Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11863, Samuel Worcester, Mass.
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Service: Mass
Worcester, Samuel
Isabel
Number: R. 11863
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Isabel Worcester, Widow of Sam
uel of Vermont dec. Suspended
claim. Act 4th July 1836.
Additional evidence in
relation to p[?]sted discharge
Gen Edward M[?] Af
fidavit in reference to
John F. Bannister testimony
on file in the case.

New and additional Evidence.

John Bryant agest
Menden
N. 14.
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State of New Hampshire}
Sullivan Ss.} Sworn to and subscribed by
above named Edward Wyman, (well known to me be a credible witness) on this 27th day of August 1855 - 
Before me
George Bryant Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire}
County of Sullivan Ss}
T. M. Gilmore Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify
that George Bryant Esq is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that the above signature of the said Justice is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of
said Court the 27th day of August AD 1855
T. W. Gilmore Clerk
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Copy
I John F. Bannister of Westford in the County of Middlesex and Common wealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age depose and say that I am a son of the late Cyprian and Mahala Bannister, that my mother the said
Mahala was the daughter of Samuel & Isabel Worcester deceased, that my grandfather the said Samuel Worcester who died in Tyngsborough about twenty five years ago was as I believe and have good reason to believe one of the Massachusetts men in the Continental Army of the Revolution. One reason why I do believe is that the said Samuel Worcester for several years previous to his death lived in my fathers family and
during that time I have often heard him speak of his revolutionary services and relate many incidents which occurred while he was
in the Army, a further, and to me a satisfactory reason is that in his life time I saw in his possession his discharge, or what he called
his discharge from the service in which he had been engaged. The circumstances under which I happened to see said discharge are
as follows, that one William Hazen who had also been engaged in the Army and is now dead called on my grandfather the said
Samuel Worcester and they conversed together in relation to their services
and they exhibited each to the other their respective discharges from the service and compared them, My distinct recollection is
that my grandfather at that time brought forward a large roll of papers from which he took his said discharge, being in the main a
printed one while the discharge of said Hazen was a written one, by whom the discharge of my said Grandfather was signed I took
no note - and am unable to state.
To the question "Where is said discharge now and what became of your grandfathers papers after his death? I reply that the greater part of them went into the hands of his Eldest son Samuel who became
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deranged and after living for several years and unsettled life, died in the Alms House in Tyngsborough in December 1843, and are not
to be found.
                       John F. Bannister
Commonwealth of Massachusetts}
Middlesex County S.S.}
Subscribed and sworn to this twenty first day of September Eighteen hundred and fifty four.
Before me        Charles Butterfield Justice of the Peace

I further certify that the deponent is personally known to me and that he is a credible witness Charles Butterfield Just Peace
-
J. Edward Wyman of Newport in the County of Sullivan and state of New Hampshire, aged fifty years, depose and say, that I have in
my possession a paper left with me by the heirs of Job Dodge for the purpose of establishing a claim for a pension of which
the following is a true copy. (Beginning of underscore  -"This certifieth, that Job Dodge a Private-- has served Three years in the 15th Massachusetts Regiment, being the full term of his enlistment has conducted  himself as a good and faithful Soldier, and is hereby discharged the service.
    Given under my Hand, at Budd's highlands
this Eighteenth Day of April 1780. - End of underscore)
Tim Bigelow Col." 
And I further depose and say that all the words in the above Copy that are underscored are printed words and figures.
Edward Wyman
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Isabel Worcester widow of Samuel of
NH (illegible) suspended claim Act 4th  July 36
                          Copy
Amos P. Cummings affidavit in her case
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(Copy)
I, Amos P. Cummings, of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged upwards of 87 years depose and say that the place of my birth was Nottingham West, N.H. distant about 9 or 10 miles from Howard & Groton, Mass., that since my birth I have lived in several other towns in N.H. & Vt. and now reside in said Windsor Vt.; that at though I took no part in the Revolutionary War I was of afterwards acquainted with many persons who were represented to have been actors in the Country's service, and of the number was Samuel Worcester, the husband of Isabel Worcester. The said Samuel Worcester was an
uncle of mine and was, as I have reason to be
live and do truly believe, one of the Continental three years men hired by deed for the town of Harvard Massachusetts. But the date and length of his service
I cannot state but can and do state confidently as my belief that he must have been engaged in the Early part of 1777 for the reason that a brother of mine by the name of Benjamin Cummings lived with said Samuel Worcester in the fore part of the war: that I do yet well remember that I went to see my said
brother during the absence of the said Samuel Worcester in 1777 in the month of October, at which time as I have reason to believe the said Samuel Worcester was engaged in the Continental Service for said term of
Harvard ;  that I found my said brother in the
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family of my Aunt Isabel Worcester having the
care of her household affairs; that I have not a
doubt but that her husband the said Samuel Worcester was then engaged abroad in the Country's service
Amos P. Cummings

State of Vermont}
Windsor County SS.}

Subscribed and sworn to this
14th day of December A.D. 1854
Before me Dudley T Chase Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the within named Amos P. Cummings is a credible witness.
Official capacity of D. T. Chase Certified by Norman Williams
Clerk of the Court           Dec. 15th 1854
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Middlesex Ss.
Town Clerks Office Groton Mass March 31st 1853
Upon application I have examined the records of Births and Marriages of the Town of Groton and have been unable to find the record of Marriage of Samuel Worcester and Isabel Coburn of the birth of their children
Attest
John W Parker}
Town Clerk}
I Hannah Hazen formerly Hannah Worcester
now of Tyngsboro in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but at present residing in Groton in said County aged upwards of 75 years depose & say that I was well acquainted with Samuel Worcester, who was reported to have been a Massachusetts soldier in the army of the revolution
and who as my confident belief is was married to Isabel Coburn some little time previous to the commencement of the revolutionary war, he then being as I have always understood and do verily believe a resident of said Groton.-
That after his said marriage, he for a while
continued to live in said Groton and afterwards
in the several neighboring town of Harvard
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Westford and Tyngsboro where, that is in said
last town to my knowledge he and the said
Isabel lived together in the relation of husband
wife for the space of near 60 years and until
death which took place according to my
not recollection & belief on or about the 4th day July 1829.- He was a uncle of mine I being
daughter of Francis Worcester who removed from said Groton to said Tyngsboro and neither will each other from soon after case of the revolutionary war till the time of death of my said uncle which took place at the time above stated.-
That soon afterwards his widow the said
Isabel Worcester removed to the adjoining town of Westford that being one of the places where her husband the said Samuel had formerly lived and from there was taken by her son Jonathan to live with him in Windsor in
the State of Vermont when as I have been
informed the died 1844. -  In relation to the
revolutionary services of my uncle the said Samuel Worcester I do further depose & say that I used frequently to hear him speak of the same and recollect to have heard him say that he was several times engaged-- that he was cold out when the war first began and that
he was afterwards in the eight months and
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the three years service but do not recollect
his giving dates of the names of his officers. -
And that I further and lastly depose and
say that I never knew or heard of any other
Samuel Worcester who took part in the
revolutionary war from either of the aforesaid
towns of Groton or Harvard.
            her
Hannah X Hazen
            mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Middlesex Ss -
Subscribed & sworn to this thirty first of March 1853.
before me      Benj. Dix Justice of the Peace

I Lucy Worcester aged of upwards of 70 years
depose and say that I am a sister of Hannah Hazen the above deponent that from my childhood I have lived in the towns of
Groton & Tyngsboro by her above named & that I fully concur with her in the statements she has above made relative to the residences & removal of my uncle the said Samuel Worcester also in her account as to the revolutionary services of my said Uncle. - And as relates to his marriage to Isabel Coburn I do further depose & say that in my youthful 
days I lived in the family of the said Samuel & Isabel Worcester and know that they then and ever afterwards to the time of his death lived & cohabited together as husband & wife & that they raised at a family of several children
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with one of whom Jonathan I understand my aunt Isabel at last lived & died at Windsor in the State of Vermont.= I further & lastly depose & say that to my knowledge there is not a single person living in either
of the town of Harvard or Groton who were actors with my uncle said Samuel Worcester in the war of the revolution~
        her 
Lucy  X Worcester
        mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Middlesex ss.
Subscribed & Sworn to this the thirty first day of March 1853 - before me
           Benj. P. Dix Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the foregoing deponents and personally known to me & are in my opinion creditable witness'
Benj Dix Justice of the Peace.
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Isabel Worcester widow of Samuel Deed
Additional proof in her case

Affidavits of
Hannah Hazen
&
Lucy Worcester of
Tyngsboro Mass
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston April 6th 1853
I hereby Certify, That at the dates of
the annexed attestations Benjamin P. Dix
County of Middlesex
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his 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.
E M  Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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4
Isabel Worcester of Vt deed
widow of Samuel -
Proof of her death -
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We, Charles Worcester and Mary Ann Worcester both of West Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawful age, depose and say, that we were each well acquainted with Isabel Worcester, the widow
of Samuel Worcester, that we lived for some time previous to the time of her making a declaration for a pension, in the same house with her, which was in June A. D. 1843.
and so continued to live until her death which happened at Windsor (now West Windsor)  in the year 1844, on the sixteenth day of June; at which time she had a pending claim to a pension under the act of July 4th 1836, for the
services of her late husband, Samuel Worcester; that she left two Children only, to wit. William Worcester and Jonathan
Worcester, the latter of whom has been duly appointed the administrator of her estate, and is now a claimant to a pension in her right
Charles Worcester
Mary Ann Worcester
Sworn to and subscribed by the said Charles Worcester and Mary Ann Worcester, this third day of October, A.D. 1853.
Before me. 
Thomas F. Hammond, Justice of the Peace.
I also certify that the said Charles and Mary Ann are persons of truth and veracity. Thomas F. Hammond, Justice of the Peace.
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STATE OF VERMONT,} I, NORMAN WILLIAMS, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor, in the
Windsor County ss.} , State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
Thomas F. Hammond
was, at the date of the paper writing to which this is attached and still is a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE in and for said County, duly qualified to administer oaths and take the acknowledgment of deeds, and that his signature 
~~foregoing~~~~~~~~ is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 5th
day of December
A. D. 1853.
Norman Williams, Clerk
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Isabel Worcester of VT dec'd widow of ┃
Samuel - Suspended claim of Jonthan Worcester in her right
Act 4th July 1886
Addition Evidence
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{Town Clerk's Office}
{Tyngsborough Mass. August 22. 1854}
the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester of West Windsor Vt. for evidence of the death of his of deaths in this office and found a record of which the
inclusive. ~
Disease or  I
cause of death. I
Dropsy I
Place of Birth I
Tyngsborough I
Name and Surname of Parents,
if a married female the name of husband
Samuel Worcester
Isabel Worcester
Recorded by me June 26th 1844
A true copy of record
"Simon Thomson, Town Clerk"
Attest Jos S. Bennett
Town Clerk of }
Commonwealth of Massachusetts }
Tyngsborough
Middlesex County ss. August 22. 1854. Then personally appeared the above named Joseph S. Bennett and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed in my presence is true.
Before the
Charles Butterfield, Justice of the Peace
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I Joseph S. Bennett, Town Clerk of Tyngsborough in do hereby certify that upon application of Jonathan brother, Samuel Worcester, I have examined the records
following is a copy, viz:
"Deaths in Tyngsborough from April 30th 1843 to April 30th 1844
No.   When Name and Sex and  and Age Occupation Date of death. Place of Internment
" Registered  Surname.   Condition.  Yrs. Mos days    Farmer  December 22 1843 {Thomson Graveyard.}
"3 June 26  Samuel Male 71 Farmer
"    1844 Worcester Single
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Secretary's Office, Boston, September 22d 1854
hereby Certify, That at the date of the
annexed attestation Charles Butterfield
was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted;
and that to his 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
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I Jonathan Worcester of West Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged upwards of seventy eight years, depose
and say, that I am the fourth child of Samuel and Isabel Worcester, that I was born, as my belief is, on the 4th day of May, A.D. 1776, although I have no record of my birth
either public or private. The reason of my belief, that I was born on said 4th day of May, 1776, is, that my parents, the said Samuel and Isabel, always told me so, I further depose
and say, that I am the administrator of the estate of my said mother, Isabel Worcester, deceased, and a claimant as such to a pension in her right, for the Revolutionary services of
her husband the said Samuel Worcester, which claim is at present suspended, and which is under the act of the 4th of July A.D. 1836; that I have no record whatever going to show that the revolutionary services of my father the said Samuel Worcester, were rendered subsequently to the marriage of the said
Samuel and Isabel, yet I do believe and have no doubt that such was the fact, such having been the repeated declarations of the said Isabel in her lifetime. That I was present
when she made her declaration before the Probate Court for the District of Windsor, Vermont, in 1843; she then stated upon
oath that she was married to Samuel Worcester
in June 1770, and that she had three children at the time of the commencement of the Revolutionary War,
by the name of Samuel, Oliver and Isabel, which I do most fully believe to have been true. My brother Sam -
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vel and my brother Oliver, died, as I have reason to believe, in the month of December, AD. 1843, the news of their deaths having been
communicated to me by my friends, William Dunn and Mial Davis, whose letters are hereunto attached.  In reference to the
Revolutionary services of my said father, I further depose, that I have no doubt of his having rendered the services for which the claim has been asserted, for he stated previous to his death, in 1829, that he was engaged in the Massachusetts Continental service, and that he was during a portion of his service, under the command of Gen. Lafayette,
and that he might have applied for and obtained a pension under but for the amount of property he then owned the act of the 18th of March, 1818; that another reason of my belief that he so served, is, that I used to hear him converse with persons who had been engaged in service with him, relative to the same and particularly so with Abel Bathrick, who was a poor man and used to call at my Father's and exchange Fish for Pork,
And another reason of my belief that the said Samuel Worcester was an actor in the three years Continental service, is, that I heard
him say in his lifetime, that he was hired to engage in that service, and that he the said Samuel, also hired a man to take his place and serve out the remainder of his time, but the name of his substitute, I do not recollect to have heard him state. I further depose and say, that the report of the Hon Commissioner of Pensions, to my Agent John Bryant Esq. of
Meriden, N.H. under date of May 1st. 1854, has been shown me, an extract from which, I notice, reads as follows, " - And you are hereby informed that I am not satisfied that her
husband was the Samuel Worcester who rendered the service embraced by the various certificate of the Secretary of Mass.
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and especially the four commencing May 1st. 1777 and ending March 11th 1779, when J S. Barrett took Samuel Worcester's place and served out the remainder of the period for which said Samuel enlisted, viz. three years.-  It is altogether incredible that he could have served for that period and the fact not have been known to his wife, who, in her Declaration
makes no allusion whatever to his long absence from home." -- That in reference to which I have further to state, that if in her said declaration, she made no such allusion, she, in my opinion, might have so done had it been suggested to her, for I had previously heard
her speak, with tears in her eyes, of the sufferings that she endured while my father, the said Samuel was in the army,
and believed she should have died, but for the faithful care of young Cummings during the period of his absence in Service.
                                        his
                           Jonathan X Worcester
                                        mark
Sworn to and subscribed by the said Jonathan Worcester, this twelfth day of July, A.D. 1854. Before me Thomas F. Hammond  a Justice of the Peace.

