel to the east & west lines of the lot - And also the easterly part of the dwelling house standing on lot N o fifty on the Selkirk tract: to use and occupy the said part of said house by themselves or their family, during their or either of their natural lives, free and clear of all claims, incumbrances or demands of any person or persons whatsoever, during any or all of the time above stated. In Witness, whereof I the said Isaac Price have hereto set my hand and seal, the day and year above written.
In presence of - the word "house" interlined in the above - Hiram Hubbell
Isaac Price - I.S.
State of New York
Onego County ss. Be it remembered that on this 19 th day of June 1829, before me James A. Davis a Commissioner to take acknowledgments in said county, personally appeared Hiram Hubbell to me well known and being by me duly sworn testified that he saw Isaac Price the person within named & described sign and seal the within Instrument of writing on the day of the date thereof, and that he at the same time subscribed his name thereto as a witness: and further that he was then personally acquainted with the said Isaac. Let it be Recorded.
Jas. A. Davis - Com d ss
Clerks Office
Onego County ss
I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true
Recorded June 19 th 1829. at 10. O'clock. AM. J. G. M c Carthy - Dep. Clk.

copy of the "Record" in this Office: In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this twenty seventh day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
J. C. Baker - Clk.
By - A. L. McCarty - Dep. Clk.

State of New York Oswego County, ss.
John Wood and Simeon Done of the town of Richland in the said County being duly sworn, state severally that they have this day examined a piece of land of fifty Acres lying in the town of Richland aforesaid, in the possession of Rufus Price of said town, being the easterly part of lot No. four in the 21 st township, and also a certain farm house situated near the same, the one part of which house being occupied by the family of Isaac Price, and the other part thereof by Rufus Price — And the said John & Simeon do hereby certify upon their Oaths aforesaid, that from the said examination as well as from their previous knowledge, it is their judgement and belief that the Annual value of the said fifty Acres of land to be held during the natural lifetime of the said Rufus Price and his wife Ruth or either of them, does not exceed forty four Dollars & fifty cents — And further that the Annual value of the easterly part of the aforesaid house, for the use & occupation of the said Rufus & Ruth during their natural lives or that of either of them, does not exceed ten Dollars — And further saith not.
Subscribed and sworn this 20 th day of June 1829, before me Hiram Hubbell, Comy. &c.
John Wood Simeon Done
I hereby Certify that I have been for several years personally acquainted with John Wood and Simeon Done above named, that they are each of them farmers of respectable standing in society, well acquainted with the value of land in the town where they reside, and have severally held town Offices for a number of years past — The said Done having acted as a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Oswego for several years previous to the first day of January last, and is now one of the Assessors of the said town of Richland. — Witness my hand at Richland this 20 th day of June 1829.
Hiram Hubbell

Richland, N.W. 33 3 June
War Department
Pension Office
Washington City
Free
9th June, 1849.
Pension
the a the a

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Richland N.Y. 3 d June 1829
Sir, Enclosed I forward you some additional testimony relative to Rufus Price's application for a pension.
The Affidavits taken in connexion with the Schedules of his property already in your possession, will I trust be satisfactory, and such that you may feel disposed to restore his name to the Pension List, for he is a respectable & worthy citizen, and from his age you will understand is unable to labor for a living.
If Government did not suppose that the Rev. Officers needed a little more property for their support than private Soldiers, why give them more than double the amt. of pension?
Please inform me of your determination in this matter after examining the papers.
Very respectfully
Your Obed. Servt.
Hiram Hubbell

