Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 20968, Samuel Dennis, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Dennis, Samuel Anna
W 20968
CONTENTS

Jany. 26. 1846. Reps: to Agt: - Abrao Loy march 30 th 1847
9829.
Vermont
Anna Dennis, deceased, -
Widow of Samuel Dennis, - who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 7 th : June, 1816 - of Rutland (in the State of Vt:) who was a private in the commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt: - commanded by Col: Jackson in the Massachusetts line for 13 months 18 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Poulney at the rate of 45 - Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836. Ending 9 November, 1840, when she died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st - day of January, 1846 and sent to A. Joy Present.
Total amount, $ 912.17
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Christiana Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 - Page 125.

6504
Anna Dennis - dec?
Vt
Act. 7. July '38
m 88-16-
W and dec 19 Nov. 1840
Vol 33. 409 - Hardwick three years men in '78. X
A final settlement Dennis payment Aug 1840 11-15 34
13 mo - 18 days
Box messrs
Isaac Eno
Rutland Vt

State of Vermont } Rutland County } }
On this tenth day of October in the year of our Lord, 1839, personally appeared before the Hon. Ambrose L. Brown, Judge of the Probate Court of the District of Rutland in said County, Anna Dennis, a resident of Shrewsbury in said County, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July, 7, 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:"
That she is the widow of Samuel Dennis, late of Shrewsbury aforesaid, deceased, who was a private in the Massachusetts troops of the revolutionary army of the United States; that in the year of our Lord, 1781, he enlisted for the term of three years, and served nearly that period of time - That at the time of his entering the service as aforesaid he resided in the town of Hardwick in the State of Massachusetts, and, as she hath been informed and doth verily believe, served as aforesaid a part of the time in the ninth Massachusetts Regiment at that time commanded by Col. Henry Jackson - and, perhaps, the remainder of the time in the fourth, after the said ninth regiment was reorganised. She does not now recollect the name or names of the Captains under whom the said Samuel Dennis served, and refers to the Rolls and other military documents of Massachusetts, now in the war office, for further proof of his service in addition to that herewith transmitted
She further declares, that she was married to the said Samuel Dennis on the third day of April in the year of our Lord, seventeen hundred and eighty eight; that her husband, the aforesaid Samuel Dennis, died on the seventh
The erasure of the word "May" and alteration to April in third line } day from the bottom was made before signing H. Brown Judge }

day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated.
In presence of A. L. Brown
Anna her + Dennis marks
Abraham Sanderson
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me. And I do hereby certify, that by reason of bodily infirmity, the said Anna Dennis the applicant is unable to appear in said Court to make her aforesaid declaration; for which reason she hath made the same, as above written, at her known residence in said Shrewsbury, before me.
A. L. Brown
State of Vermont } Rutland County } I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the Probate Court of the District of Rutland in said County, do hereby certify that the Hon. Ambrose L. Brown is Judge of said Court; that as such Judge, he is authorized by law to take acknowledgments of affidavits, as in the annexed affidavit of Abraham Sanderson; and that the several signatures annexed to the said affidavit, and to the foregoing declaration of the said Anna Dennis, purporting to be those of the said Ambrose L. Brown, as Judge of said Court of Probate, are, severally genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said Probate Court, at Rutland in said District, this 10 th day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1839.
F. W. Hopkins

I, Abraham Sanderson, of Shrewsbury in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 53 years and upwards, do depose, testify and say, that I was well acquainted with the late Capt. Samuel Dennis, mentioned in the annexed declaration of his widow, M rs Anna Dennis; and that he died at said Shrewsbury on the 7 th day of June, in the year, 1806. I further depose and say, that I am also well acquainted with M rs Dennis, and know her to have been the reputed lawful wife of the said Samuel Dennis, deceased; and that she hath not intermarried since his decease.
I further depose and say, that I have often seen the discharge of Capt. Dennis, from the revolutionary service, both before and since his decease; and well recollect, that the tenor of it was, a discharge from the three years service in the Massachusetts troops; but having no interest in the matter, I do not recollect the name of the officer that signed it. It is now lost. Capt. Dennis kept it during his life, folded up with an old continental bill, and M rs Dennis did the like, until the discharge was lost.
Abraham Sanderson
State of Vermont } Rutland County } Be it known, that on the 10 th day of October 1839, before me, Asahel L. Brown, Judge of the Probate Court of the District of Rutland in said County, personally appeared the said Abraham Sanderson, who hath subscribed the foregoing affidavit in my presence, and made solemn oath, that the same contains the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And I do hereby certify that the said affiant is a credible witness.
A. L. Brown

