Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19786, Eleazer Higgins, Mass.
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SERVICE--------------------------------NUMBER
Mass-----Higgins, Eleazer----------W19786
---------------Lurania
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4279
Massachusetts
Lurania Higgins
widow of Eleazer 
who served in the Revolutionary
war as a private
_______________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
20 Dollars
----Cents annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1848
___________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 
14 day of March 1819
and sent G.S. Bulfinch
Boston, Mass

RECORDED ON ROLL OF PENSIONERS UNDER act February 2,1848, Page 58 Vol. 2
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State of Massachusetts
County of Barnstable

On the Eighteenth day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty nine I personally before the court of Probate Court for the County of Barnstable, Lurania Higgins a resident of Wellfleet in the County of Barnstable aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay to certain widows" That she is the widow of Eleazer Higgins of Wellfeet who was a private soldier in the Massachusetts Seaboard Army that he commanded his service with Capt Isaiah Higgins fo Esatham in the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy six and served on the Islands is Boston Harbour until the fall or winter of said years for six months . I also further state that he was taken in Seventeen Hundred and eighty while serving a letter of Marques Brey and carried to England and a prisoner in the ____
Prison for eighteen months.  She further declares that she was  to the said Eleazer Higgins on the first day of November Seventeen Hundred and eighty five, that her husband the aforesaid Eleazewr Higgins died
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5595
Surama Higgins
Pension Papers
Mass.
Act 7 July 38
38
Vol 19 -212.15.16 on  Cmo
imprisonment not allow
captured on board privater
ADMO
Cmo fire
Z0 H
8th august '39
No deduction
Timothy Reed
Barnstable
Mass.
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November 17th 1831. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four at the time stated.
Lurania Higgins (signature)
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Barnstable 
At a Court of Probate holders ________government at Wellfleet April 18 1839
here the foregoing declaration was sworn to and subscribed by the said Lurania Higgins in open letter before us.
---------------------------Numphus Marston { the judge of probate
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County of Banrstable 
I Timothy Reed Register of the Court of Probate in and fore said County hereby certify with the Hon. Nymphus Marston is the Judge of said Cpurt and that the above signature reporting to have been made by him is his genuine signature

With my hand and the seal of said court this 18 April 1839

Timothy Reed Reg. Probt. (signature)
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Eleazer Higgins wife Lurania Gross both of Wellfleet but were married Nov first Seventeen Hundred and eighty five a true copy of the records kept in the Town of Wellfleet with exception of the date which is expressed in the records in fair legible figures as follows
1st Nov 1785

Josiah Whitman} Clerk of the Town of Wellfleet County of Barnstable State of Massachusetts

I Josiah Whitman above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, Town, and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me

Josiah Whitman }Town Clerk of Wellfleet
April 15th 1839

Barnstable this April 18 1839
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Barnstable 
I Timothy Reed Clerk hereby certify that Collins S. Cole Esq is a Justice of the Peace in and fore said
County duly commissioned and qualified __________ ______ signature purporting to have -________________________________________________________
Written of my and the seal of the said Court this eighteenth day of April 1839
Timothy Reed Clerk
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington D.C. ...............189...........

Sir
    In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Eleazer Higgins a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Spr| 1776| 6mo| priv | Isaiah Higgins | not state of Mass
It is prob that he also rendered other service as the widow states that he was taken prisoner in 1780 and confined in the Mill prison in England for 18 months 

Battles engaged in, none mentioned
Resident of soldier at enlistment Probably Wellfleet Mass
Date of application for pension by wid April 18, 1839
Resident at date of application _____Wellfleet Mass
Age at date of application 72 yrs
Remarks: Soldier married Lurania Gross Nov 1, 1785 and died Nov 17 1831

