Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16561, Matthew Dennisson, Continental (New York)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (New York)
or
Dennisson, Matthew Denniston
W 16 561
Margaret
CONTENTS

New York 6937
Reported
Margaret Dennisson widow of Matthew Dennisson who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the April 1825 of Seneca in the State of NY who was a Bombadier in the Company commanded by Captain Feward of the Reg't commanded by Greene in the NY line for 2 yrs
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 108, Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Jan'y '43 and sent to Hon John Maynard H. Hays
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 Semi-annual allowance ending
546
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Thos. L. Wooddy Clerk, Book A Vol. 2 Page 75

State of New York County of Seneca ss - On this 16 th day of April A.D. 1839 personally appeared before me Jesse Clark Esquire first Judge of the County Courts of in & for said County of Seneca in said State Margaret Denniston a resident of the village of Waterloo in the said County of Seneca aged seventy years two years - (Applicant was born on the Twentieth day of October 1767 as appears by the Family Record now in Applicants possession) 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 wife and Relict of Matthew Denniston who according to applicants best knowledge information & belief was a private Soldier in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain in the American Service - That he served as such Soldier in such Service for the term of three years. That at the expiration of the said three years service the said Matthew Denniston enlisted into the said American Service as a regular Soldier for and during the said war and actually served as such Soldier during and until the end of said war, at which time he received an honorable discharge in writing - Which discharge this deponent has often seen and verily believes that the same now is in some of the public Offices at Washington - Applicant has often heard & believes that his latter enlistment & service was in a Company of Artillery commanded by Captain Seward and in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Sarnb, which Regiment was under the Command of General Knapp as Applicant has often heard said. Matthew say she verily believes - Applicant further declares that she was married to the said Matthew Denniston on the first day of July 1788 at New Windsor in the County of Orange in the said State - That the marriage ceremony was performed by the Revd Stephen Close a Presbyterian Minister of that place - That her husband the said Matthew Denniston died fourteen years ago the 21 st or 22 nd day of this present April. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 - viz - at the time above stated - claimant has no documentary evidence in support of her claim - Signed. Subscribed. Margaret X Denniston 16 th April 1839 before me Jesse Clark first Judge as above mentioned

State of New York Seneca County ss. I Jesse Clark Esquire first Judge of the County Courts in & for said County of Seneca do hereby Certify & declare that the aforesaid Margaret Den- niston widow and Relict of the said Matthew Denniston deceased is unable and prevented by bodily infirmity from appearing attending before the Court personally to make her declaration -
Jesse Clark first Judge of the County Courts of Seneca County
State of New York. County of Seneca ss. John Jones of the Town of Phelps in the County of Ontario personally appeared before me Jesse Clark first Judge of the County Courts in & for the County of Seneca in said State this sixteenth day of April A.D. 1839 being first duly sworn according to law does upon his oath depose and say, That he well knew and was well acquainted with the within named Matthew Den- niston and with the within named Margaret Den- niston widow and Relict of the said Matthew Denniston deceased. That deponent became personally acquainted with the said Matthew Denniston before the close of the Revolutionary war, and deponent thinks two or three years before the war closed and has been well acquaint- ed with the said Matthew Denniston until the time of his decease - which took place at Sodus in the County of Ontario fourteen years ago the 21 st or 22 nd day of this present month - That deponent was at his funeral & saw him buried - Deponent further says that the said Matthew frequently returned from the Army while he was in the service to New Windsor - That he was clad in his Soldiers uniform, That he was generally reputed to be a Soldier in the United States Army and an Artillerist - That deponent has now in his possession the Artillery sword of the said Matthew Denniston, which he the said Denniston brought from the service at the close of the war - That the same was placed upon his coffin & carried at his funeral - Deponent further says that he was in the neighborhood of New Windsor when the said Matthew and Margaret were reputed to have been married - That they