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State of Vermont } I, personally appeared before the subscriber. County of Rutland } a justice of the peace in and for said County. Josiah Garrison of Shrewsbury in said County aged Sixty Seven years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and saith, that he was personally acquainted with Samuel Dennis late of Shrewsbury in said County of Rutland, and formerly a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, that he died in said Shrewsbury, in the County & State aforesaid on the Seventh day of June 1816 eighteen hundred and Sixteen and that when he died, he left a widow, to wit: Anna Dennis, with whom this deponent was personally acquainted who made application for a pension as the Widow of the said Samuel Dennis, from Shrewsbury in the County & State aforesaid, and that the said widow Anna Dennis died in said Shrewsbury, on the ninth day of November 1840 Eighteen hundred and Forty, and that at her death she left the following named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards to wit: Allen Dennis of Middlebury Vermont and Maria Anderson of Shrewsbury Vermont. Josiah Garrison
Subscribed and sworn to before me } this twenty Sixth day of November 1845 } John White Justice of the peace
Certify that the above named Josiah Garrison is a Respectable person John White Justice of the peace

STATE OF VERMONT, } RUTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. }
I, Frederick W. Hopkins , Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that John White Esquire, was, at the date of the Certificate to which this is attached, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned, and qualified and that I verily believe his signature to the same is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Court, at Rutland in said County, this first day of December Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty five.
F. W. Hopkins

State of Vermont } ss. personally appeared before the Subordinate County of Rutland } a justice of the peace in and for said County Susan Fenison of Shrewsbury in said county aged sixty years after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that she was personally acquainted with Samuel Dennis, late a Soldier in the War of the revolution, that he died in Shrewsbury in the County of Rutland and State aforesaid, on the Seventh day of June 1816 eighteen hundred and Sixteen and that when he died he left a widow, to wit,
Anna Dennis with whom this deponent was personally acquainted who made application for a pension, as the widow of the said Samuel Dennis, from Rutland County in said State and that the said widow Anna Dennis died in said County and State on the ninth day of November 1840 Eighteen hundred and forty, and that at her death she left the following named children, her surviving being her only children her surviving, and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, to wit: Allen Dennis of Middlebury, Vermont and Thirza Sanderson of Shrewsbury Vermont.
Susan Fenison
Subscribed and sworn before me
this twenty sixth day of November 1845
John White justice of the peace
I certify that the above named Susan Fenison is a respectable person
John White justice of the peace
The figure 40 & the word forty were uttered before this was signed by me in the above
State of Vermont } ss. On the 1 st day of December 1845 in District } County of Rutland } Open Court, holden at Rutland in and for said District County of Rutland

Certify that the above named Susan Garrison is a respectable person.
The figure 40 & the words forty were uttered before this was signed by John White Justice Seal
State of Vermont } District } County of Rutland } So. On the 1st day of December 1845 in Open Court, held at Rutland in and for said District, it appeared to the satisfaction of the court that Samuel Dennis a Soldier in the War of the revolution, died on the seventh day of June A.D. 1816 Eighteen hundred and Sixteen in Shrewsbury in the County of Rutland and State aforesaid, leaving a Widow, to wit: Anna Dennis, who made application for a pension as his Widow from Rutland County in said State - it further appeared to the satisfaction of the court, that the said Widow Anna Dennis, died a Widow in Shrewsbury in the County and State aforesaid on the ninth day of November 1840, eighteen hundred and forty - that at her death she left the following named children her surviving being her only children, her surviving, and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, namely - Allen Dennis of Middlebury, Addison County, Vermont and Thirza Sanderson of Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont. The proof of Josiah Garrison and Susan Garrison of Shrewsbury, etc. She was "Count" in the second strike line from the top obliterated & the word "District" interlined in both so places, & the word "Addison County" interlined between fourth & fifth line from bottom of above certificate before signing.
Wm Hall } Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Rutland aforesaid
State Of Vermont } I Henry Hall, Register of the Probate District Of Rutland, ss, Court within & for the District of Rutland aforesaid hereby certify that William Hall is the Judge of said Court & that his signature to the above certificate is genuine.
Given at Rutland in said District this 1st day of December A.D. 1845.
Henry Hall, Register

