Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45,535, Jeremiah Foster, Mass N.H.
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(3--1776)

Foster, Jeremiah

SERVICE: 
Mass, N. H.

NUMBER: 
S. 45,535

CONTENTS
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Notification sent to J. H. Smith Esq
19 July [year illegible]
Amherst, N.H.

16367
New Hampshire
Jeremiah Foster
Goffstown in the State of N. Hamps [New Hampshire]
was a private in the regiment commanded
by [Colonel] Dearborn of the N. Hampshire line for the term of 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Hampshire
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 11th of May 1818-

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of Jany [January] 182 [year is illegible]
and sent to Hon. D. L. Morrill
Senate U.S.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819 - 15 21/31:4/30: 126
Semi-anl. all'ce [Semi-annual allowance] ending 4 Mar.18[illegible]

March 18, 1818
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Jeremiah Foster
73
New Hampshire Line
1 witness
Sworn to 11 May 1818
Jeremiah Foster
private
Colonel Dearborns Regt
New Hampshire line
June 1782 to 1784

Required the evidence of two credible and disinterested witnesses or of an officer of the regiment duly taken and authenticated.

8 June 1819

Admitted
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I Jeremiah Foster of Goffstown in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire Husbandman a resident Citizen of the United States now in the seventy third year of my age do solemnly swear that in May or June, I cannot now recollect which,  A.D.1782 I enlisted as private soldier in the Town of Exeter NH for the term of three years under Capt [Captain] Jeremiah Fogg a Remiting Officer & was marched to Albany, NY from there to Saratoga NY where I passed muster by May.  Scott and the the first or fore part of July 1782 I joined my Regt being the second Regiment the New Hampshire Line Commanded by Col. [Colonel] Henry Dearborn in Capt Asa Senters Company & served faithfully therein until the month of July AD 1784 making two years or better in the Continental establishment against the Common Enemy that I served constantly, when I was honorably discharged at West Point NY which was signed by Col Hull which I have since delivered to Nath Peabody to procure a trifle due to me & I know not what became of it as he never redelivered it to me when I was discharged I belonged to Capt Isaac Forges Company
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In the year 1775 I served my Country eight month
in Hezekiah Hutchings Company, Col James Readlay
NH Line I served three month more in Capt Josiah
Johnsons Company in Col. McIntosh Regt in the
Massachusetts Line in the year 1776. if my memory
serves me right. In the year 1777 I served six
month in Capt George Willis Company I served six
month in Capt George Willis Company. I served
three months more in Capt. Boyels Company. 
I was in the battle of Bunker Hill in a battle at
Rye in the State of New York & in the battle of  
Monmouth & in several skirmishes in count.
I have never been placed on the pension
list of Invalids and am in reduced circumstances & 
greatly stand in need of assistance
from my Country for my support I have no
further evidence now in my power that
I can offer in support of my claim or service.

Jeremiah Foster

Sworn to this eleventh day of May AD 1818
Before me J. H. Smith Associate Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas
State of New Hampshire Hillsborough Js.  On the
eleventh day of May AD 1818 Before me the Subscriber
one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for
said County of Hillsborough personally appeared  Jeremiah Foster
resident in Goffstown in said County in
the seventy third year of his age and being duly 
cautioned made solemn oath agreeably to Law in order
to obtain a pension under the late act of Congress
entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged
in the land & naval service of the United in the Revolutionary War".
That he enlisted a private solder in the
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Town of Exeter New Hampshire some time in the month of May
of June AD 1782 for the term of three years and passed the
by Major Scott at Saratoga NY the forepart of July following
joined his Regiment in the Company commanded by Capt.
Asa Senter in the second Regt Commanded by Col. Henry
Dearborn in the New Hampshire Line and continued to
serve in said Company in the service of the United States until
the month of July AD 1784 when he was honorably discharged
at West point in the State of New York which discharge
 he cannot procure having delivered to one Nath Peabody
- that he is in reduced circumstances & greatly
stands in need of assistance from his Country for his 
support. From all which I certify that it appears to my
satisfaction that the said Jeremiah Foster did serve in
the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy on the
Continental establishment more than nine months & from
the best evidence can obtain I have reason to believe he reduced
in his circumstances & greatly needs assistance from his County
for his support and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony
taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department
of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act
of Congress.
 J. H.Smith Sssociate Justice of the Court
of Common Pleas
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This certifies that the signatures of J. H. Smith on this paper
is in his own hand writing and that he is one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hillsboro
aforesaid in testimony whereof I have hereto affixed
the seal of said Court
Matt Eastman Clerk
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Jeremiah Foster
73
New Hampshire Line
1 witness
Sworn to 11 May 1818
Jeremiah Foster
private
Colonel Dearborns Regt
New Hampshire Line
June 1782 to 1784

