Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,016, Joseph Fifield, N.H.

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(3-1776)
Service  Number
NH
Fifield, Joseph
W16016
Anna

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New Hampshire 536
Anna Fifield, widow of
Joseph Fifield
Merrimack Co. in the State of N. Hampshire
who was a Private in the commanded
by Captain of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Starke in the N. Hampshire
line for 13 months N. H.

Inscribed on the Roll of Concord
at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of March
1837 and sent to Hon. H
Hubbard, Senate

Arrears to the 4th of March 37  | 260.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep " | 21.66
Act 4 July 1836 | $281.66
3 Section

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. ⎬

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book Vol. / Page 27


[illegible] Hon H Hibbard 23 Sept 1850

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Joseph Fifield Junior and Anne Badger was
Joyned in marriage May the 10th 1760
Sharborn Fifield Son of Joseph Fifield by Anna
his wife was born November the 12th 1760.
A true copy of Record
Kingston Feby 17, 1837.
Attest, Saml Webster Town Clerk
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss
This may certify that the above named Samuel
Webster Town Clerk of Kingston appeared and made
oath that the above certificate by him subscribed
is a true copy of the town record of Kingston
Before me
Kingston Feby 17, 1837
Jacob H. Sanborn Justice of the Peace

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I Jonathan Field of Salisbury in the County
of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire declare
& say that I am the youngest born 
& am fifty two years
of Joseph Fifield & Anna his wife (who
was Anna Badger) now his widow never
having married since my Fathers decease. that
he the said Joseph field died at said Salisbury
on the 29th day of September A.D. 1813 then
aged Seventy three years. that the widow of the
said Joseph (my mother) now does and ever
since the decease of my Father, has resided with
me & was ninety seven years of age last fall. that I
was executor to the last will & testament of my
Father - that my oldest Brother Sherburne
Fifield if living would be about seventy six
years of age that I have always understood that
he was out as a solder in the Revolutionary 
War.   Jona Fifield

State of New Hampshire
Merimack Js. Feby 16th 1837.  Now
personally appearing Jonathan Fifield above
named, who is of good character for truth.
subscribed, and made oath in due form
of Law, to the truth of the foregoing affidavit
Before me  Israel W. Kelly Jus. Peace
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I Joel Eastman of Salisbury in the County of
Merrimack & State of New Hampshire of the age of Seventy six years depose that I have lived in said Salisbury ever since I was thirteen
years old, that I was acquainted with Joseph
Fifield Esq. late of said Salisbury deceased
to the time of his death that I well recollect of his going to the White Plains as a soldier with my father Edward Eastman the term of service
I do not exactly remember. I recollect also of
said Fifield, going to Bennington & Stelwater
I also have heard it reported that he went to 
Rhode Island and I very well know that he
said Fifield was always ready to turn out
on any emergency during the Revolution
war.-
I further depose & say that I have
always been acquainted with Anne Fifield
the widow of said Joseph that she still remains
his widow having never intermarried with
any other person.-

(signed)  Joel Eastman
State of New Hampshire}
Merrimack ss}     February 16, 1837
Then personally appeared Joel Eastman subscribed to the above deposition and made solemn oath that the same is just & true, before me
(signed)  John Townsend
Jus. Peace

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(Note two large X's appear over the handwritten text)

I Abraham Fifield of Salisbury in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire in the eighty third year of my age declare and

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State of New Hamp
shire Merrimack ss ⎬
On this fifteenth day of February Anno
Domini 1837 personally appeared before me
Horace Chase Judge of the Probate of Wills &c for said County of Merrimack Anna Fifield a
resident of Salisbury in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire aged ninety seven years on the fourteenth day of November Anno Domini 1836 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 4, 1836

That she is the widow of Joseph Fifield
late of said Salisbury deceased who was a soldier in the service of the Revolutionary War. That the said Joseph Fifield, her late husband, soon after the battle of Bunker Hill, turned out as a volunteer, marked to Winter Hill and as she always understood, joined the Regiment commanded by Col. Stark, that according to her best recollection he left home in
the month of June 1775 and returned in December of the same year. That in the month of April 1776 the said Joseph Fifield enlisted into the Revolutionary service for the term of eight months, marched to Cambridge Massachusetts and, as she has frequently heard him & others say, joined the
Regiment commanded by Col. Baldwin, from
Cambridge marched to White Plains in New York where he served out the term of his enlistment and returned home. That in the year 1777 the said Joseph Fifield soon after the Battle at Bennington enlisted or went as a volunteer to to (sic) Bennington with others as a reinforcement to the Army was gone some two or three months the particular term of service or under whom he served she cannot recollect. That in the year 1778 the said Joseph Fifield turned out as a volunteer in the Revolutionary service, went to Rhode Island was absent three months or

