Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30107, for William Slocomb, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)
SERVICE  NUMBER
Mass. Slocomb, William S.30107
CONTENTS
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31.322
Massachusetts
William Slocomb
Worcester in the State of Massa. as a Private in the Company commanded Captain Boyd of the Regt. commanded Col. Greaton in the Massa. for 6 mos
Inscribed on the Roll of Massa. at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Jany. 1838 and sent Hon J. Davis Senate US.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1837 $130.00
=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '38 -10.00
$140.00
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D D Addison Clerk
E Vol. 2d
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
County of Worcester, ss.
ON this eighth day of July in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty five personally appeared in open Court, before Hon Nathaniel Paine Esquire, Judge of Probate for the County of  Worcester now sitting William Slocomb a resident of Sutton, in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty five years, who being first 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 with the following named officers and served as herein stated. That previous to the commencement of hostilities in the American Revolution, and early in the year 1775, he belonged to a body of Minute Men, so called who held themselves in readiness to take up arms for the defence of the country, upon the shortest notice that immediately after information of the affair with the British troops at Lexington, on the morning of the 19th April, 1775, this company of "minute men" marched from Wrentham, the town of his residence nearly 30 miles from Boston, under the command of Capt. John Boyd of said Wrentham, that in course of a few days, he the Applicant, joined said company at Roxbury, in the immediate vicinity of Boston, where he served voluntarily as a private, during the period commonly designated in the circle of his acquaintance, as "the first eight months service" excepting some intervals when one Eli Richardson served as his substitute. that this company serving this period of eight months, was commanded by said Capt. Boyd, one of whose platoon officers was Lieut Ebenezer Dean of said Wrentham, and in the Regiment commanded, according to the best of his recollection by Coln. Greaton and was stationed at Roxbury, above mentioned and at the expiration of this tour, he the Applicant, was verbally discharged. That he cannot, at this time recollect many officers of the army, but he distinctly remembers General Putnam  Gen. Washington, after his arrival in camp, perhaps in July, commanded the army. his headquarters, he believes, was in Cambridge. Among the field officers of the army he recollects Col. Sproat, and believes that he was at Roxbury. He well recollects the battle on Bunker's Hill.. was not in the action, but in full hearing  After this he believes there was not much close fighting between the British and American armies in this quarter, during the period of his eight months' service. His employment was mainly, on guard and building fortifications. He well remembers another circumstance, very pleasing to the army...the arrival of a very valuable supply of military stores from Salem or vicinity, taken, as was then said, from the British by the American Captain Manly.
Soon after his return from the eight months service, he engaged as a volunteer, and as a private, for two months, and marched again
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as a volunteer, and as a private, for two months, and marched again to Roxbury, he believes early in January, 1776, with the militia, or State troops, in a company commanded by Capt. James Metcalf of Wrentham, whose subalterns were Lieut. Lewis Whiting and Hezekiah Ware, both of the same town, and in a Regiment commanded by Col. Read. His employment during this service, was very similar to that of his preceeding eight months tour on guard, and building fortifications, and was under the command he believes of the same general officers. After the expiration of his term of two months, he was verbally dismissed and returned to Wrentham.
He entered the service again, he believes, late, in the year 1778, in the State troops, as a private, and in a company commanded by Capt. John Metcalf of that part of Wrentham which is now Franklin, and marched into the State of Rhode Island, and was stationed in the town of Warwick, on the west side of the River below Providence and about 26 miles from his residence in Franklin. Employed during this service, in guarding against the British army which lay at Newport on Rhode Island. He recollects Gen. Sullivan, and he believes Col. Sproat, among the officers of the army, or on command, during this service. He voluntarily engaged in this service, for two months, on the offer of a bounty to all who enlisted, and at the expiration of his term of two months, was, as before, verbally dismissed.
He has always understood that he was born in that part of Wrentham which is now Franklin, in the County of Norfolk Commonwealth of Massachusetts, April 22d 1750. His birth is reported to be recorded in the office of the Town Clerk of Wrentham. He lived in the town of Wrentham, and of Franklin, till the year 1784, when he removed to the town of Sutton, County of Worcester, in which place he has ever since resided.
