Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11671, Abraham Washburn, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Washburn, Abraham
S. 11671
carded
CONTENTS

3806 Massachusetts Abraham Washburn
of Berk Co in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Col Nickerson in the Mass line for 2 Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 80 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of Dec 1832 and sent to Bishop Temple Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $120 ~ Semi-annual allowance ending 4th Mar 33 40 ~
$160 ~
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H Blair Clerk Book D - Vol. 2 nd Page 93

4750 Abraham Washburn
Private
Capt Wheeler's Company
Col Nixon's Regt - Mass
2 years
Adm'd
on Roll of service
$80~
A. W. Bishop - Senior M.P.

BRIEF in the case of  Abraham Washburn -  of Berkshire 6 th in the State of Mass -  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court -  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 79 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.     In 1777 Jany. 3 — — priv - Gen. Capt n Adam Wheeler Col l Thos. Nickerson  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Bemis Heights -  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hampshire County  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary Evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective as to time & connection - 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J H McBlain Examining Clerk.

4785. Abraham Washburn Application for Pension Wadsworth Mass Augt 28, 1832

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE, ss.
ON this twenty eighth day of August A.D. 1832, personally appeared before the Hon. Wm. H. Walcutt Judge of the Court of Probate of the Abraham Washburn , a resident of Hinsdale in the county of Berkshire and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged seventy nine 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 provisions made by the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832:—That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1777 . for the term of three years and served in the following regiment of the Massachusetts line, under the following named officers: to wit: In the Companys
Commanded by Captain Adam Wheeler , in the Regiment, Commanded by Col Thomas Nicholson in the Brigade Commanded by Brigadier General Nicholson (whose christian name Isaac doth not recollect) — Mr. Wheeler was a Lieutenant in 8 th Company — Recruited in Tannington . He thinks of said year, had permission to remain until the 1 st of May next for the purpose of being incorporated for June — In May he joined the Company at Boston & remained there a month or six weeks & then marched with the troops thro' Springfield & Great Barrington in said State of Massachusetts to Albany . He was then in 7 th Regt when we joined the troops under Gen Burgoyne . From St. Edward we marched to Orleans , Troy at the junction of the Mohawk with the Hudson , where we joined Gen Gates . We then marched to a place on the Hudson River called Bemis  Heights  Heights where sometime in 8 th September a battle took place — we remained there until the 8 th & 9 th Battle, which took place in October , & then followed the Army to Saratoga , where Burgoyne surrendered — then marched to Albany , where Gen Nicholson's Brigade took up their winter quarters — In the month of February or March , marched to Harrington in Connecticut . From Harrington we marched to Conesville in the State of New York . From there we marched to a place North of the White Plains in the State of New York (the name he does not recollect) and then to Fishkill on Hudson River , where we remained until Fall — he then obtained a furlough & returned home.
On the 20 th October 1778. he employed a substitute for the remainder of the term for which he had enlisted, with the consent of his Officers. & received from him the paper hereunto annexed — He said him as therein mentioned after term had expired. he then said Washburn , drew Partners for the whole term of three years, at Boston .
He was born in 1821 in Witchita County in the State of Connecticut in 1753 . He resided in Norwich , then in Hampshire County (now in Han. Co. Va. ) in Massachusetts at the time he enlisted.
During the time he was in the service he was frequently sent out, with one Captain Graves , as a spy — He never had any discharge as he recollects & does not know of any person, advertising , who can testify to his service. — The furlough above mentioned was in writing, but is lost.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension, or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any state.
Abraham Washburn
8.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W. P. Walker. J. Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
W. P. Walker. J. Probate
J. Henry N. Bishop. Register of the Court of Probate of County do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abraham Wash. for a Pension.
whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this Twenty Eighth day of August A.D. 1832.
Henry N. Bishop. Register of Probate

Norwich October the 20 1778 Received of Abraham Washburn the sum of one hundred and twenty pound Lawfull money for which is promiss to pay fourteen months Service in the Continental Army as witness my hand Daniel Drennan William Rotham his X mark

Hinsdale August 25 th 1832
To Hon. William P. Walker Judge of Probate, This certifies that the bearer, Abraham Washburn, is a a gentleman of good and unblemished moral character, and strict morality.
William A. Howland Minister of the gospel.

To His Honor Wm Walker This may Certify that I have lived near Col. Abraham Washburn for more than twenty years and can Certify that he has been of a good character and that he has given an account of being in the army and that when he was at the taking of Dubuque that he served as a spy and that Conducted Col. to the place that he entered the British Camp
Hinodale August 1882
Samuel Wright

William D. Walker Esq. Sir, I cheerfully certify you that I have been acquainted with Capt. Abraham Washburn of Hinsdale, the Bearer, for thirty years, particularly during my Ministry in Hinsdale from 1802 to 1816, & feel safe in stating that his character as a man of probity & veracity stands fair. I am well assured that those who have been most intimately acquainted with him for a long time most highly esteem him; & I hesitate not to add that I should place as full confidence in any statement he should make as in that of any other man.
Respectfully Yours
Caleb Knight
Washington 27 August 1832

Important receipt

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WAR & NAV. OCT 17 1898 FILES.
151 Marion Street Springfield, Mass.
Oct. 12, 1898.
United States Pension Commissioners,
Dear Sirs,
Can
you tell me if you have any record of a pension which was paid to Abram Washburn, Berkshire County, Massachusetts for his services as a soldier in the Revolutionary War?
Mr. Washburn died between 1840 and 1850 and drew this pension until his death. Any information about it will be very gratefully received.
Yours truly
Julia Irene Goodrich.

Nov. 7/98. Mrs. Julia S. Goodrich. Springfield Mass.
Rev. man
INVALID.
File No. 11,671
Abraham Washburn
Brn. Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. a , Page 394
[Arrangement of 1870.]