Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 901, Ephraim Capron, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
NUMBER
Capron, Ephraim or Capron
N 901
B.L.Wt 9077-160-55
Hannah
CONTENTS
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Let to Hannah Capron, May 12. 1837. — do. to same June 13. 1837. — Same Oct 3. 1837. — to same, 18 Dec. 1838. — same Sept 4. 1839.
Application sent October 23. 1839 to G. W. Chapman, Clerk of Orange Co. Williamstown Vermont
8528 4/ Vermont.
Ephraim Capron, of Williamstown in the state of Vermont, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vose, of the Massach ts . line, for the term of nine months, 1779.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19. of May, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27. of March 19, and sent to Elijah Paine, judge Williamstown, Orange Co: Vermont.
  Arrears to 4th of March, 1819. . .  76.39    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Sept. 7  48 "    9 mo. \frac{17}{31} } 1819. }  $: 124.39  
Revolutionary claim, } Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Ephraim Capron, private Williamston, Vt. Col: Vose's Regt. Mts. 19. May, 1818. of me, the

Ephraim Capron for a person.
Maple Lane
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The Judge
should certify
this order
to the

District of Vermont, ss On this Nineteenth day of May in the Year of Our Lord 1818 before me the subscribers of the Judges of the District court of the United States for the said District of Vermont, Personally appears Ephraim Capron aged fifty six years, resident in Williamstown in 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 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 Eph m Capron enlisted in Westboro in the State of Massachusetts in the company command- ed by Capt. Mills, in the first Massachus- etts Regiment commanded by Col n South- wick, on the third day of June 1779 - and continued in the service ("of the United States officers") until the first of April 1780 when he was discharged from service on the high Lands in the state of New York - that he was in the battle at White Plain in the

State of New York on the third day of February 1780 - And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
I swear to and declare before me the day and year aforesaid
Elijah Paine
I Elijah Paine Judge as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ephraim Capron did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy for the term of nine months on the continental establishment & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony had & taken before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress.
Williamstown May 19. 1810
Elijah Paine
I Elijah Paine Judge as aforesaid to the Secretary of War do certify that from the testimony exhibited & from my own knowledge I am satisfied that the said Ephraim Capron is in reduced circumstances & needs the assistance of his country for support.
Williamstown Feb. 12. 1819
Elijah Paine

75 Ephraim Capron Declaration & Schedule Capron
1528 Sept 1819
EM
STATE OF VERMONT
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STATE OF VERMONT, Orange County, ss.
On this third day of July
1820
personally appeared before the County court for said county of Orange in open court,
(said court being a court of record, agreeably to the laws of this state, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c.) Ephraim Capron aged 59 years, resident in
Williamstown in said county of Orange who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth,
on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows: he enlisted in the Revolutionary Army in June 1779 for nine months in Capt. Wells Company in Col. Vose's Regiment Massachusetts Line Served my enlistment and was Discharged
that he made his original declaration on the 19 day of May 1818
has received a Pension Certificate, No. 8528 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.
one Cow, 2 Small pigs — 1 Grind Stone, one Broad ax, one Saw, 20 old planks, three old Saws, 2 hammers, 6 old axes, 7 Chisels one Shave one Beetle, 3 bits 20 New Nails 2 axes, pitch fork 2 wheels, 1 wash tub, 2 pails, 1 low Chest 1 Table five Chairs 1 Salt mortar 1 Gallon bottle 2 Scires 1 pail full pot 2 Dish Plates Tea Kettle, Slices & Tongs Still yards 3 candle sticks, Shears 3 old Boxes, 1 Small Tub 4 milk pans one Meat tub 2 pewter platters 5 pewter plates Several Small articles of furniture amounting in the whole to the Sum of $50.75 and I am owing $75 69,
My family consists of my self (who has been here 20 years) and Hannah my wife aged 38 years Smart has brought nine Children in a short time the oldest Simon next Lyman, next Myransa next Serina, next Freeman

Certificate of the Marriage of Ephraim Capron & Hannah Sanders Copy
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Orange County ss } Be it remembered that at Barre in the County of Orange and State of Vermont Ephraim Capron and Hannah Sanders both of Williamstown in said County were duly joined in Marriage by me March 20 th A.D. 1867. — Nathan Stone Justice of Peace
I hereby certify the above to be a true Copy of the Record of Marriage of Ephraim Capron and Hannah Sanders as found on the Book of Records of Marriages in Barre Albert Alvan Carter Town Clerk of Barre
Barre Jan 05 th 1845

Springville N.Y. Apr 22 1879
Apr 29. Ephraim Capron St. Lk 27 Mar 19 Pioneer Office
Washington D.C.

April the 19th 1837 Ephraim Capron mentioned died in the year of 1829 in October the 13 aged 66 he left a wife and eleven children that was under 21 years old that I am the mother of Ephraim Capron the petitioner has been the husband to 3 wives and after her to 21 children and 17 of them are living now for what I know my eleven children was all alive and well last January I heard from them all I will take the trouble of writing my self because I now live in Asford in Catteraugus county near the creek and the people here is not acquainted with my husband here he died in Williamstown in Vermont there I lived with him 21 years the next March after his death after his death I went to the probate court and took out a letter of administration and settled my estate according to the laws of Vermont and took out letters of guardianship for my chil- dren all that wanted guardians. Miriam and Lyman was so near 21 that they choose not to have any and Marahly was 18 and Jemima was so near 18 that she did not choose to have any but Freeman and William choose me for to be their guar- dian then two was over fourteen and the judge of probate appointed me guardian over Clarissa Nathan Nelson Joseph and Benjamin Capron I had my property all seized and it was but little and the judge give it to me and there was nothing to pay debts with and what was due to me I could not get for they all would make county enough to hallance mine and if I worked for any body when I asked for my pay they would tell me that they would turn it on the old account so I could not gain ahead any and see that I must wake up house keeping for I could not keep what little I had and suffer

