Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,979, for Peter Mackintosh, Massachusetts
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE Continental Mass. CONTENTS 1 --- Mackintosh, Peter or McIntosh assess- NUMBER S. 29.979.
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Clark July [?]7, 1850 de as on Sept 22/57 32745 Massachusetts Peter McIntosh dec of Suffolk in the State of Mass who was an Artificer in the company commanded by Captain [blank] 
of the [blank] commander by [blank] in the [blank] line for x [signs Mackintosh]

Inscribed on the Roll of Boston at the rate of 144 Dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Dead 23rd Novr 1846, when he died. Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of June 1850 and sent to Hon. I. Rockwell H. R. Payable to his only surviving children semiannual allowance ending Betsey Hastings, Peter McIntosh Jane Baldwin & Sarah Homer 
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by [Signature] J. P. Chase [name] Clerk,
Vol 2 Page 55.
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United States of America, Massachusetts District Ss

County of Suffolk ss.  On this twenty third day of August
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable District Court of the UStates for Massets. District  now sitting at Boston in and for said County, Peter Mackintosh a resident of Boston in said County, aged about seventy six years, 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, 1832.

That he was born at said Boston on the sixth day of October A.D. 1757, and that there is a record of his birth on the Town Records of Boston that he was in the United States service from the first day of July A.D. 1775, to the first day of April A.D. 1776 (9m) as an artificer in the Massachusetts State Troops:  that he was residing at Newton near Boston when he entered the service; that he enlisted under Richard Greilley head blacksmith, and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Gen. Washington and Major Joseph Ayres was commander of the corps of artificiers:  that he marched from Newton to Cambridge and there continued to serve until the British left Boston:  that he served with the whole American Army but particularly recollects none of the regular troops and Generals Washington, Knox, Lee, Gates, Putnam, Heath and other regular officers were known to him:  that he was in no battle and at the end of his service received a discharge but not in writing:  that he left the service on said first day of April and that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at said Boston and has no documentary evidence of this service.

ALSO:  that he was in the United States service from the first day of December A.D. 1778, to the first day of July A.D. 1780 ( 1 y 7m ) as an artificer in the Continental Army that he was residing at said Boston when he entered the service; that he enlisted with Stephen [Foost?] Masters and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Col Thomas Chase Deputy Quarter M. G. of the Eastern Department:  that he served at said Boston:  that he served with Col Crafts Regt. of State Artillery but with none of the regular troops; and General Gates, Heath & Col Crafts & Col Revere regular officers were known to him:  that he was in no battle that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing and left the service on said first day of July.  He has no documentary evidence of this service.

ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the _____ day of _________ A.D. 17__  to the ______ day of _______________A.D. 17____ that he was residing at_____________-- when he entered the service; that he ___________________________________ and served for the period aforesaid under the command of _____________________that he served with__----of the regular troops; and regular officers were know to him; that he was in no battle that at the end of his service he received a discharge_____ and left the service on _________
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The general Circumstances of this appts. service
were as follows.  [illegible] during the first
term thereof, he worked all night at
Cambridge hooping a brass mortar which
had been taken from the enemy by
Capt Manly.  Gen Washington himself
came to the shop to give directions about 
the work.  From this mortar the first
shell was thrown at the Enemy
in Boston from a battery established
at Lechmere's Point..  This appt.
was discharged after the British  had
evacuated Boston and the Americans
marched in.  In his second term of 
service a House was provided by Col 
Chase for the artificers and Mrs Anna
Blake employed by him to do the cooking
for the blacksmiths.
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.
(signature of Peter Mackintosh)

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
We John Pierpont clergyman residing in the city of Boston and Joseph Lovesing  [illegible] residing in Boston hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Mackintosh who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be about seventy [six?] 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. & said Lovesing also know said Mackentosh while he was actually serving, to wit at said Boston about the year 1778.
Sworn and sub scribed as aforesaid,
(signature of Jn., Pierpont)
(signature of Joseph Lovesing)

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 [heavily smudged] who has signed the preceding certificate, is a minister, resident in the city of Boston; and that Joseph Levensky who has also signed the same is a resident in said City and is  credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
[illegible signature of Judge]

I John Watson Davis Clerk of the US District  [illegible] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Peter Mackintosh for a pension.
In [smudged] whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
(signature of JW Davis) Clerk of Masstts. District Court
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County of Suffolk SS

