Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31463, Richard Walker, Mass.
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Service Mass 
Walker, Richard
Number S 31463
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5759
Massachusetts Richard Walker
of Bristol in the State of Mass who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Perry of the regt commanded by Col Walker in the Mass line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Penson issued the 16th day of Feby 1833 and sent Acton S. Hodges H of Reps
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $120
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 $40
$160
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by I F P Blair Clerk Book D Vol 2 Page 99
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Richard Walker Private January 6 to Jany 77
Read Map Regt [Admitted]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Norfolk On this fourth fay of October 1810 before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Cout of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Richard Walker aged sixty one years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned, according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled " An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United State in the revolutionary war."
I Richard Walker of Seekonk in the County of Bristol & comm th of Massachusetts on oath declare, that on the fourteenth day of November AD 1775 I enlisted as a Soldier on the late Revolutionary War for the term of one year on the Continental establishment I served according to said enlistment from Jan 7 1776 to Jany 1777. in a Company commanded by Capt Andrew Peters in Col. Joseph Reads Regt Mass Line . I was in the Battle of Princeton in N. Jersey and was there honorably discharged after my term of service expired. And
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I further declare that I am now in reduced circumstances in life and stand in need of the assistance of my Country for support.
Richard Walker
From evidence in I am satisfied the applicant is in reduced circumstances [] as he has stating above.
And I the said, Judge, do further certify, that it appears to y satisfaction, that the said Richard Walker did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. with the affidavit of Andrew Peter enclosed 
Jaines Ware
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1818
I hereby certify that  is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth- that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a court of record- that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said court.  Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of
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Richard Walker
(crossed out) with 2 7 oldcuse
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Bristol On this seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Hodijah Baylies Jude of the Court of Probate etc now sitting at Leighton in & for said county by adjt. Richard Walker a resident of Seekonk in said County aged seventy four who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th A.D. 1832.  That he was born at said Rehoboth on the tenth day of March 1758 and there is a record of his birth in said Rehoboth.  a copy of which is herewith [annesed] certified by the town Clerk thereof 
That he served in the Massachusetts States Militia as a private from the first day of July A.D. 1775 to the first day of January A. D. 1776; that he was residing in said Rehoboth when he entered the service as a substitute for Enos Walker of said Rehoboth & served the aforesaid period of six months in the Company commanded by Captain John Perry in Col. Timothy Walker's regiment & General Heath's Brigade; that he went from said Rehoboth to Roxbury near Boston where he remained during said service; that he does not know that there were any regular troops or regular officers there at this time; that he was in no battle, and at the end of his service he received no written discharge.  
Also that he enlisted and served as a private on board the ship Mars, carrying twenty two guns and commanded by Captain Thomas Truxton, said ship sailed about the first  May A.D. 1777 from Boston & cruised principally in the English Channel, that she took several small prizes which were carried into France, where he was regularly discharged. his six month's service having then expired, this being the term for which he enlisted.
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Also that he was in the Rhode Island State Militia service one month commencing in February of the year 1777 as a private, that he was residing in said Rehoboth when he entered the service that he went as a substitute for Enos Walker & served for the period aforesaid in the company commanded by Lieutenant Wilson Rawson in the regiment of colonel Amos Atwell the other officers he does not recollect and he knows of no person by whom he can prove this term of service that he went from said Rehoboth to Pawtuxet R.I. where he remained during said term. and at the end thereof he received no written discharge: Also that he was in the Massachusetts State Militia from the first of August A.D. 1778 to the sixteenth day of October A. D. 1778 as a private : that he was residing in said Rehoboth when he was drafted & served for the Period aforesaid in Captain Peley Peeks company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment & General Lovell's Brigade, that he marched from Swansey to Tivertown R.I. thence to the Island of Rhode Island thence to Greenwich. That he does not recollect any regular officers at these places, that he was in the battle of Rhode Island on the twenty ninth of August 1778 and at the end of his service he received no written discharge.
Also that he served in the Massachusetts state Militia from some time in August A.D. 1780 three weeks as a private, that he was residing in said Rehoboth when enlisted & served said period in the company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Ide, Col. Thomas Carpenter's Regiment, that he marched from said Rehoboth to Tivertown R.I. where he remained stationed at the Quaker Meeting house
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Richard Walker son of Enos Walker Born March 10th 1758 As of record in the town Clerks Office in Rehoboth 
Rehoboth August 17th 1832 Attest James Blanding Town Clerk
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I Joel Bowen of Seekonk in the county of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age to give evidence being duly sworn according to law, do testify and say, that Richard Walker now resident in Seekonk in said county , drafted, on the first of August AD 1778 marched to Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island, from thence to the Island of Rhode Island, was stationed there twenty one days; from thence was marched to Greenwich in the State of Rhode Island and served one and one half months in the militia in the company of Capt. Peley Peck in Col Thomas Carpenters Regiment in General Lowells Brigade, and was on the twenty ninth day of said August engaged in a Battle with the British.  
