Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 34540, William Wilson, Mass.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE 
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NUMBER
Mass
Wilson, William
S 34540
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Notification sent to Abraham Bigelow, Esq.
22d September, 1820, Cambridge, Massachusetts

8482
Massachusetts
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William Wilson,
of South Reading in the state of Massachusetts
who was a fife maj. [illegible text written above line], in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brooks, of the Massachusetts line, for the term of nine months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issues the 22 of March 181[text not present] and sent to John Davis, Judge Boston, Massachusetts.
Arrears to 4th of March, 1819     85.83
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4, Sept    48.''
S  18   1819
10 mo: 30                                  $133.83
& 4/31
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
Continued
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No 367
William Wilson
(Fife Major)
Brook's Regt
Massachusetts Line
1st Jany:1776 to 31st Dec-76
Afft. 13th April 1818

Admitted

Wanted, the certificate of the judge, that applicant, in his belief, is in "reduced circumstances in life, [illegible]."
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I William Wilson of South Reading in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts [illegible] & say 
that in the year 1774 I engaged in a company of 
Minute men as Fifer commanded by Captain Batchelder the field officers [illegible] Coln Bridge  sent Coln Parker and Major John Brooks & that I served in that capacity until the last of December 1775 when I enlisted in the [illegible] Regiment of Connecticut troops commanded by Col Webb & Lt [crossed out] Col Hall and the [illegible] Governor as Fife Major in the Company of Capt Hale who was afterwards executed on Long Island where I served as Fife Major during the year 1776 at the close of which I amongst the few volunteered to stay with General Washington for six weeks in that [illegible] of time we captured the British[illegible] Town and our regiment coming as a [illegible] with them to Beggs Hills where I was honorably discharged .  I likewise affirm that I am [illegible] and stand in need of support from my country. William Wilson
Massachusetts District [illegible]
Boston 13. April AD.1818
Sworn to before me
M. Davis Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
1 March 1819
I AM satisfied that the above named, William Wilson by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
John Davis [signature]
District Judge U.S.
Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, SS.
Boston June 12 A.D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that William Wilson 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 ['s' crossed out] marked A [hand written capital A] 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.
John Davis [signature with underline mark]
Judge of the District Court U.S.
Massachusetts District.
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226
William Wilson
Woburn
8482
March 1819
Cont. [illegible]
1820
[hand drawn symbol within circle]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss. 
 At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun
and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on
the second Monday of June 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, William Wilson resident at Woburn 
in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 81182
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, William Wilson of South Reading Mass'ts late a 
fife Major in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the
"Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight 
"dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of 
April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

"Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty second 
"day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
  [Printed Letters L.S. in box]                                      J. C. 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,
[Handwritten text:] No property of any kind except a few small articles of house furniture not exceeding twenty dollars in value - Said Wilson is now past sixty three years of age is too infirm to perform much labor
has a wife to support.
He served in the Revolutionary army on the Continental establishment more than a year and in other services during the whole war and lost what property he once possessed by means of that war and was maimed in his right arm which is now perrished [sic]. 
William Wilson
Sworn to & declared before  Wm Wetmore  Judge  ss:
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"The within named William Wilson served in the Revo
lutionary war more than a year in Capt Nathan Hale
company & Col Nathan Webbs Regiment No 19 Con
nectticut line
William Wilson "
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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 William Wilson 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 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.
William Wilson

Middlesex ss. C.C.C.P. from Term, A.D. 182
Then the abovenamed William Wilson took and subscribed the afore written 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 Twenty Dollars

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 20th day of July 1820
Attr. Abrm Biglow
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34540
Ry   INVALID

File No.     34540

William Wilson
Fife Major [illegible]

Act: 18th March 1817
Index: - Vol. D, Page 457

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mass

Wilson, William
S34540