Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13758, for Simeon Littlefield, Vermont
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Vt.

Littlefield, Simeon

NUMBER
S. 13758

carded

CONTENTS
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Vermont No. 28209

Simeon Littlefield of Arlington
in the State of Vermont 
who was a private in the Compy commanded 
by Captain Walter of the Regt. commanded 
by Col How in the Vermont line for 
10 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension ifsued the 10th day of Ap;
1834 and Hon. H. Hale

Arears to the 4th of Mar. 1834... 99.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th Sept... 16.66
$116.65
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk,
Book E... Vol. 3... Page 75
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No 3787

Vermont

10 w matd

33.33

Waucherts
+
HK
Hon. H. Hale
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BRIEF in the case of Simeon Littlefield of Arlington County of Bennington in the State of Vermont
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 68

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
In 1779
Sept 1780
July 1781

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
6 (months)
3 (months)
3 (months)

Rank.
As a
Private
Do
Do

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt Jas Morse
--
Capt W McFarland Col Howe

5. In what battles was he engaged?

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Middlesex Cy Mafsachusetts

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Papers not attached, names of his officers for 1779 1780 not given + the Magistrate does not certify to the credibility of the Witnefs

X CERTIFY that the forgoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J [illegible] Examining Clerk.
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3787
Simeon Littlefied (Littlefield)

S Swift Esq
Manchester
Vt
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
23rd April 183

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necefsary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A STATEMENT, shewing the Service of Simeon Littlefield

Period when the service was rendered.
1778. Dec.
-- --
1779. Sept.
1780 July

Duration of the claimant's service.
Years. Months. Days
6 (months)
-- --
1 (month)
3 (months)
10 (months)

Rank of the claimant.
Private
--
Do
Do

Name and rank of the field officers under whom he served.
Not known or recollected
--
Do Do Capt Buckminster
Col. Howe

Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
69 years of age
Holliston Mafs.

Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Abiel Lovering v Lucy Jacqus [illegible]
also traditionary proof
Do. Do. Do.
Do. Do. Do. also Jos. Twitchele Affidt.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pension

Mr Simeon Littlefield
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and - to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c, Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Person employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Records.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of}
County of } ss.
On this ___ day of ___ personally appeared (a) before ___ A. B. a resident (b) of ___ in the county of ___ State, Territory or District of ___ aged (c) ___ years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ___, with ___ and served in the ___ (e) regiment of the ___ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. (Right pointing hand symbol) This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of ___
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid. ___ A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I ___ of the Court of ___ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ___ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ___ day of ___ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the ___ and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with ___, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ___ years of age: that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the ___ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ___
I, ___ Clerk of the Court of ___ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of ___ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ___ day of ___ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
(There are brackets around the last two paragraphs. Staring with 'Every applicant will...' and ending with the last line of the page.)
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(The first paragraph has brackets around it.)
will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
6. {To a Soldier. {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer. {did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable person - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe his is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; - For ___ year ___ months, and ___ days, I served as a ___. For ___ months and ___ days, I served as a ___; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
(Right pointing hand symbol) The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the case of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
(Declarations (e) and part of (j) have brackets around them.)

