Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 13700, for Jeremiah Mc Intosh, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Mass.

McIntosh, Jeremiah
Susannah

NUMBER
W.13700
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CONTENTS
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27093
Massachusetts
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Jeremiah McIntosh
of Dorchester in the State of Mass
who was a Sergeant in the Comp'y commanded
by Captain Heath of the Rige't commanded
by Col. Sargeant in the Mass
line for 8 months Sergeant
2 " private
[penciled] Slat & mvL [?]
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Inscribed on the Roll of [blank]
at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Jan'y 1834 and sent to William Ellis Esq Dedham Mass
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833 $116.65
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 34 - 23.33
[total] $139.98
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 2 Page 54

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Norfolk
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4240
Massachusetts
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Susannah McIntosh widow of Jeremiah McIntosh who was a Private & Sergeant in the Massachusetts line
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of January 1844 and sent to William Ellis Durham Massachusetts
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[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 48

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1889 May 11 
John Cassells - War Dep't - History prior
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk ss.
I Jonathan H. Cobb Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Reply hereby certify that Sherman Leland is Judge of Probate for said County of Norfolk & that William Ellis is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Norfolk & that their several signatures to the papers annexed are Genuine & true.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court of Probate this fifth day of June AD 1843.

Jonathan H. Cobb
Reg Prob.
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State of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk SS. }
On this second day of May AD. 1843. Personally appeared in open Court, before Sherman Leland Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County, Susannah McIntosh a resident of Dorchester in said County of Norfolk, aged Eighty four years, who being first duly 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 July 7th A.D. 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows", with the benefit of the extention of said Act, by virtue of the joint resolution adopted by Congress August 16th A.D. 1842-".

viz. I Susannah McIntosh of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, being Eighty four years of age hereby declare and say, that I am the widow of Jeremiah McIntosh late of said Dorchester dec'd, who rendered military services to the United States (as Sergeant) in the war of the Revolution, That for the aforesaid services, said Jeremiah McIntosh was, by certificate bearing date January 18th 1834, Pensioned under the Act of Congress of June 7th A.D. 1832 at the rate of $46.66 per annum during his natural life, and that the amount of said pension has been received up to the time of said McIntosh' death and his said Certificate surrendered to the Agent of the United States for paying Pensions in Boston in the State of Massachusetts. That I believe the said Jeremiah McIntosh, my late husband dec'd, never had any permanent residence or home but within the town of Dorchester aforesaid, and I herewith transmit the best proofs at my command in aid of my claim.

And I further declare and say that my maiden name was Susannah Blake, that I was lawfully married to the aforesaid Jeremiah McIntosh, by the Rev. Nathaniel Emmons at the Town of Franklin in said County, on the twenty fifth day of September A.D. 1778. That my late husband, the said Jeremiah McIntosh, died at Dorchester aforesaid, on the twenty first day of January A.D. 1843, and that I have remained his widow to the present time. That I was ^not married to him the said Jeremiah McIntosh prior to his leaving the service aforesaid, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated.

[signed] Susannah McIntosh

Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day,
and year, first above written.
Before S. Leland Judge of Probate
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-- "Married Jeremiah McIntosh of Dorchester and Susanna Blake of this town" A.D. Seventeen hundred and seventy seven, September twenty fourth.

I Tertius D. Southworth of Franklin in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, Clerk, hereby certify, that the above extract showing the marriage of Jeremiah McIntosh and Susanna Blake is a true copy of the record thereof on the Book of Church or Clerical Records in my possession and keeping, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on said Records, in fair legible letters and figures as follows viz - "A.D. 1777, Sept'br 24th"

Attest -- Tertius D. Southworth
Pastor of the Church in Franklin

I Tertius D. Southworth above named depose and say that I now hold the Office of Clergyman and have the pastoral charge of the first Church and congregation in the said Town, County and State aforesaid, and that the aforesaid Extract from the Church or Clerical Records of said Town of Franklin is a true copy, with the exception above named, as Certified by me. Tertius D. Southworth Pastor of the Church in Franklin

State of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk S.S.
June 3 - 1843. Then personally appeared the above named Tertius D. Southworth a respectable clergyman of the town of Franklin, a credible witness, who subscribed to, and made Oath, that the matter by him certified and set forth in the foregoing statements, is just and true.

