Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3562, for Thomas Kittredge, Massachusetts
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Service: Mass
Kittredge, Thomas
Susanna
Number W. 3562
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Massachusetts 791
Susanna Kittredge
widow of Thomas Kitteredge, Mass.
who died in October 1818
of Essex Co. in the State of Mass
who was a Surgeon in the Company commanded
by Captain ____ of the Regt. commanded
by Colonel Frye on the Mass
line for Simon [BLANK]

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 200 Dollars - 00 - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of April 1837 and  Leut. Benjamin Merritt, Salem, Mass.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $1.200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 September, 1837 $100.00
__________
$1.300.00
__________

Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3?

Recorded by [Unknown] Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 1  Page 56
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970 3 [?]
Mrs Susanna Kittridge 
widow of a surgeon
vol. 27 page 200 return as surgeon in 75
[?]
8 mo. surgeon
original case no deduction
Please address reply to 
B. Merrill
Salem Masstts.
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Declaration

in order to obtain the benefit of the 3rd section of act of Congress of July 4th 1836.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Essex County fs.

On this nineteenth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty six.  Personally appeared before the Honorable David ( illegible), one the justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Susanna Kittredge, a resident of Andover, in the county of Essex and Commonwealth afore said, aged eighty three years, who first being duly sworn according to Law, doth under oath make the  following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836.

That she is the widow of Thomas Kittredge, who was a surgeon, in a Regiment commanded by Colonel James Frye, Lieutenant Colonel Bricket, and Major Poor, in the Massachusetts Line of the Continental Establishment, in the War of Revolution, that he served as Surgeon from about the middle of April 1775 to the first of January 1776 that he was present as Surgeon at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

She further declared, that she was lawfully married to said Thomas Kittredge on the seventh day of November 1770 ; that he died at Andover aforesaid in October 1818; and that she ever since been, and is now , his widow; all of which will more fully appear by reference to this proof (illegible) annexed.

Susanna Kittredge  (signature)

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me; said Susanna Kittredge by reason of her advanced age, bodily infirmity, being unable to attend Court.

David Cumming

Judge C.C. ( illegible)
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Marriage certificate of Thomas Kittredge and Susanna Osgood
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I Bailey Loving, resident at Andover in Massachusetts, on oath testify, that it appears by the records of the first church in Andover, of which church I am now the pastor, and which records I now have in custody, that Thomas Kittredge and Susanna Osgood were lawfully married on the seventh day of November in the year of the lord seventeen hundred and seventy one. Bailey Loving
Commonwealth of Massachusetts December 29th 1836 X the Rev. Bailey Loving subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit before me. William Stevens justice of the peace
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I, Caleb Abbot of Andover in the County of Essex and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty five years a pensioner of the Revolution depose &  I say that I know Thomas Kittredge late of said Andover, Physician. He was a Surgeon in the Regiment commanded by Colonel James Frye, and went into the service at the same time with said Regiment [illegible] to the battle of Bunker Hill and continued in the service as long as that Regiment did. - The time of service aforementioned  began on the fourteenth day of April seventeen hundred and seventy five and concluded on the last day of December of the same year. - I was well acquainted with Dr. Kittredge before being in the service with him as [illegible]. He bled me the day before the Battle of Bunker Hill, and I knew him well, living in the same town with him, until his decease. - I was a private in said Fryes Regiment and draw my pension in [illegible] for services performed therein.
Caleb Abbot (signature)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
[illegible] Dec. 9. 1836
Thus personally affirmed, Caleb Abbot above named who is a credible and disinterested witness and made solemn oath [illegible] alone Statement by him subscribed is true before me.
N. W. Haven  Justice of the Peace.
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I John Barker of Andover in the Country of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty-five years a Pensioner of the United States, [illegible] and say, that I knew Thomas Kittredge late of said Andover, Physician.  He was a Surgeon in the Regiment commanded by Col. James Frye. I joined the American army at Cambridge on the nineteenth day of April 1775. I remained with the army till the last of December of the same year, and I perfectly remember that said Thomas Kittredge remained with the army in the capacity of Surgeon during the whole time that I remined with it and I left the said Thos. Kittredge with the army when I returned home in December. 
I was acquainted with the said Thos. Kittredge both before and after he was in the army & up to the time of his death. I was a private in the army while the said Thos. Kittredge was Surgeon there 
John Barker (shaky signature)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

[illegible] December 26th 1836 - There personally appeared the above named John Barker, who is a credible and disinterested witness and made solemn oath that the above statement is true before me. 
William Stevens (signed) Justice of the Peace
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I Moses Bailey of Andover County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged ninety two years declare and say  I knew Thomas Kittredge late of Andover Physician. He was a Surgeon in the Regiment commanded by Col James Frye and I was present when he was acting as such.  The day after the battle of Bunker hill - When I assisted him in dressing a soldier who had been wounded in the battle - I did not belong to the army but was a volunteer on that occasion and brought away a soldier that was wounded that belonged to Capt. Benj. Ames
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Declaration of Mrs Susanna Kittredge, in order to obtain the benefit of the 3th section of the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1886.
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(3-1776)
Service Number
Mass.
Kittredge, Thomas W. 3562
Susanna
Contents
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company.

Moses Bailey (signed)

Erren FF. Dec 21, 1836 
There personally appeared the above named Moses Bailey who is a creditable and disinterested witness and [subscribed?] and made oath to the above affidavit before me
David Cumming [illegible] C. G. Y.
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Essex ss. 
I John Prince Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do certify that Hon. David Cumming is one of the Justices of said Court duly qualified & that his signatures on those papers are genuine. 
I further certify that William Stevens and Nathan W. Hazer Esquire are Justices of the Peace within & from said county & that their respective signatures herein are genuine.

Witness my hand & the seal of said court at Salem
December 31st 1836
John Prince Clk (signed)
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File # 3562
Susanna Kittredge
Widow
Thomas Kitttredge

July 1886
Volume R Page 400