Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 360, Edmund Bacon, Mass. Vt.
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SERVICE        NUMBER
Mass      Bacon, Edmund      R360
Vt   Tamma
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Decleration
of
Tamma Bacon
under the act of
July 7th 1838
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Decleration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed the 7th of July A.D. 1838 Also the Act of Congress passed March 3rd A.D. 1848 Also the act of Congress passed the 17th of June A.D. 1844 also the act of Congress passed the 2d of February A.D. 1848 granting pensions to certain widows 
State of Vermont
District of Randolph in Orange County } On this nineteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and fifty before the Hon'd Probate Court within and for said District the same being a court of Record personally appeared in open court Tamma Bacon a resident of the Town of Williamstown in said District aged eighty five years the twenty first day of August A.D. 1850 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Decleration in order to obtain the benefits of the Several acts of Congress passed the 7th of July A.D. 1850 also the act of Congress passed the 17th of June A.D. 1844. Also the Act of Congress passed the 2d of February A.D. 1848. That she is the Widow of the late Edmund Bacon now deceased That he was a revolutionary soldier or a soldier in the revolutionary
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war That her said husband Edmund Bacon served as she always believed from family history three or four terms in said War the first commencing or the commencement of which was in A.D. 1776 and he served six months at this time, he was out at the battle of Bennington and one of his brothers were killed whilst in said Battle He again enlisted in said war and was out in the A.D. 1777 and at Stillwatter at the time the battle was fought there he was at one time stationed in New York City, and was then at the time our army retreated from that city. I learned from him that he was placed under continental officers when he was in New York at the time above stated, he said they retreated up towards White Plains at that time. He served at one time under Col'o Brooks and Also at another time under Col'o Nixon and I think I have heard him say that at one time his Captain was Capt'n Sloan he was out several times durring said war And I should think more than one year he served in A.D. 1789 some six or eight months, and at one time he was in the Vermont service I think he was out under Captain Galusha of the Vermont Militia he was out in A.D. 1776 And A.D. 1777 And also A.D. 1782 I recolect of going out West with him before he died and we
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went down on the canal from Whitehall to Troy and my husband was very much interested whilst we were passing along down the Hudson river and he related over what took place at the several places when we passed he said that there were some of the places where he was durring a part of his time whilst he served out in the revolutionary war. All of which Service she believes was in the Massachusetts Line and Vermont Service as her husband resided about that time in the Town of Williamstown in the State of ['Vermont' crossed out] Massachusetts said Town joins the State of Vermont and is in the vicinity of Bennington Vermont and not more than fifteen miles from said Bennington That she cannot state the particulars of his said service but trust that she will be able to furnish evidence of her said husband service from a certificate given by the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts and also evidence from the revolutionary rolls now at Montpelier and also other evidence. I might name other facts in relation to my husband service. he had some continental money during his life time which was paid him for his services in said war 
I remember annother fact old Mr. Abigah Clark a revolutionary Soldier was at our house at one time and I think it was after the pension law was past and old Mr Clark remar'd her to my husband that they ought to have a pension for they were out more than nine months and that the law was August that there service was as hard as ['in' crossed out] hard as those who had obtained a pension and at the same time he remarked or said Congress would some day passed law giveing them a pension
That she was married to her said husband Edmund Baron now deceased in the Town of Brookfield in the county of Orange and State of Vermont in the year seventeen hundred and ninety in the month of December on the twenty third day of said month by the Reverend Eligah Lyman a Minister of the Congregational Church in that Town at that time and that I moved from said Town to the Town of ['Brookfield' crossed out] Williamstown in said County of Orange and have resided here ever since my said husband Edmund Bacon died ['death' crossed out] in the month of September A.D. 1878. his first service in the revolutionary was six months 
My husband's age at his death was
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the revolutionary was six months 
My husband's age at his death was seventy one years old his birth day of in June before his death She therefore prays that her name the afforesaid Tamma Bacon may be placed on the pension list and the pension due her under the act of July 7th A.D. 1838 giveing five years pay to certain widows be paid to her also the pension due her under the Act A.D. 1843 giveing certain Widows one year pensions also under the act of AD 1844 giveing the same widows four years more pension also the act A.D. 1848 placeing the same widows upon the pension list durring life that the pension now due her under said several Acts be paid her according to the provision of said Acts in such cases made and provided as in duty bound your petitioner will every pray 
/s/Tamma Bacon
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year afforesaid approved by the court and ordered to be certified to the Pension officer and I certify that the interlineation and alterations were made before signing the above Decleration 
[court seal affixed] /s/Bether W. Bartholomew Judge
State of Vermont
Randolph District ss.} I J. B. Hutchinson Register of the Probate Court within & for said District hereby certify that the proper oath to said Declaration was administered by the Hon Judge of Probate for said District - that said court is a court of Record - that said Bether W. Bartholomew is Judge of said Court and his signature signed to said declaration is genuine. Also that the above and foregoing contain the original proceedings had in said Court in the matter of Tamma Bacon on application for a pension. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court at Randolph in said District this 19th day of August A.D. 1850 - 
attest /s/J. B. Hutchinson, Register.
