Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1617, for Paul Todd, Massachusetts
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Service Mass.
Todd, Paul
Sally
Number W.1671
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95 Alby
Sally Todd
widow of Paul Todd
who served in the Revolutionary War
as aPri. and Sergt
Mass Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
86 Dollars 14 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension Issued on the 14th day of March '49
and sent to 
Hon R. M. Gillett
Solicitor of the Treasury
by 29

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
2, 1848, Page 183
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138
Application of Sally Todd widow of Paul Todd and a Revoltionary soldier and officer for a  pension under Act of July 1848
of July

Married 1794
Husband died 1815

Admit
3 Mo 21 day Segt $18.50
20 Mo 9 day Pri 67.66
$86.16

for 4 March 1848
Hon R H Gillett
Solicitor of Treasury
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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss
On this twenty third day of September 1848 personally appeared before
the Justices Court of the City of May Sally Todd
a resident of the said City of May in the County
of Rensselaer aged Seventy two years six months
who being duly sworn according to law doth
on her oath make the following declaration in
order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 29, 1848
That she has been informed by him & believes that the said Paul Todd served as a private soldier and also as a Sergeant during a considerable portion of the revolutionary war; That she has in her possession & annies hereto a Sergeants warrant with said Paul Todd which was left by the said Paul among his papers at his death which occurred at Knox in the
County of Albany on the twenty third day of
September 1815.
That she is unable to State the several periods of service of the said Paul Todld more fully then the same is stated in her declaration made on the 17 day of August 1848 hereto annexed Marked Scheaule B for the certificate of any Secretary of State of Massachusetts also hereto annexed marked B the further saith that  its paper hereto annexed marked A is an original paper in the hand writing of the said Paul Todd which was found among his papers at the time of his death & which
was left in an unfinished state by him and that the said paper the
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said Sargeants warrant marked "N" and only record evidence which the said Paul left relative to his revolutionary services at the time of his death or which she is now able to furnish, that She fully believes that the said Paul Rodd served in the army of the American Revolution during all the periods specified in said Certificate & that the said Paul told named in said certificate was afterwards to writ on the 16th day of January 1794 at the town of Berne in the County of Albany Married to this deponent Sally Todd by the Reverend Mr McDonald; That she was not married
to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the Second day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred to ure on the day before mentioned 
to his death the paper remand his widow &
she further states that she is now a
widow & that she has never before made
any application for a pension: That she
has no knowledge that her said husband
had applied for a pension nor does
she believe that he ever did so
She further saith that the record hereto annexed marked "C"was written in the family Bible of said Paul Todd
(except the record of his death), by the said Paul Todd, that the said Record has always been in her possession, & that
no other documentary evidence of her marriage to said Paul Todd; now exists, other than said Record according to the best of her knowledge information & belief.
that the Record of his death is correct, but does not know and cannot State by whom it was written

Subscribed before me on the day and year
above written
G Rohestion Sally Todd
Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Troy
&
A
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Preface
As unnecessary to enlarge by way of preface but I wish to have my readers understand the Preamble subject of these lines, is to give an account of the place of my nativity of the changing seans which I passed
through in the earliest part of my life of my Conversion & Troubles & adventures I have passed through in my declining years
I was Born in Ipswich in Massachusetts
County Esix of Honest Pilgrims Parents my Fathers name was Thomas Todd a Native of Rowley County of Essex State of Massachusetts his Father Name was John Toeld the Sixth
generation from Old England as I have informed by him
My father was a farmer & something of A
mecanical lineer he brought me up in a very honest way until I was 14 years he then sold his farm in & Rowley Moved to Sutton in the County of Worcester and state aforesaid where we lived one year before the unhappy war broke out between Great Britain and America which was in April the 1775 I then being 16 years of age had a desire to enter into a
Military But was opposed by my father Ever being taught obedience by my Parents I gave the Matter up that year, & concluded to stay at home and follow my small Business of Aggraculture with my father the second year of the war my salutations to my father were so great to enter into a Military life he consented I
should enter the army I engaged for one year
year on the 2nd day of March 1776 in Capt Mighills Company Col Baldens Regiment
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
"C"
Secretary's Office, Boston
September 11th 1848
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 Paul Todd is borne
upon a Muster Roll of Capt Thomas Mighill's
Company in Col L. Baldain's Regt for the
year 1776, for mileage and subsistance in
returning home, as a private, sworn to at
Rowley April 9 1777. Upon another muster roll of said Company in said Regt as a private for the month of January 1776
Upon a Return of men in Capt Thomas
Mighill's Company, in the 26th Regt that
have engaged to continue in the Continental
Army. Six weeks from the first of January
1777. Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Bartholomew Woodburys Company in Col Job Cushing's Regt, as a private from August 13 to November 29 1777 including allowance of 10 days
to return home 3 months and 27 days
The roll of said Capt Woodbury's Company
was sworn to before Ann Singletary, who
was, as appears from records in this office
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Justice of the Peace for the town of
Sutton in 1777. Upon a list
of men procured from the County of
Worcester to serve 9 months from
the time of their arrival at Fish Kill
as a private of Sutton, in Capt Woodbury's Co
Col Holmans Regt, age 19 years-- arrived at
Fish Kill, June 7. 1778.
Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Jonathan Woodburys Co in Col. Jacob Davis; Regt for service at R. Island as a private from July 30 to Aug 1780. including allowance of 3 days to return home 12 days roll dated Sutton 27th Decr 1780. Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Reuben Davis, Co, in Col Luke Duery's Regt as a Sergeant of Sutton from July 17 to November 1 1781 with 8 days allowed for travel 3 months 21 days. The preceding is all the evidence of service of any on of the name shown by the military records in this office
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 Service of of the Commonwealth, the date above written

