Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4770, for Benjamin Price, Massachusetts
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Mass.   Price, Benjamin.    W 4770
                        Ruth.     B.L.Wt. 11060-160-55
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Benjamin Price
Bridgewater Ms
1 Apl 1818 - private
Bailey's rgt Mass line
Dec 75 One year
10 June 78 - nine months
Admitted
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Plymouth  ss.
On this first day of April AD. 1818, before me
the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Benjamin Price of Bridgewater aged sixty years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the
provision made by the late 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." viz

see the Declaration marked (A)
and the said Price further make oath
that from his reduced circumstances he
needs the assistance of his country for
support. -
NB see the list of the Company in Jos Whitings case/
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Thomas Osbourne a credible witness
personally appeared before me the said Judge
and made solemn oath that he well knew
Benjamin Price aforesaid to serve during the
whole of the year 1776 at New York in Capt Jacob
Allen's Company & Col. John Bailey's Regiment, the said Osbourne having served in the same Regiment the same time. -
And I, said Judge do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Benja. Price did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress; and that the said Price is
poor and needs the assistance of his country for
support. - Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SS.    1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That                     is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth -- that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record -- that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal, thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial
} Court for the County
} of
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I Joseph Whiting who is a credible witness personally appeared and made solemn oath
that he well know the within named Benjamin Price, and that he served one year in the revolutionary war as a private soldier
in Capt Jacob Allen's Company and Col. John Bailey's regiment in the Massachusetts Line, in which company he the said Whiting was a sergeant and performed therein the duty of orderly Sergeant, that the year commenced on the first day of January 1776 and ended on the last day of December 1776, and that the said Price served out his term faithfully,
Nahum Mitchell Judge Ju
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Schedule
" An old house & barn & about 3 acres of land
one third of which has fallen to me since 1821.
" one cow-the same mentioned in my former schedule as two years old
" one pig ½ Doz Chairs. one pot, one Kettle & 1 Spider
" a few articles of crockery & wooden ware, one hoe,
" one old axe, one shovel,
Benjamin Price
Sworn to & declared on the twenty second day of Nov 1827 before
the Court of Common Pleas
Attest Jno B Thomas Aber

I John B Thomas Clerk of the Judicial Court for the said County of Plymouth hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the said Court, that the said Benjamin Price did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement in the continental establishment - I also further certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court - that the total amount of value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and thirty dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Courts this twenty second day November in year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
Jno B. Thomas
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Ruth Price
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Certificate of the marriage of Benjamin Price
and Ruth Washburn both of Bridgewater
Benjamin Price and Ruth Washburn both of Bridgewater Eighteen hundred and five July
twenty second
Josiah Thompson Justice of the Peace
I Edwin Inglee a Clerk of the town of Halifax certify This is a true exact & copy of the Records of the Town of Halifax with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair
legible figures as follows 1805 July 22
Benjamin Price & Ruth Washburn
Josiah Thompson Just of the Peace
Edwin Inglee Town Clerk
I Edwin Inglee of Halifax the above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Halifax in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts and that the above named certificate is true as certified
by me and that the Records of said Town
are in my custody
Halifax March 17. 1853
To
Edwin Inglee
Clerk of the Town of
Halifax

Sworn to before me
Philo Leach ⎬ Justice of the Peace
March 17 1853

NB. The above corrections in the Sir name
of Mrs Price before her marriage was made by
the Clerk before signing
Philo Leach J Peace

Will the Commission of Powers have the
Kindness to attend to this as soon as practicable
and send the Certificate to the address of
Philo Leach Bridgewater Mass
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Declaration
of Ruth Price of the Town of
Bridgewater in the County
of Plymouth and
State of Massachusetts
In order to obtain the benefits to which
she may be entitled under the Acts of
Congress passed on the 2d day of February
1848 and on the 3d day of February 1858
and all former acts and joint Resolutions
making provisions for the surviving widows
and Soldiers of the Revolution.
State of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss
On this fifth day of April in the year one thousand Eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared in open Court before me the Subscriber Judge of Probate in and for the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts
Ruth Price a resident of the Town of
Bridgewater in said County aged seventy
Eight years who being first duly sworn
according to Law doth on her oath make
the following Declaration in order to obtain
the benefits to which she may be entitled
by the provisions made by the Acts of
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Congress passed on the 2d of February
1848 and the 3d of February 1853 and
all former acts and joint Resolutions
making provisions for the surviving
widows and Soldiers of the Revolution
and granting pensions to widows
of persons who served during the
Revolutionary War
That she is the widow of Benjamin Price late of Bridgewater who was a Soldier in the War of the
American Revolution and who was a
Pensioner of the United States under the act of March 18th, 1818 at the rate of Ninety six dollars for annum
That she was married to the said Benjamin
Price on the twenty second day of July
in the year one thousand Eight hundred
and five by Josiah Thompson Esquire
that the said Benjamin Price died at
Bridgewater on the fifth day of January
in the year one thousand eight hundred
and thirty three that she has not since
intermarried but remains a widow
Ruth Price
Sworn to & Subscribed
on the day and year first
within written
Before me Aaron Hobart J. Probate
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I Cephas Washburn of the Town of Bridgewater
in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth
of Massachusetts Depose testify and say that I
was well acquainted with Benjamin Price of Bridgewater who was a Pensioner of the
United States and who died on the fifth day of January in the year one thousand Eight hundred and thirty three
that [crossed out text:  I was present at his burial]  I am also well acquainted with Ruth Price
who is the widow of the said Benjamin Price who now resides in Bridgewater and I was well acquainted with both Benjamin Price and Ruth Price where they were living in said Bridgewater
as husband and wife
Bridgewater March 17 1853
Cephas Washburn

