Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23433, Barnabas Alden, Mass.
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[typed] SERVICE
[handwritten] Mass. Alden, Barnabas W.23433
Mehitable
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Massachusetts 3106
Mehitable Alden
widow of Barnabas Alden
who was a Private
in the Massachusetts Militia 
6 mo 13 days
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of Twenty One Dollars forty four Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certification of Pension issued the Second day of December 1843 and sent to S S. Hinckley
Northampton Massachusetts
[in brackets] [Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 
Page 35
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin SS
I Elijah Alvord Register of Probate for the County of Franklin do hereby certify that Richard
E. Newcomb Esq is the Judge of Probate for the said County duly commissioned and qualified; and
that the several foregoing attestations, purporting to
be his are his genuine signatures
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the Probate Court for said County this fourteenth day of February A.D. 1839
[signature] E. Alvord Reg. Prob.

[faded illegible writing at bottom of page]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin SS
On this second day of February in the year one the thousand eight hundred and thirty nine before Elijah Paine a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Franklin, personally appeared Jared Bement of the town of Ashfield in said County, who being duly sworn according to law by and before said Justice, doth on Oath depose and say, that he holds the office of Clerk in the Congregational Church in said Ashfield, and has in his custody the records of said Church and performs the duties of Clerk of the same, and that he has recently searched the records aforesaid for the marriage of Barnabus Alden to Mehitable Gould and has taken
the following transcript of said record in relation to said marriage to wit
Barnabas Alden + Mehitable Gould both of Ashfield
I certify, that the above, is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures as follows
1782: Nov. 28,
Jared Bement Clerk of
the Congregational Church
in Ashfield
I Jared Bement, above named depose and say, that I hold the office of Clerk as above, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church with the exception above named as certified by me.
And I the said Jared do further depose and say, that at the
top of the page from which the above extracts of the record are taken, it is written in fair legible
words, as follows
"A Record of Marriages"
And I further depose and say that on the other side of the leaf from which the above extracts are taken at the top are the same, it is written in fair legible words, letters and figures as follows
 A Record of Marriages after the installment of Nehemiah Porter Dec 21 1774
Jared Bement Clerk of the Congregational Church in Ashfield
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year above written
Elijah Paine Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss.
I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Franklin do hereby certify that do hereby certify that Elijah Paine and Thomas White are respectively Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that the several attestations to the captions of the several depositions hereunto annexed [crossed out]by them 
purporting to be made by them respectively are and each of them is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court this fourteenth day of February A.D. 1839
E. Alvord Clerk
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RECORD DIVISION
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION 
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
W. F. 23. 433 [handwritten]
Washington, D. C.
19[blank]
In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Barnabas Alden [handwritten] a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF
SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | STATE.
May 7, 1777 | 2 mos. | Pvt. | Childs | Wells | Mass. [handwritten]
Aug. 1779 | 1 mo. | Pvt. | Dinsmore | Porter | Mass.
[handwritten]
Summer 1780 | 3 mos. | Pvt. | Newton | Leth Murray | Mass.
[handwritten]
Battles engaged in, Ticonderoga [handwritten]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Ashfield Mass [handwritten]
Date of application for pension, Feby 13 1839. Her it was al [illegible] [handwritten]
Residence at date of application, Whately Franklin Co. Mass. [handwritten]
Age at date of application, She was 73 yrs. [handwritten]
Remarks: Soldier [illegible] Nov. 28 1782 at Ashfield Mass.
Mehitabel Gould. He died Apr. 1. 1830, at Whately
Mass. There is no other data on file as to his family. [handwritten]
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Massachusetts-3149.
Mehitable Alden
widow of Barnabas Alden, deceased,
[crossed out] who was a pensioner under the Act of

and who died on the 1st of April, 1830 -
of Franklin Co. in the State of Massachusetts
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Dinsmore of the Regt commanded
by Col. Porter in the Mass ma
line for 6 months 13 days
private.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 21- Dollars 44 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of June
1839 and sent to S. L.
Hinckley, Northampton, Massachusetts
Arrears to the 4th of March, 1839 $64.32
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep '39 -10.72
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$75.04Massachusetts-3149.
Mchitable Alden
widow of Barnabas Alden, deceased
who
and who died on the 1st of April, 1830 -
of Franklin Co. in the State of Massachusetts
who was a private in the compy commanded
by Captain Dinsmore of the Regt commanded
by Col. Porter
in the Mass ma
line for 6 months 13 days
private
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 21. Dollars 44 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of June
1839 and sent to S. L.
Hinckley, Northampton, Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March, 1839 $64.32
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep '39-10.72
$75.04
{Act July 7. 1838}
Recorded by S. A. Elliot
Clerk,
Book A Vol 4 Page 68.
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