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more, but what time in the year he went from
home or returned she is not able to state--
that she has no documentary evidence by which she can prove any part of the aforesaid service nor does she know that the said Joseph served at any time in any other capacity than as a private soldier

She further declares that she was married
to the said Joseph Fifield in the month of May
1760 at Kingston in this State by the Rev(erend) Mr. Secomb, aged the twenty one years; that her name before her said Marriage was Anna Badger, that her husband the aforesaid Joseph Fifield died in said Salisbury on the twenty ninth day of September Anno Domini 1813 aged then seventy three years, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed

Witness
Horace Chase
Israel W Kelly

(signed)  by her mark Anna Fiffield

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and
year above written
Before Horace Chase Judge of Probate

I certify that by reason of old age infirmity and ill health the aforesaid Anna Fifield could not attend Court & for those reasons the aforesaid
declaration was taken out of Court

(signed) Horace Chase Judge of Probate

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I Abraham Fifield of Salisbury in the
County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire aged eighty two years depose and say that in the year 1777 he was in the service of the Revolutionary Army, belonged to the Company commanded by Ebenezer Webster, in Col Stickney's Regiment- was in Bennington Battle, that immediately after the Battle of Bennington, the army was reinforced by new troops, that I had four Brothers who came from Salisbury as private Soldiers, one of whom was Joseph Fifield who was from twelve to fifteen years older than I.   That I, my brother Joseph & other brothers five in all, were attached to the army under Gen(eral) Stark marched to Bemis heights and
Joined the Continental army under Gen(eral) Gates, where we all served a term of two months were dismissed and returned home together.  That my Brother Joseph Fifield many years before the service aforesaid was married to Anna Badger & had a family of children
that before the close of the Revolutionary War
their oldest son Serburne Fifield enlisted
and served a term in the same. That I
before and since the services of my Brother
Joseph Fifield I lived in the same town viz
Salisbury, within one and an half miles of him,
that the said Joseph Fifield died in said
Salisbury many years since, that his
Widow Anna Fifield, who was Anna Badger
and the only wife my Brother Joseph ever had
is now living and has never been married
since the decease of my Brother Joseph

Witness (signed( Irael W. Kelly

(signed) Abraham Fifield

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State of New Hamp
shire Merrimack ss
February 15. 1837 Personally
appearing Abraham Fifield subscribed
and made oath that the foregoing affidavit
by him subscribed is true, and I hereby
certify that the reputation of the said
Abraham Fifield for truth and veracity
is good
Before me Horace Chase Judge of Probate

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December 11, 1939

BA-J/AWF
Joseph Fifield
W. 16016

Mr. R. A. Fifield                   
Attorney at Law                  
Remington, Virginia           

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which
you request the Revolutionary War record of
Joseph Fifield, who was born March 22, 1740, in Kingston, New Hampshire, died September 22, 1813 in Salisbury, New Hampshire.

The data which follow were obtained from
papers on file in claim for pension, W. 16016,
based upon service of Joseph Fifield, in the
Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth of Joseph
Fifield, and names of his parents are not given.

While residing in Salisbury, Merrimack
County, New Hampshire, Joseph Fifield volunteered sometime in June, 1775, soon after the battle of Bunker Hill, served as private under General Stark, stationed at Winter Hill, returned home the December following. He enlisted sometime in April, 1776, served eight months in Captain Emery's company, Colonel Baldwin's New Hampshire regiment. He served in 1777, "after the battle of Bennington", two or three months in Captain Ebenezer Webster's New Hampshire company, at Bemis Heights. He served in 1778, three months in Captain
Ebenezer Webster's company, Colonel Langdon's New Hampshire regiment, and was in General Sullivan's Expedition to Rhode Island.
He died in Salisbury, New Hampshire September

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29, 1813, then aged seventy-three years.
Joseph Fifield married May 10, 1760, in Kingston, New Hampshire, Anna Badger. She was born November 14, 1739, place not shown, nor are the  the names of her parents given; her father served in the Revolution. At the time of marriage, the said Joseph Fifield was referred to as Joseph Fifield, Junior.

    The widow, Anna Fifield, was allowed pension on her  application executed February 15, 1837, at which time she was living with her youngest son, Jonathan Fifield, in Salisbury, New Hampshire; who was then fifty-two years old.

