Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 13, Monday Hecktor, Mass

9.284 Massachusetts Lucy Hector decd. widow of Monday Hector who was a private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Ending 18 March 1843 Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Oct 52 and sent to
Wm S Barton Worcester Mass
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844 ]
Recorded in Book Vol. 2 Page 31

Massachusetts Roll.
1503
Monday Hector, Private
Massachusetts line 1776. 6 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818, and sent to the Hon. Isaac Parker, Worcester, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Some balloting
4 months 25/30.
$38.66.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued
Sturbridge, Worcester
Notification sent September 14. 1820 to Abijah Bigelow, C.C.C. Place Worcester, Massachusetts

Surgeon Hunter
[Faint, mirrored cursive handwriting, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

any more particularly, because neither her- self nor any of their family were present at the time of his death. She has never drawn the balance of the pension money due her at the time of his death, because she thought it would be more but once trouble than it would be worth, to get it. She further declares that she has never been married since his decease. That she was not mar- ried to him prior to his leaving the South but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January in the year 18 19 sometime in Ninety four, to wit at the time above stated. —
I swear to and subscribe the day and year above written
Lucy H. Hector mark
Before me W. B. Barton judge of the court of Probate for the county of Linn.

Monday Hechtler.
No 1503
June 1818
Cont 14/4p
1820
Sep 1818
Copyright by [illegible] and for the County of [illegible] do hereby certify that WILLIAM RICHARDSON Clerk of the Circuit Court of

I certify that I have no family with whom I reside: That I am not able to, much toward my own support, That I have no relatives or connexions on whom I can place any dependence for support.
Monday Hectler.
according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: as a private in the land service, commencing in April 1776, for the term of the 3 years on the Continental establishment, in a Company commanded by Capt Moses Knapp. Regiment commanded by Col Wm Shepard. Also after the expiration of the said 3 years  three immediately enlisting, and served during the remainder of the war on the Continental establishment under the above named officers. I was engaged in the Battle when Burgoyne was taken. I was also in the battle of Monmouth. My original pension certificate is dated 30 th June 1818, and is numbered 1503
and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Monday Hectler.
Sworn to and declared, on the before the said Court.
tenth
day of
July, 1820.
Attest,
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Statement  Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is said Monday Hectler has dollars and no property cents. whatever.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this tenth day of July
1820.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this tenth day of July 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, Monday Hecktler aged sixty five years, resident in Shurbridge, in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: as a private in the land service, commencing in April 1776, for the term of the 3 years on the continental establishment, in a Company commanded by Capt Moses Knapp. Regiment commanded by Col Wm Shepard. Also after the expiration of the said 3 years, immediately enlisting, and served during the remainder of the war on the continental establishment under the above named officers. I was engaged in the Battle when Burgoyne was taken. I was also in the battle of Monmouth. My original pension certificate is dated 30th June 1818, and is numbered 1503 and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Monday Hecktler.
Sworn to and declared, on the tenth day of July, 1820. before the said Court.
Attest, Hyjah Bigelow, Jr.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is said Monday Hecktler has dollars and no property cents. whatever.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this tenth day of July 1820.
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

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State of Massachusetts -
I Monday Heston - a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Sturbridge in the County of Worcester - in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on in the month of May in the year seventeen hundred seventy six
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the termination of the war
as a soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Capt. Moses Haskins company of the fourth Regiment, commanded by Col. William Shepard of the Massachusetts Line, was transferred a Member of Farnam's during the war, and received my discharge from Maj. Moses Haskins my first Captain, which discharge I have lost - and that I left the service on some time in the year seventeen hundred eighty three and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty one years -
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Monday Heston
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 10 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me,
Isaac Parker Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts
the abovenamed Monday Heston and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Witness my hand & the Seal of said Court the day & year aforesaid
Isaac Parker C.S.C.
His name is Monday Heston

I hereby certify that I frequently saw the within named Monday Hester in the service, particularly in the years seventeen hundred & seventy six eight or nine -
George Webb
Worcester ss. April 10. 1818. Personally appeared before me the above named George Webb & made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed -
before me Frederic H. B. Attorney for Plaintiff
Monday Hester Her nurse 10 April Consent JH

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Berkshire.
On this eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared Mary Ann Batten judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Berkshire, Lucy Hester a Colored person, resident in Grafton in said County about seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 6, 1838 and also an Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows.
That she is the widow of Monday Hester for late of said Grafton deceased, who was a soldier of the revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the laws of 1818. He originally belonged to the town of Boston in this state, and the deponent be- lieves that he went into the Army from that place.

