Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8107, for Abraham Perkins, Massachusetts
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Mass____________Perkins Abraham_________R8107
_________________Elizabeth Margaret______________
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10,052
Massachusette
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Abraham Parkins
 
in the state of _______4________
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Little of the Mass line for the term
of 1 year.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 
7 of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued  the 30 of April 81 and sent to Wm Wetmore Com Mass.
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Arrears to 4th of March 19 _____87.43 
Semi-anl. all'ce 4 Sept 19 _______48
_________________________________$135. 43

{Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March 1818


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Notification sent October 18, 1820 to Ichabod Tucker Salem Mass, U.S.
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Abraham Perkins

Little's Mass Regt 
Jan 1776 one year

Not on Cont estt is crossed out

Admin
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State of Massachusetts

I Abraham Perkins a Citizen of the United States now residing Norwich in the County of Essex
in the State aforesaid do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution in the month of April in the year of Our Lord One Thousand and seven hundred & seventy five.

I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment and served accordingly from that time month of December in the year Seventeen hundred & seventy six  in the Massachusetts line of the Army.
as a Private  against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Captain Dodge's Company and in Colonel Little's Regiment for eight months & to Captain Lunts Company for one year in the same Regiment having enlisted into said Company on the first day of January 1776 served there one full year following & on the Continental Establishment and that I left the service on the expiration of the term aforesaid being honorably discharged.

and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of years__________ I have no other evidence in my power to offer than is written

And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed

John Smith is crossed out
Abram Perkins (self written signature)


BE IT REMEMBERED That on this seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March A.D. 1818 personally appeareth before me the subscriber One of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court Common Pleas for the middle circuit with the State aforesaid specializing (?)

the above named Abraham Perkins and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth , he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of the Court
Wm. Wetmore
June 15, 1818 I further certify that the
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within name Deposition and credible & disinterested witness & have been duly sworn
Wm Witmore.
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10052
Abraham Perkins
10052
April 1819
Cents .25 Feb 1820
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

ESSEX ss

At the Circuit Court  of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun  and holden at Salem,, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June A.D. 1820
Present ,
Hon SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices

In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceedings according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Abraham Perkins of Norwich 
resident in ____________in said Circuit who is named in Pension Certificate No. 10052 now in possession of which the following is a true copy to wit,

WAR DEPARTMENT...........REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM

"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18th March 1818
Abraham Perkins -- -late a private "in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List Roll of Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,

Given at the  War of Office of the United States this thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen

J.C. CALHOUN  Secretary of War

appears and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by hi, as follows, to wit.

SCHEDULE
containing is whole estate  and income, his necessary clothing and bedding  excepted to wit

Real Estate
Half an old house ----------$75.00

Four old tables, 12 chairs
one chest of drawers one --- 14.00
pair hand irons 
one shovel & tongs two 
small pots 
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_______________________________89.00

owes  to John Heard by ------75.00
_______________________________14.00

April 1775 enlisted in Capt Abraham Dodge's
company Col. Moses Little's Regiment in the Massachusetts line and served the whole of that time. on the first of January 1776 enlisted again Capt Lunt's Company.  Col. Moses Little's Regiment for one year in the Massachusetts line on the
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Continental Establishment and served the whole of that year
Was in the Battle of Bunker Hill at Long Island and at Harlem Heights & White Plains.
Is age seventy four years, his wife Mary is aged sixty seven and from age and infirmity are unable to labour. He is afflicted with the Hernia 
The family consists of the above & one daughter.

Abraham Perkins

Essex ss July 12, 1820. Then the above named Abraham Perkins made oath that the said schedule and statement by him subscribed are true before me

Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot
a Judge of said Court as aforesaid to wit

1. Abraham Perkins do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to dimmish 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" pass on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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. So help me GOD.

Abraham Perkins


Essex, ss.  C. C. C. P. June, Term, A.A. 1820

Then the abovenamed Abraham Perkins 
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me

Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court. I ICHABOD TUCKER,  Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is 
fourteen dollars

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Salem in said County of Essex, on this 17th day of July A.D. 1820

Attr. Ichabod Tucker Clerk
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Act 3rd Feb 1853

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS
COUNTY OF ESSEX ss

Be it known that on this nineteenth day of March A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty three before 
Charles Kimball, a justice of the peace and quorum, in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Elizabeth Perkins, a resident of Norwich in said County, and made oath according to law, that she is the widow of Abraham Perkins who was soldier in the war of the Revolution and pensioner of the United States at the time of his death at the rate of 
$96 per annum that she was married to said Abraham Perkins on the 24th day of April eighteen hundred and twenty nine in the town of Norwich and state of Massachusetts that her said husband died on the 2nd day of November eighteen hundred and forty two that she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining such a rate of Pension as may be due under any of the Laws Regulations, or decisions that have been or may hereafter be adopted

The said Declarent further states that she hereby constitutes and appoints John M Thayer her true and lawful Attorney and Agent to prosecute said claim, with power of substitution, to examine all papers and documents in relation to it, and to do all things necessary and lawful in the premises; except drawing the money, which will be hereafter provided for  Elizabeth M. Perkins

Sworn to and subscribed by the day and 
year aforesaid before me,
Charles Kimball --Justice of the peace and quorum

I Charles Kimball a justice of the peace and quorum in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Elizabeth Perkins above named is respectable resident of the County and is in the same person she represents herself to be in the foregoing declaration as I believe, she has this day appeared before me and acknowledge the Power of Attorney to be her act and deed

Charles Kimball



State of Massachusetts
Essex County ss.

