Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7767, Amasa Howe, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Miss
Howe, Inasa Polly
W. 7767 B.L. Mt. 15443-160-55-
CONTENTS

107320 Act Mar 3
Apel 30
Polly Howe widow Amasa Hoyle Pine
Private by Blackton Maggie Line
Ent Lis 13
Rev Naval Rev Pension Ohio Tel 53-3269
Ad. 160 acs Feby 2/56
Dodge
RA 4
A. T. Holcomb Vinton, Ohio
Cir A. T. Holcomb Dec 29/55
Vol. No 2-54.

7878. Ohio.
Amasa Hovey.
Livingston in the State of Ohio. who was a Private in the Comp y , commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg t commanded by Col. Sheppard in the Cont l Mass. for two years.
$80.00
Enrolled on the Roll of Ohio. at the rate of 80. Dollars 00. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of April. 1833. and sent to Walter Thrall Esq. Granville P.O. Livingston Co. Ohio.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 160.00 Pension allowance ending 4 Sept r 1833. 40.00
$200.00.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Wm R. Falmont Clerk, Book C. Vol. 8, Page ten.

3. 269
Ohio. at Cincinnati. Jolly Howe. widow of Amasa Howe. Maj. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Dec r 1853. and sent to
Claimant. Vinton Gallin by the
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 163. Vol. a
(B.2)
C. H.
Reg 3 m 55-107320

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832.
The State of Ohio Licking County ss
On this 20 th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the judges of the Court of said County now sitting Amasa Howe who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath State that he was previously on the pension roll by a certificate dated 11 th of February 1819. But never made application after the law of the 18 th of March 1818 was altered that he was a private in the 4 th Regiment of the Massachusetts line of the Army of the United States, and that he now resides in Granville in the County of Licking and State of Ohio, and he resided in the same place when the first application was made
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Amasa Howe
(B. D. Coffee Clk)
J. S. H.

J. A. H. Coffe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Licking County and State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Amasa Howe for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20 th day of August 1832.
J. A. Coffe Clerk

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The State of Ohio Gallia County } ss
On this twenty seventh day of March A. D. one Thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace within and for the county and state aforesaid, Polly Howe widow of Amasa Howe deceased, aged forty nine years, a resident of Huntington Township in the county of Gallia and State of Ohio aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Amasa Howe deceased who was a private soldier in the revolutionary war, but in what company or Regiment she is not informed and cannot set forth. She is informed and believes that he enlisted in the regular service in the State of Vermont, in the year 1780 for the term of three years and served to the end of that time and was honorably discharged. She further states that her said husband Amasa Howe deceased, was inscribed on the pension list as a private in the Army of the Revolution on the roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month to commence on the twelfth day of May A. D. 1818; which original certificate is herewith transmitted. She further states, that she is informed and believes that some years after the issuing of the inclosed certificate, that another Pension certificate was issued to her late husband Amasa Howe deceased allowing him Eighty dollars per annum and withholding payment upon the former certificate, which last issued certificate he had in his possession at the time of his decease and which was after delivered to the Pension Agent at Cincinnati.

Ohio - She further states that she was married to the said Amasa Howe in Gallia County Ohio on the 26th day of June A.D. 1842 by one Hiram R. Howe a Minister of the Gospel and that her name before her said marriage was Polly Blagg; that her said husband died at Gallia County Ohio on the 16th day of January A.D. 1853. and that she is now a widow. She further states that a Pension Certificate was issued to her from the Department of the Interior in conformity with the 2 d section of the act of February 3. 1853 as widow of Amasa Howe as herein inscribing her on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum commencing on the 3 d of February 1853 and she hereby refers for further proof of her residence and identity to the papers on file with her late husband's application and her own above referred to. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty lands to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855. Anselm T. Holcomb John E. Holcomb Polly her X Howe mark
We Ansel T. Holcomb and John E. Holcomb residents of the county of Gallin and State of Ohio upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Polly Howe in our presence, and that we know the applicant to be the identical person she represents herself to be: And we further declare upon our oaths that

