Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 10992, Benjamin Howard, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Howard, Benjamin Fisher, Sally (Former widow)
W 10992 B.L.Wt 102201-160-55
CONTENTS

No. 7151
Maine. (14)
Sally Fisher, formerly Widow of Benj Howard, who died on the 30 th Sept. 1819, who was a private in the Captain N. H. Company of the Revolutionary War, Regiment
Inscribed on the Roll of Augusta, Me., at the rate of 96 Dollars annum Cents per month, to commence on the First day of December, 1861, and continue five years for life, unless she should again marry
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of July 1863, and sent to
Pensioner Mercer, Maine
3d February, 1853, } tion the 2 nd }
recorded by N. D. Larner, Clerk. roll N. H. Vol. 1 Page 164

JA-219 New Hampshire
Benjamin Haward, 2
of Bath in the state of New Hampshire who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Timo: Bedel of the New Hampshire line, for the term of eleven months.
Inscribed on the roll of New Hampshire at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence the 9th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th of Sept: 1818 and sent to Ezra Bartlett, Esq; Haverhill, Grafton Co. N.H.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept: 1819.  $134 93    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar '20  48 00    26/30  $182 93  
Revolutionary claim, } Act 18th March, 1818. } Decl - see roll

319,226, Ad. Act 3/53- Sept 15/63
Ezra Butts
Sally Fisher for Widow of Benjamin Howard Pri Revolution
Allowed 160. acres.
L.M. Drury
Examiner.
Mr. Drury Claimant
Mercer Somerset Co - Maine

Revolutionary Claim of Nancy Fisher widow of Benjamin Howard
who was a private in the revolutionary war in the New Hampshire troops was pensioned under act of 1828 Dec same year
1 st 3 rd See papers filed in his app n and papers filed by his app n same year to obtain balance due him. 2 nd Proof of identity &c aff d John Chapman & Mary Howard her daughter
3 rd Town Clerk's certificate of marriage & affidavit
Claim 1 st 5 years to 1841 and then 1 year to 1842 and then from Dec 30. 1842 to Dec 30. 1843 and then from Dec 30. 1842 during life
Returns to be made to care of William Allen
P. Poffie Norridgewock (me)

State of Maine County of Somerset ss
(7)
I Stephen D. Lindsey Register of the Court of Probate of the county and State aforesaid, certify that the annexed papers on two sheets contain the original proceedings in said Court in the case of Sally Fisher an applicant for a pension; and also, that the Honorable James G. Waugh is Judge of said Court of Probate for the county and state aforesaid duly chosen and qualified, that to his attestation, full faith and credit are and ought to be given; that the signatures to the annexed papers purporting to be his are genuine; that the same were signed by him officially in open Court, held at Norridgewock in and for said county of Somerset on the first Tuesday of October 1862.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this seventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two
Stephen D. Lindsey, Register

State of Maine County of Somerset } ss
On this seventh day of October A.D. One thousand eight hundred and sixty two personally appeared in open court before me James G. Waugh Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the county and State aforesaid at a Court of Probate held at Norridgewock within and for said county Sally Fisher a resident of Mercer in the county aforesaid who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed July 4. 1836 and the Act explanatory of said Act, passed March 3. 1837 and the several sub- sequent acts relating to widows of Revolutionary Pensioners that on the sixth day of November A.D. 1805 she was married at Lyne in the State of New Hampshire to Benjamin Howard who was a private in the Revolutionary war in the service of the United States and who was placed on the pension list under the Act of March 18. 1818 at the rate of ninety six dollars a year, and who died on the twentieth day of September A.D. 1820, before he received the pension which he was entitled to; that she thereupon as his widow applied for and obtained the pension due to her husband the said Benjamin Howard at the time of his death; which she presumes will fully appear by the Records of the Pension Office of the War Department; that she was afterwards on

The twentyfifth day of December A.D. 1844, married to Philip J. Fisher who died at Mercer in the county of Somerset aforesaid on the thirtieth day of November A.D. 1861 (lost post) that she is now a widow and has remained unmarried ever since the death of her last husband the said Philip J. Fisher; that she is now entitled to a pension which she was prevented from receiving during the time she was the wife of said Philip J. Fisher; that she made no applica- tion for pension under the Act of July 4, 1836 or any subsequent act prior to her marriage to said Philip J. Fisher nor until this time and now claims all due her. She further testifies that she was not born when her first husband the said Benjamin Howard was in the service of the United States in 1775 & 1776 and has no personal knowledge of the fact, and is not able to state the names of his Officers; but has heard her said husband in his life time say that he was in the battle of Bunker Hill and that he served under General Nathaniel Greene and she relies on the evidence in the War Department and the papers filed in the case when she obtained the pension due at the time of her husband's decease which she obtained near the close of the year, 1820 and for proof of her marriage and of her husband's service. She also offers the evidence of her identity and of the death of her last husband by the official