State of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss ⎬ Be it known that on the 17 day of March in the year one thousand Eight Hundred & fifty three personally appeared Cephas Washburn the above deponent who is personally known to me and who is a man of truth and veracity and made oath that the
above by him Subscribed is true.
Philo Leach Justice of the
Peace
NZ. The Erasure of "I was present at his burial"
& the intersection [?] of [illegible] was made by
me before the papers were executed
Philo Leach
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office, 4th December 1827.
SIR:
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your property has been examined, and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll, for the Agency of the State of Massachusetts
You will be paid, at the ensuing semi-annual payment in March next, the sum that may be then due from the twenty second of November 1827 agreeably to the Act of the 1st March, 1823.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards

To Mr. Benjamin Price
U. S. Pensioner.
Care of Aaron Hobart Esq
East Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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 I Thomas Cushman of the Town of Bridgewater
in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts upon testify and say that I am well
acquainted with Ruth Price the widow of
Benjamin Price who was a Pensioner of the
United States and who died at Bridgewater
in the year 1833 and that I was also
well acquainted with the said Benjamin
Price before his death and have been
well acquainted with his widow Ruth 
Price since his death that she now
resides in Bridgewater in the same
house and on the same place where
she & her husband the late Benjamin
Price lived before his death
March 17 1853
Thos Cushman
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss Be it known
that on the seventeenth day of March in the
year one thousand Eight hundred & fifty three
Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the 
Peace thereon all the Counties in the State of
Massachusetts personally appeared
Thomas Cushman the above affiant
who is personally known to me and made
oath that the above by him subscribed
is true & I hereby certify that the above
Thomas Cushman is a man of truth and veracity
Philo Leach Just of the
Peace through
all the counties
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, April 6th 1853
I hereby Certify, That at the date of
the annexed attestation Philo Leach
was a Justice of the Peace for all
the Counties -
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his 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 Commonwealth, the date above written.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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[left side of page]
Cir. [illegible] H.A. Dyer No. 0755

[right side of page]
75.996- Act March 3/55
April 1855
Ruth Price.
Ruth Price wid of
Benjamin Price,
Pri.
Mass:  Contl. line.
AD: 160 Acres
Nov: 23d 155.
Boynton.
Revolutionary war
Mass. Feby 53 - 685
Boynton
Vol P. Page 139.
E.D. & C. A. Dyer
South Abington
Mass

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Rev
No 11.060 ip Nov 2/755
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State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth
on this eighth day of March A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Ruth Price aged eighty (July) years, a resident of Bridgewater in the State of Mass who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow
of Benjamin Price, deceased, who was a
Revolutionary Soldier and continued in actual service in said war for the term of more than fourteen days and was honorably discharged, as will appear by the roll of his company
That she receive a pension of ninety-six dollars per annum at the pension agency in Boston Mass
She also declares that neither herself nor her husband have applied for or received any bounty land under any act of Congress.
She further declares that she was married to the said Benjamin Price in Bridgwater on the twentieth day of July A.D 1804 by one Josiah Thompson Justice of Peace and that her name before her said marriage was Ruth Shaw - or [illegible]--she being a widow that her said husband died at Bridgewater on the fifth
day of January A.D. 1833 and that she is still his widow. for the proof his service and her
Marriage the Commission is referred to the application for a pension. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the additional bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress passed March 3d 1855. and she prays that a certificate thereof may be sent for her to E. D. & C. A. DYER, South Abington, Mass.
Ruth Price
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above mentioned. [illegible handwritten text]
Wm. P. Corthell Justice of the Peace.
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State of Massachusetts, Plymouth County.
We, Ebenezer Hall and Almera D Price having been duly sworn, depose and say, that we well knew Benjamin Price who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution whose widow now applies for bounty land, - that we knew him for more than fifteen years years before his death, which occurred at Bridgwater about twenty ten years ago, - that we know that he died at about that time, because we were his neighbors and were at his Funeral-- and we also declare that the within declaration was signed in our presence by Ruth Price and we know from our acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be that we have known his said widow from his death to this time, that she is now unmarried, and that we are disinterested.
Ebenezer Hall
Almira D Price

Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this Eighth day of March A.D. 1855
A. D. 1855
Wm. P. Corthell Justice of the Peace.

