Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for John Nixon, Massachusetts
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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE
Continental
Mass.
CONTENTS
Nixon, John
NUMBER
Dis.
No papers
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Nixon, John
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid
pension returned by the District Court for the District of
Massachusetts, submitted to the House of Representatives by
the Secretary of War on December 31, 1794, and printed
in the American State Papers, class 9, page 140.

Rank: Colonel
Disability: Wounded by a ball in his testicles, whereby he is
subjected to pain in his groin, and weakness in the lower limbs.
When and where disabled; June 17, 1775, Bunker's Hill
Residence: Sudbury.
To what pension entitled: One-third
Remarks: Militia
Evidence imperfect, viz: 1st. Disability from known wounds
received while in the actual line of his duty, proved by only one witness, which may be from the nature of the case. 2d. The evidence
of only two freeholders is produced to prove the fourth requisite of the law, which requires three.

On the printed list of 1835, on the list
of invalid pensioners who had been in receipt
of pensions at the agency of Burlington
Vermont and whose residence could not
be ascertained in consequence of the
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destruction of the papers in the War
Office in 1801 (should be 1800) and 1814
appears:
John Nixon, Colonel, annual allowance
$150, pension commenced
March 4, 1795, Act of April 20, 1796.
transferred from Mass
1041
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AW July 9, 1906
L.M. H.
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Nixon, John
His name appears on a list of applicants
for invalid pension returned by the Circuit Court
for the district of Massachusetts, submitted to the
House of Representatives by the Secretary of War
on Dec. 14, 1792, and printed in the American
State Papers, Class 9, page 63.
Rank: Colonel
Regt.
Disability: Disabled by a wound at the
battle of Bunker's Hill, and by sickness contracted
while in the service.
Date of commencement:
Oct. 15, 1792
Monthly allowance:
$16.66 ⅔
Arrears due:
$100.
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AW
July 30, 1906
W J F
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Nixon, John
His name appears on a list of claimants to be
placed on the pension list returned by the District Court
for the District of Massachusetts, submitted to the House
of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25,
1794, and printed in the American State Papers,
class 9, page 111.

Rank: Brigadier
Disability: Wounded in his privates, and from sickness
contracted afterwards in the service.
When and where disabled: June 17. 1775, Bunker's Hill.
Residence: Sudbury
Monthly allowance: $16.67
Arrearages: $100
Remarks: There was a General Nixon in the
service of the United States.
(he & the Colonel were one and
the same person)
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Rev. & 1812 Wars
Section.

February 5, 1926.

John M. Merriam,
321 Shawmut Bank Building,
Boston, Mass.

Sir:
I have to advise you, that from the records of this
Bureau, it appears that John Nixon of Sudbury, Massachusetts,
a Colonel and Brigadier General in the War of the Revolution
received a gunshot wound at the battle of Bunker Hill
and was pensioned on account of the disability resulting
therefrom and also for sickness later contracted in the
service. He was pensioned from March 4, 1795, at the
rate of $150 per annum, under the Act of April 20, 1796
and his pension was paid at the agency at Burlington, Vermont, but there is no further data on file in regard to
his service and none at all as to his family, owing to
the destruction of papers in the War Office, which was
twice burned, in 1800 and again in 1824.
Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT.
Commissioner.
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send letter to personal inquirty Jan 1926

John M. Merriam
32 Shawmut Bank Bldg
Boston,
Mass
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N21
RevSec

Pension Office
Jun 10 1915

12/150
$12.50

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS ONLY

Bureau of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

O. Mr. book Col.
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Please send me copy of record
of pension granted to
John Nixon on April 20, 1796
He was a Colonel from Massachusetts
and
received one-third
of a pension.
Thanking you,
Mrs. J. R. Rich
Berwind, McDowell Co. West Va.
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Rev. War Section.

June 16, 1915.

Mrs. J. R. Rich,
Berwind,
McDowell Co. Va.

Madam:
In response to your undated letter received on the 10th instant, you are advised that the records of this Bureau
show that John Nixon
was allowed a pension of $12.50 per month
for disability incurred while a Colonel in the Revolutionary War; he was paid at the Vermont Agency to which his name had been
transferred from the Massachusetts Agency, date not given.
As his papers were lost in consequence of the destruction
of the papers of the war office in 1800 and 1814, this Bureau
has no further information concerning him.
In the publication entitled "American State Papers, Class
9, Claims", page 140.
in the list of applicants for invalid
pension transmitted by
the Judge of the District court for the
District of Massachusetts, it appears that Colonel John Nixon
of Sudbury applied for
pension on account of wound received
June 17, 1775, at the
battle of Bunker Hill.
Very respectfully,
GM Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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PRESIDENT
HENRY BYRON PHILLIPS
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
REV. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BREWER
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
WALTER DAMON MANSFIELD
THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT
DR. ALVIN PLUMMER
LIBRARIAN
MRS. WALTER DAMON MANSFIELD

HISTORIAN
MRS. ELISHA TIBBITS
TREASURER
THOMAS EDWARD BOND
501 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
RECORDING SECRETARY
HON. BOUTWELL DUNLAP
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
MISS SARAH LOUISE KIMBALL
1113 CLAUS SPRECKELS BLDG, SAN FRANCISCO


SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 1915

Pension Office,
Washington,
D. C.

Gentlemen:

I will be greatly obliged if you will give
me a memorandum of the service of Colonel John Nixon
in the Revolutionary war. He first publicly read
and proclaimed the declaration of Independence in
Independence Square, Philadelphia, July 8, 1776.
I understand he also served in the Continental Army
and would like to know that service, with reference
to authority, to be used by a descendant of Colonel
Nixon upon becoming a member of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. His daughter Mary married
Francis West and had John Wharton West who married
Mary Holt, lived in Norfolk, Va., and their daughter,
Mary Nixon West, who married Frank P. Thompson, is
now living in Palo Alto, California. A lengthy artiabout
the West family of Philadelphia and Baltimore
appeared in " The North American" of Sept. 27, 1908, from
which the above
statement concerning Colonel John Nixon
is taken.

Yours respectfully,
Sarah Louise Kimball