Before me, Wm Ellis Justice of the Peace
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10,115
Susanna McIntosh
Mass.
Act 7. July '35 -
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to report the result
claim to the subscriber
Dedham Mass'tts.
Wm Ellis
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Please to report the result of this claim to the subscriber at Dedham Mass'tts.
Wm Ellis
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I Abel Kenney of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, being of Lawful age, hereby depose and say, that I was personally acquainted with Jeremiah McIntosh a pensioner of the United States under the Act of June 7, A.D. 1832 and late of said Dorchester deceased, that I know the fact, that said McIntosh died at Dorchester aforesaid on the twenty first day of January A.D. 1843, and left a widow by the name of Susannah McIntosh. And I further say, that the said Susannah McIntosh has not intermarried since the death of her said husband, but remains the widow of said Jeremiah McIntosh dec'd and resides in the town of Dorchester aforesaid at the present time.

[signed] Abel Kenney

State of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk ss } April 28th 1843. Personally the above named Abel Kenny a credible witness, appeared, and subscribed to, and made oath, that the matter set forth in the foregoing statement by him so subscribed, is true, in every part thereof.

Before me, Wm Ellis Justice of the Peace
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Application of Jeremiah McIntosh For a Pension, Nov'r. 1833
Dorchester Norfolk Co Mass
29.173

If any further evidence is wanting in behalf of Wm McIntosh or what ever may be the result of his application, Mr Edwards is requested to communicate it to the subscriber at Dedham Mass [2 words underlined]

Wm Ellis

[faint:]
Adm'd - 8m Sergeamt
2 private
Cap Heath
Colo Sargent
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Application of Jeremiah McIntosh to the U.S. War Department for a Pension, under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832, for Revolutionary services.

State of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk. SS -- On this [lined out: fifth] Twenty first day of [lined out: November] December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable [lined out: Sherman Leland] John M Williams, Judge of the Court of [lined out: Probate Common Pleas now sitting at Dedham in and for said County of Norfolk, Jeremiah McIntosh a resident of Dorchester in said County aged eighty two years, who being first 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 --

viz I Jeremiah McIntosh of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts declare, that according to my family Records I was born in said town of Dorchester on the thirteenth day of April A.D. 1751, old stile, and was eighty two years of Age on the twenty fourth day of April 1833, new stile. And since my remembrance I have never had any home or legal settlement but within the same town of Dorchester in which I now reside.

When the news of the hostilities at Lexington arrived April 19th 1775, I immediately armed myself and turned out as a Soldier and fell in with Cap Sam'l Heath's Company of Roxbury, with which I proceeded to the scene of action, we met the enemy on his retreat from Lexington in the town of Cambridge and there had a sharp conflict with him, a Soldier who stood within a few feet of me received a severe wound from the enemies fire, I continued in this service at and about Cambridge in said Heath's Company and in the Company commanded by Capt Thomas Mayo of said Roxbury for the term of -- twelve days or more after Lexington Battle, and then enlisted into the Continental service for the term of eight month's, viz. About the first of May 1775. I entered the Company of Infantry commanded by Capt. George Gould, Lieut. Timothy Stow, in Col. Sargents Regiment, and was appointed Orderly Sergeant of said Gould's Company when I first entered. The head Quarters of this Regiment were at said Cambridge near Boston while I remained with it, receiving Enlisting orders from my officers when I first entered this service. I made an excursion into the neighboring towns and Enlisted a considerable number of recruits and turned them over to our Regiment Viz Thomas Smith, Benjamin Sumner and Ezekiel Tileston and a number of others whose names I can not now recollect. On the day of Bunker Hill Battle June 17th 1775, Our Regiment (stationed at Cambridge) was ordered to march to reinforce the troops engaged on the Hill at Charlestown; I marched with Regiment and passed over Charlestown Neck while the Brittish kept up a constant fire accross said Neck to prevent communication with Bunker Hill, at a little distance from this neck we met the Americans on the the retreat from Bunker Hill. I saw a great number of the wounded brought off from the Battle ground. our Regiment returned to Cambridge. During my stay in said eight months service I well recollect seeing among our troops viz Generals -- Washington -- Heath and Putnam -- I continued in said eight months service as Orderly Sergeant under said Capt George Gould, till I was taken sick in camp, which was (according to my best recollection) the middle of October 1775. I then obtained a furlough from my officers, till I should be able to return to the duties of the Camp, and returned home to Dorchester, but a fever come upon me and I had a severe sickness and was not of competent health to return to the Camp during the remainder of the Eight months service, nor did I recover sufficient strength to perform common labor, till the latter part of the month of February 1776. And I would here state that after considerable enquiry I have not been able to find any man in this quarter of the Country who served with me in the above described service in the year 1775, to testify in my behalf, and not having been able to find my Sergeants warrant or any discharges from service [inserted: among my papers] I have no documentary evidence to offer in support of my claim, other than that herewith transmitted, whatever revolutionary I had; are lost.