Deposition of Joseph Stone Clerk of the town of Mendon
25 cts due
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Extract from the Records of the Town of Gardner, Worcester County, State of Massachusetts, taken from Book 2 nd page 8 th of said Records.
"A List of marriages consecrated by Jonathan Warner Esq r from April 20 th 1788 to April 20 th 1789."
[Here follows a list of seven marriages, the first of which is the following]
"Samuel Dennis to Anna Cobb Both of Gardner May 3 rd third, seventeen hundred eighty eight."
State of Massachusetts? Gardner, Town Clerk's Office County of Worcester ss June 18 th 1839.
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record, from the record of Marriages in said office, now in my custody as Town Clerk of said Gardner; with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows May 3 rd 1788.
attest, Joseph Stone, Town Clerk of Gardner for the year 1839. ~
Joseph Stone above named, depose and say: that I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Gardner in the County, Town & State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Marriages in said Gardner, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Joseph Stone, Town Clerk of said Gardner. ~
Worcester ss. June 18 th 1839. Then the above named deponent Joseph Stone subscribed and made solemn oaths to the truth of the above deposition. Before me
Gardner Puggles Jus. Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Joseph Stone is a man reputable for truth.
Gardner Puggles Jus. Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss.
I, Joseph G. Kendall, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Worcester, do certify, That Gardner Ruggles, Esquire, is a Justice of the peace in and for said County, and that his signature to the preceding four certificates, is in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the seal of said Court, at Worcester, this twentieth day of June, in the year 1839.
Joseph G. Kendall, Clerk.

I, Eunice Dennis of Hardwick in the county of Worcester & State of Massachusetts, aged eighty one years, depose and say, that I was married to Adonijah Dennis of said Hardwick on the 9 th of November 1779, and I immediately went to live with said Dennis in the family of his Father, where we all made but one family. Samuel Dennis, a younger Brother of said Adonijah, made it his home at his Father's house, but worked out the greater part of the time. One day, when said Samuel had been absent, he came home and informed his Father and the rest of the family, that he had enlisted into the Continental Service for three years. The assertion of the said Samuel, that he had enlisted, was received as a fact by his Father, by all the family & by the Neighbors. I am not certain as to the time of this enlistment, but it is my belief that it was when my oldest Son, Ariel, was but two or three months old. Our family Records show that said Ariel was born August 3 d 1781. I am certain that said Samuel returned home from the Army, when my second son, Samuel, was not more than three weeks old, and the family Record above referred to, fixes the birth of my said son Samuel, on the 15 th of June 1784. I always understood that Samuel Dennis, first above named, was engaged by a "bounty" to enlist into the service. And further this deponent knoweth not.
Emill D. Merrill
Hardwick Feby 22 d . 1841. {
State of Massachusetts } Worcester County fr. }
Sworn and subscribed this twenty second day of February A. D. 1841.
Before me, Joseph Stone, Justice of the Peace. I certify that Eunice Dennis above named is the true and credible witness, and retains her faculties in an unusual degree. Joseph Stone, Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss.
I Charles G. Prouty, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Joseph Stone is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Worcester, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature within written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twenty fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty one.
Chas. G. Prouty, Register
Feb 24 1841
Charles G. Prouty Register
1841

Hoardwick Mass. Feby 26 th 1841
Sir, your letter of the 5 th inst, in which requests that our Records, may be examined, in order to procure additional evidence of the enlistment of Samuel Dennis, was duly received, and I have paid such attention to the subject as my other avocations would permit.
The name of Samuel Dennis is not found on our Records, nor, indeed, is the name of any other soldier there found, except those to whom the Town, in its corporate capacity, paid a Bounty, and there, only in the recorded accounts rendered by our town officers. I can find no record of the proceedings of any "Class" on our town books or among the files in the Town Clerk's Office. Among our aged people, there seems to be some uncertainty whether Lieut. Job Dexter or Lieut. John Jenny was the "head of the class" which hired Samuel Dennis to enlist. Neither of these men are living, and their homes have passed into hands other than their descendants, and their descendants who settled their estates, and had possession of their papers, have removed from this vicinity.
Under these circumstances I have thought best to send you the Affidavit of Eunice Dennis, as being the best evidence, now attainable, of the enlistment of Samuel Dennis. I regret that one fact which she mentioned was not inserted in it, to wit, that about a fortnight after the enlistment of Samuel Dennis, his Father conveyed him to Worcester (25 miles) on his way to join the army. But perhaps this is unimportant.
Your distinguished fellow citizen, Carlos Washburn, once gave me a rebuke for sending him papers authenticated by the "Register of Probate, instead of the Clerk of our County Court. Lest you should be tempted to do the same, I would remark that it has been decided at the War Department, that our Probate Courts are "Courts of Record," and I would add that almost all the Pension papers made in this large county, are authenticated in our Probate Office.
I have paid 25 cts. to the Register of Probate for his fee, and 12 1/2 cts to the Stage driver for carrying this to the Probate Office. If you send me a dollar, it will be sufficient to pay the above expense and my own trouble.
If I can be of any further service, in this case, or any other of the kind, my best efforts will not be wanting to serve those whose declining years require and deserve the assistance and protection of their Country.
I am, Sir, with respect, Your obedient Servant,
Joseph Stone, Clerk of the Town of Hoardwick

