Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,389, Joseph Bacon, Mass.
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93-1776)
SERVICE
Massachusetts

Bacon, Joseph
Evans, Nancy
(Former Widow)

NUMBER
R. 3,389
B.L. Wt. 36741-160-55

CONTENTS
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Secretary's Office, Boston; 
October 3, 1845.

 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 Joseph Bacon is borne upon a Pay Roll of Captain Joseph Browning's Company in Colonel Seth Murray's regiment from the county of Hampshire, as a private from July 21 to October 10 1780 inclusive 2 months & 27 days including 7 days allowed to return home. After an order for pay for same service in said company dated, Palmer May 25, 1782. The names of Simeon Bacon & Simeon Bacon Junior are not borne upon rolls with the name of Joseph Bacon and the above is all the evidence of service, which can be identified as that of the individual for whom it is claimed in the annexed application.
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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 clerk alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contains 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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The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the rolls in his office of the service of my ^first husband, Joseph Bacon who was a Private part of the time and a part of the time in some kind of office. I think as Lieutenant in the War of the revolution. He enlisted from the Town of Palmer joining war in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts. This being his name during the war. He was out with his father Simeon Bacon and his brother Simeon Bacon Junior all thru ^out at one time. His father was poisoned to death with several others, by the Brittish [sp] putting poison in their drink ^that were poisoned [illegible] buried on what was called Spectacle Island, how long he was out at the aforesaid time I cannot tell, he was afterwards out in the capacity of an officer I think he said a Lieutenant the length of time I an unable to state certain, but have the impression that he said he was out when the war closed. I cannot tell the name of his officers, nor the years that he enlisted in but think it might [sp] be 1777 or 8. I am now seventy years old my memory does not enable me to state my first husband's services more fully than I have above stated.  I hereby constitute and appoint Ossin [illegible] my true and lawful attorney in the above.
Witness my hand this 10th day of July A.D. 1845. Nancy Evans
Signed by the aforesaid Nancy Evans in my presence on this 10th day of July A.D. 1845 at Randolph Ret
Lewis Spencer
Justice of the Peace
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No. 14187.
Nancy Evans
formerly widow of Jospeh Bacon
Vermont

33.89
Act 7 July 1838
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[State of Vermont
Randolph District, ss}
On this 16th day of July A.D. 1850 personally appeared before the probate court within and for the District aforesaid Nancy Evans of Randolph in the County of Orange within said district aged 75 years last May being first duly sworn according to law douth [sp] on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the acts of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows also the act March 3, 1843 and June 17 1844 and February 2nd 1848. That she is the widow of Joseph Bacon who was a private in Captain Joseph Browning's company in Colonel Seth Murray's Regiment from July 21 to October 1780 and she thinks he served at other times as a private and she thinks he also served as a Lieutenant or some office for a considerable time under his various enlistments he served in the Revolutionary war nearly two years and he enlisted from the town of Palmer in the State of Massachusetts and she further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Bacon on the twenty first day of April 1791 at Greenwich Massachusetts by Joseph Blodgett a minister and prior her name was Nancy Mores that her husband the said Joseph Bacon died August 1805 that  she was not married to him prior to his
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leaving the service [sp] but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January eighteen hundred and ninety four at the time above stated and that she is his widow still.
Nancy Evans
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written, by the above declarant in open Court.