After much enquiry during the period since the publication of the Regulations of the War department Pension Office, of June 27.1832. he has been unable to find any person who could testify to the exact period of his service, or indeed to the fact of his service, at Roxbury, in the year 1775. He now avails himself of a subsequent regulation of said Department, recently come to his knowledge by amending his declaration, by making the Affadavit herewith transmitted From the circumstance of the recent settlement of the Clergymen in this place, and consequently their unaquaintance with the Applicant, he is unable to provide an Affadavit from one
William Slocomb
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Nathl Paine Judge of Probate
for the County of Worcester
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33,151
William Slocomb
Adm @ 6 mo pr
$20 per ann
Hon J Davis
US S.
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We [blank] a Clergyman residing in the [blank] and certify that we are well acquainted with [blank] who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be [blank] years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Jonathan Leland Esquire who signed certificate which is hereunto annexed, resident in the Town of Sutton and that James McClellan who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. and it is further certified by the court here, that Jonathan Leland Esquire is a magistrate in the County of Worcester that James McClellan who has also signed the Certificate hereunto annexed are both of them personally known to the Court and esteemed as respectable honorable men
Nath Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
I [blank], Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.
 IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty
I Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Slocomb for a Pension, and that the Papers are connected by silk tape under the seal of said Court by my self.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Probate Court aforesaid this eighth day of July 1835
Theoph Wheeler Regt of the Court
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We James McClallan and Jonathan Leland, both of Sutton in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Slocomb of said Sutton an Applicant for a pension under a late law of the United States, that we believe him to be eighty five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion. and further we say, that previous to the subject of pensions for revolutionary services being brought before the public, we have heard him speak of his personal service in the Revolutionary Army, and, we believe, particularly of his service in the vicinity of Boston, during the first eight months service of the Revolutionary war.
Jona Leland
James McClellan
Worcester Ss July 8th 1835
Sworn to and subscribed the Day & year aforesaid
Before me Nathl Paine Judge of Probate
For the County of Worcester
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County, ss. July 8th 1835
Personally appeared before me Nathl
Paine Judge of Probate for the county of Worcester, William Slocomb of Sutton, in said county, an Applicant for a pension for services in the Revolutionary Army, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service during the eight months at Roxbury in the year 1775 for some part of which period he employed a substitute as stated in his declaration but according to the best of his  recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below.
During the eight months service at Roxbury in the year 1775 he served personally, and exclusive of the time when he employed a substitute....Five months at Roxbury in the year 1776, for which term he has the testimony of Robert Pond, he served Two months At Warwick in 1778, for which term he has likewise the testimony of said Pond he served Two months....making in the whole nine months, and the whole period as a private...and for this service of nine months he claims a pension
William Slocomb
Subscribed and sworn this
Day & Year first above written
Before me Nathl Paine Judge of Probate
For the County of Worcester
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk Ss. I James Ware Clerk of the Judicial Court being Courts of Record within and for the County of Norfolk hereby certify that William Makepeace Jun. Esquire before whom the within Deposition was taken was at the time of the taking thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly appointed  & Commissioned and qualified to discharge the duties of said office, and that his signatures within are genuine & true being well acquainted therewith.
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth and subscribed my name at Dedham this twenty third day of June AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty five
James Ware Cler
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk County, Ss.
I, Robert Pond of Franklin in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy seven years, do testify & say that I was, & am now, well acquainted with William Slocomb of Sutton, in the County of Worcester, but formerly of Wrentham, in the County of Norfolk, that the said Slocomb served with me, two months in the Company commanded by Capt James Metcalf, and to the best of my recollection, in Col. Reed's Regiment, & we were stationed at Roxbury during said time
I further testify & say that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, the said William Slocomb enlisted with me into the Company commanded by Capt John Metcalf & in Col. Benjamin Hawes' Regiment, for two months, which time the said Slocomb served at Warwick in the State of Rhode Island & at the expiration of the time, he was, with the rest, verbally discharged.
