Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28658, Allen Breed, N. H.

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(8-1776)
SERVICE | NUMBER
N.H.  |  Breed, Allen | S.28658 
CONTENTS

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[edge of page missing including some numbers]
310 24310
New York
Allen Breed
Hope in the state of New York who was a Private in the Comp 4 commanded by Captain Parker of the Reglr. commanded by ____ in the N. Hampshire line for 14 Months and 12 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 47 Dollars 98 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Nov. 1833 and claimant Hope NY
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33 | $119.95
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '34 | 23.99
$143.94
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Lno. Cromwell | Clerk
Book 6 Vol 4 Page 90
1875 Febry 4 Hon. C O'Niel - giving military & family History for JH Breed
[faint pencil] no date death on agency book.

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28 140
Allen Breed
Application for a Pension under the Act of Jun 7, 1832

On roll of Capt. Parker all the 10 mo. & 12 days on order of Capt. Parker
Admitted Private 14 mo. & 12 days

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State of New York
Montgomery County on this 11th day of September in the year 1883 personally appeared in open court before Abraham Morrell David Spraker John Hand Henry J Diefenderf & Samuel A Gilbert - the Clerk of Commerce Pleas now sitting Allen Breed a resident of the town of Hope in the County of Montgomery and State of New York aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 - 1883. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as Service Stated in the month of November between the 1st and 15 in the year 1775 at the town of New Ipswich in the State of New Hampshire I joined a company commanded by Capt. Cumming Leuit. Forgeson and Ensign Goadle for the term of six weeks which I faithfully served in the following manner, immediately upon enlisting and joining the company we marched directly to Cambridge in Massachusetts and were stationed at Fort No 2 after remaining there about one week we were by the order of Genl. Putnam taken over to Lechmere's Point about three miles below Cambridge to breake ground for building a Fort.

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at the close of Gattos we received three
shot and two shells from the British Station
at Fox Hill Fort in Boston at the time
a British Ship of war called the Sommerset lay in Cambridge Bay between where we were building the Fort & Fox Hill Fort in Boston the next morning however she
cleared after building such a Fort as in
some measure saved us we march back to
Fort No 2 where we  remainid during the full term of six weeks when I was
discharged on the first of February
or thereabouts in the year 1776 I enlisted
at the camp in Cambridge for two months
under Capt Goodale we marchd for Prospect Hill, about one mile below at a place called Cobbell Hill I was present where the Americans split the Brap Mortar   that was taken by the ship called the Manely Prire while stationed at Prospect Hill I had permission to go to Boston to see some friends I know it was the morning after the British left and see the large Mortar that they left which was marked as weighing of 32 hundred two quarters- at the time he
lay at Prospect Hill there was a requit
commanded by Col. Poor Stationed at
Winter Hill about one mile from Proper Hill the Majors name was Sillac - it was reported in camp that Col. Poor had lost his life in a duel, Col. Patterson
had command of another Regiment

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lying a few rods from Prospect Hill
Col Hitchcock had charge of a Regt lying a short distance from Prospect Hill during the said two months I was
not engaged in battle although we were
annoyed by shots from the british who
were lying at Boston in the North of
April we were discharged and I returned
home to Ipswich in the month of July I
enlisted or volunteered I do not know
the destinations at Ipswich [Massachusettes {Massachusetts} crossed out] New Hampshire under Capt] Joseph Parker for five months I passed muster at Jeffery [illegible] Charleston No 4 after which we crossed Conneticutt River March to Skeensborough & were set to work for a few days getting timber from the Mountain to build Roe Galleys, there went down the Bay
to Ticonderoga & were stationed on
Mount Independence but were soon
set to work cutting on Road from the
Mount Independence, out to Otter Creek
in order to get in proviscire for the 
army I do not received any of the
officers names except the Adjutants
name which was Temple as I employed
principally all the time on the road
my time having expirid we were discharged at Hubbeltore

