Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29919, Jonathan Hunnewell, Continental (Mass)
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Service: Continental (Mass)
Hunnewell, Jonathan
Number: S 29919
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1852
Nov 4
Duplicate Certificate
Sent to Elijah Clark Esquire
Brighton, Mass

32.867
Massachusetts
Jonathan Hunnewell dea_
who was an Artillery in the Artificer commanded 
by Captain Hunnewell of the [blank] commanded
by [blank] in the Mass
line for Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Boston 
at the rate of 240 Dollars --- Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Ending 3 April 1842.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of May 1852 and sent to
Honorable H Mann

Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending H o f D
Increased from [?] 144

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by R. Mc Rae Clerk,
E Vol. 2 Page 37
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex
On this sixteenth day of October eighteen hundred and fifty, personally appeared before Elijah Clark a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex and State aforesaid. Frances Hunnewell, a resident of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk in said Commonwealth, being sixty - years of age, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the amount of Pension due her late father Jonathan Hunnewell at the time of his death under the Law of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That the said Jonathan Hunnewell was a native of Boston in the County of Suffolk & State aforesaid and was engaged in the Service of his Country in the War of the Revolution as a Mason under his father Richard Hunnewell who was Captain of the Corps of Masonry and rendered near three years service in that capacity in erecting Barrack forts be in the Service of the United States and that a few years before his death he became more in need of his Countries aid. He made a claim for a pension under the aforesaid Act of Congress which claim has been neglected and not allowed. She therefore renews the claim greatly due her said father at the time of his decease and hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, (over)
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except the amount due and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the United States in the agency of this state or any agency in the United States.
Frances Hunnewell

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written.
Before Major Elijah Clark, Justice of the Peace
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State of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk

On this twenty third day of October the year eighteen hundred and forty one, personally appeared before Sherman Leland Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate in for the County of aforesaid.
Jonathan Hunnewell a resident of Roxbury, in the County of and State aforesaid, aged eighty-two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he was formerly a resident of Boston, in the County of Suffolk and state aforesaid. That he left said Boston on the twentieth day of April 1775, and went with his father to Providence in the State of Rhode Island, where he remained till November 1775, where he returned to Roxbury aforesaid, and engaged as a mason artificer under Captain William Ethridge, under whom he continued till said Ethridge died, in the year 1776.
That Richard Hunnewell then took command of the company of masons, which was under the control of Colonel Thomas Chase, Deputy Quarter Master General, and he the said Jonathan Hunnewell continued in said company till Col Jabez Hatch was appointed Deputy Quarter Master General, but the exact date thereof he cannot now recollect. That he was engaged during the time of said service in building barracks, magazine, &c, at Roxbury, Dorchester, Rutland and other places. That he was afterwards employed at sundry times to work for the Government, but did not receive regular pay, as he did during the service under Col Chase.
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That he the said Jonathan Hunnewell, has never been in need of assistance from his country for support, and therefore, he did not think proper to make application for a pension till the present time.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Jonathan Hunnewell

Sworn to a subscribed the day & year aforesaid above this aforesaid duly - doth hereby declares his opinions that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier - a service that he states & the hand Judge doths hereby further that the service applicant by reason of order of & Godly infirmity is unable to attend court to share his circumstances.
S Leland Judge of Probate

Commonweath of Massachusetts
I Jonathan H Cobb, Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Norfolk, do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the aforesaid proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Hunnewell for a pension.
The testimony which I have received set by hand and seal of the Office this twenty third day September A.D. 1841
Jonathan H Cobb
Reg Probate
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[handwritten] 29919 [/handwritten]
INVALID.
[top left][handwritten] Revry [/handwritten]

File No. [handwritten] 29.919 
Jonathan Honnnewell [sic]
Artificer Rev War [/handwritten]

Act: [handwritten] June 7" 39" [/handwritten]
Index: Vol. [handwritten] 2 [/handwritten], Page [handwritten] 197 [/handwritten]

[Arrangement of 1870.] [Brackets used here in original doc]
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Liet Honarable H Mann
14 April 1832

32.867  
Massachusetts  
Jonathan Hunnewell, decd  

Of Norfolk Co.in the State of  Mass   
who was an Officer in theCompy commanded
by CaptainHunnewellof the Regt Commanded
By Col Hatch in the Mass   
line for2 years   

Inscribed on the Roll of Boston   
at the rate of 144 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.& Ending 3 0/11
April 1842, when he died   
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of
  May 1837 and sent to
Honorable H Mann M.G.
West Newton Mass   
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by H R Weightman Clerk,
BookE.Vol.2.Page 37
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35.2.87

Massachusetts
Rejected
Set to J P Bigelow 5 Nov '41

Act of June '32
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Jas Merse
Clothier Gen
168
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J P Bigelow ....      Nov 5 41
J B Lane ..........      Nov 13 41
JB Lane ...........      Nov 27 41
J P Bigelow ......    Dec 16 41
Hon R C Winthrop ... Feby 12 42
R Baldwin .....         Jun 17 42
J B Lane ......          Aug 20 42
J B Lane .....           Jul (?) 42
Hon Secy of War   Jun 15 46
Secy to J B Lane      Jun 16 46
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35.287
Massachusetts

Sent to R Baldwin June 17, '42
Sent to J B Lane Aug 20, '42
Sent to Same July 9th '45

Rejected
Act June , '32
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J. L. Edwards Esquire
[?] &c &c

Dr. Sir,

I pray your attention to the inclosed papers.

I am
Very respy Yours
Robert C Winthrop

J&R
January 28
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Boston Massachusetts
 Sir,
  I have received yours of the 27th ult. and now forward some additional evidence respecting the time and nature of the service of Jonathan Hunnewell.

The Petition of Richard Hunnewell (a copy of which is herewith enclosed) shows that they were "in the service of the Continental"    and refers to "the Pay originally granted by the Honorable Congress to Artificers"    in such a manner that it cannot be doubted that they received it. The [Reso..?] per [?] on the 
Petition directed the "Committee for settling with the Army"    to settle with Richard Hunnewell and the the three others mentioned in the Petition. In the Certificate of the committee respecting Richard Hunnewell he is stated foreman of "a Corps of Artificers in the Continental Service", and in the warrant for his [illegible] "foreman of a Corps of Artificers" [underlined]. In the Certificate of the Committee respecting the three men under Richd Hunnewell, their "Rank"    is [illegible] "Privates.    This alone should be sufficient to show that they were regularly enlisted, but it is stated that they were "Enlisted for 3 years,"    and in the warrant answered they are called "Richard Hunnewell's Corps of Artificers"    When the warrants were found in a file of "Military Warrants,"
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which have always been left separate from Warrants of other disciplines. 

It will thus be seen that in every document in which this company is mentioned it is recognised as a regulurly [sic?] inlisted Corps of Artificers in the United States Service and as such the individuals comprising of it are entitled to all privileges presently granted to the soldiers of the Revolution.
It appears from the Army Books and the statement of Mr. Hunewell that the organization of this company was different from that of most others, and probably from any other [illegible words] been presented to the Hnr. Department. But is this to be considered as evidence against his claim? In a Company of Mason [illegible] is who waited at their trade, it would have but a [illegible] expe[illegible] to have had [illegible] Corporals, as their pay would [illegible] have been [illegible] than that of the [illegible] while their work would have been performed in better.
The inclusion draws from the Amount of Pay received entirely in [illegible] by the certificate of the Secretary [illegible]
"[underlined] Military [/underlined] Discipline." Their term may have received a different construction from him from whad [sic] would
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be given in the Department and it may be that the [unclear words]... would be considered Military by the Department, while [unclear words] it would not be considered. Please inform me of your decision as convenient.
    Very Respectfully
      Your Obt Svt
      J. Ballard Lane

Hon. [?] Edwards.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

County of Norfolk

I Sherman Leland Judge of the Court of Probate in the said County hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been collected to use to prove that Jonathan Hunnewell of Roxbury in said County a claimant for a pension under Laws of the United States for military services rendered during the span of the revolution, died on the third day of April one thousand eight hundred forty two.
Note he left no widow & that Frances Hunnewell daughter in said county is his only living child.

She writes where of I the said Judge have hereunto let my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the twelfth day of October, 1850.
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May 1, 1832

No, of Revs

Honorable J. E. Heath
Commn ? r [Commissioner]

Dear Sir, As the enclosed papers explain themselves I send them to you without comment.

