Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,831, Thomas Farwell, Conn.
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Conn

Thomas Farwell

s.34831
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Thomas Farwell

of Middlesex County in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Durker of the Connecticut line, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of June 1819 and sent to Samuel Dana esquire 

Judy a. Protors Mafette. (?)

Arrears to the 4th of May 1819 of $89.03
semi-annual allowance ending 4th of September 1819
$48.00
$137.03-total


(writing on the side is to faint)
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Thomas Farewell
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Be it remembered, that on the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me, Samuel Dana Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the commonwealth aforesaid) come Thomas Farwell of Jonesborough in said county of Middlesex and on oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution for the share of twenty months.  That he enlisted upon the Constitutional establishment at [illegible] bridge in Massachusetts, as he believes in December one thousand seven hundred, and seventy six, for the term of our year under Captain Stephen Brown of Pornipet in the State of Connecticutt, that he was mustered, and as soon as he was discharged from the eight months service of Massachusetts he was placed in Captain Browns Company, in Colo Durkees Regiment in the Connecticutt line, and marched immediately to Norwich, in Connecticutt, from [illegible] he [illegible] with his company, to New York, crossed into New Jersey and went into Delaware, returned into Pensylvania, the [illegible] in this State, untill January, where his term expird, he arrived at his residence in Massachusetts, on the seventeenth day of that month. 
Mear rememburs to have had any discharge
He is now seventy two years of age wholly destitute of property and

by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for his support on [illegible] of Saml Dana, Tho. Farwell [illegible]
Thus, made, subscribed, and sworn to, nt quton in said county of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid.
Saml Dana
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Thomas Farwell

Proof of servic in Durkein upt.
[illegible]
Judge's certificate of indigence
wanted
Aam

The judge at
Groton, Majs.
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To the Honorable John C. Calhoun, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.

I, the undersigned Samuel Dana, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court, of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the first day of april in the year of our Lord, on thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personally appeared Thomas Farwell and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
and at the same time he exhibited to me the certificate of the Telemen of Tyngsborough dated april 1. 1818

from which it appears to me, that the said Thomas Farwell did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common enemy, upwards of nine months. & is in reduced circumstances

Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration & Certificate to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.

In testimony of all which, I have coused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.

Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the first day of april in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
Saml Dana
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88
Thomas Farwell
12169
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on
the second Monday of June A. D. 182
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices
STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires,} of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Thomas Farwell
resident in Tyngsbourogh in said county & Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 17, thq. now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,

"WAR DEPARTMENT REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conforinity with the Law of the United States of the 
"18th March, 1818, Thomas Farwell late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the
"Pension List of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight
"dollars per month, to commence on the first
day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
{L.S. is inscribed in a box to the left of the page}
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty first
"day of June one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen of [illegible]
JL Edwards in the absence & on behalf 
[J.C. CALHOUN is crossed out], Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
Real Estate,  there acres and sixty five rods of land with an old house thereon one story high not coapboarded nor tallied plaistered with all [illegible] and the land poor valued at . . . . . $170.00
Personal property
3 old chests 17 old chairs, old table . . . . . 1.34
16 old [illegible] & pewter plates . . . .0.70
glass ware . . . . . . 1.75
4 mugs & bowls, 4 cups, saucers old tin pot 0.55
Tin ware, [illegible]; old milk [illegible] . 0.70
Old looking glass steel yards 50 . . . . 0.70
[illegible] 15 old bottle 25 [illegible] 25 wheat [illegible] - - -1.50
Phenal storags - - - - - - - - 0.75
Tea kettle been in use since the Revolutionary war 0.75
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Frying pan ladle [illegible] used lil kettle old and very much worn . . . . . . . . 1 50
old [illegible] pot likewise [illegible], 50 . . . . 0 70
Iron shovel too old easly a pail 75 . . . . . 1 76
old [illegible] shoes . . . . . . . .1-
7 [illegible] . . . . . . . 1 50
about 20 the sullea Poul . . . . . . . . . . 2 00
Mash teels, bread [illegible] . . . . . . 1 00
1 [illegible] with a broken shoulder poor & sick . . . . 5 00
1 [illegible]
4 [illegible] hill [illegible] . . . . . . . . . 0 80
1 glass bottle . . . . . . . . 0 70
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Signed in presence of
Thomas x Farwell
[illegible]
Daniel Richardson
Josiah Danforth
William Bladgett
And [illegible] say that in the latter part of thee year 1775 I enlisted into the service of the Revolutionary war as a private soldier for thee term of one year and entered thee service in Cal Stepheces Browns: [illegible] in Col Durgees' Reg of[illegible] line in the [illegible] of 1776 and served therein untill Jan 7 1777
[illegible] seventy fore years old am a labourer by profession but am not able to work and have lost the use of my eyes and have a wife about my age [illegible] able to labour
Stephen Minot Thomas & Farwell
The above named Thomas Farwell made s[illegible] oath that the above stat[illegible] by [illegible]
before [illegible] Stephen Minot Judge
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Thomas Farwell do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent threreby 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
So help me GOD.

