Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26836, for Elijah Packard, Massachusetts
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Service - Continental Mass.

Packard, Elijah
Thankful

Number  W26836

Contents
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11.903   R
Massachusetts
Elijah Packard
in the state of
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Mass. line, for the term of 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of June 11
and sent to N. Mitchell East Bridgewater Mass
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819       81.87
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept $ 48.
10  222                                     $134.87
3031
{ Revolutionary claim, }
{ Act 18th March, 1818.}
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2823
Massachusetts
Thankful Packard
widow of Elijah Richard
who was a Private of Inf & artillery
in the revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
82 Dollars 90
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
23d day of Nov. 1843
and sent to Seth F. Nye
Sandwich, Mass
[ Act of March 3, 1843. ]

Recorded in Book 'A'
Vol. 1.   Page 51
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Elijah Packard
Plymouth
1776



on roll vol 15
page 53 -8mos-1775
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I Elijah Packard of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a Citizen of the United States and now resident therein set forth and declare that I was a private soldier in the land service of the war of the revolution for more than nine months on the continental
establishment, that from my reduced circumstances I am in need of the assistance of my country for support and therefore do now request that I may receive a pension from the United States agreeably to the late law of Congress of the 18th of March last and I do now relinquish all claim to any pension
heretofore granted me if any by any former law of Congress. that I entered the service in the beginning of the revolution in the Spring of 1775 and served eight months at Roxbury
and Cambridge in the army before Boston in a company commanded by Capt Lothrop and in the Regiment commanded by Col. John Bailey and after the eight months expired I enlisted into the continental establishment for one year in Capt Pierces company of Artillery and to
Crane's Regiment (or Col Knox ) Massachusetts line  served out my year faithfully, and performed a great deal of hard service
and was honorably discharged at Morristown in New Jersey but had no printed or written discharge, as I recollect, but think I had a pass given me but cannot perfectly remember. I however have lost all such papers if I had
any. I staid six weeks over my years service at the particular solicitations of Genl Washington as did the greater part of my company and others whose time had likewise expired. I afterwards performed short term of service which I think it unnecessary to state.
Elijah Packard
9th        Sworn to Apl 9. 1818
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Elijah Packard

11903

Sept 1829
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SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth
On this 14th day of August, 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Elijah Packard
aged 68 years, resident in Plymouth in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of 1 year, 1776- in Capt Pierce's company, Col Knox's regiment, Massachusetts
and that he has received a pension certificate dated 15 June 1819, and numbered 
11,903 in pursuance of his original Declaration made 9th April 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 28th 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,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818;
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.
I am a farmer but infirm & unable to labour much. My family consists of my wife Thankful aged 60 years subject to fits & wholly unable to labour.
Schedule
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Real Estate I have none.  Personal his
3 chairs, 1 piece crockery ware pot & Kettle
Elijah Packard

Sworn to, and declared on the 11th day of August AD 1820, before 
Nahum Mitchell Chief Justice
Mitchell


I John B Thomas Clerk of said Court
do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath reclamation and the 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 Five dollars and no 
cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the
court, on this twenty ninth day of December 1820
John B. Thomas
Clerk of the Clerk of the Court for the County of
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3989
Application of
Thankful Packard
for Pension
Massachusetts

Admitted
Pr Inf 8 mos                 $26.66
Pr Arty 1yr 1mo 15 dys  56.24
                                      $ 82.90/100

Col Pierce  Col Crane
Mass.

died 29 May 1835

Act 7 July 1838

Timothy Reed
Barnstable 
Mass.
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State of Massachusetts }
Barnstable County         }  Ss
On this thirteenth day of November 1838 personally appeared before Nymphus Marston
Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the said County of Barnstable Thankful Packard a resident of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable State aforesaid, aged Seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled"an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Elijah Packard late of said Sandwich deceased who served in the War of the Revolution as she believes about three years, and who was a pensioner of the
United States for said services under the Act of 1818. The Department is refused to the Documentary evidence now in the Pension office which the said Elijah furnished to
obtain his pension, & to which he referred in his declaration. She further declares that she was married to the said Elijah Packard on the
.......day of May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty, that her husband the aforesaid Elijah Packard died on the twenty ninth day of May in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty five; that she was not married to him prior his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time aforesaid
her
Thankful   X  Packard
mark

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable Court of Probate Sandwich
Nov. 13. 1838

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court by
said Thankful Packard before me.
Judge of said
Nymhus Marston  {Judge of said Court }
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable County Ss.
I Timothy Reed Register of the Court
of Probate in and for said County hereby certify that the Hon Nymphus Marston is the Judge of said Court and that the within signature purporting to have been made by
him is his genuine signature. 
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court
this 13th Nov A.D. 1838
Timothy Reed Reg Prob't


Application of Thankful Packard for a Pension.
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I William J. Freeman of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable & Commonwealth of Massachusetts depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the said Town of Sandwich and that I have thoroughly searched the records of the said Town which are in my
keeping and cannot find therein any record of the marriage between Elijah Packard of Bridgewater and Thankful Morey of Sandwich
William J. Freeman
Clerk of said Town of Sandwich

