Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,271, Aaron Bolton, Continental (Mass.)
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SERVICE
Continental (Mass.)
Bolton, Aaron
NUMBER
S.12,271
carded
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21,005
Massachusetts
Aaron Bolton of Worcester in the State of Mass
who was a Corpl. & Sgt in the Company commanded by Captain Nord of the Regt. commanded by Col. Baldwin in the Ma line for 
6 months Corporal
6     "        Sergeant
* Continental Line
Records corrected July 29/05.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 52 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Dec.
1833 and sent Simeon Sanderson Westminister Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833           $130.00
Semi-anl. Allowance ending Mar 32        26.00
                                             [double underline]
                                                              $156.00 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book E Vol. 2 Page 42.
#Hon J. Davis
HR
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester, certify that Edward D Bangs Esquire, before whom the annexed affidavit has been made, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this twenty fourth day of September, A. D. 1818.
[signed] Abijah Bigelow. Clk.
Application of   }
Aaron Bolton     }
of Westminister }
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State of Massachusetts
I, Aaron Bolton a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Westminster in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the first of January 1776
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to January, 1777  as a Corporal & Sergeant against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Capt. John Wood's Company, Col. Baldwin's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line; I served principally in New York and the Jerseys - and that I left the service on January, 1777; but remained nearby two months  at Pickshill [Peekskill] dangerously sick, when my regiment having [illegible] I received no actual discharge and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty six years-
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
[signed] Aaron Bolton
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 20 day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth [sic] before me, Edward Bangs one of the judges of the C.C.C. pleas for the Western Circuit of Massachusetts the abovenamed Aaron Bolton and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination made by me the said Judge, it appeareth [sic] to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid. [italicized]
[signed] Edwd Bangs
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I Benjamin Child of Worcester in the County of Worcester on oath declare, that in January, 1776 I enlisted into the Continental service, at the same time with the within named Aaron Bolton, and served with him as a Sergeant in the same Regiment the whole year, excepting 9 days; and I know that he faithfully served the period he has stated.
[signed] Benj. Child
Worcester ss. April 20, 1818 - Personally appeared the above Benjamin Child and made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed
Before me Edw. D. Bangs, Justice Peace
I certify that the above named Benjamin Child is well known to me as a credible and disinterested witness and that his Deposition is entitled to full faith and credit.
[signed] Edw. D Bangs, Justice of Peace.
[written along right margin]
Aaron Bolton
Not on Rolls
JM
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United States of America.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffolk, ss. }
Boston       }
On this nineteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me, SAMUEL JACKSON PRESCOTT, Esquire, Notary Public, by Legal Authority duly admitted and sworn, and dwelling in Boston, aforesaid, and a Justice of the Peace, and of the Quorum, within and for the said County of Suffolk, personally appeared Silvanus Wood of Woburn int he County of Middlesex & Commonwealth aforesaid, Gentleman, and formerly a Lieutenant in the war of the revolution, and in the years 1776 and 1777 an Ensign in the said war of the revolution in the company commanded by Captain John Wood, in the Regiment of which Loami Baldwin was Colonel, in the Massachusetts Line; and at the same time came and also personally appeared Daniel Smith of Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex aforesaid, Gentleman, who was a private soldier in said Capt. John Wood's company and in the same regiment commanded by the said Colo. Loami Baldwin, in said Massachusetts Line, and after being duly cautioned and sworn severally made solemn oath that they are well acquainted with Aaron Bolton of Westminster, in the County of Worcester in said Commonwealth, gentleman, now present and that it is a fact within their own knowledge that he the said Aaron Bolton, was a continental soldier in said Captain John Wood's said Company, in the said regiment, in the Massachusetts Line of which the said Loami
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Baldwin was Colonel, and that they, the said deponents, both and each of them, to wit, the said Silvanus Wood, as an Ensign, and the said Daniel Smith, as a private soldier, served in the said Captain John Wood's said company, against the common enemy, more than eleven months, without interruption or absence, and that he, the said Aaron Bolton was during the whole of said term of more than eleven months, to wit, from the first of January 1776 to the last of December 1776 (the same year) a private soldier in said Captain John Wood's said company, and present and acting against the common enemy, as a good and faithful soldier, without interruption or absence, during the whole of said term, as aforesaid, and also that the said company and regiment were on the continental establishment, and that all the officers of said company & regiment were continental officers and also that the said Aaron Bolton, during the whole of said term of eleven months & more, sustained the character of a good soldier, as aforesaid and the said deponents also severally made solemn oath that they verily believe that said Aaron Bolton, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life needs the assistance of his Country for support - and further that they, the said deponents, are altogether disinterested witnesses. The said deponents also severally made solemn oath that they have not the least doubt, from the fair character, which the said Aaron Bolton sustained as a
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a good soldier, as aforesaid, that he, said Aaron Bolton received an honourable [sic] discharge from the said continental service - although according to their present recollection no individual of the aforesaid company and regiment received a written discharge. In true testimony whereof both and each of the said Deponents have hereunto subscribed their names in my presence, and have been duly and severally sworn to the truth of the promises, by oath solemn by taken before me, the said Notary and Justice.
