Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,063, Charles Turner, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Turner, Charles Hannah
NUMBER
W. 14.063.
CONTENTS

I Lemuel Jacobs of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of of Massachusetts, aged eighty two years on oath testify and say that I have always been acquainted with Hannah Turner, the Widow of Charles Turner late of Scituate aforesaid deceased, she being my sister, that she is the same person that was married to the said Charles Turner on the twenty first day of September in the year seventeen hundred and eighty nine, then Charles Turner Junior, and her maiden name was Hannah Jacobs, and further saith not.
Lemuel Jacobs
State of Massachusetts } Plymouth County } ss Octo 9. 1843. Then the said Lemuel Jacobs made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true Before me Ebenezer T. Dugg. Just Peace.
And I further certify that said Lemuel Jacobs is a creditable person - Ebenezer T. Dugg - Just Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Clerk's Office Oct 10 1843
County of Plymouth
I J. M. Morris Clerk of the Judicial Court for the said County of Plymouth, do hereby certify that Ebenezer T. Dorr Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was sworn is a justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth duly commissioned & qualified under the authority of said Commonwealth And that his signature to the jurat of said deposition is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on the day & year aforesaid
J. M. Morris Clerk

9359 Hannah Turner Mass s Act July 7 th 38
Hannah Turner Declaration for Union

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.
On this sixth day of June 1843 personally appeared before the court of probate for the county of Plym- -outh Hannah Turner a resident of Milford, county of Plymouth aged eighty 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 provi- -sions made by the act of Congress, passed July 7 th 1838. entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Charles Turner who was a private in the war of the revolution and according to her recollection served in Capt. Joseph Nelson Company at Boston, reference to be had to the declaration of said Turner now on file at the department. She further declares that she was married to the said Charles Turner on the twenty first day of September 1789, and that her husband the aforesaid Charles Turner died on the sixteenth day of May 1839, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794, viz at the time above stated.
Hannah Turner
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 16 th 1843.
Willis Wood J. P. D te Plymouth J. Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate do hereby certify that Hon. Willis Wood is Judge of Probate for said County & that the above is his true & genuine signature. Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this fourteenth day of July 1843 J. H. Lord Reg. Probate Plym o County

10.793 Massachusetts
Charles Turner
of Suffolk in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Nelson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Dyer in the Mass line for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of April 1833 and Nat I. H. G. South Plymouth Mass
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $46.66 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. 11.67
$58.33
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. H. Addison Clerk, Book E Vol. 2 Page 83
74 Suffolk

Massachusetts Hannah Mearns widow of Abraham Mearns who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Increased from $20 Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of February and sent to
G. S. Billings Esq Boston, Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 9, 1848, Page 166 Vol. 2

Charles Sumner? 4681.
Declaration

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Plymouth ss.
On this twenty second day of August, in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two, Personally appeared in open court, Before Hon ble Wilkes Wood Esq m Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth, now sitting, Charles Turner, now resident in the Town of Chelsea, in the County of Suffolk, & Common-weath of Mass ts , aged Seventy two 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 bankruptcy passed June 7 th 1832.
That he was born at Duxbury, in said County of Plymouth, on the Twentieth day of June A.D. 1760. — That he lived in Duxbury fourteen years, & then removed to Scituate in said County of Plymouth, where he lived, except when absent on business, until August in the year 1824, when he removed to Chelsea, in the County of Suffolk, where he now resides. Certificate marked
That in April 1776 the Government of Massachusetts Bay passed a Resolve for raising a Regiment, by enlistment, to fortify and guard the Town of Boston, which Resolve provided for the pay and rations of said Regiment, & to continue in service until the first of December following.
That in August of that year, he enlisted as a Soldier in a company, (under the above Resolve) commanded by Capt n Joseph Stetson of said Scituate, of which Company Benjamin Steadley of Harnes in said County of Plymouth, was first Lieut t , Increase Robinson of Pembroke in the same County, was Second Lieut t , * and Bartlett Holmes, of Plymouth, was Ensign. —
That on the Twenty ninth day of August, he with said Company marched and arrived at head Quarters in the vicinity of Boston, and joined the Regiment commanded by Col o Nicholas Dyke, of which Regiment, Henry Haskell was Lieut t . Col o Noah Goodman, was Major, John Brown was Adjutant, Joseph Holden was Quarter Master, and Jeremiah Everett was Surgeon. — see Certificate No 1 —
Return of Officers & Non-commissioned Officers in Capt n Stetson's Company, Col o Dyke's Regiment, made Sept r 21 st 1776 — see Certificate No 2 —
That on the 27 th of November 1776 the Gen l Court of Massachusetts passed a Resolve for continuing in service Col o Dyke's & Col o Francis' Regiments, and nearly all enlisted for another three Months. — see Certificate marked B —
* The 2 d Lieut t Robinson, did not agree to serve the 2 d three months, & Bartlett Holmes was commissioned as 2 d Lieut t .
Ch

