Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,109, Israel Dimond, Mass
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass
CONTENTS
Dimond, Israel.
Abigail
1868
NUMBER
W. 16.109
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Duplicate page

(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass
CONTENTS
Dimond, Israel.
Abigail
1868
NUMBER
W. 16.109
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Dead - at 15 3d and July 11 '49

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3692
New Hampshire
Abigail Dimond
widow of Israel Demand
who was a private
in the Mass militia
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 27 Dollars 11 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of December184
and sent to
Israel Webster
S. Kingston
N Hamp

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 23
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Declaration    2568
Abigail Dimond
Wid of Israel
NH
Act July 7 1838
Married 1776
died 1819
Allow 8 Ms. 4 day
for $27.10.
On Roll Capt
McFarland
Mass Militia
No. 15 $76

Jn Kelley Esq
Exeter MA
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss.

On this tenth day of October AD 1838 personally appeared before the Hon John Harvey Judge of the Court of Probate for said County at a Probate Court holden at at Exeter in and for said County Abigail Dimond, a resident of Danville in said County of Rockingham aged eighty one years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit To of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows 
- That she is the widow of Israel Dimond late of said Danville deceased who was a soldier in the Army of the United States in the  Revolutionary war and according to the best of her knowledge and belief he enlisted into the company commanded by Capt Mcarland of MacFarling  in April or May 1775 for the term of eight months and served out said term in said Company at Winterfull or in the vicinity of Boston and Bunker hill and for the evidence of the term of his service she respectfully
refers as well to the accompanying evidence to the rolls and files and records in the Department of War at Washington the Regiment in which said Demond served was commanded as the applicant believes by Col Dixon or Dickson
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She further declares that she was married
to the said Israel Demond on the twenty sixth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six; that her husband the aforesaid Israel Demond died on the sixteenth day of December in the year 1819; that she was not married prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated. and that since his death she has never intermarried but has ever remained  and still is the widow of the said Israel Dimond
Abigail Dimond her X mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid John Harvey Judge of Probate 
I John Kelly Register of said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Probate Court in the matter of the application of Abel Dimond for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this tenth day of October AD 1830
John Kelly Register of Probate (signature)
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I Sarah Cotten of Sandown in the State of New Hampshire and County of Rockingham Widow and seventy seven years of age depose and say that I am well acquainted with Abigail Dimond of Danvill [Danville] (formerly Hawke) that she is the Widow of Israel Demond late of said Danvill, now deceased.
I recollect distinctly that the said Israel Dimond served some time in the Revolutionary war and I believe that he served in the company of which Jacob Quimby of Hampstead was  
Ensign. The said Abigail was married to the said Israel Demond before the year 1794.
Sarah Cotton (signature)

State of New Hampshire 
Rockingham County Ss.  October 6, 1838

Personally appeared Sarah Cotten and made oath in due form of law, that the above affidavit by her signed is in her belief true. Before me
Isaac Webster, Justice Peace., (signature)

State of New Hampshire 
Rockingham County ss} October 6, 1838.
I certify that I am well acquainted with Sarah Cotten who signed the above affidavit, and that her character for truth is good.
Isaac Webster, Justice of the Peace (signature)
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I Elizabeth Clough of Landown in State of New Hampshire and County of Rockingham, Widow and in my eighty ninth year of age depose and say that I was present when Abigail Eastman was married to Israel Dimond of Hawke (now Danvill) [Danville] which marriage took place in January Anno Domini 1776 I think.  The said Israel Dimond is now dead. The said Israel Dimond enlisted in to the service of the United States some time in  the spring of 1775 for eight months, in the Company commanded by Moses MacFarling (McFarland] and some time in the month of May   marched into the service in company with my late husband, Jonathan Clough and others, and did not return untill late in the fall of the first of the winter the same year after he marched as above said.  Soon after he returned from the service he was married to the said Abigail as above stated, and she is now his widow. 
Elizabeth Clough her X mark

Signed in presence of us.
Isaac Webster, (signature)
Josiah Clough. (signature)

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss. October 1833
Personally appeared Elizabeth Clough and made oath in due form of law, that the above affidavit by her signed is in her belief to be true 
Before me.
Isaac Webster Justice (signature)
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss } October 5, 1833.
I certify that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth Clough who signed the foregoing affidavit, and that her character for truth is good
Isaac Webster, Justice of the Peace. (signature)
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No.