cohabited together, as man and wife, until the decease of the said Matthew Denniston - That the within named Applicant is now single and has never been married to any person except to the said Matthew Denniston - That the said Matthew Denniston & Margaret his wife never had any children or heirs at law -
Subscribed & sworn before me 16 th April 1839
J. O. Jones
Esq Clerk of Court as above mentioned
State of New York, Seneca County ss - Personally appeared before me Eleanor Jones who being by me first legally sworn deposes & saith that she resided at New Windsor before and at the close of the Revolutionary war. That she was well acquainted with the within named Matthew Denniston and Margaret his wife. That she was present and saw them married. That the marriage ceremony was performed by a Clergyman by the name of Stephen Close that the marriage took place according to deponent's best recollection & belief in the summer of 1788 - That deponent was well acquainted with Denniston previous to the close of the war and frequently saw him on his return from the Army in his soldiers dress - That he was generally reputed to be a regular soldier in the American Service and an Artillerist - That she has been well acquainted with the said Matthew Denniston and Margaret his wife until the time of his death and with the said Margaret up to this time - That the said Matthew was reputed to have died fourteen years ago or thereabout, at Ithaca - That the Applicant is now single & never has had any other husband but the said Matthew Denniston -
Sworn & subscribed before me 16 th April 1839 Eleanor Jones Esq Clerk of Court as above mentioned
State of New York Seneca County ss - Sarah Denniston personally appeared before me after first being legally sworn by me and deposes and says, that she well knew the within named Matthew Denniston and the within named Margaret Denniston, that they were reputed to have been married about the month of July July 1788 - deponent then residing in the neighborhood then at New Windsor - Deponent often saw Denniston

niston during the war on his return from the army. That he won a soldier's uniform and was always said to be an Artillerist in the American Service - and was said to be- long to Captain Dey's Company - He was generally sup- posed to be a regular soldier in the American Service in the Revolutionary War - Deponent has often seen the sword mentioned above by John Jones - Deponent saw the same in possession of said Matthew Dennis- ton on his return at the close of the war - That the said Dennis-ton died at Seneca fourteen years ago the 21 st or 22 nd day of this month - Deponent was at his funeral The sword above mentioned was carried on his coffin - Sworn to before me 16 th Feb y Dennis-ton April 1839 Jos e Clarke first Judge as above mentioned State of New York Seneca County ss. I Jesse Clark the officer above and within named do certify that the claimant within named Margaret Dennis-ton and the witnesses John Jones Eleanor Jones & Sarah Dennis-ton are each of them entitled to full & entire credit for truth & veracity 16 th April 1839 - Jos e Clarke first Judge of the County Courts of the County of Seneca
State of New York Seneca County ss. I Halsey Sanford Clerk of Seneca County do hereby certify that the honorable Jesse Clark was on the 16 th day of April 1839, First Judge of the county courts in & for said county duly Commissioned & sworn and authorized to take & certify the foregoing Depositions. And that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and that his several signatures to the foregoing Deeds and certificates on this sheet written, are, as I verily believe genuine, in his own proper handwriting
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 18 th day of April A.D. 1839.
Halsey Sanford Clerk By Cyrus D. Hanks, Dep. Clerk County of Seneca
Filed by H. H. Hanks July 1838 30
57482

Margret Kernahan
born october 20 th 1768
Married July 1 1788
Matthew Gernisson and Margrete Kernahan