my self and children so I put them all out but my two youngest boys and then I have been with me we left Williamstown the 10 of October in 1833 we arrived arrived at my brother's house in this town the 5th of November all the property I had to pay me for 30 years hard labor in Williamstown was two little smart lively boys and two sows of close grained and one cow that was with us to a brother I had in Pennsylvania we sold the cow there and get money to pay our passage on the water to Buffalo then common post to my brother's in Aspford my brother and his family was all glad to see me and more so on the account of my poverty for he and his wife had yet to be old and she wanted me to do her hard worke and allways live with them and put my two boys out and when I was past labor they could put me to the poor house so I found what their minds was and after I had lived so one year I left me a large house in the woods my brother's son borrowed some money of me and he would not pay it because he thought I could not hold my house without it but I did and as soon as I moved into my own house he charged me for my board one dollar a week and sued me and get a bill of cost onto me and I lost all my money and one year worke and they was so put out with me because I would not put my two boys out and live with them as soon as my Joseph was fourteen my brother's son took him and went to the judge and he none to me and get a letter of guardianship for my boy and I had care my self but he made the boy believe that he could keep the boys earnings away from me so my son Benjamin and I live in our lighthouse

yet a man by the name of Austin married my oldest daughter and lived in here last January and he told me that the news came in the Government papers that there was an act passed in Congress that all the old pensioners widows should have a pension the same as their husbands did so I thought I would in- quire into it I don't take the papers my- self so I went round among my neigh- bors to look up a paper that had it in I found no paper that had it in for they was most all religious papers I found two persons that said they read it in their paper but they had cut it up and and one of my neighbors said he was over to Government last fall and he read it himself in the paper and that all for he see a coloured woman that had get her money last fall her husband was a pensioner and died a number of years ago and she had get her money for he see her and she told him so and they told me to go to one Samuel Lake he could tell me all about it for he had helped a grate many to get onto the pension list so I went to him and he said that he had not seen it in the pa- per but he would send to Buffalo and if it was so he would tend to it and I must prove the time I was married and prove that I was a pensioner widow and all the way I have prove it is by my letters of administration and one letter of guardian which I will send and the other letter I must keep for they are not all of age yet and I will send the paper that has got the inventory of my estate and their names and I have prove that my husband was a pensioner by my daughter Marancy Austin the widow Hannah Casper on her own hand writing

Mary Austin knows that I am her mother and knows that my husband drawed pension and he always called himself father to her Mr Lake hinted as if he thought I was too young to be an old pensioner's widow my age is 55 now I remember when my man's 2 th wife died but his 1 st wife I cannot remember when she died this is the truth and if congress pleases to give me a certificate I hope they will send it to as soon as it can be done
Apr 29. Ephraim Capron Ft. Lick 27 Mar 19  Springfield Ill Apr 22

Set to Pension 14 May 51/4
Pittsburg No 2741 Mandah Capron widow of Ephraim Capron Agency Pittsburgh who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private Mass
scribed on the Roll at the rate of 96. Dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the day of November 1852 and sent to John S Callaher Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 103. Vol. A
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Washington County Ss.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on this 25 th . Day of April A. D. 1853. Heard personally Before me a justice of the peace in and for said County Marah Capron of weak & infirm health - a resident of said County these last four years - and personally known to me - And being duly sworn according to law Doth on her solemn oath make the following Declaration that she may obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the third February A. D. 1853. granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary War - That she is the widow of Ephraim Capron who received a pension the last eight or nine years of his life for services as a private soldier during the revolutionary War. This declarant says her husband received his pension under an act of Congress made for the benefit of poor soldiers of the revolutionary war - that some time after the passage of said act Commissioners of the Government visited her husband's house in Williamstown in the State of Vermont to appraise his goods and chattels who did perform that service and also took a list of her name with the names of their children along with said inventory of their goods and chattels. The names of these Appraisers were Abiel Smith and Josiah White - That she believes this inventory and list of family names was made in the year of our Lord 1820. Declarant canot recollect the exact date or title of the act under which the pension was drawn - That her husband did draw 96 Dollars yearly - Declarant canot say who was the proper agent to pay the pensions - but she declares Calvin Ainsworth of Williamstown Vermont paid her a certain premium after her husband's death

Declarant says further said petitioner Ephraim Capron died on the 14 th of October A. D. 1824 in Williamsstown Vermont where he lived during the time he was a petitioner She further declares she is now Seventy one years of age That she was lawfully and truly married to said Ephraim Capron on the 15 th of March A. D. 1806 at the town of Barry in the state of Vermont by Nathan Stone Esq r . That she was not married to him prior to the 1 st of January 1800 but at the time above stated And that she has remained his widow ever since that time Further declarant says she believes these facts here declared will be proved and verified by the papers and evidence upon which Ephraim Capron received his pension
Sworn to and subscribed before me { Hannah Capron this 25 th day of April A. D. 1853 above written { Hannah Ferguson J. P.

70.434 } Act Mar 3/55 Ree Apr 14/55
Hannah Capron wid of Ephraim Capron
241 Piqua Private Col Vose Miss Line War Revolution
90 24
Pu Feb 53-2741 Boynston
Ad. 160 acs Oct 19/55 Dodge
John H Miller Steubenville Ohio
Vol. 1-5

70.434 Wamego, Caprois. Bounty. Land Application
Act of March 1835.
Address John H. Miller Steubenville Ohio

State of Ohio Jefferson County ss On this tenth day of March AD 1885 before me a "Notary Public" within and for the county and State aforesaid personally came Hannah Capron who being first duly sworn according to law says that she is the widow of Ephraim Capron who was a Revolutionary Soldier in a Company Commanded by Captain name forgotten from the State of Vermont.
She States that her said husband drew a Pension for his services in said war until the date of his death which took place in Orange County in the State of Vermont on the 13 th day of October AD 1827
She States that she was married to the said Ephraim Capron on the 18 th day of March AD 1806 in name forgotten County State of Vermont
by our Nathan Stone a Justice of the Peace that her name before marriage was Hannah Saunders. She States that she made appli- cation for a pension under the act of February third AD 1853, and has been receiving a pension under said act since that date as the widow of said Ephraim Capron, at the rate of thirty six dollars per year. That she has remained the widow of the said Ephraim Cap- ron ever since his death, that she now resides in the County of Jefferson and State of Ohio and has so resided for more than three years past. She States that she has not received a Bounty or Land Warrant under any act of Congress.
That her place of receiving her pension is in Pittsburgh agency, and the date of said certificate is November first 1883 I authorize John H. Miller to receive my warrant of the Bureau of Pensions she makes this declaration for the purpose of

obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act passed March 3d 1855; & I authorize John H. Miller Esq. of Steubenville, Ohio to receive my Warrant for Mrs. Hannah Capron
Attest John C. Elliott Wm Cowhine
We John, Elliott and William, Cowhine residents of Jefferson County in the State of Ohio upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged in our presence by Hannah Capron and we believe from the appearance and statements of the said Hannah Capron and from the fact that she draws a pension of ninety six dollars per year that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
John C. Elliott Wm Cowhine
The foregoing declaration and affidavits 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 her claim
Robert Shearman Notary Public

