Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17478, Luther Hilliard, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
St. V.
Hilliard, Luther
S 17478
Carded
CONTENTS

32.815
for Hampshire Concord Luther Williams deceased Williams in the State of New Hamp- was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Chase of the Reg t commanded by Col Chase in the N. H. V ol line for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Endy Dec r 1830, when he died Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of February 1831 and sent to H. A. Sturtevant Present Arrears to the 4th of Pension allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. A. Sturtevant Clerk, Book E Vol. 1. Page 22

Luther Willard a N.H. claimant for a Pension Act 7th June 1832
(certified proof of his death)
John Bryan Agent Meriden N.H.

State of New Hampshire Sullivan County ss.
At a Court of Probate held at Newport within and for said County on the 4 th day of January 1851 it was in evidence that Luther Williard of Cornish in said County, died on the second day of December A.D. 1850. That he was a New Hampshire Sol- dier in the War of the Revolution and had at the time of his death a pending claim to a Pension un- der the act of the 7 th June 1832. And that he left a widow by the name of Abigail Williard.
The testimony to the above points was satisfactory to the Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Newport aforesaid this 4 th day of January (A.D. 1851.)
Henry E. Balcomb, Register of Probate.

35544
Luther Willards Declaration
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2nd of June '32
6 ... 32,815 ... 32,815
United States ... for ... Congressional District ... ending 2 December 1850 when he died payable to his widow Abigail Willard
Concord
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
(State of New-Hampshire, } ss. County of Sullivan
On this 17 th day of January  1843. personally appeared before the Judge of the Court of Probate  Luther Hilliard a resident of Conish in the County of Sullivan and State of New-Hampshire , aged 83 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year _____ with _____ and served in the regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers :
He served the country as follows as near as he can now recollect, thinks he first engaged about the middle of the winter of 1779 at which time he was a private in Captain Chase Company of Col. Chase N.H. Regiment and was stationed at Conish on the Connecticut River doing guard and alarm duty from said time till the summer of the next year that is the summer of 1780 when he, Stephen Loring and Joseph Bartlett were detached and ordered to West Point where he served upwards of three and a half months in Capt. Stevens Company till discharged in October 1780. As to his first service however he would not represent that he was actually engaged for the whole time from the middle of the winter 1779 to the middle of the summer of 1780, but in his turn, and as he believes to the amount of four and half months including all alarm services and hindrances to which may be added two days after his return from West Point in October 1780 when upon an alarm he turned out and went as far as Hanover and returned the next day being the last service that he now recollects doing. The last mentioned service was on the occasion of the burning of the town of Royalton in Vermont by the Indians.
IV. hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Witness Stephen Loring John L. Putnam Judge of Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
John L. Putnam Judge of Probate
I, Uriel Dean Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Luther Hilliard for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court, this seventeenth day of January A.D. 1843. Uriel Dean Register

State of New-Hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.
I Thomas P. Treadwell , Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Thomas A. Harris is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Sullivan — duly Commissioned and qualified. His Commission was dated on the 29 th — day of June 1843 and will expire on the 29 th — day of June 1845 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this
30 th — day of
Jan'y. 1846.
Thomas P. Treadwell Secretary of State.

Certificate of James Wilson M.L., relating to the application of Catherine Williams for a pension to be filed with the papers in that case -

I James Wilson do hereby certify that I am and for many years have been well acquainted with the Hon John L. Putnam and the Hon Elazer Jackson both of Cornish in the State of New Hampshire - I can truly say in regard to those gentlemen that two more worthy, truthful, trust-worthy, excellent men cannot be found any where in the country. The utmost confidence and reliance may be placed in any statement made by the said John L. Putnam and Elazer Jackson or either of them - I further say that I should place implicit confidence in the testimony of a witness whose good character for truth & veracity was vouched for by John L. Putnam & Elazer Jackson aforesaid.
I further certify that I have examined the evidence on file in the pension office upon the application of Luther Hilliard for services during the Revolutionary War on guard duty at Cornish in N.H. and after the most thorough examination of the evidence aforesaid and my knowledge of the character of the witnesses as above stated I can safely say that I have not one particle of doubt that there was a guard established and maintained at Cornish by competent authority and that the said Luther Hilliard performed the services as set forth in his declaration and is justly entitled to the pension prayed for under the laws of the United States.
Given under my hand at Washington city July 13 1849
James Wilson Member of Congress from New Hamp shire

