Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43205, James Trowbridge, Mass

SERVICE
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Trowbridge, James
S. 43205
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(3443)
New Hampshire Rolls
James Trowbridge Capt Hitchcock Private
Massachusetts line 4 years in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th of October 1818 and delivered to Edward Evans at Washington City
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 - - - - 28:68 Semi-annual all ee ending 4 th March 1819 - - 48: -
3 m s - 24 4/21 - - 3:61:3 8/30 - - 1: 6:6
$ 76:68
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued Trowbridge Edward Evans - Boston
Notification sent to Ben. J. Gilbert Heamood N.H. July 20. 1820

Copy James Troubridge -
3,443.
(Mark 1819)
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District of New Hampshire -
County of Grafton
At the Superior Court of Indictment of the State of New Hampshire holden at Hanover within & for the county of Grafton being a Court of record of said county by law established on this Thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord 1820 personally appeared in open court James Howbridge aged 73 years resident in Lebanon in said county & district of New Hampshire, who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows viz a private soldier in Capt. Hitchcok's company & served others & Col. Joseph Dyer's regiment in the Massachusetts line, that his original declaration was made & dated 18 th day of May 1818 that he has received a pension & that his pension certificate is numbered 3448- And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed. I further declare, I am by occupation a farmer. I was wounded in the revolutionary war & in consequence of them wounds & others I have received since in the Indian war have been laid up almost constantly since that time & unable to do any thing But my wife aged fifty five or six years has remained her health in taking care of me - I have one child at home with me named Daniel Howbridge aged 12 years, slender in his health, weakly boy unable sometimes to attend school on account of his health. I have other two children from home, who maintain themselves unable to help me & unable to help themselves -
James Howbridge -

The following is a schedule of the whole estate & income of James Howbridge of Lebanon in the State of New Hampshire a pensioner (his necessary clothing & bedding excepted) made & subscribed by him according to the provisions of the act of Congress passed the 1st day of May 1820 entitled "An act in addition entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 viz -
  1 swine - - - - - 2.00   1 cow - - - - - .50   1 horse - - - - - .25   1 scythe - - - - - .34   1 kitchen table - - - - - .12   4 kitchen chairs - - - - - .50   1 iron shovel & pair tongs - - - - - .50   1 old broken iron pail kettle iron - - - .34   1 iron dish kettle with holes in the bottom - .25   1 iron porringer pot - - - - - .34   1 iron tea kettle - - - - - .75   1 iron spider fractured - - - - - .25   6 white earthen plates - - - - - .36   3 white earthen tea cups & saucers - - - - - .20   3 old iron spoons - - - - - .13   1 pail - - - - - .12   1 tub - - - - - .10   The above appurtenances (old meat barrel - - - - - .10   out was made) half a dozen knives & forks much worn - .50   by me. (James Howbridge) $7.55 
This may certify, that I am well acquainted with James Howbridge within named & believe the within schedule to be a true statement of his property -
Henry Hutchinson
Grafton 3d Supr. Court May 30th 1820 -
Sworn to in Court.
Attest C. H. Webster Clerk -

Sworn to & declared before the justice of the Superior Court of Judicature for the State of New Hampshire in open Court on this 30 th day of May 1820 —
Attest S. P. Worcester Clerk
I Stephen R. Worcester Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Grafton do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are true copies from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is seven dollars & fifty five cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 31 st day of May Anno Domini 1820 —
S. P. Worcester Clerk

James Crowbridge May 18 th
Adm l
Crowbridge James appeared before the Roll for the deposition of James Crowbridge who was a sergeant in Col Spruill's Regiment has been pensioned for wound received against the Indians in 1811 - which he relinquishes

This certifies that we the Subscribers Select- men of the town of Lebanon County of Grafton State of New Hampshire are ac- quainted with James Knowlledge, now residing in said Lebanon, and know that he is very poor and in indigent circum- stances, and that for a number of years past he has been assisted by said town of Lebanon as a pauper.
May 18 th 1818 Deacon Allen } Selectmen William Benton } of Lebanon
May 18 th 1818
Then the above named Deacon Allen and William Benton came personally before me and made solemn oath that the foregoing statement by them subscribers is just and true
Samuel Selby Justice of Peace

