Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,670, Stephen Boynton, Mass.

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(3-1776)

Service
Mass.

Boynton, Stephen
Eddy, Tabitha
Former widow

Number
W 14,670

Contents

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Massachusetts - 2413 1888 Much 29 FM Eddy, history, P[unintelligible]
- Tabitha Eddy, [unintelligible], widow of Stephen Boynton, [unintelligible]?

Who died on the 2nd Oct. 1777 - 
of [unintelligible] in the State of Massachusetts
who was a P[unintelligible] in the Calvary commanded by Captain [unintelligible] of the R[unintelligible] commanded by [unintelligible] in the Massachusetts line for 8 May[?] 15[unintelligible]

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 28 Dollars 33 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certification of Pensioned issued the 7th day of May '38, and [unintelligible]

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. - $212.47
Semi-annual allowance ending 14.16
                                                   ---------
                                                  $226.63
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Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1836
Section the

Recorded by R. Bur[unintelligible] Clerk,
Book 1 Vol. 2 - Page 49.

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of third section of the act of 4th July 1836 and of the first section of the act of the 3d March 1837
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County Ss. on this sixteenth day of July 1838 personally appeared before Ira Burton Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Worcester Tabitha Eddy a resident of Winchendon in said County an Commonwealth aged eighty eight 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 provisions made by the acts of Congress passed July 4 1836 and the act explanatory to said act passed March 3d 1837
1st That she was married to Stephen Boynton on the twenty ninth day of December 1772 in the town of Lunenburg by the Rev Zabdiel Adams then an ordained minister of said Lunenburg as set forth by the official certificate of Nathaniel F. Cunningham Town Clerk of said Lunenburg.
2d That her maiden name was Tabitha Foster that at the time she married to said Stephen Boynton she was a resident of said Lunenburg and my Husband the said Stephen had formaly been a resident of said Lunenburg but the most part of the time for a year prior to our marriage he had resided in said Winchendon where I now live I was married to my said

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Husband the 29th day of December 1772 as stated above and moved to Winchendon in the month of March following at which place I have resided ever since.
3d That her said Husband Stephen Boynton was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war that he belonged to Capt Abel Wilders minnute Company in said Winchendon and marched with said Company for Cambridge I think the eighteenth or nineteenth day of April 1775 was gone from home at that time fifteen days according to my best recollection.
4th He went out again I think in the month of August 1776 served three months under Capt John Boynton of said Winchendon I think he went to White Plains at that time.
5th In the year 1777 he enlisted under Capt Seth Oaks of said Winchendon for one year went from home I think the first of May the same year and remained in the service untill he died, he died as I was informed by said Oaks and others the second day of October following I have a letter which will accompany this application that my said Husband sometime the September prior to his death.
6 I further say my parents and the parents of my Husband the said Stephen Boynton resided in said Lunenburg untill their Decease and my said Husbands Fathers Christian name was Stephen.

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7th She further says she remained a widow one year six months and eleven days at which time she was married to Levi Bixby and lived with him about twenty five years which was untill his Decease.
8th She further says she remained the widow of the said Bixby about six years and then was married to a man by the name of Benjamin Eddy of Royalston in said County of Worcester and lived with him untill his Decease which was in the month of June 1832 as will appear by other evidence accompanying this application & she further declares she was a widow on the fourth day of July 1836 and still remains a widow as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed and as further evidence of her said Husbands service she respectfully refers to the rolls in the war department as she has no other documentary evidence except that above deposed to as to her said Husbands services
Tabitha Eddy her X mark
Signed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid - before me
[signed] Ira Burton Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester

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[illegible] the Court do declare it as
their opinion, after a full investigation
matter, that the said Stephen
Boynton was a soldier of the Revolution
that he married the said applicant; that
he hath deceased, and that in the fourth
day of July 1836 she was a widow and hath 
remained & as firm as the truth on oath do declare; the being [illegible] to be a [illegible]  of truth
Ira Barton Judge of
said Court

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Lunenburg, County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I hereby certify that Stephen Boynton of Winchendon and Tabitha Foster of Lunenburg were married as Recorded on the town Records of the town of Lunenburg January twenty ninth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy two - I hereby depose and say that I hold the office of town clerk of the town of Lunenburg aforesaid and the above is a true extract from the Records of said town - with the exception that the Record is in figures thus January 29. 1772 -, and I further certify that I have in my possession the Record of marriages of the former minister of the town of Lunenburg the Reverend Zabdiell Adams - Mr Adams' Record says I married Stephen Boynton Junr. & Tabitha Foster Jany 29. 1772. - a true copy from the Records 
[signed] Nathaniel F Cunningham town clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester Ss June 30th 1838 Subscribed and sworn to before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county the day and year last above written
[signed] Esek Whiting

