Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18748, for Israel Perkins, Connecticut

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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE NUMBER
Conn Perkins, Israel W. 18748
Lydia
CONTENTS

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Massachusetts 3766
Lydia Perkins
widow of Israel Perkins
Conn
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Decr
and sent to Hon John Q. Adams
House of Representatives
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1. Page 51.
Repd.

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows.
State of Massachusetts }
Hampden County } ss.
On this fourth day of February 1839 Personally appeared before the Hon. Oliver B. Morris Judge of the Court of Probate for the County aforesaid Lydia Perkins a resident of Southwick in said County of Hampden aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, that she is the widow of Israel Perkins who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution in the Continental line in Captain Ozias Pettibones Company and Colonel Andrew Wards Regiment, that he enlisted and entered the service in the fore part of May in the year seventeen hundred seventy six for the term of one year, that he marched with said Regiment to New York, New Jersey, White Plains and to Horseneck, and that he was honourably discharged in the fore part of May in the year seventeen hundred seventy seven, after having served the time for which he enlisted, That at the time he entered the service he resided in the Town of Southwick in the County of Hampshire (now County of Hampden) and State of Massachusetts, she further declares that she was married to the said Israel Perkins then Israel Perkins Jr at Southwick aforesaid on the

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tenth day of June in the year seventeen hundred eighty one by the Rev. Abel Forward, that her Husband the aforesaid Israel Perkins died on the twenty ninth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred thirteen at said Southwick, that she has Eight Children by the said Israel, their names will appear on the Family Record which accompanies these papers, she also declares that she has never been married to any other person and that she has no dockumentary evidence in support of her claim, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the Marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four viz at the time above stated
Lydia her X mark Perkins
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year above written before me, and I certify that being unable to write her name the said Lydia made her mark in my presence and that by reason of bodily infirmity she is unable to attend the Court
Oliver B Morris Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Hampden

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And I the said Judge after investigating the matter do declare my opinion that the said Israel Perkins served in the army of the revolution as stated in the foregoing declaration that on the tenth day of June seventeen hundred and eighty one he was married to the said Lydia, that he died on the twenty ninth day of April eighteen hundred and thirteen leaving the said Lydia his widow and that she has not again been married
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and have caused the seal of the Probate Court of the County of Hampden to be affixed this fourth day of February A.D. 1839
Oliver B Morris Judge of said Court
Hampden Feby 4th AD 1839
I Justin Willard Clerk of the Probate County
within & for said County do hereby certify that the Hon Oliver B. Morris before whom the foregoing declaration of Lydia Pubis was made and sworn to is the Judge of Probate within & for said County and that his signature subscribed to the foregoing certificates on this sheet written is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Springfield this fourth day of February AD 1839 Justin Willard

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I Ebenezer Godard of Granby in Hartford County and State of Connecticut aged Eighty six years depose & say that I well knew Israel Perkins of Southwick in Hampden County State of Massachusetts in the time of the Revolutionary War, he being then Israel Perkins In, Southwick being a Town adjoining & bordering on this Town- I also say that sd Israel Perkins in the forepart of May 1776 enlisted as a private in Capt Ozias Pettibone Company in Col. Andrew Ward Regt of the Connecticut line for the Term of our year - That said Perkins went into the service in said Company & Regt & servd at New York & other places about them untill his time of Enlistment was fully out & completed and that he was during the fore part of May 1777 & came home -
I further depose & say that I was a Soldier with him during this term of Service in the same Company & Regt. I enlisted at the same time, & was dischargd & we came home together - Ebenezer Godard
State of Connecticut }
Hartford County } ss Granby January 8. 1839-
Personally appeared the above name Ebenezer Godard to me personally known, & who is a reputable and Credible Witness & made solemn oath to the Truth of the above Deposition by him subscribd -
Before the Joshua R. Jewett Justice of peace

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I ROYAL R, HINMAN, Secretary of the State of Connecticut and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, THAT Joshua R. Jewett Esqr, is
and for more than six months last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Jewett in Court and Country.
In testimony whereof, I have in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State the 26th day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine 
And I certify that the signature of said Jewett hereunto annexed is genuine.
Secretary.
Royal R Hinman