And I hereby certify that the said Jonathan Worcester is a person of truth and veracity. Thomas F Hammond, Justice of the Peace

I Amos P. Cummings, formerly a resident of Nottingham in the State of N.H. which was the place of my birth, but now of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged eighty six years on the 11th day of September now last past depose and say that I became acquainted with Mrs. Isabel Worcester, the wife
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and afterwards the widow of Samuel Worcester in the time of the Revolutionary war, which acquaintance continued to the time of her
death, which took place at West Windsor in this County, about ten years ago, at which time, as I have understood, she had a pending
claim to a pension, for the Mass. Continental service, of her late husband, Samuel Worcester.  - That I have also been acquainted with
her son, Jonathan Worcester, the deponent aforesaid, for many years past. And I do further depose and say, that the young Cummings" referred to in his foregoing affidavit, was my brother and who to my knowledge, as stated by said Jonathan resided with the said Isabel Worcester in the time of the war of the 
Revolution, but at what time his said residence commenced I cannot with certainty state, but am sure that I saw him therein charge of her household affairs, in the month of October, 1777. but how long he afterwards remained there, I do not know, but should think for some length of time. My said brother's name was Benjamin Cummings who died upwards of 15 years ago And I further depose and say, that after the close of the War, I removed
to Westford, Mass. and resided near the said Samuel and Isabel Worcester, in said Westford, which is a neighboring town to Howard
and Groton that during my residence in Westford, which was about three years. I never knew or heard of any other person by the
name of Samuel Worcester, who could have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution.
Amos P Cummings
Sworn to and subscribed by the said Amos P. Cummings, this 12th day of July, 1854.
Before me.
Thomas F. Hammond, Justice of this Peace.
And I further certify that the said Amos P. Cummings is a person of truth and veracity
Thomas F. Hammond, 
Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT,} 
Windsor County ss}
I, NORMAN WILLIAMS, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor in the, State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
Thomas F. Hammond
was, at the date of the paper writing to which this is attached, and still is, a
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE in and for said County, duly qualified to administer oaths and take the acknowledgment of deeds and that his signature hereunto annexed, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 15th day of July A. D. 1854.
Norman Williams, Clerk


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Dunstable Dec       121/2
Mr Jon. a  Worcester
Windsor, VT
West Parish

William Dunn letter to Jona 
Worcester giving an account 
of the death of his brother Oliver
Dec. 11, 1848
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Dunstable Dec.            12 1/2
Mr Jon.a Worcester
Worcester
Windsor, VT 
West Parish
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Dunstable   Dec. 11 1843
Mr. Worcester
Sir that you had but few relations about here, I thought I would let you know that
our brother Oliver was buried here yesterday, he went to Mr. Isaac Wood on Friday and was taken sick and died very soon as I was informed, he was brought to our meeting house and had prayers after meeting
Yours
William Dunn
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Dunstable 4 Jan.         12 1/2

Mr. Jonathan Worcester
Windsor, VT
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Dear Sir  I improve this opportunity
to inform you of the death of two of your
Brothers Oliver Died December second very
Sudden he was at my house on Wednesday
and he died on Saturday following he stayed
with us six or seven Weeks Last Summer and
treated us with respect he died, at a neighbors
of ours he had provision for his sickness
and I saw that he was decently Buried as
he was poor and no much means of his
own to do it with.
Your Brother Samuel Died last week
at the poor farm in Tyngsboro
The reason I write to your respecting the death
of your Brothers, is because I thought it
uncertain whither there were any of
your friends that would feel entrusted to do it

Dear Sir it is many years since I
have seen you indeed I have not since
a small lad but the respect of feet towards
you prompts me to do it and I sincerly
hope these solemn events of God's providence
may be improved by you and that it may
are to prepare you to meet God in peace
Yours Respectfully          Mial Davis
Dunstable Jan 3 1844
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5920
Isabel Worcesters Declaration
VT
Act 4th July 36
John Bryant Agent
Meriden NH
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State of Vermont,}
District of Windsor, ss.}
On this eighth day of June, in the year, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the Probate Court in and for the district of Windsor aforesaid, Isabel Worcester, a resident of Windsor, in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged Ninety one years in February last, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the Act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836.
---
That she is the widow of Samuel Worcester, who as she fully believes took an active part in War of the Revolution; that at the commencement of the Revolution, her said Husband resided at Groton, Massachusetts, and was in the Lexington battle, and subsequently in the Bunker Hill Battle,
that he was out in the service of the United States at different times and in different places, but from her great age and consequent loss of memory she is unable to state the length of any of his terms of service, the names of his Officers, or the particular periods or places when and where the services were performed, and relies wholly on proofs hereafter to be
procured, not being in possession of any documentary evidence, nor does
she know of any person living who was out with him.
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Worcester, at Dunstable in the State of New Hampshire, by the Rev. Joseph
Kidder on the twenty eighth day of June in the year, as she believes, seventeen hundred and seventy; that she was married when in her nineteenth year, and had three children at the commencement of the Revolution, to wit.
Samuel, Oliver, and Isabel. That her husband the aforesaid Samuel Worcester, died at Tyngsborough in the State of Massachusetts, some thirteen
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or fourteen years ago, but that she has no means of telling but from memory; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed      Her
Witness  Jona Worcester  Isabel X Worcester
Charles Worcester                      Mark

Sworn to and subscribed by the said Isabella Worcester, on this 8th day of June, A.D. 1843, before me Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate Court.

I, Jonathan Worcester of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged sixty seven years on the fourth day of May last, being duly sworn, do depose and say, that I am a son of Samuel Worcester deceased, and Isabel Worcester who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration; that from my earliest recollections, my parents, the said Samuel and Isabel, lived together
in the relation of husband and wife, until the summer of the year eighteen hundred and twenty nine, when the said Samuel, as I have every reason to believe, died at Tyngsborough, Mass that since the death of the said Samuel, my mother has remained his widow, and now is sole and unmarried; that she the said Isabela came to reside with me in said Windsor, in August, 1836, where she has ever since remained and where she now resides. I further say that that I have frequently heard
my s? Father speak of his services in the war of the Revolution; of being in the battles of Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill, of being at the White Plains, but whether in the Battle at White Plains or not, I cannot say; and I have also heard him say that he was, a portion of the time of his services, under the command
of General Lafayette: And I further say that after the passing
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of the Act of the 18th March, 1818, I heard him say, that he could have had a pension under
that Act, but for the amount of property he then possessed.
Windsor June 8th 1843           Jona Worcester
Sworn and subscribed on this 8th day of June, 1843, before me, the words "I heard him say that" being first interlined
State of Vermont.
Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate for
the District of Windsor, Vt.
State of Vermont .}
District of Windsor ss.}
I, Thomas F. Hammond Judge of the Probate Court in and for the district of Windsor aforesaid do hereby certify, that Isabel Worcester who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration, and Jonathan Worcester, who has sworn to and subscribed the above and foregoing affidavit, are persons of truth and veracity, and that the statements by them respectively made, are entitled to full credit and belief.
Thomas F. Hammond, Judge
State of Vermont, }
District of Windsor, ss.}
I, Salmon F. Dutton, Register of the Probate Court for the district of Windsor aforesaid, hereby certify that Thomas F. Hammond, before whom the foregoing Declaration of Isabel Worcester, and the above and foregoing affidavit of Jona.. Worcester, were severally
sworn to and subscribed, is Judge of the Probate Court for the said district of Windsor, which Probate Court is a Court of Record, and that the signature annexed to the certificate of the oath of the said declarant and affiant, 
purporting to be the signature of him the said Thomas Hammond, is his own proper and genuine signature.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Probate Court and subscribed my name at Cavendish in said district, on this 14th day of June, A.D. 1843.
Salmon F. Dutton, Register ~
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State of Vermont.}
District of Windsor Ss.} On this 4th day of October AD. 1853 personally appeared before the Probate Court within and for said District Jonathan Worcester a resident of West Windsor in said District aged upwards of 77 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration That he is one of the two children of Samuel & Isabel Worcester deceased. That his father was a Massachusetts soldier in the Army of the Revolution - That his mother the said Isabel Worcester asserted a claim to a Pension in her life time under the Act of the 4th of July 1836 - That she made her declaration before the court of Probate for said District in the month of June 1843 - That her papers were soon after filed in the Pension Office by her agent John Bryant Esq. of Meriden N.H. - That her claim there laid suspended for a long time on account of the lack of proof of Marriage and of service. That
believing said claim to be a just one he, himself made application to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for evidence of the service of his father the said Samuel Worcester in the month of January 1853, and in the month of February following received in return certified evidence of his fathers services as follows. viz.
16 days as a Corporal in Capt. Josiah Sartells Company in 1775.
8 mos. in Capt.  Jona Davis Co. Col. Whitcomb Regt in 1775 & 
22 Mos 10 days ending March 11. 1779 in the 3 years service
That he some time since was duly appointed administrator upon the Estate of his deceased mother the said Isabel Worcester and that he is now acting in that capacity, and in that capacity and as one of the surviving children
of the said Isabel Worcester and in her right now claims for himself and his brother William Worcester being the children and only surviving children of the said Isabel, the benefit of the said Act of the 4th of July 1836 and an allowance for the service of said Samuel Worcester as described in the Certificate aforesaid of the Secretary of Massachusetts which was
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filed in the Pension Office as this declarant understands by John Bryant
Esq. in the month of May 1853, to which he now prays that reference may
be had, together with other papers in the case.
And as respects the marriage of his parents, the said Samuel and Isabel
Worcester he would further state that he was present when his mother the
said Isabel made her declaration upon oath before the Hon. Thomas F.
Hammond in June 1843 and believes what she then stated in reference to the same
to be true, to wit that she was married to the said Samuel Worcester at
Dunstable in the State of New Hampshire by the Rev. Joseph Kidder on the
28th day of June 1770. and that she had three children at the time of the
commencment of the Revolutionary War, whose names were, Samuel, Oliver
and Isabel. And having so stated he prays that reference may be had to her
said original declaration now supposed to be on file. Record evidence of which
has heretofore been sought but without success. The declarant would further
state that his belief is that he was himself the fourth child of the said
Samuel and Isabel & that he was born at Groton Ms. on the 4th day
of May 1776. The claimant and declarant further states, that the report
of the Hon. L.P. Waldo. to John Bryant Esq under date of August 2. 1853
in relation to the claim of said Isabel has been shown him and wherein
the notices several suggestions made by the Department one of which is
that "Samuel must be clearly identified with the soldier whose services
are described in the certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts." This he
cannot at present do, and knows not that it will be in his power to do hereafter by
the testimony of persons who served with his father the said Samuel Worcester
many of whose names as given by him in his life time he well recollects
to wit of the Militia under Capt Sartell in 1775, Isaac Lawrence, Caleb
Woods, Jacob Parker, Jacob Patch, Solomon Woods, Benjamin Green Job Shattuck
Shattuck Blood and Francis Worcester a brother of his. And of the three
years men who served with him under Capt Brown, John Johnson
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Job Priest John Parker, Samuel Farnsworth Jonas Davis and Abel Bathrick-This declarant further states that he lived with his father the said Samuel Worcester in Tyngsboro, a neighboring town to Groton and Harvard
Massachusetts till he was 34 years of age and that he knew many of the individuals above named and that he was particularly acquainted with Abel Bathrick one of the Continental or three years men who served with his
father- He used frequently to call upon his father and exchange Shad for Pork and talk about the war service in which they had been engaged, but does not know that the said Bathrick or any one of the others are living,
He well recollects to have heard his father the said Samuel Worcester State long before his death that he was hired to engage in the Continental service and that he also hired before getting through that a part of the last service he rendered the country was under the command of Gen. Lafayette for which he might have obtained a Pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818 but for the amount of property of which he was the owner. And the from a recollection of the of the oft repeated sayings of his for the said Samuel Worcester and the sayings of others there is not in his mind a doubt but that he rendered the service described in the certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts and for which he now in
the right aforesaid claims and respectfully prays an allowance. He adds that his father was the only Samuel Worcester that he ever knew or heard of in Massachusetts where he himself resided till the year 1810 or 1811 That his
father the said Samuel Worcester died at Tyngsboro, Massachusetts in the year 1829
leaving the said Isabel Worcester as his widow - That the said Isabel died at Wind
or now West Windsor in the State of Vermont on the 16th day of June 1844 leaving
two and but two children by the names of William Worcester and Jonathan Worcester And further the declarant saith not ┃
Witness                 Thomas F. Hammond.
Daniel Read                     his
                           Jonathan X Worcester
                                          mark
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The foregoing declaration of Jonathan Worcester sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid
Before me
Salmon F. Dutton -  Judge of Probate

State of Vermont,}
District of Windsor ss.}
I, Henry Closson, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid, hereby certify that Salmon F. Dutton before whom the foregoing Declaration of Jonathan Worcester
sworn and subscribed, is Judge of the Probate Court for said District of Windsor, which Probate Court is Court of Record, and that the signature annexed to the foregoing certificate of oath of said Declarant, purporting to be 
the signature of him the said Salmon T. Dutton
his own proper and genuine signature.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto
affixed the seal of said Probate Court
and subscribed my name at  Wethersfield
field in said District this fourth
day of October A.D. 1853
Henry Closson, Register.

