Pension file W.25398 (Nathaniel Oak, Athens, Vt.; widow Susan), scan 00115: A. S. Campbell asks for examination of another pensioner's claim, 13 Feb 1840. Campbell reports it has been said the three months' service was in 1777 near Saratoga and asks that a comrade's (Peter Joslyn's) pension declaration be examined for the company and regiment.

Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).

Bellows Falls Vermont Feby 13th 1840.

Sir

I have received your letter of the 3d June 1839 relative to the claim of Susan Oaks widow of Nathaniel Oaks deceased for a pension, in which you say for the reasons therein stated that “no examination can be made into the general allegation of his having served three months” &c —

It has been ascertained that the three months service alluded to in Mrs Oaks declaration instead of having been rendered in 1780 was performed in 1777 being about the time of the capture of General Burgoyne & his army, & it is supposed he was at or near Saratoga at that time. —

I learn that Peter Joslyn of Cheshire County in the State of New Hampshire who has been placed on the pension list under the act of 1818 but who is now deceased, was in the same company with Nathaniel Oaks, in order therefore to prove the service of Oaks I have to request that you will cause his declaration to be examined by means of which you will be enabled to refer to the rolls of the company & Regiment in which Oaks served. —

I am very respectfully

Yr obt. servt.

A. S. Campbell

Hon J L Edwards

Comr of Pensions

Washington City. —