Wormwood N.H. September 16. 1850 To the Hon. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions,
The subscribers would respectfully represent that they together with Alpheus Dunning deceased were engaged in the N.H. service of the Revolution from the 15th day of January 1779 till the 8th day of July 1780 in doing guard service in Col. Jonathan Chase's Reg't N.H. Militia for the space of one year five months and twenty three days - and from the 8th day of July 1780 to the 23rd of October 1780 under Capt. Abel Stevens of Col. Moses Nichols Reg't at West Point, three months eighteen days in all 1 yr. 9 mo. 7 days as private soldiers for which they have had for some time past before the Pension Office, pending claims to pensions under the Act of the 7th June 1832 - in relation to which John Bryant Esq. of Meriden has heretofore kindly acted as our Agent & who informed us on his return from Washington in May last that he had left the further prosecution of our said pending claims with the Hon. J. Wilson M. C. from N.H. who had examined our papers and was of the most confident opinion that the same would be admitted by the Commissioner of Pensions - Since which time no report has been made to us by said Wilson, who we learn has left for California and we are pained with fear that no attention was paid by him to our supposed rights - We have therefore to request a further consideration of our said claims under the Agency of the Hon. Harry Wibbard a Representative in Congress from the District in which we reside and in the hope that previous to his leaving for N.H. he will obtain for us the admission of our claims and the relief of which we stand in the most distressing need.
We are Sir very respectfully your Ob't Serv'ts Witness Leonard Hearn Joseph his Bartlett mark Psalis his Moulton mark Luther his Williard mark

Copy Hon Isaac Hill's Letter to the Commissioner of Pensions in reference to the Claims of Alpheus Downing Joseph Bart lett & Luther Williard -
Sept 19. 1846

Copy
Concord N.H. Sept 19 1841.
Hon J S Edwards Com of Pensions Dear Sir
In reference to the applications for Pensions of Alphus Downing, Joseph Baclite and Luther Hilliard now all living in the town of Cornish, in addition to my letter to you in February last, I have now to say that I have done and perused the renewed declarations of these persons made before the Hon. John S. Putnam on the 21 st day of August last, from which and other circumstances all doubt has been eradicated (if any could exist) that the said persons performed duly as guards in the public service in the Revolutionary War —
And further in reference to the same claims I am satisfied that this guard service was a public service in the time of the Revolution such as was recognized by the United States in its settlement of Revolutionary services and expenditures; and of which fact the Secretary of War may satisfy himself by the printed documents found in the same town of Cornish with the remnant of its records still left in existence —
I remain, respectfully
Your obedient servant
Isaac Hill —

Feb. 24. 1896
Added to case
Stephen Denny & Co
Edward G. Lawrence, Foreman of Works,
Washington
now here

Washington, Feb. 19, 1846
J. L. Edwards Esq. Dear Sir;
In regard to the cases of Ephraim Dunning, Joseph Bassett and Luther Hilliard, soldiers of the revolu- tion belonging to New Hampshire, which have been some time pending in your office under the act of June 7, 1832, I would state that from a more full examination of the evidence, I have no doubt there was a public guard ser- vice kept up at Cornish from 1776 to 1781, and that each and all of these applicants served, according to their sev- eral declarations, in that guard. With some of the witnesses, especially with the Hon. Messrs. Jackson and Putnam I am well acquainted, as I am with the gen- eral character of the citizens composing that community: They are among the most intelligent and reputable of the State as I have known them. The guard service of the three applicants is con- sidered to be well established. The original paper herewith enclosed will convince you that there was such guard service. The absence of testimony in relation to that service in the N. H. Secretary of State's office may be accounted for in the fact that the strip of land on Connietical river of which Cornish was then a part then claimed to be within the New Hampshire jurisdiction and the bears of Cornish were at that period among the leading men who resisted that jurisdiction.
The

