Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19691, Samuel Hamlin, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hamlin Samuel
W. 19691
Hamblett or
Hamblin or
CONTENTS
Hannah

840
New York.
Samuel Hamlin Massachusetts Line Private 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 31 st of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of June 1818 and sent to the Pensioner, care of Hon. John W. Taylor, Ballstown, Saratoga, New York
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 - $41.32 Continued after enlisting
5 mos 5 dys $41.32
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Bradford 1777 8 July 30 3 years.
Charlton, Saratoga Co.
Continued

Dead. See letter to W. Barnes July 13. 1837-
Stephen Tink Tank Nov. 21 st 1820 to Ohio Governor Bull Ter opm N.Y.

Notification sent Nov. 4 th 1820 to Tho s Palmer Bull. Ford spru N.Y.
Dead. See letter to W. Barnes July 13. 1837-

Leb V. Birdseye, June 17. 39
Albany 2567
Hannah Hamlin widow of Samuel Hamlin Mass who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818 and who died on the 8 th July 1830 of Onondaga Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Russell of the Reg t commanded by Col. Bradford in the Mass. line for 2 years,
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars — Costs per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. day of April 1839 and sent to Victory Birdseye, P.O. Pompey, N.Y.
  Arrears to the 4 th of March '39  240.00    Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Sep...  40.00     $280.00  
{ Act July 7, } 1838. {
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 81

Samuel Hamlin's Application for a Pension -
The signature of the Judge being compared with that in the case of John Perry enclosed with this case has been found to be genuine
L. V. F.
on all
admitted
L. V. F.
Bigell Moore 12 Saratoga

State of New York Saratoga County ss.
Samuel Hamlin of the town of Charlton in the County of Saratoga aforesaid being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith That he this deponent enlisted as a private in the continental establishment of the war of the Revolution in the company commanded by capt. John Russell in the XIV th Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Col. Gamaliel Bradford the fourteenth day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, and this deponent further saith that he served his country in the said capacity of a private three years in the said war and that he this deponent was regularly and honorably discharged by the above named Col. Bradford at West Point the fore part of the month of May in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty, and also that he this deponent is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for his support - and further saith not -
Subscribed & sworn to this Samuel Hamlin thirty first day of March 1818 before me.
John Daylor one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Saratoga & State of New York
I the said Judge do hereby certify that from my personal acquaintance with Samuel Hamlin the above deponent I am fully convinced of the truth of the above deposition & believe that the said Samuel Hamlin is justly entitled to the benefit of the act for the relief of officers & soldiers of the revolutionary war who are in reduced circumstances and need the assistance of the country for his support - John Daylor

I certify that John Taylor is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga in the State of New York & that the within are his signatures - April 7. 1818
John W. Taylor

Samuel Haulin copy Haulin 3
Ohio
Sept 11 1815

State of New-York, } ss. County of SARATOGA, }
ON this twentt second day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, in the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, the same being a Court of Record for the said County, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Samuel Hamlin of the Town of Charlton
aged Sixty years, resident in the said County, in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: that in the Month of May in the year 1777 he enlisted in Capt. John Russell's company, Col. Cannalier Bradford's Regiment that he served in that Regiment three years at which time he rec d an honorable discharge with the badges of Merit for his Faithfull Service the enlistment and services were in the Meadbachetts line
That his original declaration was made on or about the thirty first day of March 1818 and that his Pension Certificate is numbered 840
AND I 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.
Samuel Hamlin
Sworn to and declared on the twentt second day of August 1820 before me in
Open Court
Thomas Palmer Clerk
I, Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga 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 Forty Nine dollars and Ninety One cents.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twentt second day of August 1820
Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga.

