Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44022, Zaccheus Walker, Continental Mass.
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Service Continental Mass 
Walker, Zaccheus   
Number S HH022
Contents [blank]
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Col Peter Bells
Affidavit
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I Peter Felt of New Ipswich depose that about ten or twelve years ago Capt Zaccheus Walker and Soloman Stevens of Townsend Massachusetts were together at my stove in New Ipswich and said together agreed to sell his right in a small piece of land in Townsend to said Stevens and at their request I drew up a paper explaining their agreement which they signed and left with me, which paper is hereunto attested. Said Walker at that time quite poor, and I would not have willingly cheated him to the amount of five dollars and he has continued until he received his pension and but for his pension, I have no doubt he would before this time, have been a charge to his town. He is at this time quite feeble and despondent, and for a year or two past and present , he has been unable to labour. For more than twenty years I have lived within one and a half miles of him and have been well acquainted with him and have no doubt  that the omission of the above mentioned land in the schedule of his property furnished to the War department, was wholly the result of accident or forgetfulness and not dishonesty.  - Peter  Felt.
Hillsborough  S Dec. 227. 1825 There personally appeared the aforementioned Peter Felt and made oath that the above affidavit by him recounted is true before me Geo. F. Farley Jus. Peace
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Walker & Stephens Agreement

An agreement between [illelgible] Stafford and Nehemiah [illegible]

114.74   
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65.74
188.44

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4446
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8178

2722
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163.32
2785
2845
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Memorandum of an agreement between Zechariah Walker and Solomon Stephens is that the said Zechariah has sold a certain piece of land adjoining said Stephens said land one owned in company by him the said Zechariah and his son Isaac of which the said lease once conveyed his shair to said Stephens and now the said Zechariah agrees to convey his half of said land for twenty four dollars and to receive his pay by a patent loom that is Whitings patents with all the [illegible] fit for weeving at thirty three dollars and the said Zechariah is to pay him in balance nine dollars in cotton yarn in one year after receiving his loom. Said Walker is to give a good sufficient deed of his part and a quit claim to that part conveid to said Stephens by said Isaac Walker to said Stephens or the said Zechariah and Trace are to give a deed together for the whole.
Zaccheus Walker
Solomon Stevens
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13.091
New Hampshire
Zacheus Walker
of New Ipswich in the state of New Hampshire who was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 20 Dollars per month to commence on the 4th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of July 1819 and sent to J. H. Smith Esq. Amherst, N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1819  220.58
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819  120.00
Dollars 340.58

{Revolutionary claim}
{Act 18th March,1818}

Continued
Notification sent 23 Feb. 1822 to Hon. M. Harvey H. R.
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Zacheus Walker
Lieutenant
Col. Prescotts Regiment
Massachusetts Line 1776 1 year

admitted

The discharge of Zachariah Walker is not evidence of the service of Zacheus Walker. Proof of service by a credible witness is therefore wanted.
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Zacheus Walker
first Lieutenant
(illegible) to Apl 4th 1818
7th Regt. Massachusetts line
Commission enclosed 2 wit
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I Zacheus Walker a Resident Citizen in the town of New Ipswich in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire Gentleman now in the sixty ninth year of my age do solemnly declare that I received a commission of a Lieutenancy from the Congress of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay signed by Joseph Warren P.T. & Saml. Freeman Secretary P. T. dated Watertown the 19th of May A. D. 1775 which commission I have now in my hands with the certificate of my oath enclosed thereon under which commission I served in Capt. Joseph Moores Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Wm. Prescott till the first day of Many. AD 1776 Wen I received a commission of a first Lieutenancy from the Continental Congress bearing date Jany. 6 AD. 1776. By order of Congress signed
John Hancock President
& Attested Charles Thompson Secretary to serve in Capt. Joseph Mores Company in the seventh Regiment of foot Commanded by Colo. William Prescott in the army of the United Colonies which commission to continue in force untill revoked by this or future Congress under this last I served one year from Jan. 1 A.D. 1776 till Jan 6. A.D. 1777 when the Regiment broke up & I returned home from Pikskill in New York when the Regt. was discharged making my service in the course of my Country twenty months in succession as a Lieutenant to the best of my abilities
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and with faithfulness. The aforesaid Commissions being now in my possession & herewith enlisted to the Judge who may certify the same in transmitting this my affidavit to the Secretary of War. I also with sorrow state that I am much reduced in my circumstances & I am forced to declare that I stand in need of assistance from my country for support to make me comfortable in my old age. My misfortunes have been exceeding heavy for many years past by sickness & deaths in my family & had it not been for my good will towards my neighbours in being bound for them for payments of money I should now have been in affluent circumstances & not in need of the assistance of my country for whim I have faithfully fought. I further declare that I have never been placed on the Pension list of invalids of my country.
Zaccheus Walker 

Sworn to on this fourth day of April AD 1818 Before me J. H. Smith Assistant Justice of the Court of Common Pleas

State of New Hampshire 
Hillsborough SS
On this fourth day of April AD 1818 Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Hillsborough personally appeared Zacheus Walker resident in New Ipswich in said County of Hillsborough in the sixty ninth year of his age and being duly cautioned made solemn oath agreeably to said in order to obtain a pension under
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the late act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" that he inlisted or engaged as first lieutenant in Captain Joseph Mores Company in the seventh Regiment of foot commanded by Colo. William Prescott and served as such commencing the first of Jany. AD 1776 in which corps being in the Massachusetts line herein termed to serve untill January AD 1777. When the Regiment broke up & he returned home from Pick Kill in the State of New York where the Regiment was discharged. That he is reduced in his circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support and that he has never been placed on the pension list of the United States. From all which Justify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Zacheus Walker did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy in the Continental establishment as a Lieutenant more than nine months and that he is reduced in his circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
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copy (illegible)