Yours very truly

Horace Mann
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Brighton Massachusetts April 29, 1832

Dear Sir,
Your letter of date the 16 March and the letter from the Commissioner of Pensions of date 14, March respecting the claims for an increase to the Pension of Jonathan Hunnewell late of Roxbury, deceased, were duly received.
I enclose to you herewith the additional evidence in Support of that claim.

Very Respect your Obt St &c
Elijah Clark

Honorable Horace Mann
 M C
Washington City D.C.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
April 21, 1852

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 Jonathan Hunnewell of Boston is borne no Continental Army books in Captain R Hunnewells Company of the Mason Artificers: from January 1, 1777 to July 21, 1779, 31 months. He enlisted for 3 years and was paid by the "Continental". His name is found with the other artificers, all in Continental service.
Jonathan Hunnewell was paid, Dec 1841, the County granted by resolve, of the Commonwealth of March 12, 1835 and which by its conditions was given only to those soldiers who had "enlisted for 3 years or D.W." "and who served at least two years and six months at one time"

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


Amasa Walker
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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The Secretary of the Commonwealth is requested to examine the Books and Documents in his office and furnish additional evidence to a certificate issued September 26, 1850. Proof of the Service of Jonathan Hunnewell from Boston an artificer in the War of the Revolution to prove when said Hunnewell enlisted for that time he engaged, if he belonged to the State or continental Service, if his name is found recorded with other artificers in the continental Service, and if his pay for Services rendered was received to the United States.
The letter of the Commissioner of Pensions of date April 14, 1852 is herewith enclosed.
Elijah Clark
Attorney for Claimant

Brighton April 14, 1852
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Brighton Massachusetts October 4, 1851

Dear Sir,
I have the honour to enclose to you herewith the claims of Miss Frances Hunnewell for an increase to the Pension allowed her late father, an artificer in the War of the Revolution.
In this case it is considered that Mr Hunnewell's Pension should have been allowed at the highest rate of pension that has ever been allowed to artificers by the late decision and for a further consideration. I refer to a copy of an original letter of Timothy Pickering, Quarter Master General, of date October 23rd 1780, on file with her claims of a further examination of that document and that he was enrolled in the same Military Record Books of Massachusetts that often were who have received an increase.
Very Respectfully your
Obt  St &C
Elijah Clark

Honorable J E Heath
Commission of Pensions
Washington City D.C,
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, Boston:
September 21,1854

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 Jonathan Hunnewell is borne on Army Books in Capt Richard Hunnewell Co. of Masons of Boston, credited by Services from January 1, 1777 to July 21, 1779, 31 months.

A bounty of $50 was granted to Jonathan Hunnewell in 1841 by the Commonwealth under the provisions of the resolve of
March 12, 1835

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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I Frances Hunnewell of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk in said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age. Depose & say that I am the only surviving child of Jonathan Hunnewell, late of Roxbury in said County, that at, and before his death he was claimant for a Pension from the United States in consideration of his Services in the War of the Revolution. I therefore now renew the claim for a pension which is now due at his decease. And request the Secretary of this Commonwealth to examine the Rolls, Books and Documents in his office for proof of the Service rendered by the said Jonathan Hunnewell who was a native of Boston and according to the best of my recollection & knowledge, he was a Mason by occupation as was his father Richard Hunnewell and that the said Jonathan Hunnewell was employed in the Service primarily as a Mason, and under his father who was foreman of that Department in Artifices, or Quarter Master General and that he was in the Service under this engagement for near three years and was employed in the repair of the Barracks at different places & stations in the Army of the Revolution as one of the artificers.
Frances Hunnewell
(?) ss.
Inscribed to me by the said Frances Hunnewell
on this the 9th day of September 1832
Before me Elijah Clark Judge of the Pensions
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November 4, 1852

Duplicate certificate sent to Elijah Clark of Brighton Massachusetts
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Brighton, October 30th 1852
Honorable J E Heath
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir,
I enclose herewith the affidavits as to parts of the Pension certified of an increase of Pension allowed to Jonathan Hunnewell, not having been received once noted. So understood when I was at the Pension office on the [?] & 22
Very Respect Your
Elijah Clark
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Boston, November 1st 1841

Sir,
Herewith enclosed is the Declaration of Mr Jonathan Hunnewell, who now applies for a pension under the Act of June 7, 1832, with the papers necessary to prove his right and title to the same.
No evidence can as yet be found of his service under Capt William Ethridge, but that under Richard Hunnewell is from the Certificate of the Secretary of State.
Captain Ethridge died of the small pox in the summer of 1776, it is probable that Mr Hunnewell then enlisted for three years as a mason artificer and that this time expired on the 31st of Jul 1779.
The Army Books show nothing to the contrary as all the accounts commence January 1st 1777 and shows no service prior to that date.
Mr Hunnewell's reasons for not having made application before are stated in his
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Declaration. Till within a short time he has been in possession of property of the value of $200.00. He is one of the most respectable men in the town where he resides, and it may not be amiss to state that he was a member of the Legislature of this State, (from Boston), twenty three years in succession.
Please inform me of your decision as soon as convenient.
Very Respectfully Yours
Yr Obt Servant
J Ballard Lane

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Washington,
D.C.
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Secretarys letter -
concerning in report [illegible]
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War Department
June 16, 1846

Sir,
In reply to your letter appealing from the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions, in the case of Jonathan Honeywell decd. I transmit on a Report of that officer and inform you that  upon a due examination of the grounds of this decision, I feel constrained to concur in and to confirm it.
Very Respectfully
Your obt servant
W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War

J Ballard Lane Esquire
Boston Massachusetts
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Honorable J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

report to Mr Lane
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Boston, November 19th, 1846

Sir,
By direction of the Secretary of Commonwealth, I had the honor of addressing you on the 8th, on the subject of the claim of Jon Hunnewell for a pension. The agent has again applied to him stating that he had received another communication from you respecting the case; and he has further directed me to examine it, and write to you. The account from which the certificate was drawn, is in the Regular Continental Army books.
A Resolve passed June 11th 1779 by the General Assembly of this State, of which the following is an exact copy.
"Resolve instilling the Corps of Light Dragoons, Artillery and Infantry, and Corps of Artificers to the same Privileges and Gratuities as the fifteen Battalions."
"Resolved, that all Officers, Noncommissioned Officers and lot belonging to this State, heirs, belonging to the Corps of Light Dragoons and Infantry, and Corps of Artillery Artificers, commissioned and enlisted since the sixteenth day of September 1776, for three
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years or during the War; or which shall hereafter be commissioned and inlisted, not being part of the fifteen Battalions, shall, according to a Resolution of Congress of March 15, 1779, be considered as Part of this States' Quotas and shall be entitled to receive the same Privileges and Gratuities as the Officers, Noncommissioned Officers and Soldiers of the fifteen Battalions belonging to this State are." 
This particular account is headed "Jonathan Hunnewell of Boston, in R Hunnewells' Company of Masons"; and the account of the latter; on the same page, is headed "Richard Hunnewell of Boston, Foreman in a Co of Mason Artificers".
Very Respectfully,
your obedient servant,
F. S. Durivage

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
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Hon. Edwards is returning & requests & notice the Secretary's official certificate in the account payable
Reclamation..
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J. L. Edwards, Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

11 Nov 1841
D C
[postmark] BOSTON NOV 9
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Boston, November 8th, 1841
Secretary's Office
J. L. Edwards Esquire

Sir,
I have been directed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth to attend to the subject matter of your letter of the 5th and to communicate to you the result of the further examination.
Jonathan Hunnewells' name is borne on the Army books [underlined], and the record is properly certified. On it a regular entry of enlistment in the usual form, average "3 years". He is credited with 31 months' service "at 60 per month." which must have been accidentally omitted in making out the certificate.
Very Respectfully
your obedient servant
F. S. Durivage
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Jonathan Hunnewell
Massachusetts
Act 7 June 1832
sd, 2 years Artificer
$144 per anm from
4 Mch 1831 to 3 Apl
1842 - when he died
Payable to Frances 
Hunnewell, his only
surviving child

Cert sent to 
Honorable H 
West Newton
Massachusetts
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Boston, November 26th 1841

Sir,
I have received yours of the 13th inst. and now forward an additional statement of Mr Hunnewell, which shows some facts which were omitted in his original declaration.
It appears from his statement that there were four masons enlisted for three years and others were engaged according to the amount of work to be done. That he enlisted for three years and served thirty one months is proved by the Army Books, which contain the names but those of infantry, artillery, and artificers enlisted regularly for three years &c during the war.
  I have applied to the Secretary of State for a copy of "the law authorizing the raising of the company, "but it cannot be found, as this corps was not raised by any law of this state: but by action of the ....a copy of which is herewith inclosed..considered as part of this state's quota.
  On an examination of the Book containing this company it does not appear that there was any commissioned or non commissioned officers other than the Foreman; a Master Mason, to
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[unclear] the [unclear]..having probably been thought [unclear]
I request your attention to the special [unclear] which the Secretary was pleased to give, respecting R. Hunnewell's character.