Franklin, November 1st 1834.
Robt Pond
Norfolk, Ss. November 1st., 1834. Then the above named Robert Pond personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed.
Before me
Wm Makepeace Jun. Justice of the Peace
I also certify that Mr. Robert Pond, with whom I am well acquainted, is a man of undoubted veracity. 
Wm. Makepeace Jun. Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, November 20th 1834.
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 Eli Richardson, as a sergeant, is borne on a Return of the Company under the command of Capt. John Boyd in Col. Greaton's Regt. where he is allowed from April 19th 1775 eight days. William Slocomb claims for eight months services under the above named Officers but the roll is not found in this Office except the above named return.
"Bill" Slocomb's name as a private is borne on an abstract of pay due to a Company under the command of Capt. Ebenr Pond in Major Metcalf's Regt. where he is allowed from Decem. 8th 1776 three days
William Slocomb claims for services under
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Capt. John Metcalf in Col. Benjn Hawes' Regt. and under Capt. James Metcalf in Col. Reed's Regt. but the rolls are not found in this Office.
The roll of Capt. John Metcalf's Company, in the fourth Regt. commanded by Major Seth Bullard, is found in this Office for fourteen days from the 27th of July 1780, but the name of William Slocomb is not borne thereon.
E. D.
Edward D Bangs Sec
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Worcester Ss. Massachusetts July 8th 1835
This is the seal of the Probate Court for Worcester County
Theophs Wheeler Reg of said Court
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O. W. & N. Division
F.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C., December 11, 1894.
Madam:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of WILLIAM SLOCUMB a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[table] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. (subheadings) CAPTAIN. COLONEL. | STATE.
April, 1775 | 8 mo. | Pri. | John Boyd | Greaton | Mass.
Jan., 1776 | 2 mo. | " | James Metcalf | Read | "
Late, 1778 | 2 mo. | " | John Metcalf | Not stated | "
Battles engaged in, None; but was within hearing of the battle of Bunker Hill.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Wrentham, Mass.
Date of application for pension, July 8, 1835.
Residence at date of application, Sutton, Mass.
Age at date of application, Born, Franklin, Mass., Apr. 22, 1750.
Remarks:
Mrs. Wm. J. Clark
12 So. Cliff St.,
Ansonia, Conn.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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William Slocum
Mass
Sd Hon J Davis
Jany 10 1838
May allow 6 mo.
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Wm. Slocumb
Mass. act June 7.1832
See letter to Hon J. Davis Jan.3.1837 
do. to same Feb.17.1837
Regd:
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. William Slocomb S.F. 30107
[table headings] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. (subheadings) CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | STATE.
Early in 1775 | he belonged to a company of minute men
1775 | 5 mos. | Pvt. | John Boyd | Greaton | Mass.
Early 1776 | 2 mos. | [blank] | James Metcalf | Read | "
1778 | 2 mos. | " | John Metcalf |Benjamin Hawes | "
Battles engaged in, 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Wrentham Mass.
Date of application for pension, July 8, 1835 Has [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Sutton, Worcester Co. Mass.
Age at date of application, 85 Born in that part of Wrentham which is now Franklin Norfolk Co. Mass. Apr 22, 1750
Remarks:
[handwritten left margin] Reviewed Feby 16.1911
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[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE JUN 28 1894
[stamp] OLD WAR & NAVY
JUN 30 1894
FILES
J. 30107 File
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12. South Cliff St. Ansonia, Conn.
June 25 1894
War Department
U.S. Pension Bureau.
2 cent stamp attached
Gentleman; [stamped U.S. PENSION OFFICE JUN 28 1894]
A few days since I sent an inquiry for a Revolutionary pensioner William Slocomb from Franklin, Mass, who served in 1776 and received a pension about 1838 for six months or more service.
