Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14234, John Bacon, Mass.

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3-1776
SERVICE
Massachusetts

Bacon, John
Elizabeth

NUMBER
W.14234

CONTENTS

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Massachusetts - 2,810
Elizabeth Bacon, widow of John Bacon, Massachusetts
who was a pensioner under the Acts of _ and who died on the 12th September 1828 of Worcester in the State oa Massachusetts who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain ~ of the Regiment commanded by ~ in the Massachusetts line for 9 months.
[illegible] $20.00.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 30 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of July 1839, and [illegible] to Pensioner, Barre, Massachusetts.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar - $90.00
Semi-annual allowance ending  - $15.00
[totalling] $105.00
Specially Requested
[Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by R. Burdine, Clerk
[illegible] A, Vol. 1, Page 72.

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Elizabeth Bacon
Massachusetts
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[Seal]
Court of Probate
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester, ss.

I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Ira Barton is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature to the papers hereto annexed are genuine.
I further certify, that Syman Sibley is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that his signatures to the papers hereto annexed are genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said Court this eighth day of November, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty eight.
Charles G. Prentiss, Register

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Worcester, ss.
On this twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester, Elizabeth Bacon, a resident of Barre in said County aged seventy-five 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 pension made by the Act of Congress [illegible] July 7, 1838 entitled An Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows.
That she is the widow of John Bacon late of said Bacon deceased who was a private soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and [illegible] as [illegible] as she can state as follows. They both [illegible] to said town of Barre at the time [illegible] the service, but as of her own knowledge she is only able to state that he sent out in the beginning of the war at the time of the battle of Lexington and was gone six weeks. He was also at the taking of Burgoyne and in two other services as she believes, making four towns in the whole [illegible] she has [illegible] since believes the he was out a year or more in the whole. But she must rely upon the rolls in the War department and the [illegible] annexed to make out her case.

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She further declares that she was married to the said John Bacon at said Barre on the eighteenth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty five. That her husband the aforesaid John Bacon died at said Barre on the twelfth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight and that she has remained his widow ever since. That she has not married to him previous to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January in th year seventeen hundred and ninety five, to [illegible] at the time above stated.
Elizabeth Bacon
x her mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year [illegible] above [illegible] before me.
Ira Barton, judge of the Court of Probate for said County.

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"John Bacon died September 12th 1828 aged 67 years"
I Lyman Sibley of Barre, County Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in said Barre and that the above is a true copy of the Record of said Barre.
Lyman Sibley, Town Clerk
Worcester ss
October 19th 1838 Then personally appeared the above named Lyman Sibley and made oath to the truth of the fact above subscribed by him.
Before me
IM Barton, Judge of Probate for said County

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I Daniel Bacon of Barre in the County of Worcester and state of Massachusetts do depose and say that I am the son of John Bacon late of said Bacon deceased, and Elizabeth Bacon his widow. My said father died on the twelfth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and twenty six and my said mother has never been married since his death, and now lives with me in said Barre.
Daniel Bacon
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Worcester ss
Sworn to by said deponent who is known to me as a man of truth.
Before me
Ira Barton, Judge of Probate for said County

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In the record of Marriages by my immediate predecessor in office, Rev. Josiah Dana is the following, viz John Bacon and Elizabeth Adams both of Barre eighteenth of November seventeen hundred eighty four.
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 "18th November 1784."
I James Thompson above named depose and say that I hold the office of Minister of the Gospel in the town of Barre, County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract of the records aforesaid, with the exception above named as certified by me.
James Thompson, Minister of Gospel in Barre

Worcester ss
October 19th 1838 Then personally appeared the above named James Thompson and made oath tot he truth of the facts above subscribed by him.
Before me
Lyman Sibley, Justice of the Peace

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I Samuel Lee of Barre in the County of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being nearly 72 years of age, and a Revolutionary Pensioner, testify and say that I was well acquainted with John Bacon of said Barre, that he enlisted as a private soldier for a term of six months, int he Revolutionary War, in the year 1780 and joined the Continental Army stationed on the banks of Hudson River at Tappan & its vicinity & at the expiration of said term, he was honorably discharged.
The Regiment he served in & the names of the officers he served under are unknown for the following reasons - the first Class of three years men to go into that war was raised at the commencement of the year 1777 and of course their term of service expired at the close of 1779, and those six months men were raised at the commencement of the next campaign expressly for the purpose of filling the vacancies occasioned by the discharge of the class of three year more. Those six months men were distributed throughout the Massachusetts Continental Line & were placed under the command of Continental officers & mixed with the old Continental during the War soldiers. My recollections respecting the above statements are pretty strong, being then a soldier in the militia stationed at West Point in the time Arnolds Treason.
I furthermore state that Elizabeth Bacon is now living & is the widow of the said Bacon and that said Elizabeth sustains a reputable character.
Samuel Lee

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County ss
On this 6th day of November 1838 personally appeared the above named Samuel Lee and made oath to the truth the affidavit above subscribed by him.
Before me
Lyman Sibley, Justice of the Peace
I certify that I have, for many years known the above named Samuel Lee and that he is a man of truth.
Lyman Sibley, Justice of the Peace

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O. W. & N. Div.
L. W. B.
W. 14234.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
June 4th, 1896.

Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of John Bacon, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that Elizabeth Bacon, widow of John Bacon, made an application for pension on October 26th, 1838, at which time she was residing at Barre, Massachusetts, and 75 years of age, and her pension was allowed for the actual service of her husband as a private in the Massachusetts troops, Revolutionary war, for a period of six months. Officers under whom he served not stated. He enlisted at Barre, Massachusetts.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon Hay.,
Palmer House, Herkimer, N.Y.

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Massachusetts

Revolutionary WIDOW, etc.