The discrepancy as to the time claimed for the guard service, is a matter entirely for your judgment on the precedents in your office. It would seem reasonable that the whole sum should be allowed them. The explanatory deposition, will show you why more time was claimed. I think the difference cannot go to the discredit of their veracity. I do not doubt them to be men of truth. The testimony of other individuals, (6 in all) John Chase, Samuel Putnam, Caleb Chase, John L. Putnam and Eleanor Jackson, establish beyond controversy, the existence of the guard.
I have no interest whatever in these claims other than the sympathy I feel for the living remnants of the revolution who are distressed; and can only express the hope that you may take up and decide the cases, they may deserve the first open opportunity.
I am, respectfully, sir,
Your obedient servant,
Isaac Hill

Eleazar Jackson Deposition In relation to the Cornish Guard
additional Proof in the case of Luther Keilland

I bear witness of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of Southampton before and say that upon application to me for the purpose, I have lately examined the Records of the town of Cornish in order to find proof of the fact that a Military guard or guards from time to time were raised and stationed at the residence of Colonel Jonathan Chase in said Cornish under the command of Capt. Solomon Chase during several of the years of the war of the Revolution. The first and only Records that I have been able to discover in the Records of the town relative to guard the as follows
"Sept r 13 th 1780"
the Inhabitants of the town being assembled upon a sudden emer- gency and the military company called together under an Apprehension that the Enemy in small Detachments are seeking opportunities to destroy Public Stores and to  the Damages
Voted 3 d to raise a number of men for a guard and put them under pay
4 voted to raise 12 men for the above purpose as a guard
5 voted to choose a a committee to see that the men are raised properly officered and to give them directions from time to time
6 voted to choose 3 men for the aforesaid committee
7 voted that Sam l Chase Esq r Capt n Dea n Spalding Moses Chase Esq r Capt n Jonathan Chase and Lieut n Elias Leavitt be a committee for the above purpose
8 voted that the committee proceed upon the business immediately that the men be raised for 2 months unless sooner discharged by the committee that one officer be put in of the rank of Lieut n under officers the com- mittee think proper." But no Roll or names either of Officers

or Soldiers who were raised in conformity to said votes are to be found. But still I am of the confident belief that guard duty was performed at the place aforesaid previous to the date of the foregoing votes and as early as the autumn of 1778 for I have a paper before me containing evidence of such service of which the following is a copy.
Garnish December 21 st 1778
I believe of the guard raised in Garnish and put under the Direction of the Committee and the term of time that each man served as a guard for that purpose.
   Names Days Weeks Fortnights Months     Will m Richardson Lt 2 ...   Simson Chase Sgt 2 ...   Abel Spaulding 1 ...   Thomas Chase 2   Joseph Vinson 1   Samuel Chase jun. 1   Solomon Stillman 2   Jonathan Chase 2   Calib Chase 1   Joseph Chambliss 2   Salmon Chase 1   Baruch Chase 2   Dinah Spaulding 1 ...   Col. H. Chase 2 ...  
William Richardson Lieut.
I further depose and say that I was present at the hour of Mrs. Anne

Morse when the forging paper was found, on a search among the papers of her late husband John Morse for evidence of Revolutionary services. The said John Morse was as I believe one of the team mil- ers of safety at the date of said original paper which is deposited with the Committee."
State of New Hampshire
Eleazer Jackson
Sullivan Co.
Sworn and subscribed to this 21 st day January, 1846
Before me
J. J. Harris, Justice of the Peace
I further certify that Eleazer Jackson, the Deponent, is an acting justice of the Peace in & for said County, and throughout the State and also an Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas,
J. J. Harris, Justice of the Peace,

John Chase Dept.
Adm c proof - pending Case of L. Bellairs
Wm. Bryant agent
Menden
SH

