Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,904, Enoch Whitmore, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Whitmore, Enoch
S. 33,904
CONTENTS

4,982
Massachusetts Roll
Enoch Whitmore
Mass ts } Private Line } Capt Bettingel
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 th of April 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of Decem. 1818 and sent to Hon ble Leavitt H on . Judge Greenfield Mass t .
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 4 th + \frac{11}{30} — 34:93
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 — 48: —
# 82:93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
6 to the end of the War.
Warwick, Franklyn Co. —
papers copied 17 March 1826 for the Hon. S.C. Allen att-9 Mr. Barton July 7. 1840

4.982
Enoch Whitmore
Warwick
4982
Dec 1811
Not held
Mar 1819

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, began and holden at Greenfield, within and for the County of Franklin, on Monday the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, et de die in diem to the fifteenth day of the same month,
PERSONALLY appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Franklin, established as such by the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth, Enoch Whitmore aged fifty nine years, resident in Warwick in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: I entered the service as near as I can recollect in the month of December 1776 to serve for the term of three years in the Company of Capt Dix in the Regular Col James Wilsons Regiment in the Massachusetts line and served in the same until my enlistment had expired but before I was discharged I again enlisted during the War in the same Company Regiment and line and served there and in Col Michael Jackson Regiment until June 1783 and was discharged at New Windsor (N.Y.) My certificate is dated December 19, 1818 the Pension to commence 24, April 1818 and is numbered 4982. I am by occupation a Farmer but am unable to labor much of the time having never enjoyed good health since I was injured by the heat at the Battle of Monmouth. I have also a very troublesome Nervia. My family residing with me consists of my Wife Hannah aged nearly sixty years who is in a very poor state of health and two daughters, Fanny aged 21 and Polly aged 18 neither of whom are very healthy all whom are entirely dependent upon me for support.

and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818 ; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my 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 and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th 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, and by me subscribed.
Enoch Whitmore
Sworn to and declared, on the eleventh day of July A. D. 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, E. Alvord CLERK.
I ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the aforesaid Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 five hundred and eighty dollars and fifty five cents —
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of July, 1820.
E. Alvord CLERK.

Schedule of the Estate of Enoch Whitmore of Waverick in the County of Franklin Commonwealth of Massachusetts Applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress May 1. 1870
  Real Estate consisting of 75 Acres of Land with a   Small Dwelling house & Barn in the same 450.00   one old mare & Colt 20- 1 Cow and Calf 20.00 40.00   1 Heifer 9.00- 1 Vioins 6.00 15.00   1 Horse waggon 20.00- 1 old Sleigh & harness 6.00 26.00   1 Saddle 2.00- 1 plough 1.50- Plough Share 1.00 2 Axes 1. 5.50   old belt Iron 2.00- Chain 60 Cts- Horse Chains 50 Cts 2.10   Grind Stone 1.00- Scythe & Rule 1.00- Hoes & handrues 60 Cts 2.60   ox yoke 50 Cts- 2 Chests 5.00- 12 old Chains 3.00- Clock 12.00 20.50   Dishes & Plates 1.50 Knives & forks 60 Cts Tea Kettle 75 Cts 2.85   Locking Shelf 50 Cts- 2 Tables 3.00 Broop Kettle 1.50 5.00   Candle Stand 75 Cts Bed & Barrell 1.75 Loom 1.20 3.70   Hand Irons 75 Cts- Shovel & tongs 1.00- 2 Pails 40 Cts 2.15   Hand Bellows 30 Cts brooking ware 1.50 1.80   Spoons & Small trunk 2.00- Candlesticks 50 Cts 2.50   Dish Kettle 20 Cts Spider 25 Cts Pitchfork 30 Cts 75   Iron Pot 50 Cts Skittles 50 Cts 1.00   $ 580.55 
Debts due from the Estate Applicant as near as he can determine $32.00 Enoch Whitmore

Enoch Whitmore his Baldwin Weymouth & Jackson Maps Ref 1776 to 83
see Note
Correct S

