Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20662, Isaac Bowen Barker, Continental Mass.
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Service
Continental Mass.
Barker, Isaac Bowen
Elizabeth 
Number W.20662
Contents
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3rd Auditors office
September 9th 1836
Sir:
 Elizabeth Barker, Massachusetts, act: 1848 at $88.68 died
23 April 1837, 1851 and her pension has been paid in full to that date
  Very Respectfully
  W.H.S. Taylor
Acting Auditor

J. Cole Esquire
 Acting Commissioner of Pensions
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Pension office, Sept 8, 1836
The Third auditor will please certify the Date to which the within named pension was paid.
  Very respy,
  S. Cole
 Acting Commissioner

[t..ddy?]
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Isaac B Barker

Samuel Webb's
 Deposition
for Isaac B Barker
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I William Ford of Pembroke in the County of Plymouth of lawful age to give evidence testify & say, that I am well acquainted with Isaac Bowen Barker of Hanson, and know that he was a Soldier of the War of the Revolution, and was with me at Roxbury during eight months in 1775 - he was in the company of Capt Freedom Chamberlin & in col Baileys Regiment - and further your Deponent saith not -
 Willm Ford

Plymouth Ss Pembroke August 8 1832
 Personally appeared before me the above named William Ford who made solemn affirmation to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed
  Kilborn Whitman J. Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth Ss. I Jacob H. Loud Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Kilborn Whitman & Seth Sprague Jr are Justices of the Peace in & for said County & that their names upon these several papers are true & genuine signatures.
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twenty second day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
  Jacob H. Loud
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I further certify that the within named William Ford who has subscribed this affidavit to be a person of credibility - Kilborn Whitman for
Plymouth Ss. June 14 1833
 Kilborn Whitman  J Peace

[on side]
William Ford
Deposition for Isaac B Barber
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I Samuel Webb of Pembroke in the County of Plymouth of Lawful age to give evidence testify & say, that I am well acquainted with Isaac Bowen Barker Esq of Hanson, who now applies for a Pension - that I know the aforesaid Barker was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, that he was with me, at Roxbury in the year 1775 and continued in service at Roxbury for the term of eight months, in Capt Freedom Chamberlains company - & Cole Baileys Regiment and that I have this day, seen his name on said Company Rolls as one of the Soldiers of said Company - this was said to be the State service & further your Deponent saith not -   Samuel Webb

Plymouth Ss Pembroke August 8 1832
 Personally appeared before me the above named Samuel Webb, who made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed -
 I further certify that the above named Samuel Webb who has subscribed this affidavit to be a person of credibility, -
 Plymouth Ss. June 14th 1833
 Kilborn Whitman J Peace
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State of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth } Ss