Very Respectfully
YourObt Servant
J. Ballard Lane

Hon J. L. Edwards
Washington D.C.
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Boston June 18/45
J Ballard Lane
Has decision been made on Jona, Hunnewell's pension claim.

L105. Rec. June 20/45

Pension Office
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Boston, June 18th, 1845

Sir,
On or about the 27th of January last, an appeal was made (through the Hon. Daniel P King) from the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions respecting the claims of the Mrs Elizabeth Smalledge and Mr Jonathan Hunnewell. On the 25th of March a Pension Certificate was received in the case of Mrs Smalledge, but nothing had yet been received in relation to the Mr Hunnewells claim. I enclose herewith a copy of my letter to Mr King sharing the fact of the case.
If adecision has been made, I respectfully request that I be informed of it, hoping that it may be as favorable as that in the case of Mrs Smalledge.

Very Respectfully,
Your Obt Servant
J. Ballard Lane

Honorable W. L. Marcy
Secretary of Pension
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Jonathan Hunnewell
decd 2 years Artillery Artificer

[??] to $240 ded'y $144 per annum [unclear]
4 Mar 1831 & endg 3 April 1842  payable to

Frances Hunnewell
only surviving child

Hon H Mann
14 [unclear]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk

Sherman Leland, Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for the County of Norfolk, hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been added and to our approve that Jonathan Hunnewell of Roxbury in said County died on the third day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, that at the time of his death, he was a claimant for a pension under the Laws of the United States for military service rendered during the war of the Revolution and that he left no widow and that Frances Hunnewell of Dorchester of said County then was and now is the only surviving child of the said Jonathan Hunnewell and that she resides in Dorchester.

In witness whereof I the said Sherman Leland Judge as aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this ninth day of April A.D. 1852.

L Leland
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Massachusetts

I Horace Mann of Newton do pose and say, that he Elijah Clark of Brighton sent to me certain papers in the case of Frances Hunnewell, daughter of Jonathan Hunnewell, applicant for an increase of Pension and that I [?] same forthwith to the Pension office.
It is stated to me that a certificate for an increase of Pension for her was forwarded to me at Washington by the Pension Department. I have no recollection of ever receiving such a certificate, but, from my habits of business, I am certain that if I received one, it was forthwith forwarded to the E Clark who sent me the papers.
Horace Mann

West Newton, October 28th, 1852
Middlesex, October 29, 1852 sworn to on the day & year above before me.
Elijah Clark  Jus of Peace
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I, Elijah Clark of Brighton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of Lawful age, depose and say that on or near the 22 May about 1832, I enclosed & forwarded to Honorable Horace Mann, a member of Congress, then at Washington allocational evidence in the case of a claim of Frances Hunnewell for an increase to the Pension allocated to the late Jonathan Hunnewell, that no answer has up to this date been received from Mr Mann in the usual form and that and no certificate of an increase of Pension as claimed has been received from the Pension office, through Hon. Horace Mann or any other way whatsoever in writing. Since the letter of the Commissioners of date April 14,1852 and that if any certificate has been issued, it has probably been lost, or some way destroyed.
Elijah Clark

Suffolk Ss. October 30, 1852
Sworn to before me
Chas W Lovett
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, Boston, October 30, 1852

I hereby Certify, That at the dates of the annexed  Elijah Clark was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and Charles W Lovett was a Justice of the Peace for County of Suffolk.

in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to their 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.

[signature illegible]
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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James L Edwards, Esquire
Commission of Pensions
Washington


March 6, 1842

Mass.
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{Dannon 
&
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[postmark]
BOSTON
JUN 
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Boston Massachusetts
June 13th, 1842

Sir,
I have been requested by the family of Jonathan Hunnewell of Roxury to call the attention of the Department to his claim for a Pension, under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 and solicit a further consideration of the same.
I have been shown your letters, in relation to the above case dated December 16, 1841 & February 12th 1842. Wherein it is stated "that the Artificers to" "whom your Certificate and letter refer, were all under civil contract at $10 per month." In this decision I understand is included all who served in the General Corps of Artificers, who were attached to the Continental Army, and hereto fore recognized by the General or State Governments as a part of the same. Viz. Nichols - Baldwin's - Flowers - Mason's - Hawes - Cheever's - Uran's - Hunnewell's - Wheeler's.
If the above decision is correct, I cannot conceive with what propriety the General Government have acted in awarding to the Officers, Noncommissioned Officers & Privates of the above mentioned Artificers Corps, the same emoluments of pay Bounty Laws Invalid & made on pensions as were granted to the Officers and Soldiers belonging to the Regiments bearing arms, and in so doing made no discrimination whatever: For a confirmation of the foregoing operation I refer to the Department to the Original Records on file in the 3d Auditor's office. Bounty Land & Pension Offices. I would cite you to some few of the Individuals of the Artificers Corp's whose claims upon the General Government have been satisfied.
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Peter Sears of Situate, Plymouth County in this state, Rec at an early period his Five years Commutation pay as a Lieutenant in Captain Noah Nichol Corps of Artificers subsequently. He received a Pension from the United States & since his death his Heirs have applied for, and obtained a Military Law Warrant from the United States for 200 acres of Bounty Law. Edward Damon Master Wheelwright of the same Corps Received a Pension from the U. S. under the act 18th March 1818, Plymouth County.
Benjamin Collamore & Stephen Rodgers both of Plymouth County who served under Captain Nichols Receive an Invalid Pension from the U. S. under the act of June 7th, 1785. Col Jonathan Baldwin who Commanded a Regiment of Artificers, and one of the Corps referred to in your letter of the 16th September last, was a member of the Massachusetts State Cincinnati Society & I presume Received his 5 years Commutation pay & likewise Bounty Law from the United States. Several of his Artificers have also Read their Bounty Law as above Captain Wm Mills.
Jonathan Hunnewell being a regularly enlisted Artificer for three years has Received from this Commonwealth the gratuity $50 Service of 200 acres of Bounty Law: Had he enlisted   for During the War, and never to its termination, he would have claimed Bounty Law from the U.S.
I would further remark that in all cases without one solitary exception, the private artificers in each and every Corps above enumerater, received but $10 for monthly pay: and that this amount is correct. I have the testimony of each surviving Artificer for ten years last past all of which is fully corroborated by the Army.
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count made by high authority at the termination of the Revol War and now amongst the public archives of this Commonwealth. It is not probable that the Officers especially appointed by the authorities of this State, aided and assisted by the Regimental Company & other officers in arranging and assigning to every Regiment and Corps, their respective places in the lists made out preparatory to the adjustment of their claims for pay and Bounties should have embraced the before mentioned Corps of Artificer's and assign them a place in the Continental Army lists. When in fact they one and all serve under Civil contract. I presume those high Functionaries must have known the true character of the Artificers Corps than can be known by the Department at the present day.
I am inspired that Mr Hunnewell has withdrawn his pension papers from the Pension Office and accompanied them by a petition to Congress, asking relief, where I presume all the documents relating to his case can be found.
Be pleased to re examine the case of said Hunnewell and forward the result to me.
Very Respectfully
Your obt Servant
Reuben Baldwin