Sumner County S.S.
Sarah Denniston, being duly sworn deposes & says that, the annexed Record, which is in this word, to wit, the Married
"Married July 1. st 1788. Mathew - Denniston and Margaret Kennahan." Was this day cut out of an old Bible - and affixed to this affidavit. This deponent further says that the this deponent is in her sixty fifth year of her age that. She was well acquainted with the above named Mathew Denniston from her childhood up to the time of his death. That she was well acquainted, in the family of the said Mathew, & Margaret his wife. The above named Margaret Kennahan, to whom he was married - and was well acquainted, with the hand writing of the said Mathew Denniston, & that the annexed Record, & entry as above copied, & set forth is in the proper hand writing of him the said Mathew Denniston - as deponent believes & has no doubt, having a perfect knowledge his proper hand writing, from seeing him write for many years - and deponent further says that she recalls that this record with the said Bible in which it was shown, such it is taken, was in the family of the said Mathew & Margaret his wife, so long ago as deponent can remember containing the said record of his marriage to the said Margaret - deponent further says that the deponent, has often seen the said Bible containing the said record, since the death of the said Mathew, which took place in the year eighteen hundred & thirty five
Subscribed & sworn before me the 12th day of June A.D. 1840 Jesse Clarke Bapt Judge of Sumner County Tennessee Court Common
Sarah Denniston

Seneca County S.S. John Jones & Eleanor Jones being severally duly sworn both depose & say, and first the said John says that he will knew Mathew Dunston deceased, is also acquainted with Margaret his wife who is now living residing in Waterloo in the said County of Seneca - he further says, that he was acquainted in the family of the said Mathew & Margaret his wife - and that the Bible from which the annexed leaf was taken containing the record of Memorandum of the intermarriage of the said Mathew to the said Margaret on the 1 st July 1788 was seen by deponent more than forty years ago & often since - and deponent has examined the said Entry & record, & believes that the same is in the proper hand writing of him the said Mathew Dunston, deponent who will be acquainted with the hand writing of him the said Mathew from which he deponent makes out his mind that it is his proper hand writing - deponent says that the said Bible and record were in the family of the said Mathew & Margaret for the time above mentioned - And the said Eleanor for herself deposes & says that the said Bible & Record, were in the family & possession of the said Mathew, & Margaret his wife for above 40 years since, & until the death of the said Mathew, in 1825, & has continued in the possession of the said Margaret, since that time deponent says that, the Record & entry in the old Bible, from which the annexed leaf has just been taken is in the proper hand writing of him the said Mathew Dunston, in deponent has no doubt, she will knowing his hand writing - the above named John Jones says that he is in his 74 th year of his age
Subscribed & sworn before me the 12 th day of June A.D. 1840 Isaac Clarke first Judge of Seneca County & Schoharie Court Comr.
John Jones Eleanor Jones mother

MS No 7867 In the matter of Margaret Dennis for Pension
Waterloo N.Y.
Communicate with John Walister, Waterloo N.Y.
Marg t Dennis act 1838.
Rec d . June 4. 1841

✓ 7867. ✓ Margaret Dennison N.Y.
act 7 July 38
sh'd be Dennison here N o 5482 July 9 1838
on Roll - Seward & Co. Brant Col. adm d
2 yrs Bombardier $108
for John Maynard N.Y.

State of New York Seneca County ss.
Sarah Dennisson of said County being duly sworn deposes & says that she is now aged about Sixty Six Years. That she was well acquainted with Matthew Dennisson, and also with Margaret Dennisson. The wife of the said Matthew Dennisson. That she was well acquainted with said Margaret Dennisson before her marriage with the said Matthew Dennisson, and also with the said Matthew before his said marriage with said Margaret. That according to the best of this deponent's Remembrance & belief, the said Matthew & Margaret were married in the Year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Eight. That this deponent was at the infaire of said wedding or marriage on the next day after the marriage, and recollects well, that it was in the Summer in the Month of June, or July. And this deponent further says, that she is now and has been ever since the death of Matthew Dennisson, well acquainted with Margaret Dennisson, the widow of said Matthew, & that said Margaret now is, and has, ever since the death of the said Matthew, been & still continues to be the widow of the said Matthew Dennisson and has never been married since her said marriage with the said Matthew Dennisson. And the said deponent further says, that she well knows, that the said Matthew Dennisson was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. That she has been informed & believes, that the said

