Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26328, for Gideon Popple, Rhode Island

SERVICE
NUMBER
R.I.
or Popple, Popplestone
Gideon
N 26328
B.L.W. 26994-160-65
Lois
CONTENTS

Let 23 Sept. 1834 -
M c Dyer - Let to And w . 7. Judson, May 16. 1835.
Dead. See letter to Jos. Popple May 27. 1843.
Connecticut 28,988
Gideon Popple of Windham in the State of Ct. who was a Pr t in the commanded by Captain of the R t - commanded by C t Dyer in the R. I. Mil. time for 15 th mo:
Enscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 50 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of Sept. 34 and Supt. William Dyer. Central Village. - Ct.
Arrears to the 4th of March 34 150.- Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. 1 25.- $175.-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nath. Rice Clerk, Book E 2 - Vol. 3 Page 34

Ms. 31.489 Gideon Pople Windham County Central Village Connecticut
See letter W Dyer 11 Aug 34
Get Reynolds Baker 15 m o private 50
Wm Dyer Esq r Res d
Certificate to be returned to
William Dyer Esq r Central Village Windham County Connecticut
Certificate to be returned to Wm Dyer Central Village Windham Connecticut

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, } COUNTY OF WINDHAM, } ss. Providence
On this 19 th day of February A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the County Court of the County of Windham aforesaid, now sitting, Gideon Poppie — a resident of the town of Canterbury in the County of Windham, and State of Connecticut, aged 83 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
In the year 1776 he entered the service of the United States in the army at the revolution in a company under the command of Captain Uriah Randall of Exeter in the State of Rhode Island and served the several terms of service hereinafter stated under Capt. Randall, Capt. Phineas Kenyon, Capt. Samuel Gorton, Capt. George Wheeler who had the command of the Exeter Militia during the war in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Dyer Major Ray Saunders and Major Potter — In August 1776 he was drafted into the service of the United States in the Exeter Militia Company and marched to South Kingston and that he served in and with said Company for alternate periods of fifteen twenty and thirty days in Colonel Dyer's Regiment, a part of which was some part of the time under the command of Major Ray Saunders and Major Potter, after Col. Potter, and that he served at alternate periods as follows as a private soldier under the above named Officers till August 1781 when he was dismissed at Newport Rhode Island — That he served one month in August & September of 1776 and between that time and the first of April 1777 two periods of one month each and one period of fifteen days making a period of three months and one half before the first of April 1777 all which services were in a near South Kingston in the State of Rhode Island. as a private soldier In April and May 1777 he served fifteen days and was stationed at Bippells Mills, in May and June he served one month at Giverton and on Rhode Island in Spencer's Expedition so called, the last of June and first of July he served he served fifteen days at North Kingston the months August and September he served one month at Bristol and Giverton, in the months of October and November he served one month at North Kingston, in the month of December and first of January 1778 he served one month at Bippells Mills Making a period of five months service in the year 1777 all which he performed in the State of Rhode Island as a private soldier —
In January 1778 he served fifteen days in South Kingston, in March one month at Wickford the last of April and May he served one month at Bristol and Giverton, in June he served one month at Wickford, in August he served one month at Newport, in September fifteen days Bippells Mills, in November he served one month at North Kingston and in the month of December fifteen days at Bippells Mills Making a period of six and one half months service in the year 1778 all which he performed in the State of Rhode Island as a private soldier that during the month of August last aforesaid he was in the battle

South Kingston in the State of Rhode Island. as a private soldier In April and May 1777 he served fifteen days and was stationed at Bippell's Mills. In May and June he served one month at Iverton and on Rhode Island in Spencer's Expedition so called. The last of June and first of July he served. he served fifteen days at North Kingston. The months August and September he served one month at Bristol and Iverton. In the months of October and November he served one month at North Kingston. In the months of December and first of January 1778 he served one month at Bippell's Mills Making a period of Five Months service in the year 1777 all which he performed in the State of Rhode Island as a private soldier —
In January 1778 he served fifteen days in South Kingston, in March one month at Wickford the last of April and in May he served one month at Bristol and Iverton. In June he served one month at Wickford. In August he served one month at Newport. In September he served fifteen days Bippell's Mills. In November he served one month at North Kingston and in the month of December fifteen days at Bippell's Mills Making a period of Six and one half Months service in the year 1778 all which he performed in the State of Rhode Island as a private soldier. That during the month of August last aforesaid he was in the battle near Newport. during Sullivan's Expedition so called —
In the month of February 1779 he served one month at Wickford. In April one month at South Kingston. In June one month at South Kingston in July fifteen days at South Kingston. In September one month at North Kingston. In December one month at South Kingston having served five and one half Months as a private soldier in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1779 —