I Enoch Whitmore, a Citizen of the United States, residing in the Town of Warwick in the County of Franklin in the State of Massachusetts, do hereby declare that I belonged to the Army of the United States in the revolutionary War. In 1776 I entered the service for one year, & served during that time in the Company of Capt. Pittingill in the Regiment of Col. Baldwin in the Massachussetts. I then entered the service again for three years, & served during that time, in the Company of Capt. Dix in the Regiment of Col. Wesson in the Massachussetts Line. I then entered the service again for the remainder of the war & served until the close of the war in the Company of the same Col. Dix, a part of the time in the Regiment of the same Col. Wesson, & a part of the time in the Regiment of Col. Jacobson of the line of New Hampshire. When the war ended I was honorably discharged, but many years ago I sold the bond that I was entitled to, & paid with my discharge & have not been or known any thing of it since - I have but a very little property, & am so infirm that I am unable to do but a mere trifle of labor, & by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and in need of assistance from my family, I have for some years past. Dated the 24th day of April A.D. 1888.  Enoch Whitmore
A State of Massachusetts - Franklin ss. April 24th, A.D. 1888 - The before me said Enoch Whitmore being made to know that the declaration of facts herein contained is true to the best of his knowledge and belief. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of April 1888 Court of Common Pleas

I William Burnett, one of the select- men of the Town of Warwick testi- fy & say that the within named Enoch Whitmore is a poor man & is in need of assistance from his Country for support. Dated the 21 st day of April A D 1828
William Burnett
Sworn to this day & year last aforesaid before me Jos. Leavitt, Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas
To the Secretary of the Department of War, I the undersigned one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in the State of Massachusetts, which Circuit includes the County of Hampshire aforesaid, do hereby certify that from the Testimony aforesaid it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Enoch Whitmore did serve in the revolutionary War against the common enemy as he has set forth in his Decla- ration aforesaid & that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Court aforesaid, this 24 th Day of April A D 1828
Jos. Leavitt, Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., _____, 190_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Enoch Whitmore a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. L. 33,904
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Dec. 1776 1 yr. Pvt. Pittingill Baldwin Mass.   Dec. 1776 3 yrs. Nathaniel Dix James Wesson "   1780 to June '83 { Nathaniel Dix James Wesson "   Michael Jackson 8 th " regt.  
Battles engaged in, Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of application for pension, Apr. 24, 1818 - Ch. al.
Residence at date of application, Norwick, Franklin Co., Mass.
Age at date of application, 57 yrs. Date of death not stated.
Remarks: In 1820 his wife Hannah ae. nearly 60 yrs., and daughters Tamarzane ae. 21 yrs. and Polly ae. 18 are referred to. His only son died prior to that date.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

33 904 Rev INVALID.
1912, March 8. Hist. to Mrs. John Mayr
File No. 33 904
Enoch Whitmore
Dr. Rev. Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 350
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Name - O.K.  Enoch Whitmore - rank Corporal Birthplace - Newton - Mass Residence - Needham - Mass Widows name - Hannah Dearing of Needham Mass Residence Before & after Discharge - Needham joined regt (26) 1776 - Age 20 - occupation Farmer Died at Royalston Mass - 1831 or 1832 - date not known Occupation Farmer - only -
Names of Officers under whom he served
Capt Joseph Patten  Needham 1778 . Col Baldwin (26) regt
Capt Mathias Dix (9 regt) | Capt N. Dix (8 regt) Col James Wesson | Col Michael Jackson
I Would like to have Copy of pension papers hoping this Will meet Approval -
I remain - yours resp t
M rs John Hayer 289 Court St -
Brooklyn N.Y.
Copied from War 1776 to 1781 record.
Vol - 18. page 200

MAR 4 - 1912

July 6 1840 Milw
Enoch Whitman may 21 1840
Salvador Supra Am. of Panama Hamburg

Worchester, Mass. July. 2. 1840
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
Enoch Whitmore of Noy- abton in this State, is a pensioner at the rate of $80.00 per annum, under the Act of May 15. 1828. I wish to know if that is a full pension under the Act of May '28; and I wish also to know the time when, and the reason why his name was stricken from the pension roll under the Act of 1815.
I am very Respectfully
J. H. Norton

