Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 13,858, John Dupar, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.
NUMBER
W.13,858

Dupar, John
or Dipper,
Roundey, Sarah

CONTENTS
(Former widow)
See claim of this woman's husband,
Joseph Roundey, Mass S. 33,584
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2556
Massachusetts
Sarah Roundey former
widow of John Dupar decd
who died in the 1778 or 1779
of Essex Co in the State of Me.
who was a Private in the Compy. comman
by Captain - of the - comman
by Mass in the Ma.
line for 6 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ma.
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per ann
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Ma 
1839 and Sent James Gregory c Marblehead M

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '39, $160
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '39 10.0
$170.0
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3
Recorded by D D Addison
Book A Vol. 2. Page 58
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See let to
Jas Gregory Esq
August 3, 1840.
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Town Clerk's
certificate of the
marriage of John
Dipper - since written
Dupar - & Sarah or Sally
Mullett
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Essex Ss.
Town of Marblehead,
September 5th 1837 Town Clerk's Office
I Richard Homan do on oath declare that I am Clerk of the Town of Marblehead, in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and that I have the custody of the records of said Town, and that it appears by the said records that John Dipper and Sarah Mullett were joined in Marriage by Rev. William Whitwell September 2d 1770.
It appears that said Dipper is the same as Dupar.
Richd Homan

Essex ss.
September 7th 1837
Then personally appeared Richard Homan, a credible witness, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed.
Before me,
James Gregory, Justice of the Peace.

Town Clerk's office, aforesaid
blessed October 20th 1837
I, Richard Homan, the above named Clerk the said town of Marblehead having understood since executing the above affidavit, that the new regulations of the Pension office requires that the date of the marriage widow applicant's must written out in full, I hereby Depose & say, that the above is the true date of the marriage referred to & that said date according to the said record in the following words: September the second Seventeen hundred & seventy.

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me, James Gregory, J of the Peace

Attest
Richd Homan
Town Clerk of the aforesaid Town of Marblehead.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Essex SS.
Marblehead
On this fourth day of October, A.D. 1837, personally appeared before the Court of Probate of said County of Essex holden at said Marblehead the day & year aforesaid Sarah Roundey a resident of said Marblehead in the County & State aforesaid aged Eighty-five years, who first being 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 acts of Congress passed July 4th 1806 & March 3d 18??. That she was first married to John Dupar September 2d 1770 - as for a certificate of said marriage hereto annexed will fully appear. That said Dupar deceased in the year 1778 or 79 - according to the best of her recollection, but she has no documentary proof to state the fact to a certainty.
That she then lived a widow about 13 years & was again married to Joseph Roundey in the year 1791 or 2 - that hence the is known by the name of Sarah Roundey. That her said second husband Joseph Roundey who was a Revolutionary Pensioner died of age, & the infirmities consequent thereof, in the year 1823, that she has not married since.
That her said first husband John Dupar enlisted in the continental service in the spring of 1775 for eight months, as a private soldier, & joined the company of Captain Simons which was attached to the "Marblehead Regiment" under Colonel John Glover, afterwards Brigadier General. That he soon after marched to Cambridge near Boston & there continued until he was wounded in the Floating Battery under the
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command of Captain William Macklin also of said Regiment, & late of this town. That her said husband was engaged in bombarding the works of the enemy at the time he received his wound.
That he was wounded by the bursting of a Cannon, & that said Captain Macklin lost the calf of his Leg by the same explosion - that John Dodd late of this town was killed & George Bruce, also of this place, was mortally wounded by the same accident. That the wound of her said husband was in the right Leg below the knee, & consisted of a severe laceration of the flesh & bruise of the bones. That after the lapse of a few days & as soon as her late brother, Thomas Mullett - who was a soldier in the same regiment - could get liberty to leave the camp, he came to Marblehead & informed her of the wound - in the night & the same night herself & brother returned to camp (about 17 miles distance) & arrived there at about the dawn of day. That after the lapse of two or three days her husband obtained [?] to leave the hospital (in which he was [?] confined) & that she then returned to her home with him - in Marblehead aforesaid. That from the time of his enlistment to his return, wounded, was about six months. That after his return as aforesaid to his home, he was attended by a surgeon for many months & that for the period of five months he could not bear his weight upon his wounded leg. That the wound eventuated in a running sore, & that it was nearly two years before he could move about effectually to do any thing for the support of his family. That the year before his death he
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was induced to make an effort to do something toward relieving the pressing necessities of his family & at the same time benefit his country, & with this view, went a short cruise in a small privateer out of this port - was chased ashore on the eastern coast (now coast of Maine)  - was burnt & returned to Marblehead in a few weeks.