cannot be traced unlefs officers are given.
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State of Vermont}
Bennington County} On the 13th Day of July in the year 1833 Personally appeared in Open Court before the Hon. the Probate Court for the Probate District of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont now setting Simeon Littlefield a resident of Arlington in said County of Bennington aged 69 years he believes who being first Sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congrefs past June 7th 1832. that he was born in Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex & State of Massachusetts on the 11th Day of February 1764 as he is now able to calculate or recollect; that he has no knowledge of any record of his age except that which he got from his Parents untill he was capable of keeping his own time; that when he was about Sixteen Months old his parents moved with him to Holliston (as his Parents have informed him) adjoing Hopkinton in said County of Middlesex where he resided until Feb. AD. 1788 at which time, he removed from said Holliston to the Town of Chester in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont where he resided untill August 15th 1793 at which time he removed to Arlington in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont where he has resided from that time to the present day. Some time in the Month of December 1778 there were Two Soldiers called for from Holliston to guard the Stores in the State of Masachusetts (whose stores were for the use of the Armies of the United States) at which time that is in December 1778 he inlisted in sd Holliston for Six Months for the above named purpose (Jack Messenger of Holliston was the other soldier who inlisted with him as State troops who is dead or in unknown parts to him no officers were named in the inlistment) soon after sd inlistment  he was ordered to Watertown nigh Boston where he would say there was not more than one Hundred Soldiers if as many; he staid there One or Two Days but saw no officers to his present recollection the Troops were not peraded. One or Two days after his arrival at said Waterton James Morse of Medway in the County of Suffolk & State Masachusetts called on him & said that he was appointed a Sargent with a Corporal & Nine Soldiers to guard a Store House with provisions in it at Sharbun in sd County of Middlesex & State as aforesaid; at which time sd Sargt Morse with a Corporal (whose name he does not recollect) & Nine privates Marched to said Sharburn) & continued there about Two Months untill sd (said) Store House was emptied & was then ordered to March to Mistick (since Medford) nigh Boston to guard a Larbaratory at which he staid almost Two Months untill the Store House in sd Sharburn was replenished he then Marched back with sd guard to sd Sharburn & staid there untill sd Month expired & he was dismifsed by sd Sargent Morse by parole, there was a company attached to sd Store in Sharburn whose name was Woodard who appeared to exercise some Authority over the guard but whether he had a legal right so to do to him is unknown. There was no Company or Field Officer visited, sd guard during the Six Months, & whether the guard was attached to any perticular Company he knoweth not. You will readily perceive by the above Statement that it is not possible for him to make any further proff of the above named campaign than that which he hath done as he knows of no one living except the Two females whose affidavits are enclosed. He does not know who had the superintendence of the Larboratory at Medford as the Doors were not opened to his knowledge while he was there. He returned home to Holliston from the above named Campaign some time in the Month of June 1779 & that afterwards some time in the fall of the same year 1779 he thinks in the Month of September, his Father having inlisted or otherwise engaged to serve for the term of two or three Months in a Company of Masachusetts State troops or Militia & having served about Two Months of the term & being unable to compleat the whole of sd term he this said applicant went from Holliston to Tivertown in the State of Rhode island in September where his said Father was stationed & detached on a Quarter guard placed to guard the Col.