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMDEN, ss.
I Silas Granger Administrator on the estate of Israel Perkins late of Southwick deceased, represented insolvent.
You are hereby direct & empowered to allow to Lydia Perkins widow of sd deceased her wearing apparel and also such other articles,  as she shall choose from from the inventory according to the appraisment amounting in the whole to the sum of sixty Dollars which  shall be allowed you in your account of administration on said estate.
Given under my hand, this tenth day of August 1818
Samuel Fowler -} Judge of Probate, & c. for said County,

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Hampden ss. to Silas Granger under named
Mar 29. 1814 I do hereby authorize to allow & to may ever to the order within mentioned to the amount of five dollars in addition to the sum herein allowed
John Hooker justice Probate
for sd County

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Phines Perkins was Born October the 8 - 1750
Lucy Perkins was Born June the 9 - 1753
Dorcas Perkins was Born September the 10 - 1755
Israel Perkins Jr was Born September the 24 - 1757
Russel Perkins was Born June the 13 - 1760
[illegible] Perkins was Born September the 16 - 1763
[illegible] Perkins was Born May the 28 - 1765
[illegible] Perkins was Born December the 6 - 1771
Hannah dide October the 20 age the 10 year old - 1777
[illegible] father died Sixty third year of is age
December the - 1789

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Israel Perkins was married to Lydia Palmer
the the June Born - 1781
Elias Perkins was Born September the 6 - 1784
Royel Perkins was Born Febery the 10 - 1786
Hezekiah Perkins was Born November the 7 1788
Israel Perkins was Born June the 1 - 1791
Walter Perkins was Born December the 1 - 179 
Meheteble Perkins was Born September the 2
Molley Perkins was Born May the 22 1799
horris Perkins was Born october the 30 1802
Horace Perkins was born october the 30 1802

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4666
Lydia Perkins
Mass.
admitted
Pr 1 yr - $40
Cap Pettibone
Col Ward Con. 1776 & 1777.
died 29 April 1813
Act 7 July 38
J. M. Forward
Southwick
Mass

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I Silas Granger of Southwick in the County of Hampden and State of Massachusetts aged fifty nine years and upwards, depose and say I was born in said  Southwick and have lived in said Town ever since my first  recolection. I was personally acquainted with Israel Perkins formally Israel Perkins Junior, and Lydia Perkins both of said Southwick, from my earliest recollection untill the demise of the said Israel, and with the said Lydia untill the present time. They lived together as man and wife within less then two hundred rods of my dwelling and raised a numerous family of children.
I further depose and say in the latter part of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen I was personally present and witnessed the death of the said Israel Perkins and two days afterward attended the buriel of said deceased. On the thirty-first  day of May next following I attended a Probate
Cort held at Westfield within and for the County  of Hampden and was duly appointed Administrator  on the estate of the said Israel Perkins deceased and settled the same as the law directs said estate proved insolvent. On the tenth day of August
of the same year, attended another Probate Cort and received an order from the Judge to pay the said Lydia Perkins the sum of Sixty dollars as will appear by the Probate document that will accompany this affidavit. On the final settlement of said estate there was about five dollars that remained unappropreated which the Judge gave to said widow as will appear on the back of the order above alluded too.
I further depose and say the account Book and other writings of the said Israel Perkins deceased was committed to my care said account  Book is now in my posesion, from said Book I have taken a part of a leaf which contains the family record of Israel Perkins Jun., on one side and on the other, the family record of Israel Perkins

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Senior. The record of both families are the handwriting of Israel Perkins Junr, one line has been added by his youngest son said records will accompany other testamony and show for themselves. Israel Perkins senior died when I was about ten years of age I well remember him, and all of his sons and some of his Daughters
I also depose and say the said Lydia Perkins has lived in the tenament left by her deceased husband from the time of his death untill this day. She has not been married to any other person since the death of her said husband, and is still the widow of the said Israel Perkins deceased
Silas Granger
State of Massachusetts }
Hampden County } SS January 29, 1839
Personally appeared the above named Silas Granger to me personally known and who is a Reputable and Credible Witness and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him Subscribed
before me Jos. M Forward Justice of the Peace