Again about the first of September 1776, I enlisted for the term of two months as a private or Soldier into a Company Infantry commanded by Capt Ebenezer Gore of said Roxbury, in the Regiment of my Unkle Col. William McIntosh continental line, and soon after this enlistment marched
from
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from Dedham in said County of Norfolk, by way of Hartford and Fairfield in the State of Connecticut to a place called the Saw Pitts in the State of New York; at the Saw Pitts and North Castle, near the White Plains and other places in that vicinity, I served as a soldier till my engagement of two months expired, and at the request of my officers I remained in the service [inserted: I think] half a month longer, then left the Army and was ten days on my return home to Dorchester, where I arrived about the first of December 1776, a distance of two hundred miles.

Thus it will be seen, that the time spent by me in the service of the Continent [inserted: during the revolutionary struggle] is eight months and twenty two days as follows. (Exclusive of two months and fifteen days I was confined by sickness during the eight months service) --

Viz From April 19th 1775 under Capt Sam'l Heath & Capt Thomas Mayo at Cambridge [column headings: months days] 0 .. 12
" under Capt George Gould, Cambridge & vicinity 5 .. 15
1776 - under Cap Eben'r Gore at Saw Pitts & North Castle New York & home 2 . 25
[total] 8 .. 22
Absent on furlough by sickness during my eight months enlistment.- 2 .. 15
If I am allowed for his last item of time, my claim will be for Eleven months & Seven days -- 11 .. 7

And I further declare that I have never received any Pension from the United States nor from any State, that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State, that this is the first Application ever made by me for a pension, And that I hereby relinquish every claim or annuity for Revolutionary services except the one now applied for. Dorchester October 25th 1833

[signed] Jeremiah McIntosh

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.

We, Ebenezer Burgess a Clergyman residing in Dedham aforesaid, and Nathaniel Guild a resident citizen of said Dedham, hereby Certify, that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah McIntosh who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be eighty two of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.

[signed] Ebenezer Burgess
[signed] Nath'l Guild

And the said Court, being a Court of record, does hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the Interrogatories prescibed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And that it further appears to said Court, that Ebenezer Burgess, who has signed the preceeding certificate is a Clergyman resident in said Town of Dedham, and that Nathaniel Guild who has also signed the same, is a resident of said Dedham, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit-

[signed] John M. Williams, Jus. C.C. Pleas [Justice of the Court of Common Pleas]

I Jairus Ware Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas [lined out: I Jonathan W. Cobb Register of said Court of Probate Pro Tem.] do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah McIntosh for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, on the day and year first aforesaid.

[signed] Jairus Ware

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Dan 21. Sw tr. M.
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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. Jeremiah McIntosh Wid. File 13700

[Table, 6 columns, 3 rows + headings]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | 
LENGTH OF SERVICE. | 
RANK. | 
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | 
STATE.

Apr. 19. 1775 | 12 days | [blank] | { Samuel Heath Thomas Mayo | [blank] | Mass.
May 14 1775 | 5 mos. 15 days | orderly Sgt. | George Gould | Sargent |
Sept. 1 1776 | 2 mos 25 days | Pvt. | Eben'r Gore | *William McIntosh |
* his uncle

Battles engaged in, Lexington
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Dorchester, Norfolk Co. Mass.
Date of application for pension, Oct 25 1833. His cl. was al [claim was allowed]
Residence at date of application, Dorchester Mass.
Age at date of application, { born at Dorchester Mass. Apr. 13. 1751 Old Style died at Dorchester Mass Jan 31 1843
Remarks: Soldier married at Franklin Mass. Sept. 24, 1777, Susannah Blake. She was allowed pension on an application executed May 2, 1843 while a Resident of Dorchester Mass. aged 84 years.

