Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [ILLEGIBLE], [ILLEGIBLE] Haywood, Mass.
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Benjamin Heywood 
Mehetabel

(No papers)
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[Left Side]

Reputed See Let 
to Agent August 7, 1845

Payable to children
Sent to Hon.
William Parmenter 
March [page torn]

[Right side]

Massachusetts

Mehetable Haywood
widow of Benjamin Haywood
who was a pensioner under the Act of 
who died on the 7th December 1816
of Worcester Co. the State of Massachusetts
who was a P.M. and Captain the
commanded by Captain of the 
Regiment commanded by Col. Nixon in the Massachusetts line for 2 years
Increases  - [?]  $540

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts 
at the rate of 600 Dollars no cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836 and ending on 15th June 1839, when she died, payable to B.F. Hayward for surviving children

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day  of August 1845 and sent to Elijah Clark, Brighton, Mass.


[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by  George C. Ames, Clerk

Book D  Vol. 1  Page 59
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Heywood, Benjamin

Mass.
W 19688
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I Charles A. Hamilton of Worcester in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify that I am Clerk of said Town of Worcester; that the records of said town are in my possession and custody, and the following is an extract from the fourth volume of said records, with the exception that the dates, which are entered in the original figures, are here written in words, to wit:
"Intentions of Marriage entered"
"Benjamin Haywood and Mehitable Goddard, both of Worcester, 
entered Feb. fifth, seventeen hundred eighty five"

Worcester August 8, 1838.  C.A. Hamilton

Worcester August 10th, 1838 then personally appeared the abovesaid Charles A Hamilton and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition.

Isaac Dutts
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Worcester Co.

I Charles C. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Isaac Denis is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Worcester, duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature to the foregoing Certificate is his own genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this eleventh day  of August, in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.

Charles C. Prentiss,
Register
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Worcester
on this eleventh day of August AD 1838
personally appeared before me Ira Barton for the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester,
Mehitabel Heywood a resident of Worcester in the county of Worcester aged 83 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 and pensions to certain widows; that She is the widow of the late Benjamin Heywood of said Worcester, who entered the army of the Revolution at the commencement of the war, was commissioned as a second Lieutenant in the Company of Adam Wheeler, in the fourth Regiment of Foot commanded by Col. John Nixon on the first day of January AD 1776, was afterwards on the first day of January AD 1777, commissioned as Pay Master to the battalion, whereof Thomas Nixon Esq  was Colonel, and on the 29th day of September AD. 1779, was commissioned as a captain in the sixth Massachusetts Regiment, to take rank from the 10th of April AD 1778, all which appears by these several commissions granted to the said Heywood and now filed in the case, and that he served his county faithfully till the close fo the war, and was afterwards in the public service adjusting the account of the army.  The declarant further states that according to the best of her knowledge her said husband lived in Worcester when he entered the army and resided there till his death, which occurred on
[illegible] of Dec.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Benjamin Heywood on the nineteenth day of March A.D. 1785, seventeen hundred eighty five that her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Heywood died on sixteenth day of December AD 1816,, eighteen hundred and sixteen ; that she was not married to him previous to his leaving the Service, ^but not before the close of the war the marriage took place previous to the first day of January AD 1794 to wit at the time above stated, and that she is his widow never having been married to any other persons.
Sworn to and subscribed this day
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and year above written before me

Mehitable Heywood

Ira Barton Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester

I certify that the [illegible] in my handwriting were made before the oath of the declarant to the above was taken.

Ira Barton Judge H.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester 

I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester, do certify, that Ira Barton is the Judge of said Court of Probate for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature to the paper hereto annexed is his own genuine signature.

I further certify, that John Davis is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned and qualified, within and for said County, and that his several signatures to the papers hereto annexed are his own genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.