Though the dice not prove him before he came out of the service. She has understood that he served most of the war since she has received from the State of Massachusetts the army bonus provided for the widows of those who served during her's war; but for the evidence of these services she must refer to the rolls in the war department and to the proper place in the service record of her husband.
She further declares that her maiden name was Lucy Gember. That she always believed to have been of Grafton, and was married there to the said Monday Hector by Benjamin Goldard a justice of the peace on the twenty second day of September in the year seventeen hundred and ninety and she has two children by him; That her husband the aforesaid Monday Hector died from home, to wit as she vividly believes at the town of Brimfield in the County of Hampden in this State about twelve years ago. She cannot state the time of his death.

September Twentysecond Seventeen hundred and ninety one, Monday Hector and Lucy Gimbee, both of Grafton were Married by Benj a Goddard, Justice Peace
A true Copy from the record of the Town of Grafton of the Marriage of Monday Hector, and Lucy Gimbee with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures. "Sep t 22 d , - 1791"
Charles Prentice { Clerk of the Town of Grafton,
I Charles Prentice of Grafton in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, do depose and say, that I hold the Office of Clerk of said Town of Grafton, and that the above is a true Copy extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me; - I further depose that I well knew the said Monday Hector, who died about Twelve years ago, though his death was never entered for record. I also know his widow Lucy Hector who is still living and has not been Married since her said husband's death.
Charles Prentice { Clerk of the Town of Grafton
State of Massachusetts } Worcester County } ss. August 28 th 1838 -
Be it known that before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County, personally appeared Charles Prentice above named, and made oath to the truth of the above certificates by him subscribed -
Charles Brigham } Justice of the Peace

John Hector of Grafton in the County of Franklin enter into the state of Massachusetts do hereby and say that I am the son of Monday Hector and Lucy Hector his wife. My father the latter part of his life did not stay at home steady, but used to go off a year and once as we understood, died about twelve years ago at Springfield or somewhere in that neighborhood. I presume the evidence of his death which is now in the very mother's declaration, and I presume that he died in the town of Hadley which was formerly a part of Springfield. My mother is still living in Grafton and has never been married since my father's death. John Brockton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Franklin ss. July 24. 1838 There formerly appeared John Hector who appears now is asserted to be a man of truth, and made oath that the above affidavit is true. Before me J. M. Ballou Judge of Probate Franklin County

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Hampden ss. Holland August 23. 1838
I Isaac Partridge of Holland depose and say that Monday Hector lived with me for the most part of the time for three years prior to his death and further say that he drew a Pension during that time of which six dollars a year I had a Pardon of an attorney from him and since the money I also held his Certificate during that time. I further depose and say that the said Hector died in the Town of Wales County and State of said on the thirteenth day June or the first day of July A.D. 1824 he was buried in said Holland on the second day July 1824 as appears from my records being Sexton at that time in said Holland
Isaac Partridge
State of Massachusetts
Hampden County ss. Holland August 23. 1838
Be it known that before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Isaac Partridge and made oath to the truth of the above Certificate by him subscribed before me Elbridge G. Fuller Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Hampden ss.
Holland August 23. 1838
I Abigail C. Cohn of Holland depose and say that Monday Hector (a colored man) lived with me in the year 1824 three or four months and was sick during a part of that time and died with the aid of one the thirteenth day June 1824 at my house
Hampden ss. August 23. 1838
Abigail Cohn
Then personally appeared Abigail Cohn and made oath that the above Certificate by her subscribed is true before me Elbridge G. Fuller Justice of the Peace

State of Massachusetts Hampden County ss Holland Augt 23. 1838
I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with the within named Isaac Pritchett and Abigail Coburn and that they are persons of good moral character, truth and veracity
Elbridge G Fuller Justice of the Peace