Written along left edge of document:
Isabel Worcester "widow of Samuel Worcester of Vt
Jonathan Worcester claimant in (illegible) Act 4th July 1836

Written along right edge of document:
John Bryant, Agent
Meriden NH
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Isabel Worcester of VT deceased Widow
of Samuel Suspended claim Act 4 July 1836

Proof of his honorable discharge-
John Bryant Agent
Meriden, NH
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I John F. Bannister of Westford in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age, depose
and say that I am a son of the late Cyprian and Mahala Bannister - that my mother, the said Mahala was the daughter of Samuel and Isabel Worcester deceased - that my grandfather, the said Samuel Worcester, who died in Tyngsborough about twenty five years ago, was, as I believe, and have good reason to believe, one of the Massachusetts soldiers in the Continental Army of the Revolution:  - one reason why I so believe is that the said Samuel Worcester for several years previous to his
death, lived in my father's family, and during that time I have often heard him speak of his revolutionary services and relate many incidents which occurred while he
was in the army-- a further and to me, a satisfactory reason is, that in his life time, I saw in his possession his discharge or what he called his discharge from the service in which he had been engaged. The circumstances under which I happened to see said
discharge are as follows -- that one William Hazen who had also been engaged in the army, and is now dead, called on my grandfather, the said Samuel Worcester,
and they conversed together in relation to their services and they exhibited each to the other, their respective discharge from the service, and compared them-- my
distinct recollection yet is, that my grandfather at that time brought forward a large roll of papers, from which he
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took his said discharge, being in the main a printed one, while the discharge of said Hazen was a written one-- by whom the discharge of my said grandfather was signed I took no note and I am unable to state -

To the question, "Where is said discharge now, and what became of your grand father's papers after his death."
I reply that the greater part of them went into
the hands of his eldest son Samuel, who became deranged and after living for several years an unsettled life, died in the Almshouse in Tyngsborough in December 1843, and are not to be found.
John F Banister

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex County SS.
Subscribed and sworn to this twenty first day of September Eighteen hundred and fifty four
Before me
Charles Butterfield Justice of the Peace

I further certify that the deponent is personally known to me and that he is a credible witness
Charles Butterfield Just Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Secretary's Office, Boston, September 22 1854
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the
annexed attestation Charles Butterfield
was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his 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.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Isabel Worcester of VT dec'd
Jonathan Worcester her sons application
to (illegible) Massachusetts for names of
certain persons supposed to have been
engaged in service with his
father Samuel Worcester &
See Certificate -


Identity
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston.
November 22 1853
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 Samuel Worcester is born on 8 mos. service was in Capt. Jonathan Davis Comp. Col Asa Whitcomb's Regt. on roll dated Oct. 6, 1775. from Harvard. Also on continental Army Books, in Capt. Brown's Comp Col. Bigelow's Regt from May 1. 1777 to March 11. 1779. as private from Harvard. The names of John Johnson, Job Priest John Parker, Samuel Farnsworth Jonas Davis & Abel Bathrick
found on Capt. Brown's Comp. Bigelow's Regt.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Respectfully represents Jonathan Worcester, of West Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont that he is one of the
surviving children of Samuel and Isabel Worcester, and Administrator upon the Estate of his deceased mother the said Isabel and a claimant in that capacity, and as a child in her right, to the benefit of the Act of the 4th of July 1836 for the services of the said Samuel Worcester, who was first engaged as his belief is in the Massachusetts Militia from the town of Groton in 1775 and subsequently from that of the adjoining town of Harvard in the three years Continental service, Col. Bigelow's 15th Regiment. That he has this day made a declaration before the Honorable Probate Court for the District of Windsor wherein in the capacity and right aforesaid he has claimed an
allowance for services believed to have been rendered by his deceased father and in order to the establishing his identity he is desirous of the testimony of some of the individuals if to be found, who served with him-- And as he well recollects to have heard his father name several of the persons who served with him in the Massachusetts Militia under Capt. Sartell, to wit, Isaac Lawrence, Caleb Woods, Jacob Parker, Jacob Patch, Solomon Woods, Benjamin Green, Job Shattuck, Shattuck Blood and Francis Worcester - Also the names of John Johnson Job Priest John Parker, Samuel or Lemuel Farnsworth, Jonas Davis and Abel Bathrick who were engaged with him in the three years service under Capt. Brown of Col. Bigelow's Regt. he would pray that search be made and that a certificate may be issued  accordingly if said names are to be found together with that of Samuel Worcester in Capt. Sartell's roll - And also if the names of John Johnson Job Priest, John Parker, Samuel or Lemuel Farnsworth, Jonas Davis and
Abel Bathrick are to be found with that of Samuel Worcester on Capt. Browns of of Col. Bigelow's Regt,. of three years men.
                                                his
                                  Jonathan X Worcester
                                               mark
Signed by said Jonathan Worcester in my presence this 4th day of October 1853
Thomas F. Hammond, Justice of the Peace
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Isabel Worcester of VT
at deceased suspended
claim Act July 1836

Additional proof
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Case of Isabel Worcester of
Windsor County VT of dec'd
Original papers filed
in 1843 - Act 4th July 1836
Additional proofs -
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V 5920
Isabel Worcester
VT
Suspended
Let. to J. Bryant Sept 26th 1843
John B
Act July 4th 1832 ┃
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9482
Isabel Worcester
VT
Act - 4th July - 1836
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No. 7962
Isabel Worcester dec'd.
man of Samuel
Vermont
Letter to
J. Bryant Sept 26th 1843.
John Bryant 2nd August 1853
Act 4th July 1836.
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May 18 1853 
Addl  evi in case of
Isabel Worcester
widow of Samuel

John Bryant 
Meriden NH

Department of the Interior
Pension Office . Official Business
Commissioner
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Isabel Worcester 
VT sus 36
Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D
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Vt
Isabel Worcester
(illegible) Samuel
Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
Meriden NH Dec 6 (Postmark)
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Meriden NH (postmark)
May 43
Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Isabel Worcester
VT  sus 36
Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Suspended claim of Isabel
Worcester of VT dec'd Act 4th
July 1836
Additional Proof
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Isabel Worcester
VT - sus 1836
Meriden, NH Postmark
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Isabel Worcester
Samuel
VT   sus 1836
Meriden, NH Postmark

Hon. Josiah Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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7962   VT
4 July 1836
Isabel Worcester dec'd
Widow of Samuel
11863 Vermont
J Bryant - Sep 26 1843
Jno Bryant - Aug 2 1853
Same Dec 18 1853S
Same Feb 22 1854
Same May 1, 1854
Same May 12 1854
Same Jan'y  10 1856
Act July 4 1836
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Act of July and March 2, 1873 (struck through)

11.863
P.O     Isabel Worcester
Service: Widow
Samuel Worcester
Enlisted:__________________, 18
Discharged:   Rejected ___, 18
Application filed: __________, 18
Alleges: _________________, 18
Re-enlisted:  __________________
Attorney: ________________________
P.O.________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________Recognized.  _____________Contract
_______Cert. of Dis.    Searched for________,18
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Meriden N. H      Nov 3, 1854
Sir-- As the agent of Jonathan Worcester the Administrator of Isabel Worcester I am now happy in the belief that I have at length succeeded in obtaining such additional proof as will favourably settle the suspended
claim of Isabel Worcester of dec'd, under the act of the 4th of July 1836 a claimant for the Massachusetts Continental service of her late husband Samuel Worcester who died at Tyngsborough MA my in 1829, To which case I now have to pray your further attention. The papers already on file in this case are now to be increased by five additional ones containing in the absence of record evidence, the strongest circumstanced proof, that the marriage of Samuel & Isabel Worcester took place previous to the last period of the service of said Samuel and indeed previous to the performance of any of his Revolutionary
service so that the widow was entitled under the act of the 4th of July 1836
These additional proof have all been obtained since your report in the case of May 1, 1854 viz
The depositions of Jonas Worcester & Amos Cummings
The certificate of the town Clerk of Groton
do                  of the town Clerk of Howard
do              of the town Clerk of Tyngsboro and the affidavit of John F. Bannister
And although the papers in the case are somewhat numerous, I would now beg leave to refer to some of them, and also to some of your report to which I have respectfully to pray your further attention. And firstly in relation to the marriage which we have not been enabled to establish by the production of record proofs
- It will be found that Mrs. Worcester stated in her original declaration, that she was married by Parson Kidder in June 1770 when in the 19th year of her age and that she had three children at the time of the commencement of the Revolutionary
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War by the names of Samuel Oliver & Isabel, -Evidence of the death of two of whom Samuel & Oliver is attached to the affidavit of Jonathan Worcester made before Thomas F Hammond Esq. on the 12th day of July 1854 - Further
evidence of the death of the Eldest Samuel, is contained in the certificate of the Town Clerk of Tyngsboro by which it is shown that he died in said Tyngsboro on the 22 day of Dec. 1843, then aged 71 years-- He was consequently born in 1772 two years or thereabout after the marriage of his parents the said Samuel & Isabel in 1770-This I trust as far as it goes will prove to be satisfactory, although there is other circumstantial evidence in relation to the marriage -It is contained in the certificate of the Town Clerk of Harvard under date of June
24th 1854 now herewith transmitted being a full copy of the report of a Committee for reseating the meeting house. A former extract from which seems to have been misunderstood by you as appears by your report in the case of May 1 1854. An extract from which I find to read as follows
   "It is also clear that the Samuel Worcester of Harvard was a resident of that town as early at January 1775 for according to the certificate of the town Clerk dated April 3. 1854 the Committee appointed at a meeting held January 2. 1775 to reseat the new meeting house Samuel Worcter (Worcester) was assigned the Sixth seat below men and their wives.. That was evidently the Samuel
Worcester unmarried man who entered the service from Harvard. Isabel Worcester husband was married to her according to her statement and the testimony of witnesses some time in 1770 and had three children at the commencement of the War"
Now Sir as it might have been owing
to the carelessness of the Town Clerk in his punctuations, that you came to the
conclusion that Samuel Worcester was an unmarried man for the reason
that he was assigned the sixth seat below men and their wives"
I would request your careful perusal of the certified copy of the whole of said report
from which I doubt not but you will come to a different conclusion, and that by "below", in said report was meant the floor or lower part of the house
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in distinction from the Gallery instead of "below men and their wives"
-The last provision in said report you will find to read
"All that are above twenty one years old and not otherwise seated to sit in the second seat in the side Gallery."
How old our Samuel Worcester was at the time does not appear and I cannot but deem it a
strong supposable case that a seat had already been assigned himself and wife to wit "the sixth seal" in the lower part of the house-
And further I would ask you to notice the town Clerk affidavit stating that he had not been enabled to find any evidence that there was more than one Samuel Worcester residing in Harvard capable of bearing arms in
1777 or at any other period during the period of the Revolutionary War-
And I would next pray your further attention to the testimony on file of Mrs Hannah Hazen in relation to the residence and service of her Uncle the said Samuel Worcester - also to the affidavit of Lucy Worcester and Mrs Rebecca Hase both filed some time since-- It will be found that Mrs Hase stated she was acquainted with many of the persons that were engaged in the Massachusetts three years service and with Samuel Worcester whose
wife was a Coburn & who served in the same company with her father Eleazer Parker & others. And your attention is also desired to
the proofs herewith transmitted, to wit the Deposition of Jonathan Worcester and that of Amos P Cummings subjoined to that Worcester establishing the fact that Benjamin Cummings a brother of his resided Mrs Worcester while her husband was absent in the service.
-That he saw him there taking care of her household affairs in October 1777
- Also to the certificate of John W. Parker Esq Town Clerk of Groton wherein he testified that he had carefully examined the Books Tax List and files of papers remaining in that office from June 1770 to the close of the
Revolutionary War, but without being able to find any evidence
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whatever that Samuel Worcester the husband of Isabel Worcester or any person of the name of Samuel Worcester, was a resident of said Groton and one of its state or Continental soldier in the army of the Revolution - And lastly I have to pray your particular attention
to the last evidence, obtained, that which is contained in the deposition of John F. Bannister a Grandson of Samuel & Isabel
Worcester who testified that about twenty five years ago he saw in the possession of said Samuel Worcester his discharge from the Continental service -
And I have only further to remark as an agent, in conclusion, that it is not often possible to support a claim by such numerous and respectable proof as in the case of Mrs Isabel
Worcester deceased and that if the same shall be regarded by the Department as by myself the claim will now be admitted for two years service of Samuel Worcester as a private.
Very respectfully yr Obl Servant
John Bryant
I have one further favour only to ask and that is if the examine my Clerk into whose hands this case may fall for further consideration has any doubt as to its admission. I pray that it
may be submitted to the Commissioner himself or to chief  Clerk Cole
J.B.