Zacheus Walker
Schedule 5th July 1820
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To the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting at Amherst within and for the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire
July fifth 1820
Zacheus Walker aged seventy years resident in New Ipswich in said County, comes into Court, and, in pursuance of the Act of Congress, passed on the 1st day of May, 1820, brings with him, and in his proper person, exhibits to said Court a Schedule by him subscribed, containing his whole estate and income, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) as follows:
1 cow @ 15.00 one other cow 18.00
1 horse 15.00                 48.00
1 Heifer 15.00 1 Shoat 10.00 1 horse waggon 18.75       43.75
one old plough .50 -one old harrow .36 one ox yoke .50    1.36
two draft chains 1.50-2 old hoes .20 2 rakes .12
l.82
3 pitch forks .18 old harness & Irons .75-2 old axes .24  1.17
1 pair old cast wheels 5.00
1 old dung fork .12-old shovel .10 poor horse waggon $10.--  10.22
2 arm chairs .25-6 6 fan do .50-4 old kitchen do 8   .83
3 old tables  .80  kitchen do 8 - light island 6-old chest & draws .50   1.36
1 desk .25-low blue 25-14 pewter 2.34      2.84
6 blue edged plates 6-6 cups & saucers 10
old churn 10   .26
old tin teapot 8 -looking glass 17-old wooden clock 2.00      2.25
old cases 8  barrells .87 cheese press 25  6 old chick pans 6    1.18
old waiter .2 old iron .20-old grindstone & brank 1.00     1.22
 1 shave 2-pair old andiron .50 2 pair tongs 50        1.02
1 crane & hoods 1.50-old Brass kettle 1.50 2 iron pots 1.75     3.75
1 dish kettle 10-2 white bowls 2-1 old coffee pot 2     .14
flour box and dipper 5-2 glass bottles 17-1 decanter 17       .39
2 pink bottles 10  2 jugs 6  1 wooden bottle 10
.26
3 gall & keg 12  tub 20  old candle sticks 3   .35
6 knives 12 3 old baskets 3 comb case 1    .16
4 iron spoons 2  3 butter pots 4 old saddle 50   .56
1 womans saddle 50  bridle 10 single sleigh 5.00    5.60
1 string bells 50 2 wheels 55 tools &c. 60   1.65
wheel barrow 1.00 cast body 4.25 buffalo skin 2.25    7.50
milk pots  40  pitcher 20 plates 40 scythe 80  1.80
axes hoes bridle and milk pans         2.30
141.75
Income of my wife's dowry 20.00 but after deducting repairs net profit supposed only...........
I further declare that I am indebted to Ebarer Rhodes D60.00 Leonard Hoar D16.00-Peter felt D16.00. Ruthy Davis D8.00 amounting to D100.00
Zacheus Walker
And the said Zacheus Walker in pursuance as aforesaid, produceth to said Court the following oath, by him duly taken and subscribed, viz:
I Zacheus Walker do solemnly swear that I was a residence citizen of the United States on the 83 of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have i any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
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And the said Zacheus Walker doth here in Court further declare on oath, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz:
That on the twentieth day of April 1775 he entered the service as an officer and was attached to the company of Capt. Joseph Moores in Col. William Prescotts Regiment in te Massachusetts line to serve for eight months and on the first day of January 1776 was regularly discharged. That he then engaged in the same company, regiment an line which was on the continental establishment to serve for one year. That he served as first Lieutenant in said company till the first of January 1777 when he was regularly discharged at Picks Kill by Gen. Heath. That his commission is in the Pension office with his original declaration as he supposes.
That the date of his original declaration in order to obtain a pension is April 4th 1818 And his pension certificate is not numbered. That his occupation is a farmer or laborer. That the number and names of his family residing with him, and their ages and capacities to contribute to their support, are as follows, viz. 
His wife aged sixty four who has a lame arm and is unable to do work enough to support herself-and a grand child Leonard Walker aged ten years who can do little more than wait on them. 
By reason of infirmity he is unable to labor and can do little or nothing twoard my own support.
Zacheus Walker
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Zacheus Walker
to Solomon Stevens
Copy of Record
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Know all men by these presents, That I Zacheus Walker of New Ipswich in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire Gentleman in consideration of ten dollars to me paid ^ in hand by Solomon Stevens of Townsend in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts yeoman the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto the said Solomon Stevens, 
heirs and assigns all the right title and interest I have in a certain lot of land in the westerly part of Townsend on suchy hill so called bounded as follows Easterly on Benjamin Barrett's land-Southerly and Westerly on Dushing Burns and Richardsons land and Northerly on Solomon Stevens land it being part of a lot on the Northeast corner of land formerly known by the name of the Gibs land continuing from six to ten acres more or less. To have an to hold the aforesaid granted premises to the said Stevens his heirs and assigns forever and I do covenant with the said Stevens That I am the lawful owner of the above described premises, That they are free from all encumbrances and that I have good right to convey the same as above and That I quit my right title and claim to the sd. Stevens his heirs and assigns forever In witness whereof I the sd. Zacheus Walker with Rachel my wife surrendering her right of power to the same have hereunto set our hands and seal this twenty fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five. Zacheus Walker & seal, Rachel Walker her mark and seal. Signed sealed & delivered in presence of us, Silas B. Walker signing of Z Walker, Benjamin Champrey, Simpson Fletcher witnesses of signing  by Rachel X her mark.

Hillsborough Ss. November 29th 1825
Then personally appeared the within named  Zacheus Walker & acknowledged the within and by him signed and sealed to be his voluntary act, before me Benj. Champrey Justice of the Peace 
Middlesex Ss. Dec.6th 1825 Rec'd and Recorded by Wm. F. Stone Regr.
A true copy of the Record Book 264 page 6 Attest Wm F. Stone Reg.
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Rev. and 1812 
Wars Section.

April 28, 1927

F. W. Holden
306 Main St.
Fitchburg Bank & Trust Co.
Fitchburg, Mass.

Sir:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War Pension claim S. 44022, it appears that Zaccheus Walker enlisted April 20, 1775 and served to January 1, 1776 as Lieutenant in Captain Joseph Moore's Company, Colonel William Prescott's Massachusetts Regiment, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill; he was commissioned January 1, 1776, First Lieutenant in Captain Joseph Moore's Company, Colonel William Prescott's Regiment and served until January 1, 1777.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 4, 1818, while a resident of New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire in his sixty ninth year. He had formerly lived in Ashby, Massachusetts.
Soldier married Rachel, widow of Silas Bigelow,
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she was sixty-four years old in 1820, and a grandson Leonard Walker, was then teen years old. A son is referred to, who had eight children, no names are given; and a son Isaac Walker is referred to.
In 1853, Danforth Walker that he was heir of Zaccheus Walker, but did not give any relationship.
Ther are no details as to soldier's marriage and no further data on file as to family.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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44022
Revy INVALID

File No. 44022
Zaccheus Walker
Lieut: Rev War

Act 18th March '18
Index: Vol. 3 Page 536

[Arrangement of 1870)

(Right side)
1913 Dec. 13 Hist. to Florence W. Barrie
1919 Mrs. Florence W. Barrie advised of cost of copy of com. aw
1919 Apr 9. Photostat copy of Commission mailed to Mrs. Barrie
1923 May 22 Photostat copy of commission mailed to Agnes E. Walker MMHF
1927 Apr 28 Hist to F. W. Holden amf
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Commission of Zacheus Walker
1st Lieut.
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Zaccheus Walker
New Hampshire
Application to remove

Suspension
Brief within

see letter to Hon. J. Locke R. R. 28 Dec. 1825
Agent Saml. Batchelden Esq.
New Ipswich, N. H.

