Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 358, Norman Bacon, Mass.

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3-1776
SERVICE
Massachusetts

Bacon, Norman
Jane

NUMBER
R. 358
B.L. Wt. 38824-160-55

CONTENTS

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Pension Blanks

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[Ink stamp]
The National Archives of the United States

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
On this sixteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, now sitting, Norman Bacon a resident of Watertown in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty nine year, ^first day of May last, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, A.D. 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated: 
Vis, Sometime in the month of September, 1780, he entered at Cambridge [illegible] and was put into Smith's Company, Nixon's Regiment from hence he was marched to Woodbridge on the Jersey Shore; where he remained with the Company three months, at which time the company was discharged and he returned home.
In June 1781, he again entered at said Cambridge for six months, to go to Rhode Island, did not go there, but went in Gage's Company, and in or about the last of August, marched to Gallow's Hill. While there, a part of Gage's Company was detached and placed under command of Captain Thomas [illegible], to go to Yorktown. He was one of the detached, and proceeded with the detachment, and remained at Yorktown a few days previous to the Battle, was stationed with others at Gloucester Point. After the battle, he was ordered back to Gallows Hill, and returned to Gage's Company. He was then ordered with a detachment down to the lines. While on the lines, he was in a scouting party, which took and burned a storage yard belonging to the British at [illegible]. In the skirmish he received a severe wound to the head, from the saber of an English Horse guard. A piece of his skull was taken out, and he came near losing his left eye. Doctors Samuel Adams was the surgeon who dressed his wound. Colonel Webb was in command of the Regiment, part of the time, was in command when [illegible] at Gallows Hill. After he got well of his wonder, he took the place of Meadows in Jackson's Regiment and was stationed for the [illegible] near Peekskill Churches as servant to Colonel Lawrence. He take care of his horses. He does not recollect

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what officer Lawrence was, only knew him as Colonel Lawrence. Believes his name was not at the time on the muster role of the Regiment but thinks [illegible] the place under Meadow's name. After he returned home, say about May 1782.
He is confident it could not have been earlier than the first of May as people were ploughing in Massachusetts & were actively engaged in their Spring work. The lapse of time is such that he couldn't be certain of the day, but from the circumstances aforesaid & the others within his recollection, he had no doubt that his return home was as late as that above mentioned & was probably later.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares his name is not on the pension roll of any state,
Norman Bacon
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. I. P Fay, [illegible]

We Convert Frances, a clergyman, residing in the town of Watertown and John G Orne residing in Cambridge adjoining said town hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Norman Bacon who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age: that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
John G. Orne
Convert Francis
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
I, P. Fay, Judge of Probate
And the said Court, do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above-named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify, that it appears to them that Convert Francis who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in Watertown and that John G. Arne who has also signed the same, is a resident in Cambridge and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I P. P. Fay, Judge of Probate

I Isaac Fiske Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Norman Bacon for a pension. I also certify that Jeduthan Wellington whose own properly sign above is written to the certificate of the affidavit of Thomas Hill heritor annexed, is a Justice of the peace within & for said county of Middlesex.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Isaac Fiske, Register of Probate

I Isaac Fiske Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that the Court of Probate before which the foregoing declaration was made was holden the sixteenth day of September on th year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty five instead of eighteen hundred & thirty two, as the same purports, & that it was an accidental omission in not subscribing out the word "two" & subscribing the world "five." In respect whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this thirteenth day of January AD 1836.
Isaac Fiske, Register

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Volume B. 30

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95.505
Act 3 March 1855
28th July

Jane Bacon, widow of Norman Bacon, died. Private

Captain Isaac Gage
Colonel Webb
Enlisted 1781
Discharged December 1781

Private
captain Gage
Massachusetts Militia
Revolutionary War

Massachusetts [illegible] June

Ad. 160 [illegible] August 1856
Dodge
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Horatio Woodman
Boston, Massachusetts

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7237
State of Massachusetts, County of Middlesex

