Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,323, Caleb Whitney, Continental (Mass.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass)
Whitney, Caleb
S: 43,323
CONTENTS

13486 New Hampshire
Caleb Whitney of Concord in the state of N Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Grafton of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One year.
scribed on the roll of N Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 10 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 of Aug 1818 and sent to Hall Bargin Concord N Hampshire
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 1/2/31 85.00 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 14 Sep 1819 1/18
$133.03
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent September 20th 1821 to Peter Chadwick, Exeter, New Hampshire

Caleb Whitney's claim for a pension 1818
Private Greaton's Mass Regt Jan y 18 th 1775. 1 year
April 16. 1818 Summons are not proceeded for by Act of the Mass 1816 Amendments Admitted ref d

I born Whitney of Concord in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hamp- shire testify & declare that on the first day of January in the Year 1776 at Cambridge I enlisted into the Continental Service in the Com- pany commanded by Captain Bacon of Marblehead in the Regiment commanded by Col. Graton in the Massachusetts line in the Army of the United States in the revolution- ary war against the Common en- emy for one Year & in the month of March following we were ordered to march from Cambridge to New York at which place some time in the month of April following I received a Warrant from Quartermaster Genl. Mifflin Appointing me Master Arm- our to General Thompsons Brigade from the City of New York we were ordered to Albany from thence to Canada & back to Snideroga where I was honorably discharged having ser- ved one Year in said revolutionary war against the Common enemy having lost my discharge I am not able to present it at this time. I am in reduced circum- stances in life & need Assistance from my

Country for Support April 16 th 1818
Caleb Whitney
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss.
on the 16 th day of April 1818 the foregoing declaration made and sworn to before me
Hall Burgin
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rock- ingham aforesaid

I Robert B Wilkins of Concord in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire, on oath declare, that I was in the Continental service in the Revolutionary War, and was acquainted with Caleb Whitney mentioned in the foregoing affidavit, and knowing to his being in the same service, as he has declared in said affidavit & have full belief in the truth of the same - April 16 th 1818
Robt B. Wilkins
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss April 16 th 1818. Sworn to be before me
Hall Burgin } Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Rockingham -
I hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Caleb Whitney served in the Revolutionary War as he has declared in the foregoing affidavit - the testimony in the case to the said war. testament
Hall Burgin } one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Rockingham By order of their Justices for said County Attest L. Cheever Clerk of said Court
I further certify that I am knowing to said Whitney's circumstances & he is very poor & needy Hall Burgin Judge as above

Caleb Whitney, Concord, Rockingham County, N. Hampsh.
13.406.
Conc
Sept. 1819.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
ROCKINGHAM.....SS.
ON this eighteenth day July , 1820, personally appeared in open court, Hall Gergin Judys , before John Harvey and  Esqrs. Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Rockingham, being a Court of Record for the said County of Rockingham, having the power of fine and imprisonment. Caleb Whitney aged Seventy years, resident in Concord , 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:— viz
I enlisted in January 1776 for twelve months in Col. Grafton Reg't Captain Bacon's Company in Massachusetts Line. first went to Cambridge in Mass. then to New York then to Albany then to Canada from thence to Ticonderoga where I served to the expiration of twelve months when I was regularly discharged Discharge is lost — It will more fully appear by my original declaration in order to obtain a pension The date of my original dictation in order to obtain a pension is the 16th day of April 1820. The number of my pension Certificate is 13486 - I have received a pension
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 8th 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 provision 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. My occupation is a
Blacksmith I am not of sufficient ability to pursue it on account of my health, loss of my limbs being very very blind & deafea. I am not able to contribute any thing to my support in family residing with me and I live with my son who is not able to render me any assistance
Their capacity to contribute to their support
Caleb Whitney
Sworn to and declared at Concord on the eighteenth day of July , 1820 before John Harvey & Judys of Hall Gergin said Court
I, Peter Chauncy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truely copied 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 37 dollars and — cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 21st day of July , 1820.
P. Chauncy
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham.

SCHEDULE
CONTAINING the whole estate and income of Caleb Whitney (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscribed, exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham, on the Eighteenth day of July — — 1880, and annexed to his oath, viz.
I have 2 anvils — — — — — 15.00 I pr Bellows — — — — — 7.00 House Hold Furniture — — — 15.00
I have no property or income my necessary clothing excepted — — — — — Caleb Whitney
We the subscribers Select men of the Town of Concord in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that we have examined the above property and in our opinion the value annexed to the several articles is their full worth
Isaac Turrentine Select man of Concord

L. W. B. I. 43323.
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services. Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV. REVOLUTIONARY.
November 3rd, 1897.
Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning Caleb Whitney, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on April 10th, 1818, at which time he was 68 years of age and residing at Concord, New Hampshire, and his pension was allowed for one year's actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Bacon and Col. Greateon. He enlisted at Marblehead, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
Miss H. Alma Cummings,
31 Cypress St., Brookline,
Mass.

43323
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 58.828
Daleb Wetney
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 8 , Page 560
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Feby. 19. 1897. History to Miss. F. S. Emerson 2009. Mass. Ave. N. H. lost.
No. 397 Miss H. Alma Cummings. Brookline, Mass.