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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No 4
Case of Isabel Worcester of VT dec'd
suspended claim Act 4th July 1876
Jonathan Worcester Administrator
certified Evidence of Samuel Worcester service
John Bryant Agent Meriden NH
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston.
March 31st 1854.
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 Samuel Worcester is born on
Provincial Regt of Goodman of the Militia commanded by Col Asa Whitcomb's 4th Company whereof Isaac Gales is Capt. who marched from Harvard to Cambridge
on the Alarm of April 19, 1775. 8 days and who enlisted into the American Army."
"Also on return of Capt. Jonathan Davis Comp.
Col. Whitcomb's Regt. made Oct. 6, 1775. from Harvard."
The does not appear but one man on the four
well and he died Aug.  26. it being previous to the date of the return. The certificate of Feby 2. 1853 represents Samuel Worcester to have enlisted May 10.
The record shows no such thing. I have given the words of the record above Also the name of Samuel Worcester is born on Continental Army Books, Capt. Brown's Comp. Col
Bigelow's Regt. from May to 1,1777 to March 11. 1779. 22 mos 10 days as private from Harvard.
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Samuel Burrell then took his place
Samuel Burrell served in Capt.
Browns Comp. Col. Bigelow's Regt.
from March 11. 1779 to Dec. 31, 1779
9. Mrs. 20 days
Also in Col. Camp Col Bigelow's
Regt form July1. 1780 to May 1 & 2, 1780
4 Mos. Making up the 36 Mos. for which time
Samuel Worcester Enlisted
Samuel Burrell was also from Harvard.
and I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the
search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts
and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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5
Secretary Commonweath of
Massachusetts certificate that the
name of John Johnson
is found on Roll with that
of Samuel Worcester in the
3 year service.  See
James Spalding Affidavit in
the case of Isabel Worcester
Identity
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston.
November 17. 1853

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 John Johnson
of Worcester service under Capt. Brown in
Col. Bigelow's Regt. and that Samuel
Worcester served under the said Capt. Brown
in Col. Bigelow's Regt.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Isabel Worcester of VT dec'd. widow of
Samuel Worcester - certified
evidence of the service of Samuel
Worcester the husband of Isabel
Worcester deceased a VT claimant
Act 4 July 1836 -

John Bryant Agent
Meriden N. H.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
February 2 1853.

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 Samuel Worcester is borne on
a roll of Capt. Josiah Sartell's Co. which marched from Groton Apr. 19, 1775, as Corporal 16 days travel included
On rolls of 8 mos. service in 1775. Capt. Jona Davis' Co. Col. Whitcomb's Regt. as private from Harvard from May 18. Name on return of Oct 6.
Our army books 15th Regt Col. Bigelow's, Capt. Brown's Co. as Private of Harvard from May 1. 1777 to Mar. 11 1779 22 mos 10 days when S. Barrett took his place. Enlisted for 3 years.
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3-1053
I. Worcester
Sent for 16. Jan 27

John Bryant, Agent
Meriden, NH
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this
Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said
application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish from the Records and files in his Office, proof of the Revolutionary services of Samuel
Worcester, my late Father, who as I understand and believe, was a Private in the War of the Revolution and did sundry services, but under what officers I am unable to state. The said
Samuel Worcester belonged to Gorton, Mass was in the the of Bunker Hill, and for a while was stationed at Charlestown, Massachusetts, and performed sundry other Revolutionary services, and died in 1829 leaving a widow
whose name was Isabel Worcester, who died on the 16th day of June, 1844, having a pending claim to a pension at the time of her death; and the above proof of services is requested in right of the said Isabel Worcester
West Windsor Vt. January 14th 1853.
                                his
                  Jonathan X Worcester
                                mark
Subscribed in my presence.
Thomas F. Hammond, Justice of the Peace for the Co. of Windsor, VT
Please enclose certificate to John Bryant of Meriden N H
N.B. Mr. Worcester  has recently lost his right hand
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No 182
Isabel Worcester of VT dec'd
Suspended claim Act 4th July 1836
Additional Evidence-
James Spalding &
Samuel Tenneys Affidavits
Proof of the ages of children and is
circumstantial evidence of Marriage
before the service of Samuel Worcester
John Bryant agt. Meriden NH
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I James Spaulding formerly of Westford and now of Tyngsborough in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged upwards of sixty nine years do testify and say that I was well
acquainted with Samuel Worcester, who was ever reputed to have been a Massachusetts soldier of the Revolutionary War for a long time previous to his death, which took place at said Tyngsborough in the month of July 1829 - the time I am able to fix upon by the record of the birth of one of my children--
I was also acquainted with his family.  He married Isabel Coburn, who was also of said Tyngsborough, the date of said marriage I am unable to state-- but have heard her, the said Isabel, say that she was married in the 
nineteenth year of her age, by the Rev. Joseph Ridder of Dunstable now Nashua N.H. prior to the Revolution. I was also well acquainted with their children, Samuel, Oliver and Isabel, and comparing their several ages with my
own, am clearly of the opinion, that they must have been born before the Revolution. I was also acquainted with their other children, who were born after or during the Revolutionary war, viz. Jonathan, Mary, William and Mahala -that said Jonathan lived a near neighbor to me from my childhood until his removal to the State of Vermont where he now resides, in the town of West Windsor. The age of said Jonathan I am unable to state precisely but he
several years older than myself & as it respects my own age, I have a record of my birth, from which it appears that I was born March 9th 1785. As to the different places
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of residence of the said Samuel Worcester, who was by trade a brick-maker, I further depose and say, that from what
I have heard the said Samuel and his wife Isabel and others say, my belief is, that at the time of the marriage they resided in Groton, soon afterwards removed to Harvard
an adjoining town, and from thence they removed to the neighboring town of Westford, & thence to said Tyngsborough where he died, as aforesaid and that at each of said places he worked at his trade of brick-making.

James Spaulding
Commonwealth of Massachusetts}
Middlesex County S.S.}
Subscribed and sworn to on this thirtieth day of March A.D. 1854
Before me
Charles Butterfield Just. Peace
I further certify that the deponent is a credible witness
Charles Butterfield Just. Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, March 31st 1854
I Hereby Certify, That at the dates of the
annexed attestations Charles Butterfield
was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his 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.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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I Samuel Tenney of Westford in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Eighty years
do depose and say, that I became acquainted with and was a near neighbor to Samuel Worcester, who was reputed to have been one of the continental soldiers of Massachusetts in the army of the Revolution. I was also
acquainted with Isabel Worcester, the wife of said Samuel and with their sons, Samuel, Oliver, Jonathan and William for the space of thirty years previous to the death of said Samuel Worcester, Senior. The said son
Samuel and Oliver each older than myself and the said Jonathan and William were both younger - with the said Jonathan I was more especially acquainted, he married a sister of mine, and his age was from two to three years younger than my own.  Of my own age birth I have a family record from which it appears that I was born September 7th A.D. 1773.
Samuel Tenney
Commonwealth of Massachusetts}
Middlesex County S.S.}
Subscribed and sworn to on this thirtieth day of March A.D. 1854
Before me
Charles Butterfield Just. Peace
I further certify that the deponent is a credible witness
Charles Butterfield Justice of the Peace
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Isabel Worcester of VT dec'd
Widow of Samuel Act 4th July
1836 suspended claim -
Additional Proof -


Report of the who arranged the Committee 
seats in the meeting house at Harvard Mass
there is a duplicate in the claim
Samuel Worcester, Mass R. 11863
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Town Clerks Office    June 22nd 1854 -----
I Silas W. Holman  Town Clerk of Harvard in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify, that on or about the 3d day of April last, I gave to John Bryant Esq. of Meriden N.H. a certificate of the evidence that appeared upon the Records in said Town of Harvard, going to show that
Samuel Worcester performed service in the War of the Revolution, and having been shown  by the said Bryant the report of the Commissioner of pensions, in which it would seem that there might have been an error in
the construction placed upon that portion of said certificate in reference to the reseating of the new meeting House in said Harvard, I therefore by the request of said Bryant,
herewith annex the report in full, as appears upon the town Books of the reseating of said meeting House -
    At a town meeting held January 2d 1775 on
Article 2d Heard and accepted the report of the Committee chosen to reseat the new meeting House, then voted that the report of said committee seating the Meeting House
as has been now heard and accepted, be recorded on the Town Book -
The Report of the Committee in reseating the meeting House -

First seat below, men and their wives
Shadrach Hapgood    Walter Pollard
Israel Taylor Esq.         Richard Harris
Jonathan Farnsworth  Samuel Hunt
Third seat below
John Warner
John Sawyer
Hezekiah Whitney
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2
Henry Houghton
Nathan Warner
Eph Houghton
James Whitcomb
Nathaniel Farnsworth
Oliver Atherton
William Buttrick
Jonathan Rand
Joseph Sawyer
Isaac Gates
Thomas Willard
Benjamin Barnard
John Darby
WIDOWS IN THE SAME
Alice Whitney
Margaret Whitney
Mariah Houghton
Abigail Sampson
Experience Atherton
Abigail Willard
Second Seat below
Joseph Fairbank
Simon Whitney
Ebenezer Kingman
Phineas Willard
James Potter
Jonathan Puffer
John Safford
William Willard
Isaac Willard
Ebenezer Burgess
Tarbell Willard
Samuel Deeds
James Haskell
Simeon Turner
Jeremiah Laughton
William Sanderson
Eleazer Stearns
Peter Dudley
Josiah Wetherbee
Joseph Knight
Widows in the same
Jane Lawrence
Mercy Warner
Barbery Burt
Experience Keyes
Rebecah Davis
The fore seat, front Gallery
Jonathan Clark
Lemuel Haskell
Elijah Houghton
Samuel Haskell
Manasseh Sawyer
Joseph Wetherbee
William Burt
Jonas Whitney
Simeon Farmsworth
Aaron Whitney
Josiah Davis
Samuel Cooper
David Whitney
Ebenezer Warne
Asa Houghton
James Stone
George Corn
Mrs Blood
THE WIDOW
Mary Hartwell
FIFTH SEAT BELOW
Joseph Houghton
Elkanah Keyes
Jonathan Stone
Abner Whitcombe
John Crouch
David Stratton
James Robbins
Benjamin Willard
Jonathan Couch Jr 
Timothy Crouch
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Richard Whitney
Isaiah Whitney
Joseph Willard
Joseph Atherton
Richard Goldsmith
Josiah Haskell
Oliver Whitney
John Priest Jr
Caleb Sawyer
Widows in the same
Azcubah Farnsworth
Keziah Fairbank
Ruth Holden
Sybil Haskell
Fourth Seat below
John Sampson
Abel Farnsworth
Oliver Sawyer
Shadrach Hagood Jr
William Conant
Abel Davis
Samuel Meeds
Micah Stone
Enoch Huse
Jonathan Reed
Oliver Whitcombe
Joseph Blanchard
Jabez Keep
Jonathan Crouch
Benjamin Barnard Jr
David Crouch
James Burt
John Atherton
Fore seat in the side Gallery
Henry Brumfield Esq.
Estate of Jona' Simonds, dec'd
Jeremiah Priest
Steph Randall
Charles Taylor
Timothy Phelps
Aaron Davis
Ephram Davis
Jonathan Barnard
Joseph Knight Jr
Israel Whitney
Epham Barnard
James Perry
Phineas Taylor Jr.
Widows in the same 
Simeon Willard
Mary Hale
Thomas Willard Jr
Oliver Sanderson
Jonathan Russell
Zachariah Fletcher
Daniel Forbush
Thomas Wright
Nathaniel Merian
Sixth seat below
Mathias Farnsworth
Samuel Russell
Josiah Wetherbee Jr
Jotham Whitcomb
Samuel Finney
Gibson Willard
Samuel Worster
Abraham Johnson
Samuel Cooper Jr
Asa Haven
Josiah Kent dec'd
Jacob Davis
John Farnsworth
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William Park
Zacheus Stevens
Moses Richards
Phineas Warner
Elizabeth Knight
Hannah Davis
Elizabeth Davis
Anne Houghton
Side Gallery   Pews
Joel Stone
Abel Whitcombe
David Sampson
Phineas Sawyer
Silas Rand
Ambrose Hale
Samuel Farnsworth
Josiah Gates
Simon Cooper
George Conn Jr.
Jonathan Pollard
John Knight
James Whitcomb Jr
Hezekiah Willard Jr
Mindwell Wintworth

Second seat in the Front Gallery
Oliver Wetherbee
Isaiah Parker
Nicolas Patterson
John Meeds
Ward Safford
Joseph Sawyer Jr
Josiah Willard
Colman Sanderson
Isaac Holden
James Pollard
Jacob Whitney
Richard Whitney Jr
Widows in the same
Rebeca Sampson
Susannah Daby

Second Seat in the front Gallery
Abraham Willard
Zacchius Dudley
Elijah Willard
Oliver Meeds
Abijah Worster
Nathan Priest
Abijah Warner
Moses Hale
James Robins Jr
Benj'n Robbins
Lemuel Willard J
Willis Seecomb-