Very respectfully
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1910 Apr. 27 Hist. to Mrs. M.E.M. Sawyer S.L.M.
1918 Jan'y 29 Hist. to Kathryn McIntosh

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Rev'y WIDOW, &c.
File No. 13700
Susannah McIntosh
Widow of
Jeremiah McIntosh
Sergt Rev War
Act: March 3d 43
Index:-- Vol. M, Page 23
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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7834
Massachusetts
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Susannah McIntosh widow of Jeremiah McIntosh who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 21 Jan'y 1843, of Norfolk in the State of Mass who was a Pri & Sergt in the Company commanded by Captain Heath of the Regt commanded by Col Sargeant in the Mass line for 8 mo Sergt 2 " Private
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Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 46 Dollars & 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Oct. 1843 and sent to Wm Ellis Dedham, Mass
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Total amount, $233.30
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Tho Lumpkin Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1 Page 63

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Rept Oct 27
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10.115
Susanna McIntosh
Mass
let to W. Ellis August 5 1843
Act 7 July 1838
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10.115
Susannah McIntosh
Mass'ts
Act July 7th 30
Adm'd
8 mo. Serg't
2 " priv
$46.66 per an.
Wm Ellis
Dedham
Mass'ts
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Mr. H. F. Kenny's grand father served from Mass in War of Rev. -- Name Jeremiah McIntosh of Dorchester
for John Cassels
1907 F.N.W
City
Through Adjt Gen
to
In corner Envelope
M. Bock, Radin [?] 255
War Dept.
for Ass't Chief Robertson
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James L. Edwards Esqr
Washington City
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Dedham Mass'tts November 20th 1843.

Mr Edwards.

Sir. Herewith is transmitted the Application of Susannah McIntosh, the widow of Jeremiah McIntosh dec'd. for a years Pension Under the Act of Congress of March 3d 1843, any requisite enquiries in relation to this claim, will be promptly answered when known.

Very Respectfully, your
Obe't Servant Wm Ellis

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Washington City
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James L. Edwards Esq.
Com'r of Pensions
Washington City
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Dedham Mass'tts June 5th 1843

Mr Edwards

Sir, Herewith is transmitted the application of Susannah McIntosh for a Pension, she being the widow of Jeremiah McIntosh dec'd. who was a Pensioner as private and sergeant, Under the Act of June 7th 1832, at the rate of $46.66 p'r annum. It will be seen, there is some difference as to the exact time of the Marriage, stated by the claimant in her declaration and the time certified in the Certificate thereof from the original record, but trust it is from a mistake in the memory or family record of the claimant, that will not be considered material in the examination of her claim. Any further explanation required; will be made, as soon as requested.

I am Sir, Respectfully
Your Obe Servant
Wm Ellis

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Washington City
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK ss.

I, JAIRUS WARE, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, being Courts of Record, within and for the County of Norfolk, hereby Certify that William Ellis Esquire, before whom the two annexed Depositions were taken, was at the time of the taking thereof, and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Norfolk aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified to discharge the duties of said office, and that his signatures on each of the same are genuine and true.

In Witness Whereof, I have subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth hereunto at Dedham, this thirtieth day of December A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

Jairus Ware
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To whom it may concern.

I Asa Payson of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, being eighty five years of age, hereby testify and say, that I have been acquainted with Jeremiah McIntosh now living in said Dorchester, for a term of sixty years or more, and who, I understand is about making application for a Pension, and I further say, that I well recollect that said McIntosh served as a Soldier in the first eight months service at Cambridge or Roxbury near Boston in the year 1775, but not being in the company in which I served in said eight months service, I do not recollect the officers names under whom said McIntosh served or anything more about his service above Stated. Dorchester December 2d, 1833 -- [signed] Asa Payson

Norfolk SS. December 2d 1833. Then personally appeared before me Asa Payson a credible witness, and made oath that the above Statement by him made and subscribed is true.

[signed] Wm Ellis } Justice of the Peace
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To whom it may concern

I James Humphreys of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts in the eighty first year of my age hereby Certify, that I served as Orderly Sergeant In the Company of Infantry Commanded by Cap't Eben'r Gore with Wm McIntosh Reg't from Sept 27 1776 to November 16th 1776. this service was rendered at Fairfield in the State of Connecticut and North Castle near the White plains in the State of New York and I find the name of Jeremiah McIntosh now living in said Dorchester, on the [crossed out: muster] Roll in my Possession, and according to my best knowledge and belief the said Jeremiah McIntosh served as a Soldier in said Capt'n Gore's Company at the same place and during the same time.