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I Diah Flint of Williamstown in the
County of Orange and the State of Vermont
being eighty years old next March
do depose and say that I was well
acquainted with Edmund Bacon of
of this Town now deceased he died 
twenty years ago his widow Samma
Bacon is now alive and lives in 
this Town with her Son Abiguh
Bacon of this Town. she never has
been married since her husband
Edmund Bacons death. I lived the
nearest neighbor to the said Bacon
and his wife for twenty five years 
or until his death the said Bacon
was a revolutionary Soldier he was
at the battle of Bennington and served
under Col Stark he also served
eight ro nine months down on
the Hudson river under Col Brooks
I have heard him relate a great
may times about what he suffered when
he was out in the revolutionary war he
moved from old Williamstown in the
State of Massachusetts to this Town
he was living on the farm or lot of
land west of mine and (illegible) it on
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east and also one lot on hte south of
mine and joined it he has children
now liveing in this Town one by the
name of Diah Bacon one by the name
of Abigah one by the name of John one
by the name of Dolly and Cloge and Phebe he always bore the reputation
of being a revolutionary soldier I only know of
the fact about his being a revolutionary
soldier from his own statement about
the same his widow Samma Bacon's
maiden name was Samma Durgee
she lived in Brookfield in this county
Brookfield joins this Town on the
(illegible)
Diah Flint
State of Vermont  Williamstown (illegible)
Washington County first A.D 1850
Personally appeared
before one Diah Flint the person when
signee the where affadavit and made
oath that the (illegible) is true I also certify
that said Flint is a man of truth and
(illegible) and can be (illegible)
interlenations and alterations made before
signing
Before me Walter Newcomb Justice of the Peace
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I Eleanor Flint of Williamstown in the county of Orange and State of Vermont being sventy one years old next December do depose and say that I have lived in this Town over fifty years I knew old Mr Edmund Bacon of this Town now deceased I also know his widow Tamma Bacon she is now alive and lives in this Town with her son Abigah (Abijah) Bacon she never has been married since her husband death. he died twenty two years ago Mr Bacon I always knew untill his death he was a revolutionary Soldier and was at the Battle of Bennington he served in the revolutionary war nine months. I have heard him tell over a great many times about his hardships whilst he was out in the revolutionary war I only the fact about his service in the revolutionary war from his own Statement. he was a very worthy man and so considered by his neighbors his wife Tamma Bacon's maiden name was Tamma Durgee (Durkee) she was a Sister to Capt. Samuel Durgee (Durkee) of this Town now
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deceased she formerly lived in the Town of Brookfield in this county Brookfield Joins this Town on the South 
/s/Eleanor Flint
State of Vermont
Orange County ss } Williamstown August first A.D. 1850 Personally appeared Eleanor Flint and made oath that the above affadavit by her sign'd is true I also certify that she is a person of truth and veracity and can be relied upon as such, alterations and interlineations made before signing
Before me /s/Walter Newcomb Justice of the peace 
Eleanor Flint affadavit in the case of Tamma Bacon
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William S Beckett
affadivit in
relation Edmond
and Tamma Bacon
Marriage
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I Ephraim Luce of Williamstown in the County of Orange and State of Vermont being sixty two years old last November do depose and say that I was born in old Williamstown in the State of Massachusetts and moved from that Town when I was very young and have always lived in this Town old Mr Edmund Bacon of this Town now deceased was my uncle on my Mothers side I was well acquainted with him untill his death which was some over twenty years ago I am also acquainted with his widow Tamma Bacon she now lives in this Town with her son Abigah (Abijah) Bacon she never has been married since the death of her husband Edmund Bacon her maiden name was Tamma Durkee she lived in Brookfield in this county before she was married to said Bacon Brookfield joins this Town on the South under Edmund Bacon was out in the revolutionary war. he was at the Battle of Bennington and served under Col'o Stark. I know this fact for the reason that my ['Father' crossed out] uncle & brother was killed at the battle of Bennington under Edmund Bacon