He served at that in the March 1780 at South Kingston, in the Month of April 8 May he served one month at Brintons Neck so called, in the Months of August and September he served one month at Bippell Mills, and that in the Months of November and December he served one month at South Kingston having served three and one half months as a private soldier in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1780 —
That in the Months of March and April of 1781 he served one month at North Kingston and at Brintons Neck in Rhode Island, in the Months of May and June he served one month at South Kingston, and in July and August he served he served twenty days on Rhode Island at which time he with the Company to which he belonged was finally dismissed having served two months and twenty days in the year 1781 — and having in all well and truly served his country as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution two years two months and twenty days in a Company of Militia commanded by Captains Brandt, Kenyon, Gorton & Wilcox in a Regiment commanded by Col Charles Dyer, Major Francis Potter and Major Bray Saunders and he further states that he served a great number of times for small tours which he cannot now recollect so as to state the particulars for all which he now claims a pension, and he further states that the testimony accompanying this declaration is the best in his power to obtain, he having for a long time sought for testimony, but on account of his poverty and infirmity had not till now obtained this testimony
He hereby renounces every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
The following interrogatories were by said Court propounded to said applicant, viz:—
 1. Where and in what year were you born? I was born in South Kingston in the State of Rhode Island in 1758 and removed to Exeter while young and there lived 15 years  2. Have you any record of your age; and if so, where is it? I have no knowledge of my age  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live? I was living in Exeter in the State of Rhode Island when called into service where I lived 20 years after the war and now living in Cumberland as usual where I have lived 10 years  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? I was drafted except a few of the first days which were voluntary  5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. General Sullivan, General Spencer 
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? I never received a written discharge from the service
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief in your services as a soldier of the revolution.
Deacon John Dyer Thomas Nott - Alfred Bannerman Gideon Pople M. Dyer
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resi-

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year aforesaid, before the County Court for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut.
Attest Simion Bolles Clerk
We Alfred Burnham a clergyman, residing in the town of Hampden in said Windham County, and Thomas West residing in (the same)  Canterbury hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Gideon Popple who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be 83 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Alfred Burnham Thomas West
Sworn, and subscribed, on the day and year aforesaid, before the County Court for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut.
Attest Simion Bolles Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Alfred Burnham who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the said town of Hampden and that Thomas West who signed the same is a resident in the said town of Canterbury and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Attest Simion Bolles Clerk
Simion Bolles
Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Gideon Popple for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 19 th day of February A. D. 1934
Attest Simion Bolles Clerk

Set March 3/53 - 113,192 May 5 1853 Lois Papple mother of Gideon Papple
Mar of the resolution 1856 Ent for 2 years Charter is a Resolved
Stamps Ince Doran Duplicat
Conn Feb 48-2072 Williams 23/78 Blyth
Daniel Tracy Scotland Court
Cir D. Tracy Jany 9th 56
Dec 18/58
Open duplicate and send to Daniel Tracy Scotland Conn
Mamant 2 Cancella 3
Vol P. page 116
June 13/58 Set to Agent receiving warrant for cancellation - grant of July 20/58 Set to Com & Gen. Land Office. Dec 18/58 Set to Com Gen Jan 18/59 Set to Com Gen Vol P. page 116

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7. th July 1838, entitled An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows.
State of Connecticut } County of Windham } ss.
On this first day of June A.D. 1843 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Canterbury in said State of Connecticut, in open Court Mrs. Lois Popple a resident of Canterbury in said County of Windham aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by Act of Congress passed July 7. th 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of Mr. Gideon Popple who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution and served during the Revolutionary War; but in what company & regiment she has forgotten, though she has often heard him say, that the proof of his services was sent on to Washington when he got his pension and that he drew up to Septem r . 4. th 1841, and that his Certificate is not in her possession & she cannot get it, though she has repeatedly tried to get it without success. That he received a pension under the act of July 7. 1832 of fifty dollars per annum until a short time before his decease. She further declares that she was married to the said Gideon Popple on the 18 th day of June 1789. That her husband

The above Gideon Popple died on the 23 rd day of September 1841. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 in the time before stated.
in presence of Charles Syon Socrates Buleam
Lois Popple marks
Sworn and subscribed the day & year last above written. And it is also hereby certified that the Declarant is personally known to this Court as the widow of Gideon Popple in the identical person she represents herself to be. And the said Gideon Popple was a Revolutionary soldier & also Pensioner, & sufficient evidence has been adduced before this Court to prove that the said Gideon died on the 23 rd day of September 1841.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court of Probate, on this 2 nd day of June 1843 G. Prescott Syon - Clerk

State of Connecticut } ss. On this 8 day of June County of Windham } 1843, personally came before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Windham Mrs. Babbaba Tripp a resident of said Windham aged sixty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath depose & say that she was, before her marriage Babbaba Green, That her Sister Lois Green was mar- ried to Gideon Popple when she was quite young, she was not present at the wedding, but has known them ever since, That the said Gideon Popple was a Rev- olutionary pensioner and died about 18 months ago & she recollects that they formerly used to be called Poppleton or Popplestone, but his name was Gideon Popple & is the identical person married to her sister Lois by Dr. Allen Campbell of Wolcott & that she is now a widow, & resides in Canterbury in said State of Connecticut.
Babbaba Tripp
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. & I hereby Certify that the Deponent is personally known to me to be a person of respectability & good credit & full faith & and is ought to be given to her testimony.
Thomas Gray Justice of the Peace

Town Clerk's office Voluntown Connecticut June 2 nd 1843
Windham County ss.
In Voluntown the Ninth day of December - Seventeen hundred and Eighty Nine were joined in Marriage Gideon Popplestone and Lois Green both of said Voluntown
By Me Alan Campbell justice Peace
I certify that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the Town of Voluntown and that the above is a true copy of the Records of this office with the exception of the dates which are in Legible figures (Viz; 9 th day of December 1789
Attest Elisha Potter Town Clerk
State of Connecticut } ss. I Socrates Balean Notary County of Windham } Public in & for the State of Connecticut duly commissioned & qualified hereby certify that Elisha Potter who has signed the above certificate is Town Clerk of the Town of Voluntown & that he personally appeared before me on the 2 nd day of June 1843 & subscribed the same in my presence & made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my notarial Seal this 2 nd day of June 1843.
Socrates Balean Notary public

10,806
Lois Popple
Con:
act 7. July '38-
m 89 a. 41
acmd 15 m of ri
50 $
Mrs Lois Popple U.S. Pensioner Canterbury Con.