Know all men by these presents,
that I Sarah Homes of  Boston in
the County & State aforesaid, being with
Betsey Hastings Peter McIntosh and 
Jane Baldwin, the surviving children
of Peter Mackintosh, do hereby appoint
and constitute Alexander Ray Esquire
of the City of Washington, to be my
true sufficient and lawful attorney,
in my name and behalf, and on behalf
and for the benefit of said other surviving
children, to make application
for and prosecute any claim for 
[illegible] of pension to which we may be
entitled, on account of the service of said
Peter McIntosh, who at the time of
his decease on or about the 23d day  
of November 1846 was entitled to a
pension for [illegible] service in the War
of the Revolution as an Artificer, & which
said pension since his death has been
allowed for the benefit of his said
children.
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Giving unto my said attorney full
power in the premises; to execute all papers
and do all acts for the complete and
effectual execution of the matters herein
granted; as fully as I might  do personally.
Witness my hand and seal this twenty three
day of February. AD. 1854.
(signature of Sarah Homer)
In presence of
[illegible signature]

Suffolk ss.  February 23d, 1854.
Personally appeared Sarah
Homer above named and 
acknowledged the foregoing instrument by
her subscribed to be her free act and deed.
Before me
Wm [illegible]
Justice of the Peace
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I Dorcas rice of Charlestown
in the County of Middlesex, wife
of Capt Thomas Rice, late weigher
and guager in the Boston Custom
House, testify and say that I
am seventy five years of age
that I am the daughter of Mr John
Blake and Mrs Anna Blake of
Boston deceased about thirty years
ago; that my said mother was
employed by Col Thomas
Chase during the Revolutionary
war to cook for the blacksmiths
of the army of the United States, 
that I was myself employed
in the family to assist my mother
and that I well remember Mr
Peter Mackintosh who is now
present in Court as a blacksmith
in the service of the U States,
and one of the [illegible] for
whom my mother cooked.  He
continued such according to the
best of recollection two or
three years, but I know not
exactly the length of time.
(signature of Dorcas Rice)
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I Samuel Dow of Boston
aged eighty years testify and
say that I was a member
of the Corps of Artificers in
the U S Army in the years
1778 and 1779 & 1780 and
perfectly well remember that
 Peter Mackintosh who is now
present in court and has been
my neighbor ever since the
Revolution was a blacksmith
in said corps and served from
about the 1st of Dec 1778 to
 July 1780 at Boston.
(signature of Saml. Dow)

District of Massachusetts  Ss.  On this twenty
third day of August AD 1833 personally
appeared in open Court  [crossed out]
Dorcas Rice & Samuel Dow
and then & there subscribed and
made oath to the aforesaid
Statements respectively.  I further
certify that said deponents are
credible persons and their
sd. Statements entitled to credit.
Before me.  
(signature of M Davis)
Judge U.S. Dist. [illegible]
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I Samuel Dow of Boston testify
and say that I was a blacksmith in
the Service of the United States in the
years 1776, 1779, 1780, in the 
company of Smiths & which Stephen
Frost was master, under the command
of Col Thomas Chase, Deputy Quarter 
Master General; that in December
1778 Peter McIntosh of Boston
whom I have known ever since,
and for some time before,
joined the said company, and
served therein as a blacksmith
about a year and a half: that I
cannot recollect the precise time
when P. McIntosh left the service
but I well remember that he was
still in it on the 20th of May
1780, which was the celebrated
dark day in New England.
I further testify that after I quitted the
service.  I received from said
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Chase a certificate of the sums
due to me, to said McIntosh
and one or two others, that
I sent the same certificate to
Congress then sitting in New York
in the year 1790, and that I
never received the same back 
again:  that I kept a copy thereof
which I delivered to D L Child,
Esq. to be used in my application
for a pension 1832, and that
the same was sent by him
as he informed me to the
War Department.  I further say
that the reason why several
persons were in included in one
certificate, was that they all
joined in one petition to Congress 
for making up the deposition
of their pay and further this deponent
saith not
(signature of Saml. Dow)
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I Dorcas Rice of Charlestown
in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
aged seventy six years testify and say
that my mother Mrs Anna Blake
was employed three or four years
in the time of the Revolutionary
War in cooking for the Company
of Smith, stationed at Boston in
the continental service, and that
I well recollect that Peter McIntosh
of Boston was in that
company, and served as a
blacksmith and was a member
of the [illegible] for which my mother
cooked.  I further say that I
cannot tell when said McIntosh
entered the service, but
I well remember that he was
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in it on the celebrated dark day
of New England.
(signature of Dorcas Rice)