Suspenson removed
14 Jan. 1826 see letters to Agent & Hon. J. Locke

last evidence 16th Feb. 182? (torn)
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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 New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, to Zachariah Walker, Gent.
We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, Do by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be First Lieutenant of Captain Joseph Mores Company in the 7th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel William Prescott 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 First 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 First Lieutenant And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from (smudge) 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 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. Jany. 1, 1776
By Order of the Congress
John. Hancock President
Attest Chas. Thomson Secy.
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New Ipswich N.H.
July 31

John C. Calhoun
Dep of War
City Washington

Walker Zaccheus
Cont-Mass S 44022
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New Ipswich July 20, 1821
To John C. Calhoun Esq Department at War

(faded) last to Clifton Clegget Esq. relating to his pension papers added being a certificate of the supposed value of estate he holds in right of his wife. That is the value is estimated at the sum certified without reference to any incumbrance whatever. If sold he could not dispose of the (faded) The annual interest during the life of the wife would be $15.60 and no more.. If the income was the value intended by the (faded) made on the papers it would not have been stated higher those set down in the schedule that is (faded) annual income. The first and ^second certificates give the whole case.
I am with consideration of (illegible) you obt.svt.
Benj. Champney
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Zacheus Walker
Revolutionary Pensioner
Act of 1818
New Hampshire Roll

P. of atty. enclosed
see papers

Mr. Cole
May 5/53

A. M. Gangewer Present Atty.
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Know all Men by these Presents,
That I, Danforth Walker, (Heir of Zacheus Walker, a Rev. Pensioner on New Hampshire Rolls) of New Ipswich in the County of Hillsborough & State of New Hampshire, have constituted and appointed ^A. M. Gangewer, of the City of Washington, my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, with power of substitution, for me and in my name, place and stead, to ask and receive of and from the United States any Bounty Land, Pensions, Money or Moneys that now is or are due to me on account of services rendered, disbursements made or expenses incurred by him while in the service of the United States, or on any other account whatsoever, and in my name to give receipts and other sufficient discharges for such Bounty Lane, Pensions, Patents, and Money due as aforesaid, and to attend to and prosecute any and all business of whatever nature I may have with or before any of the Departments of the Government or Congress, and, generally, to do any and every other act or acts, that I myself might or could do, were I personally present at the doing thereof; hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said Attorney shall do in and about the premises by virtue hereof.
The words "A. M. Gangewer" interlined before signing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this ninth day of April 1853
Danforth Walker   (seal)
Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of 
Two Witnesses
Jeremiah Smith
Moody Adams
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State of New Hampshire
County of Hillsborough SS 
On this ninth day of April 1853, personally appeared Danforth Walker before me, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein contained.
Jeremiah Smith, J. P.  (seal)

State of New Hampshire
County of Hillsboro SS
I hereby certify that Jeremiah Smith Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgement was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Hillsborough County Court, ^ of C. C. Pleas this Twentieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and 
fifty three
Perly Dodge, Clerk
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Washington City DC.
May 5, 1853

Sir
Enclosed you will find Power of Attorney from Danforth Walker, Heir of Zacheus Walker, a Revolutionary Pensioner under Act of 1818, New Hampshire Roll.
I wish to examine the papers on file.
Yours Truly A. M. Gangewer, Atty


Hon. J. P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions
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Washington City Jan. 14 1826
To the James Barbour
Sec. of War

Sir the enclosed papers in the case of Zacheus Walker a pensioner have been (illegible)
I transmit the same and by leave to and that the severall persons whole affidavits are herein are personally known ^to me, and that there are entitled to full credit and further that I am full of the opinion the Walker is entitled to his pension.
Respectfully yours
John Locke
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Certificate of Jn. Locke Esq. in the case of Zacheus Walker a Pensioner
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The Hon. John C. Calhoun Sec. of War

I the subscriber do hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Zacheus Walker a pensioner, for more than twenty five years. That more than ten years since he became very poor to that degree that it was with much difficulty, a small debt of five dollars could be collected of him, although compelled by process of [illegible]. That at the time he his name was placed with pension roll he was destitute of almost every kind of property & saving the use and improvement & a small piece of real estate being one third of a farm of moderate value, and the same set of land assigned to his wife as her dower from her former husband's estate. The produce of the farm or that part which he hold in right of his wife is altogether inadequate to his support without his labor. if he has any money or property, except as above stated I believe it is that which he may have saved from a part of his pension well known it that at the decease of his wife his
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claim to the land which he now occupies will also cease. I further state that Walker own or is reputed to own a very small piece of poor land situate in Ashby where I reside, it contiguous to a piece of land which I own, a mere fraction of a piece of land which was left of apiece set off on execution to satisfy a loan and a garnish him that is [illegible] 
and poor ^that I think the value less than ten dollars. Should have stated that Walker has lived many years in the Town of Ashby and that he now lives in New Ipswich about three miles from my house.
John Locke

Washington Feb. 15, 1825
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No.8

The hon. John C. Calhoun
Secy. of War
Washington

Letter of Saml. Dana
Feb. 1825
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To the Hon. John C. Calhoun Esqr. Secy of War

For Last Summer or autumn Zac. Walker informed me that his pension was suspended, thru the instrumentallity (as he supposed) of Amos Randall who lived in the house with him, but from what cause he did know. He requested my assistance to be replaced again on the list. This I declined to give him, not then knowing that I should visit Washington this winter. There is none of the Representatives or Senators from Newhampshire, that live within forty miles of Walker. None of them (I presume) ever knew him. Since I came here finding W. Harvey had been (illegible) on the subject (and he lives in the same County with Walker) I applied to him & procured him to go to the pension office, where I explained to him what I conceived to be a gross misrepresentation and we both consulted Mr. Locke who he represents Worcester North District in Mass. yet lives upon the line of Newhampshire in (illegible) County. We have all volunteered our testimony for Capt. Walker & we hope that when the additional facts presented by us are considered they will remove the grounds upon which Walkers pension has been suspended. With great respect I have the honor to be yr. obd sevt.
Saml. Dana

Wash. City Feby 1825
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affidavit of Samuel Dana in the case of Zach. Walker a pensioner