The name was spelled Slocum at that time and is so on the records which accounts
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2
for my receiving no answer, probably: Please find the name of William Slocum Wrentham, now Franklin, Mass. He served in 1776 in Providence and Warwick R.I. Please send record of his services as complete as possible as soon as possible will greatly oblige
Yours truly,
Mrs. William J. Clark
12 South Cliff St.
Ansonia, Conn.
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9-8.1
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L. D. Lamparter
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier Wm Slocomb
Service Mass.
Additional Service Rev. War
No...claim, State records..., 190..
No claim, combination records.., 190.. 
REMARKS:
No claim as above except 
Invd. #30107
Chief Division
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page contains a seal-no words
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[vertical left side] Jan 13
Jw-at
The Commissioner of Pensions
[vertical right side] Hon J Davis
Senate U.S.
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Sir
I see no hope of Slocums obtaining more evidence & feeling myself authorised to assent to your proposal I hereby signify that assent. If he differs from me in opinion of which there is no probability the certificate shall be at once returned to you to be disposed of as you see fit.
Your obt servt
J Davis
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[stamp]U.S. PENSION OFFICE.
A
FEB
17
1908
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Worcester, Mass;
Feb. 15, 1908.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me a copy of William Slocomb's application for a pension.
Mr Slocomb fought in the Revolutionary War in Maj Metcalf's Regiment. He enlisted from Franklin Mass.
Your's Resp.
Albert S. Knapp
#7 Goulding St.
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[stamp] US PENSION OFFICE
JUN
16
1894
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#12 South Cliff St. Ansonia, Conn.
June 14 1894
Pension Department
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir
Will you kindly give information of the dates and time of service of William Slocomb of Wrentham, now Franklin, Mass. who served in 1776 in the Revolution. He received a pension about 1838 for a few years. All information will be thankfully received.
Yours truly
Mrs. William J. Clark
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[stamp upside down] U.S. PENSION OFFICE
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Feb 10 1911
Ack. Feb 15, 1911: [symbol for cents]
[stamp]RECORD DIVISION
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1911
[handwritten vertically] S30107
VLM
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87 West Central St.
Natick Mass. Feb.8.1911
To the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
I am writing you at the request of my wife who wishes to obtain a copy of the Pension Ctf on file in your office of her Great Grand-father, William Slocomb--sometimes called Billie Slocomb a Revolutionary Soldier, & Pensioner, then a resident of Wrentham--now Franklin, Mass.
He enlisted three (3) time.
First-April 17.1775, in Capt. John Boyds Co. Col. Gratons Regt.--Second-Jan. 1776 served under Capt. James Metcalf in Col. Reads Regt. Third-Dec. 1776, in Capt. Ebenezer Ponds Co. Maj. Metcalfs Regt--as Billie Slocomb.-
He applied for a Pension July 8.1835 and it was granted a few years later.
Any expense attending this request will be gladly met.
Yours Respt.
D.H L. Gleason
for Mary E. Gleason
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[stamp]U.S. PENSION OFFICE
D
OCT
18
1912
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Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir

My ancestor William Slocomb was a soldier in the Revolutionary army and served in Providence and Warwick R.I, in 1776 and for this service he afterward received a pension, how much I do not know.  My authority came from the  Massachusetts Revolutionary War Rolls. Can you inform me of
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any thing further about him. 
Can you give me any information about Henry Yanney, who served as private corporal and Sergeant in Cap. John Fisher's Co and Col. Fred Fisher's 3rd Reg't Fryn Co. militia.
Can you give me any information of Warner Dygert brother-in-law of General Herkimer. Warner Dygert was one of the four young militiamen,
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who took the body of Col. John Brown, and bore it in their arms to Fort Keyser.
Respectfully Yours,
 Mrs Warren T. Diefendorf
 252 Summit Ave
 Mount Vernon
N.Y.
October 15. 1912
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[left side] C
Conn. 
to
own.
Cal.
[center] 30107
Revy INVALID.
File No. 30.107
William Slocumb
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 373
[Arrangement of 1870.]