Matthew Derrisson first enlisted in the Army under one Captain John Belknap for the term of Three Years. - That after -wards, said Derrisson again enlisted in said Army, under one Captain Seward under Colonel Lamb, for the duration of the war. & she knew not, that said Derris- -son resided in Orange (then Ulster) County, in the State of New York, at the time of her enlistment. Matthew Derrisson served in said war until the close of the war, and that after the close of the said war, the said Matthew Derrisson returned to Orange County aforesaid, where he married the said Margaret Ames aforesaid, & that the maiden name of the said Margaret Derrisson, was, Margaret Kernahan, and further says that . that said Matthew Derrisson died in 1825 Subscribed & sworn to before
We this nineteenth day of May One thousand Eight Hundreds & forty One.
Sarah Derrisson
Her Charles J. Derrisson of Sonoma Co. California Commissioner

State of New York Seneca County ss.
Eleanor Jones of said County being sworn says that she is the sister of Margaret Dennison. That she was well acquainted with Matthew Dennison in his life time. That she was present at the marriage of the said Matthew Dennison with her said sister Margaret Dennison, but at the time, was so young that she does not recollect and cannot state the Year of said marriage. That she knows that the said Margaret has never been married since her marriage with the said Matthew Dennison and is now a widow of said Matthew, and further says not.
Attest. S. G. Hadley.
Eleanor her X Jones Mark
Subscribed and sworn to before me this Nineteenth day of May One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty one J. S. Clarke Seneca County Commissioner & First Judge of Seneca County

State of New York
Seneca County, ss.
I John Jones of said County being duly sworn deposes and says. That He is now aged about Seventy five Years., That He was well acquainted with Matthew Dennis- son and Margaret Dennisson the wife of the said Matthew Dennisson That he knew both Matthew & Margaret before their marriage and continued to be acquainted with said Matthew until his death, and is now well acquainted with said Margaret Dennisson; and knows of his own knowledge that the said Margaret Dennisson is now the widow of said Matthew Dennisson, and has never been married since her marri- age with said Matthew Dennisson. & is now a widow. That said Matthew Dennisson was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was at the time he enlisted into said Army a resident of New Woodson, in Orange (then Ulster) County in the state of New York. - That during a por- tion of the time he was in said Army he was a soldier under one Captain Sowards; That he was in said Army, as an artillery man. That he first enlisted for three Years, and at the expiration of that time, He enlisted for the whole duration of the war, & remained in said Army until the close of the war as this deponent has been often informed by said Dennisson and verily believes to be true, and has often heard said Dennisson relate. That he was at the taking of Cornwallis, and was a soldier of the Marquis de Lafayette, and this deponent further says, that the said Margaret Dennisson is a sister of the wife of this deponent, and further says that
Subscribed & sworn to before me this nineteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and one -
J. O. Jones

State of New York } Inspector Genl. James of Seneca County Seneca county ss }
Oliver Humphrey of said County by being duly sworn deposes and says. That He is now aged about Eighty Two Years. That he was well acquainted with Matthew Dennisson in His life time. That He well knows that the said Matthew Dennisson resided in the township of New Windsor in the County of Orange (then Ulster) in the State of New York at the time the said Matthew enlisted into the Army of the Revolution. This deponent further says. That He knows when the said Matthew Dennisson entered said Army and according to the best of His deponents remembrance and belief, it was in the Year of Our Lord Seventeen Hundred & Seventy six. He knows that said Dennisson was a Member of the of Captain Seward's Company of Artillery. & as His deponent believes according to the best of his recollection, under one Colonel Lamb. And His deponent further says. That said Matthew Dennisson continued to be a soldier in said Army from the time of his joining Captain Seward's Company. until the end of said war. & His deponent well recollects when said Dennisson returned to Orange (then Ulster) County after the end of the said war and has often heard said Dennisson tell of being in the battle of Germantown. & has heard his relate facts & particulars of that Battle & has no doubt but that said Dennisson was in that battle.
This deponent further says. That he is well acquainted with Margaret Dennisson the wife of the said Matthew. That the maiden name of said Margaret Dennisson was Margaret Kannahan. That He knows said