The People of the State of New York by the Grace of God free and Independent. To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting. Clerks Office Oswego County. Know ye that we having examined the records of Deeds in this office do find a certain Record there remaining in the words and figures following to wit:
Know all men by these presents that we Rufus Price and Ruth his wife of the Town of Richland in the County of Oswego and State of New York for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars to them in hand paid by Isaac Price of the same place the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged Have and by these presents Do remise release and forever Quit claim unto the said Isaac Price his heirs and assigns all of their and each of their right title and interest in and to the following piece or parcel of Land in the said Town of Richland to wit: all that part of Lots Number forty nine and Number Fifty (in the Selkirk Tract) lying South of Salmon River excepting however about twenty three acres heretofore Deeded to Ralph Price and containing in the residue lying South of the center of the said River Seventy Seven acres more or less Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any way appertaining To have and to hold the said premises above described to the said Isaac Price the one undivided half of which he has heretofore and still does own and occupy and to his heirs and assigns to their own proper use benefit and behoof forever. In Witness Whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of Hiram Habbell
Rufus Price L.S. Ruth Price L.S.
State of New York Oswego County
On this ninth day of March 1826 before me Hiram Habbell a Commissioner to take the acknowledgements of Deeds &c. personally appeared Rufus Price and Ruth his wife to me well known to be the persons described as grantors in the above instruments of writing and they severally acknowledged that they executed & delivered the same for the uses & purposes there mentioned.

And the said Ruth on a private examination separate and apart from her said husband acknowledged that she signed and sealed the above without fear or compulsion. freely & voluntarily. Let the same be recorded Hiram Habbell Court."
All which we have caused by these presents to be exemplified Witness the Seal of our said County and my name hereunto Subscribed this Seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine. and of our Independence the Fifty third.
S. C. PARKER Clerk

State of New York Onegego County, ss.
Samuel 4 Force of the said County being duly sworn saith, that about sixteen years since, (he thinks in the year 1812 or 1813,) Rufus Price and Isaac Price executed jointly a certain written Article of Agreement by which all their right title & possession to certain land in the town of Richland in said County, together with all their farming tools Cattle and other property by them individ- ually owned or held, became their joint property, out of which all debts then owing by the said Rufus Price were to be paid, among which debts in particular this deponent recollects one that was due to Elijah Price of something more than One hundred Dollars, And that the above mentioned Article of Agreement was put into this deponent's hands to be by him held until the said Rufus & Isaac should agree that it should be given up or destroyed.
And further that about three years since, as this deponent then understood and verily believes the said Rufus & Isaac made a fair honest & equitable division of their joint property and a dissolution of the aforesaid partnership, and requested this deponent to give up the said written agreement which he accordingly did, and which he believes was then destroyed.
And further that in the Spring of 1825, he this deponent for and at the request of Ralph Price, paid to the Ex rs or Adm rs of Elijah Price deceased about Seventy Dollars in payment of the debt above mentioned as due from Rufus Price to Elijah Price and which this deponent understood the said Ralph had agreed to pay, in consideration of One Yoke of Oxen & certain other prop- erty by him purchased of the said Rufus & Isaac Price. — and further saith not.
Subscribed & sworn this first day of June 1829. before me Hiram H. H. Com. Secy
Samuel Force

State of New York Onondago County } ss.
Ralph Price of the said County being duly sworn saith that in the year 1822, he purchased of Rufus Price and Isaac Price, within named, One Yoke of Oxen and certain other property for which he engaged to pay about One hundred & thirty four Dollars to the estate of Elijah Price deceased, which they were then owing the said estate for what was originally the debt of Rufus Price individually which debt this deponent has since cancelled by paying the same except a few Dollars for which he has given his note. And further that the said Rufus Price and Isaac Price are residents of the town of Richland in the County of Onondago where they have resided for more than twenty one years last past — And further saith not.
Subscribed and sworn this first day of June 1829, before me Hiram Hubbell, Com. etc.
Ralph Price
Onondago County } ss. Isaac Price of said County being duly sworn saith in relation to the following item in the Schedule made and sworn to in open Court by Rufus Price on the third day of June 1823, to wit: "A receipt jointly with Isaac Price from Benjamin Wright of about three hundred dollars for which he has verbally agreed to give to us a Contract for 100 Acres of land &c." — That this payment of nearly three hundred Dollars was applied in procuring a title to Sixty four Acres of land in the town of Richland in said County, fifty Acres of which were by me conveyed in March 1826, to Rufus Price to have & hold during his natural life, & that of his wife and in further consideration of for the \frac{1}{2} of said payment I at the same time conveyed to said Rufus Price the undivided half part of a farm house which I was then building to hold & occupy the same during his natural life, & that of his wife in which they now reside — And further that the sale of Cattle sheep &c. by Rufus Price to this deponent, as mentioned in the aforesaid Schedule was a fair & bonafide transaction, and for which I became individually obligated to pay certain debts by us jointly contracted, including a certain sum paid Ralph Price on account of the debt originally due to Elijah Price — And further saith not.
Subscribed & sworn this
Isaac Price