I John Chase of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire a soldier of the Revolutionary War, depose and say that I was a resident of this town at the time of the commencement of the war, and that I have ever since lived here, and that I have long been acquainted with Luther Williard an applicant for a pension and whose declaration made before the Hon. John L. Putnam on the 17th of January 1843, was soon after shown me where in he asserted that a part of the services he rendered the country were in guarding the Army stores then kept by Colonel Jonathan Chase on the Connieticut River in said town of Cornish, the truth of which declaration I have no reason to doubt, knowing that an arsenal or depository of Arms and Army stores was kept in the buildings of said Chase for several years in the time of the war, about which guards were kept - To which guard I belonged myself and took my turn in doing duty there when not otherwise engaged, but did not happen to serve there with the said Williard my tour being in the year of 1777. I well recollect that a quantity of Arms were there kept, and that when I was called upon to go to Siconduogo in the spring of the year 1777 I received my Gun and other necessaries from that place by the hands of Col. Chase and that on my return from that tour of service I there returned the same. Others I believe did in like manner. And my impression and belief is that said Arms and other Army stores were

public property or the property of the Country there kept and guarded for distribution as occasion might require The Powder I well recollect or a portion of it was at one time removed to an other place in the vicinity for more safe keeping it being feared that the Tories might attempt to destroy the same and thereby en- danger the other public property.
John Cheever
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss. { Sworn to and subscribed this 14 th day of August 1843 before me } to Mr Bryant Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the deponent is a credible witness.
to Mr Bryant Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss. ss I Uniel Dean Registra
of the Court of Probate in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Bryant a standing Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, that his com- mission was dated on the 21 st day of June 1839 and will expire on the 20 th day of June 1844, and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 15 th day of August A.D. 1843. Uniel Dean Registre of Probate.

State of New Hampshire } I. J. Mc Gillmore Clerk of the Sullivan County } Superior Court of Indictment of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Bryant is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 21 st day of June 1839 and will expire on the 20 th day of June 1844 and that his signature herewith are genuine Given under My hand and the seal of said County this 17 th day of Oct A D 1843 I. J. Mc Gillmore Clerk
John Chase Sept 2
Rev. Prof. - Pending Case of H. Williams
Rev. Bryant Agent
Meriden
NH

Samuel Fulman's Dep o
Ada proof in the pending Case of Luke Billeard
Wm Bryant agent
Menden
NB

Colonel Nathan H. Dorrish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire depose and say that soon after date of the declaration of Isabella Williams made before the Hon. John L. Dorrance Judge of the Court of Probate for said County on the 7th day of January 1843 in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 wherein he stated that a part of his services which he performed and for which he claimed a pension in 1814 that of guarding at the Army Store kept in the buildings of Colonel Chase in the town of Cornish a said County which is situate upon the Connecticut river the truth of which I have no reason to doubt having known the said declarant from the days of youth and having known that Army Store was then kept and guarded for several years in the time of the War. I was myself called upon to take my turn in doing such service in the month of September 1814 and engaged and served accordingly for the space of six or seven weeks being the only service I happened to be called upon to render in the time of the War. Well recollect having said at the time and which I then believed and do still believe to have been true that there were many Tories in the vicinity and that tens were entertained for the personal safety of said Colonel Chase as well as the destruction of the said Army Store in his possession and under his care a reward being offered for the taking and delivery of said Colonel Chase And hence as I suppose the necessity of a continual guard in said County further well recollect being informed that two Tories by the names of John & Daniel were taken on the opposite side that is the Vermont side of the Connecticut

river with arms in their hands and that in several instances people fled from the Vermont to the New Hampshire side of said Connecticut river for protection out being the only station guard for some distance on either side of said River
Samuel Putnam
State of New Hampshire } Sullivan ss } of August 1843
Sworn and subscribed to this 14th day
Before me John Bryant Justice of the Peace
I further certify that Samuel Putnam the deponent is a credible witness to the facts herein stated before me John Bryant Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire } Sullivan ss }
I, Ulrich Dyer Register of Probate in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Bryant is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the 21st day of June 1837, and will expire on the 20th day of June 1844, and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 15th day of August AD 1843. Ulrich Dyer Register of Probate

Sullivan County Pa. State of Northumberland
A. J. Mc Gilmore Clerk of the Superior Court of Justiciary of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Bryant is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County. duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the 21 st day of June 1839. and will expire on the 20 th day of June 1846 and that his signature herewith is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County this 17 th day of October A D 1843 J. M. Mc Gilmore Clerk

South Williams Renewed Declaration. N.H. Act 7 June 1832
Wm Lloyd Agent Menden N.H.