 On this twenty second day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open court, before Honbl Welker Wood Judge of the court of Probate at Hanover ^ it being a Court of Record now sitting Isaac Bowen Barker a resident of the town of Hanson in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts, aged Seventy eight years in  Bet? last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, & served as herein stated - That in the spring of the year seventeen hundred & seventy five, soon after Lexington fight, he voluntarily enlisted to serve eight months, in the army then collecting near Boston - his time of service was to expire the last day of December of the same year, he enlisted to serve in a company under the command of Capt Freedom Chamberlains subaltern officers - he equiped himself & marched with said company under the command of Capt [John - crossed out] Chamberlain into Roxbury near Boston. Capt. Chamberlain's company was there put into a regiment under the command of Colonel John Bailey. Said company & regiment was stationed at Roxbury. During that campaign he served as a soldier in said company untill the last day of December of that year.
  Said deponant further declares, That he enlisted as a soldier in the army of the United states, into a company of Artillery commanded by Ebenezer Stevens - that he enlisted to serve in said company from the first day of January 1776 to the last day of December of the same year - That he entered said company & put himself under the command of said Ebenezer Stevens at Roxbury on the first day of January seventeen hundred
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& Seventy Six Capt. Stevens had four subaltern officers Lieut. Lawson, Cook, Simmonds, & Samuel Doggett that he understood at the time, that the artillery companies then stationed near Boston were all under the command of Major Crane. It was said they belonged to Major Crane's corps of Artillery.  company was stationed at Roxbury near Boston untill the British troops left Boston. Soon after the British troops left Boston, Capt. Stevens & Capt. Bigelow, who commmanded another Artillery company, marched their companies together into Canada, - they remained in Canada Several weeks, then retreated to Ticonderoga - that he was dismissed from Ticonderoga, with several others about the Middle of November on account of sickness he arrived at his father's family about the first of December in the same year in a very sickly & feeble condition - he applied for a pension under the   of the18th of March 1818; received a pension certificate signed by J.C. Calhoun then secretary of War - he was authorized by this certificate to receive eight dollars per month from the 3d day of April 1818 to the fourth of March 1820, at the Massachusetts agency in Boston & not thereafter unless a schedule of property was exhibited - he has made no application for a pension from that time to the present. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or an annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not, to his knowledge, on the pension roll of any agency in any State, or ever has been, except as above described, & that was only on that of the Agency of the State of Massachusetts.
 Said deponant further declares that in the spring of the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven he took Abel Turners place in a company then stationed on the Garret at the entrance of Plymouth harbour under the command of Capt. Andres Sampson he understood that the company was enlisted to serve untill the last day
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of December of the same year. He served in said company untill the company's enlistment expired, when they were all dismissed. Soon after he took said Turner's place, he (Turner) went a voyage to sea & has not since returned, he cannot recollect [words crossed out] the particular time he entered Capt. Sampson's company on the Garret, but from the best of his recollection & belief he served in said company not less than six months. He has been informed that he was born in the town of Pembroke in the county of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts on the 23d day of Oct. Seventeen hundred & fifty three - has no record of his age - he was an inhabitant of the town of Pembroke when he entered the service of his country & at the time of his several enlistments - he has made the town of Hanover, in said county of Plymouth his home for a few years. In the year 1786 he bought a small farm in the town of Pembroke (his native town) which he has made a home for himself & family to the present day. The town of Pembroke having been divided, his habitation is now situated in the southerly part of the town of Hanson, as above described. He voluntarily entered the service of his country - has no recollection of receiving any individual discharge - has received no bounty nor any pay except what was given him by the government - he recollects that one of the partys who was dismissed from Capt. Ebenezer Stevens company at the same time that he was showed him a paper & said it contained a discharge for each of the party that was then dismissed he does not recollect that he read the paper therefore cannot upon his oath say that it was such a thing as represented - he was an inhabitant of the town of Pembroke aforesaid in the County of Plymouth & state of Massachusetts when he applied for a pension under the law of the 18th of March 1818 - that town having since been divided, his habitation is now situated in the town of Hanson in the County & State aforesaid
  Isaac Bowen Barker
 Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid  Attest  Jacob H. Loud   Register
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We Jeremiah Kelly, a clergyman, residing in the town of Hanson in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts, & Daniel Crooker residing in the town, County & State aforesaid, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Isaac Bowen Barker, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is reputed & believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
 Given under our hands this 10th day of August 1832.
  Jeremiah Kelly
  Daniel Crooker

State of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss.} Subscribed and Sworn to the day and year above written
 Before me, Oliver Whitten, Just. Peace
  I further certify that I believe the above named Jeremiah Kelly & Daniel Crooker who have subscribed this affidavit are persons of credibility -
  We the subscribers, being well acquainted with Isaac B Barker Esq - have no hesitation in stating him a Gentleman of veracity and to whose word, full credit is to be given
  Kilborn Whitman
 Alden Briggs
 august 22 1832
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatory prescribed by the Man Department that the before named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Jeremiah Kelley who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Hanson and that Danniel Crooker who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town & is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court attest.
Jacob H. Loud Register.

I Jacob H. Loud Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that the foregoing entering  the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac B. Banker for a Pension. And I further certify that Oliver Whitten Esq before whom the within Certificate was sworn is a Justice of the Peace for said  County & his name thereto is his true & genuine signature.
I testimony whereof I have herewrite let my hand & the deal of said Court this twenty second day of August in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
Jacob H. Loud
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim
 I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th March, 1818, Isaac Bowen Barker of Plymouth County, Massachusetts late a private in the army of the revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month to commence on the third day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
  Given at the war office of the United States, this seventeenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
  J.C. Calhoun
 Secretary of War.