Ray  WIDOW, &c,  one
File No. 20968
Anna Dennis Widow of Samuel Dennis Prv. Rev. War
Act July 7 1838
Index: Vol. 14 , Page 177
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No 6504
Anna (Dennis dec d ) Maw of Samuel
VI
act 7 July 1838
Adm d . 13mo. 18 ds per
$45 \frac{33}{100} per ann
from 4 March 1836 to 19 Novem. 1840. the day of her death payable to Allen Dennis and Thissa Sanderson only surviving children of Anna Dennis dec d
Attest my Percut

Payment to be made at by Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book Vol. Page by
Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years' Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Anna Dennis, decd. who was the widow of Samuel Dennis, who was a private, was entitled to a pension at the rate of $45.33 per ann: comm: on the 4th March, 1836 and until in the widow of 9 November, 1840 the day of her death; which will be paid upon the production of the proper vouchers to Allen who was a Dennis and Thissa Hayden and only surviving children of Anna Dennis, deceased.
and died on the _____ day of _____ is entitled to receive a pension at the rate of _____ dollars and _____ cents per annum, commencing on the _____ day of _____; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the 4th of March, 1841, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Payment to be made at Poultney, Vermont.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 21 st : - day of January - one thousand eight hundred and forty six.
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
Commissioner of Pensions.

Secretarys Office, Boston, March 2. 1847.
Sir,
There is no roll or document in this department which shows the enlistment and discharge of Samuel Dennis as a soldier in the war of the Revolution, last 3 years, only that he was mustered for the town of Hardwick for the term of 3 years as already stated in Certificate.
Respectfully your obedient servant
John G. Pearsall.
Abad Jay Esq Ord N York.

To Hon J. L. Edwards Comd. of Pensions in I have appointed Arad Joy of Ovid New York my agent as the widow of William Johnson, late of Pa, to investigate my claim to a pension,
Dated Potter Co. Pa Dec 1846
Her Margaret Johnson mark
Witness
Hezekiah Kirkpatrick Isaac Kirkpatrick

Hon J L Edwards Washington DC

Ovid N.Y. March 8. '47
Dear Sir
I enclose my appointment as agent for Margaret Johnston - as the case seems to be much mistified in my history that I get from her, please do me the favor, of informing me what the objection is to granting her pension, as I have no clue to the case -
Respectfully Your Ob l Serv t Abad Loyo
Hon J L Edwards Com d of Pensions Washington DC

March 13/87.
le Ann Jones,
Princeton.
Hon J L Edwards Com d of Pensions Washington DC
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Qued N.Y. March 8-47
Dear Sir you granted to Anna Darnis of Vermont, or her children a pension of $45,33 - I have not been able to understand why the pension was not more, when the Secy. Certificate if I understand it, is for 3 years - I enclose a letter to that fact - of course Long want what is justly due, but why is not more justly due
Respectfully Your Ob st Serv t Abad Jay
Hon J L Edwards Comd. of Pensions Washington DC

Ovid N.Y. Mar 26-46
Dear Sir
The children of Anna Dennis were pensioned at $45.33 per Annum - Your letters of Aug. 19th & Nov 6- 1845 I have before me, together with a copy of the Leg. certificate; I read the certificate for 3 years service "a Return" to me, would seem to intimate past service July 18th 1782 - I ask respectfully that this case be again examined, as I judge a full pension is due, but if not, 13 Mo & 18 days I think amounts to over $45.33 per Annum but this service is admitted by yours of the 6th Nov & you may judge a full pension to be due -
Respectfully Your Most Ob st Servt Abad Joy
Hon J. L. Edwards Com d of Pensions Washington D. C.