A particular Muster Roll of Col. o Dyer's Regiment, in which the applicant is included, was made and returned to the Government of Massachusetts for the months of December 1776, & January and February 1777, by Pelag Wadsworth, Aide-de-Camp, to General Ward, see Certificate No. 3.
Return and List of Officers in Col. o Dyer's Regt. Capt. n Stetson's Company, to be commissioned as of Dec r 1 st 1776 see Certificate No. 4.
That Col. o Dyer's Regiment, including Capt. n Stetson's Company was discharged on the first of March, 1777. but not, to his knowledge, with written or printed discharge.
That the Subscriber, at the particular request of General Ward, continued in the Service during the Month of March, and also for that month attached to Capt. n Stetson's Company Wilder's Company, & by Capt. n  Stetson Wilder paid for that month's Service.
The Subscriber was an inhabitant of the Town of Scituate, when he entered, by enlistment (as did all Capt. n Stetson's Company).
That the Service of said Regiment & Company was to repair and rebuild the Fortifications in and near Boston, & to guard the Public Stores.
That there were few or none of the Continental Soldiers in and near Boston, when Col. o Dyer's Regiment arrived there, except some Invalids.
The Hon. ble Nathaniel Ward, was General, commanding in & near Boston, and Major Joseph Ward & Pelag Wadsworth, were his Aides. General Ward was succeeded in the command in that Vicinity about the middle of March 1777, by General William Heath.
The Subscriber hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or annuity, except the present, and declares that his Name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in the State of Massachusetts.
Chas. Fernald
Sworn, & Subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
Attest Jacob H. Lord, Register
We Samuel Deane, a Clergyman, residing in the Town of Scituate and Japheth Dumbarton residing in the Town of Scituate in the same County, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Charles Fernald, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy two years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides & has resided, to have been a Soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
Samuel Deane
Attest
Japheth Dumbarton
Jacob H. Lord Register
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the Matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Samuel Deane who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the town of Scituate and that Japheth Dumbarton

Esquire who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a credible witness and that their state- ment is entitled to credit,
By the Court, Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
I Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of the Honorable Charles Turner for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twenty second day of August in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Jacob H. Lord

I Thomas Vinal Town clerk of Scituate in County of Plymouth and State of Mass ts depose and say that the following is a true extract from the records of said Town of Scituate. —
“Charles Turner Esq r and Hannah Jacobs both of Scituate, were married in Scituate Mass ts September the Twenty first, one thousand Seven hun- dred and eighty nine, by the Rev d David Barnes And I do 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 — “September 21 st 1789.”
Attest Thomas Vinal Town Clerk I Thomas Vinal above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town clerk in the Town of Scituate and County of Plymouth in the State of Mass ts and that the above is a true abstract from the records of the said Town with the exception above rec d as certified by me. — Thomas Vinal { Clerk of the Town of Scituate Mass ts
State of Mass ts Plymouth County ss. June 5 th 1843 Then personally appeared Thomas Vinal and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed. — Before me Sam l H. Turner Just e Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston October 5 th 1843 -
I hereby Certify , That at the date of the annexed attestation Samuel A. Turner was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Jno A. Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

4681
Charles Turner
Photo 7 Months
5 06
20 Dec 1892
J. H. Lander
Plymouth Mass

BRIEF in the case of Charles Turner of Suffolk County in the State of Mass. (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 72 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1776 - Aug 1 — 3 ✓ — priv- Gen. Capt s G. H. Stetson B o L. N. Dyke   " Nov 1 — 3 — " " " "   77 - Jan — 1 — " " Theoph s Wilder  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sutton  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence. Documentary proof.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.

