Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22386, Alexander Hodge, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
A.H.
Hodge, Alexander Temple, Anna
No. 22386.
(Former widow.)
CONTENTS
This widow's husband, Enos Temple, $14657, was also a pensioner.

1731. Who Hampshire Enceas Anna Temple widow of Alexander Hodge N. H. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 60 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of Sept. 1848. and sent to
S. C. Badger Enceas M. H.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 154 Vol. 1,
Reported Set to John Bedel aug 15 1849

12676. Act 43 8586 Act 44-492 Anna Temple
NH
act 7 July 38
m 82. d 23. rolls. pri 18. 6 adm d 18mo 6 d/pu
60 66
Also acts 43 & 44 60 66
Hon. J. H. Johnson NR

State of New Hampshire, Extract from the Records of the Town of Haverhill County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire.
Alexander Hodge of Haverhill, and Anna Gary of Liman were married May second one thousand seven hundred and eighty two.
I hereby certify that the above Record is a true copy, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows, "Alexander Hodge of Haverhill and Anna Gary of Liman were married May 2 d 1782."
Attest, Nathaniel M. Dwaney Town Clerk,
Haverhill Town Clerks Office March 7 th 1846.
I Nathaniel M. Dwaney above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk in the Town of Haverhill and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy from the Records of said Town, with the exception above named, as certified by me Nathaniel M. Dwaney Clerk of the Town of Haverhill.
State of New Hampshire
Grafton County ss. March 7 th 1846. Then personally appeared; before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Grafton; Nathaniel M. Dwaney above named, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit, by him subscribed.
Newhall Pike Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Grafton County set.
Nathan B. Felton, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Nathall Pike is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified: That his commission was dated on the 29 th day of June A.D. 1843 and will expire on the 29 th day of June A.D. 1848, and that his signature above (Nathall) written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this twelfth day of March A.D. 1846. N.B. Felton clerk
126 76. Act 43 8586 Act 44 492 2 Anna Temple
N.H.
Act 2 nd July 38
m 82. d 23. pri 18. 6 rolls.
com d 18 mo 6 4/4
60.66
Also acts 43 44
60.66
Hon. J. H. Johnson MR

Declaration of Anna Temple —
State of New Hampshire
Grafton County ss: On this 6 th day of March 1846 personally appeared at the dwelling house of John Hodge in Litchfield in said County and State before Andrew S. Woods of Bath in said County and State one of the associate Justices of the Superior Court of said State of New Hampshire, Anna Temple a resident of said Litchfield aged 84 years being unable from bodily infirmity to attend Court, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the following acts of Congress — the act of July 7, 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" — the act of March 7 1843 entitled "an act granting a pension to certain widows of Revolutionary Soldiers" — the act of June 17, 1844 entitled "an act to continue the pension to certain widows"
That she is now the widow of Enos Temple late of Litchfield in said County of Grafton deceased, and that she was married to said Temple on the Spring of of A.D. 1820 and that said Temple died at said Litchfield on the 5 th day of March A.D. 1846, that previous to her marriage with said Temple she was the widow of Alexander Hodge formerly of Haverhill in said County of Grafton who was a Revolutionary Soldier in the Army of the United States of America, and that according to the best information she has been able to obtain said Hodge served as a private soldier in the New Hampshire line under Capt. Thomas Simpson, Col. Israel Morey Regt. in the fall of 1776 about two months — under Capt. Joshua Hazzard Col. D. Gilman, Regt. from Dec. 5 th 1776 to March 15 th 1777 — under Capt. Joshua Hazzard, Col. John Charles Regt. from Oct. 2 nd to Oct. 26 th 1777 — under Capt. Timothy Barron Col. Timothy Barron Regt. from April first 1778 to April first 1779 — that she was not on the Mount Rain at the time that Hodge was leaving that she was married to said Hodge