Required the evidence
of two credible and
disinterested witnesses
or of an officer
of the regiment duly
taken and authenticated
8 June 1819

Admitted
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Jeremiah Foster
Cont
16.367
-
18 Jan 20
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
HILLSBOROUGH, SS.

At a Court of Common Pleas for the first district, holden at
Amherst in said county of Hillsborough, on this fourth day of
July, 1820, being a court of record; having power of fine and imprisonment, and unlimited Jurisdiction in point of amount.

PRESENT
The Hon. [honorable] {
JOSHUA DARLING,
JEDIDIAH K. SMITH,
} Justices.

Personally appeared in open court, Jeremiah Foster
aged Seventy four years, resident in Goffstown
in said county, who being first
duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit: 
He enlisted about the first of May 1782
for the term of three years at Exeter in the State of
New Hampshire under James Fogg who sent to Albany
in the State of New York thence he went to Saratoga
where he joined the company commanded by Capt.
Asa Senter in the Regiment commanded by Col
Henry Derborn in the line of the State of New Hampshire
on the continental establishment, that he continued
to serve in the service of the United States until the
close of the war when he was discharged from the
said from at West Point
the date of my original declaration was on the eleventh
day of Mary
Anno Domini, 1818 I have received a pension, the certificate of which is numbered
on the back there a 16367

And I do solemnly Swore 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 thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the
provisions of the act of Congress entitled ""an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or 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 or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the following schedule, by me subscribed.
1 Pot - 1.25- 6 pewter plates. 1.25 ---- 2.50
2  Platters 1.00          1 Basin 2.5 -------2.50
some old Pewter 12- 1 dark Kettle 4 1 Skillet 25 "2.70
1 [illegible] Kettle 60 - 1 Bellows 17- 2 Chests 4-00- 4.70
2 flat Irons, 50 - 24 lbs old hove 76- 1 dark [illegible] 1.50-11-188
1 bell  Horse traces 150, 1 Bible 200 Hymn Book 34 -384
a bundle of Small Books and pamphlets-1.75
5 Bottles .74- Tumbler & Rasor 12 looking Glass 25-17
1 Hand Saw-75 earthen flatter 20

[the addition of all items listed has a value of] 18.75
I owe [illegible] Robert Hall $13.00
Henry Blairdell    ------------$10.00
Borrow Money  [equals]       $23.00
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My occupation: is a Farmer I have not sufficient ability
the [to] perform it by reason of age. lameness, and
weakness of Body &c.
My family, residing with me, consists of:
Jeremiah Foster

Sworn to and declared in open court, on the
Anno Domini, 1820.
5th day of July
M Eastman Clerk

I MOSES EASTMAN, Clerk of the above named Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing declaration and 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 foregoing schedule, is $18.75

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fifth day of July, 1820.
M Eastman
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
for the County of Hillsborough
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January 8, 1940.
Mss Hassel G. Webber
50 Hanover Street
Providence, Rhode Island 

MA-J/Ill
Jeremiah Foster
S. 45535


Dear Madam;

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jeremiah Foster of New England, Massachusetts or New Hampshire, who married Jemima Kent.

A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office
has been made and only one claim for pension found based upon
service of a Jeremiah Foster. His record follows as found in the
papers on file in pension claim, S. 45535, based upon his service in that war.

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents
of Jeremiah Foster were not given.