[right side] June 28/99 Mail Hist. to
Mrs. Wm J. Clark
12 So. Cliff St. Ansonia.
1894.Dec 11  Hist.
Mrs. Wm. J. Clark
Ansonia C
Jany.11'99
Wm H. Slocomb
San Francisco
1908Feby 25 Hist. to Albert S. Knapp. .L.M.
1911 Feby 16 Hist. to Mrs. D.H.L. Gleason.
1912 Oct 22 Histo to Mrs. Warren F. Diefendorf V.L.M.
1913 Feby 10 Hist to Miss Fannie Leland V.L.M.
1915 Aug 5 Hist to Geo S Gibbs
1918 Sept 9 to Henry R. Droune [cents symbol].
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O.W.& N. Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of William Slocumb, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[table] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. (subheadings) CAPTAIN. COLONEL. | STATE.
Apr 1775 | 8 mo | Pri | John Boyd | Greaton | Mass
Jan 1776 | 2 mo | " | James Metcalf | Read | "
Late 1778 | 2 mo | " | John " | Not stated | "
Battles engaged in, None but was within hearing of the bat. of Bunker Hill
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Wrentham Mass
Date of application for pension, July 8 1835
Age at date of application, Bn. Franklin, Mass. Apr 22, 1750
Remarks: His pension was alld.
Very respectfully,
Mrs Wm J Clark
12 So. Cliff St
Ansonia Conn.
13603 b-3 m
Commissioner.
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FORM 1467
Rev. 1
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Works East Pittsburgh, Pa.
IN REPLY PLEASE ADDRESS THE COMPANY AND REFER TO___
S ST. J. MORGAN,
DISTRICT MANAGER
G.M. BATES,
NEW ENGLAND MANAGER
201 DEVONSHIRE STREET, BOSTON, MASS. July 28, 1915
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:-
WILLIAM SLOCOMB
Will you kindly send me complete information from your records covering the above named, William Slocomb, who is my paternal great grandfather. I have been given to understand that he was on the Pension List, and altho I am not able to state positively, believe his address at the time he was on the Pension List was Sutton, Mass.
Kindly send information to me at Rivermore, Mass.
Thanking you in advance for the information, I remain
Yours very truly, 
Geo. S. Gibbs
GSG:LW
[stamp]U.S. PENSION OFFICE
N
JUL 
29
1915
THE COMPANY NOT LIABLE FOR DELAYS DUE TO STRIKES, FIRES, ACCIDENTS OR CAUSES BEYOND ITS CONTROL
[left margin vertical] ALL QUOTATIONS ARE BINDING FOR 20 DAYS ONLY AND QUOTATIONS OF $1000.00 OR OVER ARE SUBJECT TO OUR REGULAR FORM OF PRINTED CONTRACT. 
APPARATUS LISTED ON STOCK REPORTS IS SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE.
THE NEGOTIATION NUMBER MUST BE NOTED ON ORDER TO SECURE PRICES QUOTED.
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Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
I understand my great grand father William Slocomb was a private and quatermaster and had a pension from the American Revolution Will you kindly verify the fact if it so stands in your records.
I have seen in a cousins home his discharge paper
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and his receiving twenty dollars per annum when he was a Private, but another relative who is a grand-daughter tells me he servied as quatermaster; but the amount he received I dont know but would like to be informed if so it is recorded.
I am inclosing a copy of the discharge paper which is not correctly copied as it as hard to read it being so dimmed the writing kept so
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many years. Could you give me a correct copy of it adv me if its recorded he served as quater-master. I am the grand-daughter of John Wilkes Slocomb of Griffin Mass. who is a son of the above named William born I believe the later in Wrentham Mass. Could you give me the exact date of the month April and year he was born. If not inform me where I can obtain
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such information; there seems to be a difference of dates in both the History of Sutton Mass and the Slocomb History as to day of the month April
Trusting you will kindly reply soon. I am
Truly yours
(Mrs) Fannie Leland
Ashland Massachusetts
February 3, 1913
P.O. Box 280
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE
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Rev Sec
Lac
Sons of the Revolution
in the State of New York
Fraunces Tavern
Corner Broad & Pearl Streets
New York City
Aug. 28th. 1918.
Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:-
Will you please send me the revolutionary service of William Slocomb, who was born in Wrentham Township, Mass., April 15, 1750, and died in Sutton, Mass. Jan 11, 1842, he is said to have served in Providence and Warwick, R.I. in 1776.
We desire this information to complete the papers of an applicant for membership.
Yours very truly,
Henry Russell Droune
Secretary.
[stamp]U.S. PENSION OFFICE
O
AUG
29
1918
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Sons of the Revolution
in the State of New York
Fraunces Tavern
Corner Broad & Pearl Streets
New York City
[stamp]U.S. PENSION OFFICE
O
SEP 
12
1918
Sept 10, 1918.
G.M. Saltzgaber, Commission,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I beg to thank you for your favor of the 9th instant giving the Revolutionary War Record of William Slocomb.
Yours very truly,
Henry Russell Droune
Secretary.
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L.W.B.
I. 30107.
January 11th, 1899.
Sir:-
In response to your recent communication you are advised that William Slocomb made an application for pension on July 8, 1835, at which time he was 85 years of age and residing in Sutton, Mass., and his pension was allowed for one year's actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war. He enlisted at Wrentham, Mass., and served under Capt. Boyd and Col. Greaton.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. William H. Slocomb,
27 Market Street,
San Francisco, California.
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[stamp-CITY OF WASHINGTON
JUL
17]
JL Edwards
Comms. of Pensions
[stamp-FREE]
Mr William Slocomb
Wilkinsonville
Massachusetts.
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War Department
Pension Office
July 16 1835
Sir,
Your claim has been examined and suspended. The certificate of Mr Bangs is defective. It first states that Eli Richardson (whom you allege was employed by you as a substitute part of the time) is borne on a return of the company of John Boyd, Col. Greaton's regt and then adds "Wm Slocum claims for 8 months service under the above named officers, but the roll is not found in this office, except the above return." No opinion can be formed from such a statement as to the amount of evidence which the records afford of the service of Capt. Boyd's Company or how far they should be regarded as testimony for or against your alleged service then in. It appears by the certificate that Eli Richardson was in service in that company from April 1775, yet you claim to have been in that company from that time to January 1776, and employed Eli Richardson occasionally as a substitute, for which you abated three months of the eight months. This requires some explanation. Some reason should also be assigned for the delay of making your application. There must be abundant means of proving by the survivors, any service you may have rendered, and the regulations require the best evidence. No reason is assigned why you were not called out as
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a militia man after 1778. Your papers are placed on file.
I am very respectfully
Your obt. Servant
JL. Edwards
Mr William Slocomb
Wilkinsonville
Massachusetts
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Wm Slocumb
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Sept 9th 1835.
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 following "Return" is found in this Office, viz. A true return of the travel and time of service of the minute Company under the command of Capt. John Boyd, of Wrentham, in Col. Greaton's Regt. assembled and marched the 19th of April last in the Alarm." "Middlesex Decemr 22d 1775." on which the soldiers are allowed from five to ten days each. The name of William Slocomb, is not borne on it. No other pay or muster roll of Capt. John Boyd's Company, in Col. Greaton's Regt. for services in 1775, is found in this Office
Edward A Bangs Secy
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Hon Jno. Davis
Senate US
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth
To all whom it may concern:
Know Ye, That Joseph Bacon Esqr. of Franklin is a Justice of the Peace and has been so for more than three months for the County of Norfolk, in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the within Attestation is in due form, and by the proper Officer.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this twentieth day of December A.D. 1837 and in the sixty second Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
John C. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Edward Everett
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I, Thomas Gay of Franklin in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Eighty four years, do testify and say that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, in the vicinity of Boston, in the first Eight months service in the year 1775, in a company commanded by Capt. John Boyd of Wrentham, now Franklin, that I recollect that Wm. Slocomb, now reputed of Sutton, in said Commonwealth, was for a time a soldier in said company, in the place of Eli Richardson, who left, as was said, on account of sickness in his family; that I engaged as a soldier, in the expedition to Canada, through the wilderness, under Gen. Arnold, and left the army near Boston about August, the same year, after which I knew nothing of said Slocombs service.