on the second day of May A.D. 1782 at said place & that said Hodge died in Landaff in said county of Grafton on the 6 th day of April A.D. 1803 - that she was not married to said Hodge prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January A.D. 1794 to wit at the time and place above mentioned - that her maiden name was Anna Gery - that she is now the widow of said Enos Temple before mentioned, she having married him and he having died at aforesaid and that she has not intermarried with any other person than said Temple since the decease of said Hodge, and now remains the widow of said Temple - Attest
John Redel John Hodge
her Anna X Temple marks
State of New Hampshire }
Grafton County ss. }
Sworn to subscribed to the day and year first above mentioned before me
Andrew Woods
One of the Associate Justices of the Superior Court of the State of New Hampshire -
State of New Hampshire
Grafton County ss. - I Nathan B. Filton, Clerk, of for said county, of the Superior Court of Judicature of said State, do hereby certify, that Andrew S. Woods is an acting Judge of said Superior Court of Judicature, duly qualified in and for said State, duly commissioned & qualified; That his commission was dated on the 2 nd day of October A.D. 1840, and will expire on the 2 nd day of June A.D. 1873; and
That his signature above written is genuine -
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 12 th March A.D. 1846.
N. B. Filton Clerk

form of bond

Know all men by these presents that I John Hodge of Lisbon in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire am held and firmly bound to Alvan Hastings of Bath in said County his executors administrators and assigns in the sum of Five hundred dollars for the full payment whereof I bind myself my executors administrators and assigns firmly by these presents sealed with my seal and dated this — day of May 1845
The condition of this obligation is such that if upon the said Hastings procuring or causing to be procured at any time hereafter from the government of the United States a pension for my mother Anna Temple in consideration of the military services of my late father according to the laws of the United States I shall pay or cause to be paid to the said Hastings one quarter of all the sum or sums that shall at any and all times be procured & drawn for and by my said mother by way of a pension as aforesaid as long as shall draw and receive the same provided that I & my said mother shall freely render to said Hastings all the information & assistance in the prosecution of said undertaking that we can without expense or serious inconvenience to me or her then this obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force and virtue
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of
John Hodge (L.S.)

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22,386
Anna Temple Widow of Alexander Hodge Rev. Rev. War.
Act: Feb. 2 nd  1/48
Index:--Vol. 16 , Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Let. to Hon. J. H. Johnson April 8, 1846.
J. Hodge 15 apl. 46 Hon. J. H. Johnson 25 Apl. ~
A ct 7 July '38.

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7709.
New Hampshire Concord
Anna Temple, formerly widow of Alexander Hodge
who was a Private
in the Peninsular
has been since 6 Apr, 1813
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of April, 1846 and sent to
Wm. J. K. Johnson H. B. F. Reps
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 6 17th June, 1844 Vol. 2 Page 22
Reported
Settled to John Hodge 30th June 1840. to Ira Goodall same date.

9982
Repealed
New Hampshire
Anna Temple, formerly Widow of Alexander Dodge who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 6th April 1813 of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Simpson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Morey in the Revolution line for 18 mo 6 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 60 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of April, 1840 (and sent) to Hon. J. H. Johnson, V. Pres.
Total amount, $30 3 30
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. Sampson Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 1. Page 43

Bath Me. April 21, 1846
Sir
Enclosed herewith is the affidavit of Moor Russell of Plymouth which was taken by me on the 5 th day of March 1845 at his house in Plymouth at the same time that I took his affidavit in Mrs Ruth Smith's case.
If in the case of Mrs Anna Temple's application on account of Alexander Hodges services it should become necessary to produce proof of the identity of the Alex r Hodges who performed the services and the former husband of the applicant I would introduce the enclosed for that purpose, suggesting that the affiant Moor Russell is now living at Plymouth and that his affidavit can be retaken if it should be deemed necessary. The occasion of taking the same was, that upon seeing him I had a copy of Barron's Muster Roll with me and read over the names to him in order to see what his recollections of each man were, and as fast as I read he would make observations about those that he recollected, & upon reading Alex. Hodges name, Russell spoke of him as being a remarkably steady man (that is a Temperance man in those days, by the way Russell within a few years past has become a Temperance man to the very letter and this is now his hobby & he gave me quite a lecture about this subject) Knowing at that time that Hodges widow was still living I thought that Russell's testimony might at some future day benefit her, and took it, considering from his advanced age, that it was a matter very uncertain how long it would be in her power to obtain it. Should this answer be well save her the expense of obtaining another. Noah Moulton is also being a member of the same Co.