I hereby certify that the above named Nathaniel F. Cunningham is Town Clerk of the Town of Lunenburg in said county of Worcester, and that he is a man of truth and veracity -
[signed] Esek Whiting Justice of the Peace

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to 
Stephen Boynton
at
Winchendon
[illegible]

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Tareytown new yorke October the 16 1776
Loven wife these lines are to inform you that i am in go health at present throw the goodness of god hoping that thay will find you and our children as thay leave me i remember my love to you and children and all my friends i have nothing remarkble to rite to you so i remain you loving frien and husband
[signed] Stephen Boynton
11 B this place about 15 miles from the lines noth ward

BOYNTON, STEPHEN
(MASS.)
W. 14670

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To
Stephen Boynton
in Winchendon
this with care

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Tareytown October the 26 ye 1776
Lovening Wife after my love to you and our children i hope these lines will find you all in your helth as they leave me i want to see you all for i have not [illegible] from you sence i came away i have sent to you this is the fourth time and i would inform you that we expect to move veary soon but know not whare but it is likely that we shall come hom [illegible] i remember my love to you and all my friends
[illegible] husband so i remain yor loving
[signed] Stephen Boynton

BOYNTON, STEPHEN
(MASS.)
W. 14670

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To The
Wife of Mr Stephen Boynton
Att
Winchendon in the County of 
Worcester with Card

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Dilcarge ben counteys Willemton September the 14 1777
Loving wife after my love to you and our children i would inform you that ihave been pourely but not confind and i would not have you consarnd about me for i have very good care taken of me through the goodness of god and i hope these lines will finde you well altho thay leave me pourely But i would reckoned my self and you all to god [illegible] praying that god would take care of us all and return me hom again in his one tine to my family again
and I remember my love to you and children and nabours 
and i would have you send me a line to cap Coudines as soon as past after you reseve this thare will be a line sent to Winchendon from the post that will inform you when the leters must bee left att said Couchines and the post will com thare and take them and fetch them right to me and you must put on the Back of it the posts name under the Subscription and then it must git left and his name is Henry Mories 
i have no nuse to right to you only that Benjmin Beeman is dead and so no more at present 
onely i remain your friend and husband 
[signed] Stephen Boynton

BOYNTON, STEPHEN
(MASS)
W. 14670

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Revy
Benjamin Eddy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14670
Tabitha Eddy
Widow
Stephen Boynton
Pri Rev War
Act:  July 4th  36
Index:- Vol. A Page 206

Arrangement of 1870.]

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Tabitha Eddy
Wid of S Boynton
Mass
[illegible] Sept
37838\

26.66     /3.33
  1.66     +66
28.33

Act 4 July 1836

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V 37205

Tabith Eddy
Mass
4 July 1836

Wid of Steph Boynton

Act 4 July 1836

Admd

8 mo 15 ds  pri
_______
28.33/100
No deduction


Jacob Wales
Balourisville, 
Mass
Aug 18

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

By His Excellency Edward Everett
Governor and Commander in Chief in and over
said Commonwealth.

To all whom it may concern:

Know ye, that Ira Barton Esq Judge of Probate and Esek Whiting and Jacob Wales Esqr a Justices of the Peace for the County of Worcester (and were so at the date of their several attestations)

in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to their Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the within Attestation in due form and by the proper Officers.

In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public
Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this fourteenth day of August A.D. 1838, and in the sixty third year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By His Excellency the Governor.
[Signature of] John C. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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Baldwinsville Nov 5-1838

Hon J. L Edwards Pension Comr
Sir
I lodged in your office the 18th [illegible] 16 application for Pensions 3 of which
I have received certificates on. I received your
letter of the 3d of September last saying you
had examined the claim of the widow Tabitha
Eddy formally the Widow of Stephen Boynton
and that the rolls have a service of 16 day
in 1775 under Capt. Wilder but no rolls of
Capt. John Boyntons Company can be found in
which she alleges her husband served 3 months in 1776, you further say that no rolls of Capt Oaks any can be found in which she alegates her husband served from May 1 1777 to the time of his death which was in Octr following but you stated as the [illegible] from her husband to her dated Sept 7 1777 showed that he was in the service at that time the department would allow her a pension for 6 months if he should advise it of her acceptance of except of that but I think the two letters i
sent you after you made the above proposal
as will satisfy you that her husband actually
served three months as alleged by her in 1776
under Capt John Baynton if so you will
forward her certificate for the whole time
she alleges he served the 12th of Sept last
you returned to me to applications -9 of which