Charles G. Prentiss, Register
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I Benjamin Haywood of Worcester in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Physician, forty six years of age, do depose and say that said son of the Benjamin Haywood, named in the annexed  papers, that it appears by the family records, (a family Bible) now in my possession, and which have always been in the family since my recollection and in the hand writing of my father above named, that he was married March 19th, 1785, it appears by other records that at time time there was no ordained minister of the Gospel in the town, and I have always been informed that the marriage ceremony, was performed by William Young, as also very other person present at the ceremony except my mother, have long since deceased; had that the record of the marriage (if there was any kept by said Young) I have been unable to obtain any I have been, after diligent ongoing.  The following I certify to be a true copy of the family record with the exception of the dates, which are exposed on the record on fair, legible figures as follows viz.
"Benjamin Heywood born October twenty fifth  seventeen hundred and forty six, married March nineteenth, seventeen hundred and eighty five, to Mehitable Goddard, born July sixth seventeen hundred and fifty five.
Hitty Heywood born December second seventeen hundred and eighty six.
Nathaniel Moore Heywood born July eighteenth seventeen hundred and eighty eight.
Elizabeth Heywood born March twenty second, seventeen hundred and ninety.
Benjamin Franklin Heywood born April twenty fourth seventeen hundred and ninety two
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Joseph Heywood born March the eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety  four.
Lucy Heywood born April the sixth seventeen hundred and ninety six.  Died November the eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety six.
Anna Heywood born February third, seventeen hundred and ninety eight.
The above are all the children of the said Benjamin and Mehitable.
I do further testify that my father, the above named Benjamin Heywood, died, December seventh, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and that since then my mother Mehitable Heywood has remained a widow having never since been married.

Benjamin F. Heywood

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Worcester County
August 11th 1838

Then personally appeared Doctor Benjamin F. Heywood who drew up and subscribed in my presence the above deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the Content thereof and I certify that he is a gentleman of unquestioned truth.
Before me John Davis
Justice of the Peace
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Heywood, Benjamin
Mass. W 19688
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Repd. See Let
30th May 1845
to E. Clark
June 12, 1845

Increased to $400

Massachusetts

Mehitable Heywood
widow of Benjamin Heywood
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 7th of December 1816
of Worcester in the State of Mass.
who was a Pay Master and Captain in the Company
commanded by Captain himself of the 
reg. commanded by Col. Nixon in
the Mass line, for 1 year pay private
1 year Capt.  pay

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
at the rate of 540 Dollars 00 
cents per annum to commence on the 4th day
of March 1836 and ending 18 June 1839 when she died; pay to B.F. Heywood adm. benefit officer child

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of 
May 1845 and sent to 
W. Parmenter
E. Cambridge
Mass.

[Act July 7, 1838]
Vol. 1 Page 59

F.L. Swann, Clerk
Vol. 1 Page 59
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Rev. Widow, & C.

No. 19688
Mehitable Haywood
Widow of 
Benjamin Haywood
Capt. Rev. War

Act:  July 9, 1838

Index: - Vol A, Page 363

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Massachusetts

Mehitable Heywood
widow of Benjamin Hewyood decd.

who died on the 7th December 1816
of Worcester Co in the State of Mass.
who was a Captain in the company commanded
by Captain himself of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Nixon in the Mass. 
line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
at the rate of $480 dollars 00 cents, per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of August 1838 and sent to John Davis Worcester Mass.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $960.0
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept.  1838 $240.00

$1200.

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 7, 1838,}

Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk

Book A   Vol.   Page 92
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Letter to Elijah Clark 
16 Sep. 1864
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Payment to be made
at Boston, Mass.
by F. Haven Esq.
Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of Massachusetts





Recorded in the Pension Office in Book P, Vol. 1 Page 59 by
George C. Ames Clerk
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War Department 
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th July 1838.

Mehitable Haywood, deceased, widow of Benjamin Haywood, who was a pay master and a Captain Pay Master in the Revolutionary War entitled to receive a pension at the rate of six hundred dollars per Annum commencing March 4th 1836, and ending on the 18th June 1839 when she died, which will be paid upon production of the proper vouchers to Benjamin F. Haywood, Executor of Mehitable Haywood deceased, for the benefit of himself, Elizabeth Haywood, Joseph Haywood and Ketty Haywood, only surviving children of Mehitable Haywood deceased, after deducting former payments.
Increase from $540 per annum

Given at the War Office of the United Sates, 
this sixth day of August
one thousand eight hundred and forty five

Secretary Of War

Examined and Countersigned}

Commissioner of Pensions
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED

To Benjamin Heywood Esquire
GREETING We, Reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to  be a Captain in the sixth Massachusetts Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such from the 19th day of April 1778.  You are hereby carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Captain by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging.  And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Captain.  And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall received from this, or future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the United States or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you.  This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or future Congress, the Committee of Congress beforementioned, or a Committee of the States.

