Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15155, for John Park, Massachusetts
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Continental (Mass.)

Park, John
         Lucy

NUMBER
W. 15155

CONTENTS
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170
Massachusetts
Lucy Park
widow of John Park
who served in the Revolutionary war,
as a Matross
Mass
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars ---
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the
14th day of June 1848
and sent to
G.S. Bulfinch
Boston
Mass

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners [illegible]
February 2, 1848, Page 122, Vol. 2

Reported
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3154
Park
Mass. 2316
act 7. July 38

[illegible]
2 years Matross
100$
no deduction

Lyman Terry
Boston
Mass

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Boston, November 12, 1838
JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Sir,
Enclosed and hereunto annexures please find the funeral documents to enable Lucy Park a worthy and needy widow to obtain a pension on the benefit of the provision made by Act of Congress passed July 7, AD 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. It is hoped that the several documents herein enclosed will prove correct and satisfactory to enable the said Mrs. Park to obtain a pension. 
As soon as may be please inform me of the result and if more evidence is necessary.
Very respectfully yours
(Illegible)
Lyman Perry 
 in behalf of Mrs. Lucy Park
Please add info to me at Boston,
  Lyman Perry
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State of Massachusetts
County of Suffolk
On the 9th day of November 1838 personally appeared before the Hon. Peter O. Thacker, judge of the municipal court for the City of Boston, Mrs. Lucy Park a resident of Boston, County and state as before named, aged sixty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled “an ask granting half pay and pensions to certain widows” That she is the widow of John Park late of Framingham deceased who was ? in Capt. Henry Burbeck’s Company in the B regiment of artillery. Commanded by Col. ? Crane is that he served during the term of his three years enlistment in the armies of the United States of N.A. as per certificate given him on his discharge from the armies as before named dated at West Point the 14 of March 1780 and signed by Henry Burbeck, Captain and S. Bauman, Major of artillery. Said certificate is herewith presented with the declaration.
That according to the best of her knowledge and belief the said John Park enlisted as soldier with the three years at ? in 1777 and left the service at the time of date of the certificate of his discharge as above named.
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State of Massachusetts
County of Suffolk

On the 9th day of November 1838 personally appeared before the Hon. Peter O. Thacker, judge of the municipal court for the City of Boston, Mrs. Lucy Park a resident of Boston, County and state as before named, aged sixty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled “an ask granting half pay and pensions to certain widows” That she is the widow of John Park late of Framingham deceased who was ? in Capt. Henry Burbeck’s Company in the B regiment of artillery. Commanded by Col. ? Crane is that he served during the term of his three years enlistment in the armies of the United States of N.A. as per certificate given him on his discharge from the armies as before named dated at West Point the 14 of March 1780 and signed by Henry Burbeck, Captain and S. Bauman, Major of artillery. Said certificate is herewith presented with the declaration.
That according to the best of here knowledge and belief the said John Park enlisted as soldier with the three years at ? in 1777 and left he service at the time of date of the certificate as above named.
That she believes and he and him say that he was in the several engagements and battles during the three years and he found and suffered in like manner as the rest of Capt. Burbeck’s Company of artillery during the same three years in that she believes he was a volunteer in the service in that at the time of entering the service he was a resident of the town of Newton MA (the place of his birth) that during the pending of the old war his parents remained to Framingham where he the said John Park became a resident and there remained settled till his death in 1829.
The ?  further saith that soon after his passing of the first pension laws that her husband before named presented his paper to the proper office and officer at Boston and was informed that he was entitled to a pension but he pass? Something over a certain amount of property was thereby debarred from receiving any pension in the ? giving all pensions not having taken place before his decease. 
The further declared that she was married to the said John Park of the Nov 20, 1791 that her husband the aforesaid John Park died at Framingham on the 26 of March 1729.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 at the time ? stated.

Signed Lucy Park and witnessed by Peter O. Thacker.
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Subscribed and sworn to on the day first before written, Nov. 9, 1838, before we and further certify that the said Lucy Park the applicant by reason of infirmity was unable personally to attend court.

Signed Peter O’ Thacker, Judge at the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Suffolk County

I, Thomas D. Phillips, Clerk of the municipal court of the city of Boston hereby certify I ? Peter O’ Thacker, Esquire is a judge of said Municipal court and the signature above, proposing to be said Thacker’s is his genuine signature.