a schedule of the personal estate of the Pensioner in the affidavit hereto annexed named. his necessary clothing bedding excepted, made in pursuance of the act within mentioned. Real Estate I have None:
   $ cts     Personal Estate one cow 12 dollars 12   2 hogs & D pigs 10 D. 1 Loom 4 D. 1 old Scythe & cradle 1 D 15.   1 old Scythe & snaths 1 D. 1 Rake 12 cts. 1 old axe 50 cts 1 62   1 old Dining Fork 25 cts 1 Iron Shovel 75 cts 1 small Looking Glass 12 cts 1 12   1 Iron Pot 1 D. 4 old broken Kettles 1 D. 1 Iron Tea Kettle 75 cts 2 75   1 frying Pan 75 cts 5 old chains 62 cts 1 small Spinning Wheel 1 D. 2 37   2 old large Spinning Wheels 1 D 50 cts, 1 old Reel 25 cts 1 75   1 old pine table 37 cts 5 old Hinges & forks 50 cts 87   6 old pewter Spoons 37 cts 6 pewter tea Spoons 18 cts 55   1 old broken Tea Pot 6 cts 6 cups and Saucers 12 cts 18   1 sugar bowl milk 6 up 12 cts 6 earthen plates 18 cts 30   3 small plates 6 cts 1 old earthen pitcher 6 cts 2 bowls 6 cts 18   7 old earthen Milk Pans 75 cts 2 Stone Pots 50 cts 1 25   2 Stone Jugs 50 cts 1 earthen Jug 18 cts 3 old pewter basins 50 cts 1 18   1 pewter plate 12 cts 1 Tin plate 50 cts 2 small Tin plates 25 cts 87   1 old Tin Santhorn 12 cts 1 pair Sad Irons 50 cts 62   1 pair small Sticks 50 cts 1 old Hatchet 50 cts 1 00   1 old Wash Tub 50 cts 1 Wooden Pail 25 cts 1 old Barrel 1 D. 1 75   2 small Kegs 50 cts 1 soap Tub 25 cts 1 small churn 18 cts 93   1 old chest 25 cts 1 old Trunk 25 cts 1 bible 1.50 cts 1 old Box 1 D 3.   1 shovel & Tongs 50 cts 1 old candle stick 12 cts 62  
I rent half an acre of land for which I pay five dollars per year which only answers to put on a small building where I have with the assistance of my neighbors erected a small plank house which shelters one and my small family from the Storms: The said Samuel Hamlin is by occupation a farmer: and for more than half of the time in sorry ill health which disables him from any business. I am a cripple in one of my hands by having a knot run through it. I have also had two of my ribs broken and one cracked. which together with the infirmities of old age I cannot work. and were it not for my pension. I must have been supported by the Town. My family consists of myself and wife aged 57 who is afflicted with cramp convulsive fits which disable her from

work and subjects me to bills of cost. I have five children which are all poor; 2 daughters who work from house to house
Samuel Hamilton

2519
Deches of Normals
2561 Nandelin - of Zolius
Consor. Co. N. 3. for 4 5 years
Day under the act of 1830.
Admitted since 8 th July 1830
March 28 th Nov. 1781
Admitted Private 2 years
address the answer to Victory Windpipe Postmaster Albany Albany Co. N.Y.
10300 2
1

State of New York
Onondaga County ss: On this twenty fifth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred thirty eight, personally appeared before the Circuit Court then sitting in the town of Salina in and for the County of Onondaga and State aforesaid the same being a Court of Record. Hannah Hamblin a Resident of the town of Salina in the County of Onondaga aforesaid aged seventy five years who being duly sworn, 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 7. 1838. entitled; "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Samuel Hamblin who was a private soldier in the Massachusetts Line of the army of the Revolutionary War as she has always understood from him directly believing it to be true. That he enlisted to serve as such private in the said Massachusetts line for the term of three years after which the said three years as she has understood from him directly believes to be true. She believes that General Patterson was the General of the Brigade in which he enlisted or served. She knows that her said husband was placed on the Pension Roll of the United States as a Revolutionary Pensioner. That he was then a resident of the town of Charlton in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York aforesaid where he continued to reside until

the time of his death which was on the 5 th of July 1830. - That he had continued to draw his said Pension from the time he was placed on the Pension Roll up to the 4 th of March preceding his death which the testimony have been for ten - years upwards. That after the death of her said husband she drew the balance then due to her said husband on his said Pension from the 4 th of March before his death and on that occasion she surrendered up the said Pension certificate of her said husband I suppose that it is on file in the proper Department at Washington That a Mr. Hollister of Charlton a merchant who had procured for her said husband his previous certificate and drew his semi- -annual payments for him was the friend to whom she obtained the said arrears of Pension. Due at the death of her said husband - to him she delivered the said Pen- -sion certificate as a money document to obtain for her the said arrears - She refers to the proofs on file in the War Department upon which her said husband's certificate of Pension certificate was granted for the proof of his said services that she has no other proof by which his said services can be proved. She further declares that she

was married to the said Samuel Hamblin on the twenty second day of November in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one; That her said husband the aforesaid Samuel Hamblin died on the 8 th day of July in the year 1830. That she was not married to him prior to his having the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four to wit at the time above stated. She deposes further saith that she can obtain no other Record of her said marriage than the family Record in the family bible of her said husband. The leaf of which bible containing the said family Record is hereto annexed - That from the death of her said husband the said family Bible containing the said leaf on which is the said Record until this day has remained in the possession of this deponent of whom she saith not.
Subscribed & sworn to before the said Court in open Court the day & year above
the word "certificate" struck in the 4 th line from the bottom of the 2 nd page - before signing.
Plato. -
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Hannah
his mark
Hamblin