Isaac Bowen Barker
  Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of Sept - next, in Massachusetts, At the Branch Bank of the United States, Boston.
  Payable up to the 4th of March 1820. Before any payment thereafter a schedule of property must be exhibited.
   Recorded
16.950
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Plymouth Ss June 15th 1833
 Seth Sprague Jr Justice of the Peace

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Isaac B. Barker
12.284
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To Whom it may concern  I Andrew Sampson of Duxbury Mass Certify that Isaac Bowen Barker of Hanson formerly of Pembroke was a soldier in the war of the Revolution & that he served in the company under my command stationed at the Garret at the entrance of Plymouth harbor in the year 1777 the exact time I am unable to state as he did not enlist at the beginning of the year but I have no doubt he served six months & perhaps longer given under my hand the sixth day of august 1832
  Andrew Sampson
State of Massachusetts
Plymouth Ss } Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year above written before me
 Seth Sprague Jr Justice of the Peace
I Thomas Chandler certify that the above named Isaac Bowen Barker was a soldier at the time & place above stated I remember he came early in the summer or spring & served to the end of the year given under my hand the 4' day of August 1832

State of Massachusetts
Plymouth Ss - } Sworn to Y subscribed the day & year above written before me
  Seth Sprague Jr Justice of the Peace
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Samson & Chandler
 Deposition
I further certify that I believe the within named Andrew Samson & Thomas Chandler who have subscribed the within affidavits to be persons of credibility.
Plymouth Ss. June 15th 1833
 Seth Sprague Jr Justice of the Peace

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Isaac B Barker
12.284
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Js.
Be it known that on this nineteenth day
of May, being the third Monday of said month
in the year Eighteen hundred & forty five
before the Court of Probate for said County
of Plymouth now sitting at Plymouth
personally came Elizabeth Barker of
Hanson in said County, Widow, aged Seventy
eight years, who being first duly sworn ac
cording to law doth on her Oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain
the benefits of the provisions made by the
Act of Congress passed on the 17th day of
June 1844
That she is the widow of Isaac Bowen
Barker of said Hanson Esquire, deceased
who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the
United States under the act of June
1832 & served as set forth in his several
application for Pensions now on file
in the Pension Office at Washington
She further declares that she was married to
the said Isaac B. Barker on the twenty ninth
day of November in the year Seventeen
hundred & ninety two and that the said
Isaac B. Barber her said husband died
on the twenty second day of April in the
year Eighteen hundred & forty five & that
she still continues the widow of said deceased & has never been married since his death.
Elizabeth Barker
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Subscribed & sworn to in open Probate Court before
the Hon. Aaron Hobart Judge on the day & year
herein first before written,
Attest
J. H. Loud Register
Plymouth Js. I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for
said County hereby certify that the fore
going contains the original declaration
of Elizabeth Barker for a Pension subscribed
& sworn to by her in open Court
the testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & the seal
of said Court this fifteenth day
of July 1845
Jacob H. Loud
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Isaac Bowen Barker and Elizabeth Torrey both of
Pembroke were married the twenty-ninth of November
seventeen hundred & ninety two by the Revd Kilborn Whitman
The above is a true copy of the Records with the exception
of the date which is expressed on the record in fair
legible figures as follows
the 29th of November 1792
Nathl Smith Town Clerk of Pembroke
I Nathl Smith above named depose and say that I hold
the office of Town Clerk in the town of Pembroke in
the County of Plymouth Massachusetts that the above
is a true extract from the Record of said town of
Pembroke with the exception above named as certified by me.
Nathl Smith Town Clerk of Pembroke

Plymouth Js May 30th 1845
Sworn to and subscribed
Before me David Oldham Justice of Peace
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Died at Hanson on the twenty second day of April in the year Eighteen Hundred and forty five Isaac Bowen Barker Esq Aged Ninety one years, ---
The above is a true copy of the Records of the town of Hanson.
Jeremiah Soper Town Clerk of Hanson

I Jeremiah Soper above named depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the town of Hanson in the County of Plymouth Massachusetts, that the the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Hanson, 
Jeremiah Soper, Town Clerk. of Hanson

Plymouth ss May 31th 1845
Sworn to and Subscribed Before me David Oldham Justice of Peace
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I Deborah Oldham of Pembroke in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts aged seventy three years on Oath testify and say that I well knew Isaac Bowen Barker late of Hanson in said County deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States said Barker died at said Hanson on the twenty second day of April in the year eighteen hundred and forty five leaving a widow whose name is Elizabeth Barker who is now living. I knew her before her Marriage to said Barker her Maiden name was Torrey and she is the same person to whom he was married in the year 1792 and she has not been Married since the decease of her late husband the said Isaac B Barker said Town of Hanson was fomerly a part of the Ancient town of Pembroke. 
Deborah Oldham