Witness my hand and the Seal of said court hereto set this Nov. 10, 1838. Thomas D. Phillips, Clerk.
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I Joel Coolidge of Framingham State of Massachusetts fo hereby testify and say that I was a soldier in the revolutionary war and as such do now receive a pension from Government. That I was well acquainted with the late John Park. That I know he was a soldier in the revolutionary war. That he was in the army at the Battle of Brandywine, and that we lived near neighbours for many years previous to the death of the said John Park which took place in March A.D. 1829. That I have been and am still acquainted with his widow Mrs. Lucy Park, both previous to the death of her husband the said John park and also since up to the present time and can say and so that she the said Lucy remains unmarraged and the widow of the late John Park as before named. also that said Lucy Park has resided in the city of Boston with her children most of the time for the last two years lived in  Framingham occasionally.
Witness my hand
Joel Coolidge (signature)
Framingham October 4, 1838

I Jason Hall of Framingham, Mass. do hereby testify and say that I married the daughter of John and Lucy Park in Nov. 1828 and I have heard the said John Park recount and mention the battles &c. in which he bore an active part in the old revolutionary war. that the said John park died at Framingham in March 1829 aged 69 years. that from his decease up to 1834 I boarded most of the time with his widow Mrs. Lucy Park at which time I became the purchaser of her homestead in from that time for nearly two years she boarded mostly in my family since which and for the last two years she has almost constantly resided with her children in the City of Boston. And I further testify and say that the said Lucy Park is now and has remained the widow of her late husband, the last John Park as before named.
Witness my hand.
Jason Hall
Framingham, October 4, 1838
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State of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex }
town of Framingham } Js
The fore going Joel Coolidge
and Jason Hall who have severally subscribed
the aforegoing affadavits in my [illegible]
I do hereby certify that they are men of strictly
correct principles of first respectablity and 
undoubted veracity. I further certify that the said
Joel Coolidge and Jason Hall each personally ^appeared before
me and made solemn oaths to the truth of the 
contents each for the affadavits which they have
respectively signed
Witness my hand and seal
this twentyfourth day of October eight
teen hundred thirty eight
Joseph Ballard
Justice
of the Peace
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Town Clerks Office Watertown Septr 17th 1838

I Isaas Robbins of Watertown County of Middlesex --- Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify depose and say that I am Town Clerk of Watertown and have in my care an keeping the Records of Said Town --- and these appear under the head of entries of the banns of Matrimony  - the following record to Witt --- "Seventeen hundred Ninety One the twentieth day of November John Park of Framingham to Lucy Richardson" of Said Watertown.
--- that they were married by Richard Roswell Eliot Minister of the Gospel.

I further testify and say that the above is a true extract from the records with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as following 1791. Nov. 20th.
Isaac Robbins Town Clerk of Watertown


Middlesex S.S. Sept. 18th 1838
Then the above named Isaac Robbins personally appeared before  me and made solemn oath that this above Certificate by him subscribed was just and true. And I further Certify that Said Isaac Robbins is Town Clerk of Watertown.
Tyler Bigelow
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex SS
I Isaac Fiske Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth aforesaid hereby certify that Tyler Bigelow Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified & that his signature within written is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate this eighteenth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight.
Isaac Fiske, Reg. (signature)
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Revolutionary War Records Division  3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of pensions
Washington, D. C.
Wid. File 15.155

In reply to your request of............received............for a statement of the military history of John Park a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his  (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: 1777 
Length of Service: Mch. 14 1780
Rank: Matross
Officers under whom service was rendered: Captain Henry Burbeck, Colonel John Crane's3d Continental artillery

Battles engaged in: Brandywine
Residence of soldier at enlistment: Newton, Mass.
Date of application for pension: Nov. 9, 1938 Her cl. was al.
Residence at date of application: (of widow) Boston, Mass
Age at date of application: she was 68 years old.
Remarks: Soldier was born at Newton Mass. date not stated. He married Nov. 20, 1791 at Watertown, Mass Lucy Richardson and died Mch 26, 1829 at Framingham, Mass. aged 69 years. Children are referred to but no names are given; a daughter married jason Hall, a resident of Framingham, Mass. in 1838

Respectfully,
Commissioner
d-285C
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1919 [illegible] Hist. to Mrs. Lucy R. S. Bennett
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No 15155
Lucy Park
Widow of
John Park
Matro[illegible] Rev War
Act: Feb 20 48
Index: - Vol. M, Page 112
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mapachussath. 2316
Lucy Park
widow of John Park, dec^d.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 
and who died on the 26 of March 1829
of Suffolk in the State of Mapth
who was a [illegible] in the County commanded
by Captain Burbeck of the Regt. commanded
by Crane in the Mapth
line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Mapachussath
at the rate of 100 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of April
39 and [illegible] to Lyman Perry,
Boston, Mapth
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. - $300.00
Semi=annual allowance ending  50.00
$350.00
{Act July 7,}
{1838}
Recorded by R. Burgian Clerk,
Book A Vol. 1- Page 120
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Rip?                               1974
Massachusetts
Lucy Park
widow of John Park
who was a Matross
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
100 Dollars -----
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 
15th day of Sept. 1863
and sent to S. M. Stone
Boston, Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1. Page 51.
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John Parks, Matross in Captn Henry Burbeck's Company, in the
300 Regiment of Artillery, Commanded by Colnl Joel Crane, Having Served
as a good Soldier during the Term of his Three years enlistment, is 
hereby discharged from the Armies of the United States of
North America and is entitled to all the privileges that may
arise to the Three years. Men from the Massachusetts & United States
of North America.
Given at West Point
This 4th Day of March 1780.  Harry Burbeck Captn
S. Bauman Major [illegible]
Artillery
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Park
Boston
APR
7
J.L. Edwards, Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Boston April 6, 1839