All that are above twenty one years old, and
otherwise seated, to set in the second seat in the side Gallery

Dated December 30, 1774 -
Josiah Whitney}
Joseph Atherton}
Simon Darby}

Committee for the Meeting House
Entered Phineas Fairbank Town Clerk
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I further depose and say, that upon
application for further evidence in relation to the residence marriage and service of Samuel Worster, I have searched, the Records of Marriages, Births & Deaths in this office, together with other records, and find the name of Samuel Worster occurring but one in addition, to that contained in my former certificate - viz 
In one of the classes for raising soldiers as reported and adopted February 19th 1781, and that I have not been enabled to find any evidence that there was more than one Samuel Worster residing in Harvard, capable of bearing arms in 1777 or at any other time during the period of the Revolutionary War, and that I know of none in this region who were engaged in said War, either as Officers or privates-
Silas W. Holman Town Clerk
Worcester S.S. -  June 22d 1854 Subscribed and Sworn to before me, and I certify that he is
Clerk of said Town of Harvard, and a credible witness-
Reuben Whitcomb Jr.
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, June 23d 1854
I Hereby Certify, That at the date of the
attestation hereto annexed Reuben Whitcomb Jr was a Justice of the peace for the County
of Worcester
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his 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.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Brief case of
Isabel Worcester dec'd
wid Sam'l
VT
Act 1836 -
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Brief in Isabel Worcester dec'd VT
Certificate of Court of Probate 10th May 1853}, shows that satisfactory evidence was adduced that Isabel widow of Sam'l died 16th June 1844, had when she died a pending claim to a pension under Act 4th July 1836. Left 2 children, Jonathan & William Worcester. Sam'l died in 1829. Jonathan appt' Adm. estate of Isabel.
Secretary of State Mass: (2d Feb: 1853) then the name of Sam'l Worcester is borne on a Roll of Capt. Josiah Sartell' Co which marched from Groton Ap'l 19, 1775, as Corp'l 16 days, travel included.- Also on rolls of 8 mos service in 1775.  Capt. John Davis' Co. Col. Whitcomb's Regt as private, from Howard from May 10. Name on return of Oct. 6.- Also on Army
books 15th Regt Col Bigelows, Capt Browns Co.
as private at Harvard from May 1. 1777 to May
11. 1779 - 22 mo 10 days when I. Barnett took
his place - Enlisted for 3 yrs.
Town Clk. Groton. shows he can find no record marriage.
Hannah Hazen (1st March 1853), says she was well acquainted with Sam'l who was reputed to have been a Mass Soldier in Rev army understood he was
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page 2.
then a resident of Groton, after his marriage he
for a while cont'd to live in Groton & afterwards in neighboring town of Harvard, Westford & Tyngsboro'
In last mentioned town he & Isabel lived as husband & wife nearly 60(?) years & till his death on or about 4th July 1829.  War Dept uncle & lived near each other from son after close of war till his death.  Informed Isabel died in 1844. Frequently heard Sam'l speak of his service. He was called out when war first began, afterwards in 8 mos: service & in 3 yes service, does not recollect date or names
of Officers. Never know of any other Saml 
Worster in the war from Groton or Harvard.
Lucy Worster (1st March 1853) aged 70 yrs says she is sister of Hannah from childhood lived in Groton & Tyngsboro: fully concur in her statements as to Sam'l removal & services.
In her youth lived in Sam'ls family & know they
then & to time of his death lived as husband &
wife & raised or several children - with one of
whom (Jonathan), understands Isabel at last
lived & died
Isabel Worcester (8th June 1843 - aged 91 yes before probate Court), declares she is widow of Saml. at commencement of war he resided at Groton
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& was in battle Lexington & Bunker Hill. served 
at different times & places, but from great age & consequent loss of memory, is unable to state the length of any of his terms of service, his officers, or places where he served - married Samuel at Worcester (by Rev'd Jos. Kidder, 28th June (she believes) 1770- married in her 19th year of age
Had 3 children at commencement of Revolution Sam'l Oliver & Isabel. Her husband Saml died some 13 or 14 yrs ago, but has no means of telling but from memory- remained a widow ever since.

Jonathan Worcester (8th June 1843) aged 67 yrs- says he is son of Sam'l dec'd & Isabel from earliest recollection they lived as man & wife till the summer of 1829 when Sam'l as (?) has every reason to believe died-- Isabel remained a widow since, came to reside with (?) in Aug 1836, frequently heard Sam'l speak of services of living in battles Concord,  Lexington &
Bunker Hill of being at White Plains portion
of services under La Fayette
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, June 23. 1854
I Hereby Certify, That at the date of the
attestation hereto annexed Bradford Russell
was a Justice of the power for the County of
Middlesex
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his 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.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Written sideways in left margin of document
Isabel Worcester of VT dec'd. widow of Samuel 
Suspended claim Act 4th July 1836 -

I John W. Parker Town Clerk of Groton in the
County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that upon application to me for the purpose I have examined the records of Marriages in this office for evidence of the marriage
of Samuel Worcester to Isabel Coburn which marriage is asserted to have been solemnized by the Rev Joseph Kidder of Dunstable NH in the month of June 1770 but find no record of such marriage. And I further certify that upon application to me for evidence that Samuel Worcester was a resident of said Groton and
that he took a part in the War of the Revolution from said Groton. I have carefully examined the Books Tax lists and files of Papers remaining in this office from June 1779 to the close of the Revolutionary War but without being able to find any evidence whatever
that Samuel Worster the husband of Isabel Worcester or any person by the name of Samuel Worcester was a resident of said Eaton and one of its State or continental Soldiers in the Army of the Revolution and that there is not to my knowledge a single surviving individual male or female who could have been
residents here in time of said war; whose testimony can be procured as proof of residence, or identity
John W Parker Town Clerk of Groton
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex Ss
21st 1854 Subscribed and sworn to before me and I certify that he is clerk of said Town and a creditable witness
Bradford Russell
Justice of the Peace
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I Samuel Tenney of Westford in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged upwards of seventy
nine years, do depose and say, that I became acquainted with Samuel Worcester, who was reputed to have been one of the Massachusetts Continental Soldiers in the
army of the Revolution, and of which, I have no doubt, from recollections of conversation had with him during his life time, and I was also acquainted with Isabel Worcester the wife said Samuel Worcester for about thirty years previous to the death of said Samuel Worcester, who at the time, was a neighbor of mine, residing within the bounds of the
adjoining town of Tyngsborough-- I owned land adjoining his-- He died as my belief is, about twenty four years ago lest summer. I attended his funeral and was the conductor
thereof, but am unable to state the precise time of his said death. He was buried in the North burying ground in said Westford, being one of the towns in which he had formerly
resided; and I distinctly recollect that it was in the summer, He left a widow by the name of Isabel Worcester, who continued to reside near me for some few years after her husbands death- she then went to reside with her son
Jonathan Worcester, who married a sister of mine, in the town of Windsor in the State of Vermont, where I am told she resided till her death, which took place in the year 1844.  At or about the time of the commencement of the Revolutionary war, as I have ever understood, the said Samuel
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and his wife were residents of the neighboring town of Groton and they subsequently resided in several other places, and lastly in Tyngsborough aforesaid till the time of his death as above stated.
Samuel Terry
Commonwealth of Massachusetts}
Middlesex County}  SS.
Subscribed and sworn to on this sixteenth day of November A.D. 1853
Before me
Charles Butterfield Justice of the Peace
I further certify that this deponent is a credible
witness
Charles Butterfield Just. Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, Nov. 17th 1853
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the
the time hereto annexed, Charles Butterfield was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex

in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his 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.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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I James Spaulding of Tyngsborough in the County of  Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged upward of sixty eight years do depose and say, that I was acquainted with Samuel Worcester and his wife, Isabel Worcester-- I lived near by them from my childhood, up to the time of the death of the said Samuel Worcester, which took place in the month of July 1829.  the time I am able to fix upon, by the record of the birth of one of my children, after the death of the said Samuel Worcester, my acquaintance continued a few
years with the said Isabel, widow of said Samuel Worcester, and I conveyed her, the said Isabel, to the town of Windsor in the State of Vermont to reside with her son, Jonathan
Worcester, who is a brother in law of mine. I further depose and say, that in conversation with him the said Samuel I have often heard him speak of his services in the Revolutionary war, that he was first engaged in the militia and afterwards in the three years service-- I was also acquainted with John Johnson one of the persons who was engaged in the three years service with said Samuel Worcester, and have often heard them converse together in relation to those services. said John Johnson died a short time previous to the death of said Samuel Worcester I further depose and say that I know of no person living who was engaged in the Revolutionary service of this country with said Samuel Worcester although I now reside on the farm where he died. And have lived in the neighborhood thereof from childhood, as above stated. And further
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this deponent would add that the said Samuel
Worcester and Isabel Worcester lived and cohabited together as man and wife during the period aforesaid,
James Spaulding
Commonwealth of Massachusetts}  SS.
County of Middlesex}
Subscribed and sworn to on the sixteenth day
day of November AD. 1853.
Before me
Charles Butterfield, Justice of the Peace

I further certify that that the deponent is a credible witness
Charles Butterfield Just Peace
Isabel Worcester Widow of  Samuel
of VT dec'd.  add'l proofs in this case
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Isaac Spalding Esq. Nashua
June 29 1843 -
John Bryant Esq Meriden N.H.
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Nashua June 29 1843
John Bryant Esq

 I have made diligent search, but do not find any record of the marriage of Samuel Worcester, & I venture to say there is no such record on our town Books.
No church records remain of Rev. Mr.  Kidder time, that can be found. None of any character that reach back to the year 1770 - It is possible you might obtain the evidence desired from the early church records in Hollis. Worcester, is a Hollis name, & that place was once part of Dunstable, & was called the "West Parish
Respectfully,
Isaac Spalding
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Isabel Worcester of VT dec'd
Widow of Samuel Suspended claim
Act 4th July 1836
Clerk of Nashua NH formerly
Dunstable (illegible) Certificate
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State of New Hampshire
Secretary's Office, Concord.
November 30, 1853
I hereby certify, That at the date of the
annexed attestation Aaron W. Sawyer was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hillsborough in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his 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 State, the date above
John L Hadley
Secretary of State.
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State of New Hampshire
In the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty six
An act to change the name of the town of Dunstable.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives in General Court convened
That the town of Dunstable in the County
of Hillsborough shall from and after the last
day of December in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and thirty six,
be called and known in Law by the name of
Nashua.
C. G. Atherton
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
James Clark,
President of the Senate
Approved December 8, 1836.
Isaac Hill,  Governor
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State of New Hampshire
Secretary of State's Office
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true copy of the original now in this office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the State this 5th day of October 1853.
John L. Hadley
Secretary of State
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City Clerks Office
Nashua N.H. Nov. 15. 1853
I Edward P. Emerson do hereby certify that the
town of Nashua, formerly Dunstable
to which the foregoing certificate of the Secretary of State has reference has of late become a City, that I have been appointed and now hold the office of City Clerk, that I have in
my case the ancient records of said Dunstable including the records of Marriages Births and Deaths, that upon application to me for the purpose. I have searched said records for evidence of the Marriage of Samuel Worcester of the neighboring town of Groton Mass to Isabel Coburn of Tyngsboro, Mass. stated to have been solemnized by the Rev Joseph Kidder of said Dunstable in the month of June 1770. I find that the said Joseph Kidder was a Clergyman of said Dunstable and that many marriages appear to have been solemnized by him from 1772 to 1804, but now of an earlier date were returned by him, and those which sum to have been returned by him and recorded at singular dates and I find no record of the Marriage of Samuel Worcester to Isabel Coburn
I further certify that the early records
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of said Dunstable are somewhat imperfect
that some part thereof an evidently missing
not only in the records of Marriage Births and
Deaths, but all other records
Edward P. Emerson City Clerk
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough SS. Novr 15. 1853
Subscribed and sworn to
Before me
Aaron W. Sawyer
Justice of the Peace
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Isabel Worcester
2d 16 June 1844
Jonathan Worcester
Wm Worcester
---
Jonathan Worcester
bound 1800 (?)
administrator
Hannah & Lucy Hazen
Saml, Tenney, Jas. Spaulding
Chas & Mary Ann Worcester
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Meriden NH  Dec 6 1853
Sir
As agent for Jonathan Worcester of West Windsor Vt, one of the surviving children of Isabel Worcester the widow of Samuel dec'd and a claimant as such child in her right, and also in the capacity of Administrator upon the Estate of said Isabel deceased, the subscriber would respectfully represent that your report to him the said agent under date of August 2 1853 has heretofore been submitted to the said claimant whose endeavour has been to comply with the reasonable suggestion
made and exactions contained in your said report in order to an allowance of the claim - His declaration as child and administrator
has been made and is herewith transmitted together with a certified copy of his appointment and bond. And as respects
the identity of the said Samuel Worcester the said Jonathan informs me that remembering many of the individuals known
to him to have been engaged with his father the said Samuel Worcester, both in the Massachusetts Militia and Continental service he has made application to the Secretary of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for evidence, that their names are borne on the same Rolls with that of the said Samuel and finds by the certificate of said Secretary that
they are, but that not one of them are to be found living - I have therefore in his behalf to pray your attention to the very strong circumstantial evidence contained in the papers now herewith sent and particularly to the testimony of James Spaulding who was well acquainted with Samuel Worcester up to
the time of his death and with John Johnson of the neighboring
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town of Worcester who was in the three years Continental service with said Samuel Worcester and in the same Company at is shown by the
certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts - said Spaulding says he has heard them talk together about the service in which they were engaged together-- I have also respectfully to pray your further attention to the deposition on file of Jonathan Worcester made in June 1843 wherein I believe it will be found that he then stated that he had heard her father say that a part of the Continental service he had rendered the country was under Gen. Lafayette and that he might have obtained a pension un
der the act of the 18th of March 1818 but for the amount of the property he then possessed. And as no record evidence of the marriage of said Isabel Worcester can be found, as appears
by the certificate of the City Clerk of Nashua formerly Dunstable N.H. and town Clerk of Tyngsboro NY herewith forwarded I have further to pray your attention upon a further consideration of this case to the original declaration of said Isabel Worcester on file wherein of mistake not, she stated that she was married in 1770 and had three children when the war began - also to the (?) testimony of on file of Hannah Hazen and Lucy Worcester which with the evidences now herewith forwarded, are all that the claimant has been
enabled to obtain in support of his claim as child and administrator as aforesaid, and which is respectfully submitted by
Your Obt Servt.
John Bryant of Meriden NH

