Sally’s declaration (1844)
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County

On this seventh day of August in the year 1844, before me Anthony C. Brown one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county of St. Lawrence, personally appeared Sally Webster a resident of the township of Augusta in the county of Grenville in the province of Canada West, aged 69 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth in her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows" & of a Resolution approved August 16, 1842 entitled "A resolution declarative of the pension act of July 7^th, 1838" & of the act of Congress passed March 3^rd 1843 entitled "An act granting a pension to certain widows of Revolutionary soldiers," & of all other acts in relation thereto:

That she is the widow of Asa Webster, late of Augusta aforesaid, deceased, who was a Drummer in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution.

That she can not specify particularly the services of the said Asa Webster, but she further declares that the said Zeno Asa Webster was a Pensioner of the United States from about the year 1836 until the time of his death, & as such drew a pension of Forty-one 55/100 Dollars per annum, and for the particulars & proof of his services she refers to the Declaration of the said Asa Webster & the other documents on which his said Pension was granted.

She further declares that she was married to the said Asa Webster on the sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred ninety one at Elizabethtown in the province aforesaid by Thomas Sherwood Esquire then a Justice of the Peace at Elizabethtown aforesaid. That her maiden name was Sally Baldwin. - That the said Thomas Sherwood Esquire, died many years ago. That she has caused a search to be made among the books & papers of the said Sherwood to find a record of her said marriage & is informed & believes that no records of marriages solemnized by him can be found. And she further declares that she has no record evidence of her said marriage.

She further declares that her said husband, Asa Webster, died on the seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty at Augusta in the county of Grenville, aforesaid. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz: at the time above stated.

She further declares that she has not intermarried but continues the widow of said Asa Webster. That the Pension certificate of the said Asa Webster was as she is informed & verily believes forwarded to the agent of the United States for paying pensions in the city of Albany to enable this declarant to obtain the arrears of said pension up to the time of the death of the said Asa Webster, & that this declarant received the said arrears. She further declares that in or about the month of March in the year 1841, she made a declaration before the Honorable Anthony C. Brown, for the purpose of establishing the present claim, which she is informed was forwarded to the War Department but no answer ever received there from.

And further this declarant saith not.

[In the hand of Sally Webster] Sally Webster

Subscribed & Sworn on the day &
year first above written, before me,
at Ogdensburgh in said county of St. Lawrence
A. C. Brown Judge
St. Law. Cy. Cty [3 or 4 illegible abbreviations or words]

I do hereby certify that Sally Webster, that hath this day subscribed and made oath to the foregoing Declaration, in consequence of her age & infirmities, could not with safety attend before any of the Courts of Record in said county of St. Lawrence - the Sessions of such courts being held at the distance of twenty miles from Ogdensburgh aforesaid. And I further certify that the said Sally Webster is known to me to be a person of good character for truth & veracity. And that I believe and am satisfied that the statements contained in her Declaration are true & that she is the widow of Asa Webster who was a soldier in the United States service in the Revolution, who was a Pensioner of the United States.

A. C. Brown Judge
St. Law Cy Cts     [3 or 4 illegible abbreviations or words]

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