Massachusetts District:
Dis Court March Term. AD 1834
Sworn to before me
[illegible signature]
Judge Dist. Court Mass. Dis.
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I Lydia Gridley formerly of Boston in the County of
Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Single woman
now residing in the City of Portland in the State of Maine,
aged seventy years, on oath testify and say that I
have known and been well acquainted with Mr. Peter
McIntosh of said Boston, a Blacksmith by trade, ever since
he came to my father Richard Gridley to learn the trade
of a blacksmith of him in Boston.  Said McIntosh
served his apprenticeship with my said father from
the time he was fourteen years of age until he was
twenty one years old.  In April, just after the
Battle of Lexington, the family removed to Newton,
and my father joined us there, in a few weeks after
as soon as he was released by the British, troops
who then had possession of Boston.  Whilst at Newton
my father and McIntosh his apprentice were engaged
in working for the army at their trade for some
months, until they were ordered to go to Cambridge,
where they remained at work with the army until
the British forces evacuated Boston.  My father was
Captain of the company of Blacksmiths and Joseph
[illegible] was Captain of the Company of Carpenters.  My
father and McIntosh served the army until the
evacuation of Boston and the removal of General
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Washington and the American Army, and received
their pay and rations.  I well remember that
both my father and said McIntosh came home
to Newton every Saturday night & remained with
us part of some of the Sundays, and returned to
Cambridge the same day--at which time they
were in the habit of bringing home a part of
their rations of beef and beans & their cloths for
washing--When the Army of Washington removed
from the neighbourhood of Boston, my father and
McIntosh returned to work at their trade in Boston,
and did not follow the army at that time but I know
that both my father and said McIntosh
were engaged in, and attached to the American
Army from the commencement of hostilities
until the removal of the army from Boston,
as [illegible] as above described and stated.
(signature of Lydia Gridley)

State of Maine
Cumberland Ss  City of Portland, March 27, 1834.
I hereby certify that on this
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twenty seventh day of March in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
four, the said Lydia Gridley, appeared before me &
made solemn oath to the tenth of the above
deposition by her signed, [illegible] to law, and
I further certify that I am acquainted with
the said Lydia Gridley, the deponent, and know
her to be a respectable and credible person to
whose deposition full faith and credit may be given.
Thomas Avery Deblois
Justice of the Peace
for the County of Cumberland
in the State of Maine
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I Sarah Gridley formerly of Boston in the County of
Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Single-
woman residing in the City of Portland in the State of Maine
aged seventy two years on oath testify and
say, that I have known and been well acquainted with
Mr. Peter McIntosh of said Boston, a Blacksmith
by trade, ever since I was ten years of age, when said
McIntosh came to my fathers, Richard Gridley, to learn
the trade of a Blacksmith of him in service Boston
Said McIntosh served his apprentiship with
my said father until he was of age.  In April,
just after the Battle of Lexington, the family removed to
Newton, and my father join ed us then in a few weeks
after when he was released by the British.  Whilst at
Newton my father with McIntosh his apprentice was
 engaged in working for the army for some months,
until they were ordered to go to Cambridge, where they
remained at work with the army until the British
army evacuated Boston.  My father was Captain of
the Company of the Blacksmiths and Joseph Ayers was
Captain for the Company of Carpenters.  My father and
McIntosh[illegible, illegible] army until the evacuation of
Boston with [illegible] of General Washington
& the American Army, & received their pay and rations
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I well remember that both my father and McIntosh
came home to Newton every Saturday night, remained
with us part of [illegible] Sundays, and returned to Cambridge
and the army the next day--at which time they were
in the habit of bringing home a part of their rations
of beef and bread, and their cloths for washing.
When the army of Washington removed from the
neighbourhood of Boston, my father and McIntosh
returned to work at their trade in Boston--
I know that both my father and McIntosh were
engaged in and  attached to the American Army from
the commencement of hostilities until the removal
of the Army from Boston--as artificers as I have
above subscribed and states.
(signature of Sarah Gridley)

