Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 86126-160-55, Amariah Wheelock, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Wheelock, Amariah Barnah
B.L.Wt. 86126-160-55-
CONTENTS

289.168
Ad. March 3/58 copied 12/58
Kannah Blackbird of Amariah Blackbird p n
Langdon Jackson Mup Mil
Wootton
Ohio original
Ad. 160 ac Feb 22/59 Dodge
Send warrant to Hon B. F. Leiter Ho of Reps
John Harmon Pocahontas Ohio
J. Harmon Apr 23/58 " " Jun 28/58 " " May 16/58 " " " 23/58 Hon B. F. Leiter Dec 31/58
Vol M. h. Page 16a

289.118 Hannah Wheelock Declaration act. of March 3 d 1805
John Harmon agent
Ravenna
Ohio

State of Ohio } County of Portage } ss.
On this twenty ninth day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight personally appeared before me a Notary public within and for the county and State aforesaid Hannah Wheelock aged ninety two years a resident of Ravenna in Portage County aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Amariah Wheelock deceased who was a private soldier in the army of the United colonies in the war of the American Revolution, that he went from Tyringham in Berkshire County Massachusetts under the orders of his officers and she believes he served under Captain Langdon or Captain Jackson and served in the state of New York near the Hudson River and continued in service for the term of two months and was honorably discharged on or about the year 1781 - that his service was performed in the summer time.
She further states that she was married to the said Amariah Wheelock in said Tyringham Mass. on or about September 6 th 1785 by one Adonijah Bidwell a minister of the Presbyterian order, of said Tyringham and that her name before her said marriage was Hannah Warren - that her said husband died at Ithaca Livingston County state of New York on or about June 29 th 1821 and that she is now a widow
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act

approved March 3 d 1855" And she further declares that she has not received or applied for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress.
Hannah her  X Wheelock mark
We Clarissa Beeman and Anson W. Beeman residents of Ravenna in the county of Portage aforesaid upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Hannah Wheelock in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and we know her to be a widow having long lived in the same family with her up to the present time
Clarissa Beeman Anson W. Beeman
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; That the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and is still a widow and that I have no interest in this claim
John Harmon Notary public

'Additional evidence'
Hannah Wheelock further states in addition to the foregoing declaration that she knows of no person living who was a witness to her marriage with said Amariah Wheelock - and she knows of no public record of said marriage, and the best evidence of said marriage she can produce is the evidence of persons who knew them living together and reputed as man & wife witness John Harmon Hannah her Wheelock mark
We John Wheelock and Clarissa Beman residents of Portage County in the State of Ohio upon our oaths declare that we knew Hannah Wheelock now of Ravenna in said County of Portage and her late husband Amariah Wheelock - that we knew them living together as man and wife many years and that they were reputed so to be and the fact of their having been married was never called in question by their acquaintances" - also that we both were present at the death of our father Amariah Wheelock the said husband of said Hannah Wheelock at Iron Livingston County New York on or about June 27 th 1822 that we saw his remains after his death and have known her the said Hannah from that time to the present as the widow of said Amariah Wheelock
John Wheelock Clarissa Beman
State of Ohio } County of Portage } ss Ravenna April 6 th 1858 - The foregoing affidavit of Hannah Wheelock (headed 'additional evidence') was sworn to and subscribed before me on the 29 th day of March A.D. 1858 and the foregoing affidavit of John Wheelock and Clarissa Beman was sworn to and subscribed before me on this sixth day of April 1858. and I certify that the affiants are all credible persons well known to me
any commission on file in } John Harmon Notary Public Pension office

Act of March 3 - 1855
Hannah Wheelock (widow of Amariah Wheelock)
Claim No. 289.168
'additional evidence'
John Harmon agent
Ravenna
Ohio