That a short time after he was again induced much in opposition to a prudent regard for his bodily health - now much impaired by the running sore that resulted from his wound - to join a Letter of Marque Brigg - name not recollected - under Captain Benjamin Boden - late of this town - bound to the West Indies & there in 1778 or 79, as above stated he died in the Port of Martinique.

That her said husband was always strong & healthy before he received his wound & that she has no doubt that said wound was the cause of his death; but as she does not know of any one now living who was with him in the Brigg she merely declares it as her opinion from the State of his health & wound when he left his home. She further states that she was born & always lived in the said town of Marblehead that the said first husband John Dupar, was a resident of said Marblehead at the time he enlisted in the service & also at the time of his death.

She also further declares that by reason of her great age & the great length of time which has elapsed since her said first husband entered the army, that she might be mistaken with regard to the exact dates mentioned in this Declaration & also the exact period of her said husband's service - though some of the facts are perfectly fresh to her memory - and that her papers are all lost in misplaced, so that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim.

Witnessed by
James Gregory
Nathan Bowen

Sarah Roundey
her mark

Sworn to & subscribed this day & year aforesaid before me,
D A White Judge of Probate for the County of Essex.
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant is the Widow of the said John Dupar, there said first husband, & that the said John Dupar was a Revolutionary Soldier, was wounded in the service of served as she states.

I, Nathaniel Lord Jr. Register of Probate for the said County of Essex, in the said State of Massachusetts - do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court.
in the matter of the application of Sarah Roundy above named for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this fourth day of October, A.D. 1837
Nathl. Lord, jr
Register of the said Court of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Essex, Marblehead October 20th 1837.
I, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace within & for the said County of Essex, hereby certify that there is no interlineation, or erasure, addition, to the foregoing declaration of the aforesaid Sarah Roundey other than what existed at the time it was sworn to & executed before the Judge of Probate of this County as aforesaid.
And I do further certify that the affidavit of William Harris, hereto annexed is the same word for word - in all its particulars - as when sworn to & subscribed by the said Harris before me as aforesaid & that both the said Declaration, the said Affidavit, shall & will continue the same as originally sworn to & subscribed in all respects up to the time of their being deposited in the Post Office under seal. 
Attest James Gregory, Justice of the Peace
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 13858
Sarah Roundey
Former Widow
John  Dupar
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4th 1836
Index: - Vol. M, Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Sarah Roundey
Massachusetts
Suspended
See letter 8th Feb 1838, James Gregory
?? to same, July 21. 1838
Act 4 July 1836
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Marblehead, July 29th, 1840
Honored Sir,-
Hon. Mr. Saltonstall, Representative from this district, since his arrival home has handed me a Petition of Sarah Bean, widow of William Bean, late of this town, deceased, - a Pensioner under the law of June 7th, 1832, which was forwarded to Congress February 1839.

He has also handed me a letter of your Honor's dated May 5th, 1840 directed to Hon. John Taliaferro, in which you name a Joint Resolution of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, as having removed the difficulty in Mrs. Bean's case.

Said Resolution not being found upon any of the papers containing laws, rules, regulations & of the department in my possession, not even upon the regulations of the Department under the law of July 4th, 1836, handed Mr S. by your Honor as applicable to the case of Mrs Bean, I was not aware of its existence until thus informed by Mr Saltonstall - though. I have since found it among the U.S. Laws at our Custom House.
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If, therefore, there are any Regulations of the Department, applicable to the case of Mrs Bean & essentially different from those already extant for claimants under the act of July 4th, 1896, (2nd Section) & the explanatory act of March 3d 1837, it will oblige the writer if you will have the kindness to forward them to him.

I shall also be much obliged to your Honor, if you will grant me an answer the following questions:-
Since in the publication of "Document 1187", "Pension Laws in force", 25th Congress 2d Session, Has there been any other addition, alteration or amendment of Pension Laws than that which is embraced in the "Joint Revolution" above refered to, & the General Law which passed the same day? And in particular, have any of the disabilities which deprive widows of the benefit of the five year's pension act of July 7th 1838 - such as their having married again, or not having been widows when the act passed - been in any way removed?