113192
Louis Pujolle

United States of America.
State of Connecticut, County of New London Windham
} ss. Hampton
On this 21 day of April A. D., One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty three personally appeared before me, a Notary Public within and for the County and State aforesaid, Lois Popple aged 85 years, a resident of the town of Hampton in the county of Windham in the state of Connecticut who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Gideon Popple deceased, who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain in the Regiment of 1st. Infantry commanded by Revolutionary in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, A. D. 1812. 4 July 1853
That her said husband enlisted at Crisp in the county of Rhode Island on or about the day of A. D., 18 for an indefinite term of time, and continued in actual service in said war for the term of 2 days, years and was honorably discharged at in the County aforesaid, on or about the day of A. D. 18
She further states that she was married to the said Gideon Popple in Voluntown in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut on or about the day of A. D. 1791 by one Allen Campbell a Justice of Peace and that her name before her said marriage, was Lois Green that her said husband died at Cantonbury in the County of Windham state of Connecticut about the day of A. D. 1841 and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3d, 1855. She further declares that there is no family record of the marriage or death of her said husband Gideon Popple. She also states and declares that she is receiving a pension of fifty dollars per annum as per certificate of the War Department 15th day September 1846. Further information refers to the affidavits relative to said pension - Lois Popple
We Charles M. Cummings and Charles Spalding residents of Hampton and State of Connecticut upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Lois Popple in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Charles M. Cummings Charles Spalding
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Dan Tracy Notary Public

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Gideon Popple , 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.     Aug 76 2y. 2m. 20d. Pvt. Uriah Brandall Phineas Kenyon Samuel Gorton George Walcomb Chas Dyer R.I.         
Battles engaged in, Rhode Island. In Genl. Spencer and Sullivan's Exp.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Exeter R.I.
Date of application for pension, Feb. 19. 1834. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Canterbury Windham Co. Conn.
Age at date of application, born in 1757 in South Kingston R.I. died at Canterbury Conn. Sept. 21, 1841 - at Voluntown Conn.
Remarks: Soldier married on Dec. 9, 1789 at which time he was known as Gideon Poppleston and was so married but afterward dropped the last syllable of his name. He was a resident of Canterbury Conn and 73 years old in 1843. Her claim was allowed.
Very respectfully,

2072 Connecticut.
Lois Popple widow of Gideon Popple who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private.
Rept
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 50 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Sept. 1848. and sent to
Thomas Gray Midham Ch
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 32 Vol. 1

Act of 1833 C 113.192
Lois Popple, wid: of Sideon Popple Prio:
Rev d War 1776
Memorandum.
July 3 rd 57 Warrant No.
26.994 for 160 acres Cancelled - Warrant Died before issue - bounty labels.
R.D.C.
Vol. P.
P.116

1 st Read the within letter from Lois Popple, widow of Gideon Popple, before you examine her claim. ____ May 27. 1843.

26,994
Duplicon
act 55
} m Her Am

Grand Forks N.D.
4 Commissioner Pulaski N.D.

Scotland June 18. 1857
Sir
Agreeable to your Instructions of 13 I am now herewith returned the Span Warrant issued to Miss Bessie for 160 acres no 26994. She having Died leaving no minor heirs. I am Sir Respectfully D. A. Tracy
Col. Miss. Parsons Washington D. C.

Scotland June 3. 1857
Sir
I recd from the Commss: Pensions some time since a Land warrant of 160 Acres. Issued to Lais Popple Widow of Gideon Popple The purport of this is to say that prior to the receipt of the warrant Mrs Popple died leaving no minor heirs & to enquire what shall be the dispo- sition of the warrant
Will you please inform me also whether Warrants are Issued for Enlistments & services rendered in the war with France in 1799 or about that period
Very
Respectfully I am Sir Yours &c D r and Fray
Commss. Pensions Washington D.C.

Scottdale Pa. Dec. 7. 1859
Sir
Having noticed in the public papers that an act of congress passed June last gives to the heirs of Applicants for land warrants a title to the same when they are issued & recd. after the death of the Applicants. In April 1855 I forwarded to the pension office the application of Mrs Lois Popple wid o of Gideon Popple. The warrant was issued & recd. subsequent to the death of Mrs Popple, & by the direction of the Commiss r was returned to the pension office. The question presents itself whether the heirs of Mrs Popple are entitled to the warrants under the aforesaid act of June last or any other act of congress.
Very Resp t
I am for W. H. (Dent. Frary)
Commiss r Pensions Washington D.C.

Scotland A. Apr. 28 1855
Sir
I herewith enclose the Account & claim of Mrs. Lois Papple of Hampton for Bounty land under the act of Congress, approved March 3. 1855. I am very Respectfully Yrs &c
David Tracy
Commrs Pensions Washington D.C.

Reap
WIDOW, &c.
1906. Aug. 14. Hist. to Wm. S. Popple
File No. 26328
Louis Popple Widow Gideon Popple Brn Reer-war
Act Feb 2nd 1848
Index: Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1. Ref?
Connecticut 2150
Lois Popple
widow of Gideon Popple who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 50. Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of Oct r 1843 and sent to Socrates Balcom Windham, Con.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 74.