Wm Sufis Deputy
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Sally Todd
Widow of Paul Todd
Decd Declration unto Revolutionary Services
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"B"

I do hereby certify that I am the widow of Paul Todd deceased that I was married
to the said Paul Todd on the sixteenth day of January seventeen hundred & ninety four at the town ofBerne Cty of Albany in the State of New York by the reverend McDonald
That the said Paul Todd as she has been
informed & believes served as a private
Soldier & also as a Sergeant during the
American Revolution; That she has always
understood from the said Paul that at
the time he entered such service he resided at Sutton in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts, that he served in
Colonel Baldwins Regiment & in Captain Mighill's Company & also in Colonel Drury's Regiment and Captain Davis Company that the said Paul Todd died on the twenty
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third day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifteen in the town of Berne and County of Albany where the said Paul Todd resided for twenty-eight years previous
to his death
That she does not remember
the names of any other of the officers under whom the said Paul Todd served nor does
she remember any other facts in relation to the said service except she has above set forth-
I further Certify that my age is Seventy-two years
six months & that I now reside and have resided in the city of Troy for 2 years last and upwards
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Record "E"

Paul Todd was Born in Old Ipswich in the
parish of Lymebrook County of Essex & State of
Massachusetts November 21, 1758
Sally Todd his wife was Born Febry 19th 1776
They were Married Jany 16th 1794
Their Son Carlton was Born Sept 30 1795
Paul Todd Junr was Born December 9 1797
Sally Todd was Born November 27th 1801
Susan Todd was Born June 21 1806
Catherine Elizabeth Ann was Born September 23 1814
Paul Todd departed this life Sep 23 1815
aged 57 and 10 months
56 yrs and 10 mos
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Father
Honor'd Father
Peeks Kill 10th Sept 1777
I have nothing new this day, that I want to
believe we have flying upsoil that there has been an action in the southward &
that we got the better of them & and drove them on board the ships that many lives
were lost on both sides with it might prove time - The cannon at Fort Montgomery
and the ships were Fird were fird
this day. They made a terrible roaring as ever heard 

11th Sept Nothing material has happened this day. The parish rather increase in the Regt. my care are of every man? Dr. Swift to return to camp - The Brigade is out and exercising
this afternoon; I have had a mans arm to dress that was hurt by another mans throwing a ramrod at him, the end of which stuck into the joint of his elbow, fear his arm might be
bad - We hear the Brigade is very sickly

12th This day we had a general muster of the whole Brigade by the Master Muster Genl Rutgers We were all obliged turn out on the field and answer to our  names - the same afternoon there was a sham fight between Col. Swift's Regt and Col Bradly's there was some field pieces on both sides constantly playing  it exceeded every thing that I ever saw of the Like Nature - there was one man wounded in the nose & another had a bayonet ran thru his hand which were all the Ill consequences that happened
18th
Nothing material happened this day, Except one man wounded in his elbow by another's throwing a ramrod at him which penetrated into the Bone, our returns this day are 37 Dr Swift has returned. Dr Burnet is much affronted that he went home when he had never been home before since he joined which is 4 months.

Todd, Jonathan
Conn. W2197