I would also suggest that all the other rolls of Alex. Hodges service indicate that he went from the town of Haverhill N.H., and there can be no question but the Alexander Hodges who did the service in Barron Company was the same who did all the rest for which claim is made.
I remain Very Respectfully Your obed Servt.
John D. Dool
Hon Jas L. Edwards Comm te of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Path C. H. August 9. 1849
Sir I wish for information on the following case - On the 6 th day of March 1846 I made the declaration of Anna Temple of Lisbon C. H. for a pension under acts of Congress July 7. 1838. Aug t 16. 1842 &c - She declared that she was the Widow of Enos Temple who died March 5. 1846, formerly the Widow of Alexander Dodge on account of whose services she claimed a pension - She afterwards received a pension of $6,000 per annum to commence from March 4. 1836 - Her last Husband Enos Temple drew a pension of $2000 per annum from 4 th March 1831 to March 4 th 1846 - I wish to know if this fact of her second husbands drawing a pension has been decided to be no objection under law April 20. 1844 which provides that thereafter no Widow shall receive a pension during the same time that her husband was in the receipt of one - I write immediately upon learning the fact that she has drawn over the same period that Enos Temple did I shall always supposed that her pension commenced on the day of the death of her last husband Enos Temple March 5. 1846 -
I am, Very Respectfully Your Hon ble Ser t John Bidel
Hon. S. H. Edwards Court of Pensions Washington D.C.

Bath N.H. March 18. 1846
Sir
I enclose you the declaration of Mrs Anna Temple about whom I wrote you a letter of May 19 th 1845, also the proof of her marriage with her former husband Alexander Hodge, and a letter from her son John Hodge delivered to me this morning by Alvan Hastings and a form of a bond that John Hodge last May gave to Hastings.
Should this case allow me to say that at the time that Hodge gave Hastings the bond mentioned in Hodge's letter Mrs Temple was then married to Enos Temple & that she had before that time applied to My Father Moody Bedel to obtain her a pension but had been advised that she was not entitled to any pension while she remained married, Hastings was aware of this, and advised Mr Hodge that his mother would be entitled to a pension if she were divorced & that he thought there was good grounds to obtain a divorce, after Hastings obtained his bond he applied to me to undertake for him, I told him I thought that a divorce would not alter the case, and before being at any expense in order to settle this point I wrote you & received an answer in the negative dated May 24. 1845.
I showed Hodge the letter, he went and demanded his bond of Hastings, he refused to give it up - I told him I thought it good for nothing & so the case

rested until Temple decease March 5, 1846 - On that day Mr. Hodge called upon me and informed me that his mother wished me to come out to Litchfield on that day I told him I could not for I had business at Pawtucket but would come the next day - he called on Hodge to see if he could go out with me on the next day, accordingly I drew up a declaration that evening after my return as fully as the facts in my knowledge would justify and went on the sixth and had it completed and acknowledged & only waited to obtain a certificate of our court which sits on the first Tuesday of April next to obtain a certificate of Temple's decease before sending the papers to your department, but I was encumbered then as far as attainable and submit the matter to you as to whether I shall be justified in proceeding farther as I know Hodge has been wrought upon by fear of a prosecution by Hastings upon his bond to make the request that he has in his letter -
As to the service - you have Simpson rolls at your department - the rolls of Capt. Hayward's Cos. I forwarded to you in the case of Sufrey Lang widow of Samuel Lang - Timothy Barron's roll I forwarded to you in the case of Hannah May widow of Samuel May - no service of 1780 is to be found at our Secy. office possibly you have it at your department among the six months' levies of 1780 -
About the spelling of the word Hogg I have this to say that it was probably an error in the person that made out the roll as I find it spelled in the same