Sharborn or Serburne Fifield, the eldest son of Joseph and Anna Fifield; served in the War of the Revolution, and in 1837 was referred to as deceased.

Reference was made to other children, but no names were designated.

Abraham Fifield, brother of the soldier
Joseph Fifield, was eighty-two years old in 1837, then living in Salisbury, New Hampshire, stated that there were three other brothers in the Revolution, all from Salisbury, New Hampshire, but he did not give the names of other brothers.

The papers on file in this claim contain
no further discernible family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment
of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the widow, Anna Fifield, it is suggested that you apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office,

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                      3-
Records Division Washington, D. C.  and furnish the following data :

Anna Fifield, widow of Joseph  Fifield 
Certificate  #536
Issued March 1, 1837
Rate $43.33 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of July 4, 1836
New Hampshire Agency.


               Very truly yours



                          A. D. HILLER
                          Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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(left side of page)
Dec. 12, 1903- (illegible)
Mrs. C. M. Fay
Clinton Mass
1939. Dec. 11. both to R. A Fifield


(right side of page)
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No.16016

Anna Fifield
Wid(ow) of
Joseph Fifield
Pri(vate) Rev(olutionary) War
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Act July 4th  /36
Index: Vol. A, Page 238
[Arrangement of 1870.}

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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack County
The subscriber, Register of the
Court of Probate for said County of Merrimack
hereby certifies and declares that Horace Chase Esquire, is Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Merrimack, that full faith and confidence may and ought to be given to his acts as such, and that his signature to the application of Anna Fifield and other papers hereunto annexed is his gamine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
seven-
(signed) H.B. Chase}
Register of the Court
of Probate for the
County of Merrimack

(seal affixed)

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State of New Hampshire
Secretary's  Office February 16. 1837

The within named Isaac Dow, John Townsend, Israel W. Kelley and Thomas H. Pettingill are Justices of the Peace in and and(sic) for the County of Merrimack
(inserted) and Jacob H. Sanborn of the County of Rockingham
duly qualified and their signature genuine, 

Horace Chase within named is also Judge of the Court of Probate and Henry B Chase is Register of said Court which is a Court of Record, in said County and they are duly qualified and their signatures genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set the Seal of the State 

(signed) Ralph Metcalf Secretary 
Jacob H Sanborn inserted by  R. Metcalf Secretary

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(Note This page has two tables, each divided in to three sections, followed by a body statement under the tables as part of the record)

226

(table on left side) 
(heading)
Corporal Joseph Fifield alias John Boynton War Haverhill 
(left side table body)
1780 
June 23  
1786 Mar 14 

(center table body left side) 
(aligned with 1780 To an order on the Treasurer for 120 pounds  Paid by the Continent in 1777 13.4.0 ditto in 1778 4.8/.pounds ditto in 1779 2.6/5 

(aligned with June 23) to a certificate for the Balance  (dild?) Maj(or) Whitcomb

(aligned with 1786 March 14)  Gave a certificate to Dudby Odlin

(right side of left table) 
(table heading ) 
Dr
(center table body)
3 " "
18.. 18.. 5
57. 5. 7
(sum) 79. 4. --pounds

(aligned with certificate to Dudby Odlin) 24.-- 

(Right side table)
(heading for left and center sections) 
Contra 
(heading for right section)
Cr (uknown abbreviation) 

(table body in three sections)
(left section) 
Engaged Nov. 
8 1776
(crossed out) January 1 1780
Jan(uar)y 1. 1780

(body center)
(aligned with Engaged Nov) 
By 3 years Service in 1777/8/9
(aligned with January 1 1780) 
John Boynton as a Private took his place 
(no statement alignment) 
By 12 Months in 1780

(body right side of table) 
(aligned with By 3 years service)
79.4.0

(nothing is aligned with John Boynton as a Private took his place)

(aligned with by 12 Months in 1780) 
24. -
(tables end) 

(Statement under tables starts) 
State of New Hampshire 
Office of Secretary of State 

I, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify,  That the foregoing is a true copy of the original account
from Reids Regimental Ledger Page 226

And I further certify, That it appears, upon an examination of the Depreciation account 2nd Regt(imen)t  Commanded by Col. Geo(rge). Reid for years 1777, 1778, 1779, that Joseph Fyfield was a Corporal in Major B. Whitcombe
Company and that he was allowed for his Depreciation, for said years, the sum of $200.84/90ths 

Given under my hand and the Seal of the
State, this 29th day of October A.D. 1849
(signed) Thomas P. Treadwell
Secretary of State