we were personally acquainted with Amasa Howe late of Gallia County Ohio, deceased, that he died on the 16th day of January A.D. 1853 and further that he was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death; and that we are personally acquainted with Polly Howe his widow, who made the foregoing declaration and knows that she has not intermarried since the death of her husband Amasa Howe, but remains his widow.
Inselm J. Holcomb Peter E. Holcomb
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Nathaniel A. Fisher J.P.
The State of Ohio Gallia County ss I Joseph Drouillard Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Nathaniel A. Fisher is for before whom the foregoing affidavits appear to have been made was at that time and now is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Marietta this 29 th day of March 1855. Jos. Drouillard Clk

Amasa Howe and Polly Blagg, This certifies that Amasa Howe and Polly Blagg, were Married on the 26 th of June 1842. Hiram H. Howe. Minister of the Gospel.
The State of Ohio } Gallia County. ss. { I Samuel B. Rathburn. Judge of the Probate Court, within and for the County of Gallia and State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the record of the Marriage of Amasa Howe and Polly Blagg, as recorded in Book A Page 175 of the record of Marriages in Gallia County, Ohio —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said Court, at Gallipolis, this 19 th day of April A.D. 1855
Samuel B. Rathburn. Probate Judge.
Polly Howe Enclose the present to Anselm T. Harkness Vinton, Gallia Co. Ohio
107320

Debut to Pinton Galla Co. Ohio.

State of Ohio Gallia County
On this twelfth day of July A. D. 1853. personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace, within and for the County aforesaid Polly Howe of Gallia County Ohio, aged forty six years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by acts of Congress passed June 17 th 1844 and February 3, 1853 or any other acts in force on that subject applicable to this her declaration. That she is the widow of Amasa Howe who was a pensioner of the United States who received at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum at the Cincinnati Ohio agency up to the 16 th day of January A.D. 1853 as will appear by his certificate of the date of 15 th April A.D. 1833 Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E. Vol. 8 page 10. That being the day of his death. She further declares that she was married to the said Amasa Howe on the twenty-sixth day of June A.D. 1842 and that her husband aforesaid died on the 16 th day of January 1853. She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension.
Witness
Asahel T. Holcomb.
Polly her Howe mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me.
Nathaniel A. Fisher J.P. Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio Gallia County } }
Anselm J. Holcomb of Gallia County Ohio, of lawful age, makes oath that Amasa Howe late husband of the within named Polly Howe died at Huntington Township Gallia County Ohio on the sixteenth day of January A.D. 1853.
Anselm J. Holcomb
Sworn to and subscribed before me, in open court at Gallipolis this first day of August in the year A.D. 1853
Samuel B. Rathburne.
Probate Court G.C.
"Amasa Howe & Polly Blagg." This certifies that Amasa Howe and Polly Blagg were married on the 26th of June 1842"
Hiram R. Howe Minister of the Gospel."
I Samuel B. Rathburne Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the county of Gallia and State of Ohio. do hereby certify that the above certificate of the marriage of Amasa Howe and Polly Blagg is truly copied from the book of marriage records for said County on page 175 and now remaining in my office; and also that I am satisfied from the above affidavit affidavit of Anselm J. Holcomb of the death of Amasa Howe.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Probate Court of Gallia County Ohio at Gallipolis the first day of August A.D. 1853
Samuel B. Rathburne.
Probate Judge

The State of Ohio Gallia County. ss.
I Joseph Drouillard Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby Certify that Nathaniel A. Fisher Esq. before whom the foregoing Declaration appears to have been sworn to was at that time a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Gallip- olis this 5 th day of August A.D. 1852
Jos. Drouillard Clerk
Direct to Vinton, Gallia County Ohio.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.
Ally Am
May 24, 1928
Mrs. L. Bancroft Fant Public Library Newark, Ohio
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 7767 , it appears that Amasa Howe enlisted at Granville, Massachusetts in February 1781 and served to December 1783 as a private in Captain Haskell's Massachusetts Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 12, 1818, at which time he was living in Licking County, Ohio and aged fifty-two years.
He died January 16, 1853 in Huntington Township, Gallia County, Ohio.
The soldier married June 28, 1842 in Gallia County, Ohio, Polly Blagg. She was allowed pension on her application executed July 12, 1853, while living in Gallia County, Ohio, aged forty-six years.
There are not further data as to family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

