Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8,996, Nehemiah White, Mass.
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SERVICE NUMBER
Mass White, Nehemiah W8996
Elizabeth
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6311
Elizabeth White
Widow of Nehemiah
O
Oct 4 July 1836
admd.
8 mo 11 days Drummer
2 " 5 " fifer 38.61
5 " 24 " Sergeant 29.33
1 " 12 " private 21.22
$89.27

Elliot ? Hathaway
Hambden Ohio
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THE STATE OF OHIO
GEAUGA COUNTY, SS.

I, Reuben St. John, Clerk of the Court of Common Please, in and for the county of Geauga, in the State of Ohio, do by these presents certify and make known, that James Hathaway Esquire, before whom the annexed and foregoing Deposition was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand-writing, subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such Deposition and now is Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the laws of the State of Ohio, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court at Chardon, in said county, this 6th day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four
Reuben St. John, Clerk.
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The State of Ohio
Portage County

On this the 25th day of March A.D. 1844 Personally appeared Before me Jonathan Foster an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Portage and State of Ohio  Elizabeth White a resident of Hiram in said County of Portage and State of Ohio aged 87 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her said oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the at of Congress passed July 4th 1836  That she is the widow of Nehemiah White a Revolutionary Soldier who died in Williamsburg Hampshire County and State of Massachusetts in December 1928 that at the commencement of the Revolutionary war she resided in said Williamsburg and that in the forepart of the war the said Nehemiah went into the Revolutionary service in Capt Abel Thayres Company and was gone as long as eight months and returned at that time he went to Boston as she understood that within one year after his return she was married to the said Nehemiah White at said Williamsburg By Rev Butler and that after her marriage her said husband went into the Revolutionary service service again a tour of three months and was at the taking of Burgoyne  he afterwards went again and went to Whiteplains and from White Plains to West Point  thinks he was gone as long as eighteen months before he returned and that her said husband served as a drummer and a part of the time was a drum major and brought home his warrant or commission as he called it which is lost or destroyed  that her name was Elizabeth Wolcott before she was married to said Nehemiah White and that she has not been married since the death of her said husband and remains a widow  She also refers to the annexed proofs and prays a certificate may be granted her to draw said Pension

Her
Elizabeth White
Mark

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hearby certify that from common report the said Elizabeth White is a Person of truth and veracity and from bodily infirmity unable to attend Court.   J. Foster __ Judge
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State of Ohio
Portage County

I Horace _ Bube Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Portage and State of Ohio do hereby certify that Jonathan Foster Esq before whom the within affidavit was made was at the time of the making of said affidavit an Associate Judge within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified to whose official acts as such full faith and credit are due and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of sai County this twenty third day of August AD 1844
Horace _. Bube Dep. Clerk
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Deposition of John Hadlock of Russel Township in the County of Geauga and State of Ohio taken on the 15th day of January A.D. 1844 before me James Hathaway a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Geauga and State of Ohio after being duly sworn according to law doth on his said Oath depose and say that he is a son in law of Nehemiah White and Elizabeth White and that he the said John Hadlock is seventy two years old and that wife daughter of the said Nehemiah and Elizabeth White is sixty seven years old and her name is Merriam that the said Nehemiah White was a Revolutionary Soldier and that he has often heard him relate his services in the Revolutionary war
heard him say that in the forepart of the war he enlisted and stood as a minuit [minute] man that on the 21st day of April 1775 he marched for Boston from Williamsburg Hampshire County Mass and was gone eight months or more that he afterwards went a tour of three months and was at the taking of Burguine [Burgoyne] and after said tour of three months he went to white plains and from there to Westpoint  does not recolect [sic] how long he said he was gone  Thinks that he was enlisted when he went to whiteplains  that he has always heard it related by his Father and mother inlaw that they were married after the first tour of service and before the said three months tour and that the said Elizabeth Whites maiden name was Elizabeth Wolcott and that Nehemeiah White died in said Williamsburgh aforesaid in December 1928 death caused by a sort on the leg and that the said Elizabeth White now resides in Hiram Portage County and State of Ohio and is aged eighty seven years and that she remains a widow.
John Hadlock
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The said John Hadlock after being duly sworn according to law further states the he has heard the said Nehemiah White say that when he went his first tour of service to Boston that he went under Capt Abel Thayre of the aforesaid Williamsburg and that he has heard said Nehemiah White sat that he the said White served as a drummer and part of the time a drum major and that the said Nehemiah White was a Resident of said Williamsburg from and after the Revolutionary war up to his death and that he the said John Hadlock was also a Resident of said Williamsburgh  with the exception of two years that he lived in Hawley in Franklin County and State of Massachusetts. John Hadlock
The above and foregoing Deposition sworn to and subscribed before me this the 15th day of January A.D. 1844 and I hereby certify that from common report the said John Hadlock is a person of truth and verasity.  James Hathaway Justice of the peace