Very respectfully 
Geo A Bacon    Commissioner
#1708 - 19 St
Cty
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Massachusetts       3805
Lurania Higgins widow of Eleazer Higgens
who was a pension under the Act of aged who died on the 17 November 1831 of Barnstable in the State of Massachusetts who was a prvt in the company commanded by Captain Higgens of the Regt. commanded by __________ in the Mass line for 6 months.
____________________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20 Dollars ~ Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March 1836
____________________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of Aug 1839, as said_______________________
Barnstable , Clerk
____________________________________________________Arrears to the 4th of Mar      $60.00
Semi=annual allowance ending   $10.00
-------------------------------------$70.00

{ACT OF JULY 7 
1838}
RECORDED BY R. Burdine CLERK
BOOK A  VOL/ 17      PAGE 96
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Rep 134
Massachusetts
Lurania Higgins widow of Eleazer Higgins who was a private in the Massachusetts line 6 Months.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th
day of May 1843 and sent to L. M. Stone
Boston [Illegible]
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A, Vol 1. Page 43.
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1708 Nineteenth Street N.W. Fieby 20 94

The Honorable 
The Commissioner of Pensions

Sir 
    I have the honor to ask for whatever information the Department may have on file, relative to the services of Capt. Eleazer Higgins (my grandfather) a revolutionary sailor who was taken prisoner and confined in Dartmoor prison England , for several months.
     He died at Wellfleet, Mass in 1831 and his widow Lurania Higgins (my grandmother) was a pensioner till her decease
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continued

in 1852.
    This information is desired to aid my daughter to the Daughters of the Revolution

Very respectfully 
Geo. A. Bacon
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Law Offices
1539 Chestnut Street 
Philadelphia

Samuel J. Taylor 
Christian S. Mac Cain
William S Clawson

July 27 1903

Commissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior, Washington D.C.

My dear Sir:-
     My wife is looking up her ancestry for the purpose of joining the Daughters of the American Revolution, and in doing so finds she is a descendant of one Eleazar Higgins, who was a private in Company of Captain Isaiah Higgins, of Regiment of Colone Thomas Marshall. From Massachusetts records it appears that an order for payment for services rendered in said Company and Regiment was dated a Long Island, September 2,1776. Mr. Taylor is also informed that Lurana Gross Higgins, wife of said Eleazar Higgins for many years was in receipt of a pension from the Government, presumably growing out of services rendered by her said husband.
     Mrs. Higgins lived for many years at Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and it is thought she lived there during the years she received a pension.
     If you could give me any information which will assist Mrs. Taylor in this matter, I assure you we would appreciate it 
      Yours very truly
      Samuel J. Taylor (handwritten signature)

Pension Office Stamp
Jul 28 1903
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L. Higgins
aa
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
SECRETARY'S OFFICE  November 18th 1828

I hereby Certify That at the date of the attestation hereto attached, Collins S. Cole was a Justice of the peace for the County of Barnstable

in the said Commonwealth duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his act and attestations, as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court


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

(illegible) Calhoun 


Possibly the State or County stamp affixed to left side of document
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DELCLARATION

In order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress of 2d February, 1848 entitled "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
BARNSTABLE COUNTY, } ss

On this twenty eight day of Oct 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid 

Lurania  Higgins

a resident of Wellfleet in the county of Barnstable  aged Eight one years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress. passed on the 2d February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Eleazer Higgins who was a resident of Wellfleet and who was a private in the War of the Revolution and is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of 17th 1814, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late husband aforesaid at the rate of twenty dollars and cents per annum

She further declares that she is still a widow
Lurania Higgins (handwritten signature)

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written} Before me,

In presence of C. S. Cole, Joseph Higgins,  Collins S. Cole Justice of the Peace  
I CERTIFY That the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner as she 
declares