Plymouth ss May 30th 1845
Sworn to and Subscribed Before me
David Oldham Justice of Peace

Plymouth ss. July 16.1845 I hereby certify that Deborah Oldham the above named deponent is well known to me to be a woman of great respectability & a credible person
Jacob H. Loud
Jus. Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth 
Clerks Office July 17 1848
I John Thomas Clerk of the Judicial Court for the said County of Plymouth do hereby certify that David Oldham and Jacob H. Loud persons before whom the annexed deposition sworn are Justices of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth duly commissioned and qualified and acting under the authority of the said Commonwealth and that their several signatures to the jurat hereto are genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on the day and year aforesaid.
John Thomas Clerk
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12284
Isaac Bowen Barker

Private Arty 10 Mo 15 day
"         Inf     13 " 15 "
24   60

1406   416
  1p
41.60 [?]
208
43.68
[illegible]
15 166
28867

P402
30/410/16?
50
110
90
4497

J H Loud Esq
Plymouth
Mass
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BRIEF in the case of Isaac Bowen Barker of Plymuth in the State of Mass'ts (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 78 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[column headings: Period. Duration of Service. - Years, Months, Days. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.]
Period - Spring In 1778. Duration of Service - 8 Months. Rank - As a Private. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served - Capt Chamberlain Col. Baily
Capt Stevens [illegible] Crane
Capt Sampson
Jany 1776. artillery 10 Months 15 Days. 
1777. 6 Months.

5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Pembroke Massachusetts
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct.

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

IB Barker was on the pension roll of 1818---

Richard Catts
Examining Clerk.
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Massachusetts
Isaac Bowen Barker of Plymouth in the state of Mass who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Chamberlain of the Reg commanded by Col. Bailey_ in the Mass line for pri artil 10 m 15 d. $43.68 & Inf 13 m 15 d $45
$88.68

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 88 Dollars 68 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Aug 1832 ___ and sent to JH Loud Plynouth

Arrears to the 4th of Dec ' [illegible]  $177.36
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 44.34
$221.70

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Go C. Stiles Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 3, Page 8

[right side]
80 Plym
896 [Cni?] 3 Apl [18?]
[faded] 17 May 1820
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1891 Feby 25- Comd AL Barker history 
Wm Gaston, Sept. 10/56

1116
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Barker
widow of Isaac Bowen Barker 
MSS

who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Matross & private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars 68.
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Increase from $76.66
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of July 1849 and sent to Hon AK Parris
2 Comptroller

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 7 Vol. 2
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Isaac Bowen Barker
He was born Oct 23 1753 in Pembroke Plymouth County Mass where he was living during the war of the Revy _ In 1786  he bought a farm in Pembroke which when the town was divided a few years prior to June 6 1832 it became located in the Southerly part of Hanson He died there April 23 1845 He was married in Pembroke Nov 29. 1792 to Elizabeth Torrey who died April 23 1851. While living in Hanson She applied May 1845 for pension age 78 years - He applied April 1818
On the alarm of hostilities at Lexington Mass April 19.1775 he marched under Capt Freedom Chamberlain & Colo John Thomas for Roxbury but on the reorganization of Troops he was May 3d attached to the Mass regt commanded by Colo John Bailey and was stationed at Roxbury - When at the end of his Dec 1775 his term expired he immediately enlisted under Capt Ebenezer Steven in a regiment of artillery [ crossed out text - probably] command by Major, (afterward Col) John Crane, remaining at the Siege of Boston until it was evacuated by the British (March 17. 1776) Soon after which event he was ordered to Canada, & remained there only a few weeks when he retreated to Ticonderoga During the period he was stationed there & at Mount Independence he had a severe attack of the small pox which, with his previous privations & suffering reduced him so much as illy-fitted him for duty & As his "term" was nearly expired, he with a number of others in a similar condition of health was discharged & he accompanied [crossed out text - by] Ebenezer Barker of Pembrook to [crossed out text - return] home in the early part of Dec 1776 - From the Spring of 1777 he served at the Garret in Plymouth
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Harbor about 6 months as a substitute for Abel Turner under Capt Andrew Sampson
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Eliz'th Barker

Admitted

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

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, Plymouth County, ss.