W 901
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Ephraim Capron a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or and his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 3. 1779 to Apr. 1. 1780 Pvt. Millar Joseph Vose Mass          Soldier was the son of Christopher Capron and soldier's mother whose name is not stated, re-married John or Jehu Cannon.
Battles engaged in, one at White Plains on Feb. 3. 1780 Residence of soldier at enlistment, He enlisted at Weston, Mass. Date of application for pension, May 19. 1818. His claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Williamstown Orange Co. Vt. Age at date of application, 56 years. He died at Williamstown Vt. Oct. 13. 1827.
Remarks: He mar. at Barre Orange Co. Vt. on Mar. 18 or 20, 1806 or 1807 Hannah Sanders of Williamstown, Vt. she was born Jan. 9. 1777. They had the following eleven children: Hiram, Lyman, Myranda or Marancy who mar. - Austin, Dertina, Freeman, William, Clarissa, Nathan, Nelson, Joseph and Benjamin - Sol. had 3 wives and 21 children. No names stated other than as above. Wid. Hannah was allowed pen. on an ap. es. Apr. 28-1853 while a res. of Monongahela City, Wash. Co., Pa.  Respectfully,
Commissioner.

1906. Aug. 17. Hist. to Mrs Geo. D. Barnes and 1917 May 26. History to Herman E. Kittredge, 8044, 21 st St. N.W. Washington D.C. aw.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 901 Hannah Gahron,
Widow, Ephraim Gahron, Priv. Rev. War,
Act. Feb. 3. 1853.
Index:—Vol. 4 , Page 112
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No. 70434
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 14, 1855
Ebenezer Dapson Rev. War
Warrant 907780-55
John L. Miller Steubenville Ohio

9077
160 Aug

13300 Hannah Capron, Vt.
Letter to Dear  Dear Cousin, March 16. 47.
Act 7 th July 1838.

The package addressed to Mrs. Capron on the 18 th Dec. 1838, ret. with dead lilies, on the 24 th Aug 1839, and re-sent to her at Griffin's Mills, N.Y. Sept 5. 1839.
Sept. 49

No 2293
Hannah Capron, widow of Ephraim Capron Letter to Andrew Wylie Jr. (Ry) Sept. 6/53.
Part asking R to pay at one of Conn. t.

Pension Office
16 Aug 53
This case is referred upward to 3 rd Indictment for date of death of Pen- sioner, and of last pay roll
Very Respectfully
J. C. Cole Chief Clerk
D. M. C. (see other side.)
Ephraim Leavitt, Act 1818.
#8. p. m. — Dec 13. 1 st Act.
1827, Paid to his death
F. Brink
Augton.

STATE OF VERMONT, } Orange County, ss. }
I, H. C. McLaughlin clerk of the Caernarvon court for the county of Caernarvon 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 afore- said schedule is fifty dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, at Boston Chelsea this third day of July 182 0  W. S. Southwick
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1820 J. E. McLaughlin

March 4. 1853
App d of Hannah Capron widow of Ephraim. Washington Co
AS Penna S. 19
Act 3 d Seely: 1853 $96. 00 Per An Com-Feb: 3 d 1853 Rev:
Insp d ea 16 Aug 1853 Nov - proof of marriage & death of Soldier
Andrew Cylie Jr. Present
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business

Springville U.T. Sept 9 Dear
Sept 12
Eliza Capt. Cahan N.Y.C.
Person Office
Washington City
J. G.

September the 3 th 1837 I would respectfully inform you that the 29 th of May last I was early at judge days house in Callibollville and he told me that there was answer come in to his office by the mail the night before from government and I was not entitled to a pension I asked him if he had opened it he said he had and I was not entitled to a pension there was but a few words in it he could not remember what the all was but they wrote very short he said now he did not know what I wrote to government for they did not tell of any out order I was not entitled to a pension I told him that I wrote to them to see if they would not appen- pionate a small donation to save life and he went out and I waited for them to come in to know where he would be in his office for it was last week and he would be in the next house he did not come in the next morning I came home and passed by his office and thought I should take it and I met Mr day against his office and he walked with me to the next door and talked about the law of the widows pension and it slipped my mind and I did not get that answer from government but I thought I should be over again and would get it but I was taken sick and could not go so I wrote a line to him and a line to Mr Mark of Springville to get him to go and see Mr day and see if gover- nment had sent me any money or not and if they had not I wanted he should see the peer master for I was in a peer place to live and was not able to go away and must have some help from some quarter or I should perish with hunger and no one would know the cause of my death and whether he had done any thing about it or not I dont know but I think government has sent me some thing for my relief for it would be as good as to save ones life as it would be to give a wid one a pension if their marriage did not take place till after the war Mrs Malley Downs was not a wife but 30 days and lived a widow 60 years and never had

one child to bring up and is now on the pension list 85 years old she never had to man out Eleven sons fit for the training hand to take the field after her husband left it nor she never had to take the care of a revolutionary soldier through the last stage of his life and wait on him night and day for 10 years helpless as my man was she merited her pension by living a widow so long and I think I have merited a pension by taking pity on a revolutionary soldier in my younger days and bring up so many young soldiers and rig them fit for the train- ing hand without any help from pension or county six of them listed into the rifle com- pany in Vermont before I came from there and 2. sons it cost and it theirs and I one hun- dred do to give them sense their father died Christopher Hanson my husband father put my husband out when he was young and listed into the war himself and when my man was fifteen his master was again to market and he was called up early one mor- ning after his master was gone he took a hand- le and went into the gavit to shell corn and the corn arie from the neck and struck the floor by him he took the handle and went down he said it was louder than aban- non the Jews corn soon that his father was died and when he was in his eighteenth year he listed himself his mother after common her of years married to one John Hanson and I lived with her three years then I mar- ried her son Ephraim Hanson and she and he both told me all about this my man never had but two brothers and they live in New York his two sisters both died and left no children and now if widow's married again shall not have the pension but the children shall I do not see but I am entitled to 6 years pension on father Hanson as he did not live in the old revolutionary war I have not lived in this country but about three years

