Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14084, David Wait, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Wait, David Abigail
W 14084
CONTENTS

Massachusetts 4210
Abigail Wait widow of David Wait who was a Private in the Massachusetts line for 22 March, 9 days
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Seventy four Dollars thirty three Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of January 1844 and sent to Mrs. Abigail Wait Worcester Mass
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 58
Requited Lt. H. C. Hudson, April 16 1844 Letter to Pensioned 6 th March 1845.

I Jesse G. Ganger, Town Clerk of the Town of Waltham, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the following is a true copy of Records, in said Waltham, "January first, Seventeen hundred and eighty one, David Waight and Abigail Brigham both of Marlborough were joined in marriage by Jonas Dix, Just Pean."
with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Records in fair legible figures as follows, "David Waight and Abigail Brigham both of Marlborough were joined in marriage Jan'y. 1: 1781"
Jesse G. Ganger } Town Clerk of the Town of Waltham.
I Jesse G. Ganger above named depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town, County and Commonwealth aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Waltham with the exception above named as certified by me Jesse G. Ganger, Town Clerk.
Middlesex ss.
Waltham December 10. 1838.
Sworn before me,
Abad Moore } Justice of the Peace

Waltham January 30. 1839.
I certify that it appears evident by the Records from which the within Certificate of marriage is an extract, that there is an error in the date of the record of the within named marriage, which should be January first, Seventeen hundred and eighty two (instead of 1781. as on the Record.) the date of the marriage imme- diately preceding it being December 30 th 1781
Attest Jesse G. Ganger, Town Clerk.
Middlesex ss. January 31. 1839. Then the above named Jesse Ganger personally appeared and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is true before me
Charles Bernis Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester, ss.
On this tenth day of May eighteen hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before Ira M. Barton Judge of the Court of Probate of the County of Worcester Abigail Waite a resident of Sterling in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid aged seventy eight 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838, entitled "An act of granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of David Waite who was a private in the War of the Revolution in the Massachusetts Militia or Continental Service to wit in the beginning of the War in Capt. Thomas Drury's Company, Col. John Nixon's Regiment and served eight months at Cambridge and vicinity and was in the battle of Bunker Hill her said husband went into the service from Framingham at this time in said State where she also belonged. She further declares that he went into the service the next year 1776 in Capt. Bartholomew Gleason's Company as she thinks and Col. John Nixon's Regiment and went to New York and was gone six months or more he belonged to said Capt. Gleason's Company at the battle of White Plains at which battle the said Capt. Gleason was killed as also a brother of her husband Josiah  Joseph Waite was killed in said battle. She further declares that her husband was in the service in the year 1778 at Rhode Island that he entered the service January 2 d and served two months and twenty days in Capt. Benjamin Munroe's Company Col. Spaight's Regiment of the

Massachusetts Bay State — She further declares that he enlisted sometime in the month of July 1780 in the service from said Marlborough in said State for six months that he marched immediately to Springfield in said State where he was mustered on the 13 th day of said July. that immediately after he was mustered he march from Springfield under the command of Capt. Pridget of the Continental Army to West Point in the State of New York that upon his arrival at West Point he was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Grighton then lying at Gallow's Hill — that soon after he was drawn from said Regiment and put into Col Sheppard's Regiment, the Company of the Capt. Williams, the Regiment belonged to Gen. Poor's Brigade that he soon after crossed the Hudson's River into the State of New Jersey to a place called English Neighborhood and thence to Potaway and Hackinsack in said State and from thence back to Potaway and from thence back to West Point — where he served out his six months where he was discharged —
She further declares that she was married to the said David Waite of Marlborough at Waltham in said State by Jonas Dix Esquire January first seventeen hundred and eighty two, and that her said husband David Waite died at Worcester in the County aforesaid February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixteen and that she was not married prior to her husband's leaving the service but prior to January first seventeen hundred and ninety four to wit at the time above stated and that she never has been married since the death of her said husband
Abigail Waite
Subscribed & Sworn to the day and year first
above written
Before me
M rs M c BARTON
Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester — and I further certify that the word "forsook" was interlined, and the

"Joseph" and "William", excused before the Submis- sion and oath.
Mark Boston Judge

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14084
Abigail Wait Widow of David Wait Pri Rev War
Act: March 3d 48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 309
[Arrangement of 1870.]