I Hiram Hall of Hanover in the County of Grafton State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify & say, that I was a fullers soldier with James Howbridge in the revolutionary war between the United States of America & Great Britain, & that he was a Sergeant in Col. Spaulds Regiment, & that he served during the War. — and further will not Hiram Hall
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss. 28. April 1812
Sworn to before
Will Alcott S. H. Clerk

Declaration of James Trowbridge

I James Trowbridge of Lebanon in the county of Grafton & state of New Hampshire of the age of seventy years on oath declare that I served as a private soldier, & sergeant employed in the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment - that after serving under short enlistments most of the time from the year 1775 to the year 1778 or 1779 I then enlisted during the War into a company commanded by Capt. Luke Hitchcock in Col. Sprouts Regiment in the Massachusetts line - that said company was afterward transferred to the first Regiment in said Line commanded a part of the time by Col. Joseph Vose - that I continued in said service in said Company until the ninth day of June in the year 1783. when I was honorably discharged by Gen. Washington & received a written discharge - that I was in the battle at Stillwater & the battle at Yorktown - that by time and accident I have lost said discharge - that by reason of my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my Country for support - that on account of a wound I received in the Indian War while in a detachment under Capt. William Eaton I was put on the pension list - that the certificate herewith submitted is the original one which I received from the War Department - And I do hereby relinquish all claim for pension under any law of the United States passed before the 18th day of March 1818. James Trowbridge

State of New Hampshire
On this eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen & of the Independence of these United States the forty second. Before me William H Woodward Esquire Chief Justice of the courts of Common Pleas in the second District in said state comprising the County of Grafton Lebanon same
James Trowbridge of in said county a citizen of the United States & being duly sworn, made solemn Oath that the declaration herunto annexed, by him subscribed is Just and true. The declaration aforesaid being made in order to obtain the provisions made in and by an act of the Congress of the United States approved on the eighteenth day of March now last past. The said Trowbridge declaring that he has no other evidence of his said service than what is herunto annexed.
I therefore hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said James Trowbridge served in the continental establishment in the war of the revolution against the Common Enemy a longer term than nine months at one period of the war. And from my own knowledge that he now is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of his country's assistance for support.
And I do also certify, that Samuel Selden & Miles Olcott Esquires are Justices of the Peace within & for said county of Grafton duly qualified to take affidavits, that their attestations herunto annexed are in due form and that full faith & credit is and ought to be given to their attestations.
And I now transmit the declaration & affidavit aforesaid to the Secretary of the Department of War as the Law requires.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed (no partic- ular impression or device being used there- for) at Hanover in said District the day, and year first before written.
Wm. H. Woodward

43 205 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 43 205
James Frostbridge Rev Rev. Rev.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 5/8
[Arrangement of 1870.]

WAR DEPARTMENT.
This may Certify that in conformity with an Act of Congress of the 5 th of March 1811, entitled, "An Act concerning Invalid Pensioners," James Crowbridge is placed on the Pension List of the United States and on the Roll of the New Hampshire Agency, "at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the fifth of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten."
+ Given at the War Office of the United States, this 16 th day of July 1811.
W. ELLIS.

Answere May 8. 1819

1 Case. 2286 V
James Crowbridge Applicant.
Hanover, N. H.
Recd Oct. 1. 1818.
Declaration wanted
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Hanover 28th Sept r 1825 -
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Esq. Sec y of the war department
Sir I have long since been a pensioner by reason of a severe wound I received in defence of my Country, a weight which has for many years past been the only means of my subsistence and I am poor, infirm and between seventy & eighty years of age which has caused me to have some assistance from the Town in which I live and as the Hon. Congress of the united states saw fit to pass an act granting a Pension to all those old old revolutionary soldiers on condition of their relinquishing all former claims on the publick for the sum of eight dollars per month for life I cheerfully embraced the act by forwarding my declaration together with the relinquishment of all former claims to the war department and expected before the fourth of this instant to have received a Certificate from your honor authorizing me to draw my money in consequence of the delay Sir I am put under the greatest inconvenience, and beg your honor as you regard humanity to send me a certificate agreeable to the late act of Congress or my old certificate together with the reason why I do not come within the purview of the late act - and Sir am in the mean time with every sentiment of respect and esteem your honors most obed t & very humble serv t
James Frowbridge
S r B. I rec d my discharge from the service of the revolution from Col. Vose commanding the first Massachusetts Reg t — I send you here enclosed affidavits for your further satisfaction &c