State of Ohio } County of Portage } St. Ravenna
On this fourteenth day of August A.D. 1858 Personally appeared before me a notary public within and for the County aforesaid Clarissa Beman of Ravenna in said County who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is well acquainted with Hannah Wheelock of said Ravenna widow of Amariah Wheelock formerly of Tyngsborough Massachusetts; that she knew said Amariah Wheelock living in said Tyngsborough some twenty years — that she also knew Captain Noah Langdon (or Langdon as he was called there) and Captain Jackson both of said Tyngsborough — That she has often heard her father the said Amari- ah Wheelock speak of his services in the Revolutionary War at Saratoga and he was reputed there to have served in the war of the Revolution under said Captains Jackson and Langdon and she believes there was no other Amariah Wheelock in said Tyngsborough or Berkshire County Mass. She believes that Capt. Langdon's name was formerly spelt Sancton as she knows some old people pronounced it Sancton in Tyngsborough and she has no doubt that her father the said Amariah Wheelock was the same as mentioned in the certificate of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, as sent to the Pension office, an attested copy of which she has seen
Clarissa Beman

Rhoda W. Day, a resident of Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio, on her oath declares, that she is a daughter of late Amariah Wheelock and Hannah Wheelock, formerly residing in Tyringham Massachusetts and is acquainted with the matter of the application of her said Mother (now a resident of said Ravenna) for bounty land, and is informed that the Pension Commissioners require proof that said Amariah Wheelock is the same Amariah Wheelock who served in the Revolutionary War under Captain Jackson and also under Captain Langdon or Langdon. She states that she lived with her said father and Mother in said Tyringham Massachusetts from her birth until she was past 20 years old and believes there was no other Amariah Wheelock in said Tyringham or as far as she knows in said Berkshire County - that she has often heard her father speak of his services in the Revolutionary War and he was always reputed to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and she never doubted he was a revolutionary soldier and does not doubt that he is the same as certified to by the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a copy of which certificate as sent to the pension office she has heard read.
Rhoda W. Day
The foregoing affidavits of Clarissa Beman and of Rhoda W. Day were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year as dated; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons.
John Harmon Notary Public
183 My commission is filed in the Pension office

State of Ohio } County of Portage }
23. Ravenna August fourteenth A.D. 1858
Hannah Wheelock on her oath declares in addition to her declaration made before me March 29 th 1858 on her application for bounty land as the widow of Amariah Wheelock a revolutionary soldier - that she has no doubt of his said services under Captain Noah Langdon and Captain Jackson as she often heard him speak of it in his after life while he was her husband and lived with her in Tyngsborough Berkshire County Massachusetts from their marriage in September 1784 to near the time of his death in June 1822 and she believes there was no other Amariah Wheelock in said Tyngsborough or in Berkshire County, though she cannot make positive proof of that fact; and of the fact of her late husband's services in the revolutionary War as certified of Amariah Wheelock by the Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and forwarded to the Pension Office - for she presumes there is no man living who was in said War with him and who knows that he was afterwards her husband.
She believes that in her first declaration she called the name of his Captain Langdon - and the said certificate spells the name Langdon but she knew the man intimately, was long a neighbor to him, and he was called Langdon except by some old people who did pronounce the name Langdon .
Hannah Wheelock her mark
The foregoing Declaration was sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; And I certify that the affiant is a credible person as I well know, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and is still a widow, and that I have no interest in her claim
John Harmon Notary Public

Hannah Wheelock
P. J. Valentine M.D. Pensions - Ohio origin see B. Ladd case D.C. Ex Ohio Poygan
W. C. 16/22 Poygan
Conquest case

80,126
101 Acres

Act of 1832 - Nant. 289.168
FREE.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Hamble - Mr. C. Amos Phelpsick 289.168 Ohio dec
Rep. Cooper
(Faint handwritten text, possibly "W. Phelps")
Baynton Ch. Ex. - Apr 16/58
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
D. R.
FREE
Additional evidence

FREE
Act of March 3 1855
No 289.168
Hannah Wheelock
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
JL
Boston

FREE
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
J. L.
Boston
Act of March 3 1834 No 289.168 Hannah Wheelock

additional evidence,
Amasa Wheeler  289.1  2910  Dec
289.1 2910  Dec
Commissioner of Pensions
Not for files
Aug 23 d 58
(Respectfully)
Washington City
D.C.
FREE
300
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General Whelock's door
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R. F. Latin M.C.
Hon. Geo. C. Whiting Comm. Pensions Washington D.C.