Dorchester [illegible] 26th 1833
James Humphreys

Norfolk SS Oct 26 1833. Then James Humphreys personally appeared and made oath that the matter set forth in the foregoing Certificate by him subscribed is true.

Before me Wm Ellis Justice of Peace

And I further Certify that James Humphreys, who on the day and year above written, made and subscribed the foregoing Certificate before me, is a man of the first respectibility and a credible witness

Wm Ellis
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4847
S. McIntosh
$46:66 per an
Wm. Ellis
Dedham
Mass
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Please to Report the result of this Claim to the Subscriber at Dedham Massachusetts --

Wm Ellis
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State of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk SS On this fourteenth day of November A.D. 1843 Personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for said County, Susannah McIntosh a resident of Dorchester in said County of Norfolk aged Eighty five years, who, being first duly 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 March 3 AD 1843. Granding [sic] Pensions to certain Widows whose deceased husbands served as officers or soldiers in the Revolutionary war.

Viz, that she is the widow of Jeremiah McIntosh who as Private and and [sic] Sergeant rendered military services to the United States in the Revolutionary war, and who died at said Dorchester on the twenty first day of January A.D. 1843. That she is the identical person Susannah McIntosh, who, for said Revolutionary services of said Jeremiah McIntosh her late husband deceased, made application for a Pension under the Act of Congress of July 7th A.D. 1838, and the Resolve of August 16th 1842, in the month of June A.D. 1843, and at the same time transmitted to to [sic] US Pension Department, the proofs requisite of the Revolutionary services of said Jeremiah McIntosh and also the proofs her lawful marriage to him the said Jeremiah McIntosh her late husband deceased, That subsequently she received a Certificate granting her a Pension of $46.66 per annum for a term of five years from March 4th 1836. to March 4th 1841. That she has received the amount of said Pension, and at the receipt thereof, surrendered her said Certificate to the Agent of the United States for paying Pensions in Boston in the State of Massachusetts. And that she has not intermarried since the death of her said husband, but still continues to be the widow of said Jeremiah McIntosh dec'd. and is now Eighty five years of age.

[signed] Susannah McIntosh

Sworn to and subscribed by the above named Susannah McIntosh, on the day and year first above written

Before me Wm Ellis -- Justice of the Peace

And I further certify that the aforesaid Susannah McIntosh is personally known to me, to be the identical Person who made application, and who was pensioned as she has above stated and sworn.

[signed] Wm Ellis Justice of the Peace
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK ss.
I, [lined out: JAIRUS WARE] Ezra W Sampson, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, being Courts of Record, within and for the County of Norfolk, hereby Certify that William Ellis Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace [inserted: & of the Quorum] in and for the County of Norfolk aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified to discharge the duties of said office, and that his signature to the annexed Certificate is genuine and true.

In Witness Whereof, I have subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid at Dedham, this twentieth day of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty three.

[signed] Ezra Sampson Clerk

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intermarried since the death ... McIntosh dec'd. and is now
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, August 24 1843.

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 Jeremiah McIntosh is borne upon the Eight months rolls as Sergeant from Dorchester, in the company of Capt Geo. Gould. Col Sargent; and that he enlisted May 14 1775, and is returned in August & October 1775.

There are no rolls of Capt Thomas Mayo for the alarm of April 19, 1775 or of Capt Ebenezer Gore, in this office

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this
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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.

[signed] Jno A Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Wm Ellis Esq
Dedham
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Hon. John A. Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts --.
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Dorchester Mass'tts. Aug't 11th 1843.