rep. d. apt 44
8276
Massachusetts
Hannah Burnet widow of Charles Burnet who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 16. May 1839 of Suffolk in the State of Mass ts who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Stetson of the Reg. commanded by Col Dyer in the Mass ts line for Eight 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 8th day of April 1844 and sent to Hon William H. Re.
Whole amount due $ 100.00
[Act July 7, 1838.] Recorded by J. G. Brann Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1 Page 71

5406 Massachusetts Hannah Turner widow of Charles Turner who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. Increased from $20 Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of July 1850 and sent to
G. S. Bulfinch Esq. Boston, Mass
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 56

Reported
5406
Massachusetts
Winnah Durner widow of Charles Durner who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of April, 1844 and sent to J. H. Lord Weymouth Mass
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book LA Vol. 1 Page 55

8276
Massachusetts Hannah Turner
Widow of Charles Turner who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 16 May 1839 of Suffolk in the State of Mass a who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Stetson of the Reg t commanded by Col Lyke in the Mass a line for Six months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Increased from $20
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of February 1837 and sent to G. S. Bulfinch Boston Mass a
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. R. Weightman Clerk, Book 9 Vol. 1 Page 71

175. Massachusetts Hannah Turner widow of Charles Turner who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Reported
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of June 1848 and sent to G. S. Bulfinch Boston Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 165 , Vol. 2

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14063 Hannah Turner Widow of Charles Turner Pre War
Act: Feb 2 d 48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 286
[Arrangement of 1870.]

V N o 9359.
Hannah Turner Mass s
Suspended
Let to J. H. Sona Sep. 21. 1843 -
Rev. H. Williams Mar. 8 th 1844 Act July 7 th 38

Declaration for Increase under Joint Resolution of 1 July 1848
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss. Suffolk County, }
ON this 16 th day of January 1848, before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Hannah Turner who was and made oath in due form of law, that she is the widow of Charles Turner who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution; that she is now receiving a pension from the United States, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, under the Act of 2 February 1848; that her husband drew a pension at the rate of twenty three 33/100, or about that; that she asks for an increase of her present pension, to which she may be found entitled under any and all of the Acts and Resolutions of Congress, which are applicable to her case; that she is a resident of Charlestown in said County and is a widow, and is eighty six years of age.
Witness,
Penpenance Turner
Hannah Turner
Sworn and subscribed this 16 day of Jan 1850
Before me,
G. T. Balfinch Justice Peace.
I CERTIFY, That I am personally acquainted with the above named declarant, and that she is the same person she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
G. T. Balfinch Justice of the Peace.

H. Turner
Payment to be made at Boston by 9-7-13 Franklin Haven
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Masschts.
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 165 , Vol. 2 ,
Geo. J. Phillips Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Hannah Turner. widow of Charles Turner. who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of twenty dollars and  cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States this fourteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty Eight
Examined and Countersigned.
J. S. Ear Commissioner By H.

Increase Adm o lib o '38 43 & 44
at $23.33 per annum, deducting former pay at $20 per annum
Jas. L. Edwards
G. S. Bulfinch Boston. Mass.

Sir,
Boston 17 Jan. 1850
Enclosed is a Declaration made by Mrs Hannah Turner for Increase of Pension under the Joint Resolution of 1 July 1848.
She wishes her new Pension Certificate to be sent to my care.
Yours, Very Respectfully G. S. Bulfinch
Jas. L. Edwards Esq. Court of Pensions.

9359.
Hannah Turner Mts
Act July 7 th 38
Ad d
6m.
private
$20 per an. ans
Howland H. Williams H of Re.

4681
Charles Turner
J H Louise E Plymouth Mr

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Chas. Turner Suffolk County Mass. which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? no IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? no VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? —
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? —
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? — Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? —
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? —
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

