Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,877, Oliver Howard, Mass.
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Service 
Mass
Howard Oliver
S.18,877
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Massachusetts 27.3444
Oliver Howard X [signature]
Plymouth in the State of Massa
he was a Private in the Company commanded
Col. Johnson in the Massa
me for 6 mos 422 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
[illegible] the rate of 20 Dollars 22 cents per annum,
[illegible] commence the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of April
1834 and sent J H
Lond Plymouth Massa.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1834    $60.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 10.11
                                                         $70.77
Revolutionary Claim, [in brackets]
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
Book E Vol. 200 Page 36
New Certificate issued 12th
June 1844, 4 sent to F. Haven
Pension Agent, Boston. Mass.
75 Plymouth stamp [faded]
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Oliver Howard
of mas
30.365

Private 6 mos. T2 day
admitted

J H Loud
Plymouth
Mass.
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Revolutionary Pensioners.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Plymouth, SS.
On this First day of April 1834, personally appeared in open Court, before [blank] the Court of Probate now sitting at East Bridgewater within and for said County of Plymouth, Oliver Howard a resident of North Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy-five years, 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 7, 1832. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served and herein stated.

1. He was attached to a Company of Minute Men raised in the town of Bridgewater of which Josiah Hayden was Captain afterward, a Colonel, at the time of the alarm in April 1775 when the British marched to Lexington, he with said Company marched towards Roxbury 
& after they reached Dorchester they were ordered to Marshfield.  where they were dismissed the return home to Bridgewater having been absent 3 Days-  three days. He knows of now one living who was with him the had no written discharge.
2. He again enlisted in Capt. Nathan Snows Company. David Packan, Lieut, in the latter part  of the year 1775 or beginning of 1776 immediately after the expiration of the service of the eight minute men He marched to Roxbury  & was in Col. Bailey's Regiment & remained in Said Service two months & six days when he was dismissed and returned home.
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Months, days 
2 -- 6
He had no written discharge. He does not know of any person living who was with him.
In 1776 the British landed at Braintree now Luring when an alarm was given. He then marched to Braintree to a place called Grape Island in the Company commanded by Capt David Packard & served two days when he was dismissed & returned home. Had no written discard & knows of no one living who was with him. 
— 2 days
4th Jn 1776 or beginning or beginning of 1777 he marched in the same company to Liverton in R. I. where he served three weeks & was then discharged but had no written discharge.
21 days. 
5th Jn 1776 or 1777 he cannot say which he enlisted in Capt Nathan Alden's Company in Col. Johnson Regt. for three months & marched to Bristol in R. I. & served the term of his enlistment out & was dismissed & returned home. had no written discharge.
3 months
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6 months 2 days
He was born in Bridgewater in 1758 & his birth he presumes to be in the record of said town. He was never in any battle, he does not not recollect any Officers other than above enumerated. He has no documentary evidence than what is herewith transmitted He is well known to Hon. William Baylies Hon Aaron Hobart, Hon Judge Mitchell & Other citizens of said town.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Attend J. H Loud Register
[signed] Oliver Howard
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We, William Thompson a Clergyman, residing in the Town of North Bridgewater, and Eliab Whitman, a Magistrate residing in the same Town, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Oliver Howard of said Town, who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration: that we believe him to be seventy-five years of age: that in the neighborhood where he resides he is reputed & believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Furthermore we certify that said Howard is a man of the most undoubted character for truth & veracity.
Wm Thompson
Eliab Whitman
Sword & subscribed this 12th day of April 1834.
Before me Jesse Perkins } Justice of peace - And now the said Court, after an investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogations presented by the War Department, do hereby declare their opinion that the before named applicant
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was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he stated and the said Court further certifies that it appears to them that the Rev William Thompson who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of North Bridgewater & that Eliab Whitman Esq who has also signed the same is a respectable citizen & magistrate & resident in the same town & a credible patron & that their statement is entitled to credit & that the same was sworn to & subscribed before Jesse Perkins Esq in consequence after d[illegible]taued  from the Probated Count.
By the Count Atted
Jacob H Loud
Register
I Jacob H Loud do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original papers in the matter of the application of Oliver Howard for a Pension X that Jesse Perkins Esq is a Jus. Peace & that the above signature is his handwriting.
Witness my hand & seal of Court this fifteenth day of April 1834.
Jacob H Loud Reg.
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P 18877

Invalid

File No. 18877
Oliver Howard
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 32

Index:--Vol. 1, Page 182

Arrangement of 1870
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21: Feb: 48
Baylis
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I Jonathan Perkins of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth + State of Massachusetts, a soldier of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States, under the Act of June 7th, 1832. I am well acquainted with Oliver Howard of said North Bridgewater; that I have known him from our boyhood; that I was attached to a Company of minute men under Captain Josiah Hayden at the time of the alarm in April 1775 when the British marched to Lexington; I marched towards Roxbury with said Company, of which the said Oliver Howard was one; at Dorchester we were ordered to Marshfield, when we were dismissed, + returned to Bridgewater, having been absent three days; Oliver Howard aforesaid  was with me during said three days.

