Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9894, William Wiggin, N.H.
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(3-1776) 
SERVICE NUMBER
N.H. Wiggins, William W.9894
Mary B.S. Nt, 31,455-160-55

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CONTENTS
This woman also applied for a pension as the former widow of Daniel Blanchard and the claim was rejected. See papers within, R.924 of duplicate no. R 11503
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10.535
Massachusetts
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William Wiggin of (illegible) in the State of Mass who was a fifer in the company commanded by Captain (illegible) of the (illegible) commanded by Col Chase, NH (written over illegible words) (illegible word crossed out)
for 1 (illegible) 6 Days Fifer
14 " Private
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Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
at the rate of 50 Dollars 98 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of April 1832 and (illegible) Charles Kimball Ipswich Mass
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Arrears to the 4th of (illegible) 183.3 $101.96
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept ' $25.49 {line underscore} $127,45 {double line underscore]
 {Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J H McBlain Clerk, 
Book 6 Vol 234 Page 90.


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Reg Mass 3'55 189.063
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July 18{55
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William Wiggin
Fifer -
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Capt Nelson
Col:  (illegible)
Enlist | Nov 1777'
Died: Feb 1778
War of Revolution
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Pensioner- Certification No. 10.535
Book E. V 2 P.90
(illegible) 32-10535\
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Vol. Ma- 24.2  Horatio Woodman Boston Mass:
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6187 {underlined}  1863 
Janry 5 Israel Perkins
3d Auditor
2d Comptroller
Pension agent
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Massachusetts 
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 Mary Wiggins, widow of William 
NH Wiggins who served in the Revolutionary war, as a priv: Fifer,
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 50 dollars and 98 centers per annum, to commence on the ^ {scribbled out 3d} 8th February, (scribbled out 1853) 1856
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Certificate of Pension issued 31st day of July 1857 and sent to Israel Perkins
South Danvers. Mass:
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853 Page 17 Vol {illegible, page ripped}
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
{large seal stamp)  Secretary Office, Boston, June 24 1857
Certify, That at the date of the attestations hereunto annexed. 
Thomas B Newhall & Waldo Thompson
(illegible) Justices of the Peace for the County of Essex
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted: and that to (illegible) acts and attestations, as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony of which, I have hereunto affixed the SEAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH, the date above written. 
F De Witt
 Secretary of the Commonwealth
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South Davers Mass June 20th 1857
Hon G.G. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Please send Mrs Mary Wiggins Pension certificate to me. 
Yours Sir
Respectfully
Israel Perkins
P.S.
Mrs. Mary Wiggin has made an application for pension of account of services rendered by her first husband Daniel Blanchard in the Revolutionary war,
I. Perkins
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(Illegible) all men by these presents that I, Mary Wiggins of Lynn in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have made constituted and appointed Israel Perkins of South Danvers in the county of Essex, and State of Massachusetts my (illegible) and lawful Attorney for me and in the name pease and stead to prosecute before (illegible, page ripped) Commissioner of pensions, my claim for pension under the second section of the act of February third Eighteen hundred and fifty three. 
Witness my hand and seal this thirteenth day of June- a.d. 1857.
Attest. her-
James H Thomas Mary X Wiggins (faded seal)
Thomas B Newhall  widow

State of Massachusetts
County of Essex SS On this thirteenth day of June AD 1857. The said Mary Wiggins personally appeared and acknowledged the above instrument to be her free act and deed before me
Thomas B. Newhall Justice of Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Secretary's Office, Boston, May 21, 1856, I hereby certify that at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed. Tho B Newhall was Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court. 

In Testimony of Which, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the commonwealth the date above written. 

H DeWitt
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Know all men by these presents, That I, Mary Wiggin, formerly Mary Blanchard
of Lynn in the county of Essex
and State of Massachusetts have made constituted, and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint Alexander Perry of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia my true and lawful
Attorney, for me and in my name, place and stead, to prosecute before the Hon. Commissioner of pensions at Washington D.C. a pension claim I Share against the United States government, on account of the services rendered by my former husband Daniel Blanchard in the war of the Revolution.

giving and granting unto my said Attorney, full power and authority to do and perform all
and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
my said Attorney or his substitute or substitutes shall lawfully do, or cause to be done by virtue thereof. And I hereby revoke all power of Attorney by me at any time heretofore made [illegible]
in witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the nineteenth day of May,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty six
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of
Mary Wiggin
[illegible]
State of Massachusetts
County of Essex
On this [illegible] day of May AD 1856, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, personally appeared
Mary Wiggins and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned, and also made oath that she is a party directly interested in the above mentioned as a claimant. [illegible]
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