first day of June 1829 before me, Hiram Hubbell, Comr. &c.
I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with Samuel Price, Ralph Price and Isaac Price for about ten years last past, and believe them to be men of truth and veracity, and generally respected as such in society. Richland, Oswego County June 1. 1829.
Hiram Hubbell
State of New York
Oswego County - Clerks Office
I, Thomas C. Baker - Clerk of the County of Oswego. do hereby certify that Hiram Hubbell Esq. whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the foregoing affidavits was, on the day of the date of the said certificates a Commissioner in and for said County appointed and sworn and duly authorized by law to administer oaths and certify affidavits &c. And further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner and verily believe that the signatures "Hiram Hubbell" subscribed to said certificates are in the proper hand writing of said Commissioner.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this first day of June A.D. 1829
T. C. Baker - Clerk
By A. J. M c Carty - Dep. Clk

War Dept. 3 Pension Papers 3
Richland S.Y. 26 Feb. Pens. Office 11. March 1824. Rufus Price March 1823 New York Port of War Secy of War Washington City
Hon. P. B. Porter

Richland N.Y.
25 th Feb. 1829
Sir, Enclosed I forward to you a certified Copy of Rufus Rice's affidavit Schedule &c. He was a Rev. y Officer, has been on the Pension list, and his name stricken off on account of his property, but he trusts that under the present more liberal construction of the laws of 1818 & 1820 he will be restored.
Please inform me what disposition you make of his case.
Very respectfully
Your Obed. Servt.
Hiram H. Hubbell
Hon. P. B. Porter, Esq. Sec. of War

Richland N.Y. 17 th July 1833
Free
Hon Secretary of War Washington
74 Post Office Richland 113 1/4 Sent to Pay Postage Hotchkiss
July 19

Richland (Oswego Co. N. Y.) July 17 th 1820.
Sir, I send you enclosed the Clerk's certificate of the oath and inventory of Rufus Price of this town, for examination etc.
Please address returns thence to me at this place -
Respectfully Chester Hayden

State of New York Brooklyn County 3 rd On this 5 th day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty two personally appeared in open court it being the court of common pleas for said county which by the laws and tribunals of said State has been declared & adjudged to be a court of record Rufus Price aged Seventy years Residing in the Town of Richland County 2 nd State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as fol- lows to wit he entered the same as Ensign in the second Reg- iment of Infantry commanded by Col Charles Webb in the Connecticut line Continental service in the company commanded commanded by Captain Ichabod Hinkley in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven & continued to serve in the said company until the month of March one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine when he was hon- orably honorably discharged as a first Lieutenant and this deponent says that the number of his pension certificate is Eleven thousand three hundred & forty four & that his declaration to obtain said certificate bears date on the 8 th day of April 1818 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring any self

