Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33424, for Joshua Park, Massachusetts
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SERVICE
Mass

Park, Joshua

SERVICE
S.33424
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11666
R
Massachusetts
Joshua Park
of Newtown in the State of Mass
he was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Greaton of the Mass
line for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 30 of March 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of June 1819
and sent to John Davis, Esq
Boston, Masstts

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 mm6/21  89.54 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819 48.00
$137.54

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued.

[Handwritten text to the right]
Notification sent June 1st 1821 to John B. Thomas, Esqr.
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No. 65

Joshua Park
76 to 77
Greatons Masstts
Reg

Judge's certificate as to claimants circumstances watned

Admitted
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I Joshua Pack of Newtown in the County ┃
of Middlesex & State of Massachusetts do
testify & say, that I served as a private soldier
in Capt Abner Crafts Company, attached to
the Regiment commanded by Colonel Greighton of
the Massachusetts line of the
Army raised for the defence of American
liberties from AD 1776 till AD 1777, being one
year, when I was discharged, the period of my
engagement having expired and also, that
in the same year, I entered a corpse (corps) of
artificers commanded by Capt Zephaniah
Thayer, under the superintendance of
Col. Kosciusko, stationed at West Point
& served in said corps during one
year, when I left the corpse, my term
of service having expired;-
Mar 30th 1818
Signature of Joshua Park
Joshua Park
Marc 13th 1818

Masstts District ss.
30 March 1818
Sworn to before me
Jno Davis
Dis Judge Mass (Massachusetts)
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Massachusetts District ss.  Boston  7 September 1818. And now the said Joshua Park further on oath declared and says that he is in such reduced circumstances of life as to stand in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Signature of Joshua Park

Mass Dist ss.
[illegible]

Sworn before me 
Jno Davis
D Judge
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, SS.
Boston September 22 A.D.1818

IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Joshua Park
subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war
against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony
in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of
war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary
"war;"" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid,
with the accompanying document marked
together with this certificate.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
Signature of Jno Davis

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, SS.
May 18th 1819
I AM satisfied that the above named, Joshua Park by reason
of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Signature of Jno Davis
District Judge U.S.
Massachusetts Dist. 

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
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1.

Joshua Park
Sept' 19

Con-
I.L.E
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun
and holden at Cambridge, within and for the County of Middlesex, on
the second Monday of December
A. D. 1820.
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and 
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices
STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires,} of said Court.

In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according
to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in
point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power
of fine and imprisonment, Joshua Park
resident in Brighton
in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 11.666
now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,

"WAR DEPARTMENT...REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the
" 18th March 1818, Joshua Park
late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the
" Pensions List,  of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth
day of
March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

"Given at the War Office the United States, this eighthm"day of June - one thousand eight hundred and nineteen 
J. L. Edwards on behalf and in the
absence of the
[Crossed out - F CALHOUN] , Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as
follows, to wit,

SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding
excepted, to wit, Real Estate an undivided
sixteenth of an acre of salt marsh 4.00 $4.00

Household Furniture viz. twenty nine chains &
parts of chairs old & nearly worn out 25 cts each 25

one pound walnut table one Mahogany ten 6.00
  table $3.

one maple dinner table $1.00 one pine table .50

one smaller pine table .40 one maple desk 
$2.00    240

Pewter & Crockery ware $3.00 5 iron pots & kettle 3.00

one copper tea Kettle $1.00 11 knives & forks $1.00    2.00

An old vehicle that was once a chaise now neither one thing or another & of which the iron work is the only thing of any value  5.00

