Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13449, Shevah Houghton, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
NUMBER Houghton, Shevah S 13449
S 13449
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0029 New York
Mass. Line.
Records corrected May 26/1895
Inscribed on the Roll of NEW YORK at the rate of 113 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of Decr. 1832. — and sent to D. D. G. Maurin
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 $69.99 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4th: 33 56.67 $226.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk Book D. Vol. 5. Page 127
Dead. Letter to W. Sisson May 26. 1842.

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In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of New York County of Wayne
On this 22 nd day of July 1832 Personally came before me David Eddy one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Wayne aforesaid Shushah Houghton aged 76 Years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he volunteered his services to the United States under the the following named officers, in the Company commanded by Capt Bowdoin in April 1775 Marched from the Town of Petersham County of Worcester State of Massachusetts, to Cambridge in said State continued to serve under said Captain two months, and that he cannot remember any of the field officers, except that he was in Col. Whipple's regiment that the Army was not then recruited. and that in the month of May 1776 he enlisted and was the then Lieutenant of a Company commanded by Capt Joseph Flint in a Regiment commanded by Col. Holman in a Brigade commanded by General Follens Marched from Petersham aforesaid to New Haven in Connecticut State, then took shipping and went to New York where in the battle in and about that City situated to Harlem line and was discharged by General Washington after serving five months. The discharge is lost. and that I had a Lieutenant's commission signed  by  him cannot remember who signed it. and that he was discharged at Harlem line above New York and that in the Year 1777 he thinks in the month of June or July he volunteered with his Company of which he was Lieutenant, commanded by Capt Ephraim Stevens for three months and marched from Petersham to Bennington in the State of Vermont, and would have been in the Bennington Battle but was detached to Stillwater and returned the day the Battle was fought from Bennington he marched to Bemus heights where present at the capture of Burgoyne served out the three months for which he enlisted and was discharged at Bemus Heights and returned to Petersham the Town in which he was born from there he removed to Fish Kill Dutchess County State of New York from there Cambridge, Washington County State aforesaid from there to Worcester Otsego County State aforesaid from there to Main County of Wayne and State aforesaid where he now resides and has for the last and he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and his name is not on the pension roll of any State 14 years. And further this deponent saith &c.
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Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written
Shushah Houghton
David Eddy
We John Case a Clergyman and Julius C. Hutchinson a Resident in the Town of Maria and County of Wayne and State of New York hereby certify that we are well and fully acquainted with Shushah Houghton who has sworn and subscribed to the above declaration that he is 76 years of age that he is upright and beloved in the neighborhood

When he Preside to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn and Subscribed the day
And I am as said a Judge of John Can } Clergyman before me David Eddy } Wap - land
Julius C. Hutchinson
I David Eddy of the Town & Marion County of Wayne and State of New York do certify that Shura Houghton is not able from bodily Infirmary to attend the County Courts and I do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after the interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and officer and served as he states, and I do further certify that it appears to me that John Can and Julius C. Hutchinson who signed the Certificate above, that the said John Can is a Clergyman residing in the Town of Marion, County of Wayne aforesaid and that Julius C. Hutchinson who has also signed the foregoing Certificate is a resident in the same place and is a credible person and that thing is entitled to Credit
David Eddy one of the Judges of Wayne County Courts of Common Pleas
State of New York } Wayne County ss } I Allen Foster Deputy Clerk of of said County Do certify that David Eddy before whom the foregoing decla- -ration purports to have been sworn and whose signature appears to the above certificate was at the day of the date thereof a Judge of Wayne County Courts duly appointed and sworn.
And I further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe his signature under the above Certificate and Declaration to be genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Syracuse this twenty eighth day of July A.D. 1832
Allen Foster Dep. Clk.