Witness his Excellency Samuel Huntington Esquire
President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the 29th day of September 1779, and in the fourth year of our Independence.

Samuel Huntington President [signature]

Entered in the War Office
and examined by the Board

Attest. Ben Stoddard 
Secretary of the Board of War

[seal]
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Mehitable Heywood
Widow of Benjamin Heywood
Mass.

Married 1785
Died 1816

Allow as Captain
Mass. Cont. Line
2 years Col. Nixon
$480 per annum
comm 4 March 1836


Hon. John Davis
Worcester, Mass.
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Benajmin Haywood
W.19688
Continental, Mass.
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IN CONGRESS

The DELEGATES of the United States of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, TO

Benjamin Haywood Esquire 
Greeting

WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Pay Master to the Battalion whereof Thomas Nixon Esq. is Colonel
in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof.  You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Pay Master by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging.  And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as their Pay Master.  And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you.  This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.

Dated at Boston, January 1st 1777

By Order of Congress,
John Hancock President [signature]

Charles Thomson
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IN CONGRESS.

The DELEGATES of the United Colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, to Benjamin Haywood, Gentleman

WE reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, valour, conduct and fidelity, these presents constitute and appoint you to be Second Lieutenant of Captain Adam Wheeler's Company in the 4th Regiment of Foot Commanded by Col. John Nixon, 
in the army of the United Colonies, raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof.  You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Second Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging.  And we do strictly charge and require all officers and soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Second Lieutenant.  And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the  army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior officer, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress.

By Order of the Congress,

John Hancock President [signature]

Attest. 
Charles Thomson Secretary

January 1st 1776
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Brighton June 6, 1845

Dear Sir:

I enclose to you herewith the Pension Certificate of Mrs. Mehitable Heywood deceased, late widow of Benjamin Heywood, presuming the amount is not so much  as it should be, according to the two years which Capt. Benjamin Heywood rendered, of a mistake not, the evidence from  the Secretary office of this state which was ? as long since as March 4 1844, shews that he rendered more than two years service, commanding a Company and a Pay Master.

Very Respectfully your
Obedient Servant,

Elijah Clark

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Oct. 27, 1845

Rel to return of 

Book belonging to

[Jnt?] Heirs


J.L. Edwards

Washington City,
D.C.

[stamp] BOSTON MASS OCT 25
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Brighton October 24, 1855

Sir,

Your letter of the date the 22nd has this morning come to hand in which you state that books and papers filed in the Office as evidence to establish claims to pensions must remain in this office. I regret, Sir, to be obliged to call your attention again to the subject representing those books and papers.  and yet perceive you have not yet noticed my directions in my letters of date July 23rd int 1855 with the Books of Frost Heirs.  Your letter of date June 12th 1845, in the case of Mehitable Heywood it states that when any record or documentary proof is adduced to show more service in the Joint Office [Seneal?] and Staff appointment.  her claims will be accordingly adjusted.  In my letter of the 22nd of July inst. I gave some direction such as I thought would be  of service in the case.  In reference to the original Record in the Books of the children of Capt. Samuel Frost, and then ordered that the original Orderly, and Adjutants Book to be returned to me, as soon as you had examined the points as therein mentioned, and Sir, I had presumed you would like to see the documents and take a copy yourself of the facts which met the case, and then they would be returned. And Sir, I have again to say that they were not forwarded to be placed on file as evidence but merely for your personal view.  And sir they can never be considered as forwarded for the purpose of being placed on file.  if a personal view of the Books and the liberty to take a copy, which copy to place on file, with that which was already there in the case of the claim. if that was not sufficient the Books should have been returned without any further
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consideration.  I think I have some former letters in which you offer to return documents after a personal examination of them at your office.  and  certainly I have now in my possession your of date September 23rd int. 1855 addressed to Israel W. Kelly Esq. of Concord ,New Hampshire in the case of the claims of Sarah Edwards, widow of Oliver Edwards, in the last part of which  referring my own extract from Joseph Ware journal it instated that if Mr. Kelly will transmit to your office the original journal alluded to it shall be returned as soon as the case is disposed of.  The case of Mrs. Mehitable Heywood was disposed of last August, and the original Books have not been returned and this is the third or fourth letter respecting and requesting the return of the Books since that time, and if the Books the property of the children of Capt. S. Frost here aforementioned are not returned this will not, cannot be the last.