 Joel Bowen
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol County
August 13th AD 1832
Personally appeared Joel Bowen and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed Before me Allin Hunt Justice of the Peace
Bristol Decebr 26 1832
I hereby certify that Joel Bowen who signed the above affidavit is a credible and disinterested witness  Allin Hunt Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol I Anselm Bassett Register of the Court of Probate in and for said county of Bristol do hereby certify that Allin Hunt is a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Bristol and that the signatures to the certificates, to the affidavits of Joel Bowen, William Duggett and Joel Bowen, purporting to be his are his genuine signatures _ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this twenty sixth day of December Eighteen hundred and thirty two _ 
Anselm Bassett
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I William Daggett of Seekonk in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age to give evidence being duly sworn according law do give testimony and say that Richard Walker now resident in said Seekonk did on the first of July Seventeen hundred and seventy five enlist into the Company of Capt John Perry in the Regiment of Col. Timothy Walker in the Brigade of General Heath then stationed at Roxbury near Boston and did serve in the same company with me untill the first day of January following making a term of service of six months I do further testify and say that said Richard Walker did on the last of April or the first of May in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven enlist on board the ship Mars mounting twenty two guns commanded by Capt Thomas Truxton and served six months cruising in the Channel of England and was together with myself discharged in France.
William Daggett
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol County
Seekonk August 13 1832 then personally appeared William Daggett and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed Before me Allin Hunt Justice of the Peace
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I Joel Bowen of Seekonk in the county of Bristol and commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age to give evidence being duly sworn according to law do give testimony and say that Richard Walker now resident in Seekonk in the month of August in the year AD 1780 enlisted into the militia & served three weeks in Capt Nathaniel Ide's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Carpenter was stationed at Tiverton State of Rhode Island at the Quaker Meeting House, the British at that time were lying off the River and were daily expected to land at Tiverton.
Joel Bowen
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol county August 13 1832 There personally appeared Joel Bowen and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me. Allin Hunt Justice of the Peace
Bristol Decemb 26. 1832
I hereby certify that William Daggett and Joel Bowen who have signed the foregoing affidavits are credible and disinterested witnesses. Allin Hunt Justice of the Peace
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during said term that the British were lying off in the river and were daily expected to land but did not and at the end of this service he received no written discharge-
And he does further declare that he enlisted and served as a private in the continental service from January 1st 1776 to the last day of December A.D. 1776 in the company commanded by Captain Andrew Peters & in the regiment of Colonel Joseph Reed , as will appear by Captain Peter's deposition now in the office of the war department, that he made application for a pension under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 that his name was placed upon the pension list roll of the Massachusetts agency but was subsequently dropped on account of property that he resided at said Seekonk when he made said application his pension certificate is hereunto annexed-
That since the Revolutionary War he has resided in said Rehoboth, that part in which he has always resided has become Seekonk. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state excepting as aforesaid
Richard Walker
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. H. Baylies Judge of Probate
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We James O. Barney a Clergyman residing in Seekonk in the county of Bristol aforesaid and Allin Hunt residing in the same town-
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Richard Walker who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in the opinion
James O. Barney   Allin Hunt
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
H. Baylies Judge of Probate

[Crossed out]     [ I Anselm Bassett register of Probate for said court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of application of Richard Walker for a pension - In testimony whereof I hereunto  set my hand & seal of office the day & year aforesaid.]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bristol ss_
I Anselm Bassett. Register of the Court of Probate within and for the said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Richard Walker of Seekonk aforesaid for a pension_
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said office this seventeenth day of August AD 1832
Anselm Bassett
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31463
Revy INVALID.
File No 31, 463
Richard Walker
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 32
Index:- Vol. 2 Page 438
Arrangement of 1870
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16.188
Massachusetts
Richard Walker
of Seekonk in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Read of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of October 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of Dec 1819 and sent to Jairus Ware Esq Wrentham Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1820 40.25
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 
[Iho] 1/31
$40.25
Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818
See letter 17 Dec 1832 to A Bassett
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Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March, next, in Massachusetts, at the Branch Bank of the United States, Boston.
Recorded
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War Department 
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Richard Walker, of Seekonk, Bristol County, Massachusetts, late a private 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 fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War
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6 mo.
6 "
1 "
2 - 15
12 - 25
[crossed out] 2740
Richd Walker
Private
 2 years 
Adm'd
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War Department
Pension Office
Dec 12, 1832
Sir
I herewith return the documents in support of the claim of Richard Walker and have to state that before a final decision can be had on his [case] the magistrate before whom the testimony of the witnesses in regard to the claimant service, was taken must certify that they are credible and disinterested persons & the official character and signatures of the magistrate must be certified by the proper office under his seal of office. 
Very respectfully
Your obt st
J. L. Edwards
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Andrew Peters Esq
Affidavit in favour of Richard Walker
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I Andrew Peters of Westborough in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire, testify & say, that on the fourteenth day of November Anno. Dom. 1775, Richard Walker of Seekonk in the County of Bristol & Commonwealth aforesaid, did inlist as a private soldier into a company commanded by me as Captain in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Read in the Massachusetts line in the Service of the United States, on the continental establishment in the war of the Revolution against the common enemy, to serve one year in the service & war aforesaid from and after the last day of December of the said year 1775. as appears by the muster & pay rolls of my said company which are now in my possession. & the said Richard Walker did serve out the whole of the year for which he inlisted as aforesaid, as a good & faithful soldier, without any absence or interruption that I can recollect, and at the expiration of the said year for which he inlisted, the said Regiment was disbanded and in that way the sd Richard was discharged from the service aforesaid & further say not. 
September 16th, 1819    Andrew Peters
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. September 16th 1819
Personally appeared Andrew Peters, & made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed, and I certify that he is a credible witness, and has no interest in the above business.
Done before me,
Nahum Harrington Jus. of the Peace
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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 Nahum Harrington 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 eighth day of September A. D. 1819
Application of Richard Walker
Abijah Bigelow Cler.