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was also out down near New York as a Soldier in the revolutionary war. he was at New York at the time the British took New York. he was also at the white plains at the time the battle at that place and also at a place called kings bridge. I remember well what uncle said about General Putnam General Putnam commander at one of these battles. I have heard uncle Bacon tell what Gen'l Putnam told then uncle said that there were several american detachments arround and they were fireing away, and General Putnam rode up to where he was, and remarked as follows hold on boys dont waste your powder wait untill you can see the white of their eye before you fire. the british advanced untill they could see their eye and then unless said we moved them down like pigeons. Gen Putnam said boys dont be affraid God curse them. uncle said at the time our troops left New York General Washington took out three horse's in geting out the Soldiers out of the City on the day they left the troops marched up towards white plains at one time our army were retreating
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uncle said he carried the camp kettle he said one night they were so near the british that they could hear the Sentinel talk, and the next morning uncle said he heard the British ['reverie' crossed out] reveille or music and said it was the most beautiful music he ever heard he was a six months man at the time. he was out at the takeing of New York. I know these facts from uncle own mouth. and I used to live with uncle Edmund Bacon and have heard uncle state it over a great many times I have also heard him State who his Col'o was and Captain but cannot remember their names I heard uncle say that old Governor Galusha was captain of the company to which he belonged at the battle of ['bunker hill' crossed out] Bennington and that he would not allow his corporals to warn the company out at the battle of ['Bunker hill' crossed out] Bennington and that he warned out every man himself. ['uncle' crossed out] Galusha lived at that time in Shaftsbury Vermont and he said that when they were marching to Bennington they looked ahead of them and saw a man on a large stump and he was swinging his hat and crying out come on my boys
/s/Ephraim Luce
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State of Vermont
Orange County ss} Williamstown August first AD 1850
Personally appeared before me Ephraim Luce the person who has signed the within affadavit and made oath that the same is true and I certify that Said Luce is a man of truth and veracity and can be relied upon as such alterations and interlineation made before signing 
Before me /s/Walter Newcomb Justice of the peace
Ephraim Luce affadavit in the case of Tamma Bacon
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I Abigah (Abijah) Bacon of Williamstown in the county of Orange being now fifty seven years old last June ['years old' crossed out] do depose and say that Edmund Bacon of this Town now deceased was my Father and that Tamma Bacon his widow is my mother and that she has remained a widow since my Father decease my Father Edmund Bacon died in this Town in A.D. 1878 in sept of that year she was seventy one years old when he died my mother will be eighty five years old the 21th day of August A.D. 1850 my Father was a revolutionary Soldier and was out several times he served in Vermont at one time and was at the battle of Bennington he formerly lived in the vicinity of Bennington and not more than fifteen miles from Bennington 
['when' crossed out] Father used to live ['he moved from' crossed out] in old Williamstown Massachusetts and removed to this Town and has resided here untill he death
/s/Abijah Bacon
State of Vermont
Orange County ss} August 21st A.D. 1880
Personally appeared before me Abigah (Abijah) Bacon the person who has signed the above affadavit and made oath that the same as true and I certify that said Bacon is a man of truth and veracity and can be relied upon as such, alterations made before signing
/s/William S. Beckett Justice of the peace
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No 360
Crossed out: Act of July 14 1862, and March,1873 
Tamma Bacon
P.O. widow of Edmund Vt
Service:   , 18
Enlisted:  , 18
Discharged:   ,18
Application filed:   , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
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No. 14,355
Tamma Bacon
widow of Edmund
Vermont
Act of 7th June 1832
360
To NH Sylvester  June 25th 1851
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I Fredick Whitney Strong of (illegible)
in the county of Orange and State of
Vermont being sixty six years old next
October do depose and say that I was
acquainted to Mr Edmund Bacon
of this town now deceased he lived not
more than half a mile from where I
lived I also know his widow Samma
Bacon she is now alive and lives in
this town with her son Aleiguh Bacon
Mr Edmund Bacon her husband was
out in the revolutionary war he was
at the Battle of Bennington he was
also at New York at the time the Britis-
h took New York. he has told me what
gen Putnam said when the British
fired upon the Americans. his rema-
rks were as follows don't hurry, so soldiers
there is no room for you in hell for
it is full of Rev Couts Now he was
out nine or ten months in the war