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has since been returned to your office by
the Hon Ira Barker, I also wish to have
to them attended to as soon as possable,
you will excuse me for writing so often as the 
applicants are impatient waiting for an answer as to their claims
respectfully yours &c
[Signature] [Jacob Wales

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Baldwinsville September 17. 1838

Hon. L. Edwards Commission of Pensions

Sir
Yours of the 3d inst came to hand the 13th
called in Mrs. Eddy and informed her of your [illegible] she said she should think hard if she could not have pay for 8 months as her husband actually served at least that some of time, he told me she had found two letters that her husband in her in the month of Oct 1776 from Tarrytown N. York while he was under Capt John Boynton on his three months [illegible], she told me at the time she made her declaration before Judge Barton
that she and had some letters that her husband sent her while under Capt Baynton in 1776 but that he believed they were lost with her application . I now forward the two letters presuming you will be satisfied that the claim justified 8 months and 16 days and if so you will please to forward her certificate is soon as [illegible]  you will so that he directed his letter to himself she said he did that thinking as she supposed they would come (?) safe - she has also has another letter which the found with the two enclosed, that her husband sent her from Peekskill in 1777 after he went out under Capt Oaks but she said she did not like to spare all his letters. I told her I delivered you more satisfied as to the service under and therefore let her keep that letter, however if that is wanted forward I will forward it. 

I am respectfully your obt servant
[Signature] Jacob Wales

Hon H L Edwards
Pension Commissioner
Washington City

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I Betsey Parks of Winchendon in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged sixty eight years Do make this my voluntary affidavit and say that I am
well acquainted with the widows Tabitha Eddy
of said Winchendon and have been ever since
I would remember I have always resided in
said Winchendon and within one fourth of a
mile of her, I will recollect her first Husband
his name was Stephen Baynton he came
from Lunenburg to Winchendon as he and the
said Tabitha used to tell me I well remember
when the said Stephen went into the Revolutionary war under Capt Seth Oaks who lived in about a mile of me at that time, I well remember hearing of the death of said Boynton I think in the month of October after he went out. I further say the said Tabitha married to Levi Bixby of said Winchendon in a year or two after the death of said Boynton and Bixby died in about twenty five years according to the best of my recollection, she remained a widower a number of years after the said Bixby's Death and then married to a 
man by the name of Benjamin Eddy and he the said Benjamin Eddy died in the month of June
1832. I further depose and say that the said
Tabitha has remained a widow ever since
the death of the said Eddy
Signature of Betsy Parks

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County ss Winchendon July 5 1838

Then personally appeared the within named
Betsey Parks and subscribed the within affidavit and made oath that the same was true the day & year above written Before me
Jacob Wales Justice of the Peace

I further certify that I have been acquainted with the within named Betsey Parks for more the twenty years and she is a person
of truth & strict veracity
Signature of Jacob Wales Justice of the Peace

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I Stephen Weston of Winchendon in
the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged twenty seven years, depose and say that I have resided in said Winchendon for over forty years and within one fourth of mile of the widow Tabetha Eddy who now applies for a Pension under the
act of Congress passed July 4-1886 and
the explanatory act passed March 3, 1887 on
the ancient of the services of her first
Husband whose name I was always inform
ed was Stephen Baynton and always
understood by said Willow that she and
her first Husband the said Stephen Bay
teen originated from Lunenburg Massachusetts. I further depose and say
I was well acquainted with her sir and husband Levi Bixby he died in said Winchendon and the said widow some years after his death married
to a man by the name of Benjamin Eddy
of Royalston in said County and lived with said Eddy untill his death- he died in June 1832 of remember [illegible] I attended his funeral, I further depose and say that the said Tabitha was a widow on the fourth of July 1836
and still remains a widow - I further say the said Eddy after he married said Widow he moved from Royalston aforesaid in to the house with the said Tabitha in said Winchendon
Signature of Stephen Weston

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County Worcester ss Winchendon July 5, 1838
subscribed and sworn before me the day & year last above written
Signature of Jacob Wales Justice Peace

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I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the within named Stephen Weston for more than twenty five years and hs is a man of truth and strict veracity. 

Signature of Jacov Wales  Justice of the Peace