Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25,965, Edmund Welch, Mass.
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Mass.    
 Welch, Edmund              W 25, 965
Hannah
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Vermont 4659
Hannah Welch              Repd.
widow of Edmund Welch who died on the 13 July 1829 (smudged) in the State of Vermont who was a Pri in the Co. commanded by Captain Sayer of the Reg. commanded by Col. Scammon in the Mass. line for 8 mo 1 day

Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at the rate of 26 Dollars 78 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of April 1847 and sent to T.L. & A.T. Smith Present

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '47  $428.48
Semi-annual allowance ending Sept  13.39
$441.87

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 4, 1836}
{Section the 3d}

Reccorded by D. N. Wood, Clerk
Book C. Vol. 1 Page 67
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Proof of the Marriage of
Edmund Welch to
Hannah Annis
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State of Maine
County of York

Town Clerk's office Wells
May 28, A.D. 1866

I Christopher Littlefield, Clerk of the Town of Wells, in the County of York and State of Maine,
certify that under the head "The following persons joined in marriage" in the records of said Town is the following: " Seventeen hundred and seventy seven February sixth, Edmund Welch and Hannah Annis" and the same is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures as follows,
"1777 Feby. 6th Edmund Welch & Hannah Annis"
Christopher Littlefield, Clerk of the town of Wells

I Christopher Littlefield, above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in said Town of Wells, in the County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with exception above named as certified by me.
Christopher Littlefield, Clerk of the Town of Wells

York SS, Wells May 28th 1846. Personally appeared the above named Christopher Littlefield and made oath to the truth of the declarations set forth in the foregoing certificates by him subscribed.
Before me, Wm. Bourne, Justice of the Peace
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Hanna Welch case (crossed out)
Act 1836
6780
Hannah Welch
Widow of Edmund 
Vt.
act 4 July 1836
Married 1777 
husband died 10 July 1829
adm'd
8 mo 1 d pri

26.78

T.L. & A.T. Smith Present
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Declaration
State of Vermont
Bradford District SS.
On this 21st day of May A. D. 1846 personally appeared before the Probate Court within and for the District aforesaid Hannah Welch a resident of Groton in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont aged 85 years, who being first duly Sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 11th 1836 and of subsequent act applicable to her case.
That she is the widow of Edmund Welch who was a Private in the army of the revolution, that entered the army from the Town of Wells in the County of York and State of Massachusetts (now the State of Maine) in the year 1775, that he enlisted in the Company commanded by Capt. Sawyer 8in 1775, and served as I had always understood nine months untill his enlistment was out, he was out at the time of the alarm at Lexington at several other alarms subsequent to 1775. I have often heard him relate the insidents which took place while he was in the army and remember of his telling of going to Rhode Island but do not recollect what period of the war. She further declared that she was married to the said Edmund Welch in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven ^(1777 February sixth) the sixth day of February in the Town of Wells aforesaid by Parson Hemingway or Hemway; that her husband the aforesaid Edmund Welch died on the thirteenth day of
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July in the year Eighteen hundred twenty nine and that she has remained a widow ever since that period. That her maiden name was Hannah Annis and that she refers to the proof herewith transmitted. 
Hannah     X       Welch
          her mark
Witness
John Hatch
Nehemiah Welch
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above mentioned before me
Stephen Thomas, Register
I further certify that there was a surplusage of words wrote in giving the state of the mariage in the Declaration and that the same was erased and so as to read correct and also the "(1777 February Sixth" interlined before signing.
Stephen Thomas, Register 

State of Vermont
Bradford District SS  I Stephen Thomas Register of the Probate Court within and for said District do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has this day been exhibited to said Court, that Edmund Welch died on the 13th day of July A. D. 1829 and that Hannah Welch is his widow & he died in Groton, aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at Topsham in said District this 21st day of May A. D. 1846
Stephen Thomas, Register
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State of Vermont
Bradford District SS

I J. W. D. Parker Judge of the Probate Court within and for the District aforesaid, do hereby certify that Stephen Thomas is Register of said Court duly qualified & commissioned that his commission was dated on the 1st day of December 1845, and will expire on the 30th day of November 1846, and that the signature above written purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Topsham in said District on this 21st day of May A. D. 1846.
J. W. D. Parker, Judge
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June 12, 1939
BA-J/CC
Edmund Welch
W.25965