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Congregational Church and Socity in said Southwick, that I was present at the wedding and witnessed the Marriage ceremony at the Dwelling House of said Forward in said Southwick
Lucy Noble
State of Massachusetts }
Hampden County } ss January 19th 1839 Personally appeared the above named Lucy Noble to me personally Known and who is a reputable and credible witness and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition by her subscribed
before me Jos. M Forward Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Hampden SS
I Justin William Clerk of the Probate Court within & for said County of Hampden do hereby certify that Joseph M Forward before whom the foregoing Depositions of Silas Granger, Elijah Holcomb, James Stevens and Lucy Noble were personally verified is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County & was so at the time of the [illegible] verifications aforesaid and that his siqnature subscribed to the certificate of said [illegible] verifications is genuine
The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Springfield this fourth day of February AD 1839
Justin Willard
Clerk

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I Elijah Holcomb of Southwick in the County of
Hampden and State of Massachusetts aged Eighty years depose and say that I was acquainted with Israel Perkins Jr late of said Southwick Deceased that he was a soldier in Col. Andrew Ward's or some other Regiment in the Continental Line in the year 1776 and that in the latter part of the summer or fall of that year (I being a Soldier in said Wards Regiment) and while lying at Horseneck said Perkins went on a scouting party with me into West Chester in the State of New York. that said scouting party was composed of Volunteers from different Companies in the Continental Line
Elijah Holcomb
State of Massachusetts }
Hampden County } Ss. Southwick January 12th 1839
Personally appeared the above named Elijah Holcomb to me personally known, and who is a reputable and Credible witness, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed
before me Jos. M Forward Justice of the Peace
Israel Perkins Junr and Lydia Palmer both of Southwick had their names entered on Record of their Intention of Marriage & Publication made thereof as the Law directs. May 13th (thirteenth)  1781 Seventeen hundred Eighty one, a true Copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in Jan and legible figures
Certified from Record James Stevens } Town Clerk of Southwick
I James Stevens above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Southwick

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the County of Hampden and State of Massachusetts and that the foregoing is a true extract from the Records of said Town with the exception before named as certified by me. And I also depose and say that I have examined the Records of said Town of Southwick and that there is no record of the Marriage of Israel Perkins Jr and Lydia Palmer. I further Depose and say that it does appear from the Records of said Town that the Rev. Abel Forward was Pastor of the Congregational Church and Society in said Town of Southwick from the year seventeen hundred seventy three to the year seventeen hundred and eighty five and I further depose and say that it does not appear from the Record that any Record was made of the Marriage of any persons on the Records of said Town of Southwick from the year 1773 to the year 1785 excepting that of the Rev. Abel Forward -
James Stevens
State of Massachusetts }
Hampden County } Ss.  Sworn and subscribed this Nineteenth day of January 1839-
before me Jos. M Forward Justice of the Peace
I Lucy Noble of Russell in the County of Hampden and State of Massachusetts aged Seventy two years depose and say that I was born and lived in said Southwick until I was Nineteen years of age, that I was well acquanted with Israel Perkins Jr and Lydia Palmer both of Southwick aforesaid, both before and after their Marriage, that they were Married in the fore part of the summer of the year seventeen hundred Eighty one, that they were married by the Rev. Abel Forward who was then Pastor of the

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Mch-8-1900.
Histy to F.C. Perkins, Durango Co
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18748
Lydia Perkins
Widow of
Isreal Perkins
Priv. Rev. War
Act: May 3d 1843
Index:-- Vol. M, Page 123
Arrangement of 1870.]

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US
PENSION OFFICE
FEB 28 1900
Durango, Colo., Feb. 23, 1900.
F. C. Perkins of Durango, Colo, asks for information
concerning service of Israel Perkins in Revolutionary War as shown by pension case of Lydia Perkins, and encloses correspondence with War Department on subject

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FREDERICK C. PERKINS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
REGISTER OF U. S. LAND OFFICE
ROOMS 205, 207, 208, NEWMAN BLOCK
Durango, Colorado.
Durango, Colo., Feb. 23, 1900.
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir, -- I send to you enclosed herewith some correspondence with the War Department relative to the service of Israel Perkins of Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War, in which I am referred to your office for further information as shown by the pension case of Lydia Perkins widow of Israel Perkins. Will you kindly give me such information concerning the subject as may be shown in the files of your office? I will be glad to bear any expense that may be incurred in the search.
Yours very respectfully,
F. C. Perkins,

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Southwick ms
Sept 15
Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C
4117
8 Sep 1842
Lydia Perkins
Act 1843
$40 per ann
Hon, John Q. Adams
H Rep

