Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,788, Nathaniel Eaton, Mass.
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Service Mass.
Eaton, Nathaniel
Number S.34,788
Carded.
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6,480
Massachusetts Roll.
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Nathaniel Eaton, Corporal.
Capt Keith
Mass
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In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued on the 29th of January, 1819 and Sent to John Davis Esq. Judges Boston.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818 5 M. + 4/30- 41:6
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819- 48:-
Died Dec 5, 1822. See Agency Book.
$89:6
Exd. BL Beall
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
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Continued
Reading, Co. Middlesex
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Notification sent to Abm Bigelow Esq 20 Oct 1820
Cambridge, Mass
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Massachusetts District, 88.
Boston June 9 A.D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction that Nathaniel Eaton, subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain per- "sons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary " war;" the ttestimony and proceddings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid. with the accompanying document marked A together with this certificate.

In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M. [illegible], Judge of the District Court US Massachusetts District.
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This certifies that the within named Nathl. Eaton is in needy circumstances and needs assistance from his country.
Daniel Flint
Chairman of the Selectmen & Rep-resentation to the Gen. Court for the town of Reading

No 134
Nath Eaton Corpl.
Jackson Mass Regt.
1777 to 1780.
Contd
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I, Nathaniel Eaton of Reading in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts (and citizen of the USA), do testify and declare that I enlisted into Capt James Keith’s company in the eighth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson and Genl Larnard’s Brigade as a  continental soldier, the 24 day of May 1777 for the term of three years and served in the said regiment until the seventeenth day of May 1781, and then was discharged from said regiment by said Col. Jackson and I do stand in need of support from my country, by reason of reduced circumstances. Reading March 30 1818. Nath. Eaton
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164.
Nathaniel Eaton
6,480

March 1819
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Please fro the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A.D. 1820
Before the Hon. Samuel Dana, Esquire, Chief Justice and William Wetmore, and Stephen Minor, Esquires Associate Justices of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with the jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Nathaniel Eaton resident in Reading in said County Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 6480 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT…..REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
“I certify  that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the
“18th March, 1818, Nathaniel Eaton. Late a Corporal in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the
“Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of equal
“Dollars per month, commence of the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this twentieth
“Day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War,”

Appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
Containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, 

Real Estate none personal estate none and says that he is by occupation a blacksmith is eighty three years old cannot do any work of consequence on account of his lame shoulder has a wife fifty years old has been sickly for eight or ten years past and unable to walk much has no other family have lived seventeen  years partially upon private charity ever since he broke his shoulder at which time he had to sell all his property to pay debts and has never been able to get any property since he says if he had not have received his pension he
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must use this have been in the poor house and that he can not support himself by his daily labour, he says that he enlisted as a private into the United States service on the twenty fourth day of May AD 1777 into the eighth Regt commanded by Capt James Keith in the Massachusetts hire for three years  first marched from Cambridge to Albany then stayed there a short time then went and drove the Indians from Fort Stanwig then returned and was in two battles with Burgoyne, after he surrendered returned to Albany and took a little rest then went to winter quarter at Valley Forge, in April or May marched after Lord Howe was in the battle of Monmouth and served the whole time at the close of the three years was regularly discharged as will appear by the original declaration by him made on the first day of April in the year AD 1818 Nath Eaton
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforsaid, to wit,
"I, Nathaniel Eaton, do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my prop-erty, or any part thereof, with the intent threreby so to diminish it as to bring myself  within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war", passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed and also that the annexed schedule & statement are true, so help me God.
Middlesex SS. C.C.C.P. June Term, A.D. 1820
The the abovenamed Nathaniel Eaton took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, Abraham Biglow, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, so hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is nothing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820.
Attr. Abraham Bigelow
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February 1, 1929.
GW

Mrs. Ida Eaton Cotton,
P. O. Box 153,
Woodmont, Connecticut.

Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolution-ary War pension claim, S. 34788, it appears that Nathaniel Eaton enlisted May 24, 1777, place not stated, served as a private and corporal in Captain James Keith's Company, Colonel Michael Jackson's Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, was at the battle of Fort Stanwix, both battles of Saratoga and battle of Monmouth and was discharged May 17, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818 while a resident of Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
In 1820 he was aged sixty-three years and referred to his wife aged fifty years, her name not given, and there are no further data on file as to family.
He died December 5, 1822, place not stated. The place of birth not given.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.
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March 29, 1926.

Alice Belle Eaton,
of O.J. Powers, & Sons
372 Riverbend St.
Athol, Mass.