I Hiram Hall of Hanover in the County of Grafton State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify & say, that I well know that James Trowbridge was a Sergeant in the Revo- lutionary war, between the United States of America & Great Britain. I was present with him at the Battle of York Town, when he received a wound by a Bomb-shell, which ever since has been troublesome to him, & disabled him to such a degree, that he is unable to perform the necessary labour of a Husbandman - and further saith not Hiram Hall
State of New Hampshire County of Grafton } 28. April 1812 Sworn to before
Abiah Root
This certifies that James Trowbridge & his family are poor & indigent, & are in part supported by the Town of Lebanon where he & family now reside & the subscribers are of the opinion that he is entitled to further compensation from Government for his wound received in the late Revolutionary war -
Ziba Huntington Justice Peace
Thos Parkhurst Surgeon mate 23 Reg

State of Vermont County of Windsor March 3
James Trowbridge of Lebanon in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire being duly sworn with depose and say that the annexed Certificate of Depts Nathan Smith and Doctor Cyrus Perkins, and also of the Select Men of the Town of Lebanon, was made with a view to procure the pensions of the sd Trowbridge to be raised from two thirds to a full pension - and that the same immediately after they were authenticated before the Judge, were confided to the care of Samuel Selden Esq. of Lebanon att. At Law, in order to have them transmitted to the War Department - and that the said Trowbridge wrongly believed that they had been transmitted accordingly; but that they were mislaid by the said Selden, and have never been found by the said Selden, till a few days ago - which he saith is the reason, that his application for the increase of his pensions hath not reached the War Department before —
James Trowbridge
Subscribed, and sworn to, this 26 th day of March A.D. 1815 —
Before me
Oliver H. Kellogg Just. Peace

This certifies that Sergeant James Southbridge is a resident and has been for many years in the town of Lebanon in the State of New Hampshire, that he is unable to labour in consequence of wounds he has received in the service of his country, that he is very poor and that said Town of Lebanon has been obliged to afford him means of his assistance every year year for ten years past Lebanon Sept 2 d 16 th 1816
Thomas Waterman Select men Jonathan Howdton ) of Samuel Selden ) Lebanon

15 Henniker N.H. Oct r 12 th 1816
This may certify that I have been acquainted with Sargent James Frowbridge now of Lebanon in this state for many years & have been made acquainted with the nature of his wounds & injuries which he rec d in the revolutionary Indian war while in the service of his coun- -try both by oral exam- inations & by certificates from his surgeons & others to whom confidence is justly due & have no doubt but he is truly entitled to the full pension as an disabled soldier of the highest
I hereby express my entire concurrence in the above certificate by Professor Smith
James Perkins M.D. Professor of anatomy & surgery in Dartmouth University - Hanover N. Hampshire Oct 13 th 1816.
Nathan Smith Professor of the Theory & Practice of Medicine & Surgery in Yale College

We further say that by means of the wounds and injuries which the aforesaid Sergeant James Frawbridge received while under Capt. William Enton & in the Indian war the said Frawbridge is unable to support himself by labor —
Hannover Oct. 24 th 1816
Nathan Smith Cyrus Perkins

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss October 14 th A.D. 1816.
Then Doctor Nathan Smith Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic and Surgery at Yale College, and Doctor Cyrus Perkins Professor of Anatomy & Surgery in Dartmouth University each of whom is respectable, and eminent in his Profession, severally made solemn oath that the foregoing certificate and attestation by them respectively subscribed are just and true—
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Hanover in said State This 14 th day of October A.D. 1816.
Wm H. Woodward Chief Justice of the Courts of Common Pleas in the second district in said State.