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the third of March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7 1838
State of Massachusetts }
Hampden County } ss On this 11th day of September 1843 before me Jos. M Forward a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Lydia Perkins a resident of Southwick in the County of Hampden and State of Massachusetts aged Eighty one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the third day of March 1843 granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war, that
she is the widow of Israel Perkins who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and belonged to a Regiment which was raised in the State of Connecticut and that she received a pension under the act of July 7. 1838 of Forty dollars per year. She further declares that she is still a widow, Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Lydia her X mark Perkins
before
Jos. M. Forward Justice of the Peace
Witness William Fowler
State of Massachusetts }
Hampden County } ss. September 11th 1843 I hereby certify that Lydia Perkins the declarant in the above declaration is personally known to me, and of the truth of her statement I am fully satisfied
Jos. M Forward Justice of the Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Hampden S.S
Justin Willard Clerk of the Probate Court within & for said County do hereby certify that Joseph M Forward Esq before whom the within declaration of Lydia Perkins was made & verified, is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Hampden and was to on the eleventh day of September instant and that his signature subscribed to the within certificate there of is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Probate Court at Springfield this thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty three
Justin Willard
Clerk

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Southwick, Mass. Sept 14, 1840
Hon. J L. Edwards
Sir,
Any communication you may make to Mrs. Lydia Perkins the declarant of the foregoing declaration, you will have the goodness to direct to Southwick Mass
Yours Respectfully
Jos. M. Forward

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3316
Repd B
Massachusetts
Lydia Perkins widow of Israel Perkins, Decd. who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 29th April, 1813. of Hampden Co in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the Compy commanded by Captain Pettibone - of the Regt. commanded by Col. Ward in the Connecticut line for 1 year-
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 40 Dollars -  Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of June 1839 and sent to J. M. Forward, Southwick, Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839 $120.00
Semiannual allowance ending 4 Sept 20.00
$120.00
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by Wm Steuart Clerk,
Book A Vol. 1 - Page 120

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Hon Joel R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.
Pension Papers
Feb. 9. 1839
4666
Mass
7 July 1838

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Southwick Mass. Feb. 5. 1839
Hon J. R. Poinsell Secretary of War
Enclosed I forward to your Department the widow Lydia Perkins, Papers for a Pension, should any further evidence be necessary please inform me, should a pension Certificate be granted please forward it to me at this place-
Yours Respectfully
Jos. M. Forward

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R.P.O. 577004. Feb. 17/1900
577004
Feb. 12, 1900.
F. C. Perkins of Durango, Colo.,
inquires further relative to the records concerning service of Israel Perkins in the Revolutionary War as shown in the pension case of Lydia Perkins widow.
O. W. & N. DIVISION
MAR 2 1900
RECEIVED

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FREDERICK C. PERKINS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
REGISTER OF U. S. LAND OFFICE
ROOMS 203, ROY, 200, NEWMAN BLOCK
Durango, Colorado.
February 12, 1900.
Chief of the Record and Pension Office,
War Department, Washington, D. C.,
Dear Sir, -- Your reply to the 6th inst. to my inquiry of the 30th ult. relative to the service of Israel Perkins in the Revolutionary War, was duly received, and I thank you for the same. I note therefrom that the records do not show the name of Israel Perkins. His widow, Lydia Perkins,
drew a pension for many years by reason of her deceased husband having been a soldier in the Revolutionary War. She lived in Hampden County, Massachusetts. Her address was probably Westfield, though it may have been Southwick or Hillside, as they were farmers and may have received their mail at some of the little villages in the neighborhood. The pension rolls of the Revolutionary widows must have her name, and the data connected with her case should show the service of her husband, Israel Perkins, in the Revolutionary War. Would you kindly examine the records further in regard to the matter? By so doing you will greatly oblige,
Yours very truly,
F. C Perkins

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Record and Pension Office,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, Feb. 19, 1900. 
Respectfully returned to
Mr. F. C. Perkins,
Attorney,
Durango, Colorado.
As stated in the communication from this office, dated the 6th instant, the name Israel Perkins has not been found on the rolls, on file in this office, of any organization of Massachusetts or Continental troops in service during the war of the Revolution.
In view of the statement that the widow of the soldier drew a pension, it is suggested as a possibility that the desired information may be obtained from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C., who is the custodian of the pension records of the Revolutionary war, and whose office is separate and distinct from the Record and Pension Office of the War Department.
BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY WAR:
John Truesdale
Acting Chief of Office
Per
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