Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10992, Wait Wadsworth, Mass. Sea Service

SERVICE
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Mass Sea Service
Wadsworth, Wait Priscilla
R. 10992 B.L.Wt 40.012-160-55-
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200.148. At March 3. { 53. Aug 9. {
Priscilla Wadsworth, widow of Waita Wadsworth, Private.
Capt. Allen.
Col. Cotton.
Capt. Sept. 177.
Private Col. Cotton.
Map Mills Revolutionary war.
Map Sns June 32
Ad. 16 Dec's Aug 27/56 Dodge
Under
Samuel Stetson. Duxbury Mass.
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29. 9. 29 Wait Wadsworth
...the above-mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served in the Continental Army... And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the...
Hon. J. D. Adams H.R. Hon. R. Sprague Finalities J. H. Lord Plymouth.

REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, ss.
ON this twelfth day of August 1833, personally appeared in open Court, before Hon Willey Moore the Court of Probate now sitting at Plymouth within
and for said County of Plymouth, Wait Wadsworth a resident of Duxbury in said County of Plymouth, and Common- wealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy nine 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 Congress passed June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquis- es every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
In the year 1774 I enlisted into an Independent company of Minutemen commanded by Ichabod Alden as a private soldier and served in said company twelve months we march to Marshfield in the fore part of the year 1775 in pursuit of a company of British Regulars commanded by a Capt Bulow who escaped our hands our company belonged to Col Theophilus Cottons Regiment
In the Summer of 1777 I enlisted as a seaman on board a Government Ship called I think the Defiance commanded by Isaac Drew and served five months we were employed in transporting troops stores Pris- oners & various duties of the same character
In the latter part of the year 1777 I went on an alloriam as a private in the company of Artilleria commanded by Bildad Arnold to Burlington in Rhode Island & served there one month
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In the year 1778 I was drafted in the Militia and went to Rhode Island and served three months at Tiverton. Fawcetts in Capt. Mearns Company 2 d Cotton Regiment having served in the whole twenty one months in the war of the Revolution at the end of each term I was honorably discharged but at no time received a written discharge I was born in Duxbury in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1754 where I have always resided my birth is recorded in the records of the Town of Duxbury. I am known to Hon. S. Sprague, Hon. G. B. Weston & others in Duxbury. Wait Wade
Sworn to & subscribed this day & year aforesaid Attest J. H. Lord Register

Ms. A. 9. 2. 15 Answ Coll Ms. A. 9. 2. 33 Capt Allen Ms. A. 9. 2. 15
We, Joseph Banfield a clergyman, residing in the town of Duxbury and Seth Sprague residing in the Town of Duxbury hereby certify, that we are well ac- quainted with Wait Wadsworth who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Joseph Banfield Seth Sprague
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
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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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Rev. Joseph Banfield who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Duxbury and that Hon. Seth Sprague Jr. who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court, Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
I, Jacob H. Lord Reg t 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 Wait Wadsworth for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office, this twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three .
Jacob H. Lord

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, Aug. 2 nd 1855.
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 Waite Wadsworth is borne on pay roll of Asahel Allen's Comp. Col. Theophilus Cotton's Regt. on sent expedition to R. Island in Sept and Oct. 1777 33 days, as private from Duxbury.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wing Secretary of the Commonwealth.

200.148.4
Application of Priscilla Wadsworth wid of Waite Wadsworth Rev'y Soldier for Bounty Land act of Mar 3/55.
Warrant to be sent to Samuel Stetson Burlington Mass.

Application of Priscilla Wadsworth for B Lond ad Mtr 3 1854
Revolutionary Service
Warrant to be sent to Samuel Stetson Dorchester Mass ts
Coats

200.148.2
State of Massachusetts } County of Plymouth ss }
On this fourth day of April A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace within and for the said County and State Priscilla Wadsworth aged 84 years a resident of Duxbury in said County and State, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Waite Wadsworth, late of said Duxbury, deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was a private in the company commanded by Capt. Allen in the Regiment commanded by Col. Cotton that he was at said Duxbury on or about day of Sept. A.D. 1777 and was at Tiverton R.I. and Dorchester Mass and served about two months; as will appear by reference to the rolls of said company, and also by the proofs furnished in his application for a Pension, in his lifetime, under the Act of 1832 June 22 which proofs are now on file in the Pension office at Washington. And that he was her husband.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act of March 3 d 1855. Neither she nor her said husband ever received Bounty Land, nor did she know that she was entitled except for the Act aforesaid, and she prays that the Certificate thereof may be sent for her to
Isaac Pittock Duxbury Mass.  2 Priscilla Wadsworth
Sworn to, subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year first above written and on the same day personally came before me Nathan
Sampson and Weston Freeman residents of said Duxbury, to me known as credible witnesses, who being duly sworn, declare that they are personally acquainted with Priscilla Wadsworth, widow of Waite Wadsworth, who made and subscribed the foregoing declaration in their presence and that they were personally acquainted with Waite Wadsworth and his wife in the lifetime of the former, and know they lived together as husband and wife, and to be so reported; and that they believe

the husband of the said Priscilla Wadsworth was the identical person, who performed the military service in the Revolutionary war as she has stated; in her declaration; and that the said Will Wadsworth has been dead many years; and the said Priscilla Wadsworth is now a widow, and they further swear that they are disinterested.
Nathan Sampson Weston Freeman
Sworn to, and subscribed before me, and I certify that the Affiants are credible and respectable persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be; and that I have no interest in this case.
Samuel Stetson - Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. I certify that Samuel Stetson Esquire before whom the within declaration & affidavit was made & sworn to, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned & qualified to administer oaths & take acknowledgments, for said county, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County & Commonwealth this eleventh day of April A.D. 1855. Wm. H. Wells Clerk of said Court
1855