way in the return of Selectmen of Haverhill which I forwarded to you as I think in the case of Leahy Lang before mentioned —
I am Very Respectfully Your Obed. Servt John Bedel
I know not but a great part of the matter contained in my letter is improperly submitted, but as far as is consistent with your regulation an answer is desired —
I rec d a line from Hon. J. A. Denson which was this morning received he states that you had written me in the case of Mrs Hannah Morrill on the 27 th ult o . I have received no such com- munication as yet —
J. B.
Hon. J. S. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington D.C.

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10 wags
Hon J L Edmards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
City
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adocapher
Ann Temple

Bath April 20 1846
Dear J. L. Edmonds
Sir
I this day received from the Hon. H. Johnson a letter enclosing one from you to him of April 8 1846 relative to Anne Temple's Pension
Your letter reprobrates a contract between Hodge & Hastings & intimates as I am unemployed by them you shall not allow them or any thing
Now Sir I do not care a fig who gets it nor do I approve of these contracts nor have I ever made one or employed any other to do so when Hastings came & wished me to aid him to get it I told him he had a bond for a fourth of it if he succeeded in it I advised him to give it up I told him I had assisted to get near two hundred first class & yet I never made such bargains that I got all for small pay as they were our old revolutionary Fathers & I would not prey upon them. She did give it up
They that is John Hodge Esqr the son of Hastings agreed to leave it to Judge Wood himself what Hastings should have for getting it or for doing what he had done & getting as he was — I declined to act as referee &

PS - Your nightly dinner such bountifully agrees with my views & I will say the first I know of such contracts in these parts was by Genl Bridel the Father of John Bridel who made several such as I understand got some large amounts
Hastings did so in some cases as I was informed so did John Bridel as those say who know best I always declined all such offers & have such an understanding could come to you & think I should know - There are more reels than one in it
Some have been at me & me that I declined to try for delivery they could not justly seem after I have their statement but for a part of the boatman will also deliver others to do what under common cir- cumstances would not be done. the bargain is checked too Sincerely & obligely Yours M c gandall

had advised Hastings
They then agreed by themselves that Hastings should give up the bond & should be at the expense of getting it & should have a certain sum that Esey Hodge was to pay him $70.00 I believe if he succeeded in nothing if he did not I was to do it & I have charged Hastings some four or five Dollars for what I have done & advised to do & have nothing to do with his bill Hodge's agreement
John Hodge is a respectable man undoubtedly did what he thought for the best as I believe he maintains his mother & cannot have any wish to wrong her & she is a respectable old lady capable for one of her years
Since writing the above I have seen your letter to John Hodge & I find by it you understand I am one of a combination to make such bargains -
I can only say that I have got some 200 Pensions first I start I have never in any one instance taken anything but compensation I never agreed to have any certain part of one for getting it from 1818 when I began until now I have got more from five to ten dollars than for any higher sum Twenty odd dollars is the most I ever had for getting any one I now ask I think I have the right to an answer as to who gave such information for it is false in toto Yrs Ever Goodall

Rev. Dr. Hall Feb. April 25 1846
Sir
I recd. the enclosed letter & affidavit since I was at your office this morning relating to the case of Mr. Anna Foster & the Hannah Maria. If you can so arrange to give me before tomorrow for the division of the commission you will meet obligations as I leave early Monday morning for home
Yours W. Johnson
to J. L. Edwards Esq
Concord - March