On this Eighteenth day of July 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, Elizabeth Barker a resident of Hanson in the county of Plymouth aged Eighty one years & 9. Months [crossed out text - 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 Isaac Bowen Barker who was a resident of Hanson and who was a matross and private in the Army of the Revolution and is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of 17th June, 1877, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late husband at the rate of seventy six dollars and [illegible text] Martin Bryant Justice of the Peace.

I Certify, That the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner, as she declares.
Martin Bryant Justice of the Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 
COUNTY, }SS.

I, [blank] Clerk of the Court, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that [blank] is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature, above written, is genuine. 

Given under my hand, and the Seal of said Court, this day of [blank] 18
CLERK
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Isaac B. Barker
Pembroke.
1776 Artillery
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I Isaac Bowen Barker of Pembroke in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts now in the sixty fifth year of my age depose set forth and declare that I was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution on the continental establishment - that I entered the service in the first campaign at Roxbury near Boston in the minute company Capt Freedom Chamberlain's company in Col. John Thomas' Regiment and Massachusetts line (John Bailey was Lt. Colonel) and  served eight months, the term for which I enlisted; and while I was at Roxbury I enlisted into a company commanded by Ebenezer Steven's and Col. Crane's Regt. of artillery (he was then Majr.) in the Masschusetts line and marched into Canada and was discharged in November 1776 on account of sickness, if I had staid till December following it would have completed a year, the term for which I engaged; we were generally sickly and a great many of us discharged, as not being likely to recover in season to render any services during our year. --I was afterwards in service about three months on the Gurnet so called near Plymouth, but am not certain it was continental service.
Isaac Bowen Barker
Sworn to before me April 3.1818.
Mitchell: Judge &c
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5542
Isaac Bowen Barker
Pembroke. Mass.
Plymouth County.
1776. Capt. Steven's Comp
Col. Crane's Artillery
Mass. Line.---
3d. April, 1818.
Col. Crane's regt.
Massachusetts artill.
one year, --1776.
Services proved by the testimony, on oath, of several persons, certified to be credible witnesses. Admitted. 
Nahum Mitchell,
Judge
East Bridgewater, Mass.
recd. 27 Dec. 1819.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Plymouth ss.
On this third day of April AD 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Isaac Bowen Barker of Pembroke aged sixty four years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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."

That he served the year 1776 in Captain Steven's Company and Colonel Crane's Regiment of Artillery and Massachusetts Line.
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And I the said Judge am satisfied the circumstances of the said Barker are as he has sworn to them in his additional Declaration, and therefore is in need of the assistance of his country for support. 

And I, the said Judge, do also certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Isaac Bowen Barker did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. 

Nahum Mitchell.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss. 1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That
is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth - that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record - that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court. 
}Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of
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[this is an envelope]

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C. 

[written on the side]
Jan 8.1846
Related case
Elizabeth Barker
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Dec. 22.1845.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Isaac Boen Barker of Pembroke is borne upon a Master Roll of Capt Freedom Chamberlain's company in Col John Thomas' regt in the Eight months service, as a private, from May 3 to August 1 1775 inclusive 3 months & 6 days- probably travel is included. As a private upon a Return of said company & regt, dated October 6 1775. and upon an order of same Company for coats, dated November 9. 1775. No rolls of Capt Stevens for 1776. Not upon Rolls of Capt Andrew Sampson but the name of Abel Turner mentioned in the annexed application, is borne upon a Return of said Capt Sampson's company at the Gurnet Plymouth harbor as a Corporal dated May 20 1777.- The above is all the evidence of service of any one of the name, as shown by the Military Records in this office
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the Commission's letter of Oct. 4, 1845 was filed in this Office; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said letter, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

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

John G. Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Pension Office,
October 4th, 1845.

Sir,
The papers sent to this office by you in the case of Elizabeth Barker, widow of Isaac B. Barker, have been examined and filed
The date of the marriage is satisfactory; but the service of her husband must be established by the certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts. He alleged he served eight months in 1775, under Capt Chamberlain, Col Baily, twelve months in 1776, under Col. Crains Regt of Artillery under Capt Stevens, and six months in 1777, as a substitute for Abel Turner, under Capt Andrew Sampson. 

