Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16155, for Oxford Tash, Massachusetts
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Continental Mass

Tash, Oxford
           Esther H.

W.16155
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43[illegible]
New Hampshire 
Portsmouth
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Esther H. Tash
Widow of Oxford Tash
who was a private
in the Mass^ts Line 
Mass
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
ninth day of Jan ^y 1844.
and sent to John Kelly
Exeter
N Hamp^e
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[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A  Vol. 1  Page 22
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

I, Eleazer Johnson 3rd Clerk of the town of Newbury, port in the county of Essex, do hereby certify that it appears by the records of said town that Mr Oxford Tash and Mrs Esther How Freeman both of Newbury were married November eighteenth A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty one by Rev John Murray Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in said Newbury port.
Given under my hand at Newbury port this the thirteenth day of August A.D. Eighteen hundred thirty eight 
Eleazer Johnson 3rd Town Clerk.


I Eleazer Johnson 3rd above named, an oath do testify and say that I hold the Office of Clerk of the Town of Newburyport, (?) and the above is a true extract from the records in said town now in my possession, with this Exception only that on the said record it is expressed in fair legible figures thus
Nov 18th A.D. 1781
Sworn and subscribed this day
month and year above written.
Eleazer Johnson 3rd Town Clerk
W Woart Master of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Essex, ss. Probate Office.
I Nathaniel Lord junior register of
probate for said county, hereby certify, that
William Woart esquire is a justice of the peace
for said county of Essex, and that his name subscribed to the affidavit hereto annexed of Eleazer Johnson the third is his genuine signature well known to me.

Given under my hand and seal of office, this sixteenth day of August, A.D. 1838.
Nath. Lord jr.
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V  [illegible]
Esther H. Tash
11.98
Wid of Oxford
NH
A D 7 July 1838
Married 1781
died  1810
Allow $80 per ann
Mass line Col
Tupper

Jn^o Kelly
Exeter
NH
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss
On this fifteenth day of August AD 1838  personally appeared before the Court of Probate Walden at Exeter in and for said County by and before the Hon John Harvey Judge of said Court --- 

Esther H Tash a resident of Exeter in said County aged seventy nine years and [illegible] who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled "An Act Granting halfpay and pensions to certain widows."



That she is the widow of Oxford Tash who was a private in the army of the Revolution in the revolutionary war; that according to her best knowledge and belief he enlisted at said Exeter in the company commanded by Captain Winborn Adams in Col Poors Regiment in the year 1776 for one year; that he served out his year and then enlisted again in the same Regiment and she supposes in the same company for three years; and that he served out said term of three years also and was regularly discharged: and his discharge she thinks was sent on to Congress at the time he applied for a Pension on account of a wound received by him while in the Army: -- The
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further decleares that as she has always understood and believed that the said Oxford Tash while in the service in an engagement with the enemy was wounded in his thigh and carried the musket ball there received in his thigh until his death; than in consequence of
his said wound he applied to Congress for a Pension, and was in 1805-6 or 7, placed on the Roll of invalid Pensioners and drew a pension--she thinks thirty dollars a year until his death--and the applicant respectfully refers to this evidence accompanying his application for a Pension further proof of his service--and also to the rolls and records touching the service of the New Hampshire Regiments -- on file in the War Department.
She further declared that she was born at Cape Ann, and that she was married to the said Oxford Tash at Newburyport in Massachusetts on the eighteenth day of November AD 17?1 by the said Rev John Murray of said Newburyport; that her maiden name was Esther [illegible] Freeman; that her husband the said Oxford Tash died at said Exeter on the 15th day of October AD ??10; ; that she was not married to him prior to said 18th day of November 1701, but was on that day married to him. She can not say that he had then left the service and hopes that it may be proved by the rolls, as she believes the fact was, that he did continue in the service after their marriage
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as aforesaid -- In which case she prays that this Declaration may be considered as made to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 --
She states that she has been informed and believes that said Oxford Tash served  a part of his time while in the Army in a Massachusetts Regiment.
And she further states that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her late husband the said Oxford Tash and still is his widow as   will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
                                                     her
Witness                        Esther H x Tash
John Tully                                   mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written
John Harvey.    Judge of Probate