Margaret when she was a girl, & well knew her after her marriage & has continued to know her up to this day. That she well knows that the said Matthew Dennisson & said Margaret Dennisson lived together as man and wife for many years. And this deponent further says. That said Matthew Dennisson departed this life fifteen or sixteen years ago, according to this deponent's remembrance. That this deponent attended the funeral of said Dennisson. And this deponent further says. That the said Margaret Dennis- son is the widow of said Matthew Dennisson and has continued to be such widow ever since the death of said Matthew, & still continues to be such widow, & has never been married since the death of the said Matthew Dennisson, and further says not.
Oliver Humphrey
Subscribed & sworn to before me this nineteenth day of May. One Thousand Eight Hundred and fortyone.
John Clarke First Judge of Sumner Co. Superior Court Conne.

State of New York Seneca County ss.
I, Jesse Clarke, First Judge of Seneca County & Supreme Court Commissioner in the Province before whom each and every of the foregoing depositions & affidavits was taken. Subscribed & sworn to. do hereby cer- tify. That Sarah Dennisson, Eliza Jones, John Jones & Oliver Humphrey, are each and every of them respectable and worthy citizens of said state, and that their de- positions and statements herein to an- nexed & subscribed & sworn to by them respec- tively, are entitled to full credit and worthy of all credence & belief. That the said John Jones, & Oliver Humphrey, are intelli- gent & smart old gentlemen, freeholders & farmers of good estate. -
Given under my hand at Waterloo this nine- teenth day of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred & forty One.
Jesse Clarke
State of New York } I do hereby certify that Jesse Clarke Esq Seneca County ss } before whom the foregoing Depositions were taken, was on the 19 th day of May 1841
First Judge of Seneca County & Supreme Court Commissioner duly commissioned and sworn & authorized to take & certify said Depositions. And that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his several signa- tures to the Jurats of the said Depositions and to the Certificates thereto annexed are severally Genuine.

and in his own proper handwriting. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the court of Common Pleas of said County this 20 th day of May A.D. 1841.
Halsey. Sanford Clerk
V 7867. V Margaret Dennison N.Y.
act 7 July 38
Sh. b. demur Lee
n o 5482 July 7 1838
on Roll - Seward & Sills
Brane C. J.
adm d
2 yrs Bombardier
108
John Maynard N.Y.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
No. 165-61
Margaret Dennisson Widow of Matthew Dennisson Bombadier Rev War
Act July 7 th 38
Index: Vol. 9 , Page 176
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Margaret Dennison No 7867
N.Y.
Act 7 July 38
let to John McAlister June 11. 1840 " " same August 10 th 1841
Act 7 July 1838
V N. York
Margaret Denniston
let. to F. A. Dickens 1. July 1839 to same 12. Sept. 1839
Act July 1838
Marg. (Dennison 1867 ) N.Y.
suspended
Let. W. J. McAlister Feb 21 st 1840
act 7 July 1838

Mathew Darnison N.Y. did he get Bounty Land ?
Names not returned in the Records of the N. York Line, among those entitled to, or who have received, Jan. 5-43 — Bounty Lands from the U. States — W. G.

Jan 2 o 1843
NY.
Margaret Dunison
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm re Pensions Washington D.C. H. J. Maynard N.Y.

Ho. Rep. December 31. 1842
Dear Sir
Enclosed are affidavits in the case of Margaret Dennison, intended to supply deficiencies in the former proof — The husband's service as you will perceive is alleged to have been in Capt. Seward's company, Col. Crane's Regiment, Massachusetts Line —
Yours John Maynard
J. L. Edwards Esq Comm. Pensions