I only know these facts from his own
statements he did about twenty two
years ago
Frederic Whiting Strong
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State of Vermont
['Washington' crossed out] Orange County ss }
Williamstown August five A.D. 1850
Personally appeared before me Frederick Whiting Strong and made oath that the foregoing affadavit by him Subscribed is true and I certify that the said Strong is a reliable witness and a man of truth and veracity interlineation and alterations made before signing
Before me /s/Walter Newcomb Justice of the peace
F. W. Strong's affadavit in the case of Tamma Bacon
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April 11 - 1857
Petition of Samma
Bacon
Alpheus Tiden
Barre
Vermont

Upside down:
Letter to the 
Commissioner of
Pensions
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Barre, VT  April 3 1851
Sir
Enclosed I send you the petition
of Samma Bacon to be placed upon
the pension list under the act of July
7th AD 1838 also the several other acts she state
that her husband served in the Continent
-intal army that being the facts the government
have in their (illegible) the evidence
of his service and are obliged to furnish
it to the applicant in this case. when 
he was in New York he was under the
Continental offices.
Alpheus Tilden
Commissioner of
Pensions
Washington City
D.C
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Testimony in
the case of Samma
Bacon
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State of Vermont
Secretary of States Office
Montpelier August 24 1850
I certify that Walter Newcomb and
William S Beckett whose names are sub-
scribed to the foregoing certificate in their
own proper hand writing are and were at the
date thereof Justices of the Peace within
and for the County of Orange duly elected
and qualified and that other official acts and
attestations are such full forth and credit are
and ought to be given
In testimony whereof I have here
unto subscribed my name and affixed
the seal of this office at Montpelier
this the 29th day of August 1850
Ferrand F Merrill
Secretary of State
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[Massachusetts state seal] Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary Office, Boston: 30th Aug't 1850. 
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 Edmund Bacon is borne on a roll of Capt. Samuel Clark's Co. Col. John Brown's Reg't from June 30, 1777. 22 days. - 
On roll of Capt. Zebulon Norton Col. John Ashley from July 27. 1777. 23 days. - 
On roll of Capt. Samuel Clark, Col. Powell, from July 22, 1779. 7 mo. 12 d. - 
On roll of Capt. Thompson J. Skinner Col. Asa Barnes from Nov 1. 1781. 10 days - 
The foregoing is a duplicate of a certificate issued from this office Nov. 3. 1846. -
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth the date above written.
Wm Tufts
Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth
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William Tufts
Deputy Secretary of the
State of Massachusetts

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No 14.355
Tamma Bacon in
of Edmund
VT
Act 7 July 1838
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
9th August 1850.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the
Book and Documents relating to Military Services in
the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Depart-
ment, it appears that there is no evidence of the service
of Edmund Bacon further than was given in a
certificate Nov 3, 1846 amounting to 3 mos. 7 days.

In Testimony Whereof; I have hereunto affixed the Seal
of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Wm Tufts
Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Application for a certificate of revolutionary services made by Tamma Bacon of Williamstown wife of Edmund Bacon now deceased
State of Vermont
Orange County ss } The secretary of the Comonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the rolls in his office of the services of Edmund Bacon in the war of the revolution. He was a native of Middletown in the State of Connecticut He enlisted from the Town of Williamstown in Massachusetts in the year A.D. 1775 or 1776 as a Soldier or private in the company commanded by Jonas Galusha ['under in Col I think' crossed out] and he served at Bennington battle, and he served several times I think probably he was also in Capt Sloan company and Also in Captain Stewart Company. I cannot State further about my husband services I am now eighty five years old and my memory does not [service' crossed out] enable me to state the services more fully that above stated
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And I believe that my husband served some
time while he was out under Col Nixon
Her Mark
Samma Bacon

State of Vermont
Orange County SS Williamstown August 2. 1850
Personally appeared before me Samma Bacon the
signer of the above affadavit, and acknowledged
the same under oath to be the truth according to
the best of her recollection
William S Beckett Justice of the Peace

5109
Samma Bacon
affadavit's