10
J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
John Bee of Ottawa &
Resident of Penn.
April 19. 1846

Lisbon April 7 th 1846
J S Edwards Commissioner of pensions
Sir This is to inform you that I employed Mr John Buel to make out a declaration for me in order to get a pension on account of the Military Service of my Husband and also to get a certificate of my Marriage. That is all I wished him to do. Whether he has sent them to you or not I do not know but I understand he says he has, but not wishing to employ him any farther in the case I hereby wish you to forward all communications hereafter to Ira Goodall Esq r of Bath who has will act as my agent hereafter in order to procure a pension for me. If he has not sent all the papers necessary to procure said pension with those I got Mr Goodall to send to the Hon ble J H. Johnson to hand to you I wish you to inform Mr Goodall as soon as you receive this and he will hereafter attend to my case for me per witness John Hodge
Anna X Temple mark

State of New Hampshire Keene P. I Samuel Swasey Register of the Court of Probate Court Holden at Lisbon in said County on the 17 th day March A.D. 1846 - do hereby certify that satisfactory Evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Alexander Hodge died on the sixth day of April A.D. 1813. & left a widow Anna Hodge, who remained the widow of said Alexander Hodge for several years after his death.. to wit, till the year 1820, when said Anna, the widow aforesaid, was married to Enos Temple and that said Enos Temple died on the fifth day of March A.D. 1846. and that said Anna has been since and still is a widow.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this 17 th day of March A.D. 1846.
Samuel Swasey Regt.

Lisbon April 21, 1846
Hon. J. L. Edwards Dear Sir
I received a letter from you of the 15 instant at the contents of which I was truly surprised
My mother sir is dear to me - I have supported her nearly for 5 years past for which I have never received a cent and my house is her home and will be as long as she chooses - I expect to see her comfortably maintained with what means she has or may have
How could I be against her then - The idea is absurd and I think some one must have misinformed you, to bismarck I have agreed to give Alvan Hastings 70 dollars for getting it he paying all expenses that have or may accrue and I am to say this not my Mother and if it is to much I suffer it not her. She is well and smart both in body and mind for one so aged and needs no guardian therefore I hope you will see fit to send her pension to Mrs Goodall if she should be so fortunate as to get it
The 70 dollars above named is all the claim Hastings has against any one for getting the pension and no such bond exists as you spoke of in your letter said bond being taken up by me before I wrote the letter you spoke of to Bedel
Said Goodall is paid a reasonable fee by Hastings. My Mother's wishes are the same she expressed to you before
Respectfully yours
John Hodge

John Badger letter
Mr John Becht Bath N.H.

Mr John Dole
Sir
My health is poor & I cannot well come & see you. I could not get along with my bond to Hastings without letting him get it. I have concluded to let him have the agency. He is to pay you in what you did for me during the five days you held the agency. & you will please deliver to him the declaration & proof of marriage you have & a pay him as right for getting them & what you paid out for them. I should have been glad to have you done it but cannot as it is.
I am very truly yours
John Hovey

March 29, 1846
to
Anna Temple
Aug 1, 1838,
from
J. P.
J. J. Sedgewick
Home of Professor, Washington City D.C.

Lisbon N.H. Apr. 21.
10.
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

This certifies that we being personally acquainted with Widow Anna Temple of Lisbon County of Grafton State of New Hampshire are of a decided opinion that her mental faculties are remarkably good for a person of her age & we think as far as we are able to judge that her physical & mental powers will rate higher than the mediocrity.
Lisbon April 21. 1846
J. D. McKeen True Dodge
This certifies that we are personally acquainted with John Hodge Esq of Lisbon County of Grafton State of New Hampshire being his nearest neighbors, unhesitatingly say that we believe him to be a man of unwavering truth & whose character in society stands unimpeachable & whose deal between man & man we believe to be honest & upright & as a justice of the Peace honorably & faithfully discharges his duty - and further we add his property qualifications we consider good for at least four thousand dollars.
Lisbon April 21. 1846
J. D. McKeen True Dodge