within the provision of the act of Congress entitled act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land naval service of the United States of America In the Revolutionary war Passed on the 18 day of March 1818 and I have not now has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me except some income or property except missing meaning after 2 bedding other than what is contained in the schedule her unto annexed & by me subscribed to wit -
37 1/2 acres of land situate in the Town of Richland & county of Onondaga Ten acres of which is under Improvement the residue wild land of which said land I have only a life estate
   $ 37 50   one old silver watch - 10   one Table 1 - 50   one large spinning wheel - 2   one Reel 50   four chairs 1 - 50   one old broken chest of drawers - 1   3 earthen Milk Pans 25   1 old Tin tea pot 6   1 Pt Tin basin 3   1 Small looking glass 1   1 earthen pot 37   1 kit of old shoemaker tools - 2   1 hooked fire rail kettle - 2   1 Tea kettle 75   1 Dish kettle 75   1 Spider pot 50   1 Iron Basin 37   1 shovel 37  

  one pair Tongues - $ 00 50   2 pr Steel yards - 3 —   1 Churn 2 pails — 1 —   2 earthen Bowls - 25   4 Tea cups 2 saucers - 25   4 Iron Tea spoons — 20   1 earthen Platter — 25   4 Old earthen plates — 25   1 Glass Tumbler — 12   1 Decanter — 50   1 Brass skimmer — 25   1 Tin do. — 12   1 Candle stick - 12   1 Pepper box — 12   2 Tin squares — 25 
And this declarant further says that he is by occupation a shoemaker but is unable to perform but little labor by reason of age & infirmities - That his family consists of the following persons vizt his wife Martha aged sixty two years able to perform but little labor my grand daughter Ardia Vance aged Eleven years & healthy
Sworn and declared Purvis Price in open Court this 5 th day of June 1822 Before me
Peter D Hargraves
Judge of Common Pleas

Oswego County Clerks Office
I Smith Dunslop Clerk of the County of Oswego do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Seventy Dollars and 60 cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said court This 10 th day of July 1822
Smith Dunslop Clerk

State of New York Oswego County ss Rufus Price the person named in the copy of the declaration hereunto annexed being being duly sworn says that the schedule of his property exhib- ited to the Court at Common Pleas of Oswego County on the Eighth day of June 1820 was not understood by this deponent at the time he exhib- ited & made oath to the same & this deponent further says that his property exhibited in said schedule last made & a copy of which is hereunto annexed is a true & correct statement of the amount of the property which this deponent annexed on the eighth day of June one thou- sand eight hundred & twenty
Subscribed & sworn
this 10th day of August 1822 before me
Charles Hayden
Judge of Oswego Common Pleas
Rufus Price

State of New York Oswego County } ss. Isaac Price of the town of Richland in the county of Oswego the son of Rufus Price being duly sworn says that he has examined the schedule of the property exhibited on the eighth day of June 1820 by said Rufus Price above named which said schedule is on file in the office of the clerk of the county of Oswego who is Clerk of the court of common pleas of said County & also this deponent says that he has examined the schedule of said Rufus Price on file in said office with said Clerk made the fifth day of June 1822 & this deponent further says that he has been particularly & intimately acquainted with the situation & circumstances of the said Rufus Price for ten years last past & that the real property of the said Rufus exhibited in the last mentioned schedule a copy of which is herunto annexed is all the real property the said Rufus owned on the eighth day of June 1820 & that the said Rufus has not to the knowledge of this deponent transferred conveyed or disposed of any part of his property aforesaid since the last mentioned date but that the same remains in the same situation at the present time that it did then

And this deponent further says that his the said Rufus Price's personal property exhibited in the schedule a copy of which is hereunto annexed is according to this deponent's knowledge & belief at true & correct state- ment of what the said Rufus Price owned & is now of at the time the same which he owned at the time he made the schedule first above alluded to on the eighth day of June one thousand eight hundred & twenty.
Subscribed & sworn this 10th day of August 1823 before me Chester Hayden
Judge of Oyer & terminer Poughkeepsie
Isaac Price
State of New York
Onego County Samuel Root of the town of Richland in the county of Onego being duly sworn says he has annexed the affidavit of Isaac Price & that he is well acquain- ted with Rufus Price & his circumstances & that the facts set forth & stated in the affi- davit of the said Isaac Price are to the personal knowledge