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Quarters about one mile in the rear of the main Army he there volunteered to supply the place of his sd (said) Father for the remaining part of his sd term. that he was accepted & enroled as a substitute for him for the remaining part of the Campaign at the expiration of which he was legally discharged & returned home to sd Holliston. One Month was the term of time which he served in his fathers place he was not emboddied with the Company or regiment while there by which reason he does not know the names of the Officers except the Captain who commanded the Company his name was Buckmister of Framingham in the County of Middlesex & State of Masachusetts: presumes he at that time knew the Cols name but cannot now recollect it & has no means of pertaining as there was but one Soldier from Holliston in Middlesex & he is dead or removed to unknown parts & he knows of no other one living who was attached to the Regiment or Company. & that in the Month of July 1780 he inlisted again in Holliston for the term of three Months in the sd Masachusetts Troop; or in a Company Commanded by Capt. Walter Mcfarling of Hopkinton Lieuten,t Ware of Sharburn & Ensign Mays (or Mayhu) of Framingham all of sd County of Middlesin & State of Masachusetts & in the Regiment Commanded by Col. How of Marlborough in the same State, for the purpose of going to Claverack on the North River in the State of N. York that he was ordered to March to Hopkinton where sd Company & Regiment met the first day of August in the same year 1780 & while there orders came to change the destination from Claverack to the State of Rhode Island where upon he returned home to sd Holliston the same night & the next morning met sd regiment [missing word] Marched into the State of Rhode Island & on to the Island of sd State where they were stationed for about four days in Middletown on sd Island & from thence to Portsmouth  at the North end of sd Island to a place called Buts Hill where the Army was occupied in Building a Fort under the superintendence of Genl Kosiusko (Kosciuszko) then a General in the United States Service (as he believes) in the whole about one month & that the Company to which he belonged were then ordered to  March to Providence in sd State where they were stationed the remaining part of the three months during which time the Company was occupied in guarding a Missonship Powder House Larboratory & other stores. that after the expiration of the Three Months Service he was regularly discharged by parole at sd Providence the first Day of November in the same year 1780 & returned home to Holliston. that he has no documentary Evidence to support his sd statements nor any living witnefses to support it except the affidavits here inclosed. # Lucy Jaquith has made mistakes in the dates of the years (as he did in his first application that he sent to your office: he discovered the mistake by the following circumstance viz when he went to Wardsborough to get the deposition of Joseph Twitchell & asked him if he knew the date of the year at which time we were in service at Rhode Island he replied he did not for a certainty but believed it was in 1780 or 81. but on circumstances he knew that it was the year that Genl Arnold betrayed & deserted his Country he imediately recollected that when the news came to Rhode island the Soldiers burned sd Arnolds effigy: by which he acertaind his mistake in the dates of his first application as regarded the years but correct with regard to the Months & terms of Service.) as she has stated the campaigns to be according to her best recollection in the years 1789 1780, & 81. which is one year forward of the correct dates, [illegible] cannot surprise you when you discover our ages & the length of time elaps,d since. he observed to the Court before he was sworn [illegible] that as to the length of time that he served in the several campaigns & the Months in sd years were correct but as regarded the dates of the different years he might be in an error but were according to his best recollection. That he expects to show by the Rev,d Abraham Brownson a Clergyman now residing in Manchester in the sd County of Bennington but who was formerly for more than ten years his Neighbour & parochial Clergyman residing in sd Town of Arlington & wherewise another Neighbour of his Darwin Audrius of Manchester formerly of the Town of Arlington, his reputable standing in society & his Character for truth uprightnefs & likewise a general understanding & belief among his Neighbours of his sd services & the correctnefs of his statements. he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except
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the present & declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State.
Simeon Littlefield

