Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14414, Josiah Butts, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Butts, Josiah Lydia
No. 14414.
CONTENTS

3360.
Massachusetts
Jonah Butts, 4
Private, 02 S. B. Wells Regt. 1 year 83
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts , at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of Oct 1818. and sent to John Hooker Esq. Springfield, Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 13 4 mo / 30 34.66 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th May 1819 48.00
$82.66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Concord Dutton, Berkshire County,
Notes sent to Parker Hall Esq. 21 Jan 1821 Henry Chap

4838 Massachusetts
Lydia Butts widow of Josiah Butts who was a Private in the Revolution Mass Conn.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5. day of Feb. 1844 and sent to E.R. Coll Pittsfield, Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book  A. Vol.  1.  Page  60.
Ref.

Josiah Butts - 25 April
Correct

Pittsfield Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On this twenty fifth day of April A D 1818 before me the Subscribed first Judge of the Circuit Court for the Western Circuit in this Commonwealth, personally appeared Josiah Butts aged fifty six years resident in the town of Dalton in the County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision 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 the said Josiah Butts enlisted in the town of Canterbury in the State of Connecticut in the Company Commanded by Captain Samuel Williams of the Regiment Commanded by Col. Samuel B. Webb March 15. 1782 That he continued to serve in the said company, or in the service of the United States until March 15. 1783. when he was discharged from service at Westpoint in the State of New York, and that he is in reduced circumstances and hands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service - that the discharge here has been lost. being considered as no use -
Josiah Butts
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid
John Hooker
I John Hooker first Judge &c as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Josiah Butts did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and held before me to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the direction of the aforesaid act of Congress
John Hooker
Pittsfield April 25. 1818
The clerk of said Court in said County do hereby certify that John Hooker is Clerk of said Court & that the above is his signature - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court
W. Woodbridge C.R.

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Josiah Butts. -
3360
Parker L. Hall clerk

District of Massachusetts, ss :
ON this 29 th day of June A.D. ~ 1820 ; Personally appeared in open Court before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Lenox, within and for the County of Berkshire, in the Western Circuit, on the 4th Monday of June 1820, the same Court, being a Court of records for said Circuit ; proceeding according to the course of the common Law, with a jurisdiction, unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment.
Josiah Butts aged fifty eight years, resident in Dalton in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows ; that he enlisted in the company commanded by Captain Williams in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sam l B. Webb in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment. That his original declaration is dated (25 th day of April 1818. and that his pension certificate is numbered 3,360.
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and 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 and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th 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, hereto annexed, and by me subscribed—schedule of property, necessary clothing and bedding excepted—to wit :
  one small unfinished house & seven acres of mountain land of the value of  $100.00    one cow $18. two yearlings $14. one swine $5, two old kettles $4, one dish kettle $1, one pot $1.  43.00    one old spider 25 cts one plater 25 cts 1 bacon 12 cts six earthen plates — 24 cts  .86    four knives & forks 20 cts four spoons 8 cts four butter plates 25 cts two tin basins 12 cts  .65    1 tin pail 25 cts one butter cup 17 cts one pail 12 cts one chest 50 cts  1.04    one table 50 cts four chairs 24 cts one wheel $1, one shovel & tongs $1.  2.74     $148 29  
Of the above property ten Dollars & thirty cents worth has been procured with pension money heretofore received. I have no debts due to me but owe debts to the amount of forty five Dollars which are now due.
That I am by occupation a Husbandman that I am not able to labour, having a lame leg & being afflicted with a Cancer on my face, tho' not troublesome that the number of my family residing with me is two — that their names and ages are as follow : To wit, my wife Lydia Butts aged Sixty three . who is infirm & hardly able to cook her board & mine. also Maria Butts aged about thirty , who helps us some, but has been in a public state of health for four years past.
(sign!) Josiah Butts
Sworn to, and declared on the 29 th day of June 1820, before the said Court — (sign!) Parker L. Hall Clerk pro tem.
I Parker L. Hall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Berkshire 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 forty eight dollars and twenty nine cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this ninth day of August 1820.
Parker L. Hall
CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE.

V 7052 Lydia Puffs.
Mass.
Act of July '38.
on Roll. S. B. Webb 12 mo Rosenblatt adnd 12 mo pri 40 $
No deduction
E Packard esq Cummington Mass.