State of Maine
Cumberland Ss

City of Portland March 27, 1834
I hereby certify that on this twenty seventh
day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty four, the said Sarah
Gridley appeared before me and made solemn
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oath to the truth of the above deposition by her
signed, agreeably to law-- And I further certify
that i am acquainted with the said Sarah
Gridley, the deponent, and know her to be
a respectable and credible person, to whose deposition
full faith and credit may be given.
Thomas Amery Deblois
Justice of the Peace
for the County of Cumberland
in the State of Maine
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James :L Edwards Esq.
Comp. of Pensions
Washington City 
DC
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Secretary's Office, Aug. 14th 1834.
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 Peter McIntosh is borne
on an "Abstract for the Company of Artillery,
Commanded by Capt. Jonathan Stoddard,
under the Command of Col. Thomas Crafts,
from the 8th of May 1777, to the 8th of July 1777."
where he is allowed Two months, as a [illegible].
Peter McIntosh claims for services in 1775,
& 1776, under Rich, Gridley, Master of the Smiths;
under Maj. Joseph Ayres., Commander of the
Corps of Artificers; also under Steph. Frost,
a Master Smith, under Thos. Chase, 2nd Mr. Genl.
in 1778 to 1780: no rolls for either, is found in
this office.
Joseph Eyers' name is borne on the Army
Records (Late Major) of the Corps of Artificers,
Oct. 11, 1782, where he is allowed a balance of 228.1.6
Edward E Bangs [illegible]
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The Committee on the Petition of Joseph Eayres,
[illegible] Dec. 25th 1775.  for himself, and in behalf of
a Company of Artificers under him, praying Payment
for their Services, Read & not accepted.
Resolved that he and his Company of Artificers
be allowed no more for their services than is agreeable
to the Establishment made for them by the Congress of this
Colony.
The above is a copy from the printed journal of
the House of Representatives of 1775.
Edward D Bangs [illegible]
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Seventy seven, when I left said corps
at Springfield in said Massachusetts:
the said Ayers continued to command
the same.  I further say that
I will recollect a thirteen inch
Brass Mortar, which had been
hooped, and was said to have
been done by Gridlees Blacksmiths
in Cambridge, that I 
knew said Gridlee well, and know
that he was master or captain of
the Blacksmiths at Cambridge
in the year 1775.  I further
say that said corps served while
I was a member there of at the following
places, viz; Boston, Norwalk,
Connecticut, Fort Washington, N.Y.
Phillips Manor, North Castle, Picks
kill, Fishkill to close of 1776.  Hartford
in Connecticut & Smithfield
in Massachusetts, until the close of
1777; and left the said corps
building the United States America
at said Springfield.
Soloman Thayer
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk Ss.  Braintree July 21st [illegible]
Then personally appeared the
aforesaid Solomon Thayer, who
is a credible person and his statement
entitled to credit, and
made oath that this affidavit
by him subscribed is
true according to the best of
his knowledge & belief.
Before me,
Meriot [illegible  illegible]
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I Jonathan Hunnewell formerly of
Boston now of Roxbury in the County
of Norfolk and Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts aged seventy five years testify
and say, that I was a soldier of the
revolution and served as an artificer
at Boston, Dorchester, Watertower, Sudbury
Rutland, Sherbourne, Winter Hill and Prospect
Hill;  that I served from the
month of December AD 1775 to the
end of the war; that I was then &
have ever since been well acquainted
with Peter McIntosh, who was a smith
in the company of which Mr Richard
Gridley was Foreman; that I will
recollect that said McIntosh served at
 Cambridge and afterwards at said Boston
under Col Thomas Chase and always
in the capacity of artificer and
blacksmith;  that my own service
was performed in the company of
masons commanded first by William Etheridge
& then by my father Richard Hunnewell.  I further say
that I well recollect that said Gridley's company
were employed at Cambridge in
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one occasion in hooping a brass mortar
called the Congress, said mortar
was said to have been captured by 
Manly,
(signature of Jon Hunnewell)