Charles Burnett & Elias Gast
Affidavits
Hon. J. Maynard HOR

Ontario County ss
Charles Burnett of the town of Phelps in the county of Ontario and State of New York being duly sworn deposith and saith that he was born in the town of New Windsor in the county of Orange and State of New York in the Year 1770 & that he became acquainted with Mathew Dennisston in the year 1793 at New Windsor in the said county of Orange and this deponent further saith that he has no personal knowledge of Mathews Dennisstons Services in the Army but has been informed by the said Dennisston and several other persons that served in the same company with him and verily believes that the said Dennisston served through the whole of the revolution, and this deponent further saith as he has been informed & verily believes that the said Dennisston first enlisted for the term of Nine months in a company of Artillery commanded by Capt. Belknop usually called Minute Men, and at the expiration of the said term of Nine months he Dennisston enlisted in Capt. Seywards  company of Artillery of the Massachusetts line for and during the war, and served in the capacity of Bombardier in the said company to the close of the war, and received an honorable discharge under the hand of Genl. George Washington which discharge this deponent has seen frequently. And this deponent further saith as he has been informed and verily believes that the said Dennisston was engaged in the Battles of Monmouth and Brandywine and was under Genl. Lafayette at the South in taking Cornwallis, he there received a wound but was usually active, and this deponent further saith as he has been informed and verily believes that the said Dennisston was married to Margaret Karnaham at New Windsor in the Year

1790 - And this deponent further Saith That he the Said Denniston removed to the Town of Phelps in the County of Ontario & State of said in the year 1795, and Settled upon a farm in Said Town upon which he resided untill a Short time before his Death which was in 1829. at the time of his death he resided in the Town of Sodus in the County of Wayne & State of said, and was buried upon his farm in the Town of said. And this deponent further Saith That the Sword which the Said Denniston wore through the revolution and which was given to him at the time he received his disch- -arge was brought with the Body and laid across his Coffin. and this deponent further Saith That he was Married to the Sister of the Said Mathews Denniston wife , in the AD 1794 and in the Year 1796 he this deponent removed to the Town of Phelps in the County of Ontario & State of said and Settled upon a farm adjoining the farm of the Said Denniston. And further this deponent Saith not. Subscribed & Sworn this 23 day of December AD 1842 before me Henry C. Swift a Justice of the Peace in & for the Said County of Ontario Charles Brown
Ontario County ss
Col. Elias East being duly Sworn depose th and Saith, he became personally acquainted with Mathew Denniston in the Year 1800 and that he has been informed by Persons from Orange County and very believes that the Said Mathew Denniston Served in the Army through the whole revolution

And this deponent further saith that he was also acquainted with Margaret Denniston wife of the said Mathew Denniston and that she died in the Spring of 1842 And this deponent further saith that he resides in the town of Phelps in the said County of Ontario and has been acquainted with Charles Durnett since the year 1800, and that he has always been respected as a citizen and is a man of truth and veracity and further this deponent saith Not —
Subscribed & sworn this 23 rd day of December AD 1842 before me Henry C Swift a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County of Ontario
Charles Durnett

Aug 9. 1841
Memorandum
My
Dear
J. S. Edwards
Court of Oyer & terminer
New Bedford
Mass.
My

Waterloo Seneca County N.Y. August 6 th 1844-
Hon ble Sir
Yours of the 18 th of June last was duly rec d and in answer I can only say, that I regret on account of the applicant an exceedingly infirm old lady, that the Records do not show the name of her late husband as a soldier for there is no Marine of doubt but that He, Matthew Dennison was a faithful soldier of the Continental Army - for there are yet those living who knew of his services - and who have seen his discharge from the Army. He, the soldier, was not in Sims Regiment during all the time he was in the army, nor was he all the time a soldier under Captain Sweat, but He was under both them Officers during some portion of the time he was in the service.
Now as to his discharge, about 10 or 15 years ago a man named Bangston - from Ontario County in this State, was an officer in the last war was visiting Washington, and the old soldier being then living and anxious to obtain a pension sent his written discharge by Maj Bangston, on to Washington. Bangston presented it to the Department and was told that it should go on file in the office and did leave it with the Department to be filed, and I presume that