State of Massachusetts } ss County of Berkshire } ss
On this thirtieth day of April Eighteen hundred and forty personally appeared before the Hon William P Walker Judge of Probate for the County aforesaid Lydia Butts a resident of Dattow in the County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts aged Eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows. That she is the widow of Josiah Butts who was a soldier of the Revolution that he enlisted in the town of Canterbury in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut for the term but at what time or year she is unable to state of one year, that your applicant believes he was stationed at West Point but under what Officers she is unable to state. For the service aforesaid he received a pension from the United States under the law of 1818 and his Pension Certificate was returned to the War Office after his death in 1831 and for evidence of his service she must rely on the evidence submitted to the War Department when he obtained his pension in 1818 or 1819
And she further declares that she was married to the said Josiah Butts on the first day of December 1785 and that her husband the aforesaid Josiah Butts died on the thirtieth day of October Eighteen hundred and thirty one and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed and she further declares that she was married prior to the first of January seven- -teen hundred and ninety four, to wit on the first of December 1785.
5.
her Lydia (signature) Butts small
Subscribed & sworn to before me the Subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the

County of Berkshire aforesaid - & I certify that said Declaration was made & the oath thereto administered at the dwelling house of the said Lydia Butts in Dathan in said County - & that by reason of extreme age and bodily infirmity, she was unable to appear & make her declaration in open Court
William P. Walker In age of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss I Henry M c Bishop Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Berkshire do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Lydia Butts for a pension - that the Hon. William P. Walker is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned & qualified, and that the above signature purporting to be his, and also his signature to the certificate of oath annexed to the deposition of Sherubal Otis & Irene Otis, hereto attached are his genuine signatures
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this eighteenth day of May A D 1840
Henry M c Bishop Reg t Probate

I Erastus Butts of Cummington in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged fifty two years do hereby say that the family Bible of my Father Jonah Butts is in my possession and has been since his decease and that I found in said Bible when it came into my possession the following record
Jonah Butts and Lydia Hovey were united in Marriage December first one thousand seven hundred and eighty five.
The foregoing is a true Copy with the exception of the date which is expressed in plain legible figures as follows Dec 1 1785.
And I further depose and say that I have searched the records of the town of Dalton and the Church Records of said town and also the Church Records of the town of Peru and have not been able to find the record of marriage of my Father and Mother
Cummington July 6 1840 Erastus Butts
Hampshire ss July 6 1840 Then personally appeared Erastus Butts and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed and I further certify that the aforesaid Erastus Butts is a credible person
Elizabeth Packard Justice of the Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Eliphalet Packard Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Eliphalet Packard and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty .
Clerk.

Family Record.
BIRTHS.
BIRTHS.
Josiah Smith son born Oct. 3. 1761
Lydia Hovey born April 28. 1756
These births correspond with the ages sworn to in 1818 & 1820
[Handwritten signature]

Family Record.
MARRIAGES.
MARRIAGES.
Josiah Butts & Lydia Hovey were united in marriage Dec. 1-1785

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14 414
Lydia Butts
Widow of
Josiah Butts
Pre Civil War
Act: March 3 rd 48
Index:—Vol. a , Page 103
[Arrangement of 1870.]

V 7082 Mass.
Let. to E. Packard.
June 30, 1840.
To Hon G. N. Briggs -
(post to above) July 9, 1840.
do: to E. Packard
Aug t 8 th 1840
act 7. July 38.

Massachusetts - 5749.
Lydia Butts - widow of Josiah Butts, dec d -
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March, 1818 - and who died on the 13 th October, 1831 - of Berkshire in the State of Mass ts - who was a Private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg t - commanded by Col. S. H. Webb in the Mass ts - line for 12 months private.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 40 Dollars _____ Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of Sep- tember 1840 and sent to E. Pack- ard, Esq. Cummingsville, Mass ts -
to the 4 th of March, 1841
Semi-annual allowance ending
$200.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk, Book L Vol. 1, Page 73.

5249
L. Bulks
$40 per a
E. R. Colt Pittsfield Mass

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3 d March 1823, granting pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7. 1838.
State of Massachusetts Berkshire County, ss.
On this Twenty fifth day of December 1843, personally appeared before me Ezekiel Root, a justice of the peace in and for the said County, Lydia Butts a resident of the town of Dalton in the said County, aged Eighty Seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 d March, 1823, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the revolutionary War - That she is the widow of Josiah Butts, deceased, late a pensioner of the United States who was a private in the Revolutionary War - that she is unable to state any further fact in relation to his service in the said War - That the annual pension she received under the act of July 7 th 1838 was Forty Dollars. - She further declares that she is still a Widow.
and I certify that on the said Twenty fifth day of December, personally appeared before me Shubel Otis and made oath that Lydia Butts, the person who made the foregoing declaration, is personally known to him to be the person described in said declaration, which is to me satisfactory evidence of that fact. the word "deceased, late a pensioner of the United States," inserted before signing
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Ezekiel Root Justice of the peace Lydia X Butts mark Witnesses Shubel Otis Irene Otis