Then personally appeared the within named L D M c Kean and Inne Page and each made Subscribed Oath that the within certificates by them signed is in their belief true -
Before me
Otis Savage Jus. Peace
Lisbon April 21. 1846. I hereby certify that having been personally acquainted with the within named John Hodge & his mother for the last thirty years can truly say that I perfectly agree the said M c Kean & Page with them in their statements
Otis Savage Jus. Peace
Lisbon N.H. April 21 st 1846 -
I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with the within named John Hodge for about sixteen years and fully believe the within statements of Messrs M c Kean & Page to be true, and also should consider the said John Hodge to be the proper person to receive the pension of his mother. With his mother, Mrs Anna Temple I am unacquainted personally, & can therefore state nothing of my own knowledge, but the statements of such men as Otis Savage, L. D. M c Kean & Inne Page, would be unquestioned when they are known -
David G. Goodell { Chairman of the board of Selectmen of Lisbon for 1846 —
Lisbon N.H. April 21. 1846 I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with John Hodge within named for about twenty years, and am also acquainted with his mother Mrs Anna Temple. I fully concur in the statements of Messrs D r Goodell, Otis Savage, Inne Page & L. D. M c Kean James Allen Jus. Peace

To whom it may concern, I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Madam Anna Dampel for 15 or 20 years, last past, and think her to be a very active intelligent person of her age. She attended church last Sabbath at our place, & her mental & bodily faculties are certainly better than the generality of persons of her age. I have examined the within Statements & believe them true Lisbon April 21-1846
Moses Hibbard M.D.
This is

Heath of Newbury } March. 1845 Ward of Haverhill
Moor Russell Aff.
Alex d Hodge

I, Moore Russell of Plymouth in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire in the 88 year of my age depose & say that I was a member of a company commanded by Timothy Barron as Captain & Timothy Redel as Colonel of the Regiment to which said Company belonged duly enrolled for the defense of the frontier on & adjacent to the Connieticutt River & that I enlisted, served & was paid for one years service in said company, and that I was well acquainted with one Alexander Hodge a Scotchman who came to Dover before the war & was a member of said company and did duty in the same as a private soldier of which fact there is no doubt in my mind. I used frequently to work with him and was acquainted with him both before and after said service. He afterwards lived in Landaff in said State who has been dead quite a number of years. I never knew or heard of any other Alexander Hodge than the one above mentioned. I recollect that said Hodge was an excellent man at at Thesling. I remember that he was a very steady, honest upright man & used to get very highly on that account. The above service was performed in the years 1778 & 1779 —
Moore Russell
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss. March 5. 1845 Personally appearing the above  within named Moore Russell & made solemn oath that the with above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me
Jon A. Cummings
Justice Peace
Taken — perpeluam rei memoriam.
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. county sets.
I Nathan P. Folsom, clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Jonathan Cummings is an

acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the twelfth day of June A D 1841, and will expire on the twelfth day of June A D 1846, and that his signature above (within) written is genuine -
Given under my hand & the seal of said County this sixth day of March A D 1845 -
N B Fenton Clerk

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admitted
J. E. Badger Concord NH

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. }
County of Grafton ss. }
ON THIS eleventh day of August 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Anna Temple resident of Bath in the County of Grafton aged eighty seven years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War: That she is the Widow of Alexander Hodge who was a
Revolutionary Soldier. That the said Anna Temple was pensioned and received the annual pension of sixty dollars per annum under the act of the 17th June 1844 as per reference to the evidence on the files, in the Pension Office.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Anna T Temple mark
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written—Before
John Hodge Justice of the Peace.
I FURTHER CERTIFY, That the above Declarant is personally known to me.
John Hodge Justice of the Peace.
State of New-Hampshire.
Grafton COUNTY, ss.
I, Jonas D Sleeper , Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Hodge is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the twentieth day of June 1844 and will expire on the twentieth day of June 1849 and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the seal of said County, this Eleventh day of August , 1848
Jonas D. Sleeper CLERK.