Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41327, Benjamin Whitmore, Mass.
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Whitmore, Benjamin
Service: Mass
Number: S. 41327

Contents
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12,284
Vermont
Benjamin Whitmore
of Chester in the state of Vermont who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott of the Massachusetts line for the term of 1 year 1776

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of
8 dollars per month to commence on the 10th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of July 1819 and sent to Amos Heald, Chester, Vert.

Arrears to 4th March '19  10 mos. 21/31,4/31
80.63
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819   48.00
Dollars 134.63

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}

certs. Sept 19
Continued
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Declaration of Benjamin Whitmore
No. 25 soldier
Jan 76 to Jan. 77
Prescotts Masstts. Regt.

Proof of service wanted. the (faded) certificate to the credibility of the witness.
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State of Vermont, Windsor County SS
At Chester in said County on the 10th day of April 1818. Before me one of the Judges of the County Court for the County of Windsor aforesaid, personally appears, Benjamin Whitmore aged sixty six years, Resident in Chester in the said County of Windsor, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War", that he the said Benjamin Whitmore enlisted at Leominster in the state of Massachusetts the first of January 1776 (for the term of one year) in Captain Hugh Maxell's company in the Regiment commanded by Col. William Prescott of the Massachusetts line; that he continued to serve in said corps or in the service of the United States, untill the first day of January 1777 when he was discharged at Peekskill in the State of New York.
That he is  in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his sd. service except a certificate of his sd. services here
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with transmitted; sworn to & declared before me, the aforesaid 10t day of April 1818.
Amos Heald, Assistant Judge of Windsor County Court.
I Amos Heald assistant Judge of Windsor County Court as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Benjamin Whitmore did  serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me, to the Secretary of the department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. And that I am satisfied from my own knowledge, that he is in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Dated at Chester this 10th day of April 1818.
Certified by Amos Heald, Assistant Judge of Windsor County Court
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State of Vermont
Windsor County SS
Woodstock County Clerks Office June 11th 1818

I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court withing & for the County of Windsor; do hereby certify that Amos Heald is one of the assistant Judges of said County Court and that the foregoing signatures are in the hand writing of said Judge.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of said Court the day above.
Benj. Swan
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85
Benj. Whitmore
Whitmore

Con
12.284
Sept '19
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State of Vermont,
Windsor County ss.
At a special term of the Supreme Court of Judicature, begun and holden at Woodstock in the County of Windsor, on the last Monday in July, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty.
On this First day of August 1820, being the second day of said term, personally appeared in open Court, (the same Court being a Court of record agreeable to the law of this State, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c.) Benjamin Whitmore aged Sixty Eight years, resident in Chester in said County of Windsor, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary  War as follows: That he enlisted on the first day of January 1776 for one year in the Company commanded by Capt. Maxwell and Regiment commanded by Col. Wm. Prescott in the Massachusetts line and served the same accordingly and was honorably discharge from said term of service but not in writing.
That he made his original declaration on the Tenth day of April 1818, has received a Pension Certificate, No 12.284. And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818. And that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled, “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War”, passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor do I have any income other that what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. viz: A chest with two
drawers $4--1 pine table 2.00  ................$6.00
3 kitchen chairs 1.00 1 iron pot .13 
a spider .67 1 black tin teapot 1.00 ......  2.80
6 white dishes .30-7 white table
plates .33, 2 white bowl .32 
2 earthen pots. 27........................................   1.22
2 milk pans .33, four spoons .16
3 knives & forks .20, 1 water pail .40
1 seive .33......................................................    1.42
$11.44

That his family consists of himself and wife aged sixty four years who is unable to labour or to sit up much of the time and that he is unable to labour sufficient to support himself-he is by occupation a shoemaker but unable to work at his trade.
Benjamin Whitmore 

Sworn to and declared on the First day of August 1820, before said Court.
Attest, Benjamin Swan, Clerk.

State of Vermont
(Seal)   I Benj. Swan Clerk of the Supreme Court for the county of Windsor, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court: And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Eleven dollars, 44 cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, this fifth day of August 1829.
Benj. Swan Clerk of the Supreme Court for Windsor County
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In reply to your request of ...........received............for a statement of the military history of Benjamin Whitmore a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. File 41,327

Dates of Enlistment of Appointment: Jany. 1, '76
Length of Service: 1 yr.
Rank: Pri
Officers under whom Service was rendered: Capt. Hugh Maxwell, Colonel William Prescott.
State: Mass.

Battles engaged in:
Residence of Soldier at enlistment: enl. at Leominster, Mass.
Date of Application for pension: April 10, 1818 Allowed
Residence at date of application: Chester Windsor Co., Vt.
Age at date of application: 66 date of birth not stated
Remarks: 1820 wife-64 (illegible) for death & name of beneficiary.
Very respectfully,


missioner
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this may certify al those whom it may consern that Benjamin Whitmore of Leominster did serve thirteen months & half in the Contennentel army since the 1st of April 1775
Nathaniel Carter Capt.
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122284-18

Granville, Wash. Co. NY
July 3d 1901

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C. 