A Muster Roll of Capt n Stetson's Company Col d Dike's Regiment.
   1776. Month Days Names Rank Town Qualities.     Dec r 1 Joseph Stetson Capt. Scituate   " Benj r Studley 1 st Lieut. Hanover   " Barth m Holmes 2 d do Plymouth   " Benj r Hatch Serg t Marshfield   " Adam Perry " Bembroke   " Will m Brooks " Scituate   " Issa Rogers " Marshfield   " Solomon Bates Corp l Hanover   " Elijah Richards " Plympton   10 Ezra Holmes " Plymouth   7 Benj r Studley Jr. " Hanover   " Will m Hammond Drum r Scituate   28 Silvanus Stephens Fifer Plympton   1 Anthony Hatch Privat e Marshfield   " Beleg Ford " "   " Barnard Sweet " "   " Israel Nash " Scituate   " Thos s Capham " "   " Charles Turner " "   " Amiel Shirley " "   " Thos s Church " "   7 Abiah Knap " "   1 Isaac Pitchfield " "   " Frederick Hammond " "   " Isaiah Stodder " "   " Ezra Haden " "   " John Whitcomb " "   " Josachar Wade " "   " George Dorrey " "   " John Gibbs " "   29 Gideon Jenkins " "   " Eliphalet Bishop " Bembroke  

Muster Roll Continued.
   Month Day Names Rank Town Casualties     Dec r 12 Gamaliel Curtis Private Scituate   do Michael Clap do do   do Brent Briggs do do   do Isaiah Stodder Jr do do   do Benj Curtis do do   10 Will m Rider do Plymouth discharged 25 Feby 1777   do Elkanah Holmes do do   do John Marshall do do disch d 3 Jan y 1777   do Ebene r Robbins do do   do Ebene r Robbins for do do   do Peter Lammon do do   do Joshua Bramhall do do discharged 20 Jan y 1777   do Will m Blackmore do do disch d 25 Feby 1777   do Rufus Robins do do   do Samuel Bartlett do do   do Saml d Wheeler do do disch d 20 Jan y 1777   do Silas Darnham do Glympton   do Jon a Richards do do   do Joseph Whitten do do   do Amaziah Doten do do   do Warren Forrey do Hanover   6 Amos Bangs do do   do Cornelius Silvestu do do   7 Seth Beets do do   10 Barnaby Holmes do Plymouth   24 Theophilus Corthell do Scituate   do Abiajah Turner do do   do Abner Dwaley do do   do John Brown do do   do Isaac Brown do do   do Rob t Erskin do do   30 James Brazier do Ludbury  

Muste Roll Continued
   Month Day Name Rank Town Casualties     Dec. 30 Noah Waterman Private Hallifax   29 Nath Rogers dr Marshfield   10 Aruna Rogers dr dr   1777 Jan'y 2 Aaron Mason dr Woburn   Dec 20 Tho s Grove dr Scituate   1777 Jan'y 7 Abijah Clap dr dr   Solomon Bates Corp l Hanover   Dec. 24 John Cook Private Hadley   1777 Jan'y 7 Joshua Johnson dr Lancaster  
   Capt. 1 st 2 nd Ens Serg t Corp l Drum t Fifer Rank & File     December 1 1 1 0 4 4 1 1 55   January 1 1 1 0 4 4 1 1 57   February 1 1 1 0 4 4 1 1 54  

The foregoing is a true copy of a Muster Roll of Capt. Stetson's Company in Col. Dikes Regiment, in the year 1776, deposited in this Office; and which Regiment served from Dec. 1. 1776 to March 1. 1777.
Edward D. Bangs. Supt of Commonwealth.
Ms. A. 9. 2. 35

A List of the Field Staff and Commissioned Officers in Col. Dikes Regiment with their Rank -
   Officers Names - Rank -     Joseph Stetson Capt.   Benj a Studley 1 st Lieut.   Barlett Holmes 2 nd Lieut. N. C.  
those marked N. C. are not Commissioned.
A true Return J p . me Nicholas Dike Col t .
Commission to be dated Dec r . 1. 1776.
In Council Feb y 1. 1777.
Read and ordered that the within Officers be Commissioned acc d to their respective rank J m Avery Dep y . Sec y .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Sec. Office, July 27. 1892.
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy from the List of Officers in Col. Dikes Regiment, deposited in this Office. so far as respects the company of Capt. Joseph Stetson
Edward D. Fayer. Sec y of Commonwealth