On this twenty fifth day of June, A.D., 1855 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, Jane Bacon, aged eighty two years, a resident of Sudbury in said County who been duly sworn according to law, declared that she is a widow of Norman Bacon deceased, who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Isaac Gage in the Revolutionary war commanded by Colonel Webb, and that her husband was drafted or enlisted or volunteered at Cambridge on or about the time not entirely known A.D. 1781 for the term of not known and continued in actual service in the said war for the term of two months, and twenty five days under Captain Gage and was honorably discharge dat not known on or about the 3rd day of December A. D. 1781, as will appear by reference to the rolls, that he received no printed or written discharge, and that neither her nor she ever received or applied for, or is entitled to bounty land for any other service, and that he was transferred to Captain Gage's company, from another company, and served the above length of time in Captain Gage's company.
She further states that she was married to the said Norman Bacon in Boston on the twenty eighth day of March 1797, by Reverence William Wooten, a clergyman and that her name before her said marriage was Jane Staples that her husband died at Watertown on or about the fifteenth day of August 1846, that she is still a widow, that she mades this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress passed March 3, 1855, and that she prays that the certificate thereof may be sent for her to Horatio Woodman, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jane Bacon
x - her mark

Witness to her mark
J. B. Farmer
C. G. Matthews

Subscribed and duly sworn to the day and year first above written. I certify that she is the identical person above described. I have no interest in the case.
J. B. Farm, Justice of the Peace.

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___ Ex'r.
INVALID.
No. 308
REJECTED

Norman Bacon
P.O.
Service:
Enlisted: ___, 18
Discharged: ___, 18

application filed: ___, 18

Alleges: 
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

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S.
38.824

Received
answer

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[Left side]
Norman Bacon
Massachusetts
Sus see letter James Dana
April 25, 1837
358

June 7, 1837

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195505

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145.505

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[ink stamp]
Jul 20

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Thomas Hill's affidavit

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33322
Norman [cross out] Brown [end cross out] Bacon
Massachusetts

Honorable S. Hoar H. R.
[cross out] James Dana, agent.
Honorable E. Everett
Charlestown
Massachusetts [end cross out]

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I Thomas Hill of west Cambridge in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts being 71 years of age depose and say that in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one I went into the service of the United States for six months and was in the Company of Captain Isaac Gage of Weston and in Colonel Webb's Regiment and that Norman Bacon of Cambridge was [illegible] of said Company & in my [illegible] a part of our company was detached in the north of [illegible] to go to Yorktown to the taken of Cromwell under Captain Thomas Hunt and after our return to Gallows Hill in New York and after my time was out I came home. Said Bacon did not come home with me. And I understood afterwards he staid threw the winder as he did not come home until the next Spring. and further saith not.
Thomas Hill

Middlesex ss
November 21st 1834
Then personally appeared Thomas Hill the above deponent and subscriber to the above affidavit & made solemn oath that the above affidavit was true in all it's parts relative to the matter & things therein contained before me.
J. Willington
Justice of the Peace

Middlesex, ss
January 1st, 1836
I hereby further certify that Thomas Hill the above deponent I have known for seventy years, and he has lived all the time within a half mile of me excepting the time he was in the army and his character as to truth & veracity is as unimpeachable as any man that lives.
J. Willington, Justice of the Peace

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Suspended.
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION CLAIM.
ACT OF June 7,, 1832.
Norman Bacon
Massachusetts

POWER OF ATTORNEY
TO EXAMINE CLAIMS.

Colonet Anderson

CHARLES C. TUCKER,
Attorney,
Present.

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Power of Attorney.

Know all men by these presents: That I Jane Bacon widow of Norman Bacon deceased do hereby constitute and appoint Chas. C. Tucker, of Washington City, D.C., my true and lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of said Norman Bacon for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the Act of ___ or any other Act or Resolution of Congress, and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed: and to do all things that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.

Witness my hand and seal this twelfth day of April 1854.
Jane Bacon - x her mark
I
In presence of Nahum Thompson
Charles Thompson, ss.
State of Massachusetts, Middlesex County, ss.
On this thirteenth day of April 1854, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above mentioned personally appeared Jane Bacon and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be her act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned.
Nahum Thompson

State of Massachusetts,
Middlesex County} ss.
On this thirteenth day of April 1854, before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Jane Bacon a resident of said County, and made oath according to the law that she is the identical person who executed the foregoing power of Attorney, and that she is directly interested in said Claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim.

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. Nahum Thompson

State of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex}
I M. Preston assistant Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court do hereby certify that Nahum Thompson, Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgement were made and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed seal said Court this 20th day of April 1854.
M. Preston, Assistant Clerk.