Rep d . August 2 nd 1843
Connecticut 7493
Lois Pospie widow of Gideon Pospie who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 and who died on the 23 rd September 1841 of Windham Co, in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the commanded by Captain of the regiment commanded by Colonel Dyer in the Rhode Island Militia for fifteen months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Fifty Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the Second day of August 1843 and sent to Mrs Lois Pospie U.S. Pension, Canterbury Conn.
Whole amount due . . . . . $ 250.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by G. C. Ames Clerk. Book A. Vol. 1 Page 205

Hon. J. S. Edwards. Count of Pennine

Windham Ct. Aug 27. 48
Dear J. S. Edwards
D. Sir, Enclos d send
Three declarations, of Sarah Smith Abigail Byrne, & Lois Pepple, which they would be glad to have exam d , & Certificates forwarded as soon as possible.
Yr Resp y & Tho. Gray
Please direct to me at Windham Connecticut.

Lois Pople
$50 per an
Socrates Balcom — 28 Windham Washington Co. Me. Commission of Marriage James J. Poulter Esq.

Windham Connecticut
June 26 th 1843.
Sir
I herewith send the application of Mrs. Lois Papple for a Pension under Act of March 3 rd 1843.
Her application under the act of 1838 was forwarded to your Honor by Hon. G. S. Catten Member of Congress (Elect) since which I have not heard from your Dept. The Pension Certificate of her Deceased Husband, which was in the hands of Judge Jackson has been given up by him & you will observe is connected to the application herewith transmitted
Respectfully yours
Col. Secy.
Socrates Balcom
J. S. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.

Canterbury Ct May 8.
Given Popple 1832 3 SEP 34
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions Washington -

Canterbury Ct. May 8. 1835
Sir:
Please inform me, by return mail, at what time Gideon Pople's pension was first drawn; by whom; and how much.
I think his certificate bore date about the 3 d day of Sept. 1834. What is the date of the power of atty who was the atty and what justice took the acknowledgment of it.
Your Obt. Servt. Andrew T. Judson
4 Mar 1831 to 4 Sept 34 $175 - drawn 27 Sept 34 Wm Dyer, Justice of the Peace 102 P. Burnham Hartford Ct. Me o Money Power of atty, 9 Sept 34

Central Railway Ct Sept 18 th
Free
J. S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington - D.C.
sign

18 th Sept r 1834
Central Village
Windham County - Connecticut
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir
On or about the 9 th of September Instant I received a certificate for Gideon Poppel for the sum of $50 00 payable annually &c — Poppel immediately made a power of atty to a gentleman in Hartford to draw his Pension which Power of atty was acknowledged before me as a magistrate, and the signature of the Acting Secretary of War to the certificate being unintelligible to me I made as near as I could, the same scrawl to the copy and being about to go to Hartford, took the certificate with me to show that it was accurately copied. and by accident, carelessness or some other means lost the Certificate, which as yet I have been unable to find although I have taken all proper means for that purpose — The day that I was in Hartford being a wet day, if I lost the Certificate in the street it was probably soon destroyed, if some person took it from

me I shall probably never see it again. The Pension I suppose has been drawn up to the 4 th of September Instant — The question now is how shall I obtain another Certificate for Gideon Popple — I should like to have another a few cents different from the first so that the first will be of no value to any one if found — I do not think Popple received the a Pension equal to the services he performed and therefore should like to have it enlarged, if it cannot be enlarged then let it be for $49.99 which will so alter it, that no the person can use the first. The Certificate was dated the 3 rd day of September 1854 and signed by "John Forsyth the Acting Secretary of War." (some thought it was John Forsyth others John Smyth) —
Yours truly William Dyer.
As the papers of Samuel Robins are on file I should like to have the documentary Evidence which they contain sent to me if consistent with the rules of the department as Robins is about to make a new declaration and if I can have them it will remove the necessity of obtaining new documents at an extra expense —
Yours truly William Dyer Atty for Samuel Robins — H. C. Edwards Esq.

May 27 1843
Gideon Bopp Coburn
James S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Cour

Canterbury May 23 d 1843-
Sir
I am intitled to a Pension being the Widow of Mr. Gideon Papple deceased who served in the Revolutionary War. The Hon. A. S. Judson has the certificate which my deceased Husband recd. from the War Department & refused to give it up. I am informed that Dr. Judson has taken a letter of Administration on the estate of my said deceased Husband in order to get a Pension for me & to save a claim as is supposed which he may claim to have against his estate. I have taken every means in my power to come in possession of the Pension Certificate & other papers now in Dr. Judson's hands but can not. In order to prevent all proceedings prejudicial against my rights I do appoint Mr. Socrates Balean my lawful Attorney to transact all business relative to my obtaining a Pension.
In presence of Warren Neph Socrates Balean Yours Ob t Serv t Lois his X Papple mark
J. S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

State of Connecticut } (Windham County) } /s/
I, Socrates Balcum of Windham in D. County & State Being sworn according to Laws -
Testify & say that I have the 22 d day of May A.D. 1843 visited Mrs. Lois Papple at her residence in Canterbury at her request & that she is well informed and her intellects are good, she is most unfortunately poor & infirm in body but her mind is sound & she is a Woman of good understanding - in the opinion of
Socrates Balcum
Subscribed & sworn to this 22 d day of May A.D. 1843 before me - Calvin Hubbard Justice of the Peace