Capt. Joseph Stetson Lt. Benjamin Woodley Lt. Increase Robinson En. Bartlett Holmes
Marched off 29 of August.
The above is a Return of the Time of the Respective Officers marching to camp to join Col. Dikes Regiment.
Dorchester Sept. 27 th 1776.
Jn. Sabez Brown Adjt.
In Council Septem r 27. 1776.
Read & ordered that above persons be Commissioned according to their respective Ranks.
John Avery Sp y . Sec y .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Sec y 's Office. July 27. 1832.
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy from a Return of the Officers belonging to Col. Dikes Regiment, so far as the same concerns Capt. Joseph Stetson's Company. —
Edward D. Bangs. Sec y of Commonwealth

A Return of Col. Dikes Regiment Raised by the Hon ble Council of the Massachusetts Bay in Defence of the United States of America - Dorchester y e 21 st of Sept. 1776.
   Officers Names. No present including Officers Names names not joined. Towns they belong to Towns that have not sent any Regiments of Militia. Brigade.     Capt. Joseph Stetson 64 Ebenezer Wadsworth Duxbury " Col. Bradford   Lieut. Benjamin Studley Asaph Searle " Brig. Cushing   2 nd Lieut. Increase Robinson Benjamin Alden " Col. Cushing   Ensign Bartlett Holmes Daniel Pattenall King Lappum Marshfield "  
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, July 27. 1882.
I certify that the above is a true Copy from "a Return of Col. Dikes Regiment" (which return is deposited in this Office) so far as the same concerns Capt. Joseph Stetson's Company.
Edward D. Bangs, Secy. of Commonwealth.

Probate Office
Plymouth Mass. 44
July 14, 1843
Sir
I send herewith the Application of Mrs. Hannah Farmer for a Pension under the Act of July 7, 1838.
Her Certificate may be sent to
Yours &c
J. H. Lord Reg.
J. L. Edwards Esq Comr of Pensions Washington D. C.

Sir
Plymouth Mass.
April 20. 1844
I send here with the pension applications of Eggatha Rogers & Hannah Turner under the Act of March 3. 1843.
Their Certificates may be sent to me
Yours &c J. H. Lord
J. L. Edwards Esq Com of Pensions Washington D.C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Oct 5 1843
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Charles Turner of Milford is found upon the returns of Capt Joseph Stetson, in Col. Dike's reg t from Dec 1776. to March 1777. when as a private; there are no rolls of said Stetson of a prior date in 1776. in this office, and the name of said Turner is not upon the rolls of Capt. Thos. Wilder in 1777.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone: and that said application and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Jno A. Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Pension Office
September 21. 1843
The papers in the case of Hannah Turner, claiming a pension under the act of 7 July 1838, have been examined and filed with the exception of the Marriage Certificate which is herewith returned for proper authentication. You are again informed that a Register of Probate has no authority to attest the Official Character of a Justice of the peace, and in all cases where papers are so certified they will be sent back. When properly authenticated the proof of the date of the marriage will be satisfactory. The evidence of identity is defective, and the certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts should be produced to establish the Service of Charles Turner. In his declaration Turner says that he served three months in 1776, commencing in August under Captain Joseph Hutsen, Colonel Dyer's Regiment, and three months commencing in November, under the same officers; also one month under Captain Theophilus Wilder in 1777.
A. H. Lord Esq., Plymouth, Massachusetts.
I am very respectfully, Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards

Ha H. Williams H.S.
March 7. 1844

Washington March 5. 1814.
Sir,
Please communicate to me the information desired in the accompanying letter, & return the same to me.
I am very respectfully Your obt servt. H. Williams
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm r . of Pensions

I Anthony Ennes Hatch of a Marshfield in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, aged Seventy nine years do testify and say, that Charles Turner formerly of Scituate in the County of Plymouth, but now of Chelsea County of Suffolk & State of Massachusetts, enlisted with myself in Capt n Joseph Hiltens Company, Lieut. T. Studley, Second Lieut. Robertson, Ensign Horner, and marched to Roxbury near Boston, and served as a private soldier in said Company three months during the Revolutionary War - and I think it was in the autumn of the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy six, and were quartered in barracks near the Widen Warrens, which was near Roxbury street. Also that said Charles Turner was a soldier with me. - enlisted afterwards in said Joseph Hiltens Company for three months more and were stationed in Boston, near Whalers Point, but how long he served is unknown to me, as I was taken sick and left the Company after about four weeks. - Anthony E. Hatch
Plymouth ss Feb y . 12 - 1833 Then the above named Anthony E. Hatch made oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is true. -
before me Samuel C. Turner Just. Peace.
And I further certify that I have been well acquainted with the above named Anthony E. Hatch for twenty five years, that he is of the age he states, that he has ever sustained a good character, and that his testimony as a witness is entitled to full credit. -
Attest - Samuel C. Turner Just. Peace.
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Samuel C. Turner Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for said County & that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this eighteenth day of February A.D. 1833. Jacob H. Lord

