Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24088, Daniel Dunbar, Mass.R.I
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Dunbar, Daniel
Phillipa

Number
W. 24088
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1015

Massachusetts
Phillipa Dunbar widow of Daniel Dunbar dec'd. 
Ret. and who died on the 15th September 1825 of Plymouth in the state of Mass.t who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Reg't commanded by Col. Elliot on the R.I. line for 7 1/2 months Private
10 mos & 6 days Pr of Infantry

Inscribed on the roll of Mass. at the rate of 65 dollars 24 cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March 1832.

Certificate of pensions issued the 15th day of Nov. 1838 and sent J.H Lord ...

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838   $163.00
Semi-Annual allowance ending 4 Nov. '39  32.62
$145.72

{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by DD Addison clerk
Book A Vol ... page 82
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Scituate Plymouth County ss. Aug 23, 1838

Mr. Daniel Dunbar of Haigham and wife Phillipa Danion of Scituate were married April twenty sixth seventeen hundred and eighty one by Israel Cinal Esq - one of the Justice of Peace for the county of Plymouth. 
I hereby certify that the above extract is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is  expunged on the record in fair legible figures - April 26, 1781.
Attest James Southworth clerk
of the town of Scituate

I James Southworth above named do depose and say that I hold the office of town clerk of Scituate in the county and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the search of said town with the exception above named as certified by me. 
James Southworth
Clerk of the town of Scituate
 
Sworn before me 
Solomon Lincoln
Justice of the Peace
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1334
Phillipa Dunbar

on roll Col Elliott
artilery 7 months
on roll
page 25 Capt More
.. 15 May Jun 4 1777
2 mos
on roll Col. North 24 pages
37 x 40 performance
to 1 Oct 1776  6 mos
on roll vol 17 pages 154
first Oct to Dec 13 1776 page 26

admitted 31.284
per artillery 7 mos 
Pr inf. 10 m 34
65.24
J.N. Lorde
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth ss}

On this twenty ninth day of  August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Hon. Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Plymouth.

Phillipa Dunbar a resident of Hingham in said County aged eighty 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 act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"  That she is the widow of Daniel Dunbar of said Hingham deceased who was a private soldier in the army of the revolution.  He enlisted and served as follows:  Two months and two days in Capt French's company in Col Jonathan Titcomb's Regiment in Rhode Island in the year 1777.  One half of .15 month under Lieutenant Burrill at Tiverton in that state in the same year and seven months in an (illegible) artillery company commanded by Capt Garee also (illegible) in Rhode Island in the same year.  He also ser-
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9.17  -ved six months in Capt Winslow's company at Nantucket (Hall) in the year 1776, as she believes.  He also served four months in Capt. Benjamin Beal's company of Guards drafted in July 1778 to "guard the troops of the convention and the stores in and about Boston"  The aggregate of all his services which said Phillipa is all to prove at this time is nineteen months and a half.  The resided in Hingham when he enlisted or was drafter.

She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Dunbar on the twenty sixth day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, that her husband the aforesaid Daniel Dunbar died on the fifteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and that she was not married to him prior to him leaving the service but the marriage took pace previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz:  at the time above stated. 
(Signed) Phillapa (her X mark) Dunbar's  

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year before written before me
(Signed) Wilkes Wood J. Prob.
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Plymouth ss.   I, Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for the said County do hereby certify that Hon. Wilkes Wood is a Judge of Probate for said County & that the foregoing is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & the
seal of the Court of Probate
for said County this sixth
day of September 1838
(Signed) Jacob H. Loud
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May 2, 1933
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Daniel Dunbar -W.24088
Nathan Niles - S.19008
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. F. W. Keller
305 Coleman Street
Olean, New York

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information relative to Daniel Dunbar and Nathan Niles, soldiers of the War of the Revolution.

You will find enclosed the records of the only soldiers named Daniel Dunbar and Nathan Niles found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Daniel Dunbar-W.24088

From the papers on file in the above noted pension claim, it is shown that Daniel Dunbar, while residing in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, served in 1776, six months in Captain Winslow's company.  He served in 1777, two months and two days as private in Captain French's company, Colonel Jonathan Titcomb's regiment; in 1777, fifteen days as private under Lieutenant Burrill; again in 1777, seven months in Captain Garzia's company of artillery, Colonel Elliott's regiment.  He enlisted in July, 1778 and served four months in Captain Benjamin Beal's company of Guards stationed around Boston.

Daniel Dunbar married April 26, 1781, Miss Phillips Danron (?).  She was then of Scituate, Massachusetts and he was of Hingham, Massachusetts.  Their marriage was recorded on the books of the town of Scituate.

The soldier, Daniel Dunbar, died September 15, 1825 in Hingham, Massachusetts, then aged seventy-three
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years.  The date and place of his birth are not given, nor are the names of his parents stated.

The widow, Phillipa Dunbar, was allowed pension on her application executed, August 29, 19398 then aged eighty years and living in Hingham, Massachusetts.

There is no reference to children.  In 1838 one, Enoch Dunbar was eighty-one years of age and living in Hingham, no relationship to family shown.

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Nathan Niles-S. 19008

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim. S.19008, based upon the service of Nathan Niles during the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of his birth are not shown.  He was the son of Stephen Niles, the name of his mother is not given.  It is stated that his father's famliy resided at Stephentown, New York during the Revolutionary War.

Nathan Niles enlisted at Stephentown, New York, sometime in June, 1777, as substitute for his brother, Robert Niles, served as a private two months in Captain James Dennison's company, Colonel VanAlstyne's New York regiment; his father, Stephen Niles was lieutenant in the company.  He enlisted in July 1778 or 1779 and served two months in Captain Stephen Niles' (his father).  He enlisted March 1, 1780 and served in Captain John Chipman's company, Colonel Harper's New York regiment, was on the expedition to intercept Sir John Johnson on his march from Johnstown to Lake Champlain; served until in the summer and was transferred to Captain Harrison's company, and again transferred to Captain Drake's company and was discharged in December, 1780.