I Amy Hall of Canterbury in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut, aged forty Eight years on oath depose and say that Gideon Dapple the husband of Lois Dapple, and a Pensioner of the United States died at said Canterbury on the 21 st day of September 1841 - I was present at his funeral and saw him interred. - Lois Dapple was his Wife at the time of his death and hath ever since continued to be, and now is his widow and unmarried. -
Canterbury June 23 rd 1843 -
In presence of Francis J. Jacoby Amy her Hall mark Socrates Balsam
Sworn to and subscribed before the subscriber Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Windham this 23 rd day of June A.D. 1843 - I further certify that Amy Hall the above named Deponant is a credible person and her statement is intitled to full credit
Socrates Balsam Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut Windham County ss
I Uriel Fuller Clerk of the County Court, for said County in the State aforesaid, do certify, that Socrates Ralston Esq. before whom Amy Hull's declaration was sworn to a Justice of the Peace in & for said Windham County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission bears date the 8 th day of June 1843 and will expire on the 20 th day of June 1844 - I further certify that the signature purporting to be his, is believe to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of said Court, at Brooklyn, this 26 th day of June 1843.
Uriel Fuller Clerk

Gideon Popple
Payments to be made at Warford by J. S. James Vice-Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of C. L.
10.04 1 / 2 12 120.50
10.04 1 / 2 12 120.50 20.00 140.54
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E o Vol. 3 Page 34 by C. Rice Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Gideon Pople . — of the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the War of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Fifty ————— dollars and _____ cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 3 rd day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty- four .
John M c Kim acting Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Bounty
Land
Department
of the Interior
OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS
It is hereby certified that under the Act of March 3rd 1855 entitled "An Act in addition to certain Acts granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the Military Service of the United States"
Levi Bopp, Widow of Gideon Bopp Private Revolutionary War
Grants Lapsed July 3rd 1856
is entitled to locate ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES, at any Land Office of the United States, in one body, and in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, upon any of the public lands subject to sale at either the minimum or lower graduated prices.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Department, this 28th day of May, 1856
D. F. Jenkins
Commissioner
Note. You can locate this Certificate at any of the United States Land Offices, or it will be located for you by the General Land Office on the return of it, with your request to that effect endorsed thereon, specifying the State and Land District in which you wish the location made. If you locate it, fill up and sign the following application.
To the Register of the Land Office at
I locate this Certificate, in the in Township
quarter of section
of Range
Register.
Attest

OW William S. Poppleton, Attorney and Counselor, First National Bank Building, Omaha.
August 3 rd 1906
Hon Terasian Warner Commissioner of Pensions Dear Sir:
If the Pension Department is still following the custom of furnishing abstracts of personal information in regard to pensioners of the Revolutionary war to their present day relatives and descendants, would you be so kind as to have sent to me the customary abstract of personal information from the pension papers of Gideon Popple .
I have reason to believe that William Popple, Ebenezer Popple and Benjamin Popple were also Revolutionary pensioners. If their names appear on the list would you be so kind as to have abstract concerning them sent to me also. Their names may be spelled Poppel Poppal or possible Poppleton.
I would not venture to trouble you in this matter except that I have been reliably informed that it has been a practice of the Pension Office to respond to reasonable requests of this nature. If the practice still continues I will be most sincerely obliged if you will extend it to this application.
Yours truly William S. Poppleton

I Nathan Rathburn a native Citizen of the town of Exeter, now of Hopkinton adjoining Exeter in the State of Rhode Island, aged eighty one years do testify and say that I am and have been from childhood well acquainted with Gideon Popple of Canterbury in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut, and that during the Revolutionary War we were neighbours living on Farms adjoining, and that during the said War we served in the same Company and in the same Class of the third Company of Exeter Militia Commanded by Captain Phineas Hovey Samuel Groton & George Wilcox and that we were at times and places called out together between the month of August in the year 1776 and our final dismission in 1782 and that we were called into service together at alternate periods of one month and sometimes for longer and sometimes shorter periods in said Company and that said Popple served in the whole with me in said service a period of one year and ten months to my knowledge and I further say that during the War I hired Nathan Dix of Preston Connecticut as a substitute for one month or more and William Wilkinson of said Exeter for another month making two months service or more of my class when I was absent and I further say that said Company was in service most of the time from the first of December 1776 to April 1777 and afterwards in 1777, 78 & 79 at alternate periods for one half the time and I further say that I never knew the said Gideon Popple to employ a substitute,

but well know that at all times when I was in service the said Popple was in service with me, and I further say that said services were in the state of Rhode Island, and that said Popple and myself were playmates together in Childhood, and that an intimacy was kept up during the War and that we went and returned together being neighbours and that said Popple well and truly served his Country at all times and places with me in the State of Rhode Island when and where I served in said Company in a Regiment commanded by Col Charles Dyer for a period of one year and ten months at least, and for a more particular description of said services I refer to my declaration made for the purpose of obtaining a pension, which was forwarded from the State of Rhode Island Nathan Rathbun
State of Connecticut Windham County ss
Plainfield August 22 1834
Then personally appeared Nathan Rathbun Esq. and signed the foregoing deposition, and made solemn Oath to the truth of the same, before me; And I certify that he is a credible Witness and that full faith and Credit may be given to his declaration Alvin Harris Justice of the Peace

Armin Bolles clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Allen Harris Esq. before whom the foregoing Affidavit was made is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace in and for said Windham County, that the foregoing signature of his name is in his hand writing, and full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this 22 d day of August A.D. 1834
Armin Bolles Clerk