at this department correct & true
Subscribed & sworn } Samuel Paine This 10th day of August 1822 before me
Chester Hayden Judge of Oswego Common Pleas
Oswego County ss - I certify that the above affidavits of Isaac Price & Samuel Paine were taken before me, and that I am acquainted with the said Isaac & Samuel and believe them credible witnesses - Dated August 10th 1822
Chester Hayden Judge of Oswego Common Pleas
Clerks Office } ss. Oswego County }
J. Smith Dunlap Clerk of the County of Oswego
So hereby Certify that Chester Hayden before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken, was on the day of the date of said affidavits, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Oswego, duly Commissioned, and qualified as such according to Law - And further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge, and verily believe that the signature "Chester Hayden" is in his own proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this twelfth day of August 1822
J Smith Dunlap Clerk By Hiram Hubbell Deputy Clerk

Rufus Rice Pension Paper

State of New York } Oswego County } ss.
On this third day of June 1823 personally appeared in open Court, it being the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Oswego which by the laws and tribunals of this State is declared & adjudged to be a Court of Record, Rufus Price resident in said County, aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 & 1 st May 1820 that he the said Rufus Price enlisted for the term of six Months about the last of April 1775 in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Solomon Wells in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Parsons in the line styled the Connecticut levies & served the period of six Months that same time in the Month of June 1776 this declarant enlisted for the term of six months in the Company commanded by Captain Burge in the Regiment of the Connecticut levies commanded by Col. Sage & served the period of six months That he this declarant some time in the month of February 1777 he received a Commission for Ensign said Commission bearing date the 1 st day of January 1777 and was attached to the Company commanded by Captain Ichabod Hinckley in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment That he continued to serve in said Corps until the third day of March 1779 when he was discharged from the said service in the Town of Reading as a Lieutenant in the

in the State of Connecticut That his name has been placed on the pension List & dropped therefrom on account of his property.
And in pursuance of the Act of the 1 st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 & that I have not now has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed & by me subscribed.
Schedule
Situate at Richland Oswego County
37 1/2 Acres of Land of which I have a life estate 10 Acres of which is improved Land the residue in a state of nature $75.00
1 Old 5 pail Kettle $3.00 1 Old broken Desk 3.00 1 Bake Do. 1.00 1 Do. Chest drawers 3.00 1 Dish Do. .60 1 Do. Table 2.00 1 Tea Do. .75 1 Large Spinning Wheel 1.25 1 Spider .62 1/2 1 foot Wheel 1.25 1 Reel .75 2 Wooden Pails .50 4 Chairs 1.50 1 Candle Stand .75 2 Wooden Bowls .25 1 Earthen Milk pan .19 3 Earthen Plates .19 1 Tin Do. .50 3 Tea cups & saucers .19 3 pint lin basons .19 2 Earthen Bowls .12 1/2 1 2 quart Do. .15 1 Do. Cream pot .19 4 tin Squares .25 1 Small Stone Do. .25 1 qt. tin mug .13 1 two qt. bottle .25 1 tin tea pot .15 1 qt. Do. .12 1 Earthen platter .25 1 Decanter .25 1 Small Estatia looking Glass .25 1 Old Kit Shoemakers 4.00 =hers tools 5