Rutland 8 Nov 1839.
Sir
I transmit herewith the declaration and proofs of Mrs Anna Dennis, of Shrewsbury, for a pension under the act of 7 th July 1838.
Be pleased to communicate to,
Very respectfully
In Your H on . Servt
John Gove
James L. Edwards Esq o Comm ee of Pensions City of Washington

July 11. 1845.
Adal ter can
Anna L...
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W. H. Harrison Perry's Point Ohio
Mr. President, I have the honor to submit the following resolutions to you respecting the pension of the late General Harrison.
Hon. C. L. Edwards Chair of Pensions Washington D. C.
Respectfully yours W. H. Harrison

Ovid July 7 th 1845
Sir
I inclose proof in the case of Anna  Cecilia Dennis & a letter, both of 80 dets, how far they will go in support of the claim on file I know not, but I ask respectfully your answer fully explaining the case & informing me how the state of the case on file is, that I may know what further you require &c I know little very little of the case, & I act in good faith in the premises so far as I act, I say again, I desire to know how the case stands, & not to ask for a pension, unless justly & honestly due
Respectfully Yours M c Cl ure Scott Admiral Scott
Hon J L Edwards Comd. of Pensions Washington D.C.
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Oct. 13/45.
Adal te capo Anna Dennis.
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100 100 100 100 100
Oct 9th 1845
Sir
I enclose Secy. of State, Certificate of the service of Samuel Dennis, It looks very much the very thing you asked in the case of Anna Dennis of Vermont, I have heard that the widow had died -
Hon J L Edwards Court of Pensions Washington D.C.
Respectfully Your Ob. d Servt Abad Joy
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1884 Vermont Lancaster to New York June 10th 1884 back July 15th " New York to " New York Oct 7 July 88

Feb 25. 1842 Harriet B. St. John Hon. F. L. Edwards Chairm. of Pension Washington City D. C.

Handwritten: Mansfield Mass. Feby 19 th 1840
Sir, Your letter of the 5 th inst came duly to hand. I have examined the Records of this Town as you request, and do not find the name of "Samuel Dennis late of Vermont" among any list of Revolutionary Soldiers, which those Records contain.
When I make this statement, I would ask permission to add, that the absence of the name of Saml. Dennis ought not perhaps to be taken as conclusive evidence that he did not go into the service from this town.
No Record of enlistments has ever been kept existed or been kept here, so far as I am informed. The only way in which any Soldiers name appears on our Records is where they are introduced into the annual account of our Town Treasurers as having received a Bounty which is charged to the Town; nor is it true that on every such account, the names are inserted, for in several instances, gross sums are charged and allowed, without specifying the individuals who received them.
I did not know of the existence of such a man as Samuel Dennis, till I received your letter, (though I may have certified the Record of his Marriage and forgotten it) but learning that he was Brother to Adonijah Dennis, a neighbour to me, and a Pensioner, I called on him yesterday and asked him how he could account for the absence of his Brothers name from the list of those who received a Bounty? Our Mr. Dennis informed me that his Brother Samuel was engaged by a "Class" who agreed among themselves to pay the Bounty for a Soldier, - that this Bounty was paid by the Members of this Class, in young meat stock - that this stock was brought together at the house of Lieut. John Jenny, formerly of this town, and there delivered to his Father who brought it home and gave his

Son, Samuel, a prom. military note for its value; and, consequently that the Bounty, paid to Samuel, never went through the Treasury of the Town.
Mr. Adonij'ah Fernald has ever been considered a man of strict veracity, and the statement above, seemed to account satisfactorily for the absence of Samuel's name from our Records; whether it will account for that its absence from the return of the Haverhill three years' enlistments of 1931, now in your possession, you can determine much better than myself.
I am Sir, with sincere respect
your Obedt Servant, Joseph Stone, Town Clerk of Haverhill

April 7. 1861
Rev. Cassius H. Adams
FREE
Edwards Esq. Com te of Pensions Washington D.C.