I Reynolds Barber of Exeter in the County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island aged Eighty years. do testify and say that I am, and have been for seventy years, well acquainted with Gideon Popple formerly of Exeter aforesaid now residing in Canterbury in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut and that on the 16 th day of December 1776 the said Popple and myself were called out in the 3 rd Company of Exeter Militia under the Command of Lieutenant Phineas Kenyon and marched to Boston Neck in North Kingston in the State of Rhode Island where we served together in a Regiment comman- ded by Colonel Charles Dyer guarding the shores of the Narragansett Bay till the 26 th day of March 1777 during part of the aforesaid time said Company was commanded by Capt Uriah Randall who was supplied by the war committee, the Captain of said Company Daniel Barber not having served at that time, which term of service was three months and twenty days, during all which time the said Popple and myself were in constant service. On the 26 th day of March aforesaid the said Company were drafted to serve alternately till further orders and divided into classes and in this manner the said Popple and myself served in said Company till the month of October following, Samuel Gorton having been appointed Captain of said Company in May 1777 and George Kilcoy Lieut and making two months and one half of actual service from 26 th of March to 1 st of October 1777 at which time the whole of said Company was ordered out for one month and one half to, and was stationed at Tiverton and the said Popple and myself served together, after which time the said Company was again drafted to and did serve alternately till August 1778 having been a part of the time joined to the 1 st Company of Exeter Militia for that the Officers of the 3 rd Company were not elected

at some time after the expiration of their commissions of which 1 st Co Jonathan Bates was Captain - That sometime in the summer of 1778 George Wilcox was chosen Captain of said 3 rd Company, making five and one half months service from 1 st October 1777 to August 1778 at which time the whole of said Company was called out for one month in Sullivan's expedition, after which months service the said Company was again drafted to serve and did serve alternately till the 25 th of March 1779 making a period of four and one half months service from 1 st of August 1778 to 25 th of March 1779, and making in all sixteen months actual service and during said time I knew that the said Popple served for others as a substitute two or more terms which make eighteen months or more that I well recollect that the said Gideon Popple served in the war of the Revolution in the 3 rd Company of Exeter Militia between the 6 th day of December 1776 and the 25 th day of March 1779 at which last named time I removed from Exeter & Hopkinton in Rhode Island and when afterwards called out was in Colonel Mafons Regiment, and further the deponent saith not
Reynolds Barber
State of Connecticut
Windham County of Voluntown July 31 st 1834
Then personally appeared Reynolds Barber the above named deponent and subscribed the above deposition in my presence and made solemn oaths to the truth of the same before me, and I certify that he is a credible witness
William Dyer Justice of the Peace

I Solomon Lewis of Voluntown in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut aged Eighty three years do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Gideon Popple of Canterbury in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut and have been acquainted with him from childhood and that during the Revolutionary War the said Popple belonged to a company of Militia with me which was the 3 rd Company of Exeter Militia in the State of Rhode Island in a Regiment commanded by Col Charles Dyer and Lieut Colonels Ray Saunders and Thomas Potter and Majors Thomas Clarke and Jonathan Maxon and and Jonathan Barker and in a Company commanded while in the service by Lieut Phineas Kenyon Captain Uriah Brandall (who was furnished by the Committee of War) Samuel Barker Gorton, and George Wilson whether Samuel Gorton or George Wilson was last Captain he has forgotten but he thinks Samuel Gorton commanded the Company in 1781 there having been an arrangement he thinks in 1779 and 80 that two of the Companies should be put into one and another Company raised which was a Company of elderly men after which he thinks the Company to which he belonged was called the 2 nd Company That he was a near neighbor to said Popple and well knew him, and further that he has heard read the deposition of Reynolds Barber and believes that to be true and although he had not so good an opportunity of knowing all the facts as Reynolds Barber he having performed orderly duty and being clerk to the Company, yet he well recollects all main facts stated in said Barber's deposition, and although the deponent was sometimes absent himself he never knew said Popple to be absent from his tour of duty

but recollects that said Popple performed some tours of duty as a substitute and that he well recollects that said Popple was in the service after March 1779 in the State of Rhode Island for many tours of duty at various places on the Narragansett Bay viz at South Kingston for as many as four months at Brintons Creek as many as two months and North Kingston two months or more making after March 1779 more than eight months and in all more than two years service, that the said Eden Popple, who was a good soldier and never employed a substitute but went a substitute for others, served in the wars of the revolution in the State of Rhode Island in the Regiment and company aforesaid, and further the deponent saith not —
Solomon Lewis
State of Connecticut Windham County ss Voluntown July 31 st 1834 Then personally appeared Solomon Lewis the above named deponent and subscribed the above deposition in my presence and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me. And I certify that he is a credible witness —
William Dyer Justice of the Peace

Gideon Popple Wintham County Ct
Certificate to be sent to Mr Dyer Central Village Wintham County Oct 5

I Solomon Lewis of Voluntown in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut aged 83 years do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Gideon Popple formerly of Exeter in the County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island now residing in Canterbury in said Windham County and that said Gideon Popple served as a private soldier in a Company of Militia belonging to Exeter aforesaid and commanded during the war of the Revolution by Captain's Kenyon, Gorton and Wilcox in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Dyer and that part of the time I served with said Popple in said Company and part of the time I employed a substitute and that I never knew said Popple to be absent during the war when his term of service arrived nor did I ever know him at any time to employ a substitute and that he served between the year 1775 and the year 1782 as a private soldier in the State of Rhode Island in said Company a period of more than two years which service was performed at alternate terms of fifteen, twenty, and thirty days, and further the deponent saith not
Solomon Lewis