Formerly, in certain cases, Pensioners were allowed to surrender their Certificates & relinquish the benefit
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benefit of the acts under which they were granted, & take the benefit of a subsequent act. Sarah Roundey of this town is now in the enjoyment of a Revolutionary Pension of $20 per annum only, under the law of July 4th 1836 - through the services of her first husband, John Dipper. Dipper died in the old war, & she soon after married Joseph Roundey, who was a Pensioner under the law of 1818. When she presented her claim through the first husband she could not then claim through the second - nor until the passage of the law of July 7th, 1838. I am requested by the old widow to enquire whether she can now relinquish her present pension & present her claim through Roundey, the Pensioner, & last husband?

The decissions of the Attorny General, pages 61 & 62 of "Pension Laws in force", above alluded to, decide that Pensions to widows are "vested rights", that in cases mentioned by him the children are entitled to the amount she or they might have claimed though she or they failed to apply. Can I be informed whether this decision gives the children of a widow entitled to the benefit of the first section of the naval act of March 3d 1839, the amount she might have claimed, though she failed to apply?

James L. Edwards Es
C of Pensions, Washington D.C.
I am, with great respect,
your Honors obt srvt.
James Gregory
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FREE
James L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
[stamp] MARBLEHEAD MA JUL 17
Com July 21
Sarah Roundly Jc
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FREE
James L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
[stamp] MARBLEHEAD MA JUL 17
Com July 21
Sarah Roundly Jc
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Marblehead, July 17th, 1838.
Honored Sir;--- In behalf of several widows of this place of have the honor most respectfully to request of you a copy of the rules of evidence established at your Honor's Department for the government of all cases of claims founded upon the late act of Congress, allowing half pay to certain widows of Revolutionary officers & soldiers for 5 years from March 4th, 1836.
As the rules & regulations established will undoubtedly set forth whether an after marriage - either before or after Jan. 1st 1794 - can effect a Ban to the bounty provided by the act, & also whether those who have become widows since the act of July 4th 1836, & who could have claimed the benefit of that act had they been widows at the time of its passage - having been married before the husband's service expired - can claim the benefit of it, - As the bearing of the act upon claimants so situated will undoubtedly be illustrated in the Regulations refered to of
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will forbear teazing your Honor by a particular batch of questions founded on such cases.

I will incidentally & respectfully mention to your Honor, that Sarah Roundey who was the widow of John Dupar, alias Dipper, who forwarded her claim to the Pension Office through the writer eight months ago, & which is understood to remain still undecided, will undoubtedly be enabled to claim a full Pension under the last act through her second husband, Joseph Roundey, who was a Pensioner under the act of 1818 - if her claim through the said Dupar should not be allowed. I may add, therefore, that an early & final decission upon the claim now pending, one way on the other is, on many accounts, highly desirable to her & her friends. In making this remark I have no desire whatever of interfering with that just prerogative of your Honor which empowers you to exercise your own discretion upon these matters.
I am verry respectfully
your Honor's obedient sevt,
James Gregory

