Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5144, for Leonard Parks, Massachusetts
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Mass.  Parks, Leonard  S5144  
Carded
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Let.( Letter) to you  W. Parmenter
                                Dec. 27th 1837.
W.H Park Dec 7 1840.
Hon (Honorable) F. Mallery July 5th 1843


3055

Massachusetts 

Leonard Parks
                          in the Sate of 
 
who was a Private in the company commanded

Captain                    of the          commanded

Col Gardner in the 

line for 14 

             10           Private







Inscribed on the Roll of 
at the rate of 821 Dollars 66 Cents per
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of December 1832 and        Ephriam Buttrick to
Cambridge Mas.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $126.99
Semi= ant. allowance ending 4 March 33 42.33
                                                   $169.32
                                  Revolutionary Claim,
                                  Act June 7, 1832

Recorder by J              Blain Clerk,
                       Vol. 2.               Page 15.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
On this fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honourable Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, now sitting, Leonard Parks a resident of Cambridge in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 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 7, A.D. 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
That he the said Leonard Parks enlisted for the term of eight months on or about the twentieth day of April AD. 1775 in the Company commanded by Captain Fuller in the Regiment commanded by Col. Gardner of Cambridge who was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill, and afterwards by Col. Bond of Watertown: that he served as a Fifer, in the army under Gen. Washington. stationed near Boston. until the expiration of said term of eight months - ; That he the said Leonard Parks, on the same day that his said enlistment for eight months expired - again entlisted for the term of one year into the Company of Captain Ashley in the Regiment commanded by Col. Patterson & that he served in that corps for one full year. at the expiration of which he was discharged at Trenton in the State of New Jersey after the battle of Trenton. During this year's enlistment He marched with the company of Capt. Ashley from Boston to New London in the State of Connecticut - thence to New York by water. From that place a number of Regiments were ordered to march to Albany & thence thro' Ticonderoga to Montreal. of which number was Col. Pattersons Regiment to which he belonged. The troops had the small pox at Montreal - That from Montreal he returned to Ticonderoga followed by the British - where the American troops made a stand -; thence he came to Albany - where the troops recruited awhile; While at Albany Col. Pattersons regiment, with others, was ordered to join the army under Gen. Washington in New Jersy, where it marched accordingly & joined General Washington in season to be present at the Battle of Trenton, in which Col. Patterson's Regiment was engaged & that he the said Parks was in said battle - soon after which he was discharged & returned to Boston In the autumn of the year 1777. orders came for more troops to assist Gen. Gates at Stillwater in the conflict with Gen. Burguoyne & that He the said Parks enlisted for an indefinite period, into the company of Capt Samuel Farrer in the Regiment of Col. Read; that he marched from Boston by Northampton to Stillwater and joined the army there under Gen. Gates - that he was with said Regiment in the
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of Stillwater and continued there until the surrender of General Burgoyne to the American arms. Gen . Burgoyne's army were taken as prisoners of war from Stillwater to Prospect Hill near Boston. and the said Col's Regiment, to which he the said Parks belonged, acted at guard on the march - that on his arrival at Prospect Hill he was discharged & that this term of service was one month & ten days. That on the arrival of the British prisoners at Prospect Hill as above stated, a guard was formed for three months & at the expiration of which time, another guard to said Prisoners was wanted for three months more and that he the said Parks enlisted for that purpose as a fifer for three months; in a company. (the captain's name is not recollected in the Regiment of Col Read of Littleton, that he was stationed at Cambridge near Prospect Hill, in the same house with Col. Read - That he served out that term of enlistment. This was in the winter and spring of 1778 - That in September of the year 1778 he again enlisted into the Company commanded by Captain Goodwin in Col. Cogswells Regiment for three months as fife major & served out that term of enlistment in guarding and fortifying the parts in and near Boston in Massachusetts -
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 any state, but that his name has been on the pension Roll of the Massachusetts' Agency under the Statute of the 18th March 1818. and has been struck therefrom -
[signed] Leornard Parks
[written in margin] 8 mo?
12. da
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We, Thomas Whittemore a clergyman, residing in the town of Cambridge and Ephraim Buttrick Justice of the Peace residing in Cambridge hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Leonard Parks who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; - that we believe him to be seventy two years of age: that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
[signed] Thos. Whittemore
[signed] Eph Buttrick
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] L.P. P. Fay JProb

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 above-named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify, that it appears to them that Thos. Whittemore who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in Cambridge and that Ephm Buttrick who has also signed the same, is a resident in Cambridge magistrate of the County and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
[signed] J. P. P. Fay JProb

