Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 2238, for Nathaniel Parmenter, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass

Parmenter, Nathaniel
........................Mary

NUMBER
W 2238
B.L.Wt. 9209-160-55

CONTENTS
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New Hampshire Concord
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Mary Parmenter
widow of Nathaniel Parmenter
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Massachusetts Mil.
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
36 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on
the ["4th day of March, 1848" stricken out].
3d February 1853
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Certificate of Pension issued the
11th day of August
and sent to
Sam'l Jones
Bradford
NH
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act [illegible stricken out]  Page 20  Vol. A

[illegible]...lley  1853

1832
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10347
New Hampshire
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Nathaniel Parmenter
of Hillsboro in the State of NH
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain--------of the regt commanded
by Col Brown in the NH
line for 11 mos.
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Inscribed on the Roll of NH
at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension ifsued the 5th day of April 1833 and sent. Hon.
Franklin Pierce  Hillsboro N.H.
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833...............$73.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep ".........18.33
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..............................................................................$91.65
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(Revolutionary Claim,   )
(Act June 7, 1832.         )

Recorded by J H McBlair  Clerk
Book E.  Vol 1st   Page 110.
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No 18        134
9806

Declaration
Nathaniel Parmenter


Addup to Franklin Pierce
Esquire Hillsborough N.H.
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
County of Hillsborough, SS.

On this thirtieth day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting at Francistown within and for the County of Hillsborough, in the State aforesaid, Nathaniel Parmenter of Hillsborough in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire--aged Seventy eight years Who being 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, 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.  That is to say, on the nineteenth day of April 1775 then residing in Sudbury in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Mafsachusetts in Company with others he went down to Concord to oppose the British troops and followed them the same day through Lexington and what is now West Cambridge to Charlestown  he enlisted for the term of eight months under the command of Captain Thaddeus Rufsell Lieutenant Nathaniel Reeves & Ensign Tuckerman in the Regiment of Colo Jonathan Brown of Waltham.  he was in the battle of Bunker Hill and served the said term of eight months at Cambridge & Charlestown and Prospect Hill
In December 1776 then residing in Westown in said County of Middlesex he again enlisted into the service of the United States in the Mafsachusetts Militia for the term of three months under the Command of Capt Bridger of Lexington Lieutenant Severance of Westown in the Regiment of Colo Thatcher of Cambridge.  Chipman Howe of Molbury was Lieutenant Colo.  The Regiment in the first place marched to Providence Rhode Island.  remained there a week or two then pafsed thro' a part of New York to the Jerseys and was station as he thinks at a place called Woodbridge knowing the enemy being at Brunswick on the opposite side of the river he was dismifsed at at Woodbridge in March 1777--
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He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State,
Nathaniel Parmenter

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Edmund Parker.  Judge of Probate

We John Lawton a Clergyman residing in the town of Hillsborough in the county of Hillsborough aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Parmenter who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.  Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
John Lawton
Benjamin Pierce

Edmund Parker.  Judge of Probate

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that she above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that John Lawton who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in the town of Hillsborough and that the Hon. Benj'a Pierce who has signed the same, is a resident in the town of Hillsborough and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Edmund Parker) Judge of Probate for said County of Hillsborough

I CHARLES H. ATHERTON, Register of the court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Parmenter for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, this thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
C.H. Atherton  Register of Probate, for said county of Hillsborough.

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
County of Hillsborough, SS.

At the Court aforesaid, On the application aforesaid, the following interrogatories were prepounded to the said Nathaniel Parmenter and the following answers given in oath towit:

1.  Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer,  In Spencer in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Mafsachusetts  May 22d 1754

2.  Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer, I have a record in my family Bible.

3.  Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?    Answer,  In the first 8 mo's service when called out I resided in Sudbury and when I entered the three months service I lived in Westown in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Mafsachusetts.  I have resided in Hillsboro where I now reside more than fifty seven years

4.  How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?  Answer,  I enlisted for both terms of service voluntarily

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?
Answer,  General Ward Commanded in the 1st 8 months service till Gen Washington arrived.  Gen'l Putnam was also there.  I belonged to Colo. Jonathan Frown's Regt. Capt Thaddeus Rufsell Company.  In the three months service at Rhode Island & the Jerseys, Colo. Thatcher of Cambridge Lt. Colo. Howe of Molbury Captain Bridges of Lexington &c--

6.  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?   Answer, I never received a written discharge but having served the terms for which I enlisted I was dismifsed

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?
Answer,  Capt William Dickey  Deacon Joel Stowe General Benjamin Pierce Deacon  Paul Coolidge and Major Isaac Andrews an all townsmen who have known me more than forty years--
Certified by C.H. Atherton          Register.
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Sam'l Jones Agt

Bradford
Merrimack Co
NH
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congrefs pafsed July 29th A.D. 1848 Entitled an Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of Officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary army.  And the Act of Congrefs pafsed February 3rd 1853 and all other Acts and Resolutions pafsed by said Congrefs for the benefit of said widows.

The State of New Hampshire
Merrimack County S.S.