Norfolk Ss.  Roxbury August 5th 1834.  There
personally appeared the above named
Jonathan Hunnewell Esquire, who is
a credible witness and his statement
entitled to credit, and subscribed the
foregoing affidavit and made oath
that the same is true.
Before me
John J Clarke  Jus Peace
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I Jacob Kicher of Boston in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
[illegible] of the General
[illegible] aged seventy years testify and
say that I am acquainted
with Peter McIntosh and
have been ever since I was
twelve of fifteen years old
that my first wife was a 
sister of Stephen Frost
herein after mentioned;
that I well recollect that
said McIntosh was in
the company of artificers
of which said Stephen Frost
was foreman commanded
by Col Thomas Chase;
and that said McIntosh
served a considerable time in
Boston in said company, but
how long this deponent
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know not & cannot say.
(signature of Jacob Kuhn)

Suffolk Ss  Boston Au 5, 1834, then
the above named Jacob Kuhn
who is a credible person, appeared
subscribed the foregoing affidavit
and made & saith that the same  true
Before me
David Lee Child
Jus. Peace
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War Department
Pension Office
March 20 1835

Sir,
The case of Peter McIntosh has again been
examined.  He claims a Pension on account of service
alleged to have been performed from June 1775 to
March 1776. and from December 1778 to July 1780,
as an Artificer of the Army; and from June to
August 1776 as a militia man.  He states that he
was in the  United States service from the 20 June
1775 to the 10th of March 1776, as a blacksmith, that
he enlisted  with Richard Gridley, master of the
Smith, and served the period aforesaid under Major
Joseph Ayres, commander of the corps of Artificers; and in
support of his allegations he produces the testimony of Lydia
and Sarah Gridly, both of whom depose that such
McIntosh was an apprentice to Richard Gridly
their father, and worked under Gridley and for the
Army when it was at Cambridge.  The affidavits
of Samuel Dow Dorcas Rice, Jonathan Hunnewell
Jacob Kuhn and Solomon Thayer are also exhibited;
all of whose statements shew that this applicant worked
as a blacksmith for the troops while any were stationed
in the vicinity of Boston; and their evidence establishes
no other fact.  Dow says that he belonged to the company
of blacksmiths of which Stephen Frost was a master
from 1778 to 1781 under Colonel Thomas Chase, Quarter
Master General, and McIntosh served in the company
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about 18 months.  Dorcas Rice says that her mother cooked
for the company of blacksmiths in the public service, and
that McIntosh was one of them.  Mr. Johathan Hunnewell
proves that McIntosh worked as a blacksmith under
Gridley whom he styles "Foreman".  Jacob Kuhn says that
he well recollects that McIntosh was in the company of
artificers of which Frost was "Foreman", &c.  Solomon
Thayers testimony is offered to shew that Gridley was Master
of the smiths &c.  Great stress is placed on his testimony,
because he has  been pensioned as our artificer, and it is
alleged that McIntosh belonged to the Same Corps in
which he served, and therefore McIntosh is equally entitled
to a like gratuity.  But on referring particularly to Thayer's
statements, discrepancies will be discovered which tend
greatly to impair his evidence.  In his declaration made in
August 1832, he alleges that he enlisted in the latter part of
January 1776, in a company called "Washington's Independent
artificers", and enrolled in Knox's Regiment of Artillery;
his wages were twenty dollars per month, that some 
time after his enlistment he was dispatched with some
heavy mortars to New York; thence to New Jersey; thence
to White Plains, where he was in a battle, &c. and was
discharged on the first of May 1777.  In his affidavit
made in July last, he says that after the British evacuated
Boston, (in March 1776),  he joined as a volunteer
the corps of artificers commanded by Captain Ayres;
that said corps consisted of 25 blacksmiths, 25
carpenters, and 25 wheelwrights; that he continued
to serve at various places until the close of the year
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1777; that he knew Gridley well, and that he was
master of Captain of the blacksmiths at Cambridge
in 1775.  In his first statement it will be perceived
that he says nothing about the corps of Ayres, not
a word as to joining it as a volunteer after the British
left Boston, nor his continuing in the service till the
end of the year 1777, and makes no mention of
Gridley whatever.  His statement respecting the amount
of wages which he received is wholly at variance
with the Resolution of the Provincial Congress of
Massachusetts.  The privates of the corps of artificers 
commanded by Ayres, were paid only $8.33 1/3 per month,
and there were only 49 privates in the corps, whereas he
states that there were 75.
In  the list of persons who held
officers in the corps the name of Gridley does not
appear; nor does it appears that there was any "Master
or Captain" of blacksmiths.  It appears by the
resolutions of the Provincial Congress and the committee
of safety that Ayres was styled "Master Carpenter or
overseer of Artificers".  That McIntosh was a blacksmith
in Gridley's shop, and that the latter was employed
to execute work for the army.  I have no doubt, but
it is equally clear to me that he was only an apprentice
to Gridley, who was employed under a civil contract.
This I think is very evident from the phraseology employed
by the Misses Gridley, both of whom agree in saying
that McIntosh was their father's apprentice.  In this
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it is not very probable that they would be mistaken.
If Gridley belonged to the army, why did he leave it
when the army left Boston?  None of the Military 
engagements entered into in 1776 expired before the end
of that year, yet he left the public employment in March.  He
is called a Master or Captain of Blacksmiths, yet his
name no where appears on any public document or record
in any way whatever.
The statements respecting the service from
December 1778 to July 1780 as an artificer under Stephen
Frost and Quarter Master Thomas Chase are equally 
objectionable.  There is no evidence whatever to shew that 
Frost was recognized as an officer of artificers.  The facts
appear to be that McIntosh worked at his trade in the public
employ under a civil contract, and no case of this description
is embraced by the provision of the act of June 7, 1832.
He appears to have been in the service two
months as a Militia man in 1776.  This is clearly proved,
But the law requires six months service to entitle any
one to its benefits.  The claim cannot therefore be
admitted.  The papers are herewith enclosed.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
(signed) J. L. Edwards
I certify that the foregoing is truly copied from the original
in the Pension office.  Apl. 2 1836.
J. D. Wilson Clerk.

