Declaration : in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows"

Declaration : in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows"

Albany, N.Y. 1838

[2] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 34 cm.

MSS L2018F89.1

Partially printed document, filled in ink, on behalf of Prudence Sawyer, widow of Nathaniel Sawyer, a soldier in the New York line during the revolutionary war.
"State of New York, County of Albany, September 1838"; addressed to their son Asaph Sawyer, Cohoes, New York.
Draft prepared by Giles F. Yates, their lawyer, prior to hearings: includes the account "Nathaniel Sawyer a private & sergeant in the army of the revolution and served as herein after stated; to wit in the Company of Captain Abbot in the regiment of Colonel Poor ..."
Note on p. [2]: details of representing the family in this petition, including "If you send me the leaf from the family bible containing the record of your mother's marriage, I will draw the necessary affidavit to accompany it ...," from Yates, Schenectady, N.Y.
With: follow up letter from Giles F. Yates, January 30, 1840 (cataloged separately MSS L2018F89.2).
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