Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12326, Abel Brigham, Mass
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE Mass
 Brigham, Abel 
NUMBER S. 12326
carded
CONTENTS
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14065 
New York 
Abel Brigham 
Oswego Co in the State of New York who was a pr & Corpl. in the Company commanded by Captain Haskell in the Regt commanded Col Marshall in the Mass line for 18 pri 6" Corpl. 
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York the rate of 82 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of May 1833 and sent to Lowel John on Palermo
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 Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00 
Semi-ant. allowance ending Joseph 41.00 
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$205.00
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 Revolutionary Claim, June 7, 1832
Rercorded. by J. G. Williams Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 4 Page 44
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14. 153
Abel Brigham 
Oswego Co N York 
July 8 '80 6 mo Corporal

Admitted 
18 mo. Private
6 mo.  Corporal 

to 22 

Lowell Johnson Ck.
Oswego Co
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BRIEF in the case of Abel Brigham in the State of N York (Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court 
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
3. How old is he? 71 year 
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

[table headings]Period. | Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days |  Rank. As a | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. 
[row 1]May in 1776 | [blank] 9 [blank] | Private | Capt Haskell Col Marshall
[row 2]Aug 1777 | [blank] 3 [blank] | " | Capt Gleason
[row 3] Octobr 1777 | [blank] 2 [blank] | " | Capt Wheeler Col Buttrick
[row 4] March 1778 [illegible] | [blank] [blank] | " | [blank]
[row 5] July 1778 | [blank] 2 [blank] | " | 
Capt Catting Col Marshall
[row 6]1779 | [blank] 3 [blank] | " | Capt Gleeson Col Whitney
[row 7] July 1780 | [blank] 6 [blank] | " | Capt Williams Col Sproat

5. In what battles was he engaged? Rhode Island 
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sudbury Masstts 
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Papers not attach or regd

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above 
Richard Cutts Examining Clerk.
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In the Matter of Abel Brigham application for a pension 14.153
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State of New York 
Oswego County SS

on this twenty fourth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County now sitting Abel Brigham a resident of Vaburg in said County & State aged Seventy two 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 the 7th 1832 

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated

That he was born on the twenty fifth day of March one thousan seven hundred and sixty in Sudbury in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts that he believes his age must be recorded in the office of the town Clerk of Sudbury and it is also in the family Bible in his possession. 

That in the year 1776 [inserted: in May] while living with his father in Sudbury aforesaid the enlisted as a volunteer for the term of six months but continued in the service seven months at this term under Captain Hascall in Colonel Marshall regiment 

Mustered at an Island called Nantucket in Massachusetts Bay where he staid one month thence to Castle William (Now Fort Independence) in the same Bay and was there when the declaration of Independence was promulgated and continued on said island last mentioned the whole of the remaining term except one month in which he was taken out to a place called Jamaica Plains in Roxbury to guard a magazine and was dismissed some time in December but was no written discharge he then returned home to his Mothers to sudbury aforesaid 

that in the spring of 1777 he again enlisted for three month under Captain John Gleason and marched in said company to Boston to perform the duty of a guard to protect the stores on Long Wharf and at times on some of the other wharves was in no engagement in this term and when his Term was out he was dismissed as before and returned home 

About the first of October of the same year he volunteered for thirty days to go to apport Burgoine and Marched from Sudbury aforesaid and marched through Vermont to Bennington thence to Saratoga where he arrived about a week before Burgoine's surrendered but not till after the general battle he was present when Burgoine surrendered and lay on the east side of the North river when the Brittish Moved out in sight on the west side of the river and stacked their arm and went as a guard with the prisoners to winter Hill in Cambridge in Massachusetts when he was again dismissed and returned home a during this town he was under Captain Archel Wheeler in Colonel Butterick Regiment of Militia and was out two months 

That in 1778 and as he believes in March he can recollect there was snow on the ground, he went as a substitute
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For one Joseph Piper for three months to Cambridge in Massachusetts for a term of three months to guard the Prisoners taken with Burgoine that they lay all this time at fort No 2 new prospect Hill in Cambridge aforesaid in performance of the duties of a guard as aforesaid and no thing important took place. when his time was out he was dismissed and went home as before 

That about July of the same year (1778) he again enlisted for two months in Captain Cuttiings Company of Miitia in Colonel Moorhalls regiment in General Sullivan Expedition to Rhodeisland and went on the Island at Howlands Ferry and was in a battle on the Island and retreated off the Island at little Compton where he lay until his term expired when he was again dismissed and went home 

That in 1779 he again enlisted in a company commanded by Captain John Gleason in Colonel Whitneys Regiment for a term of three months that he lay one month in Providence in the State of Rhodeisland doing various duty such as guarding a deserted which came from the enemy with counterfeit money and keeping sentry at difference points thence he went for the rest of the term to North Kingston or Norcutt Island guarding & standing sentry near the Brittish lines and when his term expired he was dismissed and went home 

That about the last of June or first of July 1780 then come a requisition to have a certain number out of each Town and seven was the number called for from Sudbury aforesaid among which he went for one a term of six months under continental officers that he mustered in Concord in Massachusetts then went to West point on the Hudson River from there to Fishkill where he Joined Colonel Sproats Regiment in Captain Abram Williams company where he served as a Corporal that he lay there with very little duty nearly a month and went thence to orangetown and was then at Orangetown when Ander was taken executed Thence to Tinrapper in the State of New Jersey then to a place called the English neighborhood there to west point to winter quarters and was discharged at what was called the York Nutts above west point on the 4th day January 1781   that at this time he had a written discharge which has been lost a great many years since that [inserted: he was in] General Nickson Brigade [crossed out: regiment] of the Massachusetts line 

That Gratons Regiment & Putnam Regiment belonged to the same Brigad and this was another which he does not recollect

that he knows of no person within three or four hundred miles by whom he could prove his services and does not certainly [inserted: know] or there is any person living who could testify thereto 

That he lived in Sudbury aforesaid until the year 1782 when he moved into Rutland in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts where he lived eight years thence he removed to Barre in the same County where he lived four years thence to Paris in the County of Oneida & state of NewYork
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where he remained thirty three years thence to the Town of Vatney in the County of Oswego where he now lives that he is known to Simon Austin Peter Foley John Melvin Philander S Hitchcock and others in his neighborhood who can testify to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his service 

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 or Territory 
Abel Brigham

Subscribed & Sworn the day and year aforesaid 
D.C McPherson  

We Abner Scovert a clergyman in Vaburg and Simon Austin residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abel Brigham, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy two years of age 

That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution that we have never heard that doubted and this we concur in that opinion and that the said Abel Brigham sustains a good Character for truth & veracity.
Oliver Leavitt
Simon Austin

Subscribed & Sworn the day & year aforesaid 
DC McPherson Dep Clk

And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Abner Smith who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Varney aforesaid and that Simon Austin who has also signed the same is a resident in Vaburg aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit 
Lovwell Johnson Reynolds 
J. Saul Truman 
Judges of said Court 

State of New York 
Oswego County SS
I Erie Poor Clerk of the court of Common Pleas for said County of Oswego do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Abel Brigham for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 24 day of Sept 1832 
Eric Poor Clerk
By DC McPherson Dep Clk
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Revy War
12326
INVALID. - 
File No. 12326
Abel Brigham 
Corp Rev. War 

Act: June 7, 1832 I
ndex:--Vol. 2, Page 48 
(Arrangement of 1870.]