(Renewed Declaration)
hereby to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1837
State of New Hampshire
County of Sullivan ss
On this second day of July 1843 personally appeared before me Richard Lawrence of the place within and for said County of Sullivan father William a resident of Cornish in said County of Sullivan aged 86 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on this oath make the following renewed declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress (supp. d) June the 7th 1837.
That on or about the the 17th day of January 1843 before the Hon John S. Putnam Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County he made an Original declaration in order to obtain the benefit of said Act wherein according to his present best recollection he set forth the service that he rendered the Country and for which he then claimed as follows or substantially so.
That from sometime in the winter of 1779 till the middle of the summer of 1780 he was engaged as a private under Captain Solomon Chase of Colonel Jonathan Chases Regiment of New Hampshire Militia doing guard duty about the Military stores collected and kept at the residence of said Colonel Jonathan Chase in said town of Cornish. That on about the fifteenth day of July 1780 he went to serve in the Continental Army at West Point and

accordingly must and rendered further active service for the space of three and a half months or more in Captain Stevens Company of Colonel Nichols Regiment being the last service that he rendered with the exception of a short time at the time of the alarm at Weymouth. He did not in his former Declaration represent that he was continually engaged in the guard service under Captain Chase nor does he now so represent but as he was during the whole time in actual readiness and considered himself under the command of his Captain the said Solomon Chase, and under arms much of the time Sabbath days not excepted he now claims for service as a private from the fifteenth day of January 1779 to the fifteenth day of July 1780 under said Captain Solomon Chase, and under said Captain Stevens three and a half months ending in October 1780 in all twenty one and a half months He further states in reference to the above named guard service that he considered it as much military as the service he rendered at West Point under Captain Stevens
Given Luther L. Merrill Mark
Sworn and subscribed to this 2 d day of July 1845
Before me Orlando Powers of the Peace
I further certify that the above is in my belief a credible witness Orlando Powers Justice of the Peace

State of New-Hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.
I, Thomas P. Treadwell , Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Wendell Powers is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Sullivan duly Commissioned and qualified. His Commission was dated on the 14 th day of June 1842, and will expire on the 14 th day of June 1847 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 19 th day of Sept. 1843.
Thomas P. Treadwell Secretary of State.

Stephen Hilliards Renounced Declaration
Feb. 17. 1846.
Free Market Agents Meriden N.B.

State of New-Hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.
I, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Polius H. Smith is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Sullivan - duly Commissioned and qualified. His Commission was dated on the 20 th day of June 1844 and will expire on the 20 th day of June 1849 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 30 th day of
June 1846.
Thomas P. Treadwell Secretary of State.

Pension Office November 11 1843
Sir
In the case of Stephen Denning it is very clear that he has no claim whatever. He originally declared in 1843 that he served in a Guard at Cornish under Capt. Chase of Col. Chase's Regt. alternately from the 15th January 1779 to October 1780 and estimated his actual service at one fourth. The silence of the Pay and Muster rolls of that Company and Regiment is conclusive of the fallacy of that statement, and this is also, confirmed by the Town records of Cornish which afford a detailed account of all charges against the State for Military Service, bounty, Guards, supplies &c. The only charge for guarding public stores is one without date for one Sergeant and eleven privates for two months, organized, paid and subsisted by the town. Even if it were Military and the Town had no authority to create a military Corps, it would be insufficient to entitle him to a pension. But Mr. Stilliard and Joseph Buellett also discovered and set forth at the same time in 1843 the same claim for service in the Guard at Cornish. Now it would most extraordinary if three of an organized Guard of eleven privates in the Revolutionary war were still living and equally so that they neither should have asserted a claim until 1843 when they put forth one in the same language.
They are not entitled John Bryant Esqr. Minister N.H.
I am very respectfully your obedt. Servt. W. B. Edwards