I David Dalrymple of the Town of Malmo in the County of Wayne and State of New York, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with Sheva Houghton in the Town of Petersham County of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts in the year 1776, and in said year the said Sheva Houghton volunteered into the service of the United States, and was attached to the Massachusetts line for the term of five months, said deponent will recollect the time the troops to which said Sheva Houghton belonged marched from Petersham, and further said David Dalrymple deposeth and saith not.
On this 13 th day of July 1832, came before me the undersigned David Dalrymple and subscribed and swore to the above affidavit, & I further certify that the said David Dalrymple is of sound mind & memory in a man of credibility. Wm D. M c lellan Justice of the Peace for County of Wayne
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in the neighborhood ... town over

State of New York Wayne County ss
I, Cullen Foster Deputy Clerk of said County do certify that William D Wylic whose signature appears to the within Certif- icate, and before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn. And further certify that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his signature to said Certificate is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this twenty seventh day of November, A.D. 1832.
Cullen Foster, Dep. Clerk

State of New York } On the 24 th day of November 1832 personally Wayne County } came before me David Eddy an of the Judges of Wayne County aforesaid Simeon Houghton Assistant in said County of Wayne, aged 74 years and after being duly sworn according to law deposed and saith that he is well acquainted with Shushah Houghton and knew that he served in the militia of the State of Massachusetts two months in the Year 1775. and that in the Year 1776 he knew that Shushah Houghton was in the army at New York for five months he believes as a Lieutenant saw said Shushah Houghton on his return from said service and while engaged in said service and further this deponent saith not Subscribed and sworn to before me { sworn and before me } subscribed before David Eddy Simeon Houghton
I do hereby certify that Simeon Houghton is of sound mind and memory and a man of creditability.
David Eddy { a Judge of Wayne County
State of New York } Wayne County } ss
I Cullen Foster Deputy Clerk of said County do certify that I am well acquainted with David Eddy before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn, and whose signature appears to the above certificate, is a Judge of the County Courts of said County duly appointed and sworn. And was such, on the twenty fourth day of Novem- ber 1832. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature to the above certificate is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty seventh day of November A.D. 1832.
Cullen Foster, Dep. Clerk

May 26 '42
Sheva Houghton My wife
MD: ADM:
Letter taken out Oct 23 '92
J. P. Edwards Esq.
Commissaire of Prisoners
Washington City D.C.

J. L. Edwards Esq. Court of Pensions
Sir, Shevah Houston a Pensioner of the U.S.
did Feb. 8. 1842, leaving a widow him surviving, then sick, & who died Feb. 19. 1842. Administration was granted on his estate & the administrators wish to avoid the expense of taking out letters of administration on the Widows Estate as there is nothing but the pension money from the 4th Sept. 1841, to which time it has been drawn. The money will go to several children, of the same however it may be drawn, whether by admr. of the deceased Pensioner, or of his deceased widow. Believing that the money might as well be paid to his admr. they procured a certificate of the facts, of which the annexed is a copy, with a proper power of attorney to receive the money from the Pension agent at Albany, duly executed & acknowledged by them. Sent the same with the original Pension certificate, to the agent, who declined paying, but recommended that application be made to the Court of Pensions for instructions to the Pension agent to pay the balance due, to the admr. of the Pensioner. Then an several children, as you will see by the copy of certificate & all poor I am told it is desirable to save the expense of administering on the Widows Estate, as there is nothing but this balance of Pension money. Will you please to direct that the agent pay to the admr. of the Pensioner, if it is proper to do so, & if not, then please to direct what must be done in order to draw the money for the children. It is an entirely a new case to me, but probably not to you. Please to let me hear from you as early as possible & remain
Obliged Wm. Gibson Lyons May 21. 1842
P.S. If the money shall be directed to be paid to the Pensioner admr. all that will be necessary will be to make a new power of Atty. to some other person to draw the money as the person in whose favor the present one is, will not be soon in Albany again.

Copy of certificate referred to in the foregoing letter
State of New York } Wayne County } ss: I, Lysian Sherwood Esquire, Surrogate of the said County of Wayne do hereby certify that letters of administration of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of Sheva Houghton, late of the town of Palmyra in the said County, deceased, has been granted to Tillamook Sim- mons of the said town of Palmyra and Jotham Houghton to the town of Lyons in said County and that they are duly authorized to act as such administrators. And I do further certify that it has been proved by Tillamook Simmons one of the administrators aforesaid, before me, to my satisfaction, that the late Sheva Hough- ton was a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of June 7, 1832 and that he was the iden- tical person named in the pension certificate, in his possession, bearing date at the War Office of the United States the tenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, that the said Sheva Houghton died at the town of Palmyra in the County of Wayne aforesaid on the eighth day of February 1842, and left a widow Elizabeth Houghton, who was into sick at the time of his death and who died on the nineteenth day of February 1842, and that he left thirteen children, him surviving, to wit; Jotham Houghton, Phebe now the wife of David Sherman, Esther, now the wife of John White, Lucy now the wife of David Bogswell, Polly now the wife of Martin