I remain your respectful
your obedient servant,

Elijah Clark

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Washington City, D.C.
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Brighton June 28th int. 1845


Dear Sir,

Your letter of date the 12th inst. respecting the claims of an increase in the case of Mehitable Heywood has been received.  The certificate from the Secretary of this State of date February 24 inst. 1844 shows you that Captain Benjamin Heywood was Captain and Pay Master from January first 1777 to December thirty first 1780.
The duty order book herewith of the children of Sergeant Samuel Frost will show you under date of August 14th. 1778 that the Regimental Staff taken from the lines were not to be made up in the Respected Pay Roll, but as before that date directed, a mark to that date in the orderly Book refers you to that record.  The Adjutants Book of the children of Samuel Frost, herewith shows you at its first record of the officers of the Regiment, of those who were then, (And had probably been in the staff for some time previous) which dates July 23rd 1779, that Captain Heywood was Pay Master from that date to the 28th of July 1780.  which we may consider affirm the whole of the Secretary's certificate. 
The original orderly, the Adjutants Books, you will please to return me as soon as you have examined the points as above mentioned. 

Very Respectf yours,
obedient servant,
Elijah Clark


Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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Brighton March 4th, 1844

Dear Sir,

I have the Honor to enclose to you herewith the claims of the Heirs of Mehitable Heywood, deceased, the widow of Hon. Benjamin Heywood, for arrears of Pension due them which was not allowed these matters for the ? services of a Pay Master, a Brigade Major,  or a Brigade Quarter Master, and was one of the committee to settle the computation pay in 1783.
I have noticed in Capt. Samuel Frost original Payments which are in my possession, that in the year 1781, Capt. Benjamin Heywood is credited at fifty dollars per month, and in the year 1783, at forty dollars per month.

Very Respect yours,
Obedient servant,

Elijah Clark


Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Washington City, D.C.
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Department of State
Washington May 23rd 1845

Sir,

In compliance with the request contained in your letter of the 10th inst. I have caused the Washington Papers to be examined for evidence of the service of Benjamin Heywood as Captain and Pay Master in the Continental army, and find that he is returned as Captain and Paymaster of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment, on the 5th October 1780, and as Captain and Regimental Clothier on the 15th December 1780.

The papers transmitted in this this case are herewith returned.

Very Respectfully,
I am sir,

James Buchanan

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office Washington
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F. Haven, Esq

Agent for paying pensioners,
in the Agency of Massachusetts




Recorded in the Pension Office in Book D, Vol. 1, Page 59

By F.L. Swann, Clerk
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th July 1838,

Mehitable Heywood, deceased, widow of Benjamin Heywood, who was a Pay Master and a Captain and Pay Master in the revolution, was entitled to receive a pension at the rate of five hundred and forty dollars per annum, Commencing March 4th 1836, and ending on the 18th June 1839, when she died; which will be paid upon the production of the proper vouchers to Benjamin F. Heywood, Executor of Mehitable Heywood, deceased, for the benefit of himself, Elizabeth Heywood, Joseph Heywood, and Kitty Heywood, who were the only surviving children of Mehitable Heywood, deceased, after deducting former payments.
Increased from $480.00 per annum

Given at the War Office of the United States, 
this thirtieth day of May
one thousand eight hundred and forty five.