To the World II Division of the Pension Office
Dear Sir,
NO
I am told that you can probably give me further particulars of Caleb Whitney whose name is found in the printed Pension Rolls in the list from Rockingham Co., N. H. as placed on that roll Aug 2. 1819.
I wish to place him with two other great-grandfathers on my Daughters & the American Revolution papers

if I can identify him as the Caleb Whitney who enlisted in Mass. probably Bradford, was a gunsmith, and died at Concord or Chichester N. H. and who according to family tradition received a pension in his old age.
On the possibility of his having resided in 1819 in Rockingham Co. the intervening county between the two in which he certainly lived, I venture to ask you to consult your records, and if you find that this Caleb Whitney died in Merrimack Co. I should be very grateful if you would give me all of the

particulars that your records show in relation to him.
Yours sincerely (Miss) Frances S. Emerson
2009 Massachusetts Av.
Washington.
February 4 th 1897.

31 Cypress St. Brookline.
Dear Sir-
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir:-
I want very much to find out something about my great grandfather Caleb Whiting of Billerica Mass. Afterwards lived in Boston. I only know he served in the Revolutionary-war for 3 yrs as Private and was 16 years old - and that he had a Pension given January 29 th 1819. Can you tell me where he was in service - and

did all soldiers have a pension? or only those that were disabled -
If you can answer my questions and will be so kind I shall be greatly obliged to you.
Yours sincerely (Miss) H. Alma Cummings
31 Cypress Street Brookline Massachusetts.
October 24 th 1897.

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services. Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. I. 43323.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
February 19, 1897.
Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Caleb Whitney, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on April 10, 1818, at which time he was 68 years of age and residing at Concord, N. H., and his pension was allowed for one year's actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Bacon and Col. Greaton. He enlisted at Marblehead, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Miss Frances S. Emerson,
2009 Mass. Ave., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

State of New Hampshire
Allenstown July 19 th 1819
In I herewith transmit two claims for pensions for services performed the M. S. Caleb Whitney who states in his declaration that he was detached from Capt. Bacon's company & put to work at the primary business, but you will please to be attend to the declaration & ev- idence accompanying it that he enlisted as a private soldier & served in said War as such excepting being ordered to do other work by his commanders, & was discharged at the end of the year agreeably to his enlistment, he did not hire as an Armorer, but enlisted as a soldier & done such duty as was assigned him, from which service as a soldier was honorably discharged. I hope Sir, his claim will & evidence will be perfectly satisfactory to you that he did enlist & serve un- der that enlistment as a soldier in the Revolution against our common enemy. I know him to be a very upright man tho' very unfortunate and poor. David Clough's claim with the evidence accom- panying it you will please to take up as early as your press of business will admit of, & if not a departure from your Gen l rule please to attend to those transmis- sions which I have lately made to War Office at Motion or request of Doctor R. Russell who is probably at Washington & will (if you please to attend to them) with pleasure be the bearer of them to Concord N.H. Hon. J. C. G. Calhoun } with due respect I am Dear Sir Secy of War } Your Ob t & very hum l Serv t Hall Bangin Judge C. C. R.

Evidence in the case of Caleb Whitney's claim for a pension U.S.
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I David Moore, formerly of Haverhill in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now of Easton in the County of Rockingham, and State of New Hampshire, of lawful age, testify & declare that some months previous to the month of March 1776, my fellow citizen, Caleb Whitney, then of the said Haverhill aforesaid, now of Concord in the said County of Rockingham — having enlisted as a private in Captain Bacon's Company, & Colonel Grafton's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, for the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, frequently urged me this deponent to enlist into the said Company in the service of the United States, that on or about the said first day of March 1776, I went with said Whitney, & did enlist as a private in said Bacon's Company for the term of one year then next ensuing, and thereunto said Whitney's name near the top, signed to the same enlistment — That I did serve out my said term of one year in said Company, and was acquainted with said Whitney, and fre- quently did duty as a soldier with said Whitney till my said term had nearly expi- red, a little before which, said Whitney became sick & became an invalid — And during said term of service, both the said Whitney, and this deponent, were for some time detached to work as teamsters, during which, this deponent, with many others, did work under the immediate direction of the said Whitney — And I this deponent further declare that, to the best of my knowledge, the said Whitney was, always while in service, well spoken of, and esteemed, both as a soldier & teamster David Moore

State of New Hampshire } County of Rockingham }
Be it known & remembered that at Exeter in said County on the 10 th day of July 1889 came before me the undersigned Nathaniel Peabody Esq. one of the Justices of the peace & of the Quorum in and throughout said State the same David Moore, within named, and being duly cautioned, examined, & sworn personally made solemn Oath that the within written Deposition, & Description by him made, and in my presence by him subscribed, is just and true and contains nothing but the truth furthermore I the said Justice hereby certify that from early in the Revolutionary War to the present time I have known the person & character of the said David Moore the deponent and that he has always sustained a fair character for truth and veracity from which, and from the general know- ledge I had, at the time by him alluded to, of the person & character of the said Whitney and of his they being out in the service of the U. States, I entertain no doubt but the facts & circumstances within stated by said Moore the deponent are substantially just & true. Attest, Nathaniel Peabody Esq. Paris J. P. at Quo. pro tot. R. Pub.

State of New Hampshire Secretary's Office
July 12 1792
I hereby certify that Nathaniel Pease Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a justice of the peace and qualified throughout said State in all appointments and commissions
and that to his acts and attestations in such faith and credit are due.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said State on the day of the date first mentioned.
Samuel Standish Secretary
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