No.1
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I Samuel Dana of Groton in the State of Massachusetts do declare and testify that I have known Zacheus Walker of New Ipswich in New Hampshire more than thirty years, about 1794, he removed from New Hampshire to Ashby in Mass. the residence of John Lock esq. I was an agent to convey a part of his form to him and have known him transiently since--he appeared for several years to thrive and do well, in the world.  He resided about thirteen miles from me. From causes unknown to me, for many years he has appeared to decline in his circumstances and a few years since, married the widow Bigelow of New Ipswich and removed to her place, which is the dower assigned her out of her husbands estate, the other two thirds being held by one Amos Ramsdell who purchased the same from the heirs and the (illegible) of her dower. I know the estate well and state my opinion that the whole of it is not worth more than $75.00 a year, and the dower not worth more than $25. The grounds of this opinion are that I own lands in several parts of this town which came to my wife by inheritance from her father
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Father in 1813. I purchased a place for a sheep fold which I occupied till the events of peace induced me to break it up in 1819. The Estate consisted of a good farm house, a barn, 100 feet by 28 with sheds. 130 acres of land with an aqueduct. I rented it one year for $40 next for $35 and next $30 and last December I sold it for $850. The agricultural population ^in this town, is about 1000 who live on a hard, cold mountainous and sterile soil which does  not produce more than three quarters of their bread stuffs. Their manufactives of Cotton and wool & starch are in a flourishing state and sustain a population of 400 people who are fed with the flour of the middle States the rye of the neighbouring towns and the corn of the western States. I own a parcel of meadow or mowing on which Mrs. Bigelows dower abutts and now those thirds by passing over them and seeing the house and buildings as I pass & sometimes stop and speak to Capt. Walker. The premises afford a shelter for himself and wife, fuel to warm then & keeping for a cow and horse, beyond this they are not worth one cent, to a man who cannot labor, and as Walker must be 70 years of age he cannot work much, things about the house appear in decay and poverty is imposed on most of the objects. A long time since he came
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came to me in Groton about 20 miles from his residence and stated his poverty and his difficulty to procure testimony to get on to the pension list. assisted him to procure his witnesses and took their testimony for him, (but received no compensation) last summer I understood he was suspended and he complained sorely of his misfortunes and the means by which he supposed they were brought upon him.
I also state that I know Amos Ransdell of New Ipswich, that he is not a man of much consideration there, and as he has a bitter quarrel with Walker, his testimony in anything regarding him would not be considered as entitled to any credit. And further says not.
Saml. Dana

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On this 16th day of February 1825 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for all the counties in said Commonwealth personally appeared the above named Samuel Dana Esqr. and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is just and true on all its parts.
David Cummins
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Rec'd Dec. 30. 1824

Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City

No. 12
Mr. Edwards

Retraction of James Spaulding Jr.
2 Dec. 1824
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Newipswich  Dec. 2nd 1824

Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

Sir, I last winter addressed a letter to the War department containing statements respecting the circumstances of Capt. Zacheus Walker.
I wrote said letter at the request of Amos Ramsdell (my principal informer) who stated to me that it could be proved and that he was willing to make oath to it.
I have good reason to believe and in that from the testimony of the most respectable people in town that what was stated as facts in the letter were incorrect and I wish said letter not to remain as a bar to Walkers obtaining his pension knowing him to be old and infirm.
I am respectfully yours &c.
James Spaulding Jr.
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New Ipswich May 12th 1824

Hon. Matthew Harvey,
Sir, Perhaps you will recollect that about two years ago, I wrote you respecting the application of Zacheus Walker, a revolutionary officer, to be continued on the pension lists and that this was done, and the papers forwarded by you. Walker has lately rec'd a letter from the Pension office stating that it has been represented that at the time of the exhibition of his schedule, he had property to the amount of $400. That he owned real estate in Massachusetts; which was not given in and that he now has $500 at interest and that his pension will be dropt till he exhibits evidence that this statement is not correct. Walker has for some years lived in the part of a house which was set off to his wife as her dower in the estate of her former husband. A man by the  name of Ramsdell who purchased the interest of the house in the estate lives in the other part of the house -- thus conflicting claims to the property and the wife estate together with living in the same house has produced the natural result--a violent quarrel and in consequent of a suit lately brought by Walker against Ramsdell he has repeatedly threatened that he would deprive Walker of his pension. It seems Ramsdell applied to James Spaulding Jr. to write to the War Department on the subject. I have seen Spaulding, who says he has no personal knowledge of the facts stated in his letter to the Secretary, but that he wrote entirely by the request and according to the representation of Ramsdell
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I am perfectly satisfied that before Walker was placed on the pension list he was poor, that there were debts against him which he could not pay, and that his having depended on the improvement of the property in which his wife had a life estate, so that if had outlived her he would have been totally destitute. After his application and before he obtained his certificate a year and an half probably passed so that he received $300 or 400 at the first payment and having lived in the meantime on the dower, this made him richer than his neighbours and they no doubt thought him richer than he was. When his pension was suspended I presume he had not half the amount of property stated by Ramsdell. While he continues to receive an officers pension of $240 per year, and also to have the use of his wife's dower, he is undoubtedly able to save a part of his pension but I understand a part of the property which you into the estimate of Ramsdell and Spaulding really belongs to his son and was put into the hands of the father secure it from attachments. Such things you know are not uncommon. Since his schedule was made, he has rec'd four years pensions amounting to $900 -$1000 but of this sum he has put at interest $500 as was represented. This cannot impeach the truth of his schedule, and his not spending the whole of his money ought not to be a reason for depriving him of his pension.
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The result of me inquiry as to the land in Massachusetts is this. A dozen years ago Walker and his son owned a piece of land in Ashby. It was attached and set off on an execution against them. All but 8 or 9 acres, half of which belonged to him. He offered to sell it for less than $20. and some years before making his schedule, he had given another person power of attorney to sell it for him. Never having received any income from it and in fact it have been sold by his attorney, to a person who afterwards refused to take a conveyance of it, he did not put it into his schedule.
If you can have patience to unravel this long story, I should be glad to have you tell at the pension office and it may bear to some explanation of the motives at last, which have produced the unfavorable representation.
The letter to Walker requires him to prove satisfactory evidence that the information rec'd is not correct, considering the nature of this requisition, I do not know what course to advise him to take. So far as it depends on the letter of Spaulding he has told me and I have no doubt would so state to the department that he has no knowledge of the facts stated in his letter, but from Ramsdell; and Ramsdell's information is undoubtedly influenced by his (illegible) against Walker.
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The selectmen of the town, who, as disinterested persons, examined and certified his schedule, I am informed have expressed their readiness to confirm it, but whether this would be the satisfactory evidence which is required I do no know. Perhaps it might be well to ascertain whether the substance of this statement duly authenticated would be satisfactory.
I wish you would if you can attend to it before you have Washington, obtain information of the state of the business at the Pension office and let me know what measures it will be necessary to take in behalf of Walker, to put the matter right.
I remain, your much obliged and honorable servt.
Saml. Batchelder