[along the side] Note she [illegible] (District) between the seventh and eighth lines from the [illegible] power of Attorney, was [illegible] before signing [illegible] Justice [illegible]
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State of Massachusetts
County of Essex
On this nineteenth day of May A.D. 1856,
personally appeared before me Thomas Blanchard [illegible] Justice of the Peace Court within and for the City of Lynn in said County
being a Court of Record)
Mary Wiggins a resident of Lynn in said County and State aged Ninety four 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 4th 1836 and all subsequent act, applicable to her case that she was formerly the widow of Daniel
Blanchard that said Daniel Blanchard served as a Soldier in the war of the Revolution from the Town of Andover in said County of Essex. This declarant further saith that her husband the aforesaid Daniel Blanchard served in several
campaigns in said said war, as she has often heard him relate. That she was married to the said Daniel Blanchard on the or about the nineteenth day of March in the year
Seventeen hundred and eighty three. That the
aforesaid Daniel Blanchard died on the day of in the year Eighteen hundred and
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That she is now the widow of William
Wiggins, That she was married to the said
William Wiggins on the Twenty first day of
December in the year Eighteen hundred
and thirteen That said William Wiggins
died in said Lynn on the Eighth day of
February in the year Eighteen hundred and
fifty Six, and that she has remained
the widow of said William Wiggin ever since
his death, as will more fully appear by proof hereto annexed
Attest
James H Thomas
Mary Wiggins
Thos Henshall
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
written, above
Tho B. Newhall Judge Lynn [illegible] Court
within and for the City of Lynn in said County of [illegible]
And I hereby certify that Mary Wiggins the
above declarant) was to all appearance
unable to appear in open court on account
of bodily infirmities and I hereby further
certify that I have no interest in this
matter
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston,
April 9th 1856
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 Daniel Blanchard and is borne on the
pay Roll of Sept Jereniah Blanchards Comp, Col Thomas Poors Regt for the term of 8 mos from the time of their arrival at Peakshill from May 4, 1778 to Jany 27 1779 - 8 Mos & days trood included also on descriptive list of 9 Mrs Men, age 19. Height 5-9 complexion light from Andover, with the following endorsement - Springfield July 16 - 1779 - Received of Justice Ely Es Commissioner to the state of Massachusetts Bay the persons mentioned in the within list, being raised to service in the continental army for 9 mos agreeable to a [illegible] of the general court of said state
passed June 7, 1779 [illegible] Marshall Capt: also on pay roll Capt John Abbotts Comp Col
Nathaniel Wades Regt service at West Point from June 29 to Oct 10 1780 - 3 Mos, 11 days as private from Andover
Also Andover June 16, 1781 a return of the [illegible] given by the several District & classes in said Town to the persons hereafter named who engaged in the Continental Army as said town note [illegible] agreeable to a resolve of [illegible] of the 2d of Dec last. Daniel Blanchard received $85.10 for enlisting for three years March 7 1781 from Andover sworn to by the Selectmen of Andover June 18-1781
Also on list of final settlement in the 4th old 
9th Colonel Henry Jackson Regiment No 18942
January 1, 1782 $57.?4 (over)
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No 14.576 Jany 1-1783 $22.65
No 15.219 Jan 1-1780 $80.00
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 clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain 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
Francis De Wire
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Mary Wiggins, 
widow of William Wiggins 
Essex Co. Massachusetts
Admitted as Feb 3 1853
as rate of $50.98 per annum commencing from February 8, 1856, when husband [illegible]
Private and fifer 
Pay widow
Certificate to 
Israel Perkins Esq
South Danvers
Massachusetts
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Widow, &c. 
File No. 9894
Mary Wiggin 
Wid
William Wiggin 
filer Rev War
Act: Feby 3d 1853
Index:-Vol. M, Page 340
[Arrangement of 1870]
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No 15.425
Mary Wiggin,
Formal orders of Daniel Blanchard
Rejected widow pensioned under [illegible] Feb 3/53 6.187 for her second husband serviced [illegible] A. Roy July 3 1856 

See case of Mary Blanchard map - as Feby 2, 1848 

A Roy July 22/56. No. 1006
Same Sept 8, 1856 [illegible]
July 7, 1838 Jan 22 '57
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41 

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name Wiggin, Winthrop Grade Private Line New Hampshire

Warrant Number 3579 Acreage 100 Issued Jan 27, 1798 to Jonathan Cass, assignee 

*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.