L. P. Waldo Com Pensions
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Meriden NH. May 13 1853
Sir
The at first discouraging claim to a Pension of Mrs. Isabel Worcester the widow of Samuel Worcester, the prosecuting agency of which I consented to take in June 1843 and which
not long after I pretty much abandoned on account of my inability to obtain proof of her marriage & proof of her husbands service for which she claimed & but imperfectly described
at the time of making her declaration, but both of which I have of late by a renewed effort been so fortunate as apparently to establish-- And although it may be needless for me so to do, I would pray the attention of the Department upon a further consideration of the case, to the papers on file, to wit, the widows original declaration wherein I believe it will be found that she stated that she was married by Rev Joseph Kidder at
Dunstable in the State of New Hampshire in the month of June 1770, and the affidavit of her son Jonathan made at or about the time of her declaration - Also to the papers now herewith sent to wit the negative certificates of the Town Clerks of Nashua & Hollis. Also to the depositions of Hannah Hazen and Lucy Worcester nieces of the said Samuel Worcester, relative to the several places of residence of said Worcester his Revolutionary service & Marriage. Also the certificate of the Town Clerk of Harvard- And also to the application lately made by Jonathan Worcester to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for evidence of his fathers service and the subjoined certificate of the Hon E M Wright
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Secretary of said Commonwealth establishing one tour of 16 days of the said Samuel Worcester as a Corporal - One tour as a private in the 8 mos. service and also one other tour of 22 mos. & 10 days. And also the proof contained in the certificate of the Register of Probate for the District of Windsor Vt of the time of the death of said Isabel Worcester and
that she had a pending claim at the time of her death and that her son Jonathan Worcester has been duly appointed Administrator upon the Estate of his deceased mother ~
Very respectfully Your Obt. Serv
John Bryant

Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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Meriden NH April 17. 1854
Sir
I have now before me your report of Dec 15, 1853 in the case of Isabel Worcester
widow of Samuel of VT dec'd Jonathan Worcester Administrator, and also your
last report that of Feby 22 1854 in said case from which it is perceptable that in order to an admission of the claim further proof of the identity of Samuel Worcester and of his marriage to Isabel Coburn by the Rev Joseph
Ridder in 1770 as stated by said Widow in her declaration made on the 8th day of June 1843 in reference to which permit me to state as my honest belief that the claimant, Jonathan Worcester has been untiring in his efforts to obtain record evidence of said marriage but without success, but it affords me pleasure to say that he has of late obtained what I hope and trust, will prove satisfactory upon a further consideration of the case and which I shall herewith transmit and pray your attention
in connexion with a reexamination of papers which have heretofore been filed, or a part of them, to wit the affidavits of Hannah Hazen and Lucy Worcester. And in the first place would respectfully ask as reexamination of the original declaration of said Isabel Worcester now supposed to be on file wherein the stated, if I mistake not that she was married to Samuel Worcester on the 28th day of June 1770 when
in the 19th year of her age, and that she had three children at the time of the commencement of the Revolutionary War by the names of Samuel Oliver and Isabel. In support of which I would pray your attention
to the affidavits herewith sent, of James Spalding and Samuel Tenny Nos. 1 & 2 & particularly to that of the latter wherein he states that he was acquainted with Samuel & Isabel Worcester and with their sons Samuel
Oliver Jonathan & William for the space of thirty years previous to the
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death of said Samuel Senior. The said sons Samuel & Oliver were each older than myself and the said Jonathan & William were both younger-- with the said Jonathan (meaning the claimant) I was more especially acquainted
he married a sister of mine and his age was from two to three years younger than my own of my own age, or birth I have a family record
from which it appears that I was born Sept.,  AD 1773 - Jonathan Worcester stated in his declaration made on the 3d of January 1854 that he was then seventy seven years old. In reference to the marriage of the said Samuel & Isabel Worcester I have to pray your further attention to the certificate No 3 of the Town Clerk of Harvard, by which it is shown that a seat in the new meeting house was assigned to Samuel Worcester and wife in January 1775, so that they must have been married previous to the commencement of the War as always stated by said widow. It is also shown by said certificate that he was a resident of said Harvard in 1776. and that he was there paid an encouragement by Abraham Whitney of two pounds eight shillings to go into the service at
Cambridge for Eight months which sum the town voted to allow said Whitney at a meeting holden Dec. 30. 1779. As to the service rendered by said Samuel Worcester and the whole amount thereof, permitance
to ask your attention to paper No 4 being the certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts under date of March 31. 1854 now sent to be filed. And lastly as to the identity of said Samuel Worcester your special at is desire to the contents of paper No. 5 being the affidavit of Rebeca Huse who was a resident of Harvard in the time of the War and who states that she became acquainted with many of the persons who were engaged in said war from that and the neighboring towns and of the number of those engaged in the Massachusetts three years service as it was called, at her distinct recollection is was Jonas Davis Elnathan Derby Levi Farnsworth
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William Proctor and Samuel Worcester. That her father Eleazar Parker was also one of the Massachusetts three years men with whom she had heard the above named individual converse in relation to the service wherein they had been engaged together - that several of
lived at the time and for a while afterwards as neighbors to her father - that she recollects the house that Samuel Worcester who married a Coburn lived in side. To which is subjoined the
certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts that the names of the several persons by her mentioned are borne together on the Roll of Capt. Brown Company of Col Bigelow's Regt and that said Samuel Worcester served therein 22 mos. & 10 days-- I will only further remark that Samuel Worcester the husband of Isabel
was not a pensioner died in 1829 that he stated in his life time that he served under Lafayette and that he might have obtained
a Pension under the act of 1818 but for the amount of his property

Respectfully your Obt. Servt.
John Bryant Agent

P S Beredy what the claimant himself has done I have at his agent made an effort to find the private records of the late Rev. Joseph Kidder
but without success as is shown by the enclosed letter from the City Clerk of Nashua - formerly Dunstable
JB
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May
Meriden NH April 8 1854
The Hon L P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
Will please accept my thanks as agent for Jonathan Worcester a Vt claimant in the right of his mother Isabel Worcester decd. Act 4th July 1836 for his prompt attention and report in the case under date of May 1, 1854. And believing as I really do that the service for which the said Worcester claims, to have been actually rendered by his father Samuel Worcester the husband of Isabel Worcester
which it seems by said report has not as yet been satisfactorily established.  permit me respectfully to request your further attention to said case and to ask, as there is not to be found living a single actor who was in service with Samuel Worcester, whose testimony can be obtained in proof of identity of said Worcester if no further circumstantial evidence can be admissible? If not, the claimant Jonathan Wood who is an unfortunate but honest man will not like to be at further expense in pursuit of such evidence -But should it occur to you, that further circumstantial evidence may be of service to the claimant he will be pleased to have you suggest it to 

Your Obt. Serv
John Bryant of
Meriden NH
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E. P. Emerson
City Clerk of
Nashua in relation to the
all of Isabel Worcester dec'd.
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Nashua N.H. Feb. 17 1834
Dear Sir
Your communication of the 6th is at hand, and in reply would say that yours of the 29th of January last was received and in accordance with your desire a search was initiaited for the late Rev. Joseph Kidders private papers, but as yet no trace of them has been found -

Yours Truly -
E. P. Emerson
Wm B. Emerson
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2
Isabel Worcester Deceased
Certified Evidence of the of
appointment of Jonathan Worcester
as Administrator and the amount
of his Bond -
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State of Vermont}
District of Windsor ss.}
At a Probate Court held at Cavendish within
and for said district on the 29th day of March
AD. 1853. Present the Hon. Solomon F. Dutton, Judge, Jonathan Worcester of West Windsor, in said District, is appointed administrator of the Estate of Isabel Worcester, late of said West
Windsor, deceased intestate, who accept said house and give Bonds as the law directs. When Record. Attest, Henry Closson, Register
A true Copy of Record. Attest, Henry Closson Register

I, Henry Closson, Register of the Probate Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the Bond of Jonathan Worcester, administrator of Isabel Worcester, deceased, referred to in the above copy of Record, and now on file in my office is in the final sum of Five Hundred Dollars - that said Bond is in due form of law, duly executed by said Jonathan Worcester as principal and Ruben G. Taylor as his surety.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of said Court and subscribe my name at Wethersfield in said district this 4th day of October A.D. 1853.
Henry Closson, Register
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Isabel Worcester Widow of Samuel
Commissioner of Pensions report to J Bryant
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Pension Office,
September 21. 1843

Sir
The papers in the case of Isabel Worcester, Claiming a pension under the act of July 4th 1836, have been examined and placed upon file. The declaration does not set forth the services with requisite precision, nor does it give the names of the officers under whom they were performed. There is no proof of the date of the marriage which should be established by record evidence, public or private, or by documentary testimony shewing the relation of husband and wife between the parties, during, or prior to the service. A Copy of the act of 4th July 1836, with the regulations, is herewith enclosed for your guidance. Unless better sustained the claim
cannot be allowed
I am my respectfully,
Your obt. Servant
J L Edwards

John Bryant, Esq.
Meriden
New Hampshire
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Hollis NH
Dec 5       10
John Bryant  Agent
Meriden NH
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Town Clerk of Hollis negative certificate
in the case of Mrs. Isabel Worcester -
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Hollis December 14th 1843
upon application to me as town clerk
by Mr. John Bryant for to search our records for the marriage of Mrs. Isabel Worcester   I have searched our records and cannot find
a record of such a marriage nor a record of any marriage solemnized by Rev Joseph Kidder

To Mr. John Bryant
Reuben Baldwin Town Clerk
of Hollis
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No - 5
Case of Isabel Worcester of the dec'd
Suspended claim Act 4th July 1836.
Jonathan Worcester Administrator
Proof of Identity and service of Samuel
Worcester -
-
John Bryant agt.  Meriden NH
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I Rebecca Huse of Harvard, in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts depose and say that I am
now in the 84th year of my age and that I had been a resident of said Harvard a Town adjoining Groton Mass.  ever since I was five years old and through the whole period of the war of Revolutionary War, and that I became ┃
acquainted with many of the persons who were engaged in said war from this and the neighboring Towns and of the number of those engaged in the Massachusetts three years service as it was called was as my distinct recollection is Jonas Davis Elnathan Derby Levi Farnsworth William Prockter and Samuel Worcester. My farther Elezer Parker was also one of the said Massachusetts three years
men with whom I used to hear the above named individuals converse in relation to the service wherein they had been
engaged together, several of them lived at the time and for a while afterwards as neighbors to my further And I do yet well recollect where the said Worcester lived whose wife as I have some told was a Coburn and who as I have
also been told removed after the close of his Revolutionary services to the neighboring Town of Westford, distance, about twelve
miles from this. As to the identity of the above named persons who were engaged in the service with my further the said Elezer Parker. I feel confident of being correct.. I further depose and say that my Father the said Elezer
Parker who was a pensioner at the time, died in the State of MA about fifteen years ago
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And I do further and lastly testify and say that
I do not know that a single one of the other actors in service with him are living and indeed know of no one living in this or any of the neighboring towns who were actors and soldiers in the Massachusetts & continental service
                             her
                 Rebecca X  Huse
                             mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
? Ss
Sworn to and subscribed to this 4th day of April AD 1854
Before me
Emory Barnard Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the affiant has long been
personally known to me that she is a person of remarkable mind  and may and a credible witness
Emory Barnard Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, April 12th 1854
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the
annexed attestation Emery Barnard was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his 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.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Page 130

The names of John Davis
Elnathan Darby
Levi Farnsworth
William Proctor
Eleazer Parker Enlisted
April 14. 1777 from Howard in Capt. Brown's
Comp. Col. Bigelow's Regt. They all enlisted for
years Except William Proctor who enlisted
during the war. Samuel Worster entitled
May 1, 1777. and served in same Comp same
Regt. 22 mos. 10 days where Samuel Barrett
took his place and completed the enlistment.
Both Worster and Barrett were form Harvard.