State of New York
Cronkhite County ss: On this twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared in before the Circuit Court now sitting in the town of Salina in for the County & State aforesaid. Abner D Hamblin of Salina in the County aforesaid aged forty seven years who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath depose & say that he has heard the above declaration of Hannah Hamblin read & knows the contents thereof. That he has been acquainted with the said Hannah Hamblin & her said Husband Samuel Hamblin from his earliest recollections - they being his father & mother - That from his first recollections to the time of the death of the said Samuel they lived together as Husband & Wife were respected & treated by respectable People of their acquaintance during all the time aforesaid. This deponent knows by reputation that the said Samuel died at the time stated by the said Hannah in her aforesaid declaration he not being present at the death of his said father - That his said Mother now resides with him & that she remains a widow not having married since the death of her said Husband - Deponent further saith that the annexed leaf containing a family record of his said father's family this deponent this day saw taken from the family Bible of his said father for the purpose of being annexed to the said declaration of his said Mother - That this deponent has

knowen the said family Bible to have been in the possession of his father Albeit in his family as his father's family Bible more than thirty years ago - Deponent well recollects that the entries in said Record of the respective ages of his father & mother - at their marriage was entered in the said family Record more than thirty years ago as it now appears. That last January his mother came to re- -side with him then brought the said Bible with her - That there was a small Bible in the family in which the entries of the ages & marriage of the said Hannah & Mary Husband were entered She believes about thirty five years ago a larger Bible was procured by his father & the said entries then copied into it from the former bible - That the larger Bible was thereafter used as the family Bible of his said father - The said small family bible he believes has been worn out & gone a great many years ago - Deed further this deponent saith not.
Subscribed & sworn by the said Alver J. Hamblin in Open Court the day
Alver J. Hamblin
a year above written & by direction of the said Court it is hereby certified that the said Alver J. Hamblin is a credible Witness. The word "being" interlined at (a) before signing -
E. Rhoads, Clerk

State of New York
Onondaga County ss: Be it remembered that on the 25 th day of September 1830. in before the (a)  Court Circuit Court holden at the Court House in the town of Salina and for the County of State of New York the same being a Court of Record personally appeared Hannah Hamblin a resident of Salina in said County and made the declaration hereto annexed in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed July 7. 1830. entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". And in order to obtain the said benefit she annexed depositions of Nathan Ishell & George Mother - and also the deposition of Oliver J. Hamblin together with the family record of her late husband hereto annexed - all which the said Court have now here directed the Clerk of the said Court to authenticate under the seal of his office and that the same be transmitted to the Commissioners of Pensions in the Department of War. The said Court have also directed their said Clerk to certify to the said Commissioners of Pensions that the said Court is satisfied that the said declaration of the said Hannah Hamblin hereto annexed is true and entitled to full faith & credit. - In Witness whereof I Elijah Wheeler Clerk of the said Court have here to annexed the seal of the said Court and set my hand the day & year above written.
(The word "Court" erased in the 2 nd line at (a) before signing)
E. Wheeler Clerk of Onondaga County & Clerk of said Circuit Court

Record of ages.
Samuel Hamblen was born March 30 th A 1760
Hannah Isbell was born March 5 th A 1763
And was married to Samuel Hamblen November 22 nd A 1781
Senath Hamblen was born July 14 th A 1782
Ichabod Hamblen was born February 5 th A 1785
Abner Isbell was Hamblen was born May 4 th A 1791
Lucy Hamblen was born April 25 th A 1797
Levi Hamblen was born September 5 th A 1799
Senath was married November 27 th A 1799
William Dean of Galway
Ichabod Hamblen was married August 19 th A 1810
Catherine Pline
Abner S Hamblen was married
December 16 th A 1810 to Electa

