Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8553, for Caleb Richardson, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass,   

Richardson, Caleb 
Huldah   

NUMBER
W. 8553

CONTENTS
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No, 11,873
Pennsylvania
Caleb Richardson
of Suqueha. Co. in the State of Penn.
who was a Fifer & Priv. in the company commanded by Captain Richardson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Walker in the Mass Troops for 8 months Fifer -- $25.66
     3 months Pro -----10.00
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                                   $36.66
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of July
     1833 and sent to Asa Dimock
                            Montrose PA
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833          73.32
Semi-anl allowance ending Sep. 1833   18.33
                                                               _______
                                                               91.65
     Revolutionary Claim,
     Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by D. Brown                   Clerk
Book E Vol. 5  Page 48
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4751
Pennsylvania Philaa.
Huldah Richardson
widow of Caleb Richardson who served in the Revolutionary war, as a pri & fifer                                 _________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 36  Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Apl 1849 and sent to C, C, Richardson Harford PA
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 263 Vol. 2.

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Reported
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State of Pennsylvania Susquehanna County SS
On this tenth day of September AD 1832 personally appeared in open court before William Thomson and Davis Dimock esqrs associate Judges of the Cort of Common Pleas of Susquehanna County aforesaid, now sitting Caleb Richardson a resident of Harford township in the county of Susquehanna and state of Pennsylvania aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oat, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein state.
He joined the Massachusetts Militia or provincial troops at Attleborough in the county of Bristol and state of Massachusetts as a volunteer the first of May 1775 under the enlistment for eight months to serve as a fifer under his father Capt. Caleb Richardson, Lieut. Enoch Robinson and Ensign Solomon Stanley. his company was attached to Regiment commanded by Col. Timothy Walker Lieut Col. Nathaniel Leonard and Major Abell Mitchell - that he marched immediately to Roxbury near Boston and continued in the service at Roxbury & Dorchester until some time in the month of October 1775 when he was taken sick and was sent home. And was never able to join his company until after the first of January 1776, at which time the term of his inlistmnt had expired.
That he again enlisted as a volunteer for three months, in the state troops or melitia of Massachusetts, at Attleborough aforesaid on the first of September 1777 - and again under his father Capt. Caleb Richardson, 1st Lieut. Sylvester Jones, 2nd Lieutenant Jacob Fuller & Ensign William Sweatland. was attached to a Regiment commanded by Col. Keys, Lieut. Col. Wade, and marched from Attleborough to Providence Rhode Island and then to East Greenwich and down on the Narraganset Shore at and near "North Ferry" and remained there until October and thence marched round by Howland ferry and Tiverton to the east side of Rhode Island and remained there for about three weeks. then marched to Warren
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And the said Caleb Richardson on his oath further states, that on alarms he was out in the militia and marched from Attleborough aforesaid to Rhode Island, at three different times - at one time he was out about two or three weeks - at the other times a week or ten days each - but does not at this time recollect particulars. That he has no documentary evidence of his service, and knows of no persons, other than those whose affidavit are hereunto annexed who can testify to 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 to his knowledge.
Caleb Richardson

Sworn & subscribed in open Court the tenth day of September AD 1832
Asa Dimock Jr. Prot

We Ebenezer Kingsbury a clergyman resident in the township of Harford in the county of Susquehanna and state of Pennsylvania and Asahel Sweet residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Caleb Richardson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Ebenezer Kingsbury
Asahel Sweet

Sworn and subscribed in open court the tenth day of September AD 1832
Asa Dimock Jr Prot
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And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigating 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 Ebenezer Kingsbury who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in Harford township Susquehanna county and that Asahel Sweet who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court
Asa Dimock Jr Prot 

State of Pennsylvania Susquehanna County SS
I Asa Dimock Jr Protonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Susquehanna County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Caleb Richardson for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Montrose, the tenth day of September AD 1832.
Asa Dimock Jr Prot
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State of Pennsylvania Susquehanna County SS
Personally appeared before Hosea Tiffany esquire, one of the justices of the peace, in and for the county of Susquehanna, Caleb Richardson, of the township of Harford in said county and an applicant for a pension, under the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832, and being duly sworn according to law, in answer to the interrogatories prescribed by the Regulations of the War Department under said Act - doth on his oath depose and say: - 
1st - That he was born in Attleborough in the county of Bristol & state of Massachusetts, the 16th of December 1762 - the record of which he has seen on the records of Attleborough.
2nd -That he has a family record of his age now in his possession.
3rd - That he resided at Attleborough aforesaid when called into the service of his country and until the year 1806 when he moved to the county of Susquehanna where he now resides.
4th - That he volunteered under his father Capt Caleb Richardson as a fifer as stated in his declaration.
5th - That the names of the officers who were with the troops where he served were Col Walker, Lieut Col Leonard, Major Mitchell, Col Keys, Lieut Col Wade - and that the general circumstances of his services are fully detailed in his declaration.
6th - That he never received a written discharge from the service - but was mearly dismissed by the commanding officer.
7th - That the Rev Ebenezer Kingsbury & Capt Asahel Sweet have certified to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution - and he verily believes that his neighbours generally who know him would testify to the same. That since making his declaration in Sept. last he has procured the affidavit of William Sweatland as to his service in the second campaign, taken before Noah Claflin, a justice of the peace of Bristol Massachusetts and has forwarded the same to the War department
Caleb Richardson

May 24th 1833 personally appeared before the subscriber the said Caleb Richardson to me well known as a man of veracity & to whose testimony full credit may be given & subscribed and made oath to the foregoing deposition.
Hosea Tiffany J. P.
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State of Pennsylvania Susquehanna County SS
I Asa Dimock Jr Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Susquehanna do hereby certify that Hosea Tiffany esquire, whose signature in his own proper handwriting appears to the attestation of the within deposition, as also other attestations of the affidavits of Thomas Tiffany and Hosea Tiffany late of Harford decd and to the certificate of the credibility of the said Thomas & Hosea, subscribed, and by me hereunto attached, is, and was on the 28th day of August last an acting justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified according to law, as appears of record decd that full faith and credit should be given to his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Montrose the twenty fourth day of May AD 1833
Asa Dimock Jr Prot.