Mr. Martin C. T. Welch
Kennard, Nebraska

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Edmund Welch, who enlisted April 15, 1775, in Massachusetts, and whose widow Hanna Ennis Welch drew a pension.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, W.25965, based upon service of Edmund Welch in the Revolutionary War.
Date & place of birth of Edmund Welch, and name of his parents and grandparents are not shown.
Whil a resident of Wells, York County, Massachusetts (later Maine), Edmund Welch entered service April 19, 1975, served five days as private in Captain Noah M. Littlefield's company, Colonel Moulton's Massachusetts regiment and was on the Lexington alarm. Immediately afterward, he enlisted and served eight months as private in Captain Samuel Sayer's company, Colonel James Scammon's Massachusetts regiment. In 1777, after his marriage he rendered service of two months under Captain Samuel Hatch in the Massachusetts troops on an expedition to Rhode Island.
He died July 13, 1829, in Groton, Caledonia County, Vermont, having moved there after close of Revolution.
Edmund Welch married February 6, 1777, in Wells, Massachusetts, Hannah Annis, of Wells.
The soldier's widow, Hannah, was allowed pension on her application executed May 21, 1846, at which time she was aged eighty-eight years and a resident of Groton, Vermont.
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In 1846, one Nehemiah Welch witnessed the mark ^the signature by^ of Hannah Welch in Bradford District, Vermont, the relationship not stated. In 1847, Daniel Penney, who was born March 9, 1764, and a resident of Wells, York County, Maine stated that his first wife, Dolly, was a sister of Hannah Welch.
there are no further data relative to family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and the date of death of Hannah Welch, widow of Edmund Welch, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city and cite the following data:
Hannah Welch, widow of Edmund Welch
Certificate # 4459
issued April 8,1847
Rate $26.78 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of July 4, 1836
Vermont Agency

Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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State of Maine
York, ss.
I, William Trafton Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, do hereby certify that, Amos G. Getchell is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly commissioned and qualified to act as such; that his commission is dated the twenty first day of June A. D. 1843 and will expire on the twenty first day of June A. D. 1850, and that the following signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Jucicial Court for said State, this first day of March Anno Domino 1847.
William Trafton, Clerk
(seal w/ribbon)
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I Daniel Penney of Wells i the County of York, in the State of Maine aged 82 years the 9th day of March 1846 depose & say that I moved into this town with my father when I was 3 years of age. That we moved on to the farm where I now live and have lived ever since that time. that I well remember the Revolutionary War at the time the war commenced in April 1775 Capt. Noah M. Littlefield then a resident of this town held a commission under the Crown as Capt., but he went with his company from this two against the British at the time of the Lexington alarm. That at this time I was personally acquainted with Edmund Welch who resided in this town and about two miles from where I then or now live, that said Welch and the other members of Company went with Capt. Littlefield against the British at the time of said alarm and were gone but a few days and returned home and immediately after their return home Samuel Sawyer of said Wells was appointed Capt. and raised a Company to serve for eight months in Col. James Scammons Regiment of Saco in this State that said Welch I think was absent during that season and that he did not serve any more in the army untill after he
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was married and then only on a draft that was made upon an order for men to go west. That when the orders came to draft men the company was called together where the Meeting house now stands about two miles from my residence. That I was present at the training that Col. John Littlefield was present and took charge of the company at the drafting of the men and the Electing of Officers for said Company of Militia that Samuel Hatch was elected Capt. by a majority two votes part of the Company was very much displeased at the result and in consequence one William Eader a member of the Company made and rehearsed in presence of the Company some verses which created much laugh. That at that time the said Edmund Welch was drafted as I have before stated to go West of here for several months. The precise length of time I do not recollect. that on his return he related to me anecdotes concerning the service one of which was that Col. Joseph Storn when the alarm came that they were to have a battle and the men were ordered of said to his son Joseph who was his (illegible) "now I may be killed or if I am do you go right home and tell your Mother.
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That I am dead" and that his sone said "Father where shall I go. Can't I go up chimney" that said Edmund Welch previous to his being drafter as aforesaid had married Hannah Annis of this town who was a sister of my first wife Dolly Annis that after the close of the war said Welch & his family moved to Groton in the State of Vermont where I am informed said Hannah now lives that the said Welch & his wife and other members of their family have visited me quite a number of times since they moved to said Groton.
Daniel Penney
Subscribed and sworn to on this 17th day of February 1847. Before me. I further certify that Daniel Penney the above aaffiant is personally known to me and has been for 40 years past and that he is a gentleman of undougth truth and veracity.
Amos G. Getchell Justice of the Peace
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Certificate of the Service
of Edmund Welch
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston
May 4th 1846
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Edmund Welch of Wells, is  orne upon a Muster Roll of Capt. Noah M. Littlefield's Company of Minute Men in Col. Moulton's Regt, as a private from April 19 1775, 3 days. Upon a Muster Roll of Capt. Samuel Sayer's Company in Col. James Scammon's Regt. in the eight months service as a private of Wells from July 5 to August 1 1775 23 days. Upon a Return of said Company in said Scammon's Regt. as a private, said return is not stated. Upon an order of said Company for Military Coats dated October 27, 1775. Upon a Return of men drafted from the 1st Regt. in the County of York to serve in Rhode Island for the term of 2 months as a private-said Return
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that siad application,and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