I certify the above to be a true as appears in
the Continental Army Books.
Secretary's Office, Boston
April 12, 1854
E M Wright
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Issabel Worcester of VT dec'd
suspended claim Act 4th 36
copies of certificate on file
Page 132

Copy
"Town Clerks Office June 22, 1854
J. Silas W. Holman Town Clerk of Howard in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that on or about the 3d day of April last I gave to John By
ant, Esq of Meriden N.H. a certificate of the evidence that appeared upon the Records in said Town of Harvard, going to show that Sam-
Worcester performed service in the War of the Revolution and having been shown, by said Bryant, the report of the Commissioner
on Pensions, in which it would seem that there might have been an error in the construction placed upon that portion of said certificate
in reference to the reseating of the new meeting house in said Harvard. I therefore by the request of said Bryant, herewith annex the report in full as appears upon the Books of reseating said meeting house -
At a town meeting held January 2d 1775, on Article 2.  Heard and accepted the report of the Committee chosen to resent the new meeting
house-- then voted that the report of said Committee seating the meetinghouse
as has been now heard and accepted be recorded on the Town Book.
The Report of the Committee in reseating the meetinghouse

First seat below, men and their wives
Shadrack Hapgood       Walter Pollard
Israel Taylor Esq             Richard Harris
Jonathan Farnsworth     Samuel Hunt
Third seat below
John Warner
John Sawyer
Hezekiah Whitney
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Henry Houghton
Nathan Warner
Ephram Houghton
James Whitcomb
Nathaniel Farnsworth
Oliver Atherton
William Butrick
Jonathan Rand
Joseph Sawyer
Isaac Gates

Thomas Willard
Benjamin Barnard
John Darby
Widows in the same
Alice Whitney
Margaret Whitney
Mariah Houghton
Abigail Sampson
Experience Atherton
Abigail Willard
Second Seat below;
Joseph Fairbank
Simon Turner
Simon Whitney
Jeremiah Laughton
Ebenezer Kingman
William Saunderson
Phineas Willard
Eleazer Stearns
Jabez Potter
Peter Dudley
Jonathan Puffer
Josiah Wetherbee
John Safford
Joseph Knight
William Willard
Isaac Willard
Ebenezer Burgess
Samuel Meeds
Widows in the same
Jane Lawrence
Mercy Warner
Tarbell Willard
Barbery Burt
James Haskell
Experience Keyes
Rebecah Davis
The fore seal front Gallery
Jonathan Clark
Elijah Houghton
Lemuel Haskell
Samuel Haskell
Second Seal below.
Manasseh Sawyer
Joseph Wetherbee
William Burt
Jonas Whitney
Simeon Farnsworth
Aaron Whitney
Josiah Davis
Samuel Cooper
David Whitney
Ebenezer Warner
Asa Houghton
James Stone
George Conn
Mrs. Blood
The Widow
Mary Hartwell
Fifth seat below
Joseph Houghton
Elkanah Keys
Jonathan Stone
Abner Whitcomb
John Church
David Stratton
James Robbins
Benjamin Willard
Jonathan Crouch Jr
Timothy Crouch
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Richard Whitney
Isaiah Whitney
Joseph Willard
Joseph Atherton
Richard Goldsmith
Josiah Haskell
Oliver Whitney
John Priest Jr
Caleb Sawyer
Widows in the same
Azubah Farnsworth
Keziah Fairbank
Ruth Holden
Sybil Haskell
Thomas Willard Jr
Oliver Sanderson
Jonathan Russell
Zachariah Flether
Daniel Forbush
Thomas Wright
Nathaniel Meriam

Fourth Seat below
John Sampson
Abel Farnsworth
Jonathan Read
Oliver Whitcomb
Oliver Sawyer
Shadrack Hagood Jr
William Conant
Joseph Blanchard
Jabez Keep
Abel Davis
Jonathan Crouch
Samuel Meeds Jr
Micah Stone
Benjamin Barnard Jr.
David Crouch
Enoch Huse
James Burt
John Atherton
Fore Seat in the side Gallery
Henry Brumfield Esq 
Estate of Jona Simonds dec'd
Jeremiah Priest
Steph Randall
Charles Taylor
Aaron Davis
Timothy Phelps
Ephm Davis
Elijah Whitney
Jonathan Barnard
Joseph Knight Jr
Eph Barnard
Israel Whitney
James Perry
Phineas Taylor Jr
Simon Willard
Widows in the same
Mary Hall
Sixth Seat below
Mathias Farnsworth
Samuel Russell
Josiah Wetherbee Jr.
Jotham Whitcomb
Samuel Finney
Gibson Willard
Samuel Worster
Abraham Johnson
Samuel Cooper Jr.
Asa Haven
on the Estate of Josiah Kent dec'd
Jacob Davis
John Farnsworth
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William Park
Zacheus Stevens
Elizabeth Knight
Moses Richards
Hannah Davis
Phineas Warner
Elizabeth Davis
Anne Houghton
Side Gallery Pews
Joel Stone
Abel Whitcombe
Oliver Wetherbee
David Sampson
Josiah Parker
Phineas Sawyer
Nicolas Patterson
Silas Rand
John Meeds
Ambrose Hale
Ward Safford
Lemuel Farnsworth
Joseph Sawyer Jr
Josiah Gates
Josiah Willard
Simon Cooper
Colman Sanderson
George Conn Jr.
Isaac Holden
Jonathan Pollard
James Pollard
John Knight
Jacob Whitney
James Whitcomb Jr.
Richard Whitney Jr
Hezekiah Willard Jr.
Mindwell Wintworth 
Widows in the same
Rebeca Sampson
Susannah Darby
Second Seat in the front Gallery-
Abraham Willard
Zacheus Dudley
Elijah Willard
Oliver Meeds
Abijah Worster
Nathan Priest
Abijah Warner
Moses Hale
James Robins Jr.
Benja Robbins
Lemuel Willard Jr.
Willis Seecomb.
All that are above twenty one years old and not otherwise seated, to sit in the second seat in the side Gallery
Dated December 30, 1774
Josiah Whitney}
Joseph Atherton}
Simon Darby}
Committee for seating the Meeting House
Entered Phineas Fairbank, Town Clerk
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I further depose and say that upon application for further evidence in relation to the residence, marriage and services of Samuel Worster, I have searched the Records of Marriages, Births & Deaths in this office, together with other records, and find the name of Samuel Worster occurring but once in addition to that contained in my former certificate, viz. In one of the classes for raising soldiers as reported and adopted February
19th 1781, and that I have not been enabled to find any evidence that there was more than one Samuel Worster residing in Harvard, capable of bearing arms in 1777 or at any
other time during the period of the Revolutionary War, and that I know of none in this region who were engaged in said War either as officers or privates-

Silas W. Holman, Town Clerk.
Worcester Ss. June 22, 1854
Subscribed and sworn to before me, and I certify that he is Clerk of said town of Harvard and a credible witness
Reuben Whitcomb Jr Justice of the Peace.
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(Copy) " Town Clerks Office Howard Massachusetts
"I Silas W. Holman Town Clerk of Howard in the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that on or about the 22d of June 1854 I gave my certificate and affidavit of which the foregoing is believed to be a copy to be used as was represented to me in support of the then pending claim of Isabel Worcester dec'd widow of Samuel Worcester, to a Pension for the Massachusetts Continental service of
her husband Samuel Worcester - That the letter of the Hon. L P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions to John Bryant Esq of Meriden NH under date of Nov. 13, 1854, has been shown me, an extract from which towards the close thereof I find to read as follows,
  "The question is simply the identity of the   resident of Harvard named Samuel
Worcester who in 1775 was reseated in the new meeting house with the husband of
Isabel Worcester, if her husband was the party who was doubtless the soldier of Bigelow's Regiment it can readily be shown by direct proof."
That upon application to me for such direct proof I have to depose and say in reply that it is not in my power to furnish it by the testimony of witnesses for the reason that I know not of a single individual living in
this town or elsewhere whose name is borne upon said list of persons to whom seats were assigned by the "Committee" as per their report, and that I have no means whatever of furnishing the contemplated direct proof in the case.
Silas W. Holman Town Clerk."
Worcester ss. - Subscribed and sworn to before me this fourth day of December 1854
E.A. Holman Justice of the Peace
I Reuben Whitcomb Jr. former Town Clerk of Harvard aforesaid for the space of six years, do hereby certify that I have been a resident of
said Harvard for upwards of fifty years last past and that I have examined the list of persons to whom seats were assigned in the new
Meetinghouse by the Committee, some few of whom have lived till within the last fifty years, but not one of whom to my knowledge now lives-
Reuben Whitcomb Jr.
Worcester, ss.~
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th
day of December AD 1854
E.A. Holman Justice of the Peace"
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3
Isabel Worcester of VT dec'd
Town Clerk of Tyngsboro MA
negative certificate
Marriage and death of
Samuel Worcester
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I Willard B. Cummings Town Clerk of Tyngsborough in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Do hereby certify that upon application for record evidence of the marriage of
Samuel Worcester of Groton in this State to Isabel Coburn of this town. Tyngsborough and also for record evidence of the time of the death of Samuel Worcester late of this town, the husband of Isabel Worcester.  I have
Searched the records in my possession but without being able to find a record of Either
Town Clerks office}
Tyngsboro Mass Nov 16th 18533} 
Willard B. Cummings
Clerk of Tyngsborough
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                             (Copy)
"Pension Office
December 15th 1853.

Sir.
I have examined the case of Isabel Worcester deceased widow of Samuel of Vermont, Act July 4th 1836 in connection with the additional evidence filed by you, and have to inform you the claim is not yet made out in conformity with our regulations - The facts shown by the Secretary of Massachusetts are certain by circumstances in its favor but they are not by any means conclusive. I must therefore, insist that her husband must be identified with the service performed by a man of his name by the testimony of those who know that he rendered it. I there no family record of the marriage of births of children? If not the date of marriage must be shown by the testimony of those who can show by collateral circumstances
how they are enabled to fix the time
I am respectfully
Your Obt. Svt.
L.P. Waldo
Commissioner"
John Bryant Esq
Meriden N.H."
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss.
On this 31st day of January, A.D. 1854, before
the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace within
and for the county of Windsor aforesaid, personally appeared Jonathan Worcester, a resident of West Windsor in
the county of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged seventy seven
years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make
the following supplementary Declaration. That the original
letter of the Commissioner of Pensions, of which the foregoing is a
copy, has been shown him; that he is a child of the Samuel and Isabel 
Worcester therein referred to, and also the claimant as [illegible]
child, and administrator of the estate and rights of his late
mother, the said Isabel. That as respects the exaction contained
in said letter, which is expressed as follows. "I must therefore
insist that her husband must be identified with the service
performed by a man of his name, by the testimony of those
who know that he rendered it," he has to say, that subsequently to
making his Declaration before the Court of Probate, on the 4th day
of October, 1853, wherein he stated, what then occurred to
him as to the identity of his father, the said Samuel, he caused
inquiries to be made in Groton, Harvard, Westford and Tyngsboro
in the State of Massachusetts, towns wherein, as his belief is, his parents, the said Samuel and Isabel formerly resided, but
without being able to obtain any direct evidence, additional to the
testimony of Samuel Tenney of Westford and James Spalding of
Tyngsboro, now on file in the case, in relation to the identity
of the said Samuel; that he therefore prays, that further
reference may be had to the several proofs on file, and particularly
to the testimony of Hannah Hazen and the said James
Spaulding, relative to the services of his father, the said Samuel
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Worcester; also to his own Declaration aforesaid , of October 4th 1853, or that part thereof naming several individuals who were engaged in the same service with his father, and by whom the identity of his said father might be established, if said individuals were now living, to wit, in the three years service, John Johnson Job Priest, John Parker, Samuel Farnsworth, Jonas Davis and Abel Bathrick, no one of whom are, as he believes, now living.
That to the inquiry contained in said letter, "is there no family record of the marriage or births of children"? the declarant replies, that there are no family Record of the said marriage or births within his knowledge, but that his unwavering belief still is, as it ever has been, that his parents, the said Samuel and Isabel were married by the Reverend Joseph Kidder, then of Dunstable, now Nashua, N.H., on the 28th day of June, A. D. 1770; the reason of such is, that his said father and mother uniformly so stated in their lifetime, and that his mother, the said Isabel so stated in a Declaration of hers, made upon oath, and now supposed to be on file in the Pension Office; wherein she also stated, that she had three children at the time of the commencement of the Revolutionary Warm whose names were, Samuel Worcester, Oliver Worcester and Isabel Worcester; That he is himself a child of the said Samuel and Isabel Worcester, and that he was born on the 4th day of May, A.D. 1776. And lastly he as confidently believes that the sd. Samuel Worcester rendered the service for the claim as asserted in his Declaration aforesaid, as he believes in his own existence; and further the Declarant saith not. 
Jonathan Worcester his mark
Witness
Seymour Chillson
Charles Worcester
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The within and foregoing Amended or Supplementary Declaration of Jonathan Worcester was subscribed and sworn to on the day and year therein first stated. 
Before me, Thomas F. Hammond Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT, 
Windsor County, ss
I, NORMAN WILLIAMS, Clerk of the County Court, of the County of Windsor, in the
State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
Thomas F. Hammond
was, at the date of the paper writing to which this is attached and still is, a
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, in and for said County, duly qualified to administer
oaths and take the acknowledgment of deeds, and that his signature
foregoing
is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 2d day of February A. D. 1854.
Norman Williams Clerk
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Isabel Worcester of Vermont dec'd
Jon'an Worcester Supplementary
Declaration made Jany 31. 1854
Cole
John Bryant of Meriden VT
agent
Present
Page 146