State of Massachusetts, County of Worcester, ss.
On this nineteenth day of April A.D. eighteen hundred & fifty two, before me, a Notary Public, duly commissioned & qualified in for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John Heckton , aged fifty nine years (60 yrs, the first of May next.) a resident of Worcester in the County aforesaid, who being duly sworn, according to law, on oath declares & states as follows, viz.:
That he is the only surviving child and heir of Morday Heckton , formerly of the County aforesaid, a Revolutionary Pensioner under Act of March 18, 1848, who was in service in the Revolutionary War, in Capt. Knapps Company, of Colonel Shepard's Regiment, Mass'ts Line, (the said Morday having deceased July 2, 1824, he believes) and that he is the only surviving child of his mother Lucy Heckton by the said Morday Heckton , her only hus- band during her lifetime, and that the said Lucy , during her life, was  on a pension of the same as  as  as her husband formerly drew,

That the said Lucy Tension was paid to her, as he is informed, to the 4 th March 1841, and that the said Lucy deceased on the 18 th day of March A.D. 1843, at Grafton in the County of Worcester, aforesaid Wherefore the said John Heckton prays that the arrear of pension that were due to his said mother from the fourth of March 1843, to the time of her decease as aforesaid, may be duly paid & allowed, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1843, that the same be settled through the hands of William S. Barton Esq., of said Worcester, to whom I wish the amount paid, or a certificate sent.
Witness my hand the day & year first above written - I further state that the only other children of the said Mauday Heckton & Lucy Heckton were Sarah Heckton who died very young, many years ago, and Patience Lawrence Heckton, who died some fifteen years ago, both unmarried; "or a less" being interlined before signing.
Attest - W. S. Barton Joseph Bates, elder Martin Stowe
John Heckton

State of Massachusetts, County of Worcester, ss. We Joseph Batchelder, aged sixty years and Martin Stowe, aged 38 years, both of the City of Worcester, in said County, being duly sworn, do depose & say, that we well know John Heckton named in the foregoing affidavit, that he is the only surviving child of Maudy Heckton & Lucy Heckton, hereinbefore named, that we believe said John Heckton to be of the age hereinbefore stated, and that we know by hearsay (there no doubt) of the decease of said Maudy & Lucy Heckton. — The deponents further state that they formerly resided in Grafton in said County, where said Maudy, & Lucy, & John Heckton have, at a former period resided, & that deponents are wholly disinterested in the result of said claim hereinbefore set forth — Joseph Batchelder Martin Stowe
State of Mass; County of Worcester ss; Sworn to by the said John Heckton, as far as the certificate is hereinbefore set forth & signed by him on the preceding page, & also the above written affidavit, signed & sworn to by the said Batchelder & Stowe, all on this 19 th day of April A.D. 1852, before me, a Notary Public, duly qualified & commissioned for said County. And I do certify that the said Batchelder & Stowe are credible witnesses, and that I believe the said John Heckton to be of the age stated in his affidavit, & I believe his statements to

be true - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Notarial Seal the day & year last above written, at Laid Worcester
A. J. Dutton Notary Public

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 13441
Lucy Hector Widow of Monday Hector Priv Rev. War
Act: Mar. 3 d 1843
Index:—Vol. a , Page 326
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Let 6 Wm. Barton 8 April 1832
812
Massachusetts
Lucy Hector widow of Monday Hector dec. d
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the year 1826 of Worcester in the State of MS.
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Knapp of the Regt t commanded by Col. Shepard in the MS. line for 10 years
Inscribed on the Roll of MS.
at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Oct. 1838 and sent Mrs Barton Worcester MS
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $200.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Feb 39, 40.00
$240.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded, by M. M. Addison Clerk Book 4 Vol. 1 Page 94

Massachusetts Roll, act 7 July 1838, Lucy Hector, widow of Monday, Treasr 80 per annum. To what time last paid?, p d to 4 th March 1841. M rs B. Pearson Offici Colu
May Bogan.