I Isaac Fiske Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Leonard Parks for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
[signed] Isaac Fiske Reg
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United States of America
District & State of} Massachusetts.
I Leonard Parks a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Cambridge in the County of Middlesex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in the month of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy five at Cambridge aforesaid I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of January in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven one year & eight months in the whole as a Musician against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Captain Nathan Fuller in Col. Gardner's regiment for eight months & to the Company of Captain Ashley, in Col. Pattersons regiment for a year and that I left the service at the expiration of the term aforesaid being honourably discharged but from the lapse of time, my discharge is lost and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty seven without property & obtaining support for myself and family, by labour
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
[signed] Leonard Parks

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a lwa of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A.D. 1818 personally appeareth before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Circuit court of Comon pleas for the middle Circuit, within the State aforesaid, & presiding pro [illegible] the abovenamed Leonard Parks and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of the said Court the day & year aforesaid
[signed] Wm Witmore
I also certify that the within named
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Deponents are credible & disinterested witnesses
[signed] Wm Witmore
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I Nathan Smith heretofore a Captain in the revolutionary army do testify that the within named declarant was in the same company with me during the term of time of eight months as stated by him, as a private, & that he has not any property. I know also that he served for a year afterwards in Col. Patterson's regiment. -
[signed] Nathan Smith
Sworn to before me
[signed] Wm Witmore the Judge within named

I John George of Watertown in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Testify and say that I was an officer in the war of the Revolution from its commencement to the close. That I am well acquainted with Leonard Parks of Cambridge in the County of Middlesex aforesaid, I am personally knowing to the said Parks being in the army as a Fifer upon the continental establishment, for more than twenty months together. 
[signed] John George

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex Ss - Watertown June 25 - 1818 - Personally appeared John George and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me [signed] Levi Thaxter, Jus of the Peace

Diverse certificates that Mr Thaxton is a magistrate of respectability in the county of Middlesex, from the Clerk of Comon pleas in sd county have been said to be filed in the war office in sundry applications for pensions to which reference is requested. I also know him to be such & that he is a member of the legislature of this state & has been an Officer of the United States during the late war, being a Collector of internal duties
[signed] Wm Wetmore Judge as aforesaid
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James Russells affidavit
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I James Russell of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gentlemen of lawful age depose and say that, Mr. Leonard Parks of Cambridge in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid was a Fife major in the States service in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight and nine that he was in the service three months with me in Capt. David Gardner's Company stationed at Boston and further I say not 
Charlestown August 18th 1832
[signed] James Russell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex Ss With Cambridge August 18th A.D. 1832
Then personally appeared the above named James Russell and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed 
Before me
[signed] James Russell Justice of the Peace 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Middlesex Ss.
I Isaac Fiske Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Middlesex hereby certify that James Russell whose own [illegible] signature [cut off]
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Portsmouth


You will be kind enough to furnish me with copy's of such papers & documents on file in your department as relates to my Dec Grandfather Major Leonard Parks Sr. ( of Cambridge Port   ) who received a pension from government for Revolutionary services.

I cannot say precisely at what time this pension was obtained, but say from about 10 years since he died in the year 1838 .

Your compliance with my request will greatly aid the relatives of the dead in some information they wish,      their warmest thanks


                    I am respectfully 
                             very 

                                WM Parks
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War Department
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United
States, of the 18th of March 1818,
Leonard Parks late a Private
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 com-
mence on the Eleventh day of April one thousand
eight hundred and Eighteen.

Given at the War Office of the United
States, tis thirty first day of
May one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen.
J. L. Edwards,
in the absence and on behalf
of the Secretary of War.
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REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE.
O.W.&N. DIV.
MEMORANDA
Please supply as much as possible of the
data called for below.
Full name of soldier:
Leonard Parks
Place of residence before service
(Town, country, and State, if possible)
Lincoln, Mass.
Place of residence after service:
(Town, country, and State, if possible)
Lincoln and Cambridge, Mass
Date of death (as near as possible)
Aug 6 1835
Christian name of widow:
Elizabeth (Bucknam)
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?

Your name and address:
C. Wellman Parks
1825 Fifth Ave.
Troy,
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WORLD'S
COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF EDUCATION

1825 Fifth Ave, Troy, NY, April 13, 1894.
Chief Clerk,
Pension Office,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
  I enclose slip giving data
relating to Leonard Parks whose Rev. Service
I would like to know about. I would
also like to know about the record of
David Parks of Lincoln, Mass. His
widow was Sarah Gibbs. Will you
kindly furnish the desired information.
Very respectfully,
C. William Parks