years and people here is not acquainted with my husband nor me not tell I came here and they tell me I must write my self for I no more u about it then they do when I wrote last to congress I was to Ellissetville to see the poor master to see if he would help me it was too up I had yet that first return and he said he could not help me no other way then to put me in the poor house for they had no money on hand and I thought to go into the poor house would be a little too tough for me so I wrote the second time to government and what the answer is I dont know and some think as well as I that Mr May is neg- ish about it and I have suffered this summer for the want of alittle assistance as soon as what was next I and my boy went and gath- ered up the scatterings enough to make one bushel and so I have lived and if government does not see fit to assist me it appears as if I could not live through another winter un- less I go to the poorhouse that will be some thing better for me to go in the world this and Mrs Melly downs without a child will have to take her 60 hundred dollars and go down to her grave this appears will be the lot of two revolu- tionary soldiers widows my husband fought for upre country as much as hers did and lived through the whole war and was killed in the old french war his father was not in it and he lived untill the revolutionary war began and died in it I dont know exactly how old my man was when his father died but he told me the war ended before he was 21 one thing more I would mention before there was any act passed for the revolutionary sol- diers my husband and I children and I was on the lower the lower poor and the first act that was passed was for the poor old re- volutionary soldiers that could not support them selves and families and all they had must be passed and the names and ages of all his family that was depending on him for support

all this was done and the inventory and our names and ages was all sent to congress and they give us a pension of 26 dol a year which took us off of the town and made us the united states poor and I have made out to support my self and family with out the help of pension on town till now and now I must leave on the country or government so I consider my self the united states poor yet so I remain yours with respect Hannah Capron
Sept 12 Ekhm H. Capron N. Y. City  Springfield Sept 9

1641 Dec 13 th Ref to the ledger 12/18/38 War M. G. B. Pension office.
Martin Van Buren the President of the United States Washington City
FREE
Hannah Brown of Ephraim Capron, N. Mendon
27 Mar 19

come and said that asa sanders was the boys guard ian and geedemets lawyer said if he paid me or the boy asa sanders would come and make him pay it all over to him again so I with drew the suit and thought I would wait untill this fall and see if my boys come back but it has got to be November now and I have not seen nor heard of them and I live here on alabama river on the charity of the people so you all may see how much I am benepited by apnee coventry that was made free by the old revolutionary war I wrote all this to let congress know the facts and the particulars and shall send the letter of guardianship for my youngest children and the writing that was signed by my neighbors and wish to have them examined and then returned back to me I expect that my house was set afire on purpose to destroy me and my letters of guardianship so that they could have my boys under their control and not pay me any thing nor the boys neither if they do not come back and if I could have the benefit of all according to my letter and the civil laws I could collect that so det of letters geedemets and binder asa sanders from getting any thing if my boys dont never come back

July the 18th 1838 Grater Valley Catskill August Co Hannah Capron I am the widow of Mr Ephraim Capron a pensioner who died October 13th 1827 leaving me with 11 children 8 sons and 3 daughters all under 21 years of age the night before his death he called me to him and said he must go and leave me with a great family of young children and he hoped that god would bless us all and we must all be good to each other and do the best we could he expected I should have to part with some of them but he said Joseph and Benjamin was so small that he could not think of having them go away from me and he give them to me and told me to keep them with me and take the care of them as my health was good and I had a good trade and he thought with a blessing that I should be able to support them and my self till they would be able to support me and it was his will that they should and I have gone according to his will as near as I could I went to the honorable probate court District of Randolph in Vermont soon after my husband deceased and took out a letter of ad- ministration and at the close of the administra- tion Emanuel and William Capron choose me for their guardian they was under 21 and over 14 and the judge of the probate court appointed me to be the legal guardian of all these child- ren that was under 14 till they was 21 years of age which I shall once more send to congress for relief I have two or three times before and had return from them every time stating that I was not entitled to a pension on the account of my marriage not taking place till after the war I sent my letter of administration and one of my letters of guardianship of them two that had arrived to 21 years and the other letter of guardianship I kept back on the account of these minors not being of age and now I have united to send this other letter of guardianship for my youngest children that is not of age yet to see if Mr Vanburen will be so kind and liberal as to put his name to this letter of guardian and

pass on all that I shall have so much liberty and freedom and the privilege of the control of my children that is mine as my letters of guardianship doth direct being as I am not entitled to those acts that was passed for the relief of certain widows of the revolutionary soldiers the I have had the privilege of taking the name of an old revolutionary soldier through his last stage of life and brought up all my children so far with my own industry and now all I ask is the privilege of that freedom that was gained by the old revolutionary soldiers by which all laws are established and I wish to continue under the law of my letters of guardianship. Let all the miners arrive to full 21 years of age and have no one stop it in between me and my children and if Congress will please to grant me this freedom to act for my own family as my letters doth direct I will ask no more after I had settled my business in Vermont with the leave of my guardians and my eldest sons I took my two youngest sons Joseph and Benjamin and came into this country to see my brother Nathan Sanders who lived in Ashpene Cataumkeet Co I had provided for the other miners as I thought proper and set out to visit a brother that I had not seen for 20 years who I supposed was well off in the world and was able to assist me I arrived to my brothers house the 5th of November 1833 they all pretended to be very glad to see us and I supposed that they was but their was an art about my brothers wife and they all knew that I knew the truth of it and they was afraid I should let the truth be known so I found that their friendship was to get me into a slaveish situation they kindly offered me a home with them as long as I lived then loaned all the money I had then wanted I should put both of my boys out so I put out my eldest for one year and hired the youngest bonded and sent him to school in Springville through the first winter the next Spring Joseph Sanders my brothers son hired him for 3 months and agreed to give 3 dollars per month my boy worked his time out and I put him to another place and I

found that they did not mean to pay me so I made proportion to build me a house and they wanted I should put it on their land and I would not so they hired me to spin and were all their wheel and made their dress and did all their hand ments and when I came to build my house they would not help me one mite but hindered all they could at last told me if I did not state that there was no truth in that report about their mother they would do me 50 dollars damage and they was me saying that soon I told them that I would not do it then they said that they would do me all the damage they could but I told them that I never would state what I knew was not the truth if they took my life for that report about their mother I knew was the truth the biggest part of it and for to say it was not true I should not but I made out to build my house without any of their help and moved into it the 9th of January 1835 and in the month of February I did going enough to come to 12 del and they see that I could live without any of their help so in March Joseph Sanders sued me for my land and my keys here where we was to work for them and asa Sanders his brother lived in the house with them he stated that I only tended their we did not work for them so I could not prove nothing and they got a bill against me and the next summer I let my Joseph out to better goodnote per 12 del per month for 2 months and he worked there there and within that time asa Sanders flattered him up to go with him to Ellibellville and choose asa Sanders for his guardian so they unknown to me did and put him to Mr goodnote in order to cheat me and the key out of his earnings I went to Esq Mark of Springville for counsel he told me to see Mr goodnote I did and got the case and part of his wages but still they stand their so I went to Mr Mark again he told me that my letter of guardianship held the key and to see see him every month so I water aspell then sued again and get my case again then they tried to