William L. Marcy

Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned}

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts


Secretary's Office, Feb. 24 1844

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 Heywood is borne upon the Continental army Books as Captain and Pay Master from  January 1st, 1777 to Dec. 31, 1779 at 12 pounds per month in Col. Nixon's regiment, and the name of Benjamin Heywood is borne upon the Continental army Book, as Captain and Pay Master from Jan. 1, to Dec. 31 1780 at 21£  per month in Col. Nixon's regiment, and is the only Service that appears in this Office
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone:   and that said application and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

John G. Palfrey, Secretary of the Commonwealth
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To The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

I hereby request you to examine the Revolutionary Papers and records in your Offices,  once therefore to certify the Revolutionary service of my late father, the Hon. Benjamin Heywood of Worcester in the County of Worcester deceased, who went into the service from Cambridge College, being a [student] there, as Lieutenant in the year 1775 -  afterwards in the years 1779 and 1780 as Captains, since afterwards also at the same times as Paymaster and Brigade [Majors?], was also [?ndent] of [d?..ns] other offices of responsibility in the Army of the Revolution which I am unable to specify.

Benjamin F. Heywood
Worcester Feb. 20, 1844

Attest
Ira M. Barton

Jan. 1, 1777 to Dec. 31 1779 Capt. and Paymaster  12 £ Col. Nixon
Jan. 1, 1780 to Dec. 31, 1780  21 £ nothing after
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Mehitable Heywood
deceased
Massachusetts

Act 7 July, 1838
increase
12 months paymaster
12 months Capt. and paymaster

$540 to 18 June 1839 the day of her death - deducting 

To Benjamin F. Heywood
Ex for the children
who survived her

Hon. W. Parmenter
E. Cambridge Mass.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Worcerster County

On this sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty four, personally appeared before the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester, Benjamin F. Heywood a resident of Worcester in said County aged fifty one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, as well in behalf of himself as of Elisabeth Heywood, Joseph Heywood since the last computation of Kitty Heywood deceased, all children of Mehitable Heywood  late of said Worcester, a deceased pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, in order to obtain the allowance and increase of the pension of the said Mehitable Heywood who was the widow of the late Hon. Benjamin Heywood of said Worcester deceased, who was a Captain and paymaster in the army of the Revolution, as has [easily ?], in the years 1779 and 1780. also a Brigade Major in the year 1781 at the same
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time doing the duties of Captain and an incumbent of diverse other offices of great responsibility in the army of the Revolution, a part of which only was specified in the declarations of the widow [the same?] Mehitable Heywood for a pension as [aforesaid?].

Also the said Benjamin F. Heywood also further declares that his mother the said Mehitable Heywood, deceased, died the eighteenth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine, and that he the said Benjamin F. Heywood, together with the said Elisabeth Heywood, Joseph Heywood, since Kitty Heywood now deceased, and that they were the only surviving children of the said Hon. Benjamin Heywood the soldier rendering the services aforementioned.

Subscribed and sworn to the day and year first above written.

Benjamin F. Heywood

Before me,

Ira M. Barton
Judge of said Court of Probate
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, Boston February 22, 1844

I hereby certify that at the date of the annexed attestation Ira M. Barton was Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester.

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.



In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

John  C. Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Worcester, ss.

I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Mehitable Heywood, late widow of the Hon. Benjamin Heywood was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Forty Dollars per month; was a resident of the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and died in Worcester, in said County
in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine on the eighteenth day of June:
that she left us the only surviving children by the said Benjamin Heywood, Benjamin F. Heywood, Elisabeth Heywood, Joseph Heywood, and Kitty Heywood  - that the said Kitty Heywood died on the eighteenth day of September AD 1839 - that the last will and testament of the said Mehitable Heywood has been duly present and approved  - and the said Benjamin F. Heywood is the Executor of said Will and Testament of said Mehitable Heywood, deceased.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Worcester, this twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty four.

Charles G. Prentiss, Register
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Sent by Elijah Clark

Agent for Pensions


William Parmenter


Mehitable Haywood

To 
March 6, 1845


Hon. W. Parmenter
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I, Benjamin F. Heywood of Worcester in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the sons of Benjamin Heywood and Mehitable Heywood late of said Worcester deceased, and who have made a declaration in behalf of myself and the other children of said deceased for an increase of the pension of the said Mehitable on account of the services of the said Benjamin Heywood, her husband, as an officer in the war of the revolution, do make constitute and appoint Elijah Clarke Esquire of Brighton in said Commonwealth, my lawful attorney for me and in my name to make the required  applications for documentary evidence of the said services, to the Secretary of said Commonwealth,  the Secretary of State of the United States,  or any other officers of the Government, and to do and perform all other acts necessary & proper to accomplish said business
In testimony thereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty first day of January 1845.
Benj F. Heywood [signature]

Signed sealed & delivered in presence of 
Ira M. Barton Jus. Peace [signature]

[seal]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

Secretary's Office, Boston January 27th 1835 

I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Ira M Barton was a Justice of Peace for the County of Worcester 
[initialed]
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. 