J. L. Edwards, Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Boston, Massachusetts, May 26, 1846

Sir,
The claim of Jonathan Hunnewell for a Pension under the Act of June 7th, 1832, having been disallowed by the Com of Pensions, as attempt was made in January 1845, to bring his claim in concession with another under similar circumstances, before a higher authority. For this purpose appeals were made through Honorable D. P. King. In one claim, that of Mrs Elizabeth Smalledge, the decision of the Commissioner was overruled, and the claim allowed. In the case of Mr Hunnewell, in answer to a letter, a [faded words] 1845 a letter [faded words]  Mr Edwards stating that Mr King had made no communication in the case accompanied with a rebuke, for "invoking new influences to call it up". He also inferred the [faded words]. He is dead, and left no child, there is no pension. This is not the case. Mr Hunnewell is dead but by the accompanying certificate left a child who is entitled to claim the amount due at the death. As the decision of the Commissioners is unsatisfactory and as I contend, it is desirable that a fresher [?]  as provided by Law in such cases. I would make this claim under consideration, and it is this purpose I now address you.
The facts of the case are as follows,
Jonathan Hunnewell enlisted as a Mason Artifices for three years, of which thirty one months service have been proved.
The claim was disallowed by the Commission. He discovered that the service was performed under a "civil contract."  To support this, he referred to the monthly pay charged to Mr H in his account in the Massachusetts
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enlisted Artificer.
The Army books in one of which Mr Hunnewell's account is found, were made up by the "Committee for [?]thing with the Army", in order to ascertain the amount due each officer, soldier or Artificer as compensation for the depreciation of their wages, which had been previously paid in paper money, by the Army paymasters, from the Continental treasury. By a Resolve passed May 3, 1777 a copy of which has been sent to the Pension Office, the Committee were directed to reckon the pay of all Artificers at 3 [pounds] per month and no more, these accounts do not therefore show the full pay of the men whose names they bear, and it is by no means conclusive that the monthly pay as Jonathan Hunnewell cannot be the same as that received by other Artificer's on the contrary as his account differs from the others in [unclear] bearing upon the matter in dispute, there is nothing as such can be deduced from it, tending to show that his service was not performed under the same obligations as that of any other regularly enlisted artificer.
I have now in my possession, a copy of an agreement (the original was forwarded to Washington to be used in their claim, but was unfortunately lost), between Jeduthan Baldwin, Col, of Artificers, and sixty Carpenters, who were to work for the United States. It may not be improper to mention a few of the distinctions between the nature of this service as shown by the contract, and that of Mr Hunnewell. These men were engaged for no specified time. Mr H. enlisted for three years, if they left the place of their employment without orders, they were to forfeit their wages. Had he absented himself, without leave from his commanding officer, he would have been considered a deserter, and treated as such. They were entitled to wages only
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while in actual employment, even though disabled by sickness. He was paid for the whole time of his enlistment whether employed, idle, sick or well. The pay of Mr. H. so far from being proof against his claim, should conclusively when compared with the wages received by these men, that his service was of a very different nature from theirs. Their pay was eight shillings and one ration of provisions per day. Mr. H's pay was that of a regularly enlisted artificer. In it at all probable that he would have contracted to work for two shillings per day, while other artificers earned eight?
The artificers whose accounts for depreciation were made up by the "Committee for Settling with the Army", were not as the Cons's had most strongly assumed in his letter of February 12, 1842 to Hon R. C. Winthrop, "employed by the State of Massachusetts" but were "enlisted in the service of the Continent." This is shown by the petition of the company for depreciation, also, in Mr. H's account, wherein he is credited by 31 months of service at 60 dollars a month for which the nominal sum has been paid him by the Continent. In a certificate from the Committee they are called a "Corps of Artificers in the Continental Service," and it is certified that they "enlisted for three years" and "Privates".  *The Committee were directed by a Resolve of the Legislature to settle with the corps "part of their State's quota of the Continental Army". What stronger evidence can be needed?
The Com's has asserted that all artificers who were not employed with a 'civil contract," were entitled to depreciation without a special act. The records of this state
*This certificate, being so clear in its expressions with regard to the nature of Mr Hunnewell's service, the attention of the Com's has been repeatedly called to it, but he had not  to notice it.  It is in itself insufficient to over look all the objections and arguments,  which he has made against the claim.
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show that separate resolves were passed allowing compensation for depreciation to each corps of Artificers, Artillery and Infantry, who were enlisted for three years or during the War, except the original fifteen battalions, who received it by order of Congress. A Company of blacksmiths employed by the same officer (Col Thomas Chase) under whom J Hunnewell served, petitioned for depreciation and had leave to withdraw their petition In a certificate from Col Chase, a copy of which is in the Pension Office, it is stated that these men were "employed in the Continental Service" and had £9 per month till Dec 1, 1779, and from that date to March 1, 1780 ten dollars per day, showing conclusively that allowance for depreciation made in their daily wages, while the enlisted artificers received but their regular pay, even when the currency was at  the lowest rate of depreciation, consequently, they were obliged to petition to the State Legislature for compensation, and received it at the rate of thirty-two dollars and a half for one.
Here then is the true line of destination, and I trust that the full and complete evidence in favor of this claim, which is now in the Pension Office, and to which I would infer, will not longer be suffered to be set aside by or more conjecture of the Com's and underreported by evidence whatever, and that justice  which had been withheld for years, will at last be rendered.
The daily decision is respectfully solicited.
Very respectfully
Yr Obd Servant
J. Ballard Lane

Hon Wm L. Marcy
Secretary of War
Washington D. C.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, November 1st, 1841

I hereby Certify, That at the date of the within attestations, Hugh Montgomery, and Charles W Lovett were Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk.

in the said Commonweatlh, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to their 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.

[signature illegible]
Secretary of the Commonwealth

[seal]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, November 1st, 1841

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 Jonathan Hunnewell's name is borne on an account in the Army books, and credited by 31 months Service as a Mason in R. Hunnewell's Company of Masons.  On 1 January 1777 to July 31st, 1779. I further appeal that he was from Boston and enlisted for Three years.



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

Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I, Samuel Dow of Boston in the County of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts aged eighty-eight years, do, on my oath testify and declare; That I am a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7, 1832; That in the service of the United States as a blacksmith artificer under Col Thomas Chase, Deputy Quarter Master General, and continued under him till the latter part of the year 1780, when Col Jabez Hatch was appointed Deputy Quarter Master General: That when I entered the service in the year of 1778, Richard Hunnewell commanded a company of Mason Artificers in the service of the United States under Col Chase aforesaid: That Jonathan Hunnewell of the Boston aforesaid was then in said company and he continued to serve there in till some time in the year 1779, but the exact date I cannot  swear to.
And I do further testify and declare I am well acquainted with Jonathan Hunnewell of Roxbury in the county of Norfolk and State aforesaid; and that he is the identical Jonathan Hunnewell who served in the company of masons under Richard Hunnewell as aforesaid.
Samuel Dow

Witness
E S Brigham

State of Massachusetts
County of Suffolk  
Boston, October 27th, 1841
Then personally appeared the above named Samuel Dow, and made oath, in due form of law, that the above statement by him subscribed, is true.
Before me H Montgomery
Justice of the Peace
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I, Peter Mackintosh of Boston in the County of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts aged eighty-four years, do on my oath testify and declare, that in the years 1779 & 1780 I was in the service of the United States as blacksmith artificer under Col Thomas Chase, Deputy Quarter Master General; That while I was in said service, Jonathan Hunnewell of Boston aforesaid was in a Company of Mason Artificers commanded by Richard Hunnewell, but the time that he continued in said company I am  unable to state.
And I do further testify and declare I am well acquainted with Jonathan Hunnewell of Roxbury in the County of Norfolk and State aforesaid, and that he is the identical Jonathan Hunnewell who served in the Company of Masons as aforesaid.
Peter Mackintosh

Witness
John B Lane

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Suffolk  
Boston October 26th, 1841
Then personally appeared the above named Peter Mackintosh, and made oath, in due form of law, that the above statement subscribed by him is true
Before me
Chas W Lovett
Justice of the Peace
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35.281

Jonathan Hunnewell

Mass

act of 7 June '32


J Ballard Lane
Boston
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The Petition of John Popkin and others in behalf of the Regiment of Artillery commanded by Col John Crane humbly herewith.
That the regiment commanded by Col Crane was raised in this State for the same purpose that the fifteen Battalions of Infantry were; and was very early in the field.
That when we engaged to serve our Country as Soldiers, we were inhabitants of this State and our family's are at this time with you.
That at the time of our engagement we expected every advantage in common with the fifteen Battalions of Infantry raised in this State for the Continental Army: and we yet receive that we are entitled to them by every dictate of Humanity, Policy & Justice.
It is said that the Honorable the Continental Congress will provide for us; we dont doubt but they will and for the whole Army at the same time. If it were possible we would willingly await that time, and not trouble this Honorable House with a Petition.
It is true we are not of the fifteen Battalions, if we were this would be unnecessary; but we are a part of the one seventh part that was able to be raised in the State for the Continental Army, and our men [passes?] to the account of Towns in this State, in the same manner as those of the Infantry does.
We therefore Pray that this Honorable House would take our present Case into their serious consideration, and give us relief in the same way and manner as is provided for Officers and Soldiers of the fifteen Battalions.
John Popkin  Lieut Col
to the regiment of Artillery
commanded by John Crane Esq.