[illegible] Thomas [illegible] Farwell
Stephen Minot

Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Thomas Farwell took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.

I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and 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 one hundred fifty one dollars & nineteen cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this [illegible] day of July 1820
Attr. Abraham Biglowcy
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32831
[illegible] INVALID.
File No. 34,831
Thomas Farwell
In Rev War

Act: 18th March 18th
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 132
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Tho Farwell
[illegible]
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To whom it may concern
We hereby certify that Thomas Farwell of this town is poor and in our opinion unable to support himself
April 1. 1818
Daniel Richardson } Select men of
Josh Butterfield } Tyngsboro
I Samuel Dana Judge before whom the above named Thomas Farwell made his declaration, Do certify to the day of War, that Daniel Richardson and Joseph Butterfield [illegible] are respectable Magistrates for the County of Middlesex whose Certificate is entitled to [illegible] credit in all places, & before any Officer, or Magistrate-
April 26. 1819 Sam. Dana
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Affidavits of War [illegible]
Silas Gould
To be used on the application of Thomas Farwell
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Not long since, I forwarded to the Pension Office, the regs. discharge of Jon Hildreth, & a Cert of his indignace, I again send his application, that his case may be completed-
And more recently [more recently is underlined] in [scribbled out] crse, (which [illegible] the application & Documents of Jon Bancroft [Jon Bancroft is underlined],) I sent the requisite evidence for David Parker- and also for Job Spaulding- [scribbled out] these Documents, I know were duly transmitted by me, & I send their applications that their cases may be completed- I also send the application of Tho Farwell with proof of his service & a certificate of his indigince, that his case may also be completed- Most of the cases recently returned [illegible] in two packages will be prepared & shortly sent to the pension Office. - April 26. 1819. I am respectfully [illegible]
Sam. Dana
W. Edward-
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James L. Edwards hq
Chief Clerk in the Pension Office
Washington
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We William Fench, of [crossed out] [illegible] in the Commonwealth of Massachusitts, and Silas Gould of Wilton in the District of Maine, each for himself do sincerely testify and declare, that we lived in a place, called Barnstable in Masa when the revolutionary War commenced and the said William Fench [scribbled out] went to [illegible] battle in the Spring [illegible] 1775 and thence he proceeded to Cambridge in the Company of Cap Eben [Ebenezer] Bancroft in Col. Eben [Ebenezer] Bridges Regiment, where he enlisted for the term of eight months, and the said Silas Gould on the Last of April in the same year enlisted also into the Company of said Bancroft for eight months our times expired on the last day of January 1776, when each of us enlisted upon the Continental establishment for one year, and we both well know that one Thomas Farwell a colored man who then resides in said Dunstable [illegible] for said eight months in the Company of said Bancroft when his time expired, he also enlisted upon the same establishment for one year- We all of us enlisted under L. Samul Brown, our former Officers, Capt Bancroft and D. Nath Holden  [illegible] service and we were all there ordered into the Company of Capt. Stephen Brown in Colo. Dewhitts Regiment in the Conneticutt line, the above first [illegible] names, we believe to be correct,  but are not certain in this Company, remained during the whole year, the first part of the line at Cambridge in Massa & the [illegible] in New York, and we well know that the said Tomas Farwell belonged to, remained in said Company for one full year, and untill the first day of January [illegible] 1777, when he was regularly and honorably discharged [illegible] missed, no written or printed discharge was given- His Exallence [illegible] Washington, in part of the Regiment, requested us to [illegible] for a longer [illegible], but we had lost our cloathing in the retreat from Fort Lee, & were not all of us in a situation to remain, & our Colonel [illegible] dismissed, & we thereupon returned to our residence homes. Except the said William Fench, who did enlist for one month [illegible]
William French
Silas Gould
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex js March 3. 1819. Personally appears the above named William French, and Silas Gould [illegible] both well known to me to be persons of good [illegible] & credit, well entitled to beleif before any tribunal or Department, and each for himself personally made Oath, that the above Deposition by each of them
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each of them [illegible] is just and true in all its facts
Before me Saml. Dana jus Peace Throughout said Comwealth & Judge before whom the declaration was made-