Dear Sir:
I wish to identify the Revolutionary War service of my great grandfather. Benjamin Whitmore, who was a pensioner of that war. He enlisted in some town in Massachusetts and afterward, living in Chester Vt., received a pension of $96. per year. Will you please give me an abstract of the statement of service filed with his original application for pension?
He served part of the time
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at least, in New York State, being stationed near New York City some of the time.
I wish to identify the service record found in the office of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts so that I may obtain a certificate from the Secretary.
Respectfully
(Mrs.) Gertrude Potter

Perhaps I ought to have stated that the Massachusetts records show that there was a Benjamin Whittemore who service in the Rv. War. Take notice that I wish the record of Benjamin Whitmore, instead of Whittemore.
G. P.
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Stamped-O. W. & N. Division July 10  1901
Stamped-U. S. Pension Office I July 8 1901
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328 E. Broadway
Butte, Montana
Jan. 21, 1909

(logo-Daughters of the American Revolution)

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir,
Will you kindly inform me if on your list of pensioners of the Revolutionary War, you find the names of Robert Atkinson who died in Lancaster Penn. Jacob Rowley who died on or near Pittsburg Pa, and Benjamin Whittmore or (or Whitmore) who died in Clermont Co., Ohio i 1823 or 4. If these names or any one
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of them are found, what will be the expense of copying enough of the records to prove elegibility of descendants to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution?
An early reply will greatly oblige.
Mrs. Clinton H. Moore
State Regent for Montana

(Stamp-U. S. Pension Office A Jan. 25, 1909)
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41327
Benj. Whitmore
Apl. 10 1818-66
Chester Vt.

Jany 1 '76 Leominster Mass.
Capt. Hugh Maxwell
Col. Wm Prescott
Pvt. 1 yr
No Bat
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41327
Revy INVALID
File No. 41,327
Benjamin Whitmore
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March '18
Index: Vol. 3 Page 559

[Arrangement of 1870]

July 10 1901 M. Gertrude Potter Granville N.Y.
1907 June 5 Hist. to F. M. Lindley
1909 Feby. 18 Hist to Mrs. Clinton H. Moore
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I Amos Brooks of Alstead in the County of Cheshire SS and State of Newhampshire depose and say that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, I enlisted in the month of January for one year into a company commanded by Capt. Hugh Maxwell in the Regiment commanded by Colon. William Prescot and served untill something like the middle of December and Benjamin Whitmore then of the Massachusetts and now of Chester in the state of Vermont was with me in the same company and Regiment and for the same year 1776 and when I left the camp (illegible) & left him there all of which was Continental Service.
Amos Brooks

State of Newhampshire
Cheshire Ss June 15th 1819. 
Then the above named Amos Brooks made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth relating to the (illegible) for which it is taken also that he has no interest more than to share the truth.
Elisha Huntley Justice Peace
This may certify that I consider the above named Amos Brooks to be a man of truth and veracity.
Elisha Huntley Justice peace

Cheshire SS June 15, 1819
(Seal) 
I Salma Hale clerk of the Judicial Courts in said county certify that Elisha Huntley is a Justice of the Peace in said County and that the foregoing is his signature.
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of our Superior Court of Judicature.
S. Hale
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I Jeremiah Barrett of Lawfull age Do testify and say that I was out in the first (illegible) service under the command of Capt. Hugh Maxwell or Maxfield in the Regiment commanded by Col. William Prescott in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war and I was there well acquainted with Benjamin Whitmore and know that he served one year in the same company, messed with me. And I am not interested in the event of the application of the said Benjamin Whitmore and further your deponent saith not.
Jeremiah Barrett

State of Vermont Bennington County SS
(illegible) June 19th A. D. 1819.
then Jeremiah Barrett of Londonderry in the County of Windham personally appearing and after being carfully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth before
Peter Dudley Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am acquanted with the above named Jeremiah Barrett and consider him to be a man of truth and viracity and a credable man.
Peter Dudley Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
(seal)
I Joel Pratt Clerk of Bennington county court do hereby certify that Peter Dudley Esqr. the person who has signed the within certificate is a Justice of the peace acting under the authority of this State & that the signature thereto is his.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of our said Court at Manchester this 19 day of June A. D. 1819
Joel Pratt Clerk
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Letterhead: J. M. Lindley
Real Estate and Loans
Bozeman, Mont. May 20 1907

Revolutinary record

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir,
I am looking for the record of an ansestor.
The Librarian at Concord N. H. thinks Benjamin Whitmore of the Revolutionary War was of a Massachusetts regiment or Malatia service.
The Maass. Secretary of the Commonwealth says there was a Benjamin Whitemore, Waittemore in Col. Bridge's Regt. of 8 months men with the army at the siege of Boston in 1775. Thinks "if he served subsequent to Dec. 31, 1775 it must have been with a Ne Hampshire organization".
Respectfully
J.M. Lindley

Stamped: U. S. Pension Office P May 25 1907