[signed] Silvanus Wood
              Daniel Smith
In witness whereof, and for making these Presents of full force and effect, as the said deponents are persons not only disinterested, but also of good name and credit. I, the said Notary & Justice, do hereby declare the same to be a public act, and that full faith and credit ought to be given thereto, and in testimony thereof, I have not only hereunto subscribed my name, but have also affixed my seal of office, the day and year first within written.
[signed] S. J. Prescott } Notary Public, and
                                   } Justice of the Peace
                                   } and of the Quorum.
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Rev War
12.271
INVALID.
File No. 12,271
Aaron Bolton
Sergt. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:- Vol. A, page 39
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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letter May 25:1829 to Wm. Jennison.
see letter 24 April 1833 to Hon. J. G. Kendall 
                26 June 1835        do
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3917
Massachusetts.
Aaron Bolton
* Sergeant,
Mass Line - 1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23d. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th of Oct. 1818. and sent to Edward D. Bangs, Esq. Worcester, mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 4 mo 12/30  35.20
Semi-anl. all'cwe ending 4th Mar 1819    48.00
                                             [double underline]
                                                               $83.20
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Westmenster, Worcester Coy.
*Continental Line
Records corrected July 29/05.
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Payable on the 4th of March & 4th of Sept. in each year, at the Branch Bank MS Boston, Massachusetts.
Recorded
Aaron Bolton
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I Certify, That in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th. of March, 1818,
Aaron Bolton, late a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
[signed] J C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Westminster Mass. - Worcester County
Sep 10. 1833.
I enclose the declaration of Aaron Bolton for a pension & be placed on the Pension list Please to divert to Westminster Post Office.
To Hon [illegible] Secretary of War
[signed] Simeon Sanderson for said Bolton
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Aaron Bolton's Declaration  27.902
County of Worcester
State of Massachusetts
Simeon Sanderson,
Westminster, Mass.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
County of Worcester ss-
On this sixth day of April in the year 1833, personally appeared before me William Jennison, one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County of Worcester.
Aaron Bolton a resident of Westminster in said County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts, aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the month of January in the year 1776 in a company commanded by Captain Wood, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Loammi Baldwin in the line of the State of Massachusetts, on the Continental establishment, and served for the term of one year, the first part of said time as a Corporal and the latter part of said time as a Sergeant in said Company.
That he was on the twenty sixth day of October in the year 1818, placed on the pension roll under the act of Mar. 18 1818, & has been struck therefrom on account of property & that he resided in 1818 q& has ever since resided in said Westminster.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency in any
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State
And he refers to his former application, for evidence in support of his present claim for a pension; his pension certificate, under the said former application, being numbered 3.917.
[signed] Aaron Bolton
Worcester, ss. April 6. 1833. Then the above named Aaron Bolton personally appeared, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, by him subscribed.
Before me, [signed] William Jennison, Justice of 
                                        the peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said County of Worcester, do certify, that Willliam Jennison, Esquire, above named, is a Justice of the peace within and for said County of Worcester - and that his signature to the certificate of the oath of the above named Aaron Bolton, appears to be in his own proper handwriting.
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand, and affix the seal of said Court, this sixth day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three.
[signed] Abijah Bigelow, Clerk
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A. Bolton
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I Aaron Bolton of Westminster in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age to give Testimony do depose and say that I was a Corporal in the war of the Revolution for the term of six months and I also did the duties of a Sergeant for the term of six months. I had a [illegible] we [illegible] which is lost. The above is as near as I can recollect at this time. The precise date of my [illegible] I cannot state [signed] Aaron Bolton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss-
There personally appeared the above named Aaron Bolton and under solemn oath with [illegible] the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me [signed] Simeon Sanderson
                               Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Joseph G. Kendall, Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County of Worcester, certify that Simeon Sanderson, Esq. above named is a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Worcester - and that his signature to the certificate of the oath of the above named Aaron Bolton, is in his own proper handwriting. In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand, and affix the seal of the Court of Common Pleas, at Worcester, this fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
[signed] Jos. G. Kendall Cler.