Sworn to & subscribed the Day & year aforesaid in open Court
Attest. Henry Robinson Register

We Abraham Brownson a Clergyman residing in the town of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont & Darwin Audrius now of Manchester [illegible] of Arlington in sd (said) County hereby testify that we are well acquainted with Doctr Simeon Littlefield who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration & that we believe him to be 69 years of age that he is reputed & believed in the Neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Abraham Bronson
Darwin Audrius

Sworn & subscribed the day & year afores,d in open Court 
Attest. Henry Robinson Register

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department Commifsioner of Pensions that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he States - that the thence marginals were written, before Sworn to -
Myron Clark

I Henry Robinson Register of the Court of Probate, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Simeon Littlefield for a Pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of our Said Court at Manchester this 13th day of July AD. 1833.
Henry Robinson

# He futhermore states [part of statement missing and part is illegible] & that the troops [part of statement illegible] by the authority of the State of Masachusetts, & that he was not employed in any Civilian pursuit during the three Campaigns.
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State of Vermont}
County of Bennington fs} On this 28th day of August in the year 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. The Probate Court for the Probate District of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont, now sitting Simeon Littlefield a Resident of Arlington in said County of Bennington, aged sixty eight years as he believes, 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 Congrefs pafsed June 7. 1832.
That he was born at Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex & State of Mafsachusetts, on the 11th day of February AD. 1704. as was as he is now able to calculate & recollect - that he had no knowledge of any Record of his age except a Record kept in his fathers, family Bible - that arguably to his understanding some time in the Summer of the year 1765 he removed with his Parents & family to the Town of Holliston adjoining said Hopkinton & in the same County of Middlesex 
that he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated.
That some time in or about the fore part of December in the year 1779 arguably to his present recollections, he enlisted at said Holliston, for the Term of six months, under Sergeant Samuel Morse - but as the company was made up from several different Towns, & that, as he during the whole of said term was detached & did duty in a Sergeants guard & as he was then young & a great length of time had since elapsed, he had forgotten the names of the company as well as said Field officers, but is argued that they belonged to the line of the State of Mafsachusetts  - that immediately thereafter he marched from said Holliston to Watertown over to Boston in said State of Mafsachusetts, & on the next day thereafter as he believed, he was detached upon a Sergeants guard under the command of the said Sergt. Morse, consisting of one Corporal & 9 men, besides the said Sergt., to guard a Store containing provisions & stores for the Army, at Sherburne in said County of Middlesex, where he was stationed for about two months, when the said stores having been removed from said Sherburne - he was ordered with said guard to remove to Medford then Mistick in the same County of Middlesex as he believed, & guard a Store or Laboratory, which he thinks was then called, containing small arms & stores for the army, where he was stationed for the further term of about two months, when the said store at said Sherbume having been replenished, he with said guard were ordered & removed back thence to guard the same, & was then stationed there again for the further term of about two months, when his said terms of enlistment having expired, he was regularly discharged by parol & returned home to said Holliston, some time in the month of June AD. 1780. according to his best present recollections - that afterwards, sometime in the fall of the same year 1780 & in the month of September as was as he can now recollect, his father having enlisted as otherwise engaged to serve
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for the term of three months in a company of Mafsachusetts State troops or militia, & having served about a near two thirds of said time, & being unable to compleat the whole of said term of service, he this applicant went from said Holliston to the Town of Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island, where his said father was stationed, & detached on a quarter guard placed to guard the Cols. Quarters, about one mile in the rear of the main Body of the troops, - that he then volunteered to supply the place of his said father for the remaining part of his said term - that he was accepted & inrolled in his fathers, place as a substitute for him & [illegible], who was thereupon discharged & went home - & that he continued to serve in said corps & at said place, for one month or more & until the said term of three months service was compleated & expired, & he was regularly discharged by parol & returned home to said Holliston - but for the reasons above mentioned, the names of the officers # both of the Company & Regiment to which he belonged, or was attached, if was known have escaped his memory - That in or about the month of July, in the year 