Files are examined the discharge will be found under the hand of the officer - Something of this kind was done with the papers - And I hope Genl. Hovey will see fit to cause a diligent search to be made for the discharge, and also have the Records fairly searched - and see if common justice will not warrant the department in granting to the widow a pension, and do inform me of the result,
There is no doubt but that Matthew Derrison was a volunteer from this state - and that he contin- ued in said army from the time of his enlistment until the close of the war, and then recd an honorable discharge. I am thus pressing because of the widow's need, and because I know that it is a meritorious claim.
Resp Lem O. Kellogg
J. McAlister
To Hon J. L. Edwards, Comm. of Pensions

Feb 14. 1842
N.Y.
Hon. Mary H. Stanton
PAID
PAID
25
Jamie V. Edwards Court of Pensions Washington D.C.

Waterloo Feby 8 th 1842
Dr Sir
I am sorry to be obliged to again trouble You respecting the claim of Mrs Margaret Dennison. But knowing that under the laws of Congress. She is Justly entitled to a pension, in right of her late husband, Matthew Dennison I trust I shall be excused for again calling Your attention to this matter. Upon further examination, I find that Matthew Dennison was during a portion of the time he was in the Continental Army, a Member or soldier in the New England Militia or Troops, and belong d to the New England Troops at the close of the war and was regularly discharg d when they were. So I think, that by referring to the New England Rolls, or the final settlement with the New England Troops, You must & will discover his name & all the information necessary to convince You of the Justness of this claim. He had prior to his enlisting into the New England Troops been a Volunteer into the Troops of this State. —
You will please to inform me of the result, after looking at this matter
I am informed he was once a, Young Off r Servant Soldier under Capt Belknap.
Yrs McAlister

State of New York Seneca County ss.
On this Nineteenth day
of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty One, personally appeared before me Jessie Clarke, First Judge of Seneca County. Margaret Dennisson of Waterloo in the said County of Seneca aged about Twenty four Years, who being first, by me duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declarations, 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 Matthew Dennisson, who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolutionary war. That said Matthew Dennisson, her said husband, departed this life, in the Year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty five; that she has never been married, since her marriage with the said Matthew Dennisson, and still is the widow of the said Matthew Dennis- son. That according to the best of her re- collections, information and belief, the said Matthew Dennisson was during the a portion of the time he remained in said Army, a member of Captain Swo- ard's Company, under Colonel Vande- kirk that said Matthew Dennisson was a volunteer Artilleryman. That at the time of entering said Army she believes said Matthew Dennisson resided in Orange County, in the State of New York. That she recollects of often having heard said Matthew Dennisson say, that he was in the
(Then Alder)

Battle of Germantown, and the Battle of Brandywine; that he went to the South, & was in the Southern division of the said Army, a portion of the time he was in said Army, and she has no doubt but that said Dennisson was in said Battle, & some others. That she cannot state with certainty the time when said Dennisson entered said Army, but she has been informed & believes she has no doubt but that said Dennisson continued in said Army until the close of said war, she the said Margaret further declares, that she was married to the said Matthew Dennisson on the first day of July, in the Year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Eight, that her husband the said Matthew Dennisson died on the Month day of April, One thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety five, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, Seventeen Hundred & Ninety four, to wit, on the first day of July, Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Eight, as above stated,
Sworn to, and subscribed on the day Margaret for Dennisson and heard first above written Before, mark
Me John Clarke first Judge of Salem County, N. York

State of New York Seneca County ss.
I, Jesse Clarke, First Judge of Seneca County, and the person before whom the foregoing Declaration was taken and sworn to, do hereby certify, that Margaret Dennison, the person making the said fore- going declarations, is unable to appear in open court, & that she is unable to assist herself, or work, and is perfectly helpless, on account of a paralytic affection.
Given under my hand at Waterloo in said County of Seneca on the Nineteenth day of May A.D. 1841.
Jesse Clarke First Judge of Seneca Co. N.Y.