Collins S. Cole  Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Lurania Higgins was paid her Pension up to 4 March 1848, under Act 17 Juen 1844 on November 10th 1848
G. S. Bulfinch  Pension Clerk
Boston (above paragraph and signature were  handwritten)
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561
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable County
Be it known that on this thirtieth day
of March 1843 personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Mrs. Lurania Higgins
a resident of Wellfleet in said County and Commonwealth aged
Seventy Six years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by
the act of Congress passed on the 3d day of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the
Revolutionary War-
That she is the widow of Eleazer Higgins
who was a Private in the Revolutionary War & served as she verily believes as stated by her in her original declaration for a pension under the law of the 7th of July 1838,
to which declaration and the papers accompanying the same
now on file in the War Department she would
refer for a more particular statement of his services; for
the proof of her marriage, identity and the time of her husbands death.
She further declares that she was pensioned under said act at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, which
amount she received from the 4th of March 1836 to the 4th of March 1841 at the Agency in Boston, Massachusetts,
and at the time of receiving her last payment surrendered the Pension certificate granted to her under said act, to the
Pension Agent at the said City of Boston, agreeably to
the rules of the Department-
And this declarant further alleges that
she has not intermarried since the decease of her said husband, but is now and ever since has been the Widow of said Eleazer Higgins
deceased as will more fully
appear by the proof hereto annexed.
And further she saith not.
Larania Higgins (signature)
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first
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 within written, and I certify that the applicant is personally  
 known to me to be the person within described
                                  Before me,
              
                           Collins L. Cole   Justice of the Peace 


I Ebenezer Freeman of Wellfleet of 
lawful age on oath testify and say that I
am well acquainted with Lurania Higgins
married in the written declaration and have
been for many years past. I know that she was
the wife and is now the widow of Eleazer Higgins dec'd and that she was a pensioner as stated
by her.
                                  Ebenezer Freeman


Committee of Maps
Suffolk County } Boston 14 April 1843-then
came Ebenezer Freeman a credible witness
& made oath that the above affidavit
by him subscribed is true-before me

                      T. Bulfinch    Justice of the Peace
                                            for said Co.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
___________________________________________
 Secretary's Office Boston April 18, 1843

I hereby Certify That at the dates of the annexed attestations Collins S. Cole was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable and Thomas Bulfinch was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk

in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that their acts and attestations as such full faith and credit are ought to be given, in and out of Court

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

Jno A. Bolles (handwritten signature)
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I Jeremiah Newcomb of Wellfleet in the County of Barnstable and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age to give evidence, do testify and say that I am seventynine years of age, That in  the  summer of 1776 I was at Long Island in Boston Harbour and I there saw Eleazer Higgins of Wellfleet now Dead doing service as a private in the company commanded by Capt Isaiah Higgins of Eastham, when he came or how long he served I cannot say, he was taken with me and my [illegible MIll Prison in England in the year 1780, we were taken in a Letter of [illegible] from Boston and were held Prisoners eighteen months.  I further testify and say that Lurainia Higgins is the Wd of the same Eleazer Higgins.
Wellfleet April 16th 1839.
Jeremiah Newcomb (signature)
Barnstable & Wellfleet April 16th 1839
Personally appeared before me Jeremiah Newcomb above named and made solemn oath that the Deposition by him subscribed is true.
     Josiah Whitman Justice of the Peace. 

And I further certify that I am acquainted with the said Jeremiah Newcomb and that he is a credible witness
Josiah Whitman Justice Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Barnstable

I Timothy Reed Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for said County hereby certify
that Josiah Whitman Esq. is a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County duly 
commisioned and qualified and that I
believe the within signatures purporting
to have been made by him to be his genuine signature.
Witness my hand and the seal of Maine Court this eighteenth day April A.D. 1839
Timothy Reed Clerk (signature)
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19786
Lurania Biggins
widow of Eleazer Higgins
Pro Rev War
Act Feb 2nd, 48
Index: Vol. A, Page 336
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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(Up the left side)
5595
June 15
Maps: July 1838
(horizontally across the top)
Barnstable June 10th     Free
 (horizontally across the middle)
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Service Number
Mass Biggins, Eleazer W. 19786
Lurania
Contents

Barnstable Map June 10, 1839
Please examine [illegible] make returned to me.
Resp'
Timothy Reed