1781. arguably to his present recollections, he inlisted again at said Holliston for the term of three months in the said Mfssachusetts troops, & in the Company commanded by Capt Walter McFarland of said Hopkinton, the Lieut. of which belonged to said Sherbume & the Ensign to Framingham in the same State, but their names he has now forgotten, & in the Regiment commanded by Col. Howe of Marlborough in the same State, for the purpose of going to Claverack on the North River in the State of New York - that he marched from thence to said Hopkinton where said company & Regiment were mustered on or about the first day of August in the same year 1781. & where orders were ifsued to change the destination of said Company & Regiment from said Claverack to the State of Rhode Island, - whereupon he returned home to sd Holliston the same night, & the next morning marched with said Company from thence into said State of Rhode Island, & on to the Island of R. I. where they were stationed for a short time at Middletown on sd. Island, & thence to Butts hill in Portsmouth so called, on the said Island, where they were occupied in building a fort under the superintendence of Genl Kosciusko then a Genl in the U. S. Service, as he believes, in the whole about one month - that they then marched to Providence in the said State of R. I. where they were stationed the remaining part of said term, or about two months longer, during which they were occupied in guarding # Stores, & a laboratory, containing powder arms provisions & other military material for the use of the U. S. Army, & also a prison ship containing British Prisoners, stationed off the harbour at said place at about 1 mile [rest of this statement illegible] on board of which he was placed as a guard at two different times, of about two days each, once by terms of duty, & once as a voluntary substitute for another - that after the expiration of which said term of service he was regularly discharged at said Providence by parol, on or about the first day of November in the same year 1781. & returned home to said Holliston - that in or about the month of Feby 1788. he removed from sd. Holliston to the Town of Chester in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont - & that on or about the 16th day of August AD. 1793. he removed from thence to said Town of Arlington where he has ever since resided - that he has no documentary evidence to support his said statement, nor does he know
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of any living Witnefses whom he can now produce by whom he is able to prove his said services, except a general knowledge this of by two of his Sisters who are now alive, towit Mrs Abiel Lovering, aged 70 or 71, years & Mrs Lucy Jaquet aged about 66 years, the first of whom is a Widow & both of whom reside is ins the Town of Andover, in said County of Windsor - the Deposition of the former of whom he had taken & herein he produces - & the testimony of the latter which he fully believes would be to the same effect, he could not at this time conveniently obtain - besides whom, there was residing at the last information which he received from thence, in the Town of Wardsborough in the County of Windham & State of Vermont, a man of the name of Jos. Twitchel, who served with him during the said last mentioned Term of three months at said Rhode Island, but whether he be still alive or not he does not know - & by whom if alive, he believes, he should be able to prove the said term of service - that he expects to be able to show by the Rev. Abraham Brownson a Clergyman now residing in Manchester in the said County of Bennington, but who was formerly his neighbour & parochial Clergyman for several years residing in said town of Arlington & also by another respectable neighbour Jon.a Baker Esquire residing also in said Arlington his reputable standing in Society, & his character for truth & uprightnefs & also a general understanding & belief amongst his neighbours of his said services & the correctnefs of his statements
He hereby relinquishes his 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.
Simeon Littlefield.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid, before me
Myron Clark Judge of Probate Ct
We Abraham Brownson a Clergyman residing in the town of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont & Jonathan Baker - residing in Arlington, in the same County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the Doct. Simeon Littlefield who had subscribed & sworn to the above Declaration, & that we believe him to be 68 years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion
Abraham Brownson
Jonathan Baker
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me
Myron Clark Judge of Probate Ct
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named Applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, & served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the Rev. Abraham Brownson who has signed the proceeding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the said Town of Manchester, & that Jon.a Baker Esqr. who has also signed the same is a resident in the said town of Arlington & is a credible person, & that their statement is entitled to credit - Certified by me
Myron Clark Judge of Probate Court
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I Henry Robinson Register of the Probate Courts, aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Simeon Littlefield for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of Said County this 28th day of August A.D. 1832 & of the Independence of the United States the Fifty Seventh
Henry Robinson Register