The State of Ohio
Geauga County
I Reuben St John Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Geauga do hereby certify that James Hathaway Esquire before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn, that he was at the time of taking the same and now is acting as such Justice, and to all whose official acts full faith and credit are and ought to be given.
In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said of said County this 6th day of March A.D. 1844.
Reuben St. John Clerk
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I Melancthon G. Wheeler Pastor of the Congregationalist Society in Williamsburgh, and clerk of the church attached to said Society hereby certify that the following is a transcript of the record of said church, of the marriage of Nehemiah White + Elizabeth Walcott both of Williamsburgh.
In the year of our Lord one thousand seven + seventy six, July twenty first, Nehemiah White and Elizabeth Walcott both of Williamsburgh, married.
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record in fair + legibile characters as follows
“July 21, 1776”.
Melancthon G. Wheeler
Pastor + Minister of the Cong. Church + Society
Williamsburgh
Jany. 26th 1844

Williamsburgh Jany. 26 1844
Personally appeared Melancthon G. Wheeler above named and made oath that the above certificate by him _____ is true. I also certify that the _____ in the above certificate were made before the execution of the ____. Sworn before me Lewis Bodman Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire, SS.

I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Lewis Bodman Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Lewis Bodman and believe his signature to said certificate (seal affixed here)
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this second day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four
Samuel Wells, Clerk
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Application for Certificate of Revolutionary services made by the widow of the party who rendered the service
The State of Ohio County of Geauga Town of Russel
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of my husband's service in the war of the Revolution his name was Nehemiah White. We resided in the Town of Williamsburg in the time of the Revolutionary war. he first went into the service from Williamsburg in Capt. Abel Thayer's Company a tour of eight or nine months and went to Boston or its vicinity he afterwards went again and returned and went again he went some tours of service when he enlisted before returning home. I think that he was the taking of Burgoyne I heard him say that Lieutenant Reed was show down by his side in some battle or scirmish I think that he was at Westpoint one tour and from Westpoint to White Plains. My husband was in the service a grater part of the time during the war, what portion of the time he was in the State troops I do no know ^ & what places my husband sent from at all his diferent times of services. he was a resident of Waymouth previous to his residence in Williamsburg. I do not know but he might of went from said Waymouth with his acquaintances there . my husband was drummer and some times played on the fife. I think my husband was some of the time a drum Major if not a drum major he held some other office for he brought home with him a warrant or a commission of some kind which is lost. I am now 87 years old and my memory does not enable me to state my husbands services and the officers he served under more fully then above stated.
Witness my hand this the 18th of June a. D. 1844.   Elizabeth   X   White
                her mark
Signed by said Elizabeth White in my presence
James Hathaway, Justice of the peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, July 31 1844

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 Nehemiah White of Williamsburgh is borne upon the rolls of Capt. Abel Thayer
Col. Fellows from April 19 to Dec 2d 1775 as a drummer.
The name of Nehemiah White is borne upon a pay roll of Capt. Moses French from May 15, 1777. 2 mos. 5 days as a fifer; upon a pay roll of Capt. Jas. Putnam Col Wade from July 10 1778-5 mos 26 days as a Sargeant & upon a payroll of the town of Weymouth under Ensign Gilbert of the 6th regiment from July 12, 1780. 6 mos & 12 days.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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6311
Elizabeth White
Widow of Nehemiah
O.
Act 4 July 1836
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The State of Ohio
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The State of Ohio
Geauga county ss
Deposition of Zara French taken before me James Hathaway a Justice of the peace in said County of Geauga at the Township of Russel on the 18th day of June A. D. 1844 Being first duly sworn according to law doth on his said oath depose and say that he is 57 years old and that he is a son in law of Nehemiah & Elizabeth White and that the said Nehemiah White died at Williamsburgh Hampshire County & State of Massachusetts in December 1828 and that the said Elizabeth White moved from said Williamsburg about eight years ago to Partage County & State of Ohio and resided in said Portate County till this spring and then moved to Russell Township and now resides with him the said Zara French and remains a widow. That the said Nehemiah White was a Revolutinary soldier that he has often heard the said White relate his services in the Revolutionary war but it being so long since he does not recolect all the particulars but remembers of hearing him say that he was in the service at diferant times during the Revolutionary war. Thinks that he enlisted a number of times, that he went some times from said Williamsburg and some times from other places, that he had resided in Waymouth before the Revolutionaary war and he might went from Waymouth some one or more tours hear him often speak of the following officers and he probily served under some or all of them their names are as follows to wit, Capt. Abel Thayre Colonel wade Colonel Nixson. That he was a drummer some of the time and some of the time a drum Major and thinks that he might of held some other office some of the time Corporal or Sargeant but no higher office Zara French