I Justin Hilliard of Cornish in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire aged 86 years do now say that an original letter, of which the foregoing is a copy, has this day been shown me by my Agent John Bryant Esq of Meriden N.H. and that I am one of the individuals therein named and that I now desire to make this renewed declaration before Elias F. Smith a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Sullivan and for the purpose of asserting that I am one of the surviving individuals who composed the guard which was from time to time stationed near the residence of the late Colonel Jonathan Chase in said Cornish during several years of the War of the Revolution and to say that in my declaration made on the 10th day of January 1843 I stated as near as I can recollect as follows to wit: That I first engaged about the middle of the Winter 1779 as a private in doing guard service at said Cornish under the command of Captain Solomon Chase of whose Company I was a member, and that I was actively engaged in that service and in service on alarm occasions till the Summer of 1780 and as I now think, till some time in the month of July in that year when I together with Joseph Pattell and Alpha Dunning both of whom are still living was detached to go and recd a tour of service at West Point which I did accordingly and there served under the command of Captain Abel Stevens for the space of three and a half months till discharged in October 1780. That after my return from West Point I turned out at the time of the Royalton alarm and went as far as Lebanon and returned the second day. That I then estimated the services I had rendered exclusive of the tour to West Point, at four and one half months. That in a renewed declaration made before Orlandus Dows Esq on the second day of July 1843. I stated my services to have been as above stated or substantially so. and I claim for the whole of the time that I served from the Winter of 1779 to the Summer of 1780 for the reason that we were regarded as "Minute Men" and were in constant readiness and all the while under the command and subject to the order of our Captain Solomon Chase and were under arms much of the time during said period of time both week and

With the above I have this day seen the several declarations made by Stephen Clancy before Ed d Smith Esq in reference to his former declarations and pending claim and agree with him as to every essential particular, which may be applicable to my own case.
his Arthur X Hilliard Mark
State of New Hampshire Sullivan ss.
Sworn and subscribed to the 16th day of January 1846
Before me
Albert Smith Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the deponent is a credible witness
Albert Smith Justice of the Peace

Bartlett & Deming Affidavit

We Joseph Bartlett and Stephen Deming of Comstock in the County of Sullivan and State of Hampshire upon and say we were present and heard the declaration made by Luther Gililand before the Hon. S. L. Putnam Judge of the court of Probate for said County on the 17 day of Jan y 1840, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 5th of June 1832, which declaration we believe to be true for we for the most part of the time therein stated were actors and privies with him -
Witness Elazar Jackson
Joseph L. Bartlett Stephen Deming
State of New Hampshire Sullivan ss
Sworn and subscribed to this 18 th day of January 1843
Before me Elazar Jackson a Notary Public (of the county of Hampshire)
I further certify that a long acquaintance with Joseph Bartlett and Stephen Deming the above deponents I am able say with confidence that they are credible witnesses. I also further certify that I have read the original declaration of the said Bartlett made before the said Putnam on the 17 instant in order to obtain the benefit of the act of June 5 1832 and have no doubt of the correctness of that Declaration believing as I do that

military stores were held in the buildings at both times in barracks for several years during the Revolutionary war and that guards were kept over the same.
Wilson Jackson. Special part of the { Court of Sessions. Please

The State of North Carolina Sullivan County ss.
I J. M. Gilmore Clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of North Carolina do hereby certify that Eleazer Jackson is an acting Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Sullivan duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature herewith are genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County this 21 st day of August 1863.
J. M. Gilmore Clerk

P 17/1/48
INVALID.
No. 100/100
John William
1811
Act: June 7 th 1822
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 175
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Luther Holleard
N.H.
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