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1283
Anna Fifield

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I Samuel Davis of Command in the County
of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire depose and say that in the 1770s I went as a volunteer in army of the Revolution to Rhode
Island and served in the Company commanded by Ebenezer Webster and Regiment of Col Langston.  That I served in said company and Regiment until General Sullivan retreated from the Island & the troops
discharged-  I further say that I was well
acquainted with Joseph Fifield late of Lob(?)
being in said County deceased, that said
Fifield served as a private soldier in the same
Company & Reg(imen)t with me - that said Fifield served the level of time with me which
I think was three months-

(signed) Samuel Davis 

Merrimack ss  Concord May 14th 1837
Personally came before me Samuel Davis
subscribed & made oath to the truth of the
foregoing affidavit-
(signed ) Isaac Dow Jus(tice) (of the)  Peace
I am well acquainted with the above named Samuel Davis, & certify that his character is good that his statements are entitled as much weight as (illegible )

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Anna Fifield
N. Hampshire
Agency of Concord
$43.33 per ann(um)
3d Sec. Act 4 July
1836
-
Hon. H. Hubbard
Senate U.S.

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John Elliott
Affidavit

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to
I John Ellis of Concord in the County of
Merrimack & State of New Hampshire being
in the eighty first year of my age depose and 
say that in the month of April A.D. 1776-
I resided in Canterbury N. Hampshire, & then
enlisted into the army of the Revolution in
Capt(ain) Shermans Company & Col(onel) Baldwins Regt for the term of eight months went to Cambridge Massachusetts & joined the Reg(iment)  Marched to White Plains New York & served out my term of enlistment to wit -eight months
I further say that was well acquainted with
Joseph Fifield then of Salisbury Newhampshire
now many years since deceased -- that the
said Fifield was a private soldier in the same
Reg(imen)t with me the same term of time & was discharged with me at the end of eight months and came home to New Hampshire together-- the said Fifield served a part the term of his eight months in Capt(ain) Linerys Company in Col(onel) Baldwins Reg(imen)t  & a part in Capt(ain)  Websters company--
The said Joseph Fifield was then a married man and had considerable of a family of children - his wife's name was Badger before he married her & her father was also a soldier at the same time with Fifield and myself-- that she now remains the widow of the said Joseph Fifield & resides at said Salisbury aforesaid and 
is well on to one hundred years of age --
I further say that I was in the battle of Bunker
Hill in the year A.D. 1775. that soon after the
battle was over the said Joseph Field came to
winter Hill as a Volunteer & Joined Col(onel) Stark's Reg(imen)t I do not recollect what company or companies

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he was attached to, but well remember that he served in more than one company & that he remained with the army & did the duty of
a private from the latter part of June till Dec. 1775 when he was discharged & returned 
home. 

(signed) John Eliott
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss Concord February 10th 1837

Then personally came before me the subscriber and Justice of the Peace within & for said County John Elliot above named, who is a man of good character for truth & remarkable for retentiveness of memory
& subscribed & made oath in due form of Law to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed

(signed ) Isaac Dow Justice (of the) Peace

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I John Carter of Concord in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire depose & say that in the year of 1778 I went as a volunteer to Rhode Island and served in the Company commanded by Ebenezer Webster and Regiment of Col. Langdon that I served in said Company and Regiment until Gen Sullivan retreated from the Island and the troops were discharged.

I further testify that I was well acquainted with
Joseph Fifield late of Salisbury in said County deceased, that said Joseph
Fifield served as the private soldier in the same
Company and Regiment with me, that said Fifield served the same term of time with me which I think was three months.  Said Joseph Fifield at the time of the aforesaid service was said to be a married and in that his family resided in said Salisbury

(signed) John Carter

State of New Hampshire},
Merrimack} February 14, 1837
personally appearing John Carter, subscribed and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is just and true
Before me
(signed) Horace Chase Judge of Probate
I certify that the above named John Carter is a very intelligent man of good moral character, and unimpeachable veracity
(signed ) Horace Chase Judge of Probate

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I Amos Pettengill of Salisbury County of
Merrimack & State of New Hampshire in
the Seventy seventh year of my age having been a Deacon of the first Congregational
Church in said Salisbury more than forty
years, depose & say that I moved with my
Father into said Salisbury sixty years ago this
present month of February, that Joseph Fifield Esquire who has been dead I should think more than twenty years, was then settled in said Salisbury with his family and had lived there for a number of years before-- that he & his wife Anna, who was Anna Badger before married, had a considerable number of  children at the time I moved to Salisbury   which were older than myself one of which their oldest Son Sherburne Fifield served as a private in the Army before the close of the
Revolutionary war