one old fashioned day clock nearly worn out 6.00

$37. 15

All the foregoing articles are very old having been in use from thirty to forty years and probably could
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not be sold for the value set against them in the
foregoing schedule and the said Park is indebted to
five persons in the sum of one hundred and twenty
five dollars.
And the said Park further declares
that he entered the army in the beginning of the
was in the year 1775 in the Connecticut line in the
Company of Capt Wills and Regiment of Col. Spenser
continued seven months and then enlisted for two
souths in Cambridge be thinks but is not certain
under a Capt. Crafts. In 1776 enlisted into the born
any of Capt. Abner Crafts in Col. Greaton's Regiment
and served for one year & went to Canada
where he suffered extremely from hunger and cold
He served also the two next campaigns - was in the
battle with Burgoyne on the seventh of October 1777
and was one year at West Point and was in the
whole between four and five years in the service-
That he is now sixty three years of age and has
been and is so afflicted with out and other complaints
that he has not done a days work for five
last years and cannot subsist without the aid of his
children - he has a wife who has been sick for the
twenty last years so as to be a burden instead of assist
and to his family has ten children living only the
Youngest of which now in his fifteenth year resides
at home and who with his father & mother constitute
the family.
Joshua Park

Sworn to and declared before
Wm. Wetmore Judge
within named.
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following oath, taken
and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore
a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I Joshua Park
do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the
United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and
that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property
, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the
provisions of an act of Congress, entitled ""an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” passed on the eighteenth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any
person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I
any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
So help me God.
Signature of Joshua Park


Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. December Term, A. D. 1820-
Then the abovenamed Joshua Park
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore   Judge of said Court.

I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the
record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the
said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the
aforesaid Schedule is
thirty seven dollars & fifteen cents

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed
the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of
Middlesex, on this 23 day of January 1821
Attr.
Abraham Bigelow
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[Text as stated in the box to the left]
This Bureau can furnish the military
record of only such Revolutionary soldiers
as were pensioned or whose widows were
pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay
rolls of the Revolutionary War and the
War of 1812 as are now in the possession
of the Government are on file in the
Record and Pension Office, War Department
.Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutioary War
may also be found on file in the
archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

M. E. C.
Wid. 13, 362.
Inv. 33,424.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
July 22, 1897.

Madam:

Replying to your request for information concerning certain
soldiers of the Revolutionary war, you are advised as follows:

Abigail, widow of Nathan Robinson, made an application for
pension on August 10, 1838, at which time she was seventy-seven
years of age and residing in Bristol Co., Mass., and her pension
was allowed for the actual service of her husband as a seaman and
private in the Massachusetts troops, Revolutionary war, for a
period of six months; a part of the time he served under Captains
Williams and Hull. Place of his enlistment not stated.

Joshua Park made an application for pension on March 30,
1818, at which time he was sixty-one years of age and residing at
Brighton, Mass., and his pension was allowed for one year's actual
service as a private in the Massachusetts troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Craft and Col.Greaton. He enlisted at Cambridge, Mass.

A very careful search has been made and from the data given
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the name of Asa Robinson has not been found upon the Revolutionary war pension records n file in this Bureau. 
Very respectfully, 

Commissioner

Mrs. Nellie Hayes Stevens, 
839 0 20th st., 
Rock Island, Ills.
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33424
Revy  INVALID.
File No. 33,424
Joshua Park
Pri Rev War

Act 18" March 18"

Index:- Vol. 2, Page 316

[Arrangement of 1879.]

[Handwriting to right]July 22/97 Mrs. Nellie H. Stevens, Rock Island Ills.
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Rents on these cases
are requested to be
made to
Abraham Bigelow
Cambridge
Mass
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this may Certify that Joshua Park inlisted
into Col. John Greatons Regiment 
in the Continental service in Decemr
1775 and served as a good soldier, one year.
Milton April 14 1818
Elijah Vose Lieut. Col.
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[Stamp can be seen as bottom of document]

OLD War & Navy
July 15  1897
FILES.
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8.3.9- 20th St. Rock Island, Ill.
July 4, 1897

D. S. Murphy
Pension Commissioner
Department Interior
Washington D.C.

My dear Sir
In March last June
you, by the advise of Mrs. [illegible]
State Regent D.A.R. Ill, asking
for a copy of all information
you could give me of Joshua
Parks, Connecticut, who, under the
command of Capt. Solomon
Wills served in Col. Spencer's
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regiment at Roxbury Mass
As yet I have received no reply
to my letter

I also asked if you could give
me any information concerning
Asa, or Nathan Robinson also of
Connecticut,
May I not have a prompt reply
to my questions

Yours with respect
Signature of Mrs Nellie Hayes Stevens