It is hereby certified, that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, by the affidavits of 
Ebenezer Hall and Almira D Price
of the said County and State, who are personally known to me, who are entitled to credit, and who swear that they have no pecuniary interest in the result of the foregoing application: that Ruth Price the applicant for bounty land in the foregoing declaration is now unmarried, and that she is the widow of the late Benjamin Price who was a soldier
and that the said Benjamin Price died at the time above stated, and that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in her claim
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, this Eighth day of March 1855
Wm P. Corthell Justice of the Peace.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, April 13. 1885.
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed,
Wm P. Corthell was a Justice of the peace for the
County of Plymouth
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his 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 Commonwealth, the date above written.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

75.996
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April 9 1853
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No 863
Appl. of Ruth
Price widow of
Benjamin
Plymouth County
Mass
M 19
Act 3d Feby: 1853.
Admitted $96 per annum
Commencing 3d Feb 1853.
Revy: -
Philo Leach
Mass

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office, Official Business
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No. 75996
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 18, 1855
Benjamin Price
Rev. War

Warrant 110160-160-55

E.D. & C.A. Dyer
South Abington
Mass
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[vertical text]
Additional evidence
No. 75996.
Benjamin Price
and
Ruth Price
Boynton
[illegible round stamp]

[horizontal text]
FREE
Hon J Minot
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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S
M.O.60
160 Any
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To the Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington D.C.
[round stamp]
PITTSFIELD
APR
6
MASS
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[round stamp]
BRIDGEWATER Ms.
APR
7
Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
DC
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[left side of page]
The letter 18 October 1827
to the Hon A Hobart

[right side of page]
5588
Massachusetts
Benjamin Price
private
Massachusetts line
One year Nine months
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of Jany 1819
and sent to Nahum Mitchel Judge East Bridgewater Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818. 5 mos 4/30    41.06
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th March 1819 -  48
                                                                  $89.06
{Revolutionary claim, }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
Bridgwater
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4770
Ruth Price
Wid.
Benjn Price
Pvt. Rev War
Act:  Feby. 3 1753
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 139
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[round stamp]
BRIDGEWATER
NOV 27
MASS.
FREE
Hon James Barbour
Secy at War
Washington, D.C.
1
Barbour
D C
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East Bridgewater Mass Nov. 27th. 1827.
Hon. James Barbour
Secy at War.
Sir:
I am requested to [illegible] you the Declaration and Schedule of Benjamin Price, who applies to be [illegible] to the list of Revo Pensioners. Price's neighbors [illegible] that he is an honest man, but poor and unfortunate. His health from personal observation I know to be bad, & that
he can do little or nothing towards his support.
I am supprised, he her delay? so long in making
his application to be returned.
I am very Respectfully
your Obt. Svt.
Aaron Hobart
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East Bridgwater Mass Oct 10th. 1827
Hon. James Barbour
Sey at War.
I have been informed that the name of Benjamin Price of Plymouth County in this State was
placed on the Pension list under the act of March 1818 & that a schedule of his property was made out under the law of 1820 & forwarded to your Department. Price has desired me to write and ascertain whether my decision has been had on that schedule - and what obstacles if any exit to his being placed on the Pension List. It has been represented to me that he is very poor, & I have no doubt such is the case.
I am very Respectfully,
your Obt Sevt.
Aaron Hobart
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So Abington Mass Nov 19. 1855.
Sir
We herewith enclose the record
evidence of the peace of Benj Price
which please file with his widows
application for bounty land N0. 75996.
Very Respectfully
E D & C A Dyer
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston,
Nov. 15. 1855.
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 Benjamin Price is borne on pay roll
of Capt. James Allen's Comp. Col Eliphalet Carry's
Regt. on alarm at R. Island July 30, 1780, 11
days as private.
Also on pay roll of Capt. Joseph Coli's Comp
Col. Robinson's Regt. from July 8, 1777 5 mos.
23 days as private.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, Nov. 12 1855
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed, Cyrus A
Dyer was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that
to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In Testimony of Which, I have hereunto affixed the SEAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH, the date above written.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Application for land warrant proof of [illegible] is attached [illegible]
APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES.
made by the Widow of the party who rendered the service.
State of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth
Town of Abington
The Secretary of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from
the Rolls in his office of the service of Benjamin Price in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Bridgwater
in the County of Plymouth and State of Mass
He enlisted from the Town of Bridgwater
in the County of Plymouth and State of Mass
in the year
17   as a                  in the Company commanded by Captain Allen, she thinks in Regiment            
and he served as follows, viz:--

[missing text] is all the information I have concerning the service of my husband; and you will [missing text] forward the result of your examination of the rolls to E. D. & C. A. DYER, South Abington, Mass.
[missing text] hand this eighth day of October
A. D. 1855;
Ruth Price
[missing text] Ruth Price before me, 
Cyrus A. Dyer
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
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Benj Price     Benj Price
Bridgewater
(March 1819)

John B. Thomas
Plymouth,
Mass
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SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
County of Plymouth   88.
 On this fifteenth day of  August 1821, before the Circuit Court  of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, preceding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power of fine  and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for said County Benjamin Price aged sixty eight years, resident in Bridgewater in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz, for the term of one years in [unintelligible] of Cade Jacob Allen and [unintelligible] Bailegh Rige, Massachusetts, him being the years service of [unintelligible] January 20 1819 and numbered 5588 in pursuance of his original Declaration made April 10 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, vizo.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not,since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby 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