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in the year 1777 first day of August at
New Ipswich New Hampshire I enlisted
for two months (which time I fully served)
under Capt Stephen Parker and ^Ensign Williams March 
from thence to Bennington State of Vermont
when I was ordered to assist in runing a drove of Beef cattle to Stillwater  for the use of the army on our way
back we were attacked by the series
and after a sharp skerimish they retreated and we pursued our way to Bennington after remaining there a few days we were ordered to march for Saratoga
which we accordingly did and remained
there until my time was out [illegible] & some time after to take part in the battle
that was expected when I was discharge
and returned home 
In the year 1780 in the month of June I was
one of six taken from the town of New Ipswich New Hampshire and taken by a
Corporal to the ^town of Winchester where we passed muster drew Rations and
proceeded to Litchfield in the State of
Connectticutt where we again drew rations proceeded to West Point in the State of New York and where
attached to a company commanded by
Capt Cherry, Lieut Adams, the Regiment was commanded by Col Cortland and the division by Gen La Fayette

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we staid at West Point about two weeks when
three regiment under the command of Genl La Fayette Marchd for a towne called Herrington in the Jerseys staid there a short time & then made
an attempt to take Staten Island got as far
as Elisabeth [illegible] when the boat-  became injured and we returned to our tents at Herrington from thence we marchd to Fort Lee remained a few days & went to Bargain drove off the Cattle & horses in order to prevent the enemy from getting
them who were stationed at or were in New York after removing them we marchd back to Fort Lee remaind there a short time thence to
Herrington, thence to Peekskill for winter
quarters where I remained until I was discharged in the month of December after serving six months faithfully in the year 1780 the above is as true a statement I am able to give of my services, I have no documentary evidence of my services in my possession, nor do I know of any person whose testimony I can procure who can attest to my services. I do hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pensionor annuity except the present and declarethat my name is not on the pension
ever of the agency of any State
Allen Breed [signature]
Sworn to & Subscribed
the day & year aforesaid Atten road
in open Court, Geo: D. Ferguson Clerk [signature]
We Aaron Semans a Clergyman residing in the [illegible] of Northampton County of Montgomery & Samuel A Gilbert
residing in Mayfield County aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Allen Breed who has subscribed & Sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy five years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he
resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion

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Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
in open Court
Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk [signature]
Aaron Seamans [signature]
Saml [Samuel] A Gilbert [signature]
And the said Court do hereby declare there [their] opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as
he states and the Court further certifies that is
appears to them that Aaron Semans is
Clergyman resident in the town of Northampton County of Montgomery & that he signed the preceding certificate and that Samuel Gilbert who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Mayfield County aforesaid & is a credible person & entitled to credit
I, George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the Court 
of Common pleas in and for the said County
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Allen Breed for
a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this eleventh day of September 1833
Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk [signature]

28140
Allen Breeds
application for a
Pension under the
Act of June 7, 1832 
 
Admitted 
Private 14 mo & 12 days

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Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
ILL [Cln written in pencil]
May 29, 1930.
Mr. H.E. Breed
The Electric Shop
Humboldt, Iowa. 
Dear [illegible]
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 28658, it appears that Allen Breed, while a resident of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, enlisted and served as follows:  
From early in November 1775, six weeks in Captain Cummings Company; from about February 1, 1776, two months in Captain Goodale's Company: from July, 1776, five months in Captain Joseph Parker's Company; from August 1, 1777, two months in Captain Stephen Parker's Company and was in a skirmish with the Tories.
He also enlisted in June 1780, marched from New Ipswich, New Hampshire, to West Point, New York, where he was attached to Captain Cherry's Company, Colonel Cortland's Regiment, and served six months.
Soldier was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1833, while a resident of Hope, Montgomery County, New York, aged seventy-five years.
There are no family data.
This is the history of the only soldier named Allen Bredd [Breed] found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
 
Very truly yours,
R.W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner

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28658
Revy INVALID.
File No. 28.656
Allen Breed
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 53
[Arrangement of 1870.]

May 4'96 said period to W A Butler
syracuse
LWIE
 Sept 21/97 Miss Frances B
Colby, M. Cambridge
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1916 Apr. 20. History to
J.E. Jenks  Frr
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1918 Oct. 22. To Warren C. Tudbury [cent sign]
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1930 - May 29. History to Mr.
H.E. Breed-
I/L L
[Left page: N.Y.  Mass.]