I Ashael Huntington Clerk of the courts in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Charles Kimball before who the foregoing proceedings were had was at the time of execution a justice of the Peace and quorum  in and for said County, duly comisioned and qualified; and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine

I TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name, this twenty first day of March in the 1853.

Ashu Huntingon County Clerk
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( handwritten at top of image the following
I hereby certify that Mr. Abraham Perkins and Miss Elizabeth Margaret Lear were united in marriage by me on the twenty)


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
ESSEX, ss

To all people to whom these presents shall come
I Asahel Huntington, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of said commonwealth for the County aforesaid do certify that 
George Haskell
before whom the accompanying affidavit was made was, at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly authorized and qualified to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments and that his signature thereto is genuine

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, at Salem, on this third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four 

Asahel Huntington Clerk
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I hereby certify that [Mr] Abraham Perkins and Miss Elisabeth Margaret Lear were united in maiage by me on the twenty fourth day of April Eighteen hundred twenty nine [signed] David T. Kimball Pastor of the First Church in Ipswich. [dated] Ipswich Dec. 28, 1853
[sworn before George Haskell, Justice of the Peace Dec 28 1853]


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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss December 28, 1853

Rev David T Kimball, above named this day personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him signed before me

George Haskell
Justice of the Peace
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We John Lakeman a sargeant Capt Abraham Dodge Company & Col ___ Lettly Regiment being the twelfth regiment of the Massachusetts line on the Continental Establishment in the army of the United of America in the revolutionary war and Robert Stalker also  a Sargeant  in the same company & same regiment & war on oath declare that Abraham Perkins on or about the 23rd day of April or between that time & the first of May in the same year enlisted in said Company under Abraham Dodge & the same regiment
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Elizabeth M. Perkins
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widow of Abraham
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original application 
act 3d Feb Rev. War
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Mass
Abraham Perkins
was a pensioner act 1818
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J. M. Thayer 
Present

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It is possible I filed same papers in on behalf last spring widow this act 
J.M.T.)
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STATE OF Massachusetts
COUNTY OF Essex } ss
Be it known that on this fifteenth day of November, A.D. I have Judge of probate in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Elizabeth Margaret Perkins aged 84 years, a resident of Ipswich in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the widow of Abraham Perkins  who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and pensioner of the United States at the time of his death at the rate of $46 per annum that she was married to the said Abraham Perkins on the 24 day of April eighteen hundred and twenty-nine in the town of Ipswich and State of Massachusetts that her said husband died on the second day of November eighteen hundred and forty two that she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining such a rate of Pension as any  be due under any of the Laws Regulations or decisions that have been or may hereafter be adopted and that she still continues  his widow she further states she has no record of her marriage.

The said Declarant further states, that she is hereby constitutes and appoints J. M. Thayer her true and lawful Attorney and Agent to prosecute said claim with power of substitution to examine all papers and documents in relation to it, and to do all this necessary and lawful in the premises; except drawing the money, which will hereafter provided for Elizabeth Margaret (X her mark) Perkins 

Sworn to and  subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me at the residence of  the applicant She being prevented from appearing in open court by reason of unduly infirmity.
N.S. Howe Judge of Probate

1. Nathaniel S Howe Judge of Probate in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Elizabeth Margaret Perkins above named is a respectable resident of this County, and is the same person she represents herself to be in foregoing declaration; she had this day appeared before me and acknowledge the above Power of Attorney to be her act and deed

N.S Howe
Judge of Probate


STATE OF  Massachusetts
Essex, County ss

I George R. Lord Register of probate for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Nathaniel S. Howe esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, was at the time of execution, Judge before who the foregoing proceedings were had and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixec my seal of Office and subscribed my name this sixteenth day of November in the year 18532.

Geo. R. Lord, register of probate
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Washington D.C.
March 25, 1803

Sir 
I hand in the application of Elizabeth Perkins of Mass for pen act 3 Feb 53

Respectfully
J.M. Thayer
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No 6711

Elizabeth Perkins
widow Abraham
Mass

8107

Let to J.M Thayer 
May 25/53

Act Feby 3/53
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No 5064
Massachusetts
Elizabeth M. Perkins
widow of Abraham
1854 Feb 14 Let J.M. Thayer

Act 3 Feb 1853
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Abraham Perkins
Mass Rev
act of 1832
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Ipswitch Mass Nov 3d 1853
Hon 
L.R. Waldo
Court of Pensions

Sir
Being the widow of Abraham Perkins, late of said town of Ipswich who was a Pensioner of the United states
Be pleased to allow my agent R.W. Young to examine the papers on file in govt office upon which Abraham  Perkins was Pensioned by the United  States 

Yours Sir
Respectfully 

Elizabeth  (X her mark) Perkins

witnesses to 
Elizabeth M. Perkins
Mark
Nath Harris
Luke Dodge
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REJECTED

8107

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Elizabeth Perkins


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