John G. Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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is dated May 8 1777. 
The preceding is all the evidence of service of any one of the name shown by the Military Record in this Office.
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State of Vermont County of Caledonia
Town of Groton
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of my late husbands Edmund Welch's service in the War of the Revolution.
He enlisted from the town of Wells in the State of Massachusetts ( now State of Maine) in the year 1775 in the Company commanded by Capt. Sawyer ( I think) & served nine months. That he served at different times during the revolution, on alarms &c. after the serving in 1775.
I am now 88 years old and my memory does not enable me to state the service my husband more fully than above stated.
Witness my hand this 23d day of February 1846. I hereby appoint Stephen Thomas of Dist. Fairlee Orange County Vermont my attorney in the premises.
Hannah   X   Welch
      her mark
Signed by said Hannah Welch in my presence.
John Hatch Justice of the Peace
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Washington, March 18th 1847
Sir
We herewith enclose the affidavit of Daniel Penney, as evidence in the claim of Hannah Welch, under the act of 1836 for a pension. Her declaration and the certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts showing the service of her husband Edmund Welch together with proof of her marriage, were filed in your office last summer.
The certificate of the Secretary shows that Welch was in the eight months service in 1775 and that he had a coat. The rule as we have heard has been to allow 8 months service where the name was found on the 8 months Roll. The enclosed affidavit is proof of two months service upon the draft in 1777 and that 8 months and 5 days be allowed in 1775.
We respectfully request your attention to this case as all the requisitions of the office have been complied with.
Most Respectfully
Your obt. svt.
T. L. & A. Tho. Smith

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
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Washington 16. July 1846

Sir
I inclose you the Declaration & proofs of Hannah Welch for a Pension under the act of Congress of 1836.
Will you give the case as early an examination as is consistent and oblige yours truly
P. Dillingham Jr. 

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comr. Pensions
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V
W6780
Hannah Welch
Vt.
Let to Hon. Paul Dillingham
August 24th 1846

Act 4 July 1836
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Revy
WIDOW &c.
File No. 25,965
h\Hannah Welch
Wid. of 
Edmund Welch
Pri Rev War

Act: July 4th 1836
Index: Vol. W., Page 325

[Arrangement of 1870]

(right side)
1911 Mch 21 History to  O. T. Welch (cents sign)
1939 June 12 Hist to Martin O. T. Welch  cc
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Kennard Neb. 4/5 .39
Soldiers and Sailers Pension Bureau
Revolutionary War Department
Washington D. C.

Dear Sirs,
I would greatly than your dept. to furnish me if you have the information
Edmund Welch-wife Hannah Ennis
Hannah Ennis Welch later received a pension
Edmund Welch enlisted in the Revolution at Wells Mass. Apl. 25, 1775 under
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Captain Moulton Littlefield
#
Have you any record of this Edmund Welch parents or grandparents. their names and addresses 
#
I have the family record back to the name of Edmund Welch.
Thanking you for a reply. Any reasonable expense for this I am glad to cover.

Martin O. T. Welch
Kennard Nebr.

Edmund Welch was my great grand father
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Round Stamp
Received
Apr 10 1939
Mail Sub-Div.
(illegible) 12

Arrow indicating 3 o'clock rec'd
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In reply to your request of ............, received.............for a statement of the military history of Edmund Welch a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: Apl. 19, 1775
Length of Service: 5 days
Rank: Pri
Captain: Noah M. Littlefield
Colonel: Moulton
State: Mass.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: Apl. 1775
Length of Service: 8 months
Rank: Private
Captain: Samuel Sayer
Colonel: James Scammons
State: Mass.

After his marriage: Captain Samuel Hatch
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Lincoln Neb. Maar. 15-1911
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir,
My greatgrandfather lived and died at Groton Vermont--He was a revolutionary soldier and his wife my great grandmother drew some kind of a pension after his death for his army service--She also died in Groton Vermont. Her maiden name was either Ennis or Innis--
As near as I can locate him his name was Edmund Welch--I would thank you sincerely if you would look at the records and advise me his army record---
I wish admissions to the Son of Amn. Rev. society and I am required to furnish his record etc.--If the records show it please add his birth place date of birth death also his wifes birth maiden name etc--If there is any charge for this I would thank you to so inform me.
Truly yours
O. T. Welch
Manager Western Union Tel. Co
Lincoln Neb.

Stamp-Mar 13 1911
Stamp-Mar 20 1911
Stamp- U. S. Pension Office , D, Mar 16 1911