Thomas M. Gay
Norfolk ss. November 1837 Personally appeared the above named Thomas Gay and made solemn oath, that the foregoing declaration by him subscribed, is true, and having been long acquainted with the said Thomas Gay the witness above named, I readily certify to his full credibility
Joseph Bacon Just of Peace
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I Amasa Richardson of Franklin in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy five years, do testify and say, that in the year 1775, I lived near unto, and was well acquainted with Wm. Slocomb then of Wrentham, now residing in Sutton, in said Commonwealth, that I was frequently in the house where he resided, that I was knowing to the fact of his absence from his home, I believe for some months during the above said year, that it was reputed, and I think, universally believed, that he the said Slocomb, was engaged continually with Eli Richardson, in the first eight months service, in the Revolutionary Army, in the vicinity of Boston.
I also testify, that I was well acquainted with the said Eli Richardson and knew of his being at his home in said town of Wrentham, at various times, and for considerable periods, during the above said term of service, and also that I knew of severe sickness and repeated deaths in his family in the sumer and fall of said year.
Amasa Richardson
Norfolk ss. November 20 1837 Personally appeared the above named Amasa Richardson, and made solem oath that the foregoing declaration by him subscribed, is true and having been long acquainted with the said Amasa Richardson the witness above named I readily certify to his full credibility
before me Joseph Bacon Just of Peace
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[horizontal text]For the Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
[vertical text]Dec. 29
Con
Wm Slocumb
Mass
Am. Jn Davis
Senate US
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Sir
I herewith forward to you the enclosed letter from Deacon Leland, a very worthy reputable plain farmer, who feels an interest in his old neighbor and townsman, Slocomb. Leland thinks there is a misapprehension, and I confess his statement seems to render it probable. The documents being, as I understand, here you will be pleased to so for service the matter as to render it certain, there is no error or misapprehension, Slocomb is a worthy man who would make no misrepresentation intentionally, but like all aged men is liable to error from misrecollection and we ought not to bring the infirmities of age to bear with severity upon those that have been an honor to the country. If there be a fraudulent purpose of laying hold of a pension then let the peril and the consequences fall with what weight they may, but I have made the papers of hundreds of these men & can with entire truth declare that I never saw any fraudulent purpose disclosed or any thing that looked suspicious. I have occasionally found treacherous memories but honest hearts with them Let me hear from you soon
Respectfully your obt servt 
J Davis
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TR Rice on Rille Ms
July 9th
For J.L. Edwards, Esq. Or Comr of Pensions
Pension Office
Department of War
Washington City
D.C.
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nunp
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Hn Jno Davis
Senate US
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Worcester, ss.
On this fifth day of May in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty six, personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Ira Barton Esq, Judge of Probate for said County, now sitting, William Slocomb, a resident of Sutton in said County, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty six years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, and explanation of his former application to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7.1832, which application is now on file in the Pension Office.
That after much enquiry he has been able to find a survivor who was with him in the "first eight months service" and has obtained his affadavit, herewith forwarded, which he hopes will be very satisfactory to the department. The name of  the Survivor alluded to, he believes, is on the list of Pensioners in the Massachusetts line.
In relation to certain enquiries forwarded him from the department, he submits the following explanation, that is
In regard to the certificate of Mr Bangs, which is considered as "defective"...he has obtained the certificate herewith forwarded, which perhaps may be explanatory of the former one. The "return", mentioned in the last certificate, it is supposed relates only to the minute company who performed a short service of from five to ten days" previous to the regular organization of Capt. Boyd's Company of "eight months men," for whose service" no pay or muster roll" can be found in the Secretary's office. The return of "from five to ten days", is probably, the one mentioned in Mr Bangs' first certificate on which the name of Eli Richardson is found. The applicant believes that Capt. Boyd commanded both the Companies of minute and eight months men. The difficulty of obtaining full and accurate Returns, and Muster Rolls, from the Secretary's Office is probably known to the department.