I am, very respectfully 
Your Obt. Sevt,
J. L. Edwards
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Plymouth Mass.
June 5, 1846

Dear Sir
Annexed I send the Certificate of such of the Military services of Isaac Bowen Barker as are found in the Rolls &c in the Secretarys office in Boston.
Yours &c
J.H. Loud


ated for 1776
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Plymouth Mass,
September 4, 1846

Dear Sir

Will you please forward me the Certificate of Mrs. Elizabeth Barker Widow of Isaac B. Barker for a Pension as suggested in your last letter to me.

We have found a witness Mr. Josiah Barker who lives in Portsmouth N.H. who I believe has been for many years a Naval Constructor at the Navy Yard there who will testify that Isaac B. Barker served with him in the Gurnet but whether as a substitute for Abel Turner or otherwise he does not know or recollect. I understand from you that Turner's name & not Barber's is found on the roll. Barber I believe himself declared for the service as a substitute for Turner & submitted proof satisfactory to you then. Whether he then offered the Affidavit of Josiah Barker I do not know. If he did not I am instructed that such an affidavit from him can be had. If this affidavit will not avail any thing in addition to the testimony which Isaac B. Barker himself offered it is useless to send to Portsmouth to obtain the affidavit.
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I should like to have you send the Certificate for the amt you are willing to allow as stated in your letter to me, and if consistent that you would state in relation to the service on the Gurnet whether the above evidence from so respectable a source as Josiah Barker will be sufficiently corroborative to entitle Mrs B. to the same pension her husband recd.

Yours & c
J.H. Loud

J.L. Edwards, Esq
Washington
D.C.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Isaac Bowen Barker Pembroke Massachusetts which require further proof or explanation. 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason for not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear postively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less that the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year ______months, and ______days, I served as a _______For ______ months and _____days, I served as a ________; and for such service I claim a pension.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.

I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Elizabeth Barker, widow of Isaac Bowen Barker who was a matross & private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Seventy Six. dollars and sixty six___ cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry, in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. 

[imprint of a seal]

Given at the War Office of the United States this 2d day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.

W.L. Marcy, Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned, 
J.S. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
By F. S. Evans.
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Admitted Act '44 & '48 [1844 and 1848]
at $88.68 per annum commencing 22 April 1845
deducting former payments at $76.66 per annum.

[illegible - Atd]

Payment to be made at Boston by Franklin Haven Esquire Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Massachusetts

Payable on the 4th September and 4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2nd, 1848, Page 6 Volume 2
Leo Jenkins, Clerk
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He Died April 23 1845 aged 92 years
WIDOW, etc.

File Number 20662
Elizabeth Barker widow of Isaac Bowen Barker
Private Revolutionary War

Act: February 2nd. 1848
Index: - Volume A, Page 38

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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253
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Barker
widow of Isaac B.
who was a Matross & private
in the Revolution.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars 68. Cents per annum, to commence on the [crossed out text - 4th] 22 day of [crossed out text - March] April, 184 [crossed out text - 4] 7.
Increased from $76.66

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of July 1849 and sent to Hon A.K. Parris 2d Comptroller.

[Act of June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 26.
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Let to Hon. A.K. Parris
Feb 7. 1849
Reported

1116
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Barker
widow of Isaac Bowen Barker

who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Matross & private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 76. Dollars 66. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of August 1848. and sent to G. S. Bulfinch
Boston Mass

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848. Page 6 Vol. 2.
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Ref: -
253.
Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Barker
widow of Isaac B. Barker
who was a Matross & Private 
in the Revolution -
Husband died 22 Apl. 1845.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 76 --Dollars 66-- Cents per annum, to commence on the [crossed out text - 4th day of March, 1844.] 
22 April 1845.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Sept. 1846 and sent to J.H. Loud, Esq. Plymouth, Mass.

Act of JUNE 17, 1844.
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 2. Page 26.
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16950
Massachusetts
Isaac Bowen Barker, 
of Plymouth Co in the sate of Massach'tts
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane, of the Massach'tts line for the term of one year. 

Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3d. of April, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued on the 17. of May, 1820 and sent to Nahum Mitchell, Judge, East - Bridgewater, M.