Barnstable of November 13th 1838
Sworn to before me
Seth F. Nye   Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable County Ss.
I Timothy Reed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby certify that Seth F. Nye Esq is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified
and that I believe the above signature purporting to have been made by him to be his genuine signature.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court
this 13th Nov A. D. 1838 
Timothy Reed    Clerk
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I Abel Morey of Sandwich in the County
of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts
of lawful age to give evidence do testify and
say that I was present at the dwelling house of my father Benjamin Money of said Sandwich and personally witnessed the solemnization of Marriage between Elijah Packard a Pensioner deceased and Thankful Morey and that the marriage was solemnized by the Reverend 
Mr. Williams of Sandwich between them the said Elijah Packard & his widow now living Thankful Packard in the year one thousand
seven hundred and eighty the day they were
married I have forgotten but it was in the month of May A.D. 1780.
his
Abel  X   Morey
mark

Barnstable ss  On the thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight the aforesaid deponent was examined and cautioned and sworn agreeable to law, to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed, taken at the request of Thankful Packard widow of the late Elijah Packard of Sandwich deceased and who was a  pensioner of the United States
and to be used as evidence in obtaining the Pensions provided by the law of the United States for granting Pensions to widows of deceased husbands who were Pensioners
Benjamin Bourne   Justice of the Peace

I further
certify that the said Abel Morey is a credible witness entitled to belief
Benjamin Bourne   Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable County ss
I Timothy Reed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County hereby certify that Benjamin Bourne Esq is a Justice of the
Peace in & for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that I believe the within
signatures purporting to have been made by him to be his genuine signature

Witness my hand and the seal of said
Court this 13th November AD. 1838
Timothy Reed   Clerk
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I Benjamin Richard of Sandwich in the County
of Barnstable of lawful age to give evidence do testify and say that my father Elijah Packard, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner died on the twenty ninth day of May in the year eighteen hundred and thirty five, that he left a widow whose name is Thankful Packard now living in said Sandwich and that she has not been married since his death and the same person who has this day in my presence
in Probate Court made declaration in order to
attain a pension
Benjamin Parker

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable Ss. Probate Court Sandwich
November 13th 1838
Sworn to & subscribed by said Benin Packard in open Court and the Court believes him to be a credible witness
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court the day & year above written
Timothy Reed, Reg Probate
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I Thankful Packard of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable State of Massachusetts Widow of Elijah Packard late of said Sandwich a Pensioner of the United States deceased, do testify and say that I was married to said Elijah Packard in May in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty and I lived with him fifty five years up to his death which was in May one thousand eight hundred and thirty five. I had by him six children, five sons and one daughter. My son Alpheus Packard was a soldier in the last war. I further say that a
family record was kept in our Bible, that in
November eighteen hundred and twenty three our house was destroyed by fire and with it said family record. I further say that I have not been married since the death of my said husband
Sandwich June 11 1839.
her
Thankful  X   Packard
mark
Attest
Seth F. Nye

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable Ss. June 11th 1839. Personally appeared Thankful Packard above named and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by her subscribed.
before me
Seth F. Nye  Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Barnstable Ss
I Timothy Reed Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for said County hereby certify that
Seth F. Nye Esquire is a Justice of the Peace 
and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that I believe the within signature
the purporting to have been made by him to be his genuine Signature.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court
this twenty fifth day June A.D. 1839
Timothy Reed Clerk
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I Caleb Gibby of Sandwich in the County of
Barnstable State of Massachusetts, testify and say that Elijah Packard late of Sandwich aforesaid deceased and Thankful Packard lived together as man and wife from the time I was informed of their marriage which was in the year seventeen hundred and eighty to the time of his death which was in the eighteen hundred and thirty five - They had six children
five sons and one daughter. I further say that
said Thankful Packard has not been married
wise the death of her said husband
Sandwich June 19 1839.
Caleb 


Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable Ss
June 19th 1839  Personally appeared Caleb Gibbs above named and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him
subscribed before me
Seth F. Nye   Justice of the Peace

And I further certify that I am acquainted with
the said Caleb Gibbs and that he is a credible witness
Seth F. Nye  Jus. Peace
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Commonweath of Massachusetts
County of Barnstable Ss
I Timothy Reid Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County hereby certify that
Seth F. Nye Esquire is a Justice of the peace
in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the within signature purporting to have been made him I believe to be his genuine signature.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this twenty fifth day of June AD. 1839
Timothy Reed Clerk
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Revy  WIDOW, &c.

File No. 26836
Thankful Packard
wid. of
Elijah Packard
Priv. Rev. War

Act: March 3rd  1843
Index:- Vol....P...,  115

[Arrangement of 1870 ]
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MASSACHUSETTS       4201

Thankful Packard widow of Elijah Packard
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818, 
and who died on the 29 May 1835 of Barnstable for the State of Mass who was a private Infantry in the com commanded by Captain Pierce of the Regt commanded by Col Crane in the Mass line for $ Amounts 13i/2 months - Arty.
Inscribed  on the roll of Mass at the rate of 12 Dollars 90 cents per annum
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Sept 1839 & sent to Timothy Reed
Barnstable Mass.