Hon. Lewis Cass,
Secretary of War.
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27918

Peter McIntosh
Mass

[illegible] D L. Child.  Apl 18 '34
Hon J. Q. Adams Feby 1. '35
Secy of war March 20 '35
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At a Congress of Delegates from the
several Towns and Districts in the Colony of
the Massachusetts Bay, began and held at
the Meeting House in Watertown, the 3rd of May,
1775.
June 19, 1775.
The Committee appointed to consider the
expediency of establishing certain Officers for taking
care of the Ordinance Store, viz.-- Storekeeper, Conductors,
Clerk, also, the establishment of a Company of 
Artificers, &c. reported.  The Report was amended and
accepted, and is as follows:
The Committee appointed to consider the
expediency of establishing certain Officers for taking
care of the Ordinance Stores, also, what Artificers, and
the number that may be necessary for the Army, and
in what way they shall be established, have attended
that service, and beg leave to report as follows:
That, in addition to the Storekeeper already
appointed by this Congress, there be established, four
Conductors of Stores, and two Clerks for the Ordinance
Department, and a Company of Artificers, to consist
of a Master Carpenter, or Overseer, with 49 Privates,
and the Committee of Safety be desired to recommend
to this Congress fit persons for the offices above named,
and if any such privates who are now engaged in either
of the Regiments of the Massachusetts Army, and are
inclined to join the above said Company, they may have
leave so to do, they relinquishing their pay as Soldiers
from the time they engage as Artificers, and be equipt
with Fire Arms and Accoutrements, and the Overseer
(when appointed) be ordered to consult the Chief Engineer
with respect to the number of each kind of Artificers
that my be necessary, and that he complete his
Company, and made Return thereof to this Congress
(over)
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with all possible dispatch,---Your Committee 
furthermore beg leave to report an Establishment for
the Officers and Privates abovementioned, --viz:--
The Store Keeper,----------80/ per month
4 Conductors,--each----     48/---do.
1 Master Carpenter or Overseer,  80/---do.
2 Clerks,-----each----           48/----  do.
49 Privates, they to find their own tools,  50/-- do. each.
All which is humbly submitted.
Elisha Parks,  per order.

In Committee of safety, Cambridge, June 19, 1775.
Pursuant to a Resolve of the Hon.ble the Provincial
Congress, sent to this Committee, respecting the nomination
of four Conductors, two Clerks, and one Overseer for a
Company of Artificers in the Regiment of Artillery,-- they
beg leave to recommend the following persons to the
Offices affixed to their names, --viz.--
John Ruddock,
John Austin,
John Kneeland,
Thomas Uran,,    Conductors.

Nathaniel Barber, jun,
Isaac Pierce,    Clerks.