In 1776 or 1777 the British landed at Braintree or Weymouth, when an alarm was given:  I then marched to the sea shore in Captain David Packard;s Company - was gone two days, when we were dismissed + returned home - Oliver Howard aforesaid, was with us during the two days.

In 1776, I enlisted into Captn. Nathan Alden's Company of Massachusetts militia in a Regiment commanded by Colonels Hall + Johnson, for three months, + marched to Bristol in Rhode Island, and served the full term of three months. The aforesaid Oliver Howard was with me in the same Company during the three months, at the end of which time we were dismissed without a written discharge.
Jon [illegible] Perkins

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ls
April 3rd 1834. Then personally appeared Jonathan Perkins, + subscribed the foregoing affidavit and made oath to the truth of the same - and I further certify that said Jonathan Perkins is a man of truth and veracity.
Before me, Jesse Perkins, Justice of Peace
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I Daniel Field of North Bridgewater, in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts, a soldier of the Revolution, & a Pensioner of the United States, under the Act of June 7 1832 - being of the age of seventy-five years, do testify & say, that in the year 1776 or 1777 I cannot say which, I marched to Rhode Island, at the time of an alarm, in a Company commanded by Capt. David Packard - and was on duty as a soldier for the space of three weeks; Oliver Howard, now of North Bridgewater aforesaid, was in the same company, & served the three weeks with me. Immediately, or very soon after the said three weeks service, I entered a Company under Capt. Nathan Alden, in Col. Johnson's Regiment, Nathan Packard, being Lieutenant, and served a further term of three full months; Oliver Howard aforesaid was with me in the same Company during the whole term of service, at the close of which we were dismissed without any written discharge having been in the service three months & three weeks. Oliver Howard was with me the whole time. 
Daniel Field
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County } Fs. April 5, 1834.
Then personally appeared Daniel Field, who is a man of truth & veracity, and subscribed, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit.
Before me, Jesse Perkins } Justice of the peace, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Plymouth Fs. I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Jesse Perkins Esq is a Justice of the Peace for P County & that the signatures to the above & amended Certificates are genuine.
Witness my hand & legal seal of Office this sixteenth day of April 1834. 
Jacob H. Loud
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I Oliver Howard of the Town of North Bridgewater and County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts; a soldier of the Revolution & a Pensioner of the United States, being eighty-six years of age, do testify and say, that in the year 1833 or 1834, according to the best of my recollection, I received a Pension Certificate from the Commissioners of Pensions of the United States, entitling me to receive a Pension of Twenty Dollars twenty = two cents annually during my life, for services rendered and duty performed in the war of the Revolution. The certificate I have usually presented myself in person semi-annually at the office of the agency for paying pensions at Boston in the State of Massachusetts, and have received my pay to the fourth of September last. But soon after leaving the office last September, and while in the City of Boston, I lost my Pension Certificate; but how I lost it I cannot say: and though I made diligent search for it, I have not found it; wherefore I most respectfully request the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions for the United States, to issue and transmit to me a new certificate instead of the one lost; so that I may be permitted again to receive and enjoy my Pension.

Oliver Howard [signature}

State of Massachusetts
Plymouth County On this 30th day of May 1844. Personally appeared Oliver Howard above named, and subscribed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, Before me, Jesse Perkins} Justice of the Peace. And I further certify that I have well known the aforesaid Oliver Howard for more than forty years, that I know him to be a
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Secretary's Office, Boston June 7th 1844

I hereby Certify, that at this date of the annexed attestation Jesse Perkins is as a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth,

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

Wm. Tufts. Depy.
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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man of truth & veracity; that he has always sustained the most unblemished moral character: that I knew of his having in his pocession such a Pension Certificate as he states he has lost. And I know him to be the same person to whom the lost certificate was granted, and I verily believe his foregoing statement is strictly true. 
Jesse Perkins } Justice of the Peace.
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Apr 17
Free

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
D. C.
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Plymouth Mass
April 16 1834

J.L. Edwards Esq
Sir,
I send you this application of Oliver Howard for a Pension herewith,
Yours respectfully
J. H Loud
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Issue a ^ new certificate &       
Send E F. Haven
Boston
Mass.
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Merchants Bank
Boston, 8th June 1844

Sir,
The enclosed papers I transmit by request of Hon. Jesse Perkins of North Bridgewater, Plymouth Co. Mass. to whom be please to enclose the certificate.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Franklin Haven, 
Pension Agent

J. L. Edwards Esqu.
Commissioner [uncertain] of Pensions
Washington
D.C.