Arrears to 4th of March, 1820. $184.50
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. Sept 1820 48"
22 mos. 28/30 & 4/361...... $232.50

{Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March, 1818}
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Probate Office
Plymouth Mass.
July 17. 1845

Sir
I send the application of Elizabeth Barker for a Pension. As Mr. Oldham the Magistrate did not certify as to the credibility of a Deponent, Deborah Oldham probably through inadvertence & as the lady is well known to me I have appended a certificate as to credibility which I suppose will do.  The Certificate may be sent to me. 
Yours with respect
J.H. Loud
Reg.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
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149
Elizabeth Barker
widow of Isaac Bowen Barker 
Massachusetts
act 17 June 1844
married 1792
husband died April 22nd 1845
admitted
1776- 12 months Matross
1775. 8 months private
$76.66 from 22 April 1845

J.H. Loud
Plymouth
Massachusetts 

149
Elizabeth Barker
Massachusetts
Letter to J.H. Loud
October 4th 1845
to same March 23. 1846
to Honorable R.C. Winthrop
March 26. 1846

act 17 June 1844
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Roxbury Mass Sept 2. 1856
Sir, 
Mr. Hultin has requested me to write to you for the purpose of ascertaining the condition and situation of a claim for pension, in the right of Elizabeth Barker, deceased. If you please inform me concerning the same, you will greatly oblige. your Obt Servt -

Wm Gaston
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Ho. of R.
17 March 1846

Mr. Winthrop will be obliged by Mr. Edward's attention to the cases mentioned in the inclosed letter; I will also thank Mr. E. to return the letter after taking note of its contents. -
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Feb. 22. 1849

Col. Edwards 
Sir, 
Agreeably to your suggestions contained in your letter to me of the 7th into the pension certificate of Elizabeth Barker is herewith returned for the purpose of having it altered so as to increase her pension up to the amount received by her husband--
Allow me to request, in behalf of the widow, that the new certificate may be furnished soon, That she may not be delayed in receiving the semiannual payment & on the 4th of next month. 
Truly be
Albion K. Parris
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I Samuel Daggett of Dedham, Mass. do testify and say that I well knew Isaac Bowen Barker of Pembroke, Mass. to serve in the revolutionary war during the year 1776 as a private soldier in Capt. Steven's Company and Col. Knox's artillery in the Massachusetts line. I was Lieutenant in the same Company during the same time till nearly the close of the year when from ill health I left it on a furlough, and left said Barker there & never heard, & have no doubt, but he served his year out faithfully & had an honorable discharge. I have seen him within a few days and give this deposition at his request. 
Samuel Daggett

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. September 24. 1819. Then the above named Samuel Daggett personally appeared before me & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition and subscribed the same in my presence. And I further certify that the said Daggett is credible witness.
Nahum Mitchell: Judge &cc
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I Albert Smith of Hanover in the county of Plymouth and commonwealth of Massachusetts, do testify and say that I have known Isaac Bowen Barker of Pembroke in the county aforesaid for more than fifty years, and that I knew him to be a soldier near Boston in the year seventeen hundred seventy five, also that he went the next year as a soldier into Canaday [Canada] and that I saw him a few days after his return the latter part of November or the beginning of December seventeen hundred and seventy six, and that he then related his sufferings to me, and was very much out of health so that his life was considered in danger and I further say that the said I.B. Barker has allways been considered a man of honest principles and fair character.

Albert Smith
Plymouth ss. (December the 8th 1819. Then the above named Albert Smith made oath that the above Deposition by him Signed is true in all its parts, and I further certify that the above said Albert Smith is a man of truth and that his Deposition is entitled to credit. 
Before me Melzar Curtis, Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. December 20. 1819. The above named Melzar Curtis is a Magistrate in this County and the foregoing is his genuine signature.
Nahum Mitchell Judge etc.
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County of Plymouth

in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts 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. 