State of Connecticut Windham County ss Voluntarily June 11 th 1834
Personally appeared Solomon Lewis the within named deponent and subscribed the within deposition in my presence and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me — And I certify that he is a credible witness and that credit is to be given to his statement —
William Dyer Justice of the Peace

Green Pepper
Windham county 6c
Attest John Foster clerk State of Vermont

I Reynold Barker of Exeter in the State of Rhode Island, testify and say that I am well acquainted with Gideon Popple, formerly of South Kingston and Exeter in the said State of R. I. but now of the town of Westerbee in the State of Connecticut and do say that said Popple, served as a private in the Army of the revolution, as one of the Rhode Island Militia, as herein after stated, under the officers hereinafter stated. making in all the
officers hereinafter  mentioned and that the said Gideon Popple was a private soldier in the company with me under the command of which Crandall and Capt. Oliver Tinkham and Capt. Samuel Gorton and Capt. George Wilcox and belonging to Colonel Charles Dyer's Regiment and that we served from December 1776 to the Spring of the year 1778 and that we were stationed at North Kingston and on Block Island and on the shore in the state of Rhode Island to defend the places that should be invaded.
and further the Deponent saith not
Reynold Barker

State of Connecticut - County of Windham Is town of Voluntown - - July 27 th  May 1832.
Personally appeared Reynolds Basker, who has subscribed the within Affidavit, a person well known to me as a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the within Affidavit. Affmt.
Daniel Heighman -
} Justice of the Peace
I John S. Gordon Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of Windham, Connecticut certify and make known, that Daniel Heighman Esq. whose name is affixed to the two preceding certificates, is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Windham, and that his signatures thereunto affixed are genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 24 th day of August 1832 Attest John S. Gordon Clerk of Probate
Gideon Pople
Windham County Ct

The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this 12 th day of June A D 1834.
Almin Bolles Clerk
William Lloyd Canalbury William Lloyd Clerk

I Jonathan Barber of Exeter in the County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island aged 89 years do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Gideon Popple formerly of Exeter in the aforesaid now residing in Canterbury in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut, and that I have been acquainted with said Popple from childhood and that during the Revolutionary War we served together as soldiers in a Company of Militia belonging to said Exeter commanded by Captain George Henry and Capt George Wilcox in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Dyer which service was in the State of Rhode Island viz at Newport Wickford, South Kingston and other parts adjoining Narragansett Bay, and that we served together nearly two years, and that I believe the said Popple was in the service aforesaid under the command of Capt Samuel Gorton who commanded said Company part of the time during the war, and during which time I hired a man to take my place as a substitute but I have no recollection that said Popple was at home or absent from duty at any time when his turn of service arrived, and I lived near said Popple and had he procured a substitute or been at home from duty I should have known it and I now believe that he served in alternate terms of service of fifteen and thirty days between the years 1775 and 1782 a period of more than two years actual service, and that his statement is entitled to full credit - and further the deponent saith not
Jonathan Barber

State of Connecticut } Windham County } Voluntarily June 12 th 1834
Personally appeared Jonathan Barber the within named deponent and subscribed the within deposition in my presence, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me - And I certify that he is a credible witness and entitled to belief
William Dyer Justice of the Peace
I, Almon Bolles Clarke of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that William Dyer & Daniel Kellogg Esq rs before whom the affidavits annexed hereto were made, are duly enrolled as Justices of the Peace in and for said Windham County, that the said Dan l Kellogg was on the 27 th day of July 1832 duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace in and for said Windham County - and that full faith and credit ought to be given to their acts as such Justices of the Peace by reason of their names and in their hand writing &c -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this 12 th day of June A D 1834.
Almon Bolles Clarke
William Dyer Justice of the Peace Windham County Connecticut

65 aug 28
J. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington - D.C.

August 1834 Central Village
Windham County
Connecticut —
Sir
In answer to yours of August 16 th 1834 I have only to say that Reynolds Barber if I recollect intended to say that Popple served two months more than himself between certain dates stated in his deposition, and if his declaration states that he left Dexter in 1780 his declaration must be wrong, because, between Dec r 4: 1776 and the time in 1779 when he states in his affidavit that he left, you will readily see marked his entire period of service. I do not recollect his affidavit but I believe it is 1 st from Dec 1776 to April 1777 = 4 months and from April 1777 to April 1778 one half the time = 6 months and from April 1778 to April 1779 one half the time = 6 months or more making up the entire service so that he must have left in 1779. But I hope the matter will be put at rest by the deposition enclosed of Esq. Rattlesbury who belonged to the same class with Popple and who says that he, Popple was in the service at all times with him and that he Rattlesbury was in the service one year and ten months — besides employing a substitute two months or more — The fact is that Popple was in the service nearly all the time when any part of the Militia were called into service, either for himself or a substitute for others — whatever Pension can be allowed him from the evidence produced I wish a certificate to be forwarded therefor —
{ Popple's Papers as stated } { remain on file }
J. L. Edwards Esq
I am Yours
Respectfully
William Dyer