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33322
Norman Bacon
Massachusetts

[very faint]
[illegible] High Levies [?]
1781

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Charlestown October 8, 1856
Dear Sir
Norman Bacon, whose papers are hereby enclosed, withes me to state to the Department that from his advanced age and broken memory, he is not now able to give a more detailed account of his services and on this account he would the indulgence of the Department.  
From the evidence he adduces he wishes and hopes it will be apparent he served the time, which he claims, although he may have mistaken the names of some of his officers, as his service was of such a desultory nature.  He is very poor and says it will be but a short time he will need any remuneration from his country; he therefore hopes he may soon receive a favourable hearing, and that something will be given him to tender the close of his life less burdensome.  
I am respectfully
Your obedient servant
James Davis
J. L. Edwards, Eqs.

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33444
Norman Bacon
U. D. Bangs Certificate

Suspended

Sent to Honorable Samuel Noar
8 February 1836

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, December 19th, 1835.
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 Norman Bacon, as a private, is borne on the pay roll of Captain Isaac Gage's Company, in the Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Webb, detached from Colonel Dana's Regiment, where is allowed from September 20th to December3rd, 1781, two months and twenty five days.
2=25.
Norman Bacon claims for further services under Captain Gage, in 1781; also for services under Captain Smith, in Colonel Nixon's Regiment in 1780. and under Captain Thomas Hunt, in 1781, but the rolls are not found in this office, except the one mentioned above.
Edward D. Bangs [illegible]

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State of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex
We Samuel A. Bacon and Samuel W. Wiley having been duly sworn, depose and say, that we well know Norman Bacon who was a Revolutionary soldier whose widow now applies for bounty land, that we knew him for more than ten years before his death, which occurred at Watertown in said County about nine years ago, that we know that he died about that time because we have been acquainted with the family, and have often heard his death spoken of; that we are residents of Sudbury, in said State and County, that we have known his said widow from his death to this time, that she has remained unmarried, that her declaration was signed and acknowledge by her in our presence, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that we are disinterested.
Samuel A. Bacon
S. W. Wiley
Subscribed, and duly sworn to before me, this twenty fifth day of June A.D. 1855.
J. B. Farmer} Justice of the Peace.

It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Pecy, by the affidavits of Samuel A. Bacon and Samuel W. Wiley of the said county and state, who are personally known to be, who are entitled to credit, and who swear that they have no pecuniary interest in the result of the above application; that Jane Bacon is the widow, remaining unmarried of the late Norman Bacon who was a Revolutionary Soldier and that the said Norman Bacon died at Watertown in said County on or about the fifteenth day of August A. D. 1846.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty fifth day of June 1855 I have no interest in this case.
J. B. Farmer, Justice of the Peace.

*"We attended his funeral," or "were in the neighborhood at the time," or some equally good reason.

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38, 824-160
Jane Bacon
Widow of Norman

# 196.505
[cross out] 195,505 [end of cross out]

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December 29, [illegible]
Boston

Dear sir,
I would respectfully request that the application of  Jane, widow of Norman Bacon No. 196.505 may receive immediate attention. She is the widow of a Revolutionary soldier and is old and sick.
Respectfully Yours
Horatio Woodman

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195.505
Application of
Jane, widow of Norman Bacon
Revolutionary War
for a 160 acre warrant.
Act of March 3rd, 1855.

Warrant to be sent to
Horatio Woodman, Boston, Massachusetts
as within requested.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
County of Suffolk, City of Boston

Norman Bacon & Jane Staples by Reverend William Walter twenty eight March one thousand seven hundred ninety seven.

I certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows:
"28 March 1797"
N. A. Apollonio

I, Nicholas A. Apollonio above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of City Registrar, in the City, County, and Commonwealth aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy from the records of said City, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
N. A. Apoloonio, City Registrar.
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this ninth day of July A. D. 1855
George Edward Rice, Justice of the Peace.

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195.505

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Boston,
May 11th, 1855.

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 Norman Bacon is borne on pay roll of Captain Isaac Gage's Company, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Webb's Regiment. Detached from Colonel Dana's Regiment to join the Continental Army for three months from September r20 to December 3, 1781, 2 mos 25 days, as private, service rendered near West Point in the state of New York.

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

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Boston, July 24th, 1855.

I Hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed, J. B. Farmer was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, and George E. Rice a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; 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.

E.M. Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.