John Hektor

State of Massachusetts, County of Worcester, ss. }
I, John Sleepton , of Worcester, in the County & State aforesaid, being duly sworn, do depose & say, that I am fifty nine years of age, (shall be sixty next May.) That I am the only child living of Suey Sleepton , late of Grafton in said County, deceased, intestate who was the widow of Munday Sleepton , a Revolutionary Pensioner under the act, as he believes, of March 18. 1818, that his said mother, Suey Sleepton, was a Pensioner (as he believes from information received from others) under the act of July 7. 1838 , & was also entitled to a pension under act of March 3. 1843 , that his said father Munday Sleepton died, as he believes, July 12. 1824, and his said mother died March 18, 1843, that I, the said John Sleepton, and desirous of as- certaining to what time, my said mother's pension was paid to her by the Government of the

United States, and I therefore with a view to save expense of taking testimony, in case she was paid in full for her pension would respectfully request the Commissioner of Pensions to forward to Mrs. S. Barton, of Worcester aforesaid my attorney, information as to the time to which my said mother was paid towards her pension. Worcester Ap. 2. 1852 J. H. Houghton
Sworn to & subscribed before me this second day of April A.D. eighteen hundred & fifty two. And I further certify that I believe the above named John Houghton to be the person - the identical person he is described to be, & that the facts above stated I believe to be true; the figure "3" in 1843, being first altered from figure "4". Lewis Shayer Justice of the Peace

Know all men, that I John Hechter, named in the preceding application do constitute appoint William S. Barton, Esq., of the City of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts, for my lawful attorney for me & in my name to make application to the Commission of Pensions, for information as to the time when & the amount of pensions paid to Lucy Hechter late of Grafton, deceased, before mentioned, under the acts in said application named, & to do all matters in connection therewith.
Executed & Witness my hand & Seal Delivered in this 2 nd April A.D. 1852 Presence of John Hechter
State of Massachusetts Worcester ss. April 2, 1852 Then personally appeared John Hechter above named & acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act & deed, before me, — Justice of the Peace Lewis Myres
— Lewis Myres

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER COUNTY, ss.
I, CHARLES W. HARTSHORN, Clerk of the Court
Supreme Judicial
for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Joseph Bruce on the first day of April A. D. 1882 was and still is a
a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and authorized by the laws of this Commonwealth, to take the acknowledgement of deeds, and administer oaths, and that his signature to the certificate of acknowledgement on the deed of oaths certificate of the oaths of Charles Prentice hereunto annexed are genuine.
Given under my hand, and the seal of said Court, this first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two
Chas. W. Hartshorn Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER COUNTY, ss.
I, CHARLES W. HARTSHORN, Clerk of the Judicial Courts
for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Lewis Thayer on the Second day of April A.D. 1852 was and still is
a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and authorized by the laws of this Commonwealth, to take the acknowledgement of deeds, and administer oaths, and that his signatures to the certificate of acknowledgement on the deed of John Fleckton , and to the certificate of oath upon the affidavit of said John Fleckton
hereunto annexed are genuine.
Given under my hand, and the seal of said County , this Third day of April , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- two .
Chas. W. Hartshorn Clerk.

September twenty second, Seventeen hundred Ninety one, Monday Hector & Lucy Gimbbee, both of Grafton were married by - Benj a Goddard, Justice Peace
I Charles Prentice Clerk of the Town of Grafton, in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts, do certify that the above is a true copy of the Records of said Town, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures, as follows "Sept r 22 d 1791."
Attest, Charles Prentice, Town clerk.
I Charles Prentice - above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, Town and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Grafton, with the exception above named, as certified by me -
Dated April 15 th 1852. Charles Prentice } Clerk of Sworn to before me, April 15 th 1852. } the town Joseph Brown } of Grafton, aforesaid Justice of the Peace

"Lucy Hecktler Relict of Monday Hecktler died March Nineteenth  Eighteenth A.D. eighteen hundred and forty three, aged Seventy four years"
I Charles Prentice, Clerk of the town of Grafton, in the County of Worcester and State of Massa- chusetts, do certify that the above is a true copy of the Records of said town, with the exception of the date & age, which are expressed on the Records in fair legible figures, as follows, viz: "March 18 th A.D. 1843, aged 74 years". Grafton April 8 th 1852. Attest - Charles Prentice { Town Clerk.
I Charles Prentice, above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of town Clerk in the town, county, & State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Grafton, with the exception above named, as certified by me. Dated April 8 th . 1852 A.D. 1852 - Charles Prentice { Clerk of Grafton
Worcester ss. Ap. 8 th 1852. Sworn to before me Joseph Porac { Justice of the Peace

