Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 23498, Timothy Bacon, Mass.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Massachusetts

Bacon, Timothy
Sibbel

NUMBER
W 23498

CONTENTS

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New York (Albany) 1628

Sibbel Bacon, widow of Timothy Bacon, deceased, Massachusetts, who died on the 4th of May, 1823; of Lewis County in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Chamberlin of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wheelock in the Massachusetts line for militia for 6 months private.

Inscribed on the Rolls of New York (Albany) at the rate of 20 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of December 1837 and sent to Z. Knox, Lowville, New York.

Arrears to the 4th of September 1837 = $130.00.
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March /38 = $10.00
$140.00.

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3}
Recorded by S. A. Elliot, Clerk,
Book A, Vol. 2, Page 104.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk County
Town of Needham
Clerk Office, August 28, 1837

I the subscriber do on oath declare that I am Town Clerk of Needham in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that I have the custody of the Records of said town and that it appears by said records that Timothy was married to Sybill Parker both of Needham April 4th 1776 were joined in marriage by the Reverend Samuel West of Needham aforesaid.
Asa Kingsbury, Town Clerk

Norfolk ss. Needham, August 28, 1837
Then personally appeared the subscriber to the above certificate and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me.
William Flagg, Justice of the Peace

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I Mary Frost of Natick in the Couty of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on my oath do certify and say that I am seventy eight years of age; that Timothy Bacon was married to Sybill Parker in the Spring of the year 1776. I recollect well of being at their wedding and saw them married. That soon after they were married, I believe within a month or six weeks the said Timothy enlisted and went into the army for six months and I believe stayed his time out as I recollect very well he came home late in the fall. I helped fix him off in the spring after he enlisted.
Mary Frost
Natick, August 28th 1837

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss.
August 28th 1837
Then personally appeared before me the subscriber the above named Mary Frost and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by her subscribed and I further certify that I have been many years personally acquainted with the above named Mary Frost and can truly say she is a woman of truth and veracity and entitled to full credit.
William Farriss, Justice of Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, August 29, 1837.
I hereby certify that William Farriss, whose name is above written, is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex. Witness my hand and the Seal of the State.
John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the County Courts

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2785
The matter of the application of Sibbel Bacon for a pension

Vol. 17, s234. 6 months.
No other roll of Captain Freedom Chamberlaine

Adm'd
6 months
20 Dollars
no deduction

Z. Knox, Lowville, NY
October 9th, 1837

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State of New York
County of Lewis}

On this 29th day of September in the year 1837 personally appeared before the Honorable Amasa Dodge Junior a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, Sibbel Bacon aged seventy nine years on the 11th day of April last, a resident of Denmark in the County of Lewis and state of New York, 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.
That she is a widow of Timothy Bacon who was a private in the Revolutionary Army and served a term of six months in the year 1776 under Captain Chamberlain, Ensign Thomas Sawin, and in Colonel Wheslocks Regiment of Massachusetts militia as she believes; that he entered the service she thinks in the month of June or July and returned in the month of December or January thereafter and that he marched toward Canada as she there understood.
That in the year 1777 her said husband served another tour of three months under the same officers as she believes, and marched to the Hudson River in the state of New York and was at the taking of Burgoyne's Army as she understood an verily believes. That he left home this term in July or August and near as she can recollect and returned in October or November having served a period of three months. That she was married to the said Timothy Bacon on. the 4th day of April 1776 by the Reverend Samuel West of the

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town of Needham, state of Massachusetts and that her maiden name was Sibbill Parker.
That her husband the aforesaid Timothy Bacon died on the 4th day of May 1823 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by references to the proof hereunto annexed.
That her said husband resided at the time of entering into the service in the town of Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
Sibbel Bacon
Sworn and subscribed before me this 29th day of September 1837
Amasa Dodge, Junior
a Judge of Lewis County

I hereby certify that the above named declarant is in my opinion unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear before a Court of Record to make a declaration.
Amasa Dodge, Junior

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State of New York
Lewis County, ss}

Isaac Bacon of Denmark in the County of Lewis being duly sworn doth depose and say that Sibbell Bacon a resident of said town is his mother, that his father Timothy Bacon died on the 4th day of April 1823, and that his said mother has remained a widow ever since that period, and this deponent further states that no family record exists as to he marriage nor his he any other evidence of her marriage or of his father's Revolutionary service except that contained in the affidavits hereunto annexed.
Isaac Bacon
Sworn and subscribed before me this 29th September 1837
Amasa Dodge, Junior
a Judge of Lewis County

I certify that the above named Isaac Bacon is to me known as a credible person and his statement entitled to credit.
Amasa Dodge, Junior

State of New York
Clerks Office Lewis County, ss}
I Carlos F. Scovil Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Amasa Dodge Junior Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit purported to have been made was on the day of the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County commissioned and duly sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge and verily believe that the signature subscribed to said declaration and affidavit is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of said County this 2 day of October, 1837.
Carlos F. Scovil, Clerk

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Revolutionary WIDOW, etc.
File No. 23498
Sibbel Bacon
widow of Timothy Bacon, 
Private, Revolutionary War
Act: July 4th 1836
Index: Vol. A, Page 39
9Arrangement of 1870.)

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Natick, July 17th 1776.
We the subscribers have each of us received of Hezekiah Broad Thirteen Pound Dix Shillings and eight pence in full for a turn in an expedition to Canada having no demands on the town of Natick, we say received by us.
William Warren
Isaac Jennings
William Moffatt
John Gay
Richard Stanford
Benjamin Bucher - X his mark
John Sawin
Joel Sawin
James Dage - X his mark
Natick, August 31st 1837
I certify the the foregoing receipts is contained in a book of accounts kept by the Selectman in the town of Natick and is part of an account entitled as follows, viz - 
January 29, 1776 - An account of money paid in support of the present war with Great Britain and by whom paid to men who inlisted into the army and of those who do a turn or any part of a turn in the year 1776.
John Bacon 3rd - on of the Selectmen of the town of Natick.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex, ss: August 31, 1837
Then personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Jusstices of the Peace for said County, the above named John Bacon 3rd and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing extract by him subscribed.
And I further certify that the said John Bacon 3rd is a member of the Board of Selectmen for the Town of Natick and entitled to full credit for truth and veracity.
William Farriss, Justice of the Peace

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I Solomon P. Parker of Princeton in the County of Worcester ad Commonwealth of Massachusetts eighty one years of age having been [illegible] and sworn do depose and say that Thomas Sawin had listing orders to enlist soldiers in the Militia service in the year 1776 in the month of June or July that Timothy Bacon inlisted and saw him and Ezekiel Sawin and John Sawin march off at the same time; was absent one year or more and retuned home to Needham to my certain knowledge.
Solomon P. Parker
X - his mark
Attest Charles Mirick

Worcester ss: August 31, 1839.
The the above named Solomon P. Parker to me personally known appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed in my presents.
Before me, Charles Mirick, Justice of the Peace.
I also certify that the above deponent is in my opinion is entitled to full credit as a witness.
Charles Mirick, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester, ss:
I Joseph G. Kendall, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Worcester, being a Court of Record, certify that Charles Mirick above names is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified and that the foregoing signature os his name appears to be in his own hand writing.
In witness whereof I have hereto set my name and caused the seal of say dCourt to be affixed at Worcester this thirty first day of August A..D. 1837.
Joseph G. Kendall, Clerk