I John Kelly Register of the Court of Probate for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings or said court in the matter of the application of Esther H Tash for a Pension by Testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and the seal of said Court this fifteenth day of August A D 1830

John Kelly Register of Probate
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of congress of the 3rd March 1843 granting Pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7, 1832

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham
On this thirteenth day of September AD 1843  Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County Esther Tash a resident of Exeter in said County aged eighty five years and upwards, who being first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
-that she is the widow of Oxford Tash who was a private in the Arm of the Revolution and that 
on account of his services she
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has received under the act of July 7 1832 a persion of Eighty Dollars per year for five years.  She further declares that she is still a widow
Witnesses Charles G Tash.  
Esther H Tash
her
+
Mark

John Kelly 

Signed & sworn to the day and year above written

John Kelly
Justice of the Peace

I cdertify that the said Esther Tash is personally sworn to me; that she is a credible person and entitle to credit; & that I am satisfied the above declaration is true,
John Kelly 
Justice of the Peace
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The undersigned testify and say that we are acquainted with Esther Tash the widow of Oxford Tash and have been acquainted with her for many years - She has been a Resident of the United States for five years and is still the widow of the said Oxford Tash 

Charles G Tash
John Emery
John Dodge

Rockingham ss September 13. 1?43
Subscribed & sworn to by the said Charles G Tash, John Emery, and John Dodge (who, I certify, are credible witnesses and entitled to full credit) before me

John Kelly Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham  ss

I David A Gregg Register of the Court of Probate for said county do hereby certify that John Kelly is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission is dated on the twenty fifth day of November AD 1839 and will expire in four years from that date: and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine

Given under my hand and the seal of said court this thirteenth day of December AD 1843
David A Gregg Reg. Probate

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[written vertically, top left - "Aug. 3"]
James S. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
[stamp - "New York, AUG"]
[written vertically at left edge of stamp - "W. Lowry"]
[written vertically through the stamp - ? "Jr_at"]
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I Enoch Rowe of Exeter int he County of Rockingham and the State of New Hampshire aged eighty years wanting one day do testify and say that on the first day of January 1776 I enlisted at [illegible]ter Hall in Massachusetts into the company commanded by Capt Winbom Adams in the Regiment commanded by Col Enoch Ro?? [illegible] a New Hampshire Regiment for the term of one year and served in said company in Canada with Gen Sullivan and at Ticonderoga for that period - Before I enlisted I knew Oxford Tash then of New Market and while in the army during the year 1778 said Oxford Tash was a soldier in the same company with me ans as i understood he enlisted for three years & during the war after his first term of service expired he was serving to my best recollection and belief a soldier in [illegible] Regiment during the whole of the year 1776 -  and I understood right he continued in it long after I left it: Boston the year 1777 I was in Porters Regiment in Rhode Island and had no personal knowledge of said Tash - Poors Regiment was in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War -- I remember that said Tash had the small pox while in the Army with me in 1776 at Whitehead. He was subsequently wounded
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while in the army as I was informed but it was after my term was out and I had left Poors Regiment.      Enoch Rowe

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham C
ON the 14th day of August AD 1838 the said Enoch Rowe who I certify is a credible witness and whose statements are entitled to credit made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true  
Before me
Francis D. Randall

State of New Hampshire 
Rockingham
I John Kelly Register of the Court of Probate for said county do hereby certify that Francis D Randall Esq is a Justice of the Peace for said county and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine and his own proper handwriting. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and written seal of said court this fifteenth day of August AD [illegible] John Kelly Register of Probate
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 

Secretary's Office April 4th, 1839

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 Oxford Tash of Newport served as a Private in Capt. Greenleaf's Company Col. Tupper's Regiment from March 22 1777 to December 31 1779. Thirty three months and nine days - at 40/per month. 