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In relation to the delay in making his Application, the Applicant says, that he commenced his enquiries on the subject immediately after the act of Congress of June 7.1832 was published, that the delay was caused, in the first place, by his being unable to find a survivor among the very few remaining, of so sound a mind as to be admitted to make an affadavit on the subject. His age and infirmities, and want of assistance in the business, prevented his making those vigorous efforts which he would have made under favorable circumstances. And when he did make his application, it was under a belief, that the department was disposed to dispense with possitive evidence in cases otherways well supported. The same causes, increasing upon him and the inclemency of the season, has occasioned some delay since he made his application. 
In relation to the remaining enquiry put to him, "why he was not called out as a militia man after 1779" he knows not that he can present any facts supported by any evidence excepting circumstances, related by himself. After the period mentioned above he cultivated a farm in his native town, which it was very difficult for him to leave. But it is a fact that he was repeatedly called upon to enter the service as a "militia man"-was detached for that purpose-and was released only upon payment of heavy fines, a method of commutation for personal service very common in Massachusetts at that period. But there are no public records of those transactions to be found. The individuals concerned in them are gone. He believes he took regular receipts for these payments--but they are not to be found. His papers are deranged and destroyed...at this desolate period of age and infirmity he can present no better evidence in relation to this subject.
The Applicant ought to have noticed, in another place, that the assertion in Mr. Bangs' first certificate, "that
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William Slocomb claims for eight months service", might be introduced by the carelessness of the person who applied for the certificate. The applicant never claimed only for five months service under Capt. Boyd during the year 1775.
William Slocomb
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester Ss. May 5.1836. Then personally appeared  William Slocomb above named, and made oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is true
Before me
Ira Barton J. Probate
For said County
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories contained in the annexed paper, signed "J.L. Edwards" that the answers thereto and the explanations thereof given are true, and that the above name named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he in his original, and in this supplementary application, states. He the said Slocomb, being personally known to me as a man of truth.
Ira Barton Judge Probate
For said County
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I Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that the foregoing contain the proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Slocomb for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Probate this 11th day of May A.D. 1836.
Theophs Wheeler Regt
of the said Court
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Senate US]
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[left side] Edward Everett
[right side] Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency Edward Everett, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
To all whom it may concern:
Know Ye, That Samuel D. Davenport Esqr is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the within Attestation is in due form, and by the proper Officer.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this fourth day of May A.D. 1836, and in the sixtieth Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
John P. Bigelow Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Middlesex Ss May 4th 1836
I Benjamin Pond of Hopkinton Middlesex County & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do testify that Eli Richardson did enlist in Capt John Boyd's Company & Col Crayton Regiment & he did with William Slocomb who was a substitute serve eight months in the above company with me in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy five in Roxbury (near Boston) and vicinity. Why I do so distinctly recollect the above fact is that I enlisted at the same time & lived in the same town both with the above named Richardson & Slocomb
Benjamin Pond
Signed in presence of us
S.D. Davenport
Thomas Leland
Middlesex Ss May 4th 1836. Then the above named Benjamin Pond personally appeared & made oath to the above facts. Before me
Samuel D. Davenport Just Peace
Middlesex Ss May 4th 1836
I have personally known the above named Benjamin Pond for ten years past & know him to be a man of veracity & truth & one who can be depended upon
S.D. Davenport Just Peace
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27 Market St.
San Francisco Cal. Dec.7.1898
Hon Henry C. Evans
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Kindly furnish me with the Revolutionary War record (1776) of William Slocomb who dies about Jan. 12th 1842 in Sutton Mass.
and oblige
Respectfully
Wm. H. Slocomb.
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