6013 Massachusetts
Abigail Wait,
widow of David Wait, dec.
who was a pensioner under the Act of March and who died on the 18 th February 1816 of Worcester in the State of Mass. who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Gleason of the reg t commanded by Col. Nixon in the Mass. Militia line for 22 months and 9 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 74 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Jan y 1841 and sent to Hon. W m Paramenter, Sec. Reps.
Arrears to the 4 th of Mar 1841 $371.66 Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by J. M. Curdy, Clerk, Book 4. Vol. 1. Page 145.

Map. Vact 1838 - 7527
Abigail Wait — of David
• Let to Hon. W. Parmenter 7 Jan'y 1841.

Washington Jan y 2. 1841
Sir
Enclosed papers for Abigail Wain & Sterling Mass.
Very respectfully
Yours obediently
W. Bannister
James L. Folger & Co. Barnes of Portland.

I Luther Eaton of Framingham in the County of Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts Seventy eight years of age To testify and say that I ren- -dered service in the Revolutionary war that I served eight months as a fifer at Cambridge in a company comma- -nded by Capt Brury of this town that I well recollect one David Wait then of this town who served as a private in said company with me and I believe the said Wait served eight months as I did the same David Wait has not resided in this since the year 1776 to my knowledge and I do not recollect where he went when he left this town I have no knowledge or recollection of any other David Wait
Luther Eaton.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss Jan 16 1841
Then personally appeared the above named Luther Eaton who is known to me as a person of sound mind and veracity and made oath in due form of law that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true Before me
Henry Richardson { Justice of the Peace
Middlesex ss.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts I Isaac Pitke Magister of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Middlesex hereby certify that Henry Richardson Esquire is a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex duly commissioned & qualified & that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & seal of said Court this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one
Isaac Pitke Mag

Washington Jan'y 27. 1841
Sir
I enclose additional papers in case of Abigail Wade from Elijah Black.
Respectfully J. M. Black J. M. Black
James C. Delano Esq. Counsel of Parties

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Jan'y 20 th 1841.
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 in an account Book of Colonel Dyer's Regiment in 1776, the name of David Wait is borne and the following sums are charged to him viz — Decr. 11. 1776 — To Cash paid for Sept r £2.0.0 — March 1777 To do. for October November and December £6.0.0 — do. for travel and mileage £2.5.0 9 — and the account is stated to be settled in full. and the whole amount is two pounds, five shillings, David Wait having served in Capt. Micajah Gleason's Comp y .
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
5ms. Ja

Wm William Parminter Esq M.C. Washington

Southborough July 22. 1840
Hon. W m J. Hastings, Dear Sir,
I have enclosed to you the papers of Mrs. Abigail Waite for a Pension under the act of Congress of July 7. 1838, which papers have been prepared for some time, the reason that they have not been forwarded sooner is that all the evidence of her husband's service in 1776 could not be found, as she is confident that he was in the service all of the year 1776 from what she has often heard him say - and I have taken great pains to procure information and I have not been able to find all that was desirable and considering the same as hopeless as all the veterans of Capt Gleason's Company in 1776 are all dead -

Abigail Wait 7527 (Wid of David)
Mass.
Ad July 7. 1838
Married 1782
died 1816.
Altogether 22 mo. 9 days
private. $74.33 per
ann. Mass. militia
capt. Guasa Col
Mexico
Ad. Wm. Parmenter
HR

Framingham David Wait. b. 1816 Abigail Wait, m. 1782 S.
② 75. 8(7.26) The Dury S. on roll May 4. 76 6(5.7) B. Gleason NY no roll 78 2.20. B. Munroe. Sprout S. ① 80. 6.16 from Marlborough 1 on
22.09
① Alex Watson ② Eben Eaton Supt.
David Wait lived in Marlboro' in 1780 and was married in from that town whether the David Wait who died in 1775 from Framingham was the same is a question.
40 — 33.33 — 1 — 74.33 —