Oct. 23-1901 Mr. L. B. Howe c/o Mr. Sisson B. Rev. 1910 Nov. 25. History to Miss Mary Beecher Howe 1928 May 24 High To Mrs. L. Bancroft Fitch
Rey WIDOW, &c.
File No. 7767  Polley Howe  Wid  Amanda Howe  Print Rev War  Act: Feb- 3 d  1853  Index:—Vol. 8 Page 342
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Mrs Polly Howe of Amasa
Set to Blument Oct 19/53 Emy
Act of Feb. 3 1853

6871 Ohio No 7878.
Amasa Howe
of Licking Co in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stephen of the Massachusetts line, for the term of two years
enrolled on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 12 of May 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 of Feb y 1819 and sent to Hon Mr Merdick House of Representatives U.S.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 3\frac{24}{30} p 30.22
Semi-ann. all'ce ending March 1819 48.
$78.22
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Spencerville Pa. Pittsburg Pa. Admired for her years. From 1781. Sends to Walter Marshall Garrison in the Ohio
Amasa Howe

Senior Office Oct. 14/53
Sir Please report time of last payment to, or death of within named pensioners
Respectfully I
F. Burt Esqr
Sauder
Mount.
S. Cole for Commr.
Annasa Horve, at 32, $80.00. p. an. Died 16 th January 1853. Paid to his death.
F. Burt Auditor.

Act.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by a. m. S. 21/11/10
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Amasa Howe
Service Mass.
Additional Service Rev.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191_____
No claim, combination records _____, 191_____
REMARKS:
No Fw. any service from 39,000 Wid. F. 7,767 (Mass. records) No other Wid. any service " Rej. at all

Brief in the case of Polly Howe widow of Amasa Gallin County and State of Ohio act of February 3-1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a jur in Massachusetts lived 2 yrs & pension of U.S. under act of June 7. 1832 at $80 per annum & paid to his death January 16 - 1853
Allowed $80 per annum to Jan. Feb 3 1853 (If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Marriage proved by Samuel B. Rathbun & Clergyman's certificate
Death proved by Auditor's report
Identity & Widowhood proved by Cr. Witnesses
Name and residence of Agent
Polly Howe Vinton Gallin Co., Ohio
Examining Clerk.
H. Gray

January 28
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ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
PENSION OFFICE,
Decr 29th
1855.
Sir:
The claim of Polly Howe for bounty land under the act of the 3d of March, 1855, No. 107,320 has been examined and suspended.
The revolutionary service of Anasa Howe the husband of the applicant, does not appear of record in this office.
The 3d section of said act requires a service of "FOURTEEN DAYS" to be established by "RECORD EVIDENCE."
Upon the production of such evidence of service, the claim will be favorably considered.
Very respectfully,
J. MINOT,
Commissioner.
Anselm T. Holcomb, Esq., Vinton Ohio.
Apply to the Secy of State of Mass for record evidence of the service in the Hth Regt Mass Service from 1781 to '83-

Pension Office Oct. 19 th 1833.
Madam.
You will perceive from the enclosed rules, that declarations for the benefit of the Act of 1833, must be made before a judge or justice of a court of record. Your declaration was made before a justice of the Peace. The claim is therefore suspended to enable you to file an amended declaration.
Very Respectfully L. Marcus Commissioner
Mrs Polly Howe, Vinton Ohio.
If any further proof is necessary let me know. P. H.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston.
January 29. 1856.
3 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 Amasa Howe is borne on List of Final Settlement in 4 th old 9 th Regt. Col. Henry Jackson's No. 39827 July 1. 1784 $ 29.48 No. 40548 July 1. 1784 " 53.30.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
J. D. Witt
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Direct to Visitor, Gallia County Ohio.