Supplementary Declaration of Gideon Toppa —

State of Connecticut Windham County ss. Plainfield August 2 nd 1834
On this 2 nd day of August 1834 Personally appeared Gideon Popple of Canterbury in said County who being sworn doth on his oath make the following supplemental declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7 th 1832 — That in his original declaration he stated that he was drafted and served alternately from August 1876 to April 1877, he now recollects that after one or two drafts said Dyer Company was called out and served constantly the winter of 1876 and 1877 though he was absent from Boston Neck to his home two or three times during the winter for a few days but was considered in constant service, and he further states that in 1876 and 1877 Lieut. Simeon Hemen and Capt. Uriah Brandall an Officer who had been in the service at Boston in Massachusetts, had the command of said Company afterwards Captains Samuel Gorton and George Wiley had the command during the war except for a short time in 1878 when the 3 rd Company was annexed to the 1 st Company. That is, all that were in the service, which was at that time commanded by Jonathan Bates, but during the whole war a part of two Companies were frequently put together and commanded by the Captain of one Company and the Lieut. of another and so by changing the Officers were relieved
Gideon Popple
State of Connecticut Windham County ss. Plainfield July 2 nd 1834 Personally appear the above named Gideon Popple and signed the above affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth of the same — and I certify that he is entitled to full credit — Williams Dyer Justice of the Peace.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of February 2 d 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution."
State of Connecticut } Windham County } ss.
On this 25 th day of August A.D. 1848, personally appeared Lois Popple before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mrs. Lois Popple, a resident of Hampton in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of February 2 d 1848, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of Gideon Popple who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and that she has drawn a pension at the rate of fifty dollars per annum under the Act of 17 th June 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Lois her Popple mark
Sworn & subscribed on this day & year above written before Thomas Gray Justice of the Peace
Appearance of Thomas Gray } Hannah Gray }
I certify that the Declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit. Thomas Gray Justice of the Peace

In order to obtain the benefits of the act of incorporation of the County of Kings, in the State of New York, passed March 22nd 1847, for the purpose of establishing a Court of Sessions, and for other purposes therein mentioned, the undersigned, having been duly qualified according to the provisions of said act, do hereby certify that the within is a true and correct copy of the original thereof, and that the same has been attested by me this 25th day of August, 1848.
I, the undersigned, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Kings, do hereby certify that Thomas Bradburn, who was appointed Assistant Clerk of said Court on the 25th day of August, 1847, and who has been duly qualified according to the provisions of the act "to incorporate the County of Kings, in the State of New York, for the purpose of establishing a Court of Sessions, and for other purposes therein mentioned," passed March 22nd 1847, is now a Justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned and qualified on the 25th day of August, 1848, and will expire on the 25th day of August, 1849. I further certify that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set, subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said County Court, at Brooklyn, this 30th day of August, Anno Domini 1848.
Alvah Fuller Ass't Clerk

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress of the 3 rd of March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain Widows who several have received pensions under the acts of July 7 th 1838
State of Connecticut
County of Windham } B. Canterbury
On this twenty Third Friday of June In the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty three, Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Windham Mrs. Lois Popple a resident of said Canterbury aged 73 years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by Congress the act of Congress passed on the 3 rd day of March 1843- granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Gideon Popple formerly of Voluntown in said County of Windham and lately of said Canterbury now deceased who by the name of Gideon Popple was a private in the army of the Revolution, and and was pensioner of the United States under the law of 1832 - receiving therefrom Fifty dollars per annum up to the time of his death, his Certificate bearing date September 3 rd 1834. The period, place and Corps in which he served it is impossible for this applicant to know, altho she has heard him tell formerly (all) of his hardships and privations when in the war; and therefor, and the evidence, she respectfully refers to his original application to wit Gideon Popple her late Husband which application and evidence is on file in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions, and herewith transmits to said Commissioner of Pensions, the Pension Certificate of her said Husband Gideon Popple
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This applicant on oath further declares that on the 9 th day Ninth day of December 1789 she was by the name of Lois Green lawfully married to the said Gideon Popple at said Voluntown by Allen Campbell Esq d . a Justice of the Peace and at the time of said intermarriage her said husband was known by the name of Gideon Popplestone, and was so married to this applicant; That Gideon Popple the Pensioner before named and Gideon Popplestone, married to this applicant, as aforesaid are one and identically the same person. - That after the said marriage a part of the name of her said husband, to wit the last syllable was dropped, and thereafter, and at the time he received his Pension he was known and called by the name of Gideon Popple And that a certificate of her marriage from the town Clerk of said Voluntown was sent to the Commissioner of Pensions accompanying her application for a Pension under the Act of 1838, and also a certificate from the court of Probate for the District of Canterbury of the day and date of the decease of her said husband Gideon Popple, and to which she respectfully refers.
She further declares that she is still a Widow Signed in presence of Lois X Popple mark
.. Frances F. Jacobs.
Socrates Bulcam
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me
Socrates Bulcam Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut } County of Windham } ss Canterbury
On this twenty third day of June A.D. 1843 - personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Windham Mrs. Lois Papple of said Canterbury and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing Declaration by her subscribed. -
I here by Certify that the said declarant is a reputable person and that her statements is entitled to full credit
I further Certify that she is the identical person she represents her self to be. to Wit Lois Papple Widow of Mr. Gideon Papple late of S d Canterbury deceased
Socrates Balcom Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut } Windham County } ss.
I Uriel Fuller, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham in the State aforesaid, do certify, that Socrates Balcom Esq d , before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn, is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned & qualified in & for S d County, that his Commission bears date the 8 th day of June 1843 & will expire on the 20 th day of June 1848. I further certify that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & that I surely believe the foregoing signa- ture purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of S d Court at Brooklyn this 26 th day of June 1848 -
Uriel Fuller Clerk