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EDISON MAZDA LAMPS
RADIO SETS AND SERVICE
THE ELECTRIC SHOP
H. E. BREED, Proprietor
Electric Wiring and Supplies
HUMBOLDT, IOWA
March 25, 1930
U. S. Dept.[Department] of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sir:
Rev. [Revolutionary] War Section
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
In printed volume of Rolls of Soldiers
of New Hampshire of Revolutionary War, Volume 2, Page 219, I find Allen Breed and Allen, Jr. listed . On page 533 listed as private entry August 10, Discharged August 28, (of what year?)
Also will you please give me any data on
pension Rolls as to age, wife, and all possible
data you have.
I am of the opinion these two are the ones
extensive search has been made for their records and am very anxious for an as early reply as possible.
Thanking you, I am
Yours truly,
H. E. Breed

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Rev Sec [upper left in pencil]
U.S. [United States] Navy Yard, Public Works Office
Mare Island, California.
October 5, 1918,
Hon [Honorable]. G.M. Saltzgaber, Commissioner,
Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionary War Records Section,
Washington, District of Columbia.

Dear Sir:
Allen Breed, Junior of Lynn, Mass. and Hillsborough County New Hampshire was my great-great-grandfather and Revolutionary ancestor. He was the son of Allen Breed of
Lynn and he moved from there to New Hampshire about 1775 with his family and settled in Hillsborough County, probably
in the vicinity of Merrimack of New Ipswich. Both he and his wife were living in New Hampshire in 1780. I am sure she Abigail Breed, survived him as she was not buried until 1833.
The New Hampshire Rolls show service for him as a private from 1776 to 1780. I am wondering whether either he or his widow ever applied for a pension: Will you kindly
advise me as to this and in case any claim was filed please send me a transcript of such data as you possess from your office.
This is my fisrt request for information this year, from your office.
Thanking you, I am,
Very truly yours,
Warren C Tudbury
 [Black Stamp: PENSION OFFICE U.S. O OCT 14 1918]

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C. H. RIDENOUR
J. E. JENKS
ST. JOHN APPO
ARMY AND NAVY
REGISTER
THE UNITED STATES MILITARY GAZETTE
ESTABLISHED 1879
PER YEAR $3.00
SIX MONTHS 2.00
THREE MONTHS 1.25
511 ELEVENTH STREET, N. W. (P. O. Box 152)
Washington, D. C., April 13, 1916.
[Written in pencil upper right: Check mark, Rev Sec, H]

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:

To comply with the request of a correspondent, it is desired to obtain the record of Allen Breed of New Ipswich, Mass., who served in Colonel Reed's New Hampshire
regiment in the War of the Revolution. The record is desired in order to ascertain the eligibility of a descendant for
membership in one of the colonial societies.
The Adjutant General of the Army states that the records of his department, being far from complete, do not contain the name of Allen Breed and he suggests "as a possibility that the desired information can be obtained.
from the Commissioner of Pensions,"
We would appreciate this information for the
purpose desired.
Very respectfully,
ARMY AND NAVY REGISTER.
J E Jenks

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Pension Bureau B
Washington D.C.
Will you please send 
me certificate of evnice
of Allen Breed, who
enlisted at New Ipswich
in 1775, and served
five year in Revolutincy 
war, advancing to rank of Lieutenant.
[written in pencil: hom]
Frances B. Colby
77 Avon Hill Se
North Cambridge
Mass
[1st Black Stamp left side top: OLD WAR & NAVY FILES SEP 13 1897 C.S.P.E. in corners of stamp]
[2nd Black Stamp left side bottom: PENDION OFFICE U.S. SEP 11 1897]

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In reply to your request of , Received for a statement of the military history of Allen Breed a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's -crossed out) application for pension on the file in the Bureau.  S.28.658
[Headers: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.| LENGTH OF SERVICE.| RANK.| | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL.| STATE.|
1. Nov. 1775| 6 wks | Pri | Cumming| [Check mark] | N.H.
2. Feb. 1776| 2 mos. |  | Goodale| [Check mark] | N.H
3. Nov. 1775| 5 mos | | Joseph Parker| [Check mark] | N.H
4. Nov. 1775| 2 mos | |Stephen Parker| [Check mark] | N.H
5. Nov. 1775| 6 wks | | Cherry| Courtland|  
  
Battles engaged in, [pencil check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [Pencil check mark] Enlisted at New Ipswich N.H.
Date of application for pension, Sept 11 1833. His cl mas al
Residence at date of application, Hope, Montgomery Co N. Y
Age at date of application, 75 yrs
Remarks: There is no data relative to family.
The above noted is the only Allen Breed
found on the Rev. War records of this Burean
Respectfully,
Commissioner,
 d- 2856