Nathan Niles was allowed pension on his application executed August 18, 1832, then aged seventy years and living in Alburg, Grand Isle County, Vermont.

There is no reference to wife or children.  It is
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stated in 1832 that his father had been dead abut thirty years.

The soldier's brother, Ichabod Niles, was a resident of Alburg, Vermont in 1832.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 24088
Phillipa Dunbar
Wid of
Daniel Dunbar
Priv R. I. Line

Act July 7th, 1838

INdex:  Vol  A,  Page 201

[ Arrangement of 1870 ]

1933 May 2 hist to Mrs. (illegible) Keller awf
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss.     I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Solomon Lincoln is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the signatures to the several annexed affidavits purporting to be signed by him are his true & genuine signatures.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this sixth day of September 1838.
(Signed) Jacob H. Loud

[ Seal ]
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I Jedidiah Joy of Hingham in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty three years do depose and say that I served four months as a private in Capt Benjamin Beal's company of Guards in Boston in the year 1778.  Daniel Dunbar of Hingham wo died several years ago served as private in the same company during said term of fur months. We were stationed in Boston at the White Stores and on (illegible) Hill. 
(Signed) Jedidiah (his X mark) Joy

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss     August 7th 1838.
Then personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace within and for said County of Plymouth, the above named Jedidiah Joy and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.  And I hereby certify that said Jedidiah Joy is well known to me as a person of good reputation for truth.
(Signed) Solomon Lincoln
Justice of the Peace
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I Enoch Dunbar of Hingham in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty one years do depose and say that I served as a private in the Army of the Revolution among other services as follows:  two months in Capt French's company, of Infantry in Rhode Island in the year 1777.  I then served one month in the Artillery in a company commanded by Lieut. Burrill at Tiverton, I also served seven months in Capt. Gayee Artillery Company in Rhode Island.  These last services commenced in 1777 and I was at Warwick in the winter of 1778.  Daniel Dunbar of Hingham who died in 1825, was a soldier with me in the companies above mentioned as follows:  two months in French's Company, fifteen days in Lt. Burrill's company and then he went home, I remained in Gazle's company and served seven months.   He was in the same mess with me.  His widow Phillipa Dunbar still lives in Hingham.  Daniel Dunbar also served six months in Winslow's company at VanSacket now Hull.  I cannot state in what year this service was performed, but I know he was there.
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I was there and saw him there.  It was after I got home from Canada, sick, in 1776.  I feel quite positive that it was in 1776.  I have also heard Capt. Benjamin Beal a revolutionary officer from this town, say that Daniel Dunbar was one of his soldiers but when or where I cannot state.  Capt. Beal died several years ago.
The words "aged eighty one years" were interlined before signing.
(Signed) Enoch  (his X mark) Dunbar


Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss. }  August 1st, 1838.
Then personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace within and for said county of Plymouth the above named Enoch Dunbar and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed in my presence is true, and I hereby certify that said Enoch Dunbar is well known to me and is a person of good reputation for truth.
(Signed) Solomon Lincoln
Justice of the Peace
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I Ezekiel Hersey of Hingham in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy seven years do depose and say that Daniel Dunbar of Hingham who died several years since served with me two months in the Revolutionary War in Capt. French's company in Rhode Island in 1777.  We were stationed in Providence.  Dunbar was a private.  The widow of said Daniel Dunbar is now living in Hingham.  She has never been married since his decease.  The name of our Colonel was Titcomb. 
(Signed) Ezekiel Hersey

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss.    Aug. 22d, 1838.  There personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace within and for said County of Plymouth, the above named Ezekiel Hersey and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed in my presence is true.  And I further certify that said Hersey is a person of good reputation for truth.
(Signed) Solomon Lincoln
Justice of the Peace.
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I Joseph Wilder of Hingham in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty three years do depose and say that I served in the Revolutionary War six months as a sergeant in Capt. Stowes Company in Rhode Island in the year 1777, the year Burgoyne was taken.  Daniel Dunbar of Hingham served in Capt. Gazles Artillery Company on the same expedition.  I was there six months and know that  Daniel Dunbar was there all the time that I was.  I saw him daily.  Gazles company was in Elliot's Regiment, according to the best of my recollection.  Daniel Dunbar died many years since in Hingham leaving a widow who is now living in Hingham, and she has not been married to my knowledge since her said husband's decease.
(Signed) Joseph Wilder

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss.   There personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace within and for the county of Plymouth, the above named Joseph Wilder and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.  And I certify that said Joseph Wilder is a person of good reputation for truth.
(Signed) Solomon Lincoln Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hingham, Plymouth County, August 22, 1838

"Daniel Dunbar, Aged 73, Died September the fifteenth eighteen hundred and twenty five."

This may Certify that the above extract is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows:  Sept. 15, 1825.
Attest,
(Signed) James S. Lewis, Clerk of the town of Hingham.


I, James S. Lewis above named depose and say, that I hold the office of Town clerk in the Town, County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.

(Signed) James S. Lewis, Clerk of the Town of Hingham

Sworn before me, Solomon Lincoln Justice of the Peace
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305 Coleman St.
Olean, N.Y.,
4/22/33

Veterans Bureau,
Washington
D.C.

Dear Sir: - 

Will you kindly give me the war record or any information you may have concerning a Nathan Niles from Connecticut, Mass, R.I or Vermont.  Also a Daniel Dunbar from Mass. or Vermont.

Thanking you I am
Yours truly,
(Mrs. F. U. )  Beatrice M. Keller