Oxford Tash also served as a Private in the said Company and Regiment from the 1st of January to the 22 March 1780. Two months and twenty one days at 40/per month. 

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

[Signed] John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I Eleazer Johnson 3rd Clerk of the Town of Newburyport in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that I find on the files among the records of the said Town the following viz
"Newburyport twelfth of March seventeen hundred seventy seven We the described do acknowledge to have received from the Town of Newburyport by the hands of Jonathan Titcomb the sum of twenty pounds apiece and an bounty given us by said Town for inlisting into the Continental Army for the term of three years or during the War."

his mark X
Oxford Tash
Which paper is subscribed thus

I also find on another file the following viz.
"We the subscribed do formally acknowledge to have received of the Town of Newburyport by the hands of Mr Mark Fitz the sum of Money which is set underneath against our respective names and a full ballance due from said Town for six months service done as Soldiers for the said town of Newburyport in the Army of the United States of America by virtue of a Resolve of the General Court of the State of Massachusetts day of June seventeen hundred eighty

Newburyport December seventeen hundred eighty on which paper is subscribed the name of Oxford his X mark Tash
Witness John Fitz
nine hundred Pounds
 Given under my hand at Newburyport this eighteenth day of August AD eighteen hundred thirty eight 
Eleazer Johnson 3rd Town Clerk:
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I Eleazer Johnson 3rd within named on oath do declare that I hold the office of the Clerk of said Town of Newburyport and that the within is a true and exact copy from the files of papers now in my possession and that the same are within [illegible] the original papers and [illegible] on said files at the time they purported as they have the full appearance of being such.
Newburyport August 10th 1838 
Eleazer Johnson 3rd Town Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex Co Town of Newburyport August 18th 1838 Then personally came Eleazer Johnson 3rd above named and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the above written affidavit by him subscribed in my presence 
I do further certify that said Eleazer Johnson 3rd is personally well known to me - that he is Clerk of said Town of Newburyport duly elected to the office and sworn according to Law.
W W[illegible] Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Essex Probate Office

I Nathaniel Lord junior register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that 
William Woart is a justice of the peace for said county of Essex, and that his name subscribed to the affadavit of Eleazer Johnson hereto annexed is his genuine signature.

Given under my hand and seal of office, this twenty second day of August A.D. 1838 

Nathaniel Lord jr.
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I Nathaniel Gilman of Exeter in New Hampshire aged seventy eight years and upwards testify and say that I have been acquainted with Oxford Tash for many years Between thirty and forty years ago while Gen Dearborn was Secretary of War I rendered  said Tash some assistance in his application for a pension as an invalid on account of wounds received in the revolutionary war and on examining into his care at that home it appeared that he served in the New Hampshire line and also foin the Massachusetts line or some Massachusetts Regiment  - for two or three years. Since the war and for as many as fifty years he has resided in this town Exeter with his wife and family. I did not know his wife before their marriage - they came here as married people and were always [illegible] man and wife and lived together as such and had a large family of children. one of his sons has lived many years in my family as a domestic and is now in it. Said Oxford Tash has been dead nearly thirty years. His wife Esther H. Tash has ever since lived in my neighborhood has never since married but is still his widow.
Nathan Gilman
State of New Hampshire
[illegible] September 6 1838 Here Nathaniel Gilman Esq who is certify is a credible person and his statements entitled to credit made solemn oath tht the foregoing affdavit by him subscribed is true
Before me
John Kelly 
[illegible]
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I  Winthrop Wiggin of [Kensington?] in New  Hampshire aged [ninty] three years and unreservedly testify and say that I served in the revolutionary was under various enlistments the greater part of the time from the spring of 1775 to the close of the war.  From the [11th?] of January 1776 for one year and more I was in the company commanded by Capt. [Winbumethdum?] in Roors Regiment (a New Hampshire Regiment).  During that year Oxford Tash served as a private in the same company.  I knew him before either of us entered the army for he too was of New Market. After said Tash was discharged from Adams's company he enlisted into a Massachusetts Regiment at Newberry fort or as a  soldier of Newberry fort for three years or during the war - as he informed me and as I believe - for I saw him in the army as a soldier in 1777 and 1778.  He was at the taking of Burgoyne in 1777- and I often saw him during the remainder of the war or for several years. I am not certain whether his enlistment in the Massachusetts Regiment was for three years or during the war but I am strongly [imbuded?] with the belief that he was in the army and stationed with me at Tarrytown in New York in 1781 at the time [?Maj. Andre] was executed and that I saw
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said Tash then a soldier several times in the summer and Fall of that year.  Tarrytown, so called, was on the North River in New York and we were encamped there when Major Andre was hanged a mile or two from our encampment, but I did not see him executed.
I have seen said Tash often since the war was over and was acquainted with him till his death.  I was a native of New Market where Tash lived, and I lived there till I entered the army.
Wm Winthrop Wiggen
State of New Hampshire
[illegible] September 4, 1838[?]
When the said Winthrop Wiggin who I certify is a credible person and his Statements entitled to credit made solemn oath that this foregoing affidavit by him [sub???] is true.
Before me,
J. Wm Kelly [?Justice Peace]
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State of New Hampshire
[Rockinghamp?]