3787
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13758
INVALID.
Rev War

No. 13.758
Simeon Littlefield
Pri. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Vol. 1, Page 221 

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Revo:
Vermont
Suspended
act 7 Jne 1832

Simeon Littlefield

See letter of 27 Sept '33
to 
S. Swift
Manchester
Vt

[illegible] Hon. H. Hale

Mar. 8th. 1834
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And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the Rev. Abraham Brownson, who has signed the proceeding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont & that Darwin Andrus who has also signed the same is now a Resident of said Manchester, but lately of the Town of Arlington in said County, & is a credible Person & that their statement is entitled to credit - Certified by me
Myron Clark Judge of Probate Court
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Simeon Littlefield
orig.l declaration
sent after the 
additional one had been
forwarded
[illegible] 31
Vt
[illegible]

Manchester
August 27 }

Hon. James L. Edwards
Commifsioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
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Manchester Augt. 26. 1833.

To the Hon. J. L. Edwards, Comm.
Hon. Sir, From the requisition of the original Declarations in the Case of Wm. Dunton & John Frost, I conclude, that the former Declaration in the Case of Simeon Littlefield, similarly situated, will also be required, I have therefore processed, & now take the liberty herewith to forward the same to you - I am Hon. Sir, respectfully
Yours +c
S. Swift
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This may certify whom it may concern that I lived with Simeon Littlefield during the Revolutionary War of the United States
& that sd Simeon listed for Six Months to serve as a Soldier in the State of Masachusetts it was said to guard the Stores he went when called for & was Absent Six Months untill the six Months expired & suppose he did his duty as a soldier but cannot testify as to that for I was not with him but if he had not done his duty think I should have known it I cannot recollect the Month or year when he went but think his time was out in June. The fall following he was absent as a soldier I think about one Month but do not recollect the exact time. was said to be on the east side of Rhode Island on the mane Land. the year following I think he inlisted for three months to go to North-River when ordered to March the regiment was ordered to Meet in Hopkinton the Town adjacent to the Town where we lived which was Holliston while there it was said there was Counter Orders the troops were ordered to Rhode Island said Simeon returned home that night & started for Rhode Island the next Morning & was about three Months untill his time was out.
Abiel Lovering

State of Vermont
Bennington County} At Landgrove August 24. 1832 personally appeared Abiel Lovering the signer of the above writen instrument and made oath the truth of the same before me
Amori Benson Justice Peace

July 12th 1833
I hereby certify that Abiel Lovering above named is according to Common report a woman of strict integrity and a [illegible] in good standing Amori Benson Justice Peach of the Battist Church
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State of Vermont - To all to whom these presents Shall come
Greeting -
I Henry Robinson Clerk of the County Court for the County of Bennington, do hereby certify that Amoni Benson Esqr whose signature appears to the foregoing was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in + for Sd County duly qualified by Law to act as such - That I believe his signature to be genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name + affixed the Seal of our Said court at Manchester this 13th day of July AD. 1833
henry Robinson
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I Jofeph Twitchell of the Aged Seventy years of the Town of Wardsboro in the County of Windham and State of Vermont do Steftyfy and Say that I inlisted with Simeon Littlefield and a momber of others at Holliston in the County of Middlesix common commonwealth of Massachusetts sum time in the Month of July in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty or Eighty one for three months to March to Claverack on North river had not Marched far before we ware ordered to turn our course to Road island to which place we went was in Colonal Howe Regimand and Capt Walter MacFarling company in Masachusetts State Troops, John Wares Leit'n and the Ensign was Mayo. Ware of Shearburn and Mayo of Framingham. ware Stationed midletown and on Butts hill so called both places on road island then after Stayon about four weekes according to my best remembrance then was ordered back to providance and thein staid the three months out and was difsmised and do further Say that the Said Simeon Littlefield was in the Same Regiment and company and in the Same Mefs with me the whole given of the [illegible] Months and Further Says he not
Joseph Twitchell

State of Vermont}
Windham County fs} Wardsboro June 24th 1833 Then personally appeared Joseph 
Twitchel above named and maid Sollom Oath that the above writing by him Subscribed to was Litterally true before me
Pearley Fairbank Juftice of the peace
I do hereby Sevtify that Jofeph Twitchell the above named is a man of strict integrity
Pearley Fairbank Juftice of the peace
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Manchester}
July 15}
[illegible]

Vt. July
[illegible]

Hon. James L. Edwards, Coms. of Pensions,
Washington
D. Columbia
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Manchester July 13. 1833.