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. 

John C. Palfrey, [signature]
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

[seal]
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Brighton Mass. February 5 1845

Dear Sir. I enclose to you herewith the power of attorney of Dr Benjamin F. Heywood of Worcester, with which this application is to ask for an examination of the Washington Papers for proof of his fathers service as pay master to the sixth Massachusetts Regiment, having the name of Benjamin Heywood as Lieuten. & Paymaster also of Captain and paymaster. It is represented of late, by the applicant that Capt. Benj. Heywood was paymaster to two Regiments at one time. It is believed he held some rank in the Brigade in the year 1782, & 1783. 
very Respt your Obs svt 
Elijah Clark [signature]
attorney for the claimant children of Capt. Benjamin Heywood

Hon. William Parmenter M. C. 

[different hand]
Cap & P M 6th Mass Regt Oct 5 1780     No 13 -54
Cap & R Clother '  Dec 15 1780     19  -  89
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I Aaron Bancroft of Worcester in the County of Worcester Doctor of Divinity being of the age of Eighty two years do on oath depose and say that while I was a member of the College at Cambridge in this Commonwealth Benjamin Heywood of Worcester was also a member & was graduated in 1775. That said Heywood immediately entered the Army of the Revolution  since served therein as an officer in different capacities until the close of the war - that it has always been said that he was in public employment settling accounts for some time [illegible] request, of the truth of which the deponent has no doubt, that when this service was completed and sometime after the ratification of the treaty of 1783, the said Heywood returned to and resided in Worcester, and attended worship where [this] deponent preached, but was married between the time of his return, after the close of the war, and the year 1792, when he left the deponents religious  society, and attended worship in another parish, but the precise day or year when he was married the deponent does not remember, though he well remember , it was between the above periods.  
And deponent further states that he knows both Mr & Mrs Heywood, they having from the time of their said marriage lived together in Worcester to the time of his death, the precise period of which deponent does not recollect, but they had a large family of children and Mrs Heywood, who now lives
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near the deponent has never since been married but is his widow 
Aaron Bancroft [signature]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Worcester ss Augt 4th 1838 

Then personally appeared Aaron Bancroft who subscribed in my presence the above deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same and I certify that he is well known to me and a man of unquestioned truth. I also certify that I knew Benjamin Heywood who died several years ago leaving his wife Mehitabel who also known to me & is still living and never having since been married.

I also certify that said Heywood was a man of great respectability, & ever after I knew him had the reputation of having served as an officer in the revolutionary army & for many years a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas -
John Davis [signature]
Justice of the peace
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I This fourth day of August AD 1838 Nathaniel Paine of Worcester in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire seventy nine years of age deposed and said that he well knew Benjamin Heywood late of said Worcester who was his classmate in the College at Cambridge where he was graduated in 1775.  That the said Heywood entered the army near the commencement of the war and of the revolution, and served in various offices therein during the war, and after the war was engaged in adjusting public accounts that after the close of the war he came back to Worcester to reside and was not married.  That deponent remembers that said Heywood afterwards married Mehitable Goddard of said Worcester and lived with her in Worcester until his death.  that they had a family of children and deponent believes from the age of the children and other circumstances that said marriage took place after the close of the war and before the first of January 1794, but he is not able to state the year in which that event happened.  that said Heywood and his said wife have always lived near the deponent, and  been well known to to him.  That he attended said Heywood's funeral some years ago but does not recollect how long and that said Mehitable is still living as his widow never having been married since his death.

Nathaniel Paine
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Worcester August 4th, 1838

Then personally appeared Nathaniel Paine and made solemn oath to the truth of this statement contained in the written deposition subscribed by him in my presence and I certify that Judge Paine has been well known to me for many years as a man of the highest respectablility and of unquestioned truth.

John Davis
Justice of the Peace