He enlisted in 1775 and served eight months as private
in Captain Hezekiah Hutchins' Company, Colonel James Reed's New
Hampshire regiment, during which he was in the battle of Bunker Hill.
He served next three months in Captain Josiah Johnson's company,
Colonel McIntosh Massachusetts regiment; in the year 1777, he served
three months in Captain George Willis' company, also served three
months in Captain Boyd's Company. During said services, he was in a
battle at Rye, New York, and in the battle of Monmouth. Jeremiah
Foster enlisted about May 1782, in Exeter, New Hampshire, served as a
private in Captain Asa Senter's company, Colonel Henry Dearborn's
New Hampshire regiment and in Captain Isaac Frye's Company, Colonel
Hull's regiment from which he was discharged in June 1784, at West
Point, New York.

Jeremiah Foster was allowed pension on account of his service
in the Revolutionary War on his application executed May 11, 1818,
at which time he resided in Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. He was then in the seventy-third year of his age. This soldier
made no reference to wife or children.

In 1818, Henry Blasdel (Blasdell ) of Goffstown, New Hampshire,
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stated that he had been acquainted with Jeremiah Foster for more than
twenty years, and that he had lived in his house [Henry's] 
for two years; he did not state any relationship to this soldier.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name
and address of person paid and, possibly, the date of death of
this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General,
General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following
data:

Jeremiah Foster
Certificate #15367
Issued January 18, 1820
Rate $8 per month
Commenced May 11, 1818
Act of March 18, 1818
New Hampshire Agency.


Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS

Vetrans [Veterans] Administration
Washington. D. C.

[Postmark stamp] PROVIDENCE RI Dec 8 [year illegible] 12 PM.

[Circle stamp with clock border, arrow indicating 11:30] 
RECEIVED
DEC 20
MAIL
Reader No. [illegible]
VETS ADM
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50 Hanover Street, Providence, R. I.

Please send me the Revolutionary War Record
of Jeremiah Foster of New England (Hampstead,
N.H. I think) Born at Ipswich, Mass. (1740),
Married to Jemina Kent. Would like the birth,
marriage, death dates also the names of the
children.
Sincerely yours,
(Miss) Hazel C. Webber
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1960, Jan 8 - Hist to Miss Hazel C. Webber, ILL.

45535
INVALID.
File No. 45535
Jeremiah Foster ┃
Priv. Rev. War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 3 Page 176
[Arrangement of 1870.)
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I Henry Blasdell of Goffstown, in the County 
of Hillsborough, and State of New Hampshire, of lawful
age depose and testify that I have been personally and
particularly acquainted with Jeremiah Foster of late and
Goffstown, County and State aforesaid, more than twenty
years, the two last year, he having lived in my house.
For the six years last past he has [illegible]
been in very reduced, needy and indigent
circumstances, and poorly able, with all the labor
he could perform to make himself comfortable.
He is still destitute of property, infirm by age.
and without assistance from his Country or
some other source, is actually unable to provide
for himself the necessaries of life

Henry Blasdell
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss
May 4th 1840
Personally appeared the above named Henry Blasdell
and made solemn oath that the above declaration
by him subscribed are just and true.

Before me David L. Morris Jus. Peace

This certifies that the signature of J. Smith on the other
side of this paper is in his own hand writing & that he is one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, County of Hillsborough. In
testimony whereof I have hereto set the seal of the Court. 
Moses Eastman Clerk
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This certifies that David L. Merrill who made the
certificate to the oath of Henry Blasdell on the other
side of this paper is an acting Justice of the Peace for
the County of Hillsboro and that his official acts as
such are entitled to Credit by the Laws of the State of
New Hampshire & also that Henry Blasdell is a Creditable
witness in Court of Law.