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby Certify that from common report the said Zara French is a person of truth and verasity 
Jamess Hathaway Justice of the peace
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January 14, 1897

Madam:
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Nehemiah White, a solder of the Revolutionary War, you are advised that Elizabeth White, Widow of Nehemiah White, made an application for pension on March 25, 1844, at which time she was 87 years of age and residing at Hiram, Portage county, Ohio and her pension was allowed for the actual services of her husband as a private for 6 months and 12 days as a drummer, for eight months and eleven days, as a fifer for two months and five days, and as a sergeant for five months and twenty-six days in the Mass. Troops, Revolutionary War; a part of the time served under Capt. Thayer and Col. Wade. He enlisted at Williamsburg, Mass.
Ver respectfully,
Commissioner

Mrs. George W. Whitw
Weymouth, Mass.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8996
Elizabeth White
Wid. of
Nehemiah White
Pri - Mass line
Act: July 7th/36 Sec 3
Index: Vol M, Page 330
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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January 14. 1897-History to
Mrs. George W. White
Weymouth, Mass
L.N.B.
Sept 16/97 Letter Mr. Geo. N. White
Weymouth, Mass
Apl. 2, 1900
^ same at Washn. Pa
that papers do not show age of soldier
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Hon. commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
This is not for the purpose of establishing a claim upon the government in any manner whatever.
I wish to get the date of marriage and death of Nehimiah White (my grandfather) He married Elizabeth Wolcott and went to war from Williamsburgh Mass. and Grandmother received a pension for his services.
Please give me all information regarding him you can to be a D. A. R.
Your very respectfully
Mrs. Geo. W White

Weymouth Mass. 6-7-97

Pension off.
June 10/97
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illegible initials

Stamp:
OLD WAR & NAVY
Sep 13 1897
FILES
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(round stamp)  U. S. Pension Office Jan 4 1897

Weymouth, Mass, Dec. 31, 1896

To the Hon. Commissioner of pensions Washington D.D.

I am very anxious to get information about my own grandfather Nehemiah White who was a soldier in the Revolution. I am told that you cn supply information from your files.
I know that my Grandmother Elizabeth Wolcott White received a pension after the death of my said
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Grandfather Nehemiah White her husband.
At the time Elizabeth was receiving a pension she was living in Larretsville, O.
Nehemiah White the soldier had lived part of his life in Williamsburgh, Mass.
Very Respectfully
Mrs George W. White
Weymouth, Mass.
P. O. Box 241
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round stamp
U.S. Pension Office Jan 4 1897

Rectangular  stamp
Old War & Navy files Jan 6 1897
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
O. W & N. DIV.
Revolutionary

L. W. B.
W. 8996


DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Sept. 16, 1897

Madam:
Replying to your communication of a recent date, wherein you request further information concerning Nehemiah White, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that the soldier died at Williamsburg, Mass, In December 1828; that he was married to Elizabeth Walcott July 21st, 1776.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner

Mrs. George W. White
Weymouth, Mass.
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1205.14

Hon. James L. Edwards, Comm of Pensions
Dear Sir
We have the honor to herewith submit the Declaration and proofs in the pension claim of Elizabeth White. Please to make all returns to me.
Respectfully your Ob. Servants
Elliot & Hathaway
Hambden Geauga Co. Ohio
Sept. 7th 1844