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Resolve for continuing in the service, Col's Dyke's and Francis's Regiment, passed Nov. 27. 1776.
Whereas the Time for which the two Battalions under the command of the Colonels Dyke and Francis are engaged to continue in the service of the United American States for defence of the Lines in and near Boston, is almost expired. And it being necessary that a suitable number of Men should be engaged in service to defend these lines against any sudden attack which may be made thereon, Therefore, Resolved, That the Officers and private Soldiers serving in either of said Battalions be, and they are hereby, if they shall consent thereto, continued in service to the First of March next for the purposes for which said two Battalions were raised and marched to the Lines aforesaid, in consequence of the Resolves or Orders of the Honorable Council of this State. The said Officers and private Soldiers to be on the same establishment entitled to the same pay, and other advantages offered or held forth or referred to in said Resolves or Orders of Council, and liab. and subject to do all Duty and Service which they were engaged to do and perform by their Engagements in the service aforesaid.
And whereas it is doubted whether the noncommissioned Officers and private Soldiers serving in said Battalions are entitled to any thing for the use of their Guns and Blankets,
It is therefore further Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the Treasury of this State, to each noncommissioned Officer and private Soldier, serving in either of said Battalions, who shall engage to continue in said service till the first day of March next, the sum of sixteen Shillings, for the use of his Blanket and Gun, and to each noncommissioned Officer and private Soldier who has served in either of said Battalions, and shall be discharged or leave said service at the time for which

which they were first engaged, the sum of six shillings, for the use of his Blanket and Gun, for the time each such officer and Soldier has continued in said Service.
Provided always, that if the Congress have, or hereafter shall allow, a larger sum for Blanket and Gun-money, than what is abovenmentioned and directed to be now paid out of the Treasury of this State the said Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers are to have the Benefit of such surplusage.
A true Copy of a Resolve of the General Court of the State of Massachusetts Bay of Nov. 27. 1776.
Attest Edward D. Bangs,
Secy. of Commonwealth.

Resolve to supply six Soldiers in Col. Dyke's Regiment with Guns; passed Sept 2 d 1776.
Resolved, That Richard Devers Esq. Commissary, be directed to deliver out of the Colony Stores six Guns to Samuel Taylor, Captain of a company in Col. Dyke's Regiment, for the use of six Soldiers, enlisted in said Taylor's company, who are come hitherto without Guns, viz t Samuel Starrow, Ebenezer Greaves, Nathaniel Rice, Joseph Huxford, Cyrus Pratt, and Seth Devoe. And that the Commissary, upon Delivery of said Guns, shall take a receipt of the Captain for the same, to be returned into the Stores at the end of the Campaign and pay a Dollar for the use of each of the same; and in Failure of such Return be obliged to pay the full Value for every Gun not returned.
A true Copy of a Resolve of the General Court of the State of Massachusetts Bay, of Sept 2. 1776.
Attest. Edward D. Fung, Secy of Commonwealth.

5789
H. Turner
$20 per an
J. H. Lord Plymouth Mass

Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the third of March 1843. granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7. 1838.
State of Massachusetts,
Plymouth County } ss. On this nineteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred & forty four. personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County of Plymouth Hannah Turner of Scituate in said County of Plymouth aged eighty one 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed the third of March 1843. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Charles Turner who was a Private in the war of the Revolution, that he afterwards received a pension from the United States of Twenty dollars per annum, and for a particular description of his service, reference may be had to his original application now on file in the Pension Department at Washington. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Hannah Turner
State of Massachusetts,
Plymouth County } ss.
April 19. 1844 Sworn to & subscribed by the said Hannah Turner - Before me - Ebenezer T. Fogg. Justiciary. I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Hannah Turner, and that she is a credible person - Ebenezer T. Fogg. Justiciary.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Weymouth County ss
Clerks Office April 20 1844
I (M c Manus) Clerk of the Judicial Court for the said County of Weymouth do hereby certify that Ebenezer T. Fogg having before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn is a just and true bill for the said County of Weymouth duly returned & qualified under the authority of said Commonwealth. And that his signature to the jurat thereof is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on the day & year aforesaid.
M c Manus Clerk