On this sixth day of April A.D. 1853 Personally appeared before me Benjamin Wadleigh an associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Mary Parmenter a resident of Henniker in said County of Merrimack aged 83 years the 11th day of July next--who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congrefs pafsed the 29th day of July A.D. 1848, Entitled An Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of Officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army and the Act of Congrefs pafsed February 3rd A.D. 1853 and all other acts and resolutions pafsed by said Congrefs for the benefit of said widows.

That she is the widow of Nathaniel Parmenter who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and was a Pensioner under the law of the United States of the 7th of June 1832.  That he received Thirty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, and that she now returns his Pension Certificate and claims and asks for the arrears of the Pension due him from the 4th day of September 1840 to the 10th day of October 1840, being the day he died and that She refers to his Declaration for proof of his service now on file in the Pension Office.  That she was married to the said Nathaniel Parmenter on the 2nd day of January A.D. 1814 for proof of which she refers to the Certificate of Wm. B. Whitmore, town Clerk of Hillsborough that the marriage was solemnized by Rev. Stephen Chapin then minister of said town that her name before her intermarriage with said Nathaniel Parmenter was Mary Bell, that her aforesaid husband Nathaniel Parmenter died at his residence in the the said town of Hillsborough on the 10th day of October 1840.  That she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place as above stated, and that she has never since been married and that she still continues his widow.
Mary Parmenter

Witnefs  S. Jones
Benj'a Wadleigh
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack County  fs.

The within Declaration Subscribed and Sworn to the day and year above written before me Benjamin Wadleigh one of the associate Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Merrimack aforesaid, and I further certify that by reason of age and bodily infirmity the aforesaid Declaration was taken at Henniker his present place of residence and that satisfactory evidence was produced that the aforesaid Nathaniel Parmenter died on the tenth day of October 1840 at his residence in Hillsborough in the County of Hillsborough in said State

Benjamin Wadleigh  ) Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Merrimack--
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Franklin Pierce

Nathaniel Parmenter
Private
11 Months

No 9806

The witnefses not certified to be credible
Nov 10, 1832

$36.66

Hon. Franklin Pierce
Hillsborough
N.H.
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State of New Hampshire.
Secretary's Office, Concord.
April 11, 1853.
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I hereby certify, That at the date of the annexed attestations Benjamin Wadleigh was a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Merrimack and Samuel Jones was a Justice of the Peace & Quorum throughout the State--

the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and that their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written.
John L. Hadley
Secretary of State.

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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I Wm. B. Whittemore of Hillsborough in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire Depose and Say, that,

I hold the office of town Clerk for Said town, and on the book of Marriages in Said town, I find the following record in letters and figures which is embraced in the certificate of S. Chapin then Minister of Hillsborough

"1814    ) Nathaniel Parmenter & )Hillsborough
Jan 2     )  Mary Bell---                  )

A true Copy Attest
Hillsborough  March 21--1853

Wm B. Whittemore   Town Clerk of Hillsborough

State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough SS.   March 21st 1853
Personally appeared William B. Whitemore Town Clerk of Hillsborough, and Subscribed and made oath to the above Deposition Before me and I further certify that the affiant is a credible person.
Samuel Jones ) Justice of the Peace & Quorum throughout the State
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S-7010

Revolutionary Claim

Mary Parmenter
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The above noted Nathaniel Parmenter is the only soldier by that name that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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N. Parmenter son wrote me that his father was from Sudbury; and in Col. Brewer's Regt. and I wrote to Sec'y of Mafs.

S. Jones
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Hillsboro N.H.  Jany 24, 1833

Papers of Nathaniel Parmenter returned with the certificate of Justice as to deponents (Richard Heard's) character for veracity as required by brief. [last 4 letters underlined]
Franklin Pierce
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Hon L. Waldo   Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

Official Businefs
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9209


160 Acres
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Private   Act of 53.  N.H.

Boynton.
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Pension Office.
July 25. 1853

Sir,

Please state the Date of the death of within named pensioner--if in your power--

You will perceive that the claimant in this case states in her Declaration that she "sends" the pension Certificate of her deceased husband.  It did not accompany the enclosed papers--If she sent it by our office, please also state that fact.

Very respectfully
Your Ob't Serv't

For the Comissioner

Francis Burt Esqr.
Third Auditor.
Treasury Department.
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Nathaniel Parmenter, act 7th June 1832, Paid to 4th September 1840;--arrears not paid.--No Pension Certificate received at this Office.
F Burt
3d Auditor.

See case of Persis Howe widow of
Micha   Act '32
RY
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No. 1570.

Mary Parmenter
widow of Nathaniel
N.H.

LAL Samuel Jones
July 28 1853

Act Febuary 3 1853
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No.  57010

ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.

Received Apr. 10"  , 1855.
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Nathaniel Parmenter--Pri
Mass. Mil.
Rev. War.

9209.160__55--

Sam'l. Jones
Bradford Merrimack Co.
N.H.
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Richard Heard
for
Nath'l Parmenter--
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Middlesex fs.  Weston  January 15th 1833.

I further certify that Richard Heard, who subscribed and made oath to the truth of the annexed deposition the 17th of July 1832, is a reputable person and that his statement as a witnefs is entitled to entire credit.

Alpheus Bigelow  Just. Justice of the Peace