No 7527 Abigail Wait widow of David Waip. 4 th July 7 1838.
Am W. Parmenter H.R.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston February 14 th 1810
I hereby Certify, That at the date of their several attestation, Nathl. H. Barton was Judge of Probate - Thomas H. Blood and William Jenison were Justices of the Peace, and all for the County of Worcester - and that Henry Richardson, Nathl. Moore and Charles Bemis were Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to their 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.
John P. Brinsmade Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Ebenezer Eaton of Framingham in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being eighty nine eight years of age and being duly sworn according to law, do depose and say, that David Waite in the month of April 1775 then of said Framingham enlisted as a private in the service of the United States in the Massachusetts Militia in the War of the Revolution in Capt. Thomas Drury's Company Col. John Nixon's Regiment and served eight months at Cambridge and vicinity and he was in the battle of Bunker Hill and I was a Sargeant in said Company during the same time. Ebenezer Eaton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, ss. November 22 d 1838 Then personally came Ebenezer Eaton and made oath that the affidavit by him subscribed was true before me Henry Richardson Justice of the Peace
Middlesex, ss. Framingham November 23 d 1838 I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Ebenezer Eaton and that he is a Gentleman entitled to full credit as a witness. Henry Richardson Justice of Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, March 13. 1829
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 David Waite is borne on a return of Capt. Drury's Company in the fifth Regt. Winter Hill Sept. 30. 1775
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Ebenezer Taylor of Sterling in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being fifty eight years of age and being duly sworn according to law do depose and say that I am personally acquainted with Mrs Abigail Waite of said Sterling and have been acquainted with her more than forty years past and that I know her to be the widow of David Waite who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and who died at Worcester adjoining said Sterling in the year A. D. 1816 and that she remains the widow of the said David Waite -
Worcester ss. May 10. 1839
Ebenezer Taylor
Sworn & Subscribed to
before J. H. Floss Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named deponent & believe him to be a person of strict veracity. -
J. H. Floss Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, March 15. 1839
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 David Waight is borne in a weekly return of Capt. Benjamin Munroe's Company. Col d Sprougts Regiment of the Massachusetts Bay State January Ye. 12. A.D. 1778. and there it appears he entered Service January 2 d . Served 2 m 20 days £ 2 Per Month.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John P. Bigelow.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of Newyork } Herkimer County } ss:
Alexander Watson of the town of Frankfort in the county of Herkimer & State of Newyork aforesaid aged about seventy eight years being duly sworn doth depose & say that he was well acquainted with David Wait the husband of Abijal Wait the applicant for a pension under the late law allowing pensions to widows in his life time - that this deponent became acquainted with the said David Waite in the year one thousand - and seven hundred and seventy eight or thereabouts - that deponent and the said David Waite at the time their acquaintance commenced both resided in the town of Marlborough in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts - And this deponent farther saith that the said David Waite and deponent both enlisted at the said town of Marlborough in the county of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts aforesaid in the early part of the month of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty as privates for the term of six months to serve in the Massachusetts line - that shortly after said enlistment the said David Waite and deponent with others were marched to Springfield in the said State of Massachusetts where they together with others were mustered on the thirteenth day of July in the same month to the number of two hundred men - That immediately after the said muster they were marched from Springfield aforesaid

under the command of Captain Pridget of the American Continental army to West Point in the State of New York where they joined the continental army - that after their arrival at West Point aforesaid they were distributed among the different continental regiments constituting the Massachusetts line - That the said David Waite and deponent were attached to the regiment commanded by colonel Greighton then lying at Gullows Hill - that the name of the lieutenant colonel of the said regiment was Hull and that of the major Oliver - that this deponent does not now remember the name of the captain of the company in which he and the said Waite served - That soon after deponent and the said David Waite were drawn from said regiment and put in another regiment of infantry belonging as deponent believes to the Massachusetts line and then commanded by colonel Shepherd - that the name of the major in the latter regiment was Truscott - That the company in which the said David Waite and this deponent served was commanded by captain Williams - That the said regiment of infantry belonged to and formed part of the brigade commanded by Brigadier general Poor - That the said regiment to which the said David Waite & this deponent belonged to as last aforesaid soon thereafter crossed the Hudson river at Kings Ferry with the rest of General Poor's brigade and marched into the state of New Jersey to a place called English neighbourhood where they encamped a short time - That from thence the said brigade marched to a place called Totoway in the latter state and thence to Hackin-sack in said state from whence the said brigade