The State of Ohio Gallia County, ss
In this Eighth day of November A. D. 1853. personally appeared before the Probate Court within and for the County and State aforesaid, Polly Howe, a resident of Huntington Township in the County of Gallia and State of Ohio, aged forty six years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d February, 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Amasa Howe who was a private in the war of the Revolution and a Pensioner of the United States who received at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum at the Cincinnati Ohio agency up to the 16th day of January 1853. the day of his death.
She further declares that she was married to the said Amasa Howe on the twenty sixth day of June eighteen hundred and forty two; that her said husband died on the sixteenth day of January A. D. 1853; that she was not married to him prior to the second of January, eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow.
Witness
Anselm T. Holcomb Samuel Blagg
for her Polly H Howe mark

Anselm T. Holcomb and William Symmes of lawful age and residents of Huntington Township in the County of Gallia and State of Ohio being solemnly sworn by me upon their oaths do say, that they were well acquainted with Amos a Howe late of Huntington Township, Gallia County, Ohio now deceased, and are well acquainted with Polly Howe his widow and know, from their personal knowledge that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, in her foregoing declaration.
Anselm T. Holcomb William Symmes
The State of Ohio Gallia County } ss
Probate Court
On the eighth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty three personally appeared, in open court, Polly Howe, the signer and maker of the foregoing declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3 d February 1853 and made solemn oath that the same was true: Also at the same time personally appeared Anselm T. Holcomb and William Symmes whose names they affixed to the foregoing affidavit, and made solemn oath to the truth thereof. It is hereby certified that Anselm T. Holcomb and William Symmes, the above named affiants are well known to this court and are credible persons and worthy of belief. And I do further certify that this Court is

a Court of record by the laws of the State of Ohio
In testimony whereof I Samuel B. Rathburn, Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Gallipolis this eighth day of November, A. D. 1853.
Samuel B. Rathburn.
Probate Judge. G.C.

Amasa Howe a private soldier Deposition
Admitted

The State of Ohio Licking County set, } On this Twelfth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me the subscriber President of the courts of common pleas, for the fourth circuit of the state of Ohio, Personally Appeared Amasa Howe aged fifty two years, a resident citizen of the United States, at present residing in the county of Licking And state of Ohio Aforesaid. Who being by me first duly cautioned And sworn According to law, Oath upon his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision of the late act of con- -gress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons "engaged in the Land And Naval service of the United "States in the revolutionary war." — That he enlis- -ted in Granville in the state of Massachusetts. As he believes in the month of February 1781. in a company commanded by Captain Haskell, being the fourth company fourth regiment, And first Brigade of the Massachusetts line; that he continued to serve in the same corps, in the service of the United States as a common soldier until the month of December 1783 at which time he was honorably discharged from the service at West Point. That his discharge was in writing, but which discharge has long since been lost or destroyed. — Deponent states

that he was stationed at Westpoint, and employed on the lines between that and New York. That he was in no engagements of importance during the period of his service; - he states that he is now in reduced circumstances in life, and is in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that now he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service, except the deposition of Lemuel Rose suborned to this deposition, and further he saith not.
Amasa Hovei
Sworn to & subscribed before me May 12 th 1878
William Wilson
The State of Ohio Chickering County ss. Lemuel Rose a resident, and citizen in the county of Chickering and and state of Ohio, being duly cautioned and sworn doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Amasa Hovei whose deposition proceeds, that he has personal knowledge of the said Hovei having served in the revolutionary war in the continental establishment, in the corps, and for the period mentioned in the foregoing deposition, and further he saith not sworn to & subscribed before me May the 12 th 1878 William Wilson
Lemuel Rose