Dear Sir
With most of the facts mentioned above I am acquainted. I have repeatedly heard Ramsdell threaten that if Walker commenced an action against him he should lose his pension. and I have no doubt that Ramsdell has been activated altogether by malice & revenge in the representation he has made to the War department and I have no hesitancy in confirming the statements made by Mr. Batchelder.
Very respectfully your obedient servant
Geo. F. Farley
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Statement of Z. Walker
16 Dec. 1824
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Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
The petition of Zacheus Walker of New Ipswich N. H.  humbly shows that his is now seventy five years of age. That he has a family dependent on him for support. That he is obliged to assist as on to support a family of eight children. That your petitioner is by reason of age and infirmities unable to labour. That he has had much sickness in his family the past year. That he applied and obtained a pension under the law of 1818 and when he was required to render a schedule under the law of 1820 he gave a faithful account of what property he was possessed of and that the same was appraised at the full value. that your petitioner was continued on the pension list. and that he has since received a letter from the war department stating that information had been given that he was worth $400. At the time he gave is schedule, that he had real estate not give in and that he had $500. at inerest.
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Your petitioner states that all his property was included in the schedule exhibit that a small parcel of land from which he had never received any income and which had been conditionally sold a number of years before was omitted. he further states that he had not $500. at interest that he has occasionally (illegible) a part of his semi-annual payment until he had occasion to use it. At the time of rendering his schedule he was bound to pay Eleazer Rhoads $60.00 per year for five years toward the maintenance of his family as mentioned above. That the agency of Amos Ramsdell in relation to the petitioner is altogether (illiegible) by malice on account of some dispute and law suit between him and Ramsdell who has often threatened to stop the pension of the petitioner--but your petitioner is trusting in the justice if his claim
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sanctioned by a law of the Country, prays that you will cause his name to be restored to the pension list.
Zacchues Walker
New Ipswich N. H. Dec. 16, 1824
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Letter
Clifton Claggett

Amherst N. H. Oct (smudged)
Hon'ble. John C. Calhoun
Secy. of War
Washington

No. 2
rec'd 12 Oct 1821
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Amherst N. H. Sept. 4th 1821
Hon. John C. Calhoun, Sect. of War

Sir
Captain Zaccheus Walker of New Ipswich late a revoly. Soldier and now present with me, requests me to renew my solicitations in his behalf.
He states that since his claim for Pension was suspended he has in the best manner in his power complied with the regulations of the War Department and has strong hopes that the evidence last forwarded (in August last) will evince his poverty & be deemed sufficient to bring him withing the true meaning of the Acts of Congress-but having had no information, since that time on the subject, he fears the evidence did not arrive and he requests in that case that you would direct that he be informed. He also states that since forwarding the last evidence the old dwelling home which he claims in right of his wife and in which he lives was by the late Tornado almost destroyed and that he is unable to repair it without help.
And I can add that I have long known him; that he was in the Battle of Bunker Hill and other battles in the revolution & was a good soldier and that he is now old, poor & in need of the aid of his country.
I have the honor to be with high esteem,
yr. obt. svt.
Clifton Clagett
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Letter of Matthew Harvey
inquiring respecting the case of Walker
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Washington Feb. 14, 1822

J. L. Edwards
Sir
Mr. Zacheus Walker says he is abundantly qualified for a pension--has sent documents on the subject to the War Department but has rec'd no answer.
He wishes to know if he is continued as a pensioner--if not the reason why.
Be so good as to inform me
Your obt. sevt.
Matthew Harvey

Reuben Patch is again solicitous to know the result of his application for a pension.
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I Timothy Fox Jr. a selectman of New Ipswich depose that Capt. Zaccheus Walker has resided in said New Ipswich for more than ten years is now nearly seventy years total is little able to labor owns no real estate to my knowledge & should he be sick he would a charge to this town. I therefore depose he is poor and in such circumstances as requires the aid of his Country.
Timothy Fox Jr.

I Benjamin Champney selectman as aforesaid, do affirm the above.
Benj. Champney

Hillsborough Co. ss
 Oct 26, 1818
Then personally appeared the above named Timothy Fox & Benjamin Champney and severally made oath to the truth of the above depositions by then subscribed.
Saml. Batchelden J. P.
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Capt. Walker

This certifies that the signature of J. H. Smith on this paper is in his own hand writing & that he is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire. In testimony whereof I have hereto set the seal of said court.
Moses Eastman, Clerk

This certifies that Timothy Fox Jr. and Benjamin Champney are both creditable witnesses in Courts of Law and that Samuel Batchelder made the within certificates the oaths of sd. Fox & Champney is an acting Justice of the Peace for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire & whose official acts as such are by the Laws of said State entitled to credit.
J. H. Smith, Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
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To Hon. J Barbour
Secretary of War
of the U. States
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To the Hon. James Barbour Secretary of War

Capt. Zacheus Walker of New Ipswich N. H. a revolutionary pensioner, whose pension has been suspended in consequence of certain representations heretofore made to the War department by Amos Ramsdell and James Spaulding has requested me to make some statement to you relative to his case and to forward the same together with some evidence which he has procured, to the war department.
Ramsdell has lived for many years upon bad terms with Walker and it has been notorious that they were personal enemies. Walker supposed that Ramsdell had committed a trespass upon him by cutting some wood upon the land set off to his wife as dower in the estate of her late husband and threatened him with a suit. Ramsdell repeatedly swore in my hearing that if Walker did commence a suit he (Ramsdell) would deprive Walker of his pension. Walker disregarding the threat of Ramsdell and supposing that he had a good course of action commenced a suit against Ramsdell. Soon after, Ramsdell made his statement to the war department, and my own opinion is that id Ramsdell had been as well known at the pension office as he is in his own neighbourhood very little weight would have been given to his statement. James Spaulding by whom a statement was also made has frequently conferred to me
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that he derived all his information respecting Walkers affairs from Ramsdell, that otherwise he had no knowledge and that it was at the earnest solicitation of Ramsdell that he made his statement to the War Department and that he now thinks he was misinformed. I herewith forward some affidavits together with an office copy of Walkers deed to Soloman Stevens of the land spoken of in the affidavit of Col. Felt. The Hon. Mr. Lock of the House of Representatives will give you the requisite information respecting the persons whose affidavits are herewith forwarded.
Respectfully
Geo. F. Farley

New Ipswich N. H. Dec 29, 1825
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Capt. Z. Walkers
affidavit
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I Zacheus Walker depose that the schedule of my property now in the pension office was made correctly at the time as I supposed. I have since ascertained that I had a legal title to a small piece of land in Townsend which was omitted in my schedule altogether from forgetfullness. I had made no amount of it for several years and some years ago I made a bargain for a sale of it to Solomon Stevens of Townsend but the loam which I was to receive never having been delivered the agreement has never been carried into effect. I have since sold my right in said land to said Stevens for ten dollars to be paid in board, that being the most I have been above to obtain for said land. I further depose that I received my pension at one time for two years amounting to four hundred and eighty dollars and that sum being more than I was under the absolute necessity of spending at once I put it at interest supposing that the time might soon arrive when my pension would not be sufficient to defray sickness in my family and have been sick myself and have not been able to labour. My wife is also unable to labour and the money which I saved out of my pension is now almost exhausted only twenty dollars of it remaining. Zaccheus Walker

Hillsborough SS. Dec. 28 1925. Then personally appeared the above named Zacheus Walker and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me Geo. F. Farley Jus. peace
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Dr. James Barr Jr.
affidavit
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I James Barr Jr. depose that for two years past I have frequently attended Capt. Zacheus Walker and his family as a physician & surgeon, During which time his wife has been frequently sick and in ^one instance she was confined three or four weeks to her bed by sickness and said Zacheus Walker has also frequently been sick and instance from a fall from a wagon about a year ago, he was confined about a fortnight. He has festulous sore upon his elbow which has continued to discharge matter for nearly a year and which almost if not wholly deprives him of the use of arm and from what I have known of Cap. Walker & his wife I should Judge that for the last year neither of them have been able to do much toward their support by way of labour. Dr. Kidder of Ashby has occasionally attended upon him. It is my opinion that he will never have the full use of his arm. For the last two years his expenses must have been much more than ordinary by reason of sickness.
James Barr