soon returned to Totonway where it remained until joined by the regiment of the aforesaid colonel Greighton That not long thereafter the said brigade returned to West Point aforesaid on the Hudson where at the end of the said six months for which the said David Waite & deponent had enlisted the said David Waite and deponent were both discharged having fully served out the time for which they had enlisted. That this deponent and the said David Waite were together during the whole period of their service and that they left West Point after their aforesaid discharge in the early part of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty one and returned together to Marlboro- ugh in the county of Ulster & state of Mass- achusetts aforesaid. That this deponent is well acquainted with the said Abigail Waite the widow of the aforesaid David Waite the said Abigail being a sister of the wife of this deponent - that this depon- ent has been acquainted with the said Abigail Waite widow as aforesaid about fifty five years now last past. And further this deponent saith not.
Alexander Watson
Sworn to & subscribed } the 16 th day of October } 1838 before me
John B Dyer Judge
Herkimer County Court
I John B Dyer one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Herkimer Do certify that I have been acquainted with Alexander Watson named in and who deposed to the foregoing affidavit for thirty years and that he is no relation of mine & character and that full

weight and credit are due to his deposition. Dated at Frankfort in said County this 18 th Day of October A.D. 1838
John B. Dygert
State of New York Steharine County
I hereby certify that John B. Dygert Esq. was on the date of the above affidavit and certificate a Judge of the Steharine County Courts duly elected and qualified and that
I am well acquainted with his hand writing & truly believe the above signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said County Oct 17 th 1838.
Erwin A. Munson Deputy for John Dygert Clerk

I Asa Mathews of Worcester in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Keeper of the Commonwealth's Jail in the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the following is a true copy of Records from the Calendar of Persons for Worcester County committed to Gaol for crimes within the Commonwealth.
David Waite of Sterling Worcester County cordwainer committed October twenty fifth eighteen hundred and fifteen  eighteenth for Murder and died February Sixteenth  eighteenth eighteen hundred and sixteen" with the exception of the dates which are expressed on the Records in fair legible figures as follows "David Waite of Sterling Worcester County cordwainer committed October 25 th 1815 for Murder and died February 18 th 1816"
Asa Mathews
} Keeper of the Commonwealth's Gaol in the Town of Worcester and County of Worcester
I Asa Mathews above named depose and say I hold the office of Keeper of the Commonwealth's Gaol in the Town, County and Commonwealth aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the Records of the Calendar of said Gaol with the exception above named as certified by me
Asa Mathews
} Keeper of said Commonwealth's Gaol in Worcester
Worcester ss. May 10. 1839. Then the above named Asa Mathews made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit.
Before me, William Jennison, Justice of the peace.

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Cyrus Hoolbrook Esq.
Sterling Mass.

State of Massachusetts. County of Worcester.
ss. On this twenty fifth day of Sept. A.D. 1843, personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the justices of the Peace for said County, Abigail Waite a resident of Sterling in said County, aged eighty two 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 Act of Congress passed on the 3 d of March 1843, and the benefits, if any she is entitled to, of the enactments referred to in said Act of March 3 d 1843 - the latter being the act granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of David Waite, late of said Sterling, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and served under Col. Thomas Nixon, of Southborough, and Capt. Gleason, of Framingham, both of said State, in the years 1775, 1776 and about half of 1780, and who was in the Battle of Bunker Hill. That under the act of Congress approved July 7. 1838, she has received a pension the annual amount of which was seventy four dollars & thirty three cents. That the last payment which she received on account of said pension was in the Spring of 1841, That her reference above made to the enactment referred to in the Act of March 3. 1843, is for the purpose of her enabling her to realize any remainder or balance of pension to which she may be entitled thereunder, if any such there be, in addition to the benefits which she now seeks under said Act of March 3. 1843.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Attest Cyrus H. Holbrook
Abigail Waite
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year 1 st above written before Cyrus H. Holbrook Justice of the Peace.

Sterling Sept 25 - 1843 I Cyrus Holbrook, the Magistrate before whom the foregoing Declaration was subscribed and sworn to, do hereby certify that the Declarant, Abigail Waite, is personally known to me, and has been for many years, and that she is the identical person represented in the Declaration aforesaid. Witness my hand.
Cyrus Holbrook
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss. I, Joseph G. Kendall, Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Worcester, do certify that Cyrus Holbrook, Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signature to the certificate on the preceding page hereof, is in his own proper hand writing. In testimony whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the County Seal, at Worcester, this twenty eighth day of September, in the year 1843.
Joseph G. Kendall Clerk

A 4393
Oct 13. 1843
Mass Abigail Naito ad 1843
$74:33 per ann.
4210
58
9-6
Wadsworth
Commissions of Worcester
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension at Worcester
Mass

Jan 28. 1841.
In at Mass Abigail Wait
Abigail B. Wait
Census of Person
Abigail Wait
Abigail B. Wait H. O. Parmach