  1 Small fire Shovel & tongs 75 2 prs. Steel yards 2.50   1 Tin Candle Stick 6 1 fire Shovel & tongs 2.00   1 Iron Candle Stick 12 1/2 1 pr small Andirons .75   1 Brass Skimmer & tin Do. 50 1 Sad Iron .25   1 Old Silver Watch 4.00   5 Iron tea Spoons .20   4 table Spoons .35   1 Set Knives & forks 1.00   1 Iron Bason .57   15.47 1/2 100.13   15.47 1/2   $115.60 1/2 
And this declarant further says on his Oath aforesaid that the persons residing with him & composing the whole of his family are as follows to wit. Ruth, my wife aged Sixty three years unable to perform but little labor by reason of age & infirmities. That since the exhibition of my first Schedule Audra Force my Grand daughter aged 12 Years healthy I am by occupation a shoe maker, but am able to perform but little labor by reason of age & infirmities. That since the exhibition of my first Schedule the following changes have been made in my property ————— One half The following Stock, to wit, 1/2 yoke Oxen sold to Ralph Rice for thirty Dollars 1/2 of a waggon sold to Ralph Rice for seven Dollars & an half the money applied to pay a debt due from this declarant to Elijah Rice for One hundred & a thirty four Dollars & Sixty four Cents. Three horses two of which have died since making my former Schedule 1/2 the other horse sold to Isaac Rice for twenty five Dollars & applied towards paying the debt above stated to be due to Elijah Rice. Two Cows One of which has been butchered & consumed in the family the 1/2 of the other sold to Isaac Rice for six Dollars. One half three years old Heifer sold to Isaac Rice for 4 1/2, of five-two years old sold to Isaac Rice for 20. 1 two year old bull butchered & consumed in the family 1/2 of eight Calves four of them dead

1/2 of the others sold to Isaac Rice for six Dollars 21 Sheep & fourteen lambs five of the Sheep have strayed away & have not been found 2 Sheep butchered three died by disease 11 sold to Isaac Rice at 50 Cents per head 11 of the lambs were butchered & consumed in the family of Isaac Rice 1/2 nine swine butchered & consumed in my family One half Plough worn out 1/2 sett drag teeth sold to Amos Fellows for brick - One ax lost - One old Harness worn out One old bridle worn out four hoes worn out One shovel broke One rake broke The property above accounted for I only had a title for one half as a tenant in common with Isaac Rice
Real property
Twelve acres of land part of Lot No. 49 in the Selkirk tract lying in the Town of Richland & County of Oswego. Sixty four acres of land part of Lot No. 50 Selkirk Tract with twenty acres of improvement the above property is the same which is mentioned in the foregoing Schedule & is the first item in said Schedule all the right & title I have to the said property is mentioned in the description of said item of property I had no other right or title at the time my first Schedule was made & sworn to by me on the eighth day of June One thousand eight hundred & twenty. A receipt jointly with Isaac Rice from Benjamin Wright of about three hundred Dollars for which he has verbally agreed to give to us a contract for 100 Acres of Land the claim for said has fallen into the hands of Isaac Rice by reason of my inability to answer the ballance due on the same & the interest on the contract having accumulated so as to forfeit said Contract
Sworn & declared this 3 rd day of June 1823 in open Court Hastings Curtis Judge
Rufus Rice

Note
The prices affixed to the several articles, and the total amount were inserted by the Court after the Oath made by the respondent.
State of New York Oswego County
I, Hiram Hubbell Clerk of the County of Oswego, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, Do hereby Certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is One hundred and fifteen Dollars and Sixty and an half Cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this fifth day of June eighteen hundred and twenty three
Hiram Hubbell Clerk

Rufus Price
Pension Papers
June Term of Owego Com. Plea
1823

Oswego County ss Isaac Price & Samuel Poirier being duly sworn severally on their Oaths say that they are acquainted with the situation of the property of Rufus Price Both real & personal & that they have been acquainted with the same for six years past & that they have examined the schedule a copy of of said property a copy of which is herunto annexed & according to the best of their knowledge say the same is true
Subscribed & sworn the 23 d day of June 1823 before me
Isaac Price Samuel Poirier
Chester Hayden, Judge of Oswego Com. Pleas.
State of New York
Clerk's Office } ss. Oswego County }
I hereby certify that Chester Hayden Esq. before whom the above Oaths were taken and subscribed and whose name is set to the certificate of the same, was on the twenty third day of June Instant, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly Commissioned and Sworn as such - In testimo- ny whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County this thirtieth day of June eighteen hundred and twenty three.
Hiram Stubbell Clerk
said service in the Town of Reading as a Lieutenant in the

