Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31163, Micah Wild, Mass.
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Service.                                          Number

Mass.                Wild, Micah.         S31163
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15.643
Massachusetts
Micah Wild
Essex in the State of Mass who was a Private in the compy commanded by Captain Thayer of the Regt commanded by Col Thayer in the Mass line for 13 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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31163
Pay INVALID
File No. 3, 163
Micah Wild
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index:- Vol. 2 Page 455
Arrangement of 1870.
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23871
Micah Wild
Massachusetts
Private
13 months
Adm'd
Samuel Merrill
Andover Massachusetts
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War Department, Pension Office. 183
Sir:  
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of Micah Wild Essex County Massachusetts

Period when the service was rendered.
Enlisted 1776 Duration of the claimant's service. 3 months. Rank of the claimant privt. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Capt Thayer. Col. Thayer. Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service. 74 years Braintree Mass.
Proof by which the declaration is supported. Documentary Evidence

Period when the service was rendered. 1776 Duration of the claimant's service. 3 months. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Capt Belcher Col. Lincoln

Period when the service was rendered. 1776 Duration of the claimant's service. 2 months. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Capt Belcher Col. Mackintosh

Period when the service was rendered. 1777. Duration of the claimant's service. 3 months. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Capt Wild Col. Brooks

Period when the service was rendered. 1778 Duration of the claimant's service. 2 months. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Capt Wild Col. Brooks

13 months
I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
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23871

Micah Wild
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS: COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss.

On the 16th day of October A.D. 1832, personally even appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, now sitting, Micah Wild, a resident of Andover, in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 74 years, who being first duly sworn according to law do on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832: 
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as here and stated:
That about the last of January A. D. 1776 he enlisted as a volunteer private of Braintree in the state of Massachusetts in Captain Isaac, Thayers company and Colo. Ebeneezer Thayers Regiment in the state service for the term of three months and served in said company for Guard on the shore in Braintree for said term of three months and on the last day of April, next following was discharged, having completed set term of three months service. He knows no surviving witness by whom he can prove his service.
That about the middle of December A. D. 1776 at the said Braintree he enlisted as a volunteer private in state services, captain Nathaniel Belcher’s Company and Colo Lincoln‘s regiment in the state service, and immediately marched for Providence in the state of Rhode Island. + there joined the regiment, and marched from there to Tarrytown (that he thinks is the name of the place) in the state of New York on the opposite side of the River to Poughkeepsie, and after a short state in that place marched to Morristown in the state of New Jersey where he served till the 17th day of March 17 77, when he was discharged, having completed three months service, the term for which he enlisted,+ then returned home to Braintree aforesaid-Alexander [Loud] was Lieutenant in said Belcher’s Company-he can find us surviving within their service.
But in the month of August 17 76 had said Braintree he enlisted, as a volunteer private for the term of two months in Capt. Nathaniel Belcher’s Company + Colo Makintosh’s regiment in the state service, and marched immediately to Fairfield in the state of Connecticut, and after a short stay there marched to North Castle in the state of New York. And serve there till he had completed the aforesaid term of two months service when he was discharged and returned home to Braintree aforesaid Joseph Wild was Quarter-master in said Regiment see Philip Thayer’s affidavit hereto annexed.
That he also had said Braintree enlisted as a volunteer private and captain Silas Wild’s Company +. Colo Brook’s Regiment I served and said Company for Guard at Cambridge and about Boston, in the state service from Nov 4th 1777 to Feby. 3 1778 two months, and also served in said Wild’s Company and said Brook’s Regiment as a volunteer private from said 3 day of February 1778 to the 3 day of April following, two months Alexander
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Lond was Lieutenant in said Wild’s Company said Micah Wild was discharged one said third day of April and returned home to Braintree aforesaid. See the certificate of Edward D. Bangs, Secretary of State for Commonwealth of Massachusetts unto annexed. 
He was born at said Braintree in April 22, 1758. And he has a record of his birth on the town book of records in said Braintree. He lived there till about three years after he left the service + then remove to Milton, a town, which joins Braintree, where he lived about three years he then removed to Marblehead in the state of Massachusetts when he had about two years + then removed to Salem, Massachusetts, and live there about 15 years he then removed to Andover, Massachusetts where he has ever so resided and now resides.
He was a volunteer and never received any written discharge is well known to Rev. La Roy Sunderland and to Tho as C. Foster one of the selectmen of the town of Andover who both live in his present neighborhood.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any State. 
(Signed) Micah Wild
We, (Signed) La Roy Sunderland a clergyman, residing in Andover aforesaid, and Thomas C. Foster aforesaid, do you hear by certified that we are well acquainted with Michael Wilde, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 74 years of age; that he has repeated and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 

Subscribed and sworn to before, 
(Signed) La Roy Sunderland 
(Signed) Tho. C Foster
(Signed) D A White JOCOP
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Augt. 13. 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 Micah Wild Served in Capt. Silas Wilds Company Col. Brooks Regiment for guard at Cambridge and about Boston from Nov. 4th 1777 to Feby. 3d 1778. two months and thirty days. Also that Micah Wild Served in Said Wilds Company and Said Brooks Regt from the 3d day of Feby. 1778 to the 3d day of April following two months
Edward D. Bangs [Secy.]
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And the said Court hereby declares its 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 certifies that La Roy Sunderland who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in Andover and that the said Thomas C. Foster who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at Andover and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
D. W. Whitt Judge of Probate

I, Nathaniel Lord Junior, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Micah Wild for a pension.  I further certify, that I believe Minott Thayer esquire, whose name is subscribed to be a justice of the peace for the county of Norfolk, in this commonwealth, and that the signature of his name to each is his genuine signature.   Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this sixteenth day of October, A.D. 1832.
Nathl. Lord jr.