State of Massachusetts Berkshire County ss
I Charles Sedgwick, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State aforesaid, for the County of Berkshire, do hereby certify that Ezekiel R. Babb is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County of Berkshire, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his commission was dated on the 13 th day of December 1839, and will expire on the 13 th day of December 1846, and that his signature within written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 25 th day of January 1846. Charles Sedgwick Clerk

7052
Rev. J. L. Edwards.
Country of Pensions. Washington.

Mr. Edwards is respectfully Mr. Butts, if a Pension is granted him to forward the Certificate to Eliphalet Packard Esq. of Cummington, Hampshire County, Ms. and if further evidence is wanted to notify him of the same - respectfully
Lenox May 18. 1840. W. P. Walker

July 13. 1840
Wm Lloyd Jones Esq. Sir
map and proof Syria. Dutt.
J. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Cummington July 9 1840
J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pension In yours in relation to Mrs. Lydia Bull of 30 Jan was recd. The records of the town of Dalton and the Church records contain nothing in relation to the Marriage of Mrs. Bull that can be found. Hook Plan Inst after the incorporation of that town and before they had a settled minister. The Rev Mr. Jennings who has been for fifty years year or nearly that a resident and a Chryseman of Dalton informs me that when he first came to Dalton it was reported and Bull was engaged at for praying the Rev John Leland of Pown in Beans for joining her in Marriage to Lydia Hovey. I have found an old family Bible in possession of her oldest son now a resident of this town which has a record of their Marriage the Affidavit with the Copy of Record of said son is enclosed which I believe is all the records that can be found. All the elderly people of the town of Dalton remember the story of the Beans and that said Josiah and Lydia lived in a cottage together raised a family and sustained many relations subsequent between man and W. C. during her life Respectfully your Obed Servt Elizabeth Packard

map. Aug 17. 1840 add proof Lydia Butts. J. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Cummington August 13 1840
J. P. Edwards Esq. Commence of Pension
In Enclosure I forward you the list containing the family Register and the only record that can be found in existence very many of the elder people in the town of Dalton recollect of their Marriage but was not present and know that they reared a family and cohabited together as man and wife until his decease.
Your humble Servt Elizabeth Packard

This certifies that I have examined the Records of the Town of Dalton and that the Marriage of Josiah Butts & Lydia Hovey is not recorded in our book of Records
Henry Stone Town Clerk
(Dalton May 13 th 1840
Sworn to, before me, John Chamberlin Jr. Pro.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Pike's Peak.
Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County & Commonwealth do certify that John Chamberlin Esq is sworn on the 13 th day of May 1840. a Justice of the Peace in said County duly Commissioned and qualified. That the foregoing affidavit purporting to be his signature - Witness my hand & the seal of Court this 18 th day of May 1840.
C. Sedgwick Clerk

I Hannah Puff of Hinsdale in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts widow of Ebenezer Puff late of said Hinsdale. Aged Twenty Eight years. Do depose & say, That My Sister Lydia Hovey was married in the year Seventeen hundred & Eighty four or Eighty five to Josiah Butts of Dalton in said County, at My Father's house in said Dalton. That My said Sister Lydia is six years older than myself. That I was present when she was married. That the marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Leland deceased, late of Peru in said County. That the said Josiah Butts died in said Dalton, some eight or nine years since. That My said Sister Lydia now remains the widow of said Josiah Butts and that he the said Josiah before he died was a Pensioner for his services in the war of the Revolution. Further the Deponent saith not.
In presence of Polly Leland
Hannah her Puff Mark
Curelia Loveland
Berkshire ss
Sworn to, and subscribed before me the subscriber at Hinsdale this seven the day of April A D one thousand Eight hundred & forty. I further certify that the Deponent is an credible person
Chas H Plumb Justice of the Peace in & for said County
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss.
I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County Commonwealth do certify

think Charles W. Plunkett Esq. & was the 7 th day of April 1840. a Justice of the Peace in & for said County. duly commissioned & qualified, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court at Leaven this eighteenth day of May 1840. Edward Smith Clerk.

State of Massachusetts } Berkshire County } S
We Shubal Otis and Irene Otis of Dalton in said County of lawful age depose and say that Isaiah Butts husband of Lydia Butts to our certain knowledge died on the thirtieth day of October Eighteen hundred and thirty one and that he left the said Lydia his widow who is still living and remains his widow Dalton April 30 1840
Shubal Otis Irene Otis
Berkshire ss April 30 1840 Then personally appeared Shubal Otis and Irene Otis and made oath that the foregoing affidavit is true and I further certify that the affiants and deponents are credible persons
Before me, William P. Walker Judge of Probate