To Hon. John A. Bolles, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Sir

Having made Application to the US Pension Department near three months since, for an allowance under the acts of Congress of July 7th AD. 1838 and of August 23d 1842, and after a delay of 68 days the Commissioner of Pensions informs, that the proof of my marriage to Jeremiah McIntosh late of Dorchester, my late husband dec'd, and also the form of Application &c are satisfactory to him, but requests some further proofs of the Revolutionary services of said Jeremiah McIntosh on which my claim is founded; from the Massachusetts Military Rolls in your possession, & which I believe, were rendered by said McIntosh my late husband dec'd. in the Capacity of Sargeant as follows --

viz. Twelve days service under Capt Thomas Mayo at the Lexington alarm in 1775. Eight months service under Capt. Joseph Guild, Col. John Gratons Reg't, ending the last of December 1775. Also, two months and twenty five days service under Capt Ebenezer Gore at New York in the Atumn [autumn] of 1776 -- Therefore, I hereby respectfully request, that the Mass'tts Military Rolls, may be examined for the Revolutionary services of Jeremiah McIntosh above described, and if found on said rolls; that the proper certificate thereof be made out and delivered to William Ellis Esq of Dedham, who will pay the requisite fees charged for the same and who is fully authorized and empowered to act in my behalf in this matter. I am now in the Eighty fifth year of my age.

Respectfully
[signed] Susannah McIntosh

Subscribed by Susannah McIntosh
August 11th 1843 in my presence.
Wm Ellis Justice of the Peace
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Power of Atty
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Jeremiah McIntosh

He was born, April 13 1751, in Dorchester, Norfolk Co Mass where has since resided & was living there in Dec. 1833 and was married at Franklin Norfok [Norfolk] Co Mass Sept 24. 1778 to Susannah Blake. widow s'd 25th Sept Church record is 24th & he died in Dorchester Jany 21, 1843 in place his widow was residing in May 1843 aged 84 years

When the alarm was created by the March of the British, April 19, 1775 toward Lexington in Middlesex Co Mass he armed himself, joined Cap't Sam'l Heath's Company of Roxbury with which he proceeded to the scene of action & met the enemy on the retreat to Cambridge where they had a Sharp conflict with them, and a soldier near [crossed out: to] him was severely wounded. He remained in service for 12 days [inserted: or more] at & about Cambridge with said Capt Heath & with Capt Thomas Mayo of Roxbury, then Early in May the Volunteered [inserted: for 8 mos] under Capt George Gould in Col'o Sargents reg't & at once appointed orderly Sergt, & rec'd [received] enlisting orders he mad [made] Excursions into the my neighbouring towns where he obtained a considerable number of recruits for his reg't

On the day of the battle at Bunker Hill June 17, 1775 his reg't which was Stationed at Cambridge was ordered to ^join Bunker Hill, passing over Charlestown Neck the reg't was under the constant fire of the British to prevent reinforcements reaching the battle ground but as we met the Americans on their retreat he returned to Cambridge

About the middle of Oct 1775 he was taken sick, he returned home to Dorchester in a furlow, but the fever continuing for a time, he was so prostrated as to prevent his joining his Co before the term of their Service had expired. His recovery was so protracted that he did [not] have sufficient strength for common labor until the latter part of Feb'y 1776

About the first of Sept 1776 he enlisted for 2 mos as a privet [private] with Capt Ebenezer Gore of Roxbury in the reg't of his uncle Colo Wm McIntosh March'd from Dedham Mass to the Saw Pitts NY near the South west corner of Con't [Connecticut], where & at North Castle both near White Plains, where he was Stationed as guard & patrolling the country

Abel Kenny of Dorchester, testified to death of Jeremiah McIntosh.

It is probable She died during the year 1844
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L. S. W.

[round stamp] RECORD DIVISION APR 21 1910
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Keeper of Records or of Revolutionary Pensioners --

Sir, Can you tell me if there is a record of one Jeremiah McIntosh of Dorchester Massachusetts, as having a pension We know he was a minuteman and was called out for duty; Boston or Old Dorchester records show that. But, our parents say, they feel sure he had a pension and don't know why. He lived to be an old man so it seems there should be record of it, if it is true. He in born in 1751, Apr 13, lived to be 91,

You will greatly oblige me if you can look it up.

Mrs M E. M. Sawyer
Mattapan
Mass.

(He took oath of allegiance Apr 16 1779 -- Old Dorchester record)

[stamp] APR 21 1910
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& 3 cents for postage rec'd
Wr
OK RWJ
Rev Sec H H

Ottumwa, Ia. Jan. 18, 1918

Washington Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Could you please give me information concerning the family of Sergeant Jeremiah McIntosh, Revolutionary War, and of Col. William McIntosh, of same War.

Hoping for a favorable reply,
I remain Very Truly Yours,
Kathryn McIntosh
404 N. Wapello St.,
Ottumwa, Iowa.