J G Smith} Associate Justice of the
Court of Com Pleas
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Judge Smith's 
Certificate 
for Foster
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Jeremiah Foster's Certificate is returned for
further evidence in the words following viz:
"Jeremiah Foster private Col. Dearborn Regt. NH 
Line from June 1782 to 1784 Required the
evidence of two creditable & disinterested witnesses
or of an officer of the Regt duly taken and authenticated."
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Jeremiah Foster [illegible]
additional Testimony
D.L.M.
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I Robert B. Wilkins of Concord in Rockingham County State of New Hampshire, declare on Oath that I was a Lieutenant in the New Hampshire line in the Continental revolutionary Army in the years 1781 1782 & 1783 and by order of Col George Reid Commander of the 2d New Hampshire Regt I relieved Capt. Jeremiah Fogg who had been recruiting officer and muster Master at Exeter in said State of New Hampshire in the Month of July 1782 Said Fogg gave me the names of a  number of Men who he had enlisted & Mustered and one of the men was Jeremiah Foster who enlisted for three years, I then by drawing provisions for the recruits ^I^ became personally acquainted with Said Foster, he enlisted the forepart of the month of July 1782 and on or about the last day of Said Month, said Foster and other recruits were sent Under the Command of a Sergeant from Exeter aforesaid to join the New Hampshire line in the State of New York and Several Months after I joined Said line and found that Jeremiah Foster had joined the 1st New Hampshire Regt then commanded by Col. Henry Dearborn and I think Capt Asa Linters[?] Company where he continued & faithfully to serve until some time in the month of July 1783 when I left the Service, and left said Foster on Command under Capt Moody ?ustin at Stoney Point and I do not know how much longer he served and Jeremiah Foster now of Goffstown in said State of N. Hampn is the very man which rendered the services above stated.
Robt B. Wilkins
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Stated       Robt B. Wilkins

State of New Hampshire }
Rockingham ss                 ]  Concord Nov 195h 1819
Be it known that on this nineteenth day of November A.D. 1819 before me Joseph Law, Notary Public in & for said State personally appeared Robert B. Wilkins & made solemn oath that the above affidavit by his subscribed is just & true.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial Seal at Concord in the County & State aforesaid on the day aforesaid. Joseph Law, Notary Public

I certify that the above deponent is a credible witness
Joseph Law Not Pub.

I George Emerson of Concord County of Rockingham in the State New Hampshire aged sixty three years depose & say that I was a soldier in the year 1782 in the New Hampshire Regt commanded by Col. Henry Dearborn that I thus was well acquainted with Jeremiah Foster now living in Goffstown said State of New Hampshire that said Foster was a soldier in the same Regt. I new [knew] said Foster as a Soldier from July 1782 According to the best of my remembrance till I was discharged which was some ^time^ in 1783 I was [deleted words] inlisted [enlisted] as a Soldier for three years and was discharged with the during [illegible] and left said Foster in the army and the Said Foster being now in my presence I believe to be ^the same^ Jeremiah Foster I knew as a Soldier and have no doubt the he is the same.
[illegible] the words the same & time in the [illegible] before signed
               his
George   X  Emerson
             mark

State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss November 19th 1819.
Personally appeared George Emerson and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed was Just and true to the best of his remembrance before me John Odlin Just Peace
I also Certify that the said George Emersons Testimony is in my opinion to be believed
John Odlin Just Peace
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I Silas Russell of Sutton in the County of Hillsborough of lawful age do testify and say that Jeremiah Foster of Goffstown in Said County [deleted word] did serve as a private soldier in Captain [illegible] Company in the first New Hampshire Regiment then commanded by Colonel Dearborn and that he commenced said service in the month of of July or August in the year 1782 and continued in said regiment till the [deleted word] month of September in the year 1783--at which time I was discharged from the army and left said Foster in the Service [deleted word] and that I was a Soldier in Said Regiment and knowing to his Serving the same term.

           his
Silas     X  Russell
          mark

Witness
Daniel Wadley

Hillsborough ss} New Hampshire  Oct 29th 1819
Personally appearing the above named Silas Russell made oath that the foregoing instrument by him Signed is Just and true before me.
Thomas Wadleigh Justice peace
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BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
FORM VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Foster, Jeremiah
GRADE Private
LINE New Jersey

WARRANT NUMBER 8297
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED May 26,1790 to -not shown-

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.