¶ The Names and Order of all the Books of the OLD and NEW TESTAMENTS, with the Number of their Chapters.
¶ The Books of the OLD TESTAMENT.
  G ENESIS hath Chapters 50 II. Chronicles hath Chapters 36 Daniel hath Chapters 12   Exodus 40 Ezra 10 Hosea 14   Leviticus 27 Nehemiah 13 Joel 3   Numbers 36 Esther 10 Amos 9   Deuteronomy 34 Job 42 Obadiah 1   Joshua 24 Psalms 150 Jonah 4   Judges 21 Proverbs 31 Micah 7   Ruth 4 Ecclesiastes 12 Nahum 3   I. Samuel 31 The Song of Solomon 8 Habakkuk 3   II. Samuel 24 Isaiah 66 Zephaniah 3   I. Kings 22 Jeremiah 52 Haggai 2   II. Kings 25 Lamentations 5 Zechariah 14   I. Chronicles 29 Ezekiel 48 Malachi 4 
¶ The Books called APOCRYPHA.
  I. ESDRAS hath Chapters 9 Wisdom hath chapters 19 The Story of Susanna,   II. E Efdrias 16 Ecclesiasticus 51 The Idol Bel and the Dragon.   Tobit 14 Baruch, with the Epistle } 6 The Prayer of Manasses,   Judith 16 of Jeremiah I. Maccabees 16   The rest of Esther 6 The Song of the Three Children II. Maccabees 15 
¶ The Books of the NEW TESTAMENT.
  M ATTHEW hath Chapters 28 Ephesians hath Chapters 6 To the Hebrews hath Chapters 13   Mark 16 Phillippians 4 The Epistle of James 5   Luke 24 Colossians 4 I. Peter 5   John 21 I. Thessalonians 5 II. Peter 3   The Acts of the Apostles 28 II. Thessalonians 3 I. John 5   The Epistle to the Romans 16 I. Timothy 6 II. John 1   I. Corinthians 16 II. Timothy 4 III. John 1   II. Corinthians 13 Titus 3 Jude 1   Galatians 6 Philemon 1 Revelation 22 

Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., _____, 189___
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Samuel Hamlin , a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 14/1777 3 yrs Pri John Russell Bradford Mass                              
Battles engaged in, _____
None mentioned.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
None not stated.
Date of application for pension, _____
March 31, 1818.
Residence at date of application, _____
Charlton, Mass.
Age at date of application, _____
March 30, 1760.
Remarks: Married Hannah Isbell at Lenox, Mass., Nov 22 1781 and died at Charlton Mass July 8, 1830.
Very respectfully,
Hon H. Andrew Andrewson Iowa.
Commissioner.

I Nathan Isbell of Lenox, in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy three years, depose and say, that I am the brother of Hannah Hamblin the widow of Samuel Hamblin late of Charlton in the County of Saratoga and State of New York, deceased, that I was well acquainted with the said Samuel Hamblin who was a Soldier of the Revolution - That the said Samuel Hamblin and my said sister Hannah were married at our father's house in said Lenox, by the Rev. Samuel Merson formerly the Minister of the Congregational Society in said town - and that I was present at their marriage - the year in which they were married I cannot distinctly state, but believe it was near the close of the revolutionary war - but I am confident it was before the year 1785. for I will recollect, that when I was twenty years of age, I had the small Pox and that the said Samuel Hamblin who was then my brother in law, was my attendant in the pest House -
S. Sep. 15.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } ss. September 15. 1838.
Berkshire County }
William P. Walker a Justice of the Peace within
Then appeared before me,
Nathan Isbell

ana for said County, Nathan Isbell and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, and I certify that the said Isbell is well known to me and is a credible witness.
W. P. Walker Justice of the Peace
I George Walker of Senne in the County of Berkshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts depose and say, That I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Senne aforesaid, and that no record exists or can be found on diligent search, of the Marriage of Samuel Hamblin and Hannah Isbell.
And further say not George Walker
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss. Sept. 17. 1838.
Subscribed and sworn to
Before me, William B. Walker Justice of the Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Berkshire, ss.
I Charles Sedgwick, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Berkshire, do certify, that William L. Walker Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereunto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said William L. Walker and believe his signature to said certificate is are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this Seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
Charles Sedgwick CLERK.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19,691
Hannah Hamlin Wid of Samuel Hamlin Rev Rev. War
Act: July 7 th  188
Index:—Vol. 84 , Page 313
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1894 Sept. 20 High in Hon. H. F. Andrews Audubon, Iowa