Middlebury April 1. 1845.
J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
I am informed by one of the children of the widow Anne Dennis, deceased, that some time before her death, she made application through the agency of Mr. Gove of Rutland, for a pension in virtue of the services of her deceased husband Samuel Dennis, and that her papers are probably in your office. I am asked to inquire whether, in case the widow made sufficient proof to entitle her to a pension, or if not, in case such proof can now be made, her children would be entitled to the pension up to the time of her death; and I am also requested to ask you to inform me, if the papers in your office do not present sufficient evidence to establish the claim of the widow to a pension, in what the deficiency consists.
I am very respectfully
Your obedient servant
William Slade

Dec. 13. 1845.
Adal the vase
Anna Dennis.
Hon J. L. Edwards Coun. of Pensions Washington D.C.
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Ovid N.Y. Dec 9. 45
Sir
I enclose the proof in the case of Anna Dunnis of Vermont - Respectfully Hon J L Edwards Your Obt Servt Comt. of Pensions Washington D.C. Azad Joy
Please answer this, directed to me Washington D.C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
October 2. 1845.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Samuel Dennis of Hardwick is borne upon a Return as having enlisted for said town for the term of 3 years, dated at Worcester, July 15. 1782. and is all the evidence of service of any one of the name as shown by records in this office.
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State of Rhode Island
County town of New Bedford  at Fall River . The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass. is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the Service of our late father Samuel Dennis.
He enlisted in the year 1781, in the fall of the year from the town of Hardwick Mass for three years & served under Col. Henry Jackson or Col. Stuart until the close of the war, he was engaged by a par to enlist think he was discharged in or August July, 1784.
we have empowered Abad day of said Salem county A.G. to act in the premises as our attorney -
Witness our hands this 29th day of May A.D. 1845
Signed in my presence by the said Allen Dennis Abraham Sanderson & Abraham Sanderson } Abraham Sanderson Allen Dennis John White justice of the peace
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sawyer; Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Pay City Wine & Co. City
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears: that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sawyer; Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of Massachusetts County of Worcester
ss. I John Goshorn of Hard- wick in the state and county aforesaid and a Pensioner of the United States, on oath, do testify and say, that I was in the service of the United States and was detached from the 7 th Regiment stationed at West Point, at the time, in the month of February and that nearly at the close of the same year, 1781, I returned and joined my Regiment at West Point when I was indibly informed that Samuel Dennis had entered the service, who was from Hardwick and whom I well knew before I enlisted myself. but I did not see him until the summer following, being 1782, that said Dennis was called one of the three years men, and further your deponent saith not that I think he belonged to the ninth Regiment at the time, which was commanded by Col. Henry Jackson, and further your deponent saith not.
John Goshorn
Subscribed and sworn to, this nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, Before me,
Gardner Ruggles Jus. Peace.
I hereby certify that the said John Goshorn is a man of truth.
Gardner Ruggles Jus. Peace.

State of Massachusetts County of Worcester
ss. I Theophilus Hastings of
Hardwick in the state and county aforesaid and a Pensioner of the United States make oath and say, that in the month of July in the year 1781, while I was stationed at West-Point, Silas Goshorn and Samuel Dennis came there as soldiers enlisted for three years, both of whom I well knew before I entered the service and who were from Hardwick, that I frequently saw him, said Dennis in the service during about two years succeeding, and was frequently on duty with him, that I left him said Dennis in the service, in the fall of the year 1833, in or about the city of New York, that near the close of my service, the ninth Regiment to which said Dennis belonged was broken up, and he was transferred to another, I think the fourth Regiment, and further your deponent saith not.
Theophilus Hastings
Subscribed and sworn to, this nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, Before me,
Gardner Puggles Jus. Peace.
I hereby certify that the said deponent, T. Hastings, is reputed to be a man of truth.
Gardner Puggles Jus. Peace.

State of Massachusetts } County of Worcester } ss. I Adonijah Dennis of Hardwick in the state and county aforesaid and a Pensioner of the United States, on oath depose and say, that my brother Samuel - Dennis enlisted into the service of the United States as a continental soldier, I think in the year 1781 for the term of three years, that he was in the said service nearly three years, that he returned in the autumn of the year 1783 and shewed me his dis- -charge, and further your deponent saith not. Adonijah Dennis
Subscribed and sworn to, this nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine. Before me, Gardner Ruggles Jus. Peace.
I hereby certify that the above named deponent is reputable for truth and veracity.
Gardner Ruggles Jus. Peace