Boston, July 3rd, 1774

To the Hon & the Council and House of Representatives of the state of Massachusetts Bay in Gen court assembled
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State of Massachusetts Bay   February 9, 1779
The Committee of Both Houses appointed to consider the petition of Lieut Col John Popkin in behalf of Col Crane's Regiment of Artillery report the following Resolve.
 Moses Gill [pndr?]
State of Massachusetts Bay
Resolved that Col Crane's Regiment of Artillery including Stephens Corps now in the Service of the United States do and hereby Considered as one of the Continental Regiments raised in their State and that the Officers and Privates there of belonging to this State shall have their original Pay made good to them in the same way and manner as the Officers and Soldiers of the fifteen Battalions of said Army raised in this State, by the Resolve thereof  the 10th of October 1777 of the first of May 1778 and February 4th, 1779, are to be made good, and all gratuities, matters and things contained in said Resolves shall [unclear] to the said Officers, private soldiers of the said Col Crane's Regiment and Stephens Corps in the same manner as they had been particular named in the aforesaid Resolves excepting that the Gratuity to each officer and Soldier arising from the battery by the aforesaid Resolve shall be paid to the Officers and Soldiers of Col Crane's Regiment on the first day of December next, or as much sooner as the money can be raised by the Lottery therein mentioned.
February 8, 1779
Read & sent down
John Avery D. Secy

In the House of Representatives, February 9th, 1779
Read & Passed

Sent up for Concurrence
John Pickering Spk

In Council February 9th, 1779
Read & Concurred
John Avery D. Secy

Consented to
Jer Powell         
W. Sever,           J Fisher,             J Simpson                
A. Ward,           Josiah Stone,     Tim Danielson
W. Spooner,      B. White,            John Pitts
Moses Gill,        Tom Edwards,    E Brooks
R. Austin,           Sam Baker,
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State of Massachusetts Bay
In the House of Representatives April 6, 1780.
Whereas divers[e] applications have been made to the Committee authorized to settle with the Army by the persons who have served three years in the Continental Army in one of the Regiments of light Dragoons, for their Depreciation Money; but the Committee do not think the resolves authorized to consider them as part of this States Quota of the Continental Army.
Resolved, that the Committee now settling with the Army be, and they hereby are directed to consider all Officers and Soldiers, who shall think it appear that they have served three years, or that they are engaged during the War, as part of this States Quota of the Continental Army, in either of the Regimental light Dragoons; in the same manner that they did the Officers and Soldiers of the Army, belonging to this State, and made them up accordingly.
Sent up for Concurrence
John Hancock Spk.

In Council, April 77th, 1780
Read Concurred
John Avery D. Secy

Consented to
Jer Powell,                          J. Stone,            J. Fisher    
A. Ward,                             A. Fuller,           T. Edwards
W. Spooner,    B. White,    T. Danielson,      O. Prescott
John Pitts,                          N. Goodman,     N. Cushing
S. Adams,                           Thos Durfee,       N. Goodman

State of Massachusetts Bay
In the House of Representatives April 7, 1780
Resolved that all Aids De Camp, Brigade, Major & Chaplains, field Commissary's of Military stores & Engineers who are not in the line & belong to & are reckoned as part of their States Sector of the Continental Army & have been doing duty in Camp, & are not discharged are entitled to have the depreciation of their Wages made good to them according to the rank they hold in the Staff (and no other) in the same manner as the officers of the fifteen Battalions are made good, agreeable to the Several resolves of the General Court for that purpose, And appointed by Sd Court
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Sent up for Concurrence
John Hancock Spk
In Concert April 8, 1780
Read & Concurred
John Avery D. Secy

Consented to
Jer Powell,      T Danielson,    O. Prescott
A. Ward,         B White,          J. Booking
W. Spooner,   A. Fuller,        Thos Durfee,    Sam Niles
S. Adams,       T. Edwards,    N. Goodman,   John Pitts
J. Fisher,                                T. Gardner

In the House of Representatives, March 13,1781.
Resolved that the Honorable Council, be, and they hereby are impowered [sic] & regulated to wherein a Certificate from the from the Committee of this Court for settling with the Army as sufficient evidence in favor as any Officers,  non commissioned officers & Soldiers as to their belonging to their State's Quota of the Continental Army as well as the Company Regiment or Corps to which they belong; also the term for which they have enlisted and the service they have performed, any Laws to the contrary not withstanding.
John Hancock Spkr
March 25, 1780
Read & Concurred
John Avery D. Secy 

Consented to
Jer Powell   
W. Sever,    J Stone,         A. Fuller,       O. Prescott,  J. Simpson
A. Ward,     D. Dorris,       N. Cushing,   Saml Niles,  N. Goodman
T. Cushing, T. Danielson,  T. Edwards,   John Pitts

[first line illegible]
on file in this office.

[illegible] John C. [illegible]
Secy Court of Massachusetts

{[entire line illegible]
Boston. June 22. 1842}
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To the Honorable the Council, & the Honorable the House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts Bay, in General Court Assembled.
The Petition of Richard Hunnewell for himself & & three others, Humble herewith.
That he has been employed as a Master Mason in the Service of the Continental from the 17th of July 1776, untill the present Day; and that the Pensions for whom he Petitions have been employed as Masons under him, in point of time as mentioned in the annex'd Return; & that they have never received any compensation for the Depreciation of their wages, which has been so amazing, as to reduce your Petitioner & his men  to absolute Poverty & Want; that the Pay originally granted by the Honorable Congress to Artificers, was sufficient for their Maintenance, that relying upon the issuance of Government, they have continued through the various wages of the Depreciation of the Currency, with the form expectation & solid persuasion, that the Stipulations of Congress be made good.
Your Petitioner would therefore Pray your Honor that the Depreciation of his & his Men's Wages might be granted, as it has been to some others in similar circumstances.
And your Petitioner as in Duly bound, will we pray.
Richard Hunnewell for himself & three other men.
Boston, September 27th, 1780

A Return of the names & times of Employment of the several Persons referred to in the foregoing Petition September 27th, 1780
Mens Names                Time of Employment  
Richard Hunnewell        from the 17th of July 1776 to the
                                      30th of September 1780
John Hendley                 from the first of January 1776 to
                                       the 31 of July 1779
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Jonathan Hunnewell              from the first of January 1776 to
                                               the 31 of July 1779
George Hunnewell                 from the 17th f July 1776 to the
                                               31 of September 1781

The Wages of the Masons in the Year 1777 were forthwith
for the Master                   £11
for the men                           8
in 1778 & 1779 it was
for the Master                   £12
for the men                           9

State of Massachusetts Bay
In the House of Representatives, Octoer 2, 1780
On the Petition of Richard Hunnewell for himself & three men their praying they may be allowed the depreciation of their wages for reasons set forth in said Petition.
Resolved, that the Committee for settling with the Army be & they hereby are directed to settle with the said Richard Hunnewell & three others mentioned in said Petition for the depreciation of their Wages, taking into consideration all Extra Pay they have received, & Certify same to the Honorable Council.
Sent up for Concurrence
John Hancock Spk