To the Hon. James L Edwards, Com. +c. [&c.]
Hon. Sir, Enclosed I forw.d to you a new Declaration in behalf of D.o Simeon Littlefield - he discovered that he had made a mistake in the years of his service, in his former Declas - he also wished to state some further particulars in relation thereto, & have therefore to have a new one made out, & as I was at the time otherwise occupied, & he better acquainted with the facts & circumstances, I advised him to draw the Declaration himself, & he had according so done, but not knowing at the time, when he should procure to certify in his behalf, he left the Certificate of the Judge unfinished which was not noticed by the Judge or Register until  executed when produced afterwards to me, I discovered the mistake, & attached by wafers a strip of paper, on which I compleated the Certificate & procured the Judge's attestation to it - the case however, as I believe, did not come within the Rule established by the War Department, which, as I understand it, had reference only to confirmatory Certificates of certifying offs. besides, the testimony which he had obtained (the Affidavit of which I herewith transmit) sufficiently prove, as I believe, the whole amount of services claimed by him - & that part of the Certificate will therefore be superfluent & unneceifsry - The testimony of Mrs Lovering he had intended to have taken again, with his other Sisters, - but he found that she then removed some distance further to the east, & also learned, that had suffered from a paralytic affliction & that it was doubtful [illegible] she [illegible] now competent to give her testimony; he had therefore procured, attached to her former Affidavit, a Certificate of the Magistrate who took the same, as to her credibility - I also herewith return the papers of William Wiman, with said amendatory Declaration annexed, & also the error in the names, in the Registers Certificate, corrected - there are also one or two other objections  marked, which upon examination I do not find, & therefore corrected, they were marked by mistake, or oversight - I can say, if it will be of any avail, as to both these Applicants, that I believe, they are strictly honest, & performed the services as stated by them - Very respectfully, I am Hon. Sir,
Yours +c S Swift
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Randolph he Vt}
Jany 25}

Free

Secretary of War
Pension Office
Washington City

Feby 1st 1834
Vermont
[illegible]

(original papers suspended)

Simeon Littlefield
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Randolph January 25. 1834

Sir.
I enclose some Papers that must have been misdirected and as they may [illegible] of some consequence I return them to the Department
Yours Respectfully
J. K. Parish
Sec of War
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I Lucy Jaquith aged sixty seven years of the Town of Andover County of Windsor and State of Vermont do testify and say that I am a sifter of Doct- Simeon Littlefield of Arlington County of Bennington and State of Vermont and lived in the family with him many years in the [illegible]of and after the American war in the Town of Holiston County of Middlesex and State of Mafsachufetts that I was knowing to him inlisting in the month of Decemeber 1779 in the Town of Holiston for the term of six month in the Massachusetts State troops for I understood to gaurd the stores in said State and that he served during the six months in the Town of Sherburn and Medford (alias) Mistick and I understood gaurding said stores and I believe did did his duty faithfuly as I never heard any complaint and that he returned home in June 1780 to the best of my recolection and I further say that I was knowing that the said Simeon in the fall of the same year to the best of my recolection went from Holiston to Tivertown in Rhod island as I understood to take my Fathers place who had inlisted for three month ins sd. Massachusetts State troops as I then and now supose and that he did then ingage and {illegible] in place of my Father for one month at which time my Fathers term expired and he returned home that some time in the summer folloing to the best of my recolection the sd. Simeon again inlisted for three months in another corps of Massachusetts State troops as I then understood or was told and into a company commanded by Capt McFarland to go to some place on North river in the State of N. York that soon after he inlisted he was diverted to meet his company and Regement in Hopkinton joining to Holiston the following night he returned home and said the troops were ordered to Rhode iland the next morning he started and joined the company for R. Island all of said terms he served as a private soldier he returned home to our family about the bigenning of November following all the above statements are correct according to the best of my recolection and further sayth not
Lucy Jaquith 

State of Vermont{
Windham County{
Londonderry June 21. 1833
Personaly appeared the above named Lucy Jaquith and made Solemn Oath to the truth of the above
Before me John Aiken Justice Peace
I hereby certify that I live in the county of the above named Lucy Jaquith am acquainted with the family and believe her to be a person of truth and veracity am told she is a member of the Bablist Church in Chester - Certified. John Aiken Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont.
Windham County Court Clerks Office,
New Fane, June 24. A.D. 1833.
I certify that John Aiken and Pearly Fairbank, Esquires, are Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Windham aforesaid, and that the within and annexed are their signatures, respectively. 
Witness my hand and the Seal of the said Court.
James Elliot Clerk