hire my youngest boy to steal my letter of guardianship and bring it to them my boy told me of it so I took them and put them in my weak basket and carried them with me where ever I went but I found that my house had been searched and taken of things after awhile ago Sanders and his family went off to Canada then Mr Goodmate made agreement with me that he would pay me 25 dollars or aged boy that spring that was worth 25 and pay me 25 del a year out of the boy wages as long as he hired him and the boy has worked for him till there was 50 del coming to me last April and last February on Sunday the 14 day after I had took the best of care of my fire and cleaned the chimney and my room and see that it was all safe I passed my door and went to meeting and my house was burnt down within 3 hours after I left it and burnt up all I had only what I had on and in my little basket and Joseph my son had a handsome coat burnt that I was making it cost 12 del but Joseph Sanders said now we shall get read of the old woman and Miss Goodmate said that she hoped my letter of guardianship was burnt up but however the peo- ple in Springville give me writing for my neighbors to sine and I get 12 sinas to it and people began to help me some and they see that I could live yet and was like to get that 50 del of Mr Goodmate I sued him in April so the Sanders as I suppose get the same club of nothing to drive me off out of that place so I came to Grater Valley and they have sent both of my boys off and I have not seen nor heard of them since last year nor do not know where they be nor they do not know where I be Mr Good- mate put our court off till the 16 of July he said in order to find Joseph my son so I went to the Sanagate and told him that I want he should revoke that letter of guardianship that ago Sanders had for he had gone to Canada and his landmans was dead and I could not believe my sons wages nor he could not and both of my boys had gone off and was without any guardian or another and he said he would not want about it and these vilings found it out and hindered the Sanagate from doing it so when my court came on they all

come and said that asa sundens was the boys guard ian and geedemetas lawyer said if he paid me or the boy asa sundens would come and make him pay it all over to him again so I with drew the suit and thought I would wait untill this fall and see if my boys come back but it has got to be November now and I have not seen nor heard of them and I live here on alabany river on the charity of the people so you all may see how much I am benepited by a free country that was made free by the old revolutionary war I wrote all this to let congress know the facts and the particulars and shall send the letter of guardianship for my youngest children and the writing that was sined by my neighbors and wish to have them examined and then returned back to me I expect that my house was set afire on purpose to distress me and my letters of guardianship so that they could have my boys under their control and not pay me any thing nor the boys neither if they do not come back and if I could have the benefit to all according to my letter and the civil laws I could collect that 50 dol of betty geedemet and binder asa sundens from getting any thing if my boys dont never come back

May the 28th 1837 Hyperd Catherine County Messrs I would respect fully inform you that I received at time from Mr J S Edwards in answer to my petition for a pension stating that I was not intitled to the benefit of the act passed July the 4th 1836 for the relief of certain Widows of the revolutionary soldiers but the scarcity of provisions and the pressure of the times being such and health not being as good as usual it makes it all most impos- sible for me to sustain life I have therefore written to see if government will not appropriate a small donation either by act or contributions as they shall see fit for my present relief
Harriett Capron
Yours with respect

Brief in the case of Hannah Capron, Widow of Ephraim, Washington County and State of Pennsylvania act 3 o Feby, 1853,
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the Act of 18 th March, 1818, S. Cont d .
Reconf d evidence of marriage.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Jno. B. Gallaher, Esq. Present, Name and residence of Agent
A. Boynton Examining Clerk.

Claim of Hannah Coburn, widow of Ephraim (for- merly of Vermont) now of Penn a .
Additional proof and a re-exa- mination requested.
J. B. Galloway Attorney Washington D. C.

Washington, Oct. 28/53
Sir,
I respectfully ask you to give a special re-examination of the claim of Hannah Capron, widow of Abraham Capron, Dec'd, for a pension under the act of Feb. 3, 1853; and I herewith file a power of attorney from her (with Mr. Wylie's consent) also the affidavit of Sanders A. Austin as to her identity. It seems to me the proof is most abundant & to the point, and I cannot see how the case can fail. The woman is very poor, and likely to suffer during the winter.
Very resp'y J. B. Gallaher Hon. L. P. Waldo.

Mr Wylie Dear sir.
April 21 1853
Mr Ritchie of Cannonburg received a letter from you concerning my pension also the laws concerning those widows intitled under the act of 3d february 1853 Mr Ritchie give the papers to my son Niram Capron and he wrote a letter to me and put them in his letter and sent it by a boy to me in the poor house for him to find me and hand it to me and the steward of the house took the letter from the boy and said to me I could not see it till the directors had seen it I told him that them papers would not do them any good and he had no business to open my letter any more then any other man had and I could send on to congress and get more like them but he would not let me have them till he had opened them then he give them to me and said I had got to make oath to it but all the property I had belonged to the county of Washington I told him they never should have one cent of it so I went and looked me up a place my sons letter said I must hunt my self a home for he did not want any thing of me nor my money so I maid out to get out of the poor house I moved here this day to Mr David Ryburns about 3 miles from Hickery post office where I expect to put my writings in that office for if I go to washington to do my business they will
I was not married your envelop

foal me out of it if they can and if I go to Cannonburg my son will not have nothing to do with it for he has got an Irish wife and it is her that has broke the friend- ship between my son and I and Mr Beebe is neighbor to my son and wishes to keepe peace with my son for he has got a bad tongue in his head so it will not do for me to go there so I shall go to Hickory and make aath to my marriage and send it on to you and wish you to do the best you can with what proof you will find in Congress and take your pay out of it what is right and just
I have sent on to Congress a number of times and I have no more proof here after you get this and you can hunt up proof enough their to get  he he died to soon for me to get 3 months pay and so it has been and now I would go and make aath to my marriage and that is all I can do and state I have remained his widow ever since I have had to worke so hard and been sick so much I have had no time to get married once was enough for me The widow Hannah Capron I find there is a post office nearer to me then Hickory and a post Egg there by nearby
I would state further that my name was Hannah Sanders when I was agin I was 24 when I was married and am now 70 the 9 day of last January I was to my daughters in Ohio last fall Lawyer Sherrard in Steubenville said I was intitled to bounty land and I agreed to give him 5 dol if he got it and he said he was agoin to Congress in the winter and I sent some writings by him that I had that come from Mr Wylie in Congress and with the next article now if he has got the land manent Mr Wylie will know it if he has please send me word or if he was there or just the paper then