16199
Abigail Dimond
Wid of Israel Dimond
Pri Rev War
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Act March 30 /43
Index: Vol. A, Page 184
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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New Hampshire
-
Abigai, Dimond widow of Israel Dimond, Decd:
who was a pensioner under the Act of ~~~~~~
and who died in 1819-
of Rockingham Co in the State of N. H.
who was a private in the compy commanded
by Captain McFarland of the _____ commanded by ______
in the Mass. Militia line for 8 months and 4 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth at the rate of 27 Dollars 10 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of April
1839 and sent to John Kelley, Exeter, N.H.
-
Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839 $81.30
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. $13.55
    $94.85

{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by Wm Stewart Clerk,
Book A Vol. 4 Page 38.
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss.
I Ira B. Hoitt Clerk of the Judicial Court within and for said County. certify that Isaac Webster Esq. before whom the annexed declaration was made, is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission is dated on the 21st day of May  - AD 18x9 and will expire in five years from that date, and that the signature thereto purporting to be his are in his own hand writing and are genuine 
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the Seal of Court of Common Pleas this 30th day of August Anno Domini 1843.
I. B. Hoitt Clerk (signature)
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain persons who have received pensions under the Act of July 7, 1832.
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss.
On this twenty six day of August A.D. 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the for said County of Rockingham,
Abigail Dimond resident of Danvil [Danville] in said County of Rockingham aged eighty six years and upwards, who being first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the third day of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the Widow of Israel Demond, who was a Private in the army of the Revolution and the annual amount of the pension which she has received under the Act of July 7, 1838 was twenty seven Dollars and twenty eight cents
She further declares that she is now a widow
Abigail Dimond
her mark Ⓧ
Signed in presence of
Isaac Webster
Obadiah Dimond
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Sworn to and subscribed the twenty six day of August A.D. 1843. Before me
Isaac Webster Justice of the Peace (signature)

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss
August 26, 1843. I certify that the above named Abigail Dimond is personally known to me, is a person of good
reputation for truth, has been a pensioner of the United States
for five years and is still a widow.

Isaac Webster Justice of the Peace
Abigail Dimond 
$27.10
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Kingston N.H.
August 34 

J.L. Edwards
Commission of Pensions
Washington D.C.

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Sept 4. 1843
Abigail Dimond
March 6 1843
A.H.
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South Kingston August 31, 1843.

Dear Sir,
Enclosed is the Declaration of Abigail Dimond, of Danvil (formerly "Hawk) the sum she drew yearly is given by memory and supposed to be correct, if not you will correct it by her former certificate which has been returned.
Yours &c
Isaac Webster

J.L. Edwards Esqr.
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I Stephen Quimby of Hampstead in the County of Rockingham, eighty four years old last August, depose and say that I was well acquainted with Israel Dimond late of Hawk, (now Danvill,) deceased, that in the first year of the Revolutionary War some time in the month of April seventeen hundred and seventy five Moses Mac Farling, {McFarland} of Haverhill in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts received
a Captain's Commission and David Bradly of said Haverhill was his Lieutenant and my father, Jacob Quimby of Hampstead in the State of New Hampshire and County of Rockingham was an Ensign in said Capt. Mac Farlin's Company. The said Capt. Mac Farlin left enlisting orders with my father the said Jacob Quimby and he enlisted the said Israel Dimond for eight months and he also enlisted Benjamin Easton Jonathan Clough, Benjamin Williams and several others for eight month. That in the first part of the month of May seventeen hundred and seventy five, the said Israel Dimond and they all marched for Haverhill and at said Haverhill they met the said Capt. MacFarling Lieutenant Bradley and the rest of the
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Company and I went with them. At said Haverhill, they drew their blankets and a little money. They then marched and crossed the Merrimack River in a Boat and I returned home. A few days before the Battle on Bunker's Hill I went down to see my father and stayed untill after the Battle and the said Israel Dimond was in said Battle. I .think said Company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Dickson. I returned home and left the said Israel Dimond in the service, and he did not return home untill the expiration of eight months from the time they marched as above stated 
My brother Jacob Quimby served in the same company at the same time as a water [boy?] for my father untill my father died. The said Benjamin Eastman, Jonathan Clough, Benjamin Williams, and my brother the said Jacob Quimby are all dead and do not now know of any who served in said Company who are living. Abigail Dimond is still the Widow of the said Israel Dimond.
Stephen Quimby (signature)

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County} 
September 10, 1838

Personally appeared Stephen Quimby and made oath in due form of law, that the above affidavit by him signed is in his belief true. Before me.
Isaac Webster Justice of the Peace. (signature)
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss.

I John Kelly Register of the Court of Probate of said County do hereby certify that Isaac Webster Esq is a Justice of the Peace for his said County and the foregoing signatures purporting to be his
connected with the affidavits of Sarah Cotton Elizabeth Clough and Stephen Quimby are genuine and in his own proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have to set my hand and the seal said Court this tenth day of October AD 1838
John Kelly Register of Probate (signature)

Seal at left