Town Clerk of Monterey Mass. Feb. 8 - 1859 (Jonas Townsend T. Clk.)

Monterey Feb. 8 th 1859
Mr. Harmon
Dear Sir
Yours of the 29 th ult. was duly rec d . And I have made a thorough search in the records and papers of my office for the purpose of getting some clue to the information you wished respecting Amariah Wheelock, but thus far I have been unsuccessful. I would state that the old book of Records of Marriages of Tyringham is not in my office and if there ever was such a record kept, I know not where it is. The old Records of the doings of the town of Tyringham, I have, from its first settlement. I have examined those which were kept during the period of the Revolution, and find where men were employed to hire Soldiers, for the Continental service but do not find the name of any Soldier that

was so hired.
It is true that the towns of Mass. at the present time keep a record of all Births, Deaths, & Marriages. And returns of the same, are made to the Secretary of the Commonwealth at Boston. by the town clerks each year. Whether this was practiced as far back as the period 1785 of which we are speaking, I am not informed. If it were so practiced, then the information you wish respecting the marriage could be obtained there.
Respectfully Yours
Jon a Townsend { Town Clerk of Monterey
To John Harmon Esq.

House of Reps Dec 10. 1858
Sir:
I am requested to inquire of you the situation of the Claim of Hannah Whelock N o 289.168. I do not know what it is for, but suppose it is for a land warrant.
Yours truly,
B. F. Luter
Com. Pensions

Town Clerk of Tyngsborough Mass. Jan 26 - 1849 (A. B. Heath J. Elk)

Syringham Jany 24 th 1859
Dear Sir
There is no record of the marriage of Amariah Whelock and Hannah W. in my office. I have no records of any marriages prior to the year 1800.
Perhaps you might get the desired information from the Town Clerk of Monterey-Berkshire County Mass. as Monterey was formerly a part of Syringham and the old records are there if there were any such records kept.
Respectfully Yours &c
A. C. Heath Town Clerk of Syringham

Case of Hannah Wheelock
Comrs. letter Dec. 31-1858
No. 289.168

Pension Office,
Dec 31 st , 1858.
Sir:
In answer to your letter of the 10 th , instant, I have the honor to state: that Hannah Wheelock of Portage Co., Ohio, made application for bounty land as the widow of Amariah Wheelock, who, she alleged, served in the Revolutionary war from Tyringham, Mass.; and that she was married to him in 1785. In support of her claim she filed a certificate from the Secretary of State of Mass., showing that Amariah Wheeler, of the same County did serve more than fourteen days; but she did not prove that this Amariah was her husband. The town records in Mass. are very complete in noticing births, marriages, deaths, military service, and other evidence relative to their inhabitants.
This claimant has been requested to furnish evidence from the records of Tyringham of her husband's service, her marriage, &c., but has failed to comply with this request; and hence her claim remains suspended. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully,
Your ob't Servt, W. A. Whitney
Hon. B. F. Leiter,
Dodge House of Representatives.
Commissioner.

