Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6,385, Nathaniel Wilder, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wilder Nathaniel
S. 6385
CONTENTS
carded

Rev War
6385 INVALID.
File No. 6385
Nathaniel Wilder
Print Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832.
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 408
[Arrangement of 1870.]

to Mar 4 Jan. 1837
Inscribed on the Rolls of Parliament, 1834. at the rate of £100 per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of June 1835 to the  the Widow of James M c Guire
Amount to the last of account at 1838 $ 38.00 General allowance at 1838 $ 14.00
142.58
{ Revolutionary Club, } { Sat. June 2, 1893. }
Recorded by Alvin Nelson 1876 Book 2 Vol. 1 Page 25

Nathaniel Wilder
22,315
Ph. ch. 8 Mr 21 day
21 11 21 21 231
26.67 23.33 29.00
E. Alvord Esq Greenfield Mass

BRIEF in the case of Nathaniel Wilder of Wendell in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Eighty one years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     In 1775 8 Private Col o Brewer Col o Bondwell   In June 1777 21 " Capt o Brackenridge  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None Named  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? In Town of Ware, Mass.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? A living witness and traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correctly authenticated 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Franklin ss:
On this 14 th day of August 1832. personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas, being a court of record for the County of Franklin now sitting, Nathaniel Wilder a resident of Wendell in said County aged eighty one 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 provision made by Act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832. that he the said Nathaniel Wilder on the 20 th of April 1775. immediately on the receipt of the news of Lexington Battle marched with others from the town of Ware in the County of Hampshire to Cambridge near Boston, where about the first of May following he enlisted into the service for eight months in Cap t Jonathan Boidwell's company, in Col o David Brewer's regiment & Lieut o Col o Putnam - they were marched to Roxbury where he served out his time, & was then honorably dismissed without a discharge the first of January 1776, I return'd home to Ware, see below three years after he moved to Wendell where he has lived ever since - That after repeated attempts to find persons personally knowing to his said service in the army, cannot find any now living, & he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State -
Sworn to & subscribed this day & year aforesaid. Attest E. Alvord Clerk
Nathaniel Wilder
In the month of June 1777. orders came for all hands to turn out & march to Ticonderoga, he marched accordingly under Cap t William Brakeridge & Lieut. Foster & was gone three weeks -

& Alpheus Harding of Newbury allengymen residing near We Abraham Stone of Newbury  both  both residing in Newbury hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Wilder, who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be eighty one years of age, that he is re- puted & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion — Sworn & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid.
Abraham Stone Alpheus Harding
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 Alphus Harding who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in New Salem a town adjoining said Wendell and Abraham Stone a resident in of said Wendell who has also signed the same is a credible person; and that their certificate is entitled to credit
Attest E. Alvord, Clerk
I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Wilda for a pension.
And I further certify that Edmund Longley Jr. Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit was made & sworn to is a Justice of the Peace for said county; and that his name subscribed to the same appears to me to be his genuine signature. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court the sixteenth day of August A. D. 1832.
E. Alvord Clerk

Nathaniel Wilder Josiah Davis Aff
Wilder

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin County ss I Josiah Davis of Buckland County of Franklin Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy five years, do hereby and say that I am acquainted with Nathaniel Hildes of Wendell in said county and am knowing that in April 1775 he enlisted into the service of the Continental for eight months and served said term of time in Capt. Jonathan Bedwell's Company, Col. David Rootes Regiment, having been in the same company with him during said time. Josiah Davis
Franklin ss. August 14 th 1882
Personally appeared Josiah Davis signed to the above Declaration and made oath to the truth of the same, he being related to be a person of truth and integrity before me Edmund Longley Jun Justice of the Peace

Nathaniel Wilder Wendell
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