I further say that the common report 
has always been that the said Joseph
Fifield was a solder in Army of the Revolution that he was at Winter hill in
1775-at White plains in 1776- at Bennington in 1777, & at Rhode Island in 1778 - I further say  that the said Anna Fifield is now living in Salisbury & is over Ninety seven years of age and has never married since the decease of her husband the said Joseph Fifield. 
(signed) Amos Pettingell

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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss. February 16th 1837

Personally appearing the within
named Amos Pettengill, who is a
man of undoubted good character
subscribed and made oath in due
form of Law the within affidavit 

Before me
(signed) Israel W. Kelly Jus(tice of the) Peace
.

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I William Cate of Salisbury County of Merrimack and State of Newhampshire of the age of sixty three years depose that I am an Inhabitant of said Salisbury and have been for about forty seven years that I am well acquainted with the widow Anna Fifield
of said Salisbury- that she is now the widow of
Joseph Fifield Esq. who died the twenty ninth
day of September eighteen hundred and thirteen he then being an inhabitant of said Salisbury - that said Anna Fifield is his widow and since the decease of the said Joseph Fifield she has ever remained his widow and has never intermarried with any man-- that the said Joseph at the time of his decease was about seventy three years of age

(signed) William Cate

Merrimack ss}
Feb 15. 1837{

State of Newhampshire
appeared William Cate subscribed
to the above deposition and made
solemn oath that the same is first & true
Before me 
(signed) Tho(ma)s H. Pettengill Jus(tice of the) Peace

I Levi Morrill of Salisbury County of Merrimack
and State of Newhampshire of the age of seventy two years depose that I am an inhabitant of said Salisbury and have been for about forty two years, that I am well acquainted with Anna Fifield of said Salisbury -the widow of Joseph Fifield Esq.  who died in said Salisbury the twenty ninth day of September A.D. 1813 he then being an inhabitant of said Salisberry leaving the said Anna his widow who has remained his widow from the time of his decease to the present time and has never intermarried with any man-- that said Joseph at the time of his decease was about seventy three years of age

(signed) Levi Morrill
State of Newhampshire
Merrimack ss
Aug 15. 1803 Appeared Lee Morrill subscriber
to the above deposition and made
solemn oath that the same is just & true
Before me (signed) Tho(ma)s H. Pettengill Jus(tice of the) Peace

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16016
3 -- 068.
(Old No. 3 -- 649. )
Bureau of Pensions.
Joseph Fifield
Feb(rua)ry 15, 1837
Salisbury N.H.97
Mrs. Anna Badger
May 10 1760, Kingston N.H.
D(ied )Sept. 29, 1813, Salisbury N.H.

June 75 Salisbury N..H.
Col Stark
pr(ivate) 6 m(onths)

Apr. 76 Capt(ain) Emery
Col Baldwin
Pri(vate) 8 m(onths) 


77 Cpt.
Col.  
pvt.  2 or 3 m(onths)

78 Cpt. Webster
Col Langdon 
pvt. 3 m(onths) 

NV 13at

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To the

Commissioner of Pensions

Will you kindly send
the military service of Parker
Cole from Swangry R.I removing 
from there to Grafton N.H. also
John Tone, (we think his name was
John) of New Hampshire, in the
town of Plainfield, Village of Meriden
where he died, also, Joseph or
Johnathan Fifield rom Salsbury 
N. H. where he drew pension. I
wish to secure proper credentials

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for admission into the chapter
of. D.R.

Sincerely
(signed) Mrs. C. M. Fay
Dec. 3, 1903
#138 Walnut St
Clinton Mass
(stamped) US PENSION OFFICE Dec. 5 1903

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R. A. FIFIELD
ATTORNEY AT LAW
REMINGTON, VA.


                November 22, 1939


Veterans Bureau,
Washington,  D. C.
Gentlemen :


I would like the Revolutionary War Record of 
my ancestor, Joesph Fifield, who was born at 
Kingston, N. H. on March 22, 1740 and died 29th of September, 1813 in Salisbury, N. H. have moved to Salisbury about 1769 and according to my information served with the Salisbury units in Expedition to Rhode Island in August, 1778,
at Battle of Bennington August 16, 1777 and also fought in battle of White Plains in 1776.

I desire to verify this information from records you may have in your office. If your office does not have such war records, will you please refer this letter to proper Department and greatly oblige,

Thanking you in advance,

              Very truly yours,



R. A. Fifield