Hannah Wheelock
No. 289.168

Could there have been two Amariah Wheelocks went from Tyngsboro Mass.?
Con't. of Pension
Ravenna O. Aug. 8 th - 1858
Sir
Your Com. of July 28 th
Suspending the claim of Hannah Wheelock widow of Amariah was received yesterday.
You want proof that claimant's husband was the soldier who performed the service indicated by the certificate of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts."
Now it seems to me this is unreasonable and what you have never required of me in the more than forty claims I have presented to Pension office unreasonable because there is probably now no one living that served with him or if they were they must be over 100 years old and intellect gone.
The claimant is old now about 93 and if she ever wants the avails of her claim it is now during her life time. (her husband Amariah Wheelock)
We proved that he went from Tyngsboro by her declaration and if she did not recollect the Captain's name it is not strange at her age. And I think she did in her declaration name one of his officers and one more she afterwards suggested to me as one she believed he served under. But his service was before their marriage and therefore the names not so strongly on her memory.
Now will you be so good as to reexamine her declaration and compare it with the Certificate of Secy. of State of Mass. and I trust you will allow the claim. If not our proof if any can be found, must be 600 miles off and she an old woman just ready for the grave

As a last resort we shall be compelled to appeal to the head of your Department or to Congress & in mean time she will no doubt pass off the stage and will then need no bounty from human hands.
I say this from no disrespect for yourself but to show our earnestness such as no petition, claimant can be expected to express. I never presented a petition, claim and never shall. The claimant is an honest neighbor who I have known near 40 years & whose former residence - Tyringham Mass. can be easily proven and that is the place I think indicated by the Secretary of Mass. as the residence of that Amariah Wheelock he described as a soldier &c.
Very respectfully &c.
John Harmon agent
Please re-examine

287,168 Act Mar 3/55- April 12/58
Hannah Westbrook Widow of Amariah Westbrook Print-
Capt. Spurgeon or Jackson
86! 26-1
Revolutionary War
Original brief within
John Harmon Painesville Ohio

Hannah Wheelock widow of Amariah Wheelock a Soldier of Revolution
John Harmon Ravenna Ohio agent

Application for Certificate of Revolutionary Services Made by the widow of the party who rendered the service, State of Ohio County of Portage Township of Ravenna, June 16 th 1858 -
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the rolls in his office of the service of Amariah Wheelock in the war of the revolution.
He was a native of the town of Mendon, in the county of _____ and State of Massachusetts. He enlisted or otherwise entered the U S service or the service of the State of Massachusetts from the town of Tyringham in Berkshire County in said Mass. in the latter part of the war of the revolution and in the summer season probably in 1781 or 1782 - as a private soldier in the company commanded by Capt. _____ in the regiment
and he served as I have often heard him say two months The place of service and names of his officers I do not remember to have known with certainty
Hannah her Wheelock mark
State of Ohio County of Portage ss. June 16-1858
I certify that the foregoing affidavit was sworn to and Subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I know the affiant to be a credible person
John Harmon  Notary Public
of Portage County Ohio my commission in Puyallup office

Act of March 3 rd 1855
Hannah Wheelock
claim
No. 289.168
"additional evidence"
John Harmon agent
Ravenna
Ohio

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston.
June 26, 1858.
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 Amariah Wheelock is borne upon "A Pay Roll of Lieut. Solomon Jackson's Company, in Col. John Ashley's regiment of militia, who marched under Lieut. Col. John Cullar, from the county of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by order of Col. John Ashley, in October 1781, in an alarm, to the Northward for continental pay." Service, 12 days as a private; pay roll attested, "Tyngsborough, 23d January, 1782."
The name of Amariah Wheelock is likewise borne upon "A Pay Roll of Capt. Noah Sanborn's Company, in Col. Ashley's regiment of Militia in the county of Berkshire, in the State of Massachusetts Bay, for service done at Saratoga for the United States of America, by order of Gen. Gates, from ye 26th day of April to the 20th day of May, 1777." Service, 25 days as a private.

It is also borne on "A Pay Roll of capt. Noah Saneton's Company of the 1st regiment of militia in the county of Berkshire, whereof John Ashley was Colonel, in an expedition to Kingsberry by order of John Fellows, Esq., Brig. Gen. of said militia, July ye 8, 1777." Service as a private, 20 days and 190 miles travel.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Oliver Warner.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.