In Council October 2, 1780
Read & Concurred
John Avery D. Scy

Consented to
J. Bowdoin,      J. Dorr
Jer. Powell,      A. Cushing
Moses Gill,      T. Danielson
B. White,         A. Fuller,           E. Brooks
B. Austin,         John Pitts,        Stepn Choate
N. Cushing,     Aaron Wood,      Wm Whiting
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To the Men of the Council.
This Certifies there is due to, Richard Hunnewell foreman in a Corps of Artificers in the Continental Service the sum, of Two Thousand Eight hundred and seventy one pounds 4s.9 in full to make good the Depreciation of his wages to the 31 Dec 1779 in [?]..agreable to a Resolve of the 2d Inst of the Genl Court
[pound sign] 287..4..9 noted
Boston [?] 6th 1781
Thomas Halley
Stephen Gorham}   Committee
Samuel Austin

State of Massachusetts Bay Council Chamber October 7th, 1780
You are hereby directed to pay out of the public treasury of this State to Mr Richard Hunnewell foreman of a Corps of Artificers, the same of Twenty Eight hundred & Seventy one pounds 4 s. 9 to make good the Depreciation of his wages to the 31 December 1779, inclusive, agreeable to the settlement of the Committee appointed to Settle with the Army as appears by the annexed Certificate for which their shall be your sufficient account by Advice Council.
John Avery D. Secy
                                                                                Jer Powell
Honorable Henry Gardner Esquire, Treasurer.         T. Cushing
                                                                                  S. Kellern
                                              T. Danielson                 J. Fisher
                                               Sam. Niles                   M. Gill
                                               A. Fuller                      B. Austin
            E. Brooks                    J. Dorr                         B. White
             Wm. Whiting     Aaron Wood
                                       Jon. Pitts
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To the Honorable the Council,
This may Certify that there is due to the person borne on this Roll of Richard Hunnewell Artificers the Sums set against their names respectively to make good the Depreciation of their Wages to the 31 December of 1779 inclusive, agreeable to a resolve of the General Court of 2nd Instant.
                                                             Time
Names                   Rank      Company  Enlisted for  Time in Current money
John Henley           private                      3 years        £1193..5..10 Noted John Henley    
Jon. Hunnewell           "                           3 years          1193..5..10 do. Jonathan Hunnewell
George Hunnewell      "                          3 years          1619..0..0 do George Hunnewell
                                                                                    £4005..11..8

Four Thousand & five pounds
eleven shillings & 8 pence

Thomas Halley
Leammig Baldwin}     Committee
Sam Austin

Boston October 11, 1780
A true Copy
Attest John Avery D. Secy

State of Massachusetts Bay; Council Chamber October 12th, 1780.
You are hereby directed to pay out of the public Treasury of this State to The Men borne on the annexed Roll in Mr Richard Hunnewells Co of Artificers the, sum of Four Thousand & five pounds 11s.8d to make good the Depreciation of their wages to the 31 December 1779 inclusive agreeable to the Settlement of the Committee appointed to Settle with the Army as appears by the annexed Certificate for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant.
By Advice of Council
John Avery D. Secry

£4005..11..8

Honorable Henry Gardner Esquire, Treasurer
                                A. Fuller                   Jer. Powell
E. Brooks                 T. Danielson             T. Cushing
J. Dorr                     N. Cushing                S. Holten
                                J. Stone                     M. Gill
                                John Pitts                  H Gardner
Wm. Whiting           Aaron Wood             B. Austin
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, December 4, 1841.

I hereby Certify That, from an examination for the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the pay of Privates, Artificers under Nichols, Baldwin, Flowers, Howes, Cheevers, Uran, Hunnewell and Wheeler was sixty shillings per month. Also, that the with written documents are true copies from originals on file in the archives.

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

[signature illegible]
Secretary of the Commonwealth

[seal]
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I, Jonathan Hunewell of Roxbury in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, do, on my oath testify and declare that I make the following statement in addition to one which made on the 18th of November last in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That I came from Providence
 R I. to Roxbury aforesaid in November 1775 for the purpose of enlisting as a soldier, when I arrived in said Roxbury, I met Capt William Ethridge, with whom I was previously acquainted, and made known to him my intention of entering into the service of my country; he observed that he was  glad of that as he wanted masons, that if I engaged with him as an artificer, I should receive sixty shillings per month, while as a soldier, I should receive but forty shillings. I then engaged with him and did my duty according to orders till the 11th of March 1776 when we were all ordered to be ready by four o'clock on that day to march to Dorchester Heights to assist in defending the entrenchment made there the night before, as an attack from the British was that night expected; at four o'clock we (about thirty in number) headed by Capt Ethridge marched to Dorchester; the British keeping up a constant fire from their [?son] Boston neck which killed a number of the men who had to pass the open passage way on the neck of land which connected the hills to Dorchester, and the only way of getting there. We remained on the heights till the 14th when we were ordered back to Roxbury where we arrived safe in the middle of the afternoon. Having enlisted to serve three years,. I enlisted in the service after the British invaded Boston till Capt Ethridge died when Richard Hunnewell was appointed in his place and I also continued to serve under him until my term of enlistment expired. During all of said service
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I never considered myself as exempt from [underlined] military [/underlined] duty or any other which I was called to perform. And, I do further testify and declare that when I made the statement on the eighteenth of November last, wherein I stated that I was not under "military discipline". I misunderstood the meaning of "military discipline" that term as afterwards explained to me. The discipline under which we served was somewhat as follows; we resided in barracks, we were obliged to be at our work at regular hours, and also at our meals, we received rations in the same manner, and of the same kind as the soldiers did, we could not leave our work without permission, and if we had left the service before the term of enlistment had expired or should have been considered [underline] deserters [/underline] and treated as such. [underline] We were not engaged under a "civil contract", [/underline] but enlisted to serve three years and perform as any service which we were directed to by our officers.
Jon Hunnewell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk
December 30, 1841. Then personally appeared Jonathan Hunnewell and made solemn oath to the truth of the statement by him above subscribed.
Before me [underline] John J Clarke [/underline] Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office   Boston, December 30, 1841

I hereby Certify, that John J. Clark is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Norfolk in the Commonwealth aforesaid, duly conuted and commissioned and to his acts as such full faith and credit are to be given.
Witness the Seal of the Commonwealth
John P. Bigelow
Secy of the Court
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I, Jonathan Hunewell of Roxbury in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, do, on my oath testify and declare that I make the following statement in addition to a former declaration made by me, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That I entered the service of the United States in November 1775 in a company of Mason Artificers under Capt William Ethridge, that a then said Ethridge died in the year 1776, Richard Hunnewell took command of the company, which, with accompany of Blacksmiths under Stephen Frost, and a company of Carpenters under Josiah Wheeler, was under the command of Colonel Thomas Chase. When I entered the said company it consisted of about twenty men and was afterwards increased accordingly to the amount of work to be done. The company resided in barracks but were not under military discipline. The only officers were the Captain or Master Richard Hunnewell, and two called Barrack Masters: Joshua Davis and Abraham Tuckerman. The only men in the company who were regularly enlisted for a specified time were Richard Hunnewell, John Hendly, George Hunewell and myself, who were enlisted for three years. For my service I received ten dollars per month, which did not include rations, but were all receive regularly supplied with them. When I left the service, I received no discharge in writing but the company was disbanded, although I was afterwards employed to work for the Government at sundry times till the end of the Revolutionary War.
John Hunewell
Witness [underline] John J. Clarke [/underline]
J. Ballard Lane
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk,                Roxbury, November 18th, 1841
Then personally appeared the above named
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Jonathan Hunnewell, who is a credible person and has is statement entitled to credit, and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, and made oath that the same is true.
Before me [underline] John J. Clarke [/underline] Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, Boston, November 19, 1841

I hereby certify that John J. Clarke is a Justice for the Peace for the County of Norfolk in the Commonwealth, duly appointed and commissioned and full faith and credit are to be given to his acts.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
John P. Bigelow
Secy of the Court

I also certify [rest of line illegible]
[illegible; so to the [illegible] [illegible] person
whatever) that to have known the above Jonathan Hunnewell for 
very many years & know him to 
be one of the most reasonable & estimable of our citizens. I believe 
that any statements made by him can be implicitly relied upon

John P. Bigelow
Sec'y
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, August 2, 1842

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 amount of Service and pay of Jonathan Hunnewell, and Samuel Rice is borne in the Regular Army books consecutively; that the answered sheet was a blank in said books; and is filled out with their respective services, and that the copies are true.