of her daughter Mary Howard and of John Chapman a near neighbor; She further states that she has not been able to obtain record evidence of her marriage, having at first been informed that the records of the town had been destroyed by fire. She also declares that she has not in any manner been engaged in or abetted the Rebellion in the United States. She refers to the record of her marriage now in the hands of  in her possession . Sally Fisher
Also personally appeared Mary Howard aged fifty five years and John Chapman aged sixty seven years, whom I certify to be respectable witnesses and entitled to credit, who being by me duly sworn, say that they were present and saw Sally Fisher sign her name to the foregoing declaration; and they further swear that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be; that they know that said Philip Fisher died on the last day of November AD 1861; said Mary Howard also testifies that by common report her father the said Benjamin Howard and Sally Fisher were lawfully married; that they lived together as husband wife and that he died September 20. 1820; And they further testify that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim. John Chapman Mary Howard
Sworn to and subscribed before me this seventh day of October AD 1862 And I hereby certify that I have no interest direct nor indirect in the prosecution of this claim
James G. Woodger Judge of Court of Probate

State of Maine } ss, I do solemnly swear that I will support county of Somerset } protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies whether domestic or foreign; and that I will be of true faith allegiance and loyalty to the same, any ordinance resolution or law of any State, Convention or Legislature to the contrary notwithstanding; And further that I do this with a full determination, pledge and purpose without any mental reservation or evasion whatever; and further that I will well and faithfully perform the duties which may be required of me by law. So help me God! J. Allen Fisher Witness William Allen
John D. Sleeper subscribed and sworn before me this seventh day of October 1862. James G. Warren, Judge of Probate

I, Asa Thurston Town clerk of the town of Lyme in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire do hereby depose and say I have in my possession a book containing the record of marriages in said town, in said book is the following record, to wit; Benja Howard of Lyme and Sally Currier of Ryegate married November 1 th 1805
Asa Thurston Town Clerk State of New Hampshire Grafton County ss, September 23 rd 1862 Personally appeared before me Asa Thurston Town Clerk of Lyme and made oath that the above statement by him signed is true, and that the above record by him transcribed is a true copy of the original record now in his possession before me Warren Allen justice of the Peace
1-1-1862

Norridgewock Oct r 14, 1862
W Hon Joseph H Barrett Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
In the request of Sally Fisher a resident of Maine widow of Philip J Fisher formerly the widow of Benjamin Howard who was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of 1820 and died before he received his pension and the balance due him at the time of his death was paid then in Dec r 1820
That she made no application for a pension under the Act of 1836 or any subsequent Act during her widowhood prior to her second marriage in Dec r 1844;
She now applies for the pension to which she is entitled under the Act of July 4, 1836 and the subsequent Acts relating to pensions granted to widows of Revolutionary soldiers
And in addition to the evidence enclosed she refers to the papers in the War Department filed with the original application of said Benjamin Howard in her application to the Department in 1820
She wishes returns to be made to my care at Norridgewock P.O. Maine, Respectfully &c William Allen, of Norridgewock

Private Benjamin Howard
Bedel N. Hampshire Regt.
Served 11 months
9 P.M. 4/10 1818
Headquarters on the Continental Establishment
The Judge's certificate as to the claimant's circumstances is wanting - said certificate as to the credibility of the witnesses.

State of New Hampshire
DISTRICT OF Grafton, ss.
On this ninth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States  Court of Common Pleas for the said County district, personally appears Benjamin Howard aged 59 years, resident in Bath in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:" That he the said Howard enlisted in Jan'y 1776 in the state of New Hampshire in the company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Green of the Regiment commanded by Col. Tim: Bedel ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the month of Oct: 1776, when he was discharged from service in Stillwater state of New York, that he was in the battles of
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Ezra Bartlett
I, Ezra Bartlett Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Benjamin Howard did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
June first 1818.
Ezra Bartlett

I Ezra Bartlett Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Benjamin Howard is in indigent circumstances & stands in need of assistance from his country for sup- port; that Lachulon Hunt & John Fairfield Esqrs. are credible witnesses, and that in the pay roll of Cap t Ebenezer Green's company in Col o Timothy Bedell's Regiment in the year 1776 which is now before me the name of Benj a Howard or Hayward is entered as having enlisted into said company as a private on the 27 th day of Jan y 1776.
Ezra Bartlett