Hillsborough Dec. 29, 1825 Then personally appeared the above named James Barr Jr. and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit.
Before me Geo. F. Farley
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Affidavit of the Selectmen of New Ipswich
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We Peter Felt and Joseph Barnett Selectmen of New Ipswich depose that we have been acquainted with Capt. Zacheus Walker for several years and as far as our knowledge extends he is considered a man of fair character and his statements may be relyed upon as true.
He is at present rather feeble and decrepid and his circumstances are such that without assistance it may reasonably be apprehended that he will become a town pauper. 
Peter Felt
Joseph Barrett

Hillsborough Ss Dec 27th 1825 Then personally appeared the above named Peter Felt and Joseph Barnett Selectmen of New Ipswich and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me Geo. F. Farley Just. peace
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Deac Isaac Adams
Affidavit
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I Isaac Adams of New Ipswich depose that I have been well acquainted with Capt. Zacheus Walker of New Ipswich for more than twenty years and that for many years he has been quite poor and it is my opinion that without assistance he will soon become a town pauper and it is also my opinion that he must before this time have become chargeable to the town^ without assistance. I further depose that I was one of the selectmen who took a schedule of his property and I believe that he rendered a true account of his property at that time. And I am still of opinion that he rendered an honest account of his property and that the omission of the small piece of land in Townsend resulted from accident or forgetfullness. Said Walker is reputed a man of veracity.
Isaac Adams

Hillsborough SS Dec. 17th 1825 Then personally appeared the above named Isaac Adams and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. Before me
Geo. F. Farley, Jus. peace
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Certificates in the case of Zac. Walkker a pensioner
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To the Secy. of War
We certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Batchelder Esq of New Ipswich in New Hampshire, who addressed a letter to M. Harvey under date of May 12th 1824 now on file in the Pension Office. Mr. Bachellor has been a Legislator in his State, is a Magistrate in his County, and much employed in the affairs of his Town. And that his statements are entitled to full faith and credit in all places and before all tribunals.
Wash. City Jany 22d 1825

Saml. Dana
Matthew Harvey
John Locke

I the subscriber certify that I am well acquainted with James Spaulding whose memorial or certificate is on file with the papers in the case of Zacheus Walker and that he is perfectly deaf, that all information communicated to him by others is by writing or signs.
John Locke
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Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
District of Cola.

No 10
Caveat 
Rec'd 8 May 1824

Hon. (illegible)
May 3d 1824
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New Ipswich May 3d 1824
Hon. Mr. Calhoun
Secretary of War

Sir, I addressed a letter to you about two weeks since giving information that the pension of Capt. Zacheus Walker of this town was supposed to be obtained by fraud & not giving in all his property and enlosed a certificate of Amos Ramsdell and requested from your department a coppy of the scedule exhibited by said Walker. Since which time I have received from the clerk of the court of Common pleas a certified copy of said scedule & find by the scedule that he gave in only the most worthless part of his property with the exception of his stock. The following property it is known he owned at that time and for many years before 10 years supposed worth
1 pew  $20
1 gun  8
1 harness  18
1 new saddle  15
4 beds & bedding 80
4 acres of land in Mass.  40
            $181
It is likewise known debts were due to him then
The net income of his wifes dower is $60 per year and can be set for that during her life.
I find also that he gave in his scedule that he was owing Eleazer Roads $60. We can prove by Elr.. Roads testimony that on July 5th 1820 (the date of the scedule) that Walker did not owe said Roads one cent. My only object in giving this information is justice and I trust that if
2
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I should be the means of saving my Country $240 per year (and about $1000 which Walker has received and is able to refund) that I shall not be considered a useless incumbrance upon its bounty having been deprived of my hearing in its service & for which I am paid $8 per month. Should you see fit to forward me any directions they shall be faithfully executed.
I am Sir Respectfully
your obedient servant
James Spaulding Jr.

Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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Mr. Edwards
Caveat
Rec'd 21 Apl. 1724

New Ipswich (illegible) 25

Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington
District of Columbia

No 9
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Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

Sir
Being an invalid pensioner of the U. S. I consider it my duty to state the following Facts to you respecting the circumstances of Capt. Zacheus Walker a revolutionary pensioner of the U. S. at the rate of $20 per Month. The scedule of his property we are told amounted to about $75 we can prove that at the time he gave in his scedule that his property was worth more than $400 that he had real estate in Massachusetts which he has since confessed he did not give in that he owns in right of his wife and has occupied for 20 years half of a large house & one third of a farm of 140 acres which has always supported his family and which his son told me now did. It would rent at $60 per year. He has at this time about $500 at interest cash on hand a stock of cattle horse & carriages & he is haughty and overbearing his poorer neighbors are obliged to submit to oppression from him or be subject to vexatious law suits if you see fit to furnish us with a coppy of his scedule & oath with any directions you may think proper directed to me
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as they only are waited to commence an action against him for perjury. The facts here stated are all capable of proof if however you think it not proper to do any thing about it we presume no other use will be made of this information. In thus applying to you I have done it at the request of Walkers neighbors and the information will be given under oath if necessary and required by you.
I am sir respectfully 
yours, James Spaulding Jr. & others