File No. 14234
Elizabeth Bacon
widow of John Bacon
Private, Revolutionary War

Act: July 7th, 1838
Index: Vol. A, Page 34
{Arrangement of 1870.}

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June 4, 1896 
provided to Mrs. E. B. May
Herkimer, N.Y.
TMB

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[illegible] Pensioner June 14, '39

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2810 Ref'd

Massachusetts
Elizabeth Bacon, widow of John Bacon, deceased, who was a pensioner under the Act of ~ and who died on the 12th: September 1828 of Worcester County in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the ~ commanded by Captain ~ of the ~ commanded by ~ in the Massachusetts line for 6 Months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of May 1839 and sent to C. G. Prentiss, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Arrears to the 4th of March: 1839: $60.00.
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 September: $10.00.
Total: $70.00.
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by William Stewart, Clerk
Book A, Volume 1, Page 72.

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I Abigail Holden of New Salem in the county of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, depose and say, that I am seventy five years old, and am the widow of Nathan Holden, late of said New Salem, deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and that I perfectly well recollect, that in the year 1780, the said Nathan Holden, John Bacon, & Amos Whiting, who then resided in Barre in the county of Worcester, where I then also lived, in the fore part of the summer of said year, enlisted into the army for eight months, in Captain Copper's company of Continental troops, Colonel Bradford's Regiment & General Patterson's Brigade and that they remained absent, and I believe in the service, about the whole of the period for which they enlisted. I remember that they returned home in the fore part of the winter following. I have frequently heard my late husband say that they were, during their service, at "Morristown" and "West Point" and were present at the execution of Major Andre.  And that said Holden, Bacon & Whiting are in the same mess. and further saith not.
Abigail Holden

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Franklin County, ss. On this 30th day of January A.D. 1839, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in said county of Franklin, personally appeared, the above named Abigail Holden, with whom I am well acquainted, and who sustains a good character for truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, by her subscribed. Before me,
William Whitaker, Justice of the Peace

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Elizabeth Bacon
February 19, 1839
Additional [illegible]
Elizabethe Bacon
Massachusetts
[illegible]

Elizabeth Bacon
Massachusetts [illegible]
Administered

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin, ss.
I Elijah Alvord, Clerk of the Court of Common Peas for the county of Franklin do hereby certify that William Whitaker Esquire is a Justice of the Peace for the said county duly commissioned and qualified; and that the within signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court this eight day of February A.D. 1839,
E. Alvord, Clerk

50 cents

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I Jason Hawes of Barre in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, depose and say, that I am now eighty years of age. And that I was well acquainted with Mr. John Bacon, late of said Barre, deceased, from his boyhood to the time of his death, and that said Bacon and myself enlisted in the company of Captain Ezekiel Knowlton and Colonel Nickolas Dyke's Regiment on or about the first of December A. D. 1776. And that said Bacon and myself were stationed at Dorchester Point in said [illegible] from said time of our enlistment to about the first of March following, having served at said Dorchester, nine months, the full term for which the said Bacon & myself enlisted.
Jason Hawes

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester, ss:
February 2nd 1839, Then personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Worcester, the above named Jason Hawes, who has the reputation of being a man of truth and veracity; and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true.
Before me, Nathan F. Bryant, J.P.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Worcester, ss.

I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify that Nahum F. Bryant is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the within signature of his name is his own genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I do hereby unto set my hand and the seal of said Court this fourteenth day of February, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-nine.
Charles G. Prentiss, Register

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I Peter Fessenden of Barre in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, depose and say that I am now seventy six years of age, and that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. I perfectly well recollect that in the year, I should think, 1786, John Bacon of said Barre, where I also then lived, enlisted for eight months service in the war. I also enlisted at the same time, but at the required number was made up without me, I was left at home. I well recollect that the said Bacon marched from Barre to Claverick on Hudson River ^ for rendezvous to go from thence to West Point. After this I enlisted for three months and served at West Point, where I saw the said Bacon. I should think about three months after his enlistment, then in the service. I served my three months at West point, during which time I believe the said Bacon was ordered to some other place. I returned home before the said Bacon. I recollect the said Bacon's coming home, I should think at the end of about eight months and I have no doubt that he served that time.
Peter Fessenden

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester, ss.
On this first day of February 1839 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County of Worcester, personally

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appeared the above named Peter Fessenden, who has the reputation of a man of truth, and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Nahum F. Bryant, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify that Nahum F. Bryant is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the above signature of his name is his own genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this fourteenth day of February one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-nine.
Charles G. Prentiss, Register

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Issue new certificate for 9 months private
30$
deduct what has been paid ~

Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon
Barre, Massachusetts

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Payment to be made at Boston by F. Haven, Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of Massachusetts Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A, Volume 1, Page 72 by William Stewart, Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years' Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Elizabeth Bacon, widow of John Bacon, Deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary War and died on the 12th day of September, 1828, is entitled to receive five years's pension at the rate of Twenty dollars and ~ cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 14th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
J. R. Poinsett,
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned,}
J. L. Edwards, 
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Worcester, Massachusetts. November 16, 1838.

Sir,
I send the application of Elizabeth Bacon.
Please to send her Certificate to me.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
Charles G. Prentiss

Honorable J. S. Edwards.

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U.S. PENSION OFFICE
H.
June 1, 1896

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Palmer House
Herkimer, N. Y.

Pension Office
Washington D.C.

Will you please tell me if there is a pension recorded in Book A, Volume 1, Page 72 for Elizabeth Bacon of Massachusetts, widow of John Bacon.
I have a copy of the original pension papers

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and making [illegible] from a Daughter of the American Revolution, was anxious to know if I was correct.
Very truly
Elizabeth Bacon May
May 29, 1896