I sent the certificate of my marriage with the others papers when I had this in return it was taken off of the town book in Bury in Vermont the man's name was Nathan Stone that married me Esq. but it was not put on record right I was married March the 18 186 but through mistake some how it was put on record 187 he was young in that business I was the first that he had married but I have proved my marriage by my neighbors and the time and when you get this you will have all the proof that I can produce it is all there in Congress at the time you sent me this I was sick in Vermont with the dropsy it was well none to them persons that I had remained a widow till then 1847 in May 1848 I left Vermont and come to my sons in Cannonburg have been all round here and worked near Hickory and for this last 15 months I have lived in Washington Poor house I went on to Congress in 1838 and in 1839 and I was sick and in a suffering condition then and had spent all the best of my days in taking care of an old revolutionary soldier Ephraim Casperon who died October the 13 1827 leaving me with 11 children all under 21 years and I worn out with hardship and had to bring my children up with my own industry and I had to suffer so much I think I had not to have mention back to the old date for all that hindered me from a pension was

Pension Office, March 16 th 1847.
Madam,
Your communication to this Office from Franklinville, in December 1838, and from Griffin's Mills in September 1839, were immediately answered; but my letters, in both instances, were returned as "dead letters." Those letters communicated to you that there was no law granting a pension to the Widow of a Revolutionary Soldier, whose marriage took place subsequently to 31 st December 1793; whereas, it appears you were married in 1806 or 1807.
I am, Madam,
Very Respectfully,
Your obt servant. J L Edwards
Mrs. Hannah Capron, Roundeph, Vermont.

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Griffins mills Erie County N.Y. Aug 19 1838
To The Hon
---The President of the United States
Dear Sir Some time in the month of November A.D 1838 I mailed to your honor a letter of Guardianship for Five Children Said Letter given me by the Court of Probate of the State of Vermont dated March 11th A.D 1829 the object of mailing said Letter to your honor was briefly to lay before you the following facts to wit to represent to your honor that my husband Ephraim Capron was a pensioner and died leaving a family of Eleven Children for me to support without any other means than my own labor and exertion; and also petitioning your honor to have the pension which was given by Government to my husband continued to my benefit; the above facts was mailed to your honor at Washington from Great Valley post office in the County of Cattaraugus State of New York. The letter of Guardianship and a brief statement of my situation by my neighbors to wit that since the death of my husband my house and all my goods had been burnt I transmitted to your honor praying for a continuation of said pension. Never having heard from you in relation to the matter and a year and a half having gone by I write to know what has been done with the affair and what disposition has been made of the papers which I sent. The Lett. of Guardianship is of great and deep interest to myself and five children therein named you will confer a favor by advising me if said documents have ever been received by your honor if you have them you will please mail them to me as I require them to act legally in relation to the earnings and wages of my children some of which are at work for individuals who refuse paying me the price of their labor.
With Sentiments of Deep respect I am Your Humble Servant
Nannet Capron
Martha Van Buren President of the U.S.

Williamstown January the 1 st 1847
War Department Pension Office at the City of Washington The papers which I shall inclose in this letter is to prove that I am the same widow Hannah Capron that was out to York state in Gratevalley and wrote to Congress in Novem ber 1838 and sent it to the postoffice in that town and by some means or other it was put into the postoffice at Franklinville it contained my administration letter and 2 letters of guardians for my children and a donation paper that my neighbors give me at the time my house was burnt with 12 siners to it and the next year I was at worke in the town of the appora in Erie county and wrote on to congress to know if my letters had been there or if they could give me any information about them and direct to me at Griffins mill New York and here the be but my letters that come with these I suppose was stole from me the next year after but they was all marked with red ink on the back side which was put on at congress I suppose Mr Ephraim Capron and I Hannah Sanders was married the 18 th day of march in 1836 but my certificate says 1834 but we all know that it was a mistake for my oldest child was born Dec 4 1836 and all my children was born in this town and Mr Josiah Write and Abial Smith and Mr Darius Pride said that this certificate would show that we was married and if it is required I can furnish 2 or three persons that see me married but they live some miles off from me Hannah Capron
I wish for an answer from this if you please soon as it will do I was married in Bays by Nathan Stone at my uncles house but he is dead and Nathan Stone is dead but some of my cousins are living and all the mistake their is was in sending my marriage on Become one year after I was married I wrote to amare in congress last June Hannah Capron from Nashfield Vermont Mr Bradwell Smith of New Salem Mass stated that he knew that Ephraim Capron was 2 months at white plains sent the discharge to Congress at the 3 months survey and wrote a letter to Judge Parish for I thought I should get him to get my pension for me then but he wanted half of it for getting it if I am entitled to a pension I wish to have the whole myself it is so I sent them papers on last June and had no answer

it is hard worke for me to write so do the best you can for no one shall have any of my petition if I cant have it so be it
Wardsworth Pension Office Washington D.C.

Elliott's Hill Jefferson Co Knox Township May 8 th 1854 Mr Gallagher sir
A gentleman came to my house this morning and give me a paper that stated under a late decision it is ruled that arrearages due a deceased soldier may be paid without administration to widows children brothers sisters father and mother in their order but not to more remote heirs and a payment as aforesaid is considered a valid discharge of the claim by the Government and no subsequent application by administrator in behalf of creditors will be regarded now this is what I found printed in the paper he give me and I do not understand it and he advised me to write to you sir for he said that Mr. Sharnane was an under agent and you was the right agent to write to too and claim my arrearages and I wish you would be so kind as to write to me and explain the whole matter to me my husband Ephraim Casron died in October eighteen hundred twenty seven and left me with eleven children all under twenty one and I was chosen and appointed by the judge of probate guardian for my seven youngest and my youngest was not five years old when I was left a widow and I had them all to bring up without any property only my own industry and now for my children to have my cash pay divided among them I am not