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

John P. Bigelow

Secretary of the Commonwealth

[seal]
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Dr. Jonathan Hunnewell of Boston in R. Hunnewell Com. of Masons
                                                                                                   £.     s.     d.
To Cash paid him from Proceeds of State Lottery, £30 (Value    0     0      0
To Shirts, pair Shoes, pair Hose, supplied by the State at the     0     0      0
regulated Price
To his Proportion of small Stores delivered in Camp, at             0     0      0
regulated Price, deducting the Value of what he paid
towards them
To a Bounty of £. __ paid him by or in behalf of the                    0     0      0
Town of ______                               (Value
To 31 Months ___ Days Wages paid him by the Continent          56    5      8
at 60 s. per Month, £. 93              (Value                                       0     0      0
To Amount of Articles supplied his Family at the regulated         0     0      0
Price by the Town of ______ deducting the Value of what
he paid towards them
                                                                                                  £  56    5      8
Dec 31, 1779 To Ballance,           -----     ----- -----     -----          36    14    4

By his Service from Jan 1 1777 to July 31, 1779 is 31 Months.
Days, at 60 s. per Month, for which the nominal Sum has              93      --
been paid him by the Continent.

3 yrs; The above Ballance £.36:14:4 multiplied by 321/2 to make >Ex
good the Depreciation, is in Current Money, £.1193:5:10
Certified October 11, 1780

Dr. Samuel Rice Private of in Capt Pierce's Comp Col. Bigelows Regiment Cr.

1779
To Cash paid him from Proceeds of State Lottery, £30 (Value    2     8      7
To 3 Shirts, pair Shoes, 3 pair Hose, supplied by the                  3     13    0
State at the regulated Price
To his Proportion of small Stores delivered in Camp, at             2     8     5
regulated Price, deducting the Value of what he paid
towards them
To a Bounty of £. 36:18 s.  paid him by or in behalf                     23     10   1
of the Town of Westborough  May 1777                (Value
To 31 Months 16 Days Wages paid him by the Continent           10    14    0
at 40 s. per Month, £. 63:1:4              (Value                               

By his Service from May 15, 1777 to Dec 31, 1779 is 31
Months, 16Days, at 40 s. per Month, for which the                      63    1      4
nominal Sum has been paid him by the Continent.
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Dr. Jonathan Hunnewell of Boston in R. Hunnewell Com. of Masons
                                                                                                   £.     s.     d.
To Cash paid him from Proceeds of State Lottery, £30 (Value    0     0      0
To Shirts, pair Shoes, pair Hose, supplied by the State at the     0     0      0
regulated Price
To his Proportion of small Stores delivered in Camp, at             0     0      0
regulated Price, deducting the Value of what he paid
towards them
To a Bounty of £. __ paid him by or in behalf of the                    0     0      0
Town of ______                               (Value
To 31 Months ___ Days Wages paid him by the Continent          56    5      8
at 60 s. per Month, £. 93              (Value                                       0     0      0
To Amount of Articles supplied his Family at the regulated         0     0      0
Price by the Town of ______ deducting the Value of what
he paid towards them
                                                                                                  £  56    5      8
Dec 31, 1779 To Ballance,           -----     ----- -----     -----          36    14    4

By his Service from Jan 1 1777 to July 31, 1779 is 31 Months.
Days, at 60 s. per Month, for which the nominal Sum has              93      --
been paid him by the Continent.

3 yrs; The above Ballance £.36:14:4 multiplied by 321/2 to make >Ex
good the Depreciation, is in Current Money, £.1193:5:10
Certified October 11, 1780

Dr. Samuel Rice Private of in Capt Pierce's Comp Col. Bigelows Regiment Cr.

1779
To Cash paid him from Proceeds of State Lottery, £30 (Value    2     8      7
To 3 Shirts, pair Shoes, 3 pair Hose, supplied by the                  3     13    0
State at the regulated Price
To his Proportion of small Stores delivered in Camp, at             2     8     5
regulated Price, deducting the Value of what he paid
towards them
To a Bounty of £. 36:18 s.  paid him by or in behalf                     23     10   1
of the Town of Westborough  May 1777                (Value
To 31 Months 16 Days Wages paid him by the Continent           10    14    0
at 40 s. per Month, £. 63:1:4              (Value                               

By his Service from May 15, 1777 to Dec 31, 1779 is 31
Months, 16Days, at 40 s. per Month, for which the                      63    1      4
nominal Sum has been paid him by the Continent.

The above Ballance £.20:7:3 multiplied by 32 1/3 to make
good the Depreciation, is in Current Money, £.661:15:7
T.W. Certified March 22, 1780
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140.

Dr.      of     in     Com. Col.  Regiment Cr.
£. s. d.
To Cash paid him from Proceeds of State Lottery, £30 (Value 
{To Shirts, pair Shoes, pair Hose, supplied by the State 
at the regulated Price,}
{To his Proportion of small Stores delivered in Camp, at regulated 
Price, deducting the Value of what he paid towards them,}
{To a Bounty of £. __ paid him by or in behalf of the 
Town of ______ (Value}
{To ___ Months ___ Days Wages paid him by the Continent 
at 40 s. per Month, £. ___ (Value}
(To Amount of Articles supplied his Family at the regulated 
Price by the Town of ______ deducting the Value of 
what he paid towards them - - -}

To Ballance, ----- ----- ----- ----- - - -

{By his Service from  177  to   177 is __ Months. __
Days, at 40 s. per Month, for which the nominal Sum has been paid him by the Continent.}

The above Ballance £._____ multiplied by 32½ to make 
good the Depreciation, is in Current Money, £. ___}


Dr.     of      in     Comp Col.    Regiment Cr.
To Cash paid him from Proceeds of State Lottery, £30 (Value 
{To Shirts, pair Shoes, pair Hose, supplied by the State 
at the regulated Price,}
{To his Proportion of small Stores delivered in Camp, at regulated 
Price, deducting the Value of what he paid towards them,}
{To a Bounty of £. __ paid him by or in behalf of the 
Town of ______ (Value}
{To ___ Months ___ Days Wages paid him by the Continent 
at 40 s. per Month, £. ___ (Value}
(To Amount of Articles supplied his Family at the regulated 
Price by the Town of ______ deducting the Value of 
what he paid towards them - - -}

To Ballance, ----- ----- ----- ----- - - -

{By his Service from  177  to   177 is __ Months. __
Days, at 40 s. per Month, for which the nominal Sum has been paid him by the Continent.}

The above Ballance £._____ multiplied by 32½ to make 
good the Depreciation, is in Current Money, £. ___}
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Boston May 26/46
J Ballard Lane
Appeals from Decision
of Claim of Pension in case
of Jonathan Honewell

L.75 [?] May 28, '46
Pension Office


Ansd H. Jun 16/46
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State of Massachusetts
County of Suffolk

I Geo C. Wilde, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Jonathan Hunnewell was a resident of Roxbury in the County of Norfolk in said State, and died in the said Roxbury on the third of April, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-two; that he left no widow and but one child, a daughter, whose name is Frances Hunnewell, who is now living and resides in Roxbury.

In testimony is hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this Twelfth day of December, in the year 1845.