James L. Edward
Esqr. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
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J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
District of Columbia
FREE
[stamp] MARBLEHEAD MA [illegible] 23
2837 Mass  Oct 27
4 July '36
3d Sec
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J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
District of Columbia
FREE
[stamp] MARBLEHEAD MA [illegible] 23
2837 Mass Oct 27
4 July '36
3d Sec
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I Lydia Dodd, wife of Robert Dodd, of 
Marblehead, in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do on oath testify & declare, that I am Seventy eight years old; that I was born & brought up in the said town of Marblehead & have always been an inhabitant of said town; that I was formerly the widow of John Clark who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army; that at the time of the Revolution was well acquainted with many Marblehead men, who belonged to the Regiment of Colonel (afterwards General) John Glover; that among others I was well acquainted with John Dipper, sometimes written Dupar; that I well recollect of his marching with said Regiment to Cambridge, near Boston, & of his being gone several months from his home, & of his being brought  home from the Army wounded, & I do further well recollect that when he was so brought home the weather was cold - and although I cannot swear positively how long he was absent in the army before he was wounded & brought home, I nevertheless have no doubt he was absent full six months. I am & have always been acquainted with Sarah
Roundey, formerly his widow, & now the widow of Joseph Roundey, & I know she has always maintained an excellent character for truth & veracity.
Lydia Dodd
Witness
J. Gregory
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
County of Essex
M'head, Oct 10th 1838.
Then Lydia Dodd, a credible witness, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit, by her subscribed.
Before me,
James Gregory, J. of the Peace
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FREE
James L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
[stamp] MARBLEHEAD MA OCT 11
Octo 15
Mass
ass: proof
Sarah Roundey
Act 1736
4 July 2837
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FREE
James L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
[stamp] MARBLEHEAD MA OCT 11
Octo 15
Mass
ass: proof
Sarah Roundey
Act 1736
4 July 2837
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Marblehead October 11th, 1838.
Honored Sir:
It now nearly a year since I forwarded to your Honor the claim of Sarah Roundey, formerly widow of John Dipper, alias Dupar. On the 18th of July last I received a letter from your Honor relative to the claim of Lydia Dennis, formerly widow of William Pritchard, which concluded in the following words:-- 
"The cases of Mrs. Colley & John Dipper will receive my early attention"
A few days after the receipt of said letter I received a Pension Certificate in favor of Mrs. Colley, but I have heard nothing whatever of the case of John Dipper.
The poor widow has therefore remained in suspense ever since I made known to her the contents of the letter.
As "Dipper" was wounded & driven from the army before his term of service expired, I have thought your Honor hesitated allowing her claim without proof further than the Declaration of the widow, confirming her affirmation that he was there full six months
before he was driven from the army by his wounds. I have therefore herewith forwarded the affidavit of Lydia Dodd, who recollects "Dipper" & the fact of his being brought home wounded, & that the weather was then cold, & also that she has no doubt he was absent in the army full six months before he was
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brought home. Dipper enlisted on the fourth of June, & left this place with the Regiment on the 22d of the same month, so that if Mrs. Dodd's memory is not treacherous he must have served 180 days over the period of service necessary to bring her claim within the provision of the law.
I have long since forwarded to your Honor the Certificate of the Secretary of this State proving he was in the Regiment when the pay Rolls were made up on the first day of August '75, & this is the latest & only proof of service of said Regiment, for that year, that the archives of the State afford. I now forward the only additional proof that she will ever be able to obtain in support of her claim; and your Honor will permit me to express my fervent hope that the indigent (she is altogether indebted to her children for support) & meritorious widow will speedily be relieved from her painful & anxious suspense, by either the allowance or rejection of her verry small claim. Mrs. Dodd's affidavit goes to prove  the widow's veracity & character for truth beside the other proof, & if your Honor should desire more proof in that behalf a score of affidavits is at her command.
Otherwise her claim must stand or fall upon the proof furnished.
I have the honor to be, with great respect, your
obedient humble servant,
James Gregory
James L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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V2837
Sarah Roundey
Massachusetts
admitted
Pr 6 mo $20
16 March '39
proof of service
L 1775 from June 4
contained in certificate
of Sec of State of Mass
filed with Lydia Dennis's
papers on
roll Mass. act 4 July '36

Act 4 July 1836
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I, William Harris of Marblehead, in the County of Essex, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being first sworn according to law, do, on oath, testify & declare that I am in the eighty fourth year of my age; that I took part in the Revolutionary War, & and now in the receipt of a pension for part of the services of the performed; that I served first in the company commanded by the late Samuel R Trivett of this town & the Regiment commanded by Colonel Gridley & afterwards, Capt Hooper's Company of State troops stationed, in this town, & served in said company till December 1775, when I was Discharged. I then, after serving another short term in Hooper Company, enlisted in the Rhode Island Regiment, commanded by Colonel Hitchcock, & served therein till the British Troops quitted Boston, in March 1776. That while I was attached to Hooper's company I obtained a furlough to go to Cambridge to see my two brothers who belonged to Colonel Jno. Glover's Regiment & that while I was there, & the verry day I arrived I heard the explosion of the canon of the floating battery commanded the late Capt William Macklin of this town - the bursting of which several men were killed or mortally wounded, & among others John Dupar late of this town was severely wounded who I understood belonged to the Marblehead Regiment under Collenal Jno. Glover. Said  Dupar was badly wounded in the leg & some time after his return I recollect of seeing him walk lame & I understood that he was confined some months to his home before he was able to go out, but I cannot exactly say how long. I am acquainted with his widow
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Sarah Roundy - that now is. 
After Dupar's death she married Joseph Roundy of this town, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner. Said Roundy has been dead a number of years, & I know that his widow, the said Sarah Roundy - whose first husband Dupar was - has not married since his death.
William Harris

Witnessed by
Thomas M Bassett
James Gregory

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Essex SS Marblehead October 2d 1837
Then the above named William Harris, a credible undoubted witness, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the aforesaid affidavit, by him subscribed, before me,
James Gregory, Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss.
I John Prince Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do certify that Hon. Daniel A. White is Judge of the Probate Court in said County; that James Gregory Esqr. is a Justice of the Peace in said County & that their signatures hereon are genuine. Witness my hand & the seal of said Court of Common Pleas October 18, 1837.
John Prince Clk