P.S. Sir you will readily perceive that we can do nothing without a copy of his oath & scedule one of his largest debtors was one of the appraisers of his property and the court set at a considerable distance from this place.
April 10th 1824   James Spaulding Jr.
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I Amos Ramsdell hereby certify and am willing to make oath to the same that I have lived in the house with Capt. Zacheus Walker for the space of 14 years. That I own the farm of 140 acres on which the said Waler lives. That the said Walker has the right of his wife the improvement of the best third of said farm. That at the time he have in his record and now I am willing to pay him sixty dollars a year for his right in said farm. That I find him a man capable of doing one half as much labor as would be required of a common man. That his wife is an uncommonly healthy woman and does all her house work that his grandson is a stout boy 24 years old capable of doing half the mans labor which is all his family. That I think his property at the time he gavie in his scedule was worth $400 besides the income of his farm. That he ononed land in Mass which he has acknowledged he didan give in that I should estimate his present state as follows.
1 horse $50- 
3 cows  60
3  2 year olds 40
Carriage  70
4 bed & bedding 80
other furniture sufficient 300
Cash Lieut. Col. Felt 200
Joseph Esterbrook  100
Isaac Spalding  100
Cash which his grandson says he has by him about  180
$580
That they have a stock of provisions for the year--that it is my opinion that the farm he owns is full sufficient to support the family of said Walker.
New Ipswich April 18th 1824
Amos Ramsdell
Witness James Spaulding
P.S. The above does not include his land in his own right or all his personal property.
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Certificate of The Overseers of the poor of the town of Ipswich
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We the subscribers, to wit, Timothy Fox Jr. and Isaac Adams Selectmen & overseers of the poor of the town of New Ipswich for 1821 and Benjamin Champney late a Selectman & overseer of the poor of the same town, having taken into consideration the estate of Capt. Zacheus Walker of the same New Ipswich held in right of his wife as her dower in the estate of her late husband Silas Bigelow late of said New Ipswich deceased. Do appreciate the same as follows, to wit. The improved part estimated at twenty acres at the sum of two hundred dollars. The house & Barn of the sun of Fifty dollars. The improved land at the sum of Ten dollars making the sum of Two hundred and sixty dollars-Being in our opinion the just value of said estate.
New Ipswich July 30, 1821.
Timothy Fox Jr.
Isaac Adams
Benj. Champney
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Certificate of the Overseers of the poor for New Ipswich
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We the subscribers Selectmen and overseers of the poor for the town of New Ipswich hereby certify that from an examination of the property of Capt. Zacheus Walker we find him possessed of certain articles of person property to the amount of about 87 dollars as per schedule submitted to the Court of Common Pleas, and some articles purchased from the proceed of his pension amounting to about $50 and that he now has the improvement of the dower in which his wife aged sixty five has a life estate only consisting of about twenty acres under improvement and the half of a house and a small barn both very much out of repair. That the said Walker is now 71 years of age and very infirm so that he has not been out of the house for five weeks nor been able to put on his own clothes for some months. This inability to labour renders the income of the dower of very little value, and we have no hesitation in certifying that neither this income nor his property afford him the means of support without the continuance of his pension. Said Walker has no relation of sufficient ability to support him.
Benj. Champney
Timothy Fox Jr.
Isaac Adams

New Ipswich
February 14, 1821
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The depositions of Saml. Laurence Esqr.
Capt. John Williams 
Lt. Pela. Russell to be used in the application of Lt. Zach. Walker
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I Samuel Laurence of Groton in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do depose and say that I belonged to the army of the American Revolution. I enlisted it at the commencement, was at the battle of Bunker hill and compleated the first eight months as a noncommissioned Officer, when I received a Commission from Congress as an Ensign & was annexed to Capt. Joseph Moors Company in Col. Wm. Prescotts Regiment in the Massachusetts line. Our Lieut. was Zaccheus Walker now of New Ipswich in the State of New hampshire. I knew him in the eight months service and well new him as a Lieut. in the years service. I was constantly with him during the whole year & well know that he entered the service as Capt. Moors Lieut the first of January AD 1776 and continued with the Company & was dismissed with them at the highlands above Peekskill in New York, the first of January AD 1777.
Samuel Lawrance

I Pelatiah Russell of Groton in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts de depose and say that I was in the Army of the American Revolution. I belonged to Capt. [illegible] Powell's Company in the first eight months service at Cambridge in Masa. and I entered the years service as a Seargant in Cap. Joseph Moors company in Col. Prescotts Regiment of the Massa. line. I did duty as a Seargant untill May or June when i was ordered o duty as an artisan with a Regiment which was [illegible] the army I was paraded in Boradway, we were counted into platoons & Companies and I was ordered to take command as a Lieut in a Regiment of which Colo. Brewer had the command had a waiter assist me & did such duty & took charge of such men, as I was (illegible] to do untill I compleated my year, when I was dismissed & returned home.
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with ^some of the Officers of Prescotts Regiment, having remained in service about four weeks longer than my engagement during this year. I well know Leit. Zaccheus Walker of Capt. Joseph Moors Company & know that he was with our said Company at Cambridge, proceeded with them to New York and continued with his Regiment untill they were all dismissed the first of January AD 1777. I well remember that I saw him the next day after the Regiment was dismissed.
Peletiah Russell.

I John Williams do depose and say that I entered the Revolutionary army the commencement of that war & served untill the termination thereof. I belonged to Colo. Prescotts Regiment & was a Leut. under Capt. Morse (smudged) the year AD 1776. And I well knew Leut. Zaccheus Walker of Capt. Moors Company in the Regiment aforesaid. I knew him in the eight months service, remember him at Sewalls point in Cambridge and knew that he proceeded with his Regiment to New York and that he continued with the Regiment untill they were dismissed at Peekskill near the highlands in New York. No discharges were given at the period of the revolution.
John Williams
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nineteen, personally appeared before me the subscriber Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Please, for the middle Circuit and a justice of the Peace throughout said Commonwealth, the before named Samuel Laurence Esq. who was an Officer in the Army of the Revolution is now a Justice of the Peace for the county of Middlesex, the said John Williams and Pelatiah Russell and each of them severally made solemn oath ^that the foregoing deposition by them respectively subscribed, are just and true in all their several particulars. And I certify that the said Samuel Laurence, Pelatiah Russell and John Williams ar all of them respectable citizens wholly disinterested in the application of Zaccheus Walker to be placed on the Pension list, that the said Samuel Lawrence was an Officer in the Revolutionary Army and is now a Magistrate for the County of Middlesex as aforesaid, the said Pelatiah Russell now resides in Groton aforesaid the said John William was a Captain in the army of the revolution and now resides at said Groton and all of them are entitled to full faith and entire credit in all places and before all tribunals whatever.
Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid
Saml. Dana
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3-082
Department of the Interior
Bureau Of Pensions
Fil no.
Application No. 44022
Certificate No.
Name of Soldier
Zaccheus Walker
Co. Rev. Reg't.
Information Desired  
Papers

(stamp) Received Dec. 9 1908
(stamp) Army and Navy Division Files
 Dec 9 1908 Received
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1307Chicago Ave. Evanston Illinois
To the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Bureau Washington D. C.
Dear Sir,
I am informed by one versed in such matters that I may obtain from you a copy of the "Commission" on file with the pension papers of my ancestor Zaccheus Walker--said commission showing him to have been created Lieut. by order of the Continental Congress. I shall greatly appreciate such a document.
Resp.
Florence Walker Barrie
(Mrs. Robert)
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(stamped)
U. S. Pension Office K
Mar 21 1919
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U. S. Postal Money Order enclosed 40 cts
For'd to Law  asw

1307 Chicago Ave. Evanston, Ill.
To the Commissioner of Pension Dept.
Dear Sir,
I am in receipt of your letter of March 25 replying to my inquiry regarding copy of Commission of my Rev. ancester Zaccheus Walker and i am sending you herewith the P. O. order for the requisite amount of 40c.
Trusting that this in correct and thanking you in advance.
Resp. Florence Walker Barrie
(Mrs. Robert Barrie)
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Stamp- Finance Division Apr 5 1919 Bureau of Pensions

Stamp-U.S. Pension Office A  Apr 5 1919
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Fitchburg Bank and Trust Co.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts   306 Main Street
H. G. Townend, President
J. Lovell Johnson, Vice Prest.
Alvah Crocker, Vice Prest.
George R. Wallace, Vice Prest.