REJECTED
10992
P. O. Wait Wadsworth
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

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V Chap te Case
Act 1832
Wait Wadsworth
Rejected
Letter 17 Jan'y '38 to Hon. J. Q. Adams. do to appt. Nov 3. 1838.
109.92
200148

Office of the Interior
1879
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
200.148.5

Duxbury Massachusetts October 29. 1838
Sir
You have in your Office which I forwarded to you about one year since, all my papers in regard to the obtaining a pension for services rendered by me in the war of the revolution. And as I have had no communication from you of late concerning the subject, I come to the conclusion that no further action by yourself will be had relative to the matter.
I have therefore respectfully to request that you would return the papers to me by return of mail, as I intend to petition, and lay them before Congress at their next session.
I am Sir respectfully Your Obet. Serv t
Walt Walworth
L. Edwards Esq Comm t of Pensions Washington D.C.

Hon. J. Q. Adams, H. R.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth Yr. I Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Seth Sprague Jr & Judah Alden Esquires are Justices of the Peace in & for said County & well known to me & that their several signatures to the annexed affidavits purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twelfth day of August A.D. 1833 Jacob H. Lord

To whom it may concern I Isaac Drew of Duxbury County of Plymouth Mass aged Eighty four years Testify & say that in the year 1777 I had the Command of a Sloop in the public service & belonging to the State of Massachusetts & that Nath Wadsworth an applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress of June 7 1832 was a Seaman on board said Sloop & served five months & was honorably discharged The name of the Sloop I think was the Defence we were employed in various duties by the direction of the Board of War given under my hand this Sixth day of August 1833
Isaac Drew
State of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above written before me I further Certify that Isaac Drew the above deponent is a man of good character & his testimony is entitled to credit
Seth Sprague for Clerk

I William Winer of Duxbury in the County of Plymouth, do testify and say, that during the War of the Revolution, in the fall of the year but don't recollect the year but think it was in 1778 or 79 I was a private soldier in a Company of Militia Commanded by a Capt Allen at Freetown in the State of Rhode Island, was there three months That Wait Wadsworth of said Duxbury was with me in the same Company a private soldier all the time, the Regiment was Commanded by Col o Sheffield Cotten, the whole detachment by General Spencer —
Duxbury Aug t 9-1833
William Winer
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss August 9 - 1833 Then the above named William Winer personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for said County of Plymouth and made Oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed — & further Certify that above deposition is a true and correct copy of the original This testimony is witnessed by Jehiel Jewett Justice of the Peace Jehiel Jewett

To whom it may concern I Benjamin Freeman aged Eighty seven years Testify & say that in the war of the Revolution the exact time I cannot now by reason of age & infirmity recollect I think in 1777 or 1778 I went to Barrington in Rhode Island on alarm in a company of militia & that I have no doubt Wait Wadsworth was a soldier at the same place I believe he was in the Company commanded by Bildad Arnold we served about one month & was discharged & then returned home given under my hand this Twelfth day of August 1833 Benj. Freeman
State of Massachusetts } Plymouth County ss } Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above written before me I further Certify that the above deponent is a man of good character & his testimony is entitled to credit Seth Sprague for Clerk

I Judah Alden do testify and say that in the beginning of the year 1744 a Minute Company was raised in the Town of Duxbury as in every other Town in the then Province to be ready at a Minute's warning to march and repel any attack that the British army might make who were then stationed in Boston
That Wait Wadsworth of Duxbury was a private Soldier in said Company from the time it was raised to the 22 nd of April 1775 when he was discharged making the whole term of his service in said Company (I believe but am not certain) twelve months or more, eight of the Company's were formed into a Regiment & commanded by Col o Theophilus Cotton, several of said Company, on the 21 st day of April 1775, marched to Marshfield under the Command of the Colonel. For the purpose as they believed to capture a Company of British Soldiers who were then stationed consisting of about eighty men commanded by Captain Belfour, but for some reason, which could not be satisfactory accounted for the Col o suffered them to escape, and I must own that I was at the time Ensign of the Company, to which Wait Wadsworth belonged —
Duxbury August 10-1833 Judah Alden
State of Massachusetts } Plymouth County ss } Sworn to & Subscribed The day & year above written before me I Further Certify that the above deponent is a man of good character & his testimony is entitled to credit
S. H. Sprague Jr for Clerk