Locey, Hannah, now the wife of William Simmons, John Houghton, Israel Houghton, Plutarch Houghton, Phineas Houghton, Margaret, now the wife of William Collins and Sheva Houghton, and no others - and that all of said children are of the age of twenty one years and upwards.
(Seal)
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my my seal of office at Lyons in the said county of Wayne this 9th day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty two
Lyman Sherwood Provoate
(Copy)
Ms. A. 9. 2. 10 p. 1

February 15, 1937
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Mrs. Albert E. Gatlin 519 Carlton Street Sodus, New York
SA-S/HEL Sheva Houghton-S.13449
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Nathaniel Gatlin, who served in the Orange County, New York troops and Shevah Houghton, probably of Massachusetts, later of Wayne County, New York, both soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon the military service in the Revolutionary War of a Nathaniel Gatlin. Such claims are the source of the data furnished by this office. The record of Shevah Houghton has been found and is furnished herein.
Sheva Houghton S.13449
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.13449, based upon the military service in that war of Shevah Houghton.
Shevah Houghton was born at Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts. The date of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in said Petersham, Shevah Houghton volunteered in April, 1775, served in Captain Bousher's Company, Colonel Whitney's Massachusetts Regiment, marched to Cambridge, and served two months. In May, 1776, he entered the service, was commissioned lieutenant and served as such officer in Captain Joseph Flint's Company, Colonel Holman's Massachusetts Regiment and was in the battle at New York City; from June or July, 1777, he served three months as lieutenant in Captain
Did not find sol in Heitman or as Lieut in Mass A H Found Capt Joe Flint & Ephraim Stearns in Heitman

Ephraim Stearns' Massachusetts Company and was present at the capture of Burgoyne.
After the Revolution, Shevah Houghton moved from Petersham, Massachusetts, to Piskill, Dutchess County, New York; thence to Cambridge, Washington County, New York; thence to Worcester, Otsego County, New York; thence to Marion, Wayne County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 23, 1833, while residing at said Marion and aged seventy-six years.
Shevah Houghton died at Batavia, Wayne County, New York, February 8, 1842, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, who died February 19, 1842. There are no further data in regard to the widow.
It was stated that they had a family of thirteen children, who survived their parents. The names of twelve follow, the name of the other child is not given.
  Jotham Houghton. . . . .  in 1842, residing in Lyons, New York.    Poena Houghton. . . . .  " " the wife of David Sherman.    Esther Houghton. . . . .  " " " " " John White.    Lady Houghton . . . . .  " " " " " David Cogswell.    Polly Houghton. . . . .  " " " " " Martin Loey or Lasty.    Hannah Houghton . . . . .  " " " " " Tillness Simmons.    John Houghton     Israel Houghton     Plutarch Houghton     Phineas Houghton     Margaret Houghton. . . . .  " " " " " William Collins    Simon Houghton.   
In 1833, one Simon Houghton was aged seventy-four years and lived in Wayne County, New York; no relationship to Shevah Houghton was shown.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Beckman
13449 INVALID.
1937-Feb. 15-7 Nov To Mrs Albert B. Catlin-Ok
File No. 13 449
Shevick Houghnton Pre & Post War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 180
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Wm Lipton May 26 1842.
1842 May 26
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1842
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Pension Office, May 26. 1842.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 21 st inst. I have to inform you that the arrear of pension due in the case of Shevah Houghton dec d , cannot be paid to his Administrator, but must be paid to the Administrator of the deceased Widow. It is therefore necessary that letters of administration should be obtained on her estate.
Wm. Sipes, Esq. Lyons, N.York.

Sodus, N.Y. January 29-37
Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C. Gentlemen -
Can you give me any information regarding the following Revolutionary soldiers?
Nathaniel Catlin  Catlin , Catulin or Catulin served in Orange Co. New York State troops, was later of Tioga Co. N.Y.
Sherah Haughton , probably of Massachusetts, later of Wayne Co. N.Y.
Very truly yours Blanche H. Catlin
Mrs. Albert B. Catlin 19 Carlton St. Sodus, N.Y.