Capital Surplus 
 (Bank logo) Fitchburg Bank & Trust Company 1832
 500,000
250,000

March 3, 1927
Comm. of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir
Lt. Zaccheus Walker in Cap. Jos. Moors Co., Col. Prescotts regt. (Mass) in Rev. War from Bellerica, Chelmsford or Merrimac, Mass. was entitled to a pension. Can you tell me if he received one and if so when he died and names of his children or parents or wife if possible. Many thanks for the information.
Yours Respectfully
F. W. Holden
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4880 N. Hermitage Ave
Chicago, Ill.

Commissioner of Pensions
Wash. D. C.

I understand that my Great-great grandfather by name Zaccheus Walker, a Revolutionary soldier 1776 serving as 1st Lieut. of Capt. moor's Co.-Col. Wm. Prescott's Regt. Mass. was in receipt of a pension and that I can receive information regarding his record, copy of pension record etc, by applying to you. Will you kindly furnish me
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with any such help.
Respectfully, 
Florence Walker Barrie
Dec. 3, 1913
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2104 East 36th Street
Kansas City 
Missouri

To the Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C.  
 (stamp-U.S. Pension Office G
May 28, 1923)

On May seventh you mailed to me a card stating that the money order with request for copy of Commission of Leiut. Zaccheus Walker Rev. War had been received. As I have not yet heard any word from the copy and fearing it may
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be lost I felt I would better advise you at once. If you have not yet forwarded it and it is in order to make such a request, may I ask if you will kindly sent it at your very earliest convenience. Thank you for this favor.
Respectfully, 
Agnes E. Walker
May 20, 1923

[stamp] U. S. Pension Office G
May 23, 1923
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W333
Bureau of Pensions
Finance Division
May 7 1923
Chief of Rev. War Section
Sir:
I have this day received from Agnes E. Walker 
M.O. No. 870454 for $.40/l00 requesting copy as per letter herewith.
Very Respectfully
G. J. Randall
Chief of Division
JJR

Photo mailed May 27, 1923 
M of Law Div. Notified  MMHF

(Index card attached)
(MF 42)
Name: Zaccheus Walker
No. S 44022
Photographic copies wanted of 1 piece, consisting of 1 page.
Remarks:

Exr.MMHF
Rev. War Section
Serial No. 9277
Law Clerk
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Money order for .40 enclosed

2106 East 36th Street
Kansas City
Missouri

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
To the Commissioner

Dear Sir:
I am enclosing a money order for forty cents and asking if you will please forward to me a copy of the commission as Lieutenant of Zaccheus Walker, Rev. War. In 1919 my sister secured
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a copy which gave me the knowledge as to amount to forward. If this is not right for present time, will you kindly advise me?
Thanking you in advance for the courtesy.
Very respectfully,
Agnes E. Walker
May 3, 1923

Stamped-Finance Division May 7, 1923 Bureau of Pensions

Stamped- U. S. Pension Office A, May 7 1923
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What I have in mind is a certified photostat copy of the commission File No. 44,022
Mass. Troops, War of the Revolution

Stamp-U. S. Pension Office A, May 7 1923
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Bureau of Pensions
Finance Division
Apr 5 1919
Chief of Rev. War Section
Sir:
In have this day received from Mrs. Florence Walker Barrie M. O. No. 225886 for $.40/l00
requesting copy as per letter herewith.
Verry respectfully
Chief of Division
W. N. Campbell
JJC

Finance Div. 
(illegible) Law Div.
notif. of mailing of copies. 
aw Apr 9, 1919
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Rev. War Section

(paper covering over date) 1919

Mrs. Robert Barrie
1307 Chicago Ave.
Evanston, Ills.

Madam:
In reply to you letter of the fifth instant, you are herewith furnished, under the provision of the Act of August 24, 191, a certified photostat copy of the commission on file in the pension claim of Lieutenant Zaccheus Walker, survivor's file No. 44,022, Massachusetts Troops, War of the Revolution, whereon the name appears as Zachariah Walker.
Very respectfully,
G. M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner

Index card attached:
April 8 1919
Zacheus or Zachariah Walker  No. S44022
Mass. Troops, War Rev.
Photographic copies wanted of 1 piece, consisting of 1 page.
Remarks:
Exr. C. S. Wilson, Chief Rev. War Section
Approved: 
Serial No. 1684
Law Clerk
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Rev. War Section
March 25, 1919

Mrs. R. Barrie
1307 Chicago Ave.
Evanston, Ills.

Madam;
In reply to your letter which was received on the 31" instant, you are advised that a copy of the commission as Lieutenant, of Zaccheus Walker which is on file in his Revolutionary War pension claim, S. File No. 44022, will be taken by photostat and furnished you under the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1912, for fifteen cents with twenty-five cents extra, if certification is desired. The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order made to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
You are also advised that although the soldier signed as Zaccheus, his name on said commission was written Zachariah, and there is no explanation of the discrepancy in said claim.
Very respectfully,
G. M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner
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Rev. War Section    MMHF

May 22, 1923
Agnes E. Walker
3106 East 36th Street
Kansas City, Missouri

Madam;
In response to your letter of May 3, 1923, you are  herewith furnished, under provisions of the Act of August 24, 1912, a certified photostat copy of the Commission on file in the pension claim of Lieutenant Zaccheus Walker, Survivor's File No. 44022, Massachusetts Troops, War of Revolution, whereon the name appears as Zachariah Walker.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner
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Revolutionary War Records Section    3-525
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.  ....................., 19......
S.F. 44022
(note: Com. written Zachariah, sol. signed Zaccheus)

In reply to your request of ........., received...........for a statement of the military history of Zacheus Walker 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.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: *Apr 20, 1775
Length of Service: Jany. 1 1776
Rank: Lieut.
Officers under whom service was rendered, Capt./Colonel:  Joseph Moore, William Prescott
State: Mass.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: Jany. 1, 1776
Length of Service: Jany. 1, 1777
Rank: 1st Lieut.
Captain: Joseph Moore
Colonel: William Prescott
State: Mass. Cont.

Battles engaged in: Bunker Hill
Residence of soldier at enlistment: ............
Date of application for pension: Apr 4, 1818 His cl. al.
Residence at date of application: New Ipswich, Hillsborough Co., N. H. formerly lived in Ashby, Mass.
Age at date of application: 69
Remarks: Soldier married Rachel, widow of Silas Bigelow who was 64 yrs. old in 1820. 1 grandchild Leonard Walker was then 10 yrs of age. A son is referred to who had eight children but no names are stated.  A son Isaac.
Respectfully,
Commissioner
* See Mass. book which shows service in Apr 1775