willing for that as long as I live for I worked hard to bring them up and as soon as they all was married and I got past labor and could not ea rn earn them a dollar a week I was turned out into a wide world and was told to seek my own home and I went out to worke and tried my best to pay my way but was sick and had to go to the poor house and my son eldest son that was the best off lives in a large brick house in Cannonburg and Mr Richlee that lives near by him helped him to prove that he was not able to support his mother and he was worth more then any the rest of my children and for that reason I had to live in the poor house fifteen months till the act was past that I should have a pension and I have had to worke hard till I drawed my first payment then I had to hire my board and I have hired a house and board my self and I mean to get some small family that I can trust to live with me that will take good care of me in my old age for I dare not trust my self with such sons in my old age I had neither trust to strangers for and if I get my back pay I shall buy me a good home and the one that takes care of me and gives me peace and quiet ness shall have my home when I am done with it and my children may have the rest if there is any rest both of my sons that is in this country has got Irish wives and I do not think that old

country people onto be intitled to any of the revolutionary soldiers pension money or land I have suffered so much by the Irish and such I do not mean they shall have any more of my labor or money as long as I live I wrote this last evening and one of my neighbors com in late and a stranger with him he asked me what kept me up so late I told him and he said it would not do any good to write to Mr Gallaher for he and Mr Shannard was both one and he was not afraid to wage even so much that my agent has got my back pay now in his possession this mornit and said it a number of times at last I was a little vired and told them both I hoped they had them they both said if they had I might whistle I never would get one cent of it and this neighbor said he would get it for me for a new hat and I might write what I pleased and my agent would not take any notice of it so I thought I should direct this to the war department pension office in Congress wishing them for a little to draw my arrearages stating how much my arrearages is and how much he has got to be paid out of it to agents for Mr Shannard kept 21 dollars of last september payment for his trouble and wrote to me that he expected a part of this last March payment but I could not spare any of it for I have got a sick daughter to provide for and 2 or 3 children her husband has left her and her children on me her youngest ones I consider it all given to me by Congress and I wish to know

how much I shall have to pay out to get my gift for I am an old woman and people tell me any thing and every thing and I know not who to believe nor who not to believe so I thought I would write to head quarters, wishing them to send me a bill of whatever they please to give me according to their statement and whatever is right for my agent to have that take out and let them have it and send the rest to me or to the pension office in Pittsburgh to be paid to me and I will give many thanks with great respect, This from Ephraim Casiron widow -
Hannah Casiron

Hannah Caborn, widow of Ephraim Caborn dec'd.
POWER OF ATTORNEY,
FROM
TO Jno B. H. Gallaher.
Filed Oct 28 th 1853
BY Jno B. Gallaher,
Attorney.
Copyrighted by John S. Gallaher, Jr.
Murphy & Co. Printers & Stationers, 173 Market St. Balt.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all Men by these Presents,
That I, Hannah Capron u u u u u resident of Washington u u County of Washington u State of Pennsylvania do hereby select, ordain, constitute and irrevocably appoint, with power of substitution; John S. Gallagher of Washington City D.C. true and lawful Agent and Attorney, for me and in my name, place, and stead; to examine into, enter, prosecute, file and defend; before the proper Department of Government, or other Tribunal; any claim, or suit, in my behalf, or in which I may be legally interested; by virtue of a Pension Law which provision was passed February 3d 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War u u u u u u u u u
Further empowering him said Agent and Attorney, or his substitute, to apply for, and receive, any Money, Bounty Land or Bounties, Pension Claim or Claims, or other Dues, of any kind whatsoever, that may be found to be due me for services of my deceased husband Ephraim Capron who was a private in Capt. Mills Company in the Regiment of Col. Voss of Massachusetts State or Continental lines u u u
And further empowering my said Agent and Attorney, and authorizing him to receipt therefor, and give full and free acquittance thereof, in his name, as my Agent and Attorney in fact, but all for my benefit and behoof. Hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said Agent and Attorney may lawfully do, or cause to be done, as in these premises specified; and, as though I were present personally, and acting for myself Binding my heirs, legal representatives and assigns to comply with, and fully carry out and complete any obligation, contract, or agreement, that is, or may be made between me and my said Agent or Attorney, his legal representatives, heirs or assigns.
Signed, Sealed, and Acknowledged in presence of
John S. Ghyne Donius J. Austin
In Virtue whereof, I do hereunto affix my Hand and Seal, this 6 th day of October 1853
Witness,
Hannah Capron

State of Ohio
County of Jefferson
On this sixth day of October One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty three before me, John Shane a Justice of Peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Hanna Cagran the identical person whose name is attached to the annexed Power of Attorney , and being duly questioned, acknowledged the same to be her free act and deed, as specified.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my name, the day and year first above mentioned.
John Shane Justice of Peace
State of
County of
I, _____ Clerk of the County Court, in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that _____ whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit, is, and was, at the time of signing the same, a _____ in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such, are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record having general jurisdiction.
Given under my hand and the Seal of my Office
at _____ this _____ day of _____ A. D. 185_____
Clerk.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the End. section of the Act of Feb. 3, 1853.
State of Pennsylvania Washington County S.S.
On this 24 day of May 1853
personally appeared before me, a Justice of a Court of Record of the County and state aforesaid, Hannah Capron of Monongahela City in the County of Washington and state aforesaid aged seventy one 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 3rd day of February A.D. 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War: That she is the widow of Ephraim Capron, who was a private in said war, and who himself received a pension from the United States in consequence of said service for a number of years prior to his death, as may be seen by the records on file at the Pension Office. She further declares that she was married to the said Ephraim Capron on the 18th day of March 1806, or the same date in 1807 at the town of Barry in the state of Vermont, as will be seen by the certificate of her marriage already filed in said Pension Office; that her said husband died on the 13th day of October 1827 in Williamstown, state of Vermont, where he resided at the time. And she further declares that she is now and has been ever since the death of her husband, a widow.
sworn to & subscribed on the day & year aforesaid before John Blossens Justice of the peace
Hannah Capron

State of Pennsylvania Washington County S.S.
I John Clemens, a Justice of a Court of Record of Washington County and State of Pennsylvania, hereby certify that Hannah Capron the within named applicant is unable to appear in Court by reason of old age & bodily infirmity.
Witness my hand this 24 day of May 1853.
John Clemens
J. P.
State of Pennsylvania Washington County S.S.
I James Brown, Prothonotary of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Clemens Esqr. whose signature is subscribed to the above certificate, is a Justice of a Court of Record in and for the County aforesaid.
Witness my hand and official seal this 26 th day of May A.D. 1853.
James Brown Prothonotary