State of New Hampshire Grafton ss } On this 12 th day of May 1818 before me the subscri- ber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County personally appears Leebulon Hunt of Bath in said County who on his oath ele- poses asays that some time in May 1776 he became acquainted with Benjarrin Howard now of Bath aforesaid who was then a private soldier in Cap t Ebenezer Green's Company in Col l Timothy Bedel's Regiment, in which Company said Howard continued to do duty until Oct r or November of the same year when said Green's Company was marched from Mount Independence where they were both stationed to Saratoga, from which time the declarant did not see said Howard altho' he has no doubt he served out the full term of his enlistment which was one year
Ezra Bartlett
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss — on this 19 th day of May 1818 before me the subscriber Judge as abovenamed per- sonally appears John Fairfield Esq. of the same in said County who on his oath deposes that Benjarrin Howard, then of the same aforesaid now of Bath abovenmentioned, enlisted in Jan y 1776 into Cap t Eber t Green's Company in Col l Tim o Bedel's Regiment that in Feb y of the same year he marched from said time under the command of Lieutenant Grant as was then said on an ex- pedition against Canada & that said Howard did not return to said time again, excepting for a period of about 6 weeks, until the close of the year 1776 & he has no doubt he remained the time of his absence in the service aforesaid
Ezra Bartlett

Application of 319,226.
Sally Fisher for Bounty Land
War of the Revolution
Post Office Address
Meeteet
Somerset County
State of Maine

State of Maine County of Somerset } ss
(16)
On this fourth day of August  July A.D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the county and State of aforesaid Sally Fisher aged eighty years, a resident of Norway in the State of Maine, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Benjamin Howard who was a private in the company commanded by Captain in the regiment of Infantry commanded by in the war, with Great Britain, called the Revolution that her said husband enlisted or volunteered at some place to her unknown on or about the _____ of _____ A.D., for the term of _____ and continued in actual service in said war for the term of _____ and was honorably discharged at _____ on the _____ day of _____ A.D.
She further states that she was married to the said Benjamin Howard in Limbs in the State of New Hampshire on the sixth day of November A.D. 1805 by one _____ and that her name before her said marriage was Sally Currier; that her said husband died at Bethel New Hampshire on the 20th day of September A.D. 1820 and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855"; And she further declares that she has not received or applied for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress.
Sally Fisher
Document

The John Chapman and Mary Leonard residents of Haver in the State of Maine, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Sally Fisher in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and is still a widow.
John Chapman
Witnesses! Mary Howard
7
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and is still a widow; and that I have no interest in this claim.
Hannibal Ingalls Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Somerset ss.
I Hiram Knowlton, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine for said County of Somerset, do hereby certify that Hannibal Ingalls Esquire is and was at the date of his certificate above written a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified by law to administer oaths in said County and that his signature to
the above certificate is genuine. In witness whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the day & year first above written.
Hiram Knowlton Clerk

Rev WIDOW, &c.
(15)
File No. 10992
Sally Fisher formerly Wife of Benjamin Howard First Recd. War
Act: Februy 3 rd  1853
Index:—Vol. a , Page 237
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sally Fisher. (17) formerly widow of
Benjamin Howard.
State of Maine.
P Somerset County.
Act 3: Feb. 1853.
2 o Section.
Admitted at the rate of $96. per annum, as the widow of a Private of the Revolution - to begin Dec. 1 st 1861.
Certificate to be sent to Applicant Mercer.
Maine.

Mr. Denny, Rev. Dr.
(3)
(Spec)
Hon Joseph H. Barrett. Chair of Pensions
Revolutionary Widow's Claim
Washington City Dist Col.
Rev. Samuel H. H. H. Hon. Joseph W. Benjamin

Treasury Department,
Third Auditor's Office,
Oct. 21 st 1862.
(4)
Sir;
I comply with the request contained in your letter of the 20 th inst by enclosing the vouchers upon which the last payment was made of the pension of Benjamin Howard, New Hampshire roll, Act 18 March 1818.
Very Respectfully Yours &c. Sir!
A. Sommers Joseph H. Barrett Esq. } Auditor Comm d of Pensions }
(E.T.W.)