Wm Tufts Deputy
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Elisha Gross
Deposition
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I Elisha Gross of Lawful age testify and say that I was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war from the first day of January AD 1776 to the last of Oct. of the Same year in a Company of Artillery commanded by Capt- Ebenezer Stephens and very well know that Isaac Bowen Barker was a Soldier in said company. that he joined said company on the first day of January AD 1776 and from the best of my recollection did duty in the same from the sd- first day of January to the Last of Oct following at which time I left sd- company, that Said company was Stationed at [crossed out text] Roxbury about three months. from thence marched to Canada from whence we [crossed out text] retreated to Tyconderoga at which place I was discharged- that said Barker did march from Roxbury to canada and from thence to Tyconderoga in said company. and I believe was a Solder in the same at the time I left.
Elisha Gross

Plymouth ss. August the 27th 1819 -
then the above named Elisha Gross Personally appeared and made Oath that the above deposition by him Signed is true in all its parts. 
Melzar Curtis, Justice Peace

I hereby certify that the above named Elisha Gross is a Credable witness -- Melzar Curtis, Justice Peace

The said Curtis is a Magistrate, authorized to take Depositions & the above is his handwriting - 
Nahum Mitchell, Judge &c
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I William Cushing of Pembroke in the County of Plymouth of lawfull age to Give Evidence do testifie and say that I know Isaac Bowen Barker of Pembroke and I know that he was in a Company with me at Roxbury in Seventeen hundred and Seventy five I understand that he enlisted in the year Service in Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six as I understand and was absent from the Town of Pembroke untill the last of November or the first of December of the same year and I understood that when he returned home that he came Directly from the army and that when he returned he was very week and in a low State of health and remained So for Several months and Further Saith not.
William Cushing
Plymouth & the 6th of December 1819
Personally appeared William Cushing and made oath to Truth of the above Deposion by him

Subscribed Before me John Turner Justice Peace
I hereby Certifie that the above named Willliam Cushing is a Creditable Witness.
John Turner Justice Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss Dec. 20.1819. The above named John Turner is a Magistrate in this County & the foregoing is his genuine signature. 
Nahum Mitchell, Judge & c
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I Lydia Sprague wife of James Sprague of Marshfield in the County of Plymouth being of Lawful age do testify & say, that I was well acquainted with Isaac Bowen Barker of Pembroke in the county aforesaid from a child, till I was Married in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy six, being up a near neighbour to him & nearly of the same age; that in the year 1775 the said Isaac Bowen Barker was a soldier in the army at Roxbury & in the same company with my brother Ebenezer Barker; also that the said Isaac B. Barker was a soldier in the army in the year 1776, that about the time I was married, which was on the 7th day of November of the same year, I received a letter from him which was dated at Mount Independence, opposite to Ticonderoga; that it was stated in said letter that he had had the small pox & had had it pretty bad, & was then unwell. It was a matter of notoriety at that time in the neighbourhood that the said Isaac B. Barker was then a soldier in the army at that place. Said letter is now lost, And I do not recollect the date of it. I recollect that the said Isaac B. Barker came home from the army with my brother Ebenezer Barker, that it was after I was married, and some circumstances which I recollect, make it appear that it was about a month after I was married; but I am not certain how long. All the above is clear in my recollection & further the deponent saith not, only that the said Isaac B. Barker came home at that time in a weak & low state of health. 
Marshfield Dec 7. 1819 Lydia Sprague

Plymouth ss. Dec. 7. 1819.
Then the above named Lydia Sprague, being duly cautioned and being a credible Witness and very cautious made oath that the above deposition was true in all its parts. 
Before me Martin Parris, Justice of the Peace. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. Dec. 20.1819. The above named Martin Parris is a Magistrate in this County and the foregoing is his genuine signature.
Nahum Mitchell Judge & ss
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Said Deponant further testifies, that I am possessed of Real estate which cost me one thousand two hundred forty three dollars and Sixty six cents, that I have money at interest more than I pay interest for to amount of between Seven and eight hundred dollars. I have a few cattle on my farm, and Some household furniture for the convenance of my family, I verily believe that my income from real and personal estate will not exceed one hundred dollars yearly, I have obtained this property and Supported myself and family thus far, by ridged economy, and hard labour, I am now become lame and decriped, able to do little toward the support of myself and family, I have a wife and Seven children who now depend on me for their Support, my oldest Son a lad of about ninteen years of age is a Cripple from his birth, my income with all the exertion I can make is not Sufficent to meet the expense of my family, my property is decreasing yearly, Should I be visited with Sickness my property would decreas much faster, might in a short time be exhausted, we had a hard Campaign into Canady, perhaps as much so as any during the war, the compensation I received at the time was trifling, under these circumstances I think myself entitled to a pension agreeable to the late act of  Congress----
Isaac Bowen Barker
Sworn to before me
Nahum Mitchell: Judge