State of Illness, Norristown Pa. 3. 1852
To the Hon Commr of Pensions
Will you be so good as to give me the information sought for in the accompanying application in behalf of John Fleekton  the only child of Levy Fleekton , of Grafton in this state, who was pensioned under act of July 7. 1838, (I believe) or give me information as to the proper place in which to seek such information -
I oblige
Respy yrs
W. L. Barton
Counsellor etc

1163
Nancy Hester of Monday,
all the papers in this early volume to me
"Mrs. B. Hester Concord, Mass."
admitted P. 222 #80.
died 2 o July 1824 Preston list.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, August 30 th 1838.
I hereby Certify, That Ira Barton Esq r is Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester; — that Charles Brigham Jun r Esq r is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester; — and that Elbridge G. Durr, Esq r , of the Peace for the County of Hampden;
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court; and they were so at the date of their several attestations.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John P. Bigelow Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } Worcester County } ss. } August 28 th 1838
I the Subscriber a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, do depose and say that Charles Prentice above named is a man of good moral character, truth and veracity.
Charles Brigham J. Justice of the peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } Worcester County } ss. } August 28 th 1838
I Charles Brigham of Grafton in said County aged sixty nine years, do depose and say that I have lived in said Grafton during all my life and within about a half a mile of the said Lucy Gimbee, widow of the said Monday Fleet, and well recollect the time of her marriage to said Fleet and also heard of the death of said Fleet, and have no doubts as to his death, and also am fully satisfied that the said Lucy has remained his widow ever since, and is now to this date
Charles Brigham
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts } S. August 23 rd 1838 Hampden County
Be it known that before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace as aforesaid, personally appeared the above named Charles Brigham and made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed
Charles Brigham J. Justice of Peace
I certify that the above named, Charles Brigham is personally known to me as a man of truth
J. Bartlett Prob.
Charles Brigham

Winsted Ct 12 th June /52
To the Hon. Com te Anderson
I enclose application of John Sleepton, heir of Hercy Sleepton, a Pensioner now deceased, for arrears. Under the State of facts presented in this ap- plication, in case the widow received a less pension than her husband Mercy Sleepton received or received it for a less time than she was entitled, cannot the Department pay said heir, under this application whatever would have been payable to the widow? I would refer particularly to Act 1846, May 7 th Section 2. As see U.S. Laws vol. 9, page 5, or "Village Pension Law" p. 209.
Yrs very truly
Refers
Am. J. Banton
P.P.C. Tiptlett Esq. Will you please inform me, what pension Mercy Sleepton received?

Pension Office Octo 4 1852.
Sir

Lucy Hector dec wid of Monday
Mass
adm d Act 3 March 1843
2 yrs pri 80 $
per annum from 4th March 1843 to 18th March 1843
when she died
Payable to Mrs Hector only surviving child
Certs M. S. Boston Worcester Mass

Brief in the case of Lucy Hector Dec d Widow of Wendell County and State of Massachusetts act 3 March 1843
Claim, ("original," or " for increase. ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
She was a pensioner under the Act of July 7 1838 was paid to 4 March 1841 - and died 18 March 1843, - under the Act of 3 d March 1843, the her heirs are entitled from the 4 March 1843 to the date of her death, which took place 18 March 1843 -
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
Wm S. Barton Worcester Me A
Thomson Tipton
Examining Clerk.

Benjamin Hobbs of Thetbridge in the county of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts certify that I am acquainted with Mr. Moses Hester of Thetbridge afore- said, & that I am personally knowing to his being a soldier in the war of the revolution about three years - Benjamin Hobbs
Personally appeared before me the above named Benjamin Hobbs & made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate by him sub- scribed - & I certify that the said Benjamin Hobbs is a person of veracity -
Distr. age April 13. 1818.
before me Thomas W. Williams Justice Peace