State of Ohio Jefferson county s.s.
On this sixth day of October A D 1853 before me a "Notary Public" within and for the County and State aforesaid persons vally came Landus Austin of the County and State aforesaid who after being by me duly sworn says that he is thirty two years of age that he was born in the State of Vermont in the town of Williamstown in Orange County on the 22 d day of October A D 1821. He states that he was well acquainted with Hannah Capron who has made application under the act of February 3 d A D 1853 for a pension as the widow of Ephraim Capron deceased who was a Revolutionary soldier and as such drew a pension in the State of Vermont. He states that he was too young to remember much about the said Ephraim Capron deceased but that the said Ephraim lived and died in the same town with this affiant and where he was born and resided until December 1839 when with his father's family he removed from said State to the State of New York and from there removed to Jefferson County Ohio where he now resides and has since the 1 st day of May 1842. He states that Hannah Capron as aforesaid was living in the same house in which the said Ephraim Capron died in, which was about the year 1827 or 1828 the year not positively remembered. That she raised a large family of children who were reported and believed to be the children of the said Ephraim and Hannah Capron but this affiant of his own knowledge does not know the fact that the said parties were married but that they were so reported to be husband and wife by those who knew them. That when this affiant moved from said State of Vermont the said Hannah Capron was still living in the town of Williamstown County of Orange and State of Vermont and in the same place where she had

since the death of the said Ephraim Capron, that about the year AD 1848 the said Hannah Capron came out to the state of Pennsylvania and in the county of Washington where she has continued to live since that time. We further states that having been well acquainted from a child with the said Hannah Capron we became acquainted with her shortly after she came to the state of Pennsylvania or became acquainted with the fact that she had moved to the state of Pennsylvania and shortly after visited her and renewed the acquaintance which has existed ever since. We states that the said Hannah Capron has ever since the death of the said Ephraim remained a widow
L. J. Austin
Sworn to and subscribed before me and I certify that the said affiant is a man of good standing and entitled to full credit and belief Witness my hand and official seal
J. R. Meredith Notary Public

Hannah Capron wife Ephraim Oct 53
Geddes 1853
Andrew Myliep Present

STATE OF VERMONT.
Office of the Secretary of State,
Montpelier, September 10, 1853. }
I hereby certify that Nathan Stone Esquire was on the twentieth day of March Anno Domini 1807 a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Orange in said State, duly appointed and qualified, with power and authority to solemnize marriages, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts and attestations as such.
I further certify that there is no record kept in this state of the appointments of town clerks, except in the offices of such town clerks, and that there is no other certifying officer who can certify to the appointment of such officer except the town clerk. But, by request, I hereby certify from my own personal knowledge that said Alvah Carter was at the date of the accompanying certificate town clerk of Barre, and from my acquaintance with his handwriting I believe the foregoing signature to be his genuine handwriting.
Given under my hand and the seal of this office this 10 th day of September A.D. 1853.
Ferrand F. Merrill Secretary of State

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Hannah Capron
vs
Act 7 July 38-
m 1806-
rejected
case not provided for by Law.
Act 7 th July 1838.

I Josiah White of Williamstown in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of lawful age depose and say that I was for years acquainted with Ephraim Capron late of Williamstown aforesaid deceased, that the said Ephraim Capron drew a pension from the United States Government for quite a number of years previous to his decease, I further depose and say that I have been well acquainted with Hannah Capron the widow of the said Ephraim Capron, that the said Hannah Capron is now a resident of this town & that she is infirm and in needy circumstances
Josiah White
State of Vermont, At Williamstown this first Orange County ss } day of January AD 1847
Josiah White personally appeared and made oath to the above deposition by him subscribed in due form of law
Before me Darius Price Justice of Peace
I Abiel Smith of Williamstown in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of lawful age depose and say that I was for years acquainted with Ephraim Capron late of Williamstown aforesaid deceased, that the said Ephraim Capron drew a pension from the United States Government for quite a number of years previous to his decease, I further depose and say that I have been well acquainted with Hannah Capron the widow of the said Ephraim Capron that the said Hannah Capron is now a resident of this town and that she is infirm and in needy circumstances
Abiel Smith
State of Vermont, At Williamstown this first day of Orange County ss } January AD 1847 Abiel Smith personally appeared and made oath to the above deposition by him subscribed in due form of law Before me Darius Price Justice of Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Josiah White & Abiel Smith signers of the above depositions and that they are both considered men of truth & veracity
Darius Price Justice of Peace

War Department, Pension Office, September 4. 1839.
Madam,
In answer to your letter of the 24 th Ult o , to the President of the U States, which has been referred to this office, I have to inform you that the papers which you enclosed were returned to you on the 18 th of December last, from this office, accompanied by a letter, of which the enclosed is a copy. Your letter bore the post-mark of Franklinville, New York, and the answer was directed to the same office. You should write to the Postmaster at that place for further information on the subject.
I am, very respectfully, Your ob t Serv t . Geo. W. Humphreys
Mrs Hannah Capron, Griffins Mills, New York.

10 War Department, Pension Office, Dec. 18. 1838.
Madam,
The papers which you sent to the President are herewith enclosed. You are not entitled to a pension on account of the revolutionary service of your husband, Ephraim Capron, dec. d The laws do not provide for widows of revolutionary soldiers who were married as so late a period.
I am very respectfully, Your obs. servt.
J. L. Edwards
M rs Hannah Capron, Franklinville, N. York.

John
So Haven Aug 8 06
Commission of Pensions Dear Sir
I wish to prove my right to become a W.A.R. through my Ancestors Ephraim Capron In the Library Chicago I find his record on roll no. 845-928 Pension placed on pension rolls 1819, died 1827. I also have personal knowledge that my grandmother drew her pension after the war, how long I do not know.
Mrs Geo D Barnes 314 Pearl St So Haven Mich.

Rev. Sec m
804 21st St., N.W., Washington, D.C., May 19, 1917.
The Comm'r of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Sir:-
As a basis for application for membership in a patriotic society, I have the honor to request a transcript of the record of my great grandfather Ephraim Capron - born Aug. 28, 1761, died Oct. 13, 1827.

in the War of the Revolution. He served with the troops from what is now Vermont or New York, or New Hamp- shire, I do not know which; but as he must have received a pension of some nature your office probably has his record.
I shall deeply appreciate any information that you may be able to furnish.
Very respectfully, Herman E. Kittredge, M.D.