Geo. C. Wilde, Clerk

[seal]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex
On this twenty-third May of July, eighteen hundred and fifty one. Personally appeared before me, Charles Heard Notary Public and for the County of Middlesex & State aforesaid, Frances Hunnewell a resident of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk & State aforesaid being sixty years of age, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath declare, that she is the identical person to whom a Pension was made payable, and which Pension at Boston, State of Massachusetts, as she is the only surviving child of Jonathan Hunnewell late of Roxbury  in the County of Norfolk aforesaid deceased, which Pension certificate was dated as the Department of the Interior on the ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, at the rate of one hundred and forty-four dollars per annum under the Law of June 7, 1832. He said Jonathan Hunnewell, being an Artificer in the War of the Revolution
Wherefore, She now claims an increase to the amount allowed to the said Jonathan Hunnewell who was an artificer  and rendered his Country valuable Service.
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and according to his rank and Station under the department of the Quarter Master General was as she now claims entitled to the highest pay allowed to artillery artificers or any other artificers in the Service of the Revolution. And she refers to the evidence on file in Support of her said fathers claims and the Resolves of Congress allowing addition pay to artificers, commissioned and their clerks of Military Stores.
Frances Hunnewell

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me.
Charles Heard
Notary Public

The words of Justice of the Peace was [trased?] by [?]   Charles Heard
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, Boston, August 23, 1851

I hereby Certify, That, at the date of this annexed attestations, Charles Heard was a Notary Public for the County of Middlesex.

in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and qualified 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.
Amasa Walker
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex
Know all men by these presents that Frances Hunnewell of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk and State aforesaid do hereby authorise, constitute, and appoint Elijah Clark of Brighton, Massachusetts to be my true and lawful attorney for me and my name, to present any claim I may have on the General Government of the United States by virtue of the Services of my late father, Jonathan Hunnewell  deceased who was an artificer in the War of the Revolution and of an increase of Pension which I have been paid to him at or since his decease and the said Elijah Clark is authorised to take all necessary and Legal Steps in the  prosecution  of said claim on my behalf in the same manner as I would do.
Signed and delivered in presence of Daniel Lane

Frances Hunnewell

Middlesex ..ss.. July 23, 1851
Then Personally appreared Frances Hunnewell and acknowledged the above power of attorney by her Subscribed to be her [?] act & deed. Before me  Charles Heard  Notary Public & J of the Peace
[unclear words] of the Peace [unclear] Charles heard
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, Boston, November 11, 1850

I hereby Certify, That, at the date of this annexed attestations, Elijah Clark was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, J. Wingate Thornton was a Justice of the Peace of the County of Suffolk.

in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and qualified 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.
W. B. Calhoun
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Camp at Totowa October 23, 1780

Sir,
The officers of Col. Baldwin's regiment [illegible] who belong to the state of Connecticut have shown [illegible] memorial they presented to the General Assembly of that State in January last in which they mentioned generally the terms in which they were [illegible] and petitioned for an allowance to them and their men if all the benefits granted by the State to the Officers and men in the line, but these were denied them. They have now importuned me to attend to their situation & to use my endeavors to procure their relief. This I cannot but consider as my duty and I have accordingly taken some pains to investigate the foundation of their claims.

I wish it were in my power to ascertain [illegible] & from indisputable authority the terms on which these artificers were originally named, but this cannot be done immediately and the gentlemen are anxious that I should lay their cases before the General Assembly in their present session. nevertheless, I think their claims may be stated with such a degree of certainty as to enable the assembly before whom I have to request your Excellency will lay this letter and the papers accompanying it to act with satisfactory information.

An army was no sooner assembled than artificers became necessary. At the beginning some of the were here or inlisted, & others (the greater part) draughted from the line. This was effected by the quarter master general, as pertaining to his [continued on next page]
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[handwritten]
offers without any special authority from Congress. But on the second of December 1775, a resolution was passed as follows - That the Congress approve the terms on which the officers of different ranks have been employed in the army, and that the period g[illegible] upon the present agreement as being the best that can possibly be made." What these terms were cannot at this distance of time be [illegible]tuined by any documents within my records nor do I think it material. I have mentioned the resolve only to of[illegible]. That the quartermaster general under the direction of the commander in chief had from that period authority from Congress to engage the various artificers necessary to be imployed with the Army on certain terms, which with the qumat's [sic?] approbations, he had previously fixed. These times must of[illegible]se have cause with the pay of the troops, and for the like reasons; so that in the latter end of the year 1776, the pay of the officers is said to have been the same with that of the Artillery officers and the pay of the privates twelve dollars per month. In proof of the latter they have shown me an old copy of inlisting orders, dated the 18th of December 1776, which I enclose; and the officers [illegible] that their own pay has since that time been the same with the pay of the Artillery officers of the like ranks; I have not the smallest reason to doubt the justness of their information, as it respects neither themselves or their men. The nature of their business & corresponding facts much for the truth of it. All the subsequent resolutions of Congress place the officers of the quarter masters artificers on the footing here mentioned, as to their pay,


[transcript below was on this page, but appears to be from another, unknown page]

(3-1776)
SERVICE          NUMBER

[handwritten] CONTINENTAL (Mass)

Hunnewell, Jonathan     S29919
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After this I find in an Act of Congress respecting the upquaarter masters artifices/artificers  Until the 12th of November 1779 when it was (illegible) that the several companies of them before independent and unconnected should be considered as part of the quotas of the eighty (illegible) as apportion in the several states to which they respectively belong as on the 11th of the same month Congress recommended to the several states to allow them “all the benefits provided for officers and soldiers in the line of their quotas of the continental (illegible…”

The Corps of artillery
General Washington while 
January 1777 and the pay of the officers was the same with that of the officers of artillery but the pay of the men …
Afterward on the 11th of February 1778 Congress arraigned the department of military 
Further information concerning them only remarking that the pay of the officers continued the same with that of the artillery officers until about June or July 1779 when it was doubled and the pay of the men increased so that they might receive from thirty
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[handwritten]

At sixty dollars a month according to their merit and industry and on the 12th of August last the pay of the officers and men was again raised so as to give present satisfaction to both; but this was considered [illegible] by January provision, yet the [illegible quarter master artificers were by the act of Nov 16,1779 entitled to the same pay with the artillery artificers. it will appear by their pay roll that the officers in the past received no more than the [illegible] the artillery and that the pay of the men [illegible] forty five ..... dollars a month, [illegible] who have been allowed fifty.

I beg leave to take notice [illegible] the resolve which passed 9th February last, in which it was again recommended to the several states make like provisions for the regimented artificers among their [illegible] for the officers and men of their [illegible] battalions with such [illegible] respecting the regimental artificers as had been made by Congress in their act
Page 88

be expected that such a corps will exhibit all the diligence of private master workmen and their journeymen. These men but have long been under great discouragement and if not for inattention their answer would have been natural "our work is surely equal to our pay!" Artificers with the army are in fact indispensably necessary, and hereafter they may form a useful Corps in action, as they are to be furnished with arms, and at certain times instructed in the use of them. They have suffered by the depreciation of the currency, in common with the rest of the army, and with them in a like distress they have doubtless an equitable claim on the Continent or the respective states for an indemnification, and Congress has [illegible] them to the notice of the latter. Massachusetts (as appears by the inclosed copy of their resolve) has adopted their part of the corps & directed the depreciation of their pay to be made up, and viewing the matter in the light in which it strikes me, I cannot but assure myself that the present claimants not fail of obtaining from their state all that justice to which by their services & the public engagements they are reasonably intitled.

I have the honor to be with the greatest respect.

Your Excellency's Most obedient servant
Timothy Pickering
quarter master general

His Excellency
Governor Trumbull
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Eighth line on first page, then interlines before signed. This may certify, that the proceeding letter from Timothy Pickering to Governor Trumbull, dated at Camp at Totowa, October 23, 1780, and consisting of four and half pages, is a true copy of the original in Trumbull Papers, Vol. 13, no. 100.
Witness my hand this 11th day, November 1850
Joseph B. Felt
Librarian of the Massachusetts
Historical Society


Suffolk S.S. Boston, November 11, 1850
Thom personally appeared before me, the subscriber Joseph B. Felt, Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society and made oath to the truth of the preceding certificate.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, Suffolk
On this eleventh day of November 1850, personally appeared Joseph B. Felt, Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society and  made oath to the truth  of the proceeding certificate, by him signed.
Before me J. Wingate Thornton
Justice of the Peace
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Monday 2d October 1780
In the House of Representatives.

On the Petition of Richard Hunnewell for himself & three others praying they may be allowed the Depreciation of their wages for reasons set forth in said Petition.
Resolved that the Committee for settling with the Army be & they hereby are directed to settle with the said Richard Hunnewell & three others mentioned in said Petition for the depreciation of their wages taking into consideration all extra pay they have received and certify the same to the Honorable Council.
In Council Read & Concurred
Consented to by fifteen of the Council

Thursday October 12, 1780
Warrant drawn on the Treasury for Four Thousand and Five pounds eleven shillings and eight pence in favor of several men under Richard Hunnewell. These three Warrants were drawn in old currency to be paid in notes to make good the depreciation of wages to 31st of December 1780. Signed by fifteen.

Secretary's Office Boston
October  15, 1850
I certify the foregoing to be a true copy from the Records of this Office.
Witness the Seal
Wm. Tufts Depy Secy of the Commonwealth