Amounts to the 4th of Sept 1839   $290.15
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March '40 41.45
                                                 $331.60
{ Act July 7, }
{   1838        }


Recorded by D.M. Lundy
Book ...A....Vol.....1       Page...121.
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Thankful Packard
Elijah
Massachusetts

Suspended

See let: 20 May 1839
T. Reed
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Elijah Packard Mass efct March 18, 1818
to what time paid?
Pen Office
May 18, 1839
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Dec 29th - May  1835 pd to that period.
SH
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Elijah Packard
Plymouth Ms
Private
Col Crones Regiment
Massachusetts Line
1776 - 1 year
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Plymouth  SS.
On this 9th 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 Elijah Packard
of Plymouth aged ...........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."

 /See his said Declaration
and evidence enclosed /
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And I am satisfied the said Packard is reduced in his circumstances, stands in need of the assistance of his country for support
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Elijah Packard
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.
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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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows
who have received pensions under the act of July 7 1838.

State of Massachusetts  }
County of Barnstable     } 
On this fourteenth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the subscribed one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Barnstable Thankful Packard of Sandwich in said county aged eighty four
years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the
widow of Elijah Parkard late of Sandwich in said County of Barnstable deceased who was a soldier in Colonel Cranes Battalion of Artillery that she received the sum of eighty two
dollars annually under the act of July 7. 1838. She further declares that she is still a widow
her
Thankful  X   Packard
mark
Attest
W. B. Gill
Seth Nye

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable Ss.
Personally appeared the above named
Thankful Packard of Sandwich, County of Barnstable and made oath to the truth of the above declaration.
Before me
Seth Nye      Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable  County ss
I hereby certify that Thankful Parkard  of
Sandwich in the County of Barnstable is the widow of Elijah Packard a Revolutionary soldier late of said Sandwich deceased and she is personally known to me. Given under my hand at Sandwich the fourteenth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
Seth Nye  Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Barnstable Ss
I Timothy Reed Clerk of the Court in and for
said County of Barnstable hereby certify that
Seth F. Nye Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in
and for said Court and was such on the
fourteenth instant and that signatures to the
above and within certificate purporting to have been made by him are his genuine signatures
In witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for sd County this Seventeenth day of July AD. Eighteen hundred and forty three
Timothy Reed  Clerk
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Barnstable
Dec 14th
Free
J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Mass 3989  Dec 19
July '38
Packard
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Barnstable, Mass Dec 14, 1838

Sir
I enclose the application of Thankful Packard
for a pension-
Please make return to me-
Respectfully,
Timothy Reed


{ J. L. Edwards Esq }
{ Com of Pensions }
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I Jonathan Packard of Harrison in the County
of Cumberland in the district of Maine, do testify and say that I was an enlisted soldier in the army of the United States in the revolutionary war in the company of Artillery commanded by Thomas Price in Col. Knox's Regiment in the Massachusetts line in the
year 1776 and that I continued in the service of
the United States at that time about thirteen months and a half and that Elijah Packard then of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth, but now residing in Plymouth in said County, was an enlisted soldier who served in said company the whole of said Term, the greater
part of which term we were in the same mess
and further saith not. 
Jonathan Packard

Plymouth ss March 27th 1819 the above named Jonathan Packard personally appeared and made Solemn Oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me.
Daniel Howard    Just. of Peace
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Deposition
Jonathan Packard

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss.  March 30 1819. The within named Jonathan Packard is a credible witness and the within named Daniel Howard is a respectable magistrate in this County and duly authorized to take depositions and the within is his true and genuine hand writing & signature.
Nahum Mitchell Judge &c
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I Barnabas Lothrop of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth do testify and say that I served as an enlisted soldier in the American revolutionary war in the years service in 1776, and that Elijah Packard who was then a townsman & acquaintance of mine was in the same service, but not in the same company
with me, but I frequently saw him in camp, in the State of New York & New Jersey, and have no reason to believe, but said Packard continued to perform his duty in camp the whole term of his enlistment & until
he was regularly discharged said Packard served in the artillery, in the same regiment to which I belonged viz. Col Knox, afterwards called Genl Knox, and further saith not. Barnabas Lothrop
Plymouth ss March 27. 1819. The above named Barnabas Lothrop personally appeared and made Solemn Oath the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed.
Before me
Daniel Howard  Jus't of Peace
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Deposition
Barnabas Lothrop

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth SS.  March 8th 1819. The within named Barnabas Lothrop is a credible witness and the within named Daniel Howard is a Magistrate in this County and authorized to take Depositions and the within is his true and genuine hand writing and signature.
Nahum Mitchell:   Judge &c
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2875 July 31/43
Thankful Packard
March 3d/43
Mass.
$82.90 per annum
Seth F. Nye   
Sandwich Mass

Sandwich                Free
July 27

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
City Washington
D. C
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Sandwich Mass July 25 1843
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
Inclosed you have the Declaration of Thankful Packard widow & in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 3d of March 1843
It is her will that the Pension certificate be put to my care
I am Sir
very respt. Yours,
Seth F. Nye