Joseph Ayres, Overseer of the Artificers.
Benjamin White, Chairman

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, October 11, 1834.

I hereby Certify that the foregoing  are true Copies
from the  Original Volume deposited in this office, containing
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the Journals of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts
Bay, and the Committee of Safety for the same Colony.

Edward D. Bangs, Secretary of
the Commonwealth.

I further Certify that after a careful examination to Return
or Roll of said Company of Artificers has been found in
this office.
Edward D Bangs.  Secretary
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IN COUNCIL, FRIDAY OCTOBER 30TH 1778.

Board of War to continue in Service all Artificers.

Whereas it appears to this Board that it was
not the intent of the General Court in passing the
resolve of the fifteenth of October instant respecting the
laboratory, that the commanding officer of the Regiment
of Artillery should furnish from his regiment such
artificers as might be necessary to be employed in and about
the works to be carried on in the laboratory.  Therefore
Ordered that the Board of War be & hereby are directed
to continue in the Serv ice & pay of this state, all such
artificers as are now in the said Service until the further
order of this Board on the General Court

In Council, Saturday
May 29th 1779.

Com. to examine Gratuity rolls.
On motion Ordered that Samuel Niles
& Joseph Simpson esq. be a committee to examine
the gratuity rolls of the officers and soldiers in the
Continental Service, as also the [illegible] rolls of the
Continental officers belonging to this state.

In Council Thursday
October 7th 1779.

[In left margin]  Fourteen hundred pounds Artificers
Col. [illegible]  Regt.

Warrants drawn on the Treasury for Fourteen
hundred pounds in favor of the Artificers under
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Colonel Mason in full of the first & second morety of
the sum allowed by a resolve of the Sixth of February
last.

In Council Wednesday
May 3rd. 1780.

Warrant drawn on the Treasury for Forty nine
hundred forty six pounds 9/4 in favor of several
soldiers in the Artillery Artificers

In Council, Saturday
July 29th 1780.

Warrant drawn on the Treasury for Fourteen
thousand three hundred seventy seven pounds 11/9 in favor
of several soldiers in the Corps of Artillery Artificers.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office.  November 21st 1848.
I certify the foregoing to be true copies from the Council
Records of the above dates.
W. B. Calhoun, Secretary of the Common wealth
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Resolve for the appointment of a Comptroller of the
Laboratory in this State, and pointing out his proper
business, passed October 15, 1778.

Whereas, this Court did on the 28th day of April last,
pass a Resolve for appointing a Commissary of Military
Stores, and regulating the Laboratory which resolve is
insufficient to answer the End proposed; it is there

Resolved.  That some person be appointed by joint ballot
of both houses as a Comptroller of the Laboratory, and the
said Comptroller is hereby ordered and directed to take into
his possession and care all the Military Stores and Ordinance of this State except such as are necessary for the
several Forts and Redoubts within the same, and the
said Comptroller is further directed to take charge of the
Laboratory of this state, superintend and carry on the
Works of the Same, and the commanding officer of the
Regiment of Artillery in the Service of this state is hereby
ordered and directed to furnish the said Comptroller with
such and so many men as shall be necessary for making
Cartridges, and carrying and such other works as may be
wanted in the said Laboratory and whenever the Regiment of Artillery or any of the officers of Forts and
Redoubts as of any Corps in the service and pay of this
State shall have occasion for Cartridges or any other military
stores, they are directed to apply to the Honorable
Council who are requested to give Orders for such Quantities
as they shall judge necessary.
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And it is further Resolved, That the said Comptroller
shall recommend to the Honorable Council some suitable
person for a Master Fire worker.  Who shall have Commission
for said purpose, also appoint a clerk for
said Laboratory, and the said Comptroller shall be accountable
for such stores and Military Apparatus as he
shall from Time to Time receive, and shall take receipts
for all such stores and Apparatus as may be ordered
out by the Honorable the Major Part of the Council, and
make return of them from Time to Time as they may or
[illegible] and direct; and the said Comptroller to be under
the direction of the Honorable the Major Part of said
Council.  The said Comptroller shall have the rank,
Pay and Rations of a Colonel. The Master Fire worker
of a Captain and the Clerk of a first Lieutenant of
Artillery.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office Boston Nov. 21 1848.
I certify the foregoing to be a true copy from the printed
Resolve.

[illegible] Callum, Secretary of the Commonwealth