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
I addressed you the 3d of last Jany. in regard to the papers of Lucy Park to enable her to obtain a pension under the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 and promptly received a printed circular from your department with the following wrote in the margin "the papers of Lucy Park were received on the 15th November. Her claim will be examined in turn".
At the urgent request of Mrs. Park (who begins to feel that it may be possible that her papers may have accidentally overlooked or mislayed) I again reluctantly an very respectfully address you on the subject believing her claims will receive attention in due time and turn and the results reported.
Very Respectfully Your
obt. servt.
Lyman Perry (signature)
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2265
Lucy Park

Lucy Park
$100 per ann

L. M. Stone
Boston, Mass.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk County ss

Be it known that on this twentieth day of June 1843 personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and Commonwealth, Mrs. Lucy Park a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd day of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of John Park deceased who was a Matross in the Revolutionary War and served as she verily believes as stated by her in her original declaration for a pension under the law of the 7th July 1838., to which declaration and the papers accompanying the same now on file in the War Department she would refer for a more particular statement of his services for the proof of her marriage, identity and the time of her husbands death.
She further declares that she was pensioned under said act at the rate of One Hundred Dollars per annum which amount she received from the 4th of March 1836 to the 4th of March 1841 at the Agency in Boston Massachusetts and at the time of her receiving her last payment surrendered the Pension Certificate granted to her under said act to the Pension agent at the said City of Boston agreeably to the rules of the Department.
And this declarant further alleges that she has not intermarried since the decease of her said Husband but is now and ever since has been the widow of said John Park deceased as will more fully appear by the proof hereunto annexed.
and further she saith not.
Lucy Park (signature)
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first above written and I certify that the applicant
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is personally know to me to be the person withing descibed.
Before me
Lowell M. Stone
Justice of the Peace

I Lyman of the city of Boston in the County of Suffolk of lawful age on oath testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Mrs. Lucy Park the applicant named in the within declaration for many years last past. I know that she was the wife and is now the widow of John Park deceased who was reputed to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War and that she was a pensioner under the law of 7th July 1838 as stated by her.
Lyman Perry (signature)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk County, SS June 22, 1843
Then came Lyman Perry who is known to me to be a credible witness and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is strictly true.
Before me
Lowell M. Stone
Justice of the peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston June 23, 1843

I hereby certify that at the date of the annexed attestations Lowell M. Stone was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestation, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
( State seal)
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Jno. A. Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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L. Park
Adm

admitted

G. S. Bulfinch, Boston
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution".

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk County SS
On this 25th day of April 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, Lucy Park, a resident of Boston in the county of Suffolk aged seventy nine years who being first sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. that she is the widow of John Park, ^ who was a resident of Framingham Mass and who was a Matross in the 3d Regiment of Artillery commanded by Col. John Crane, and is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of 17th June, 1844 on account of the Revolutionary service of her late husband aforesaid, at the rate of one hundred dollars and -----cents per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Lucy Park (signature) (seal--L.P )
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, Before me
G. S. Bulfinch Justice of the Peace
I certify that the Declarant is personally known to me a widow and a pensioner as she declares.
G. s. Bulfinch, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
(blank) County, SS
I..............................Clerk of the Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that ..................is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature, above written is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the Seal of said Court, this (blank date)
Clerk
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Rev. Sec.

Room 1333, Stock Exchange Bldg.,
Chicago, Ill. Feb. 19, 1919

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. 
(stamped-U. S. Pension Office N Feb 21 1919)

Gentlemen:
Will you be kind enough to furnish me certificate of services as used when my ancestor received a pension from the Government?
His name was John Park, born in Framingham Mass Nov. 16, 1759; died there 23 Mar. 1829, served in Revolution from Middlesex Co., and his wife received pension; perhaps he too did. His wife's name was Lucy Richardson, born I believe in Watertown, Mass. 20 Dec. 2760-9, married in 1791. She died 27 Mar. 1849
We believe the town of Newton was given as his place of enlistment but that is the same county and I am certain from his age, etc all establishes this for a certainty.
I am desirous of having the certificate to append to my application and will be greatly obliged to you for prompt answer. Many thanks for same.
Very truly yours,
(Mrs.) Lucy Ann Shields Bennett
1333 Stock Exchange Bldg.
Chicago