State of Vermont
Randolph District, ss} 
I John B. Hutchinson, Register of Probate within & for the District of Randolph aforesaid hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Nancy Evans for a Pension. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Randolph in said District this 16th day of July A.D. 1850.
J. B. Hutchinson, Register
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE, SS.
I, Samuel Wells, clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Laban Marcy Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Laban Marcy and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this Fourth day of December in th year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
Samuel Wells, Clerk.
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Married in Greenwich April 21st 1791 by the Reverent Joseph Blodgett Jospeh Bacon of Palmer and Nancy Moor of Greenwich.
The above is a true copy of the original Record of the marriage of Joseph Bacon and Nancy Moor. Attest Thomas Smith, Town Clerk

Greenwich, November 30th 1850
Personally appeared Thomas Smith and took oath that the above is a true copy of the original Record of the marriage of Joseph Bacon and Nancy Moor before me.
Laban Marcy, Justice of the Peace
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Mr. Araunah Speak
West Bend office, Vt.
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198.291.Act March 8 /33
August 4

Nancy Evans, widow
Joseph Bacon, Private

Captain
Colonel
Massachusetts Militia

Ent.
Dis

Revolutionary War
Private
Massachusetts Militia

Ad. 16 [illegible] August 7/56
Discharged

J.K. Parish
Randolph
Vermont

volume B, Page 28.
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198291
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Claim for Bounty Land -  Nancy Evans - formerly widow of Joseph Bacon

State of Vermont
Orange County, ss}
On this 28th day of July AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appears before me J.K. Parish a Notary Public within and for the county and state aforesaid Nancy Evans formerly widow of Joseph Bacon , deceased, and now widow of Edward Evans, aged eighty years, a resident of Randolph in the State of Vermont who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is a widow and was formerly the widow of the identical Joseph Bacon who was a private in the Ware of the Revolution for several months in the Massachusetts troops but less than six months as will appear by the files of the department, upon a reference to the claim of the said Nancy Evans for a pension for the services of her first husband Joseph Bacon and which failed us this declarant was informed for the services falling short of six months as certified by the Secretary of State of Massachusetts.
She also refers the department not only to the proof of service but also to the marriage and death of her said husband Joseph Bacon and all other facts necessary to the establishing her claim to bounty land now as she believes among the files at the Pension Office, as heretofore forwarded to the offie for the purpose of obtaining a pension.
She now makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855. She also declares that she has not made a warrant claim for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress nor made any application therefore.
Nancy Evans
x her mark
witnes: J.K. Parish
Jospeh Bacon
We Joseph Bacon and Lucy Bacon, resident of Randolph in the state of Vermont, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Nancy Evans in our presence and that we believe
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from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and I the said Joseph Bacon aged sixty one years testify that I am the sone of the said Nancy Evans now present, that my father, Joseph Bacon, died in the town of Bethel, Vermont when I was some ten years of age. My said Mother has even resided with me since the death of her late and last husband Edward Evans in 1825.
Joseph Bacon
Lucy Bacon
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be; and that I have no interest in this claim.
J.K. Parish, Notary Public

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STATE OF VERMONT,
Orange County, ss.}
I, Burman Martin, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Orange, int he State of Vermont, which is a Court of Record, hereby certify that Jacob K. Parish, Esquire, was at the date of his signature to above certificate an acting Notary Public within and for said County, dully commissioned and qualified by the Laws of this State to administer oaths for general purposes, to take depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other written instruments; that I am acquainted within his handwriting and believe his signature to the foregoing certificate to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said County Court, at Chelsea, in said County, this 31dt day of July A.D. 1855.
B. Martin, Clerk.
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198,291
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Randolph, Vermont
August 2nd, 1855.

S.P. Waldo, Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
Please find the application of the widow Nancy Evans for services of her former husband Joseph Bacon in the Revolutionary War for Bounty Land under the Act of march 3, 1833.
She supposes all the proof the department will require is in the Pension Office furnished for the purpose of enabling her to obtain a pension for the services of her former husband the said Joseph Bacon, filing however for the want of proof of full six months.
In case the proof satisfactory, is not in the Commissioners Office an early notice is respectfully requested.
Your obedient servant,
J.K. Parish.
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[cross out] Acts of Jay 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878. [End cross out]

389
P.O. ___
Nancy Evans
Service: ___
Enlisted: ___, 18__
Discharged: ___, 18__
Application filed: ___, 18__
Alleges: ___
Re-enlisted: ___
Attorney: ___
P.O. ___
___Recognized. ___Contract
___ Certificate of Discharge.
Searched for ___, 18__

