Yours November 6th. 1838, Came to hand respecting the Claim of Mrs. Huldah Hill, widow of John Hill decd, you cited me to your letter of 22th. August 1838, for such proof as would be necessary to entitle her to Pension I Conversed at the time with the widow about those proofs ask for by you in support of he Claim She Stated to me that She Could not Prove the Service of her husband before Marriag at the present day any other way that She had previously had done as to the date of her Marriage she stated as she had before done the forepart of the Year before Gates defeat & her first born Child the 9th. day of January after Gates defeat & that there was a family register among her Children kept by her husband which he Commenced some time after the birth of her first Child there was no register at the time produced to me.

I could lay none before you after making enquiry her son has the family register kept by the decd. in a large family Bible her son a Clergyman resides near one hundred Miles distant I produced the register & the Copy to the Supplimental Declaration of this date is Just from the family register in the Manner there set down the proof You have now before you is as far as I can obtain in support of this widows Claim the Trouble an agent has to act for those old Claiments are great the evidence hadd to be obtained tho their Claim be Just, the delay of the present, evidence I have endeavored obtain other proofs but Cannot those Claiments Consider their Claim Just & Circumstantial proof sufficient therefore put themselves to little trouble except the agent take the trouble