Mercer Maine
June 5th 1863
Joseph H. Barrett Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dr Sir
I made an application by William Allen my attorney last Oct or November for a Widows Pension for Service of my Husband Benjamin Howard in the Revolutionary War. my Husband was once put on the Pension list and drew a pension about 1820 and died soon afterwards I drew what was due him after his decease, in 1821.
I married Phillip J Fisher in 1844, who died in 1861. my application was made in my name of Sally Fisher in the fall of 1862. I have heard nothing from my application Will you write me whether it was received and whether it has been acted upon and give me any other information you can about it
Yours Truly
Sally Fisher
PS. my application might have been made by Hiram Knowlton instead of Allen

(6) Pension Office, June 12 th 1863.
Madam:
In reply to your letter of the 5 th inst. I have to inform you that your application for a pension, as the widow of Benjamin Howard, deceased, a pensioner on the roll of the State of New Hampshire, was received at this office, and examined in the month of October last and the papers were laid aside till the vouchers from the 3 d Auditor's Office should be received, which might determine the fact whether or not you were his wife when he applied for his pension.
Meantime the papers filed by you disappeared, and though diligent search was made for them they could not be found, nor was there anything left to indicate your name, or place of residence. The pension would have been allowed if the papers could have been discovered.
If you will file an affidavit setting

forth the precise day, month & year when your last husband died, a certificate will be issued to you without requiring any further proof to be furnished.
Very respectfully, Your Ob st Serv t ,
M c Helmiel Acting Commissioner
Mrs. Sally Fisher Mercer Maine.

OFFICE OF CLERK OF COURTS, } (7)
County of Somerset.
-Norridgewock, June 20 1863
My Dear Sir
Mrs Fisher
put into my hands the certificate by her signed for my official signature & also the letter from the department, which letter I thought it well to transmit in order that at one glance the real situation of the case could be learned, Mrs Fisher is a worthy woman & very destitute. She desired that the certificate might, when issued be sent to me - you can do so if you think proper or forward it to her at Merces Somerset County Maine.
I am very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Hiram Knowlton
To the Hon Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

(8) State of Maine.
Somerset, ss.
I Hiram Knowlton, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine for said County of Somerset, do hereby certify that
Hannibal Ingalls
Esquire, is, and was at the date of his Certificate to this paper hereunto annexed, a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified and authorized by law to take acknowledgements of deeds and other instruments in writing, and administer oaths in the county of Somerset aforesaid, and that his signature to the annexed certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Official Seal of said Court, this twentieth day of June Anno Domini, 1863
Hiram Knowlton Clerk.

State of Maine County of Somerset
On this Seventeenth day of June A D 1863 Before me Hannibal Ingalls a Justice of the Peace within and for said County came Sally Fisher who being sworn deposes and says that Phillip J Fisher her last Husband died on the Thirtieth day of November 1861 and that she has remained unmarried since his death and that she is the Identical Sally Fisher who made application to the pension Office in October 1862 for a pension as the Widow of of Benjamin Howard a Revolutionary Soldier from New Hampshire and who was put upon the pension Rolls in 1819 or 1820 and died soon afterwards and that she now resides in the town of Mercer county of Somerset and State of Maine
Witnesses
Leah H. Curtis Mary Howard
Sally Fisher
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid and I certify that I am acquainted with the said Sally Fisher & the Witnesses & that I have no interest in this claim for Pension. Hannibal Ingalls Justice of Peace

Cop y of Sally Fisher Supplementary to Claim for Pension N o 71,51 allowed under Act of 1833
Claim omitted under Acts of 1836, 1837, 1841 and 1843 to Dec 25, 1844
Post Off ce address Sally Fisher Merger Maine

State of Maine } ss On this fourth day of August, 1863. County of Somerset } personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate held at Norridgewock in and for the county and state aforesaid by the Honorable James P. Waugh Judge of said court Sally Fisher a resident of Mercer in the county and state aforesaid aged eighty years and being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 and the Act explanatory of said Act, passed March 3, 1837 and the several subsequent Acts relating to widows of Revolutionary pensioners, that she is the widow of Benjamin Howard who was a private in the war of the Revo- lution and a pensioner of the United States under the Act of March 18, 1818 and died on the twentieth day of September 1820; that she was married to said Benjamin Howard at Lyne in New Hampshire on the sixth day of November 1805 was a widow from the time of his death till the twenty fifth day of December 1844 when she intermarried with Philip J. Fisher who died at said Mercer on the thirtieth day of November 1861, that she is now a widow and has been a widow ever since the death of said Philip J. Fisher her last husband; that she applied for and as widow of said Benjamin Howard received the balance of the pension due him after his decease in Dec 1820 as the previous will appear in the records of the Pension Office. That she applied for the pensions due her in October
25th Oct 1863 Sally Fisher Mercer, Maine