Madam:
I have to advise you, that the Revolutionary War records of thisBureau fail to afford information in regard to a Nathaniel Eaton of Reading, Mass., born in 1729, died March 11, 1823.
The Revolutionary War pensioner, S. 34788, Nathaniel Eaton of Reading Mass., was sixty-three years old in 1820, and died December 5, 1822.
Herewith are returned your six two-cents stamps.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.
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[page torn] ev. &1812 Wars Section

April 7, 1926

Alice B. Eaton
c/o O.J. Powers and Sons
372 Riverbend St.,
Athol, Mass.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 34788 it appears that Nathaniel Eaton enlisted May 24, 1777, served as private and corporal in Captain James Keith's Company, Colonel Michael Jackson's Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, was at the battle of Fort Stanwix, both battles of Saratoga and battle of Monmouth and was discharged May 17, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818 while a resident of Reading, Middlesex Coun-ty, Massachusetts.
In 1820 he was aged sixty-three years and referred to his wife aged fifty years,her name not given, and there is no further data on file as to family. He died December 5, 1822.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Nath. Eaton Corpl. in Col. M Jackson
[illegible] Certified May 23, 1789 for
78.0.8Specie-

paid to him self
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The Bearer hereof Nathl. Eaton Corpl in the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, having served as a faithful good Soldier in the said Regiment, the Term of three years being. the full Term for which he inlisted, is hereby discharged from the same.
Given under my Hand, at Fort B. this Seventeenth Day of May, 1780.
Michl Jackson Colo,
8 Massachusetts Regt
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Woodmont
Conn.
April 30, 1928

U.S. Pension Office
Washington
D.C.

Please to give me the military history of Nathaniel Eaton born in Springfield Mass. 1761 who served in the Revolutionary War and was a U.S Pensioner from Mch. 21, 1821 until his death Dec. 5, 1822.
Did he enlist from Springfield Mass.? Did he die there or in Southwick? In what capacity did he get?
And oblige
Mrs. Ida Eaton Cotton
Woodmont
P.O. Box 153 Conn.
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O. J. Powers & Sons
Manufacturers of Men's, Boy's and Children's Straw Braid & Body
Hats
Athol, Massachusetts

O.J Powers
Ernest O. Powers
A. I. Powers

March 31, 1926
United States Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions, Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs,
Will you be kind enough to send me the complete information you have regarding soldier Nathaniel Eaton of Reading, Mass. who was a Revolutionary War pensioner. S. 34788
Thanking you for the same, I am,
Yours respectfully,
Alice Belle Eaton,
O. J. Powers & Sons
372 Riverbend St. Athol, Mass.
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March 25, 1926
Athol, Mass.

United States Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs,
In the Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts, Page79 is recorded the birth of one Nathaniell Eaton, born May 4th. 1729; died March 11, 1823 "U.S. PENSIONER" Page 515
Will you kindly give me the complete Pension records of this ancestor of mine, Nathaniell Eaton, as I will appreciate it for records regarding The Daughters of the American Revolution.
Thanking you for all the information available, I remain,
Yours respectfully,
Alice Belle Eaton,
O. J. Powers & Sons,
372 Riverbend St., Athol, Mass.
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34788
Revy INVALID
File No. 34,788
Nathaniel Eaton
Corp Rev War
Act: 18th March 1818
Index:-Vol. 21, Page 118.
Arrangement of 1870.

Sept 30, 1904- hist. to Caroline A. Mendell, Parsons Kan.
1926. Mar 29. A.B. Eaton given dates of b. & d. AW
1926-Aprl-7-hist. to Alice B. Eaton. MMB
1929 Feb. 17. Hist. to Mrs. Ida Eaton Cotton AWY
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Parsons, Kans 9/12/04
Hon, Eugene J, Hare
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, DC
Dear Sir, 
Will you kindly advise me if possible, whether or not a soldier in the revolutionary war, by the name of Samuel Eaton, private, Capt Daniel Grants Co., commanded by Lieu Thos Parkes – supposed to have enlisted from Worcester, Mass in 1780 (July 7”) and also a Rev soldier named Nath. Eaton – Haverhill Mass – Ensign to Capt Jas Sawyer’s Co. supposed to have enlisted 1775 were ever on your pension roll,
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and if so will you kindly give me the place and date of birth and place and date of where they are buried or died I am trying to establish family and need this record if I can possibly secure it.
I will be very grateful if your department can help me out in this. Thanking you, remain your very truly,
Caroline A Mendell
713 Sinclair Ave