I [J?] B Hoitt Clerk of
the Superior Court of Judication within and for said County
do hereby certify that John Kelly is
a Justice of the Peace for said County and
that the signatures purporting to be
his on this paper and the paper hereto
annexed – attached to the affidavit of
Nathaniel Gilman and of Winthrop
Wiggin, are genuine and in his own
proper hand writing

In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my
hand and the seal of
said Count this seventh
day of September AD
[illegible]

[j?]. B. Hoitt Clerk
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New Hampshire 3549
Esther H. Tash
Widow of Oxford Tash
who was a pensioner under the Act of Invalid and who died on the 15th , October 1810
of Rockingham in the State of N Hampshire
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Adams of the Regt. commanded by Tupper in the Massttts. line for 2 years

Inscribed in the Roll of Portsmouth
at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1838

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of July 's39 and sent to John Kelley Exeter, N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of March $240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 40.00
$280.00

Act July 7, 1838

Recorded by [illegible] Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 Page 57
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SERVICE
Continental
Mass.
|Tash, Oxford
Esther H.|
|NUMBER
W. 16155|
CONTENTS
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El H. Tash
$80 per ann

John Kelly
Exeter N.H. 

Hon J. L. Edwards
Com Pensions
City of Washington
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Exeter NH 
Oct 10, 1843

Hon J S Edwards. Comm Pensions
Sir
Accompanying this is the application, for an additional years pension, of Esther Tash. I have delayed sending it in the expectation of hearing from a similar application of Lydea Fogg forwarded nearly two months ago and from which I have not yet heard.
If in that or this there be anything [improper?] or defective you will much oblige by causing me to be notified thereof.
Respectfully your most {illegible]
John Kelly
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Maj W Adams enjay Nov 8 1776 [illegible] 1777
[illegible] 19 Sept 1777  Rud Ref

Hon J L Edwards
Com Pensions
City of Washington
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Exeter NH Sept [illegible]

Hon JS Edwards,
Sir
Enclosed is the application of Esther H. Tash for a Pension & accompanying [illegible]
My communicating with [? her] in relation to it you will oblige her.
I am your Respectfully 
[illegible]
John Kelly
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Exeter N.H. Apr 9 1839

Hon J.L. Edwards Com Pensions

Sir
By yours of Mar 26, [illegible] I am informed that the application of Esther H Tash, widow of Oxford Tash, is suspended for further proof of his service 

Enclosed is such evidence which I hope some will be fully satisfactory -- If so, may I ask to be favored, as early as may be consistent with the business of your office, - with an answer?

Respectfully, 
John Kelly
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WH
[illegible]
Esther H Tash
7 July [illegible]98

Hon J L Edwards 
Com Pensions
City of Washington
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Esther O
12 May 1839 
Free
[illegible] May 18

James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City