Isabel Worcester of VT dec'd widow of Samuel Worcester. Act 4th July 1836
Certified proof of each of their deaths and that Jonathan Worcester is Administrator
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State of Vermont
District of Windsor ss.
At a Probate Court holden
at Windsor within and for said District before the
Hon. Salmon F. Dutton Judge of said Court on
the 10th day of May 1853, satisfactory evidence was
adduced to said Court that Isabel Worcester who was
the widow of Samuel Worcester a Massachusetts soldier
in the Army of the Revolution died on the 16th
day of June A.D. 1844. and that she had at the time
of her death a finding claim to a Pension under the
act of the 4th of July 1836 and that she made her
declaration on or about the 8th day of June 1843 -
That she left two and but two children by the names
of Jonathan Worcester and William Worcester. That her
husband the said Samuel Worcester for whose services
she claimed an allowance was at the time of the
commencement of the war in which he took part was a
resident of Groton a town adjoining Harvard Massachusetts- That he first engaged for and from said
town of Groton and that he subsequently several times
engaged in the country's service from and for said town of
Harvard or for some person or persons belonging to
said Harvard - That the said Samuel Worcester after
the close of the War removed either from said town of
Harvard or Groton to the neighboring town of Tyngsborough
where he died in the year 1829.
The evidence to the above points was satisfactory to the Court
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I further certify that the Jonathan Worcester above named as one of the children of the said Isabel Worcester has of late been duly appointed Administrator upon the estate of the said Isabel Worcester deceased.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 10th day of May AD 1853.
Henry Closson Register
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No 3
Case of Isabel Worcester of Vt dec'd
suspended claim [illegible] 4th July 1836
Jonathan Worcester Administrator
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Town Clerks office Harvard Mass'tts April 3d, 1854
I Silas W Holman, Town Clerk of Harvard in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachsetts do hereby certify that upon application to me for evidence that Samuel Worster was a resident of said Harvard in the time of the Revolutionary War, and that at the same time he was a married man.
I have searched the Town Record and found the following evidence of the above facts.
That at a meeting of said town holden on the second day January 1775 the following vote was passed by said meeting. 
"Article 2d Heard and accepted the report of the Committee chosen to reseat the new meeting house. Then voted that the report of said committee seating the Meeting House, as has been now heard and accepted be recorded on the Town Books." That I find under said report as recorded the following captions. 
"First seat below, men and their wifes" - under which are various names.
"Sixth seat below" - under which are many names and of the number is that of Samuel Worster.
I also find upon a Tax list for 1776 the name of Samuel Worster written and erased.
As evidence that the said Samuel Worster was engaged in the eight months service, I find that at a meeting of said town holden on
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the 30th day of December 1779 it was "voted that Mr Oliver Atherton be allowed for what he gave to Mr Reuben
Dodge to encourage him to go into the yearly continental
service, five pounds - Likewise voted that Mr Thadeus
Pollard be allowed for what he gave to a soldier for the
continental service. three pounds - also voted
that Mr Abraham Whitney be allowed for what he gave
Mr Samuel Worster to encourage him to go into the
service at Cambridge eight months, two pounds, eight shillings."
That in reference to the
Continental service of the said Samuel Worster, asserted to have been subsequently rendered by him under
Capt Brown of Col Bigelow's Regiment from 1777
to March 1779 I find nothing in the Books and
files of this office-
Silas W. Holman, Town Clerk of Harvard
April 3 1854 Subscribed and sworn to before me, & I certify
that he is Clerk of said Town and a credible witness.
Reuben Whitcomb Jr. Justice of the Peace.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, April 12th 1854
I hereby certify, that at the date of the annexed attestation Reuben Whitcomb was was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his 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. 
E. M. Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Meriden  VT Feb. 1. 1855
Sir
Please permit Arad Joy Esq to examine the
papers in the suspended case under my agency
of Isabel Worcester of VT decd' widow of Samuel
Worcester under the act of the 4th of July 1836 and
to file additional papers and also to confer with
you in my behalf in relation to the admission of
said claim, now pending in the name of Jonathan
Worcester a child and the administrator of his
mother the said Isabel Worcester deceased
and oblige.
Your Obt Serv't
John Bryant
Hon L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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Issabel Worcester of VT dec'd
Suspended claim Act 4th July 1836
Copy Secy State of Massachusetts
certificate of the service of
Samuel Worcester
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(Copy.)
"Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston
March 31st 1854
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 Samuel
Worcester is borne on "Provincial Regt of Footman of the Militia
commanded by Col. Asa Whitcomb 4th Company whereof Isaac Gates
is Capt, who marched from Harvard to Cambridge on the alarm of April
19, 1775  = 8 days and who enlisted into the American Army."
Also on return of Capt Jonathan Davis Comp. Col. Whitcombs Regt made Oct 6, 1775, from Harvard"
There does not appear but one man on the lost Roll and
he died August 26 it being previous to the date of the return. The
certificate of Feby. 22, 1853 represents Samuel Wooster to have enlisted
May 10. The record shows no such thing, I have given the words
of the record above-
Also the name of Samuel Worster is born on Continental Army Books Capt. Brown's Comp Col Bigelow's Regt from May
1. 1777 to March 11.1779, 22 Mos 10 days as private from Harvard
Samuel Barret, then took his place.
Samuel Barret served in Capt Brown's Comp. Col. Bigelows
Regt from March 11. 1779 to Dec 31, 1779, 9 mo 20 days
Also in Col Camp Col Bigelow's Regt from Jany 1, 1780 to May 1st 1780 4 Mos making the 36 Mos for which time Samuel
Worcester enlisted Samuel Barret was also from Harvard
(over)
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And I further certify that before search made for evidence of said facts the
application thereto annexed was filed in this Office in the form in which the same
now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and
that said application and the certificate above set forth contain all the facts and
circumstances within my knowledge pertaining to the case
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth the date above written
E. M. Wright, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Isabel Worcester dec'd
Town Clerk of Harvard certificate
Page 158

I Reuben Whitcomb Jr Town Clerk of Harvard a town
adjoining Groton in the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that upon application to me
for evidence of the services rendered by individuals for said town of
Harvard in the Army of the Revolution, I have searched
the Book and files of papers that I hold as Town Clerk without
being able to find any Revolutionary Rolls but have found
that that I regard as evidence that much service was required
of & furnished by said town which is contained in the records
and doings of said town in Revolutionary times and that many soldiers were hired to engage in the Revolutionary service
but their names and places of residence, except in two or three
instances, are not given.-- That at a meeting of said town which
appears to have been held on the 15th day of December 1777 the
following appears.
"Harvard December 15th 1777. the Town being met by adjournment
call upon the committee appointed to pay out Town Bounty
to such soldiers as should engage in the continental service for
the term of three years or during the war.-"
"Report as follows"
"That said Committee have as above Borrowed and paid the
sum of Eleven Hundred & seventy pounds Lawful money as a
Bounty allowed by said Town towards the hiring thirty nine
men for said service as above at £ 30 -0 -0 per man
"Therefore
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"Therefore pray that the Town would immediately assess & collect
without delay said sum with the interest and pay it into the
hands of said Committee in order to enable them to discharge
the above sums borrowed & disbursed by them on said account."
"Joseph Atherton
Silas Parkhurst
Zacheus Stevens"
Committee"
That at a meeting which appears to have been held March
9th 1777 in the allowance of accounts, was one in favor of Samuel
Hills for going to Boston to hire continental soldiers for which
he was allowed £ 1 -16 -0
"Samuel Hills account for going to Boston to hire Continental Soldiers
£ 1 -16 -0"
That I have not been enabled to find on the files in this
office receipts for pay of a single officer or soldier which took
part in the service of said town of Harvard.
I further certify that I have been a resident in said
Town for the space of fifty years, & that I do not know of
a person living within the limits of said town that did
service in the Revolution.
Reuben Whitcomb Jr.
Worcester ss. March 31. 1853. Subscribed & sworn to this day
Before me
E A Holman Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston. April 6 1853
-
I hereby Certify, That at the date of
the annexed attestation E.A. Holman
was a Justice of the Peace
the County of Worcester in
the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted;
and that to his 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.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Meriden N.H. Dec 28 1855.
Sir,
Permit me for the first time to address you as the successor of
the Hon. Mr Waldo as Commissioner of Pensions and respectfully to ask
your attention to and a reexamination of the papers on file in the
Pension Office in a certain case, to wit, that of Isabel Worcester ofillegible]
dec'd, the widow of Samuel who was a Massachusetts soldier in the
Army of the Revolution, first an 8 Mos and afterwards a continental
three years man as shown by the Certificate of the Secretary
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on file under date of March
31, 1854 a copy of which I herewith enclose-- This case has been long
pending under my agency and is still so pending-- Jonathan
Worcester, a child of said Isabel being claimant in the capacity of
Administrator, see his declaration made on the 4th of October 1853 on file -
The only remaining difficulty in this case is the establishing identity
by "direct proof" as is shown by the Commissioners last letter to me
under date of November 13, 1854 referring to the assignment of a seat
to the said Samuel Worcester in the new meeting house in Harvard
as appears by the certificate on file of Silas W. Holman Esq Town
Clerk of Harvard under date of June 22, 1854 a copy of which is enclosed for your perusal together with the copy of a subsequent certificate
of said Town Clerk having reference to said letter and the subjoined
certificate of Reuben Whitcomb Jr Esq 50 years a resident of
Harvard, from which it appears that the suggested "direct proof", of the
Commissioner cannot readily nor possibly be shown-- Having heretofore
come to the conclusion from the proofs obtained and filed, many of which
are very strong if not "direct", that this is a most just and rightious claim
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I feel an unwillingness to abandon without further trial under the new
Commissioner. I have therefore respectfully to refer to some of the proofs on
file and to pray your attention to them presuming that you will readily do
so, and presuming also that you may not in all if in any case feel bound by
the decisions that have been made by your predecessor without a careful examination of some of the essential proofs of which there are
many in this case and the strongest circumstantial evidences in support
of the claim that I have ever known in a twenty years experience as an agent for the prosecution of claims. The papers in this case are numerous
and I need refer to but a few of them and apart from mere recollection not
having preserved copies of all. And in the first place I have been influenced
by the declarations proved to have been made by Samuel Worcester the husband of the claimant Isabel "that he was during a portion of the time of
his services under the command of Gen Lafayette and that after the passing of the act of the 18th March 1818 he could have had a pension under that
act but for the amount of property he then possessed". It will be recollected
that he died before the passage of the Act of June 7, 1832, to wit in 1829. And I now
have to pray your attention to the deposition on file of James Spalding who states conversations with Samuel Worcester in relation to his Revolutionary service and that
he heard Worcester & John Johnson who had served with him talk about their
continental services. Also to the deposition supposed to be on file of Mrs Rebecca House who states that she was acquainted with many of the persons who were
engaged in the War of the Revolution from Harvard and the neighboring towns
giving the names of several of them to wit the names of Jonas Davis, Elnathan
Darby, Levi Farnsworth, Wm Proctor, Samuel Worcester and her father
Eleazar Parker, all of whose names are found on the Roll together as shown
by the certificate of the Secy of Massachusetts dated April 12, 1854 - Mrs House
if I mistake not states that she knew where Samuel Worcester whose wife was a
Coburn lived - Also to the depositions on file of Jonth Worcester and Amos
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P. Cummings dated July 12 1854 - Also to the deposition subsequently taken and
filed of Amos P. Cummings a copy of which is herewith sent showing that his uncle
Samuel Worcester was absent in service in 1777 "in the month of October". Gen
Lafayette was then in command-- And now lastly I have to pray your attention
to what I regard as a most important piece of evidence in the case, that is the affidavit of John F Bannister filed in the Pension Office in Nov. 1854 from which you will
perceive that his Grandfather the said Samuel Worcester previous to his death lived in
his fathers family-- That during such residence he frequently heard him speak of
his Revolutionary service and that at a certain time he saw in his possession his honorable discharge and recollects that in the main it was a printed paper. Now if Bannister
is a credible man and I know not but that he is, never having but once seen him, will
not his, in connection with the other evidence on file, be sufficient to satisfy you that he
rendered the service shown by the Secy. State Certificate aforesaid for which Jonathan Worcester
as Administrator claims. And I have now only further to remark that strong circumstantial evidence has of late been discovered and is now herewith enclosed to be filed, to wit: the affidavit of
Gen Edward Wyman relative to a printed discharge signed by Col. Tim: Bigelow which
seems to establish the correctness of the statement of Bannister that his Grandfather Samuel
Worcester's discharge was in the main a printed one. And now in conclusion allow me in
reference to said discharge to remark that the proof as I believe of the existence of a paper
say a Note of hand and loss of same would enable a party to recover before a Court in [illegible]
and I cannot but flatter myself that this case will be favourably considered upon a further consideration-- praying if consistent, that the Commissioner look at the papers in this
case, and if not satisfied as to the credibility of John F. Bannister as certified by the magistrate, who I suppose to be still living I pray him to suggest it and also to suggest what further
attainable evidence if any seems to be required in order to an admission of the claim.
Very respectfully your Obt Servt
John Bryant
Hon Josiah Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
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Isabel Worcester dec' Widow of Samuel [illegible] certified proof of her death
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State of Vermont
District of Windsor, ss.
At a Probate Court holden at Weathersfield
in said District on the 4th day of October, A.D.
1853, satisfactory evidence was adduced to said Court, that
Isabel Worcester the widow of Samuel Worcester, died at Windsor, now West Windsor, in said District, in the year, 1844, on
the sixteenth day of June, that she had, at the time of her death, a pending claim to a pension under the act of July 4th 1836; that she left two children only whose names
are William Worcester and Jonathan Worcester; that the said Jonathan Worcester is a claimant to a pension in the right of his Mother, the said Isabel Worcester
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
the seal of said Court, and subscribed my
name at Weathersfield in said District
this 4th day of October A.D. 1853
Henry Closson, Register