Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,216, Levi Wild, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.

Wild, Levi

SERVICE
S.30216

CONTENTS
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5592
Massachusetts
Levi Wild
Norfolk in the State of Mary
who was a Private the company commanded
by Captain Thayer of the regt commanded
by Col Marshall in the Mars
line for 7  May 1 Day

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
at the rate of 23 Dollars 44 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Feby 1833 and sent to 
Leland Roxbury [illegible]

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832 $35.16
Semi-anl. allowance ending 30 11.72
$46.88

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J H Mc Blair Clerk
Book D Vol. 2 Page 99
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30276
Recy INVALID.
File No. 20216
Levi Wild
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7  32"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 155

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Handwritten text to the right]
1934 June 1. Hist to Mrs. Charles S. Passmore A.D.Y.
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GEO J CANNON, VCE-PREST A Mer
ELIAS A. SMITH, MCE-PREST

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DIRECTORS
HEBERT GRANT.
ELIAS ASMITH.
JOHN F BENNETT.
E O. HOWARD.
LEON SWEET.
GEORGE J. CANNON.
REED SMOOT.

PASSMORE & CO.
LOCAL AGENTS
HEBER J. GRANT PRESIDENT

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L. MACDONALD, SECRETARY
BERTRAM F WILLIS, ASSTSECY
EDGAR SHILLS, TREASURER
DIRECTORS:
EDGAR SHILLS
THOS N TAYLOR
EDWARD LBURTON
HENRY HROLAPP
MARRINER SECCLES
RICHARD W MADSEN
ANTHONY WIVINS
DAVID D MOFFAT

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Herber J. Grant, President
Company Logo
717 West Granite St. 
Butte, Montana

May 5-34

U.S. Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sirs
Do your records show a pension for William Wild
Braintree Mass fifer in Lincoln Reg - Privall Col Bass Reg
to Penn and to Col. Dyke's Reg. Dec 13 - 1776 - March 1777

Also for Levi WIld a Pensioner - living Norfolk Co  Braintree Mass 82 yrs old in 1840. [illegible] an early reply I am 

yours
Mrs. cha. S Passmore
717 W. Granite St
Butte Mont
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June 1, 1934.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

BA-J/ady
Levi Wild
S.303216

Mrs. Charles S. Passmore
717 West Granite Street
S. 30216
Butte, Montana

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to William
Wild and Levi Wild, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are
obtained from claims made to the United States for pension
and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers
in that war.

A careful search of the records fails to show such a
claim on file on account of the services of William Wild,

The data contained herein are obtained from the
that war.
papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension,
8.30216, based upon the military service of Levi Wild in

Levi Wild was born August 23, 1758 in Braintree, Massachusetts
. No reference is made to his parents.

While a resident of Braintree, he enlisted June 1, 1776
and served seven months and one day as private in Captain
Isaac Thayer's Company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's Massachusetts
Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
October 13, 1832 while a resident of Braintree, Norfolk
County, Massachusetts.

There are no family data.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

[Handwritten text next to last paragraph]
late of death   not on A.B.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office Sept 10th 1832.

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 Levi Wild is borne upon
the Pay Rolls of Capt Isaac Thayer's Company
in Col Thomas Marshalls Regt for the period of
seven months & one day from the first day of
June 1776
Edward D Bangs [illegible]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolk ss.
On this thirteenth day of October in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court
before the Honorable Judge of the Court of Probate
now sitting at Roxbury in and for said County, Levi Wild
a resident
of Braintree in said County, aged seventy four, who being first duly sworn, according to law,
doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
passed June 7th A.D. 1832. That he was born at said Braintee on the twenty third
of August 1758 - that there there is no need of his birth to his knowledge

:THAT he was in the United States service from the first day of June A.D. 1776, to the first day of January A. D. 1777 (7 months) 
as a Private in the Massachusetts militia : that he was
residing at Braintree
when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt. Isaac Thayer in
Col Thomas Marshall Regt
: that he marched from Braintree to
Dorchester, from ten to
from thence 
to several other places in the 
vicinity of Boston & That at the expiration of his service he received a
discharge but not in writing
: that he was in no battle &
no regular troops served with him to his recollection & that since 
the war he has resided at Braintree

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and
declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
Levi Wild

We Jonas Perkins 
a clergyman, residing in said Braintree and Eliphus Thayer residing in said Braintree 
are hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Levi Wild who has subscribed
and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four
years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides to have been a soldier
of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
Jonas Perkins
Eliphus Thayer

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and
after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant
was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certify that it
appears to them that Jonas Perkins
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a
clergyman, resident in the said Braintree; and that Eliphus Thayer
who has also signed the same is a resident in said Braintree and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Signature of Sherman Leland Judge of Probate

I Samuel Haven of the County of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the
application of Levi Wild for a pension.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and
year first aforesaid.
Signature of Samuel Haven
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Levi Wild 
19,800
Private
 4 mos & 1 day

Adm

E.S. Leland
Roxbury 
Mass

$23.44
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension of annuity except the present, and
declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary _______ and served as he states, 

I ______________of the _________________do hereby certify that the 
foregoing contains the original 
application of _________________________
for a pension.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office o the day and year forst aforesaid.