1862 under the several Acts of Congress above described and after some delay was notified by the Commission of Pensions that her claim had been examined and allowed but before any certificate of pension had been issued the papers in the case had disappeared and could not be found and that a new affidavit was necessary which she made in the form prescribed by the Commissioner and sent to the Pension Office thereupon she received a pension certificate N o 7151 dated July 15, 1863 for a pension of ninety six dollars a year commencing December 1, 1861, under the Act of Feb y 3, 1853. She now renews her claim for pension under the previous Acts of 1836, 1837, 1841 and 1843 to the time of her second marriage Dec r 25 th 1844. Her name before marriage to said Benjamin Howard was Sally Gishier. That record evidence of her marriage and evidence of identity has been twice sent to the Pension Office to wit in 1820 & Oct r 1862 also evidence that her said husband was a private in the war of the Revolution from Bath in the state of New Hampshire to which she refers also to the annexed affidavits.
She also declares that she has not in any manner been engaged in or aided or abetted the Rebellion in the United States.
Sally Gishier
Also personally appeared Hon d Hannibal Ingalls and John Chapman both residents of Milner, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who by me being duly sworn say that they

were present and saw Sally Howard sign her name to the foregoing declaration and that they further swear that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.
Hannibal Ingalls.
John H. Merrill.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court before me this fourth day of August 1863 and I hereby certify that I have no interest direct or indirect in the prosecution of this claim.
James G. Waugh } Judge of Court of Probate
State of Maine County of Somerset ss.
I Stephen D. Lindsey Register of the Court of Probate within and for the county and state aforesaid certify that Honorable James G. Waugh is Judge of the Court of Probate of said county duly commissioned and qualified that the above and annexed signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Norridgewock this fourth day of August in the year of our Lord 1863. Stephen D. Lindsey Register

John Chapman of Ellsworth in the county of Somerset and State of Maine aged sixty seven years being first sworn according to law in open Court before the Judge of Probate of said county testifies that he was personally acquainted with the within named Philip J. Fisher in his lifetime; that he lived within forty rods of him and knows that he died on the last of November 1861; He further testifies to the identity of the within named Sally Fisher the widow of said Philip J. Fisher, that he knows by common report that Benjamin Howard was a soldier in the Revolutionary war that said Sally who before her last marriage was the widow of said Howard; and that he verily believes the statement and declaration made by said Sally Fisher in her application for pension has proved on strict trial. She is esteemed a person of truth and veracity.
John Chapman
Sworn and subscribed in open Court This fifth day of August 1862
Wm James G. Waugh Judge
I certify that the above named John Chapman is a credible witness respectable and entitled to credit.
James G. Waugh Judge

(10) I Mary Howard a resident of Wren in the county of Somerset and State of Maine being first sworn according to law before the Judge of Probate of said county of Somerset, do on oath declare that I am the daughter of the within married Benjamin Howard and the said Sally Fisher that I am fifty five years of age and say that she will recollects that her father was called a Revolutionary soldier and knows that he applied for a pension in his life time in 1820 that he died on the twentieth day of September 1820, that her mother after his death in Dec 1820 received the pension which had been granted to him as his widow; that her mother after wards on the 25th December 1844 was married to Philip J. Fisher and lived with him till the 30th day of November 1861 when he died at Meriden that her mother the said Sally Fisher is now a widow; that she has always made her home at her mother's
Mary Howard
Sworn and subscribed in open Court this fifth day of August 1862
Attest
James G. Waugh Judge
I certify that the above named Mary Howard is a respectable witness and entitled to full credit James G. Waugh Judge

Brief in the case of Sally Fisher formerly widow of Benjamin Howard, a Private in the war of the revolution.
Somerset. County, and State of Maine
Act of July 14, 1862. Act 3 d Feb. 1853. 2 d Section.
Post Office address of Applicant, Munro Maine.
Claim for a widows pension.
Declaration and Identification in due Form.
PROOF EXHIBITED.
Benjamin Howard was a pensioner under the act of 18 th March 1818. at the rate of $96. per ann. and died 20 th Sept. 1819. The vouchers in the 3 d Auditor's Office show, that the last payment of the pension was made to his widow. Sally Howard.
Marriage proven by exact transcript from the records of the town of Lync. sworn to by the Clerk of the Town. Marriage occurred Nov. 6. 1805.
Last husband died on the 30 th of November 1861. and the time of the death, and the applicant's identity as the widow of Benj Howard. (in addition to the vouchers in the 3 d Auditor's Office) proven, by the testimony of two credible witnesses.

the time of the death, and the applicants identity as the widows of Benj Howard. (in addition to the vouchers in the 3 d Auditor's Office) proven, by the testimony of two credible witnesses.
Admitted July 10 th , 1863, to a pension of $96. annum per month , commencing 1 st December, 1861.
Applicant.
Name and Residence of Agent
L. M. Drury.
EXAMINING CLERK.