Enoch Whitmore application
4902

To the Honorable E.C. Calhoun Secretary of the War department.
I Enoch Whitmore of Warwick in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts would inform your honor that after the passage of the law making provision for the relief of the Poor and destitute Soldiers of the Revolution I made application and obtained a Certificate stating that my name was entered on the Pension list and from that time which was in the Month of April 1818 to March last I received Eight Dollars per month when a new act was passed or the old one revised which rendered it necessary for me again to apply to my Country for assistance and I complied with the requisitions of said act at Greenfield in July last and I have recently received notice from your honor that my name was erased from the Pension roll. — Permit me Sir to request your honor again to examine my papers the possibility of overlooking or mistaking the true meaning of them must be apparent to every one conversant with business of a publick nature and particularly where the claims are so numerous that you can take but a momentary glance at each Individual application. I am now Sixty years of age unable to labor by reason of a rupture in my body and a severe and afflicting Rheumatism my wife and Daughter Sick and unable to support themselves — Bereaved of an only Son in a sudden & unexpected manner on whom my fondest hopes were placed to render even tolerable the evening of my days and on whom I entirely depended for my subsistence in my declining years — Indicted to a considerable amount without the means of paying — living on a poor and unproductive farm with a small cottage just sufficient to screen us from the inclemency of the climate — my farm would not rent for two per cent on the sum you will find annexed in my schedule of property with my application

and which I must soon cease to call my own unless I can obtain assistance from my country in whose service my youthful years, the morning of my days the beginning of my strength, was cheerfully & faithfully devoted for the term of seven years ten months and four days under the continental establishment although it was the first source of all my bodily infirmities from which I can never rationally expect a release on this side of the grave still I glory in the result still I feel a conscious rectitude in having honestly performed the part allotted me in the cause of my country and of liberty Nor do I wish because I am deprived of my health and means of procuring a livelihood to prevent any one from reaping the advantages resulting from that memorable era which gave birth to our national independence.
With the frankness of a Soldier I would solicit your attention for a moment to my cause - more willing to suffer than to ask relief The justice of my claim the pledge that my country has given to assist those that stand in need of support - and above all my full confidence in your honor that nothing will be wanting on your part for the speedy relief of those that the act of Congress contemplated to stand in need of the assistance of their country
Enoch Whitmore
To the above statement respecting the health of the subscriber & his family I testify Amos Taylor { By order of the family
We the Subscribers having examined the foregoing Statement of Enoch Whitmore hereby certify that living near him and being well acquainted with his circumstances in life in our opinion he has rendered a true account of his services in the late war and detailed his circumstances in respect to his family and attaining a livelihood correctly.
Jonathan Blake for Wm. Cable

Justus Russell { Selectman and overseer of the poor of the town of Warwick
Nov. 4th 1820.

Act 1828
576.
Settled ab
E. Whitman. no. 21 July 1828.
Treasury
Coas d with
Invalid file
# 33. 904
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Ench Philemon declaration

No. 1 Orig - pay roll 457  REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
August 2. 1828.
Enoch Whitmore, — of Royalston — in the County of Franklin, — in the State of Massachusetts, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private — in captain Dix —  see 's company, in the regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing —
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
Before closing the Secretary, A. Dickinson.
53102
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
Augt 6 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Enoch Whitmore in the Mass'ts Line
It further appears that Enoch Whitmore  not — is now on the pension list of the  any — — — — — agency, and has been so since the 3d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month
Peter Hagner And

Revolutionary Claims.
[ B. ]
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Non-Commissioned Officers, Musicians, and Privates.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, Enoch Whitmore of Royalston in the county of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period, I was a * Private in Captain Nathan Dix's Company, in the Eighth Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line. And, I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May, 1778.
And I further declare, that I was not, on the fifteenth day of May, 1828, on the Pension List of the United States.†
Witness my hand, this third day of July , in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and twenty eight Enoch Whitmore
Before me,‡ Joseph Estabrook Esq. Justice of the Peace in the county of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts personally appeared, this day, Stephen Batchelder and Franklin Gregory of the said county, who did severally make oath that Enoch Whitmore by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this third day of July in the year One Thousand Eight hundred and twenty eight Joseph Estabrook
I, Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court of the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts do hereby certify, that Joseph Estabrook before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a § Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths.
[L. S.] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this eighth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty eight. Abijah Bigelow, Clk.
* Sergeant, Corporal, Musician, or Private, as the case may be.
† The claimant, though not on the pension list on the 15th May, 1828, may have been on the list on or since the 3d of March, 1826, and afterwards stricken off: if so, he will add, and that I have received of the United States, as a pensioner, since the 3d of March, 1826, the sum of _____ dollars, paid to me by the Agent for paying pensions in the State of _____
‡ Here, insert a Justice of the Peace, or other Magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths.
§ Justice of the Peace, or otherwise, as the case may be.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Whitmore Everhart GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 10595 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 7, 1797 To Buckner Nance, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.