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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary’s Office, April 12^th 1841 .

            I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that  the name of Solomon Fletcher is borne on an account in the Army books, as a drummer from Westford, in the Colonel’s Company, Colonel Marshalls Regiment, and there found credited by his Services from January 2^d 1777 to December 31^st 1779, being 35 months 29 days at 44 S  per month.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary’s Office, April 13^th 1841

            I hereby Certify, That,  Nathan Brooks, Nehemiah Ball and Jonathan Prescott Esq^re – are Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex (and they have been such for the month last past)

In the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to  their  acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the

Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

{Seal}   [signed] John P. Bigelow

Secretary of the Commonwealth

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I, Johanna Clarter, of Westford in the County of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, widow, do on my oath testify & declare, that I am in the eighty-seventh year of my age; that I am sister to the late Solomon Fletcher whose widow is understood to be now living in the State of New York an applicant for a Revolutionary Pension.  And I do further testify & declare, that I have always understood & believed that my said late brother Solomon was married to his said widow in Concord in said County sometime in the Revolutionary War; and I do well recollect that after their said Marriage they lived together as man & wife, in my late father’s House in said Westford & that his said widow gave birth to one child while they so lived there.

            And I do further testify & say that my said late brother was formerly a resident of said Westford & was born in said town & that he was in the Army of the Revolution more than three years, and that there was no man living in said Westford during said war of the name of Solomon Fletcher but him.

Witness                                                                                                  her

[signed] J. Gregory                                                                  Johanna  X  Clarter

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