I William Wilson Judge as aforesaid do hereby certify that it has been made appear to my satisfaction that the said Amasa Howe did serve in the Revolution -ary War as stated in the foregoing deposition against the common enemy on the continental establish-ment, and also that he is now in reduced circum-stances in life and is in need of the assistance of his country for support; and I now transmit the proceedings taken and had before me to the secretary for the department of War, agreeable to the aforesaid act of Congress. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my mark  hand officially at New York this 13 th day of May A D 1818.
William Wilson
The State of Ohio Licking County ss
I Amos H. Coffer, Clerk of the Court of common pleas of the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that William Wilson esq. who signed the above Certifi-cate - and before whom the foregoing deposition was made now is and was at that time the present Judge of said Court. And that the signature "William Wilson" there to is in the proper hand writing of the said William Wilson President Judge as aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of said County at New York January the 9 th 1819
A. H. Coffer Clerk

Granville, O. Aug. 20.
Inver.
Rev. Care P.O.
Q9
Hon. Lewis Cols Secretary of War Washington 61.

Granville 20 th of August 1832
Dear Sir
Enclosed are applications for two pensions. Mr Howe recd a Certificate and drew a pension one year under the law of March 18 th 1818. The instructions do not require that privates should send their certificates. Mr Rose you will probably find served the same time and in the same company with Mr Howe
Very Respectfully
Your Servt
Walter Thrall
Hon. S. C. caps Sec of War.

Public Library Newark Ohio
Aug. 12 - 1927
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Dear Sir:-
At the suggestion of Ady. Genl's Office to write you relative to request on my former note. I write you to see if you find mention of Amsa Howe as a soldier of the Rev. war. pensioned in Vt or Ohio His name appears on a "pay roll in mass" but of course it may not be the soldier buried in this county Thanking you in advance for any information received I am
Respectfully
Mrs L. Bancroft Hunt

The Newark Public Library Newark, Ohio
ASSISTANT AND CHIEF CLERK AUG - 4 1927 WAR DEPT.
War Department Secy - Dear Sir -
In Howe's Hist of O., - pg 91 Vol. 2. I find the name of Amasa Howe as a Sold. of Revolution. He lived at Highgate Vermont ( in which state he may have served ) He came to Granville Licking Co. O. 1813, but name was not on this county's pension roll of 1832 So I write you for his Rev War record. He died here Jan 18 - 1853 according to Buchner's Hist. of Granville O., pg. 107.
RECEIVED AUG 5 1927 RECORDS BRANCH
Any information you give me will be gratefully received - Yours Resp't Mrs L. Bancroft Fant Received A. G. O. AUG 10 1927 Aug 3 - 1927

Ohio 1548 East 85 th St. Cleveland, November 17, 1910.
Honorable Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:
I write to you for the war record of one of my ancestors, Amasa Hovey of Granville or Lanesborough Mass. He was the son of Ephraim and Damascus Burdick Hovey, born July 28, 1765, died Jan. 16, 1853 in Gallia Co., Ohio.

I am told by a member of the family that he joined the Revolutionary Army in 1780 and served three years in a Massachusetts Company. In "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution", Vol. VIII, p. 383, I find the following Amasa Stone, Private, 4 th Company, order dated Oct 21, 1783, for wages for May, - July (year not given), appearing in a register of orders accepted on account of

wages."
I am told that he received a Revolutionary Pension when living in Gallia Co. O., and if this is so you must have his war record, which I wish.
I thank you in advance for your courtesy.
Sincerely (Miss) Mary Rachel Hove.
NOV 19 1910

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Amasa Howe , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
Mid. file 7.767
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     July 1781 to Dec. 1783 Priv. Haskell ✓ 4 Mass.                                                   
Battles engaged in, " engagement of importance "
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Eur. at Granville, Mass.
Date of application for pension, May 12, 1818 - Ill.
Residence at date of application, ( Granville ) Licking Co., Ohio.
Age at date of application, 52 yrs.
Remarks: Sol. m. Gallia Co., Oh. June 26, 1842, Polly Blagg wed. Jany 16, 1853, Huntington Twp., Gallia Co. Ohio she was all. pens. on her appln. exec. July 12, 1853, while 46 yrs. of age + a res. of Huntington Twp., Gallia Co., Ohio
Very respectfully