Hannah Turner
She further deposes that she is still a widow, cents her annuity
paid quarterly at the rate of
under the Act of 1791, June 18th, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late husband
in the
Deu
residence of
Admitted
G. S. Bulfinch Boston Mass
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 3d March 1802, entitled "An act
DECLARATION

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss. Middlesex COUNTY, }
On this thirteenth day of May 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid,
Hannah Turner a resident of Charlestown in the county of Middlesex aged Eighty five 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Charles Turner who was a private in the Regiment commanded by and is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of 17th June, 1844, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late hus- band aforesaid, at the rate of Twenty dollars and cents per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Hannah Turner
Sworn to and subscribed on the day } Before me, and year above written, }
In presence of
James H. Frothingham Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner as she declares above. James H. Frothingham, Justice of the Peace.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss. Middlesex COUNTY, }
I, Clerk of the Court, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that James H. Frothingham is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature, above written, is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the Seal of said Court, this day of 18
CLERK.
Note. She thinks the Regiment was commanded by Col Ward, but is not certain.
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Supplementary Decla ration of Chas. Turner

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. At a Court of Probate now holden at Hymouth in said County on this eighteenth day of February A. D. 1833. Present the Hon. Wilkes Wood Judge
Declaration of Charles Turner, residing temporarily in Chelsea, in the County of Suffolk, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged more than Seventy-two years; made in addition to, and explanation of the Declaration by him made, signed & sworn to on the twenty second day of August, in the year of Our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and thirty two, before the Hon. Wilkes Wood Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth, in said Commonwealth; In Order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
In answer to the brief Objections stated in a communication from the War Department the Declarant saith that the said Declaration was not made in the County of Suffolk, where he temporarily resides, he having been there but about Eight years, and where no persons of, or near his age, had any particular acquaintance with his transactions at, or about the time of his allied services. But said Declaration was made in the County of Plymouth, where he had lived from his birth in June 1760, to the beginning of August 1824, and where he was well known by his Neighbours.
In answer to the fifth objection, he states, as before, "that in August of the year 1776, he "enlisted as a Soldier, in a Company commanded by Captain Joseph Estlin of Scituate." The day of his enlistment he is not able to prove, but Estlin having been many years and his papers scattered and destroyed, "That on the 29 th day of August he with said Company Marched "and arrived at head quarters, in the vicinity of Boston, & joined Col. Dykes Regiment," From which he dates the commencement of his Service, which lasted Six months, as stated in his said Declaration, at the expiration of which he was discharged, When at the request of General Mott, he, and most of the Regiment in which he served was discharged, When at the request of General Mott, he, the Declarant served One Month, during the month of March 1777, and was attached to a Company commanded by Captain Theophilus Wilder. That Capt. Wilder removed into the District, now State of Maine, where he died many years ago, and no papers of his can be found, and there is no person who belonged to Capt. Wilder's Company at that time, now living to the knowledge of the Declarant. For all which Seven Months the Declarant served as a private Soldier, a part of the time doing Guard & Sentries duty, and the last part of the time as a Waiter in Genl. Mott's Family. The only parole testimony in the power of the Declarant to obtain is the accompanying testimony of Anthony S. Hatch, taken by Samuel A. Turner Esq.
Chas. Turner
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Attest Jacob H. Lord Register

And now the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the additional Declaration above submitted by the Hon. Charles Turner in addition to his former Declaration & in answer to the Brief objections thereto contains the truth & is entitled to full credit
By the Court Attest Jacob H. Lord Regr.
In testimony that the foregoing contains the additional proceedings upon the application of Charles Turner for a Pension before said Court I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this eighteenth day of February AD 1833.
Jacob H. Lord Register