[ink stamp] REJECTED
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S.
36,741
[illegible]
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S.
Mr. Triplett

April 11, 1857
Related to claim of Nancy Randolph A. Spear
[illegible] Randolph, Vermont 
More information wanted

[illegible] Fleath
Washington

[ink stamp] FREE
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No. 14,187
Nancy Evans
formerly widow
of Jospeh Bacon
Vermont
Suspended
Received 23rd August 1850

[Illegible] W. Hebards
to same 19 September 1850 
26 March '51
Act of July 1838

198241
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[ink stamp]
RANDOLPH, VT
AUGUST 8

S.P. Waldo, Esquire.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City,
D.C.
198,291

[ink stamp] FREE
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Wm. Heband [illegible]
To theCommissioner of Pensions.
Washington, D.C.

Additional [illegible]
Nancy Evans

Capt Luputh
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West Randolph [illegible] April 7, 1851
Honorable [illegible] Heath, Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
Your letter of the 26 of March 1851 to the Honorable William Heband in relation to the pension claim of Nancy Evans, widow of Joseph Bacon, is forwarded to me and as the case now stands, it does not appear that the rolls of the Pension office [illegible] service to Revolutionary officers believes has ever been [illegible] in support of her claim.
Then her declaration was forwarded to your office it was accompanied by a statement that the evidence of services was but two months and twenty seven days and not enough to warrant a pension and the marriage and other supports of the case was not made out and if the department contained no evidence of her husband's services in addition to the accompanying record to justify on allowance of her claim. She hoped she would not be required to make further proof of marriage and  [illegible] as she was and [illegible]  as she was very poor and wished to avoid further expense [illegible]  and an order of August 23rd 1850 made no objection to her request and did not state that there was no records in that office to favor her claim but required the other points of her
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to be made out which was according to former practice a taste admission that the Revolutionary Rolls of that office would [illegible] coverage her in further evidence which was [illegible] an the papers sent to your office and from your letter to Mr. Heland of March 26 1851 no information is given that th eRolls at your office have been searched for the services of Joseph Bacon her husband which was her only hope of success.
[illegible] Book 205
New
Sir you are requested to order a thorough search if none has been made of said rolls and  unless they favor her claim it is none less [illegible] I have to hear from you again while I am your most obedient servant.
Araunah Spear
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documentary testimony to confirm the marriage of Joseph Bacon and Nancy Mores taken from the Records of Greenwich by Nathan P. Vaughan, Town Clerk. June 21st AD 1847
1st March 17th 1791 Intention of marriage between Mr. Joseph Bacon of Ware and Nancy Mores of Greenwich
2nd From the ancient Church Record where Several Joseph Blodgett kept a catalogue of marriages we have this announcement "April 21st Joseph Bacon of Palmer & Nancy Moor were married."
4th. On Town Records: marriages returned to Town Clerk by Reverent Joseph Blodgett "April 21st 1791 Joseph Bacon of Palmer & Nancy Moor of Greenwich."
Greenwich
June 21st 1849
A true copy certified by Nathan P. Vaughan Town Clerk
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Note, Palmer of Ware join and it was a very easy matter for Mr. Blodgett to make this small blunder.

Record of the marriage of Nancy Evans
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Washington, September 12, 1850
Colonel J. S. Edwards
Dear Sir,
Enclosed is the record of the marriage of Mrs. Nancy Evans, whose papers are on file in your offices, for a pension.
Truly your obedient servant,
William Hebrand
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Honorable Representative
Washington
December 13, 1850
Dear Sir,
I [illegible] to you the enclosed certificate of marriage, to be filed and used in the case of the application of Nancy Evans for a pension.
Very truly your obedient servant,
William Hebrand
To the Commissioner of Pensions