Romney Nov 4 Oct 10
2579 Oct 15
for
7 July 1888.
Nov 29 a. P. [unclear] Esq.
for [unclear] for [unclear]
Comm ee of Directors New [unclear] [unclear] Washington City

Drumry D. Oct 30
Sir
I enclose the Pension policy of Normal School for 5. is now ready under the act of 1830. for annuities as further information please to write me at Drumry Quonquago Co Nov 30th.
Respectfully J. B. M c Gregor
J. R. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions -

July 13
May 20th 1888 June 15 1888 June 18
FREE
To the Head of the Pension Department - or agent of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Painted Post 7 July 1831
Sir
I have been required by a widow living in this vicinity to make some efforts on her behalf to obtain a pension that she supposes to be due her on account of her deceased husband. I have exhausted every means of information in my reach without being able to satisfy myself of the correctness of her claim, and am obliged to resort to this course as a last means of aiding her, and I hope whether her claim is well founded or not, you will not feel disposed to complain of the trouble the matter shall cause you I am by no means certain that she is entitled to any pension at all, but she has been told that she is, and the best way to quiet the matter, I suppose, is to obtain the decision of the head of the pension department. The facts are as follows.
Samuel Hamblin was drafted, or enlisted as a private, in some of the New England Regiments about the commencement of the Revolutionary war, and served about three years until he was honorably discharged, when he returned to his home. Soon after, in 1781, he was married to the person who now claims a pension from the general government. Hamblin was never after in actual service though he stood several drafts. He sometime after removed to this state (P.O. V.) where he died July 8th 1830. Previous to his death he drew a pension of $96- per annum, for several years, and after his decease, his widow drew the arrearages of the last quarter due till the time of his death. She is now unmarried, old and infirm, and blessed with nothing but great poverty and a number of children who are scarcely able to maintain their own families. She has been told that by a late law of Congress the widows of deceased soldiers of the Revolution are entitled to a pension, and she wishes to know if it is so. If it is will you be so good as to let me know immediately, and also inform me of the steps ne

cessary to be taken, in order to procure it. Her husband's original certificate of his claim to a pension, of course was transmitted to the office of the pension agent when the arrears of the pension was drawn after his death. and I do not know as it would be possible to procure that if it should be wanted to assist in substantiating her claim; but perhaps it would not be necessary. I do not vouch for the truth of the above statements for I do not know the widow, and never saw her or her husband, but I have no doubt of their accuracy for I had them of a friend of hers, on whom I can rely, and who requested me to take this step in the matter. By answering these queries the first proper opportunity, you will confer a favour on a woman whose age entitles her to some respect, and oblige your unknown humble servant,
W. Barnes.

W. June 17 Dan Hamlin  2632 Fother 38 2567
See
Compt. N.Y. June 17 th
Rev. Dr. Russell Camp of Union Department of War Washington City
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Conesville, Onondaga Co. New York. June 7. th 1839.
Sir
The Papers of Hannah Hamlin (the widow of Samuel Hamlin who was a Revolutionary Pensioner & died on the 5 th of July 1830.) were for- by me to your last Summer. I lately rec d a Pension certificate for her placing on the Pension Roll of the U. S. at 90 Dollars per An. for five years from the 1 st of March 1836. - But she understood that her husband was a Pensioner at the Rate of 96 Dollars per An. - I cannot therefore comprehend how she does receive the same Pension at the same Rate for the five years. - In the Certificates that the Com tee on Pensions both give that her husband was a Pensioner at the Rate of 96 Dollars a year. I trouble you with the inquiry whether there is not some mistake in this case & if so whether it may not be corrected as returning you the Certificate Rec d .
I also last fall sent you the Papers for Pensions of Wm Spoon the widow of John Spoon - and of Mrs Williston the widow of Godfrey Williston & have heard nothing from them. - Were they Rec d ?? from the length of time which has intervened I begin to fear that the papers may have miscarried.
Very respectfully Your obed t Serv t Victory Brinsmade
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm tee of Pensions
Lys. Williston adm or 1 June Rachel Spoon .. 1 June

P. S. Since writing the above I have been at the Clerks office & examined the printed list of Missioners as published as a con- fidential document - was reported from your office - By that I find that Mr Nardin (of Saratoga Co. in this State) was a Missioner at 96. Dollars a year -
Mrs Nardin does & receives nothing as yet on her Pension until such until she hears from you - if there is an error I will return her Mission certificate to be corrected