Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21940, for Joseph Peterson, Massachusetts
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Service                                                         Number
Mass                     Peterson, Joseph            W. 21940.
                                             Rebecca
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Plymouth Co.  I Jacob H Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Seth Sprague Jun. Esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the signatures to the annexed affidavits purporting to be signed by him are his true & genuine signatures

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this seventh day of December 1836.

Jacob H Loud 

[seal attached]
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821.  3. Sec.
Rebecca Peterson
wid of
Joseph Peterson
Mass.
Cap Bradfords [illegible]
died 1777

Allow $80 per ann 
No deduction certified
in the name of Daniel
Peterson Guardian to sd Rebecca.
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I Jacob H Loud Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original application of Daniel Peterson Guardian of Rebecca Peterson an insane person for a pension for said Rebecca.

In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this seventh Day of December 1836

Jacob H. Loud
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V. L. M.
Rev. War Section.

January 7, 1913.

Mr. George Ernest Bowman,
63 Mount Vernon Street,
Boston, Mass.

Sir:

In reply to your letter dated the 1" and received the 2" instant, you are advised that from the papers in the claim W. File No. 21,940. Rev. War, it appears that Joseph Peterson ["w" partially erased] was born at Duxbury, date not stated, and enlisted there in the Spring of 1775, and served as a Private in Captain Samuel Bradford's company, Colonel Cotton's Mass regiment, eight months.

In 1776, he served in the same company, the regiment then commanded by Colonel John Bailey; one year. He continued in ["the" crossed out and "said" written above] service in 1777, in Captain Joseph Wadsworth's company, Colonel Gamalial Bradford's Mass regiment, until his death caused by dysentery in the Fall of 1777.

He married April 4. 1773, Rebecca Delano.  She, an insane person, was allowed pension on an application executed December 5, 1836, by Daniel Peterson her Guardian. She died July 17, 1841

There is no data on file as to family.

Very respectfully,
J L Davenport
Commissioner.

OK on Agency Book
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 21.940
Rebecca Peterson
widow of
Joseph Peterson
Pri Rev War

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Index: Vol M, Page 124

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1913 [illegible] Hist. to George E. Bowman [illegible] L. Mass

1939 - [illegible] 6 Hist to Warren W. Philbrick [illegible]
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In testimony that the within is a true Copy from the Probate Records of Plymouth County I Jacob H Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County at Plymouth this seventh Day of December 1836.

J. H Loud
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

PLYMOUTH SS.

I JACOB H. LOUD, Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth within said Commonwealth, do hereby certify that at a Probate Court holden at Plymouth in and for said County, on the first Monday of December
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six Daniel Peterson of Duxbury in said County Yeoman was duly appointed to be Guardian of Rebecca Peterson
of said Duxbury who has been adjudged to be an insane person and took upon himself that trust by giving bond as the law directs, and
still continues in the exercise of said trust.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office, this Seventh day of December in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty six
Jacob H. Loud
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Probate Office
Plymouth Mass

Dec 8, 1836

Sir

I enclose the pension applications of Elizabeth French & Rebecca Peterson.  The Certificates may be sent to me

Yours &c
J H Loud

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Director of Pensions
Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.

206 Ott Road
Columbia, S. C.
April 15, 1939

Dear Sir:

A recent communication from the War Department has refered [referred] me to your office in connection with the service record, which they are unable to find in their records, of one Joseph Peterson.

It is my understanding that he was a member of a Massachusetts regiment and served with Washington's army at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War.  He was born in Duxbury, Mass 1753/4 Married Dec 3, 1773 Rebecca Delano and died in 1776

I will be most grateful for any information you can supply concerning the service record of the above mentioned.  The data is for family Genealogical records.  Joseph Peterson was my grt, grt, grt grandfather.

Yours truly
Warren W. Philbrick

RECEIVED APR 17 1939
MAIL SUB-CIV.
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