Rufus Paine aintenant.
1 March 1823
N. York.
1 Sept. 1819/

State of New York
Oswego County On this seventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine personally appeared in open Court it being the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Oswego which by the Laws & Tribunals of this State is declared and adjudged to be a Court of Record. Rufus Price resident in said County, aged Seventy Seven years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and 1 st of May 1820 That he the said Rufus Price enlisted for the term of six months about the last of April 1775 in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Capt Salomon Wells in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Parsons in the line styled the Connecticut Levees, and served the period of six months. That some time in the month of June 1776 this declarant enlisted for the term of six months in the Company commanded by Captain Burge in the Regiment of the Connecticut Levees commanded by Col. Sage and served the period of six months. That he this declarant some time in the month of February 1777 received a commission for Ensign, bearing date the first day of January 1777, and was attached to the Company commanded by Captain Ichabod Hinkley in the Regiment commanded by Col. Charles Webb in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps until the third day of March 1779, when he was discharged from the said service as a Lieutenant in the Town of Reading in the State of Connecticut. That his name has been placed on the Pension List, at the rate of twenty Dollars per month, and dropped therefrom on account of his property, and in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War.

passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in Trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule herunto annexed and by me subscribed
Schedule
1 st A life lease of fifty acres of Land Situate in the Town of Richland in the said County of Oswego $40 annual value
A life lease of
2 o The one half part of an unfinished farm house $10.00 annually
  3 o One blue Bake Kettle $0 75 One blue Doblo 1.50   One do Dish Do 50 One Large Spinning Wheel 1.00   One Tea Do 75 One foot Wheel 1.00   One Spider 75 One Wooden Pail 25   One Iron Basin 25 One Candlestand 75   One old Reel 25 One Earthen Milk Pan 12   four do. Chairs 1.00 2 Lin Do 38   1/2 doz Plates 25 3 Small Lin Basins 18   1/2 doz Cups & Saucers 25 4 Lin Squares 25   1 Cream Pot 12 1 do Tea Pot 12   1 Small Stone do 25 1 Earthen Platter 25   1 St Bottle 9 1 Small Looking Glass 12   1 Scraunter 25 1 pr. Small Steel Yards 50   1 Old Shovel & Tongs 75 1 pr. Ance Irons 50   1 Iron Candlestick 12 1 Sack Iron 12   1 Brog Skinner 25 One old Silver Watch 3.00   1 Tin do 6 4 Table Spoons 25   1 Old Chest Drawers 2.00 1 Set of Knives & forks 75   8 64 11.04   11.04 An annual stipend of fourteen Dollars   19.68 
And this Declarant further saith on his oath aforesaid that he has no family except his wife Ruth aged sixty nine years and further saith not
Sworn & Declared this 7 th day of February 1829 before me
Rufus Price
A. G. McCarty D. S. C. R.

Annual Worth of Lands 40.00 Do Do of House 10.00 Do Do Cash 14.00 $ 64.00
Note — The prices affixed to the several articles mentioned in the above Schedule including the annual value of the life lease property, were affixed by the Court after examination on the oath of a witness
Clerks Office Oswego County
I Thomas G. Baker Clerk of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original now on file in this Office, and that the signature of A. G. McCarty Dep. CLK is to my knowledge the proper hand writing of the said Dep. CLK and that he was at the time of the date of the certificate of the above oath Deputy Clerk of said County
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of our Court of Common Pleas this 25 th day of February 1829
T. G. Baker CLK

Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Sir Enclosed
are the pension papers of Rufus Price Chester Hayden Esqr was his agent on a former application Ebenezer Carr an applicant for a renewal of his pension has me read no else he informs me to his surprise an papers were passed the same time in the fall of 1820 Joseph D. ... was his agent An answer is respectfully requested direct to me
I De
J. A. Davis
Richland Springs Co New York Aug 12th 1822
Not acknowledged
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Richland N.Y. 12 Aug.
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Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City
Pension  paper