Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18646, Jeduthan Wellington, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wellington, Jeduthan
S 18646
carded
CONTENTS

6721
Massachusetts
Jeduthun Willington
the State of Massachusetts who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Lock of the Regt commanded by Col Gardner in the Massachusetts line for Sergeant 17 mos 11 days - $86.82
Nat R...
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts is the rate of 86 Dollars 82 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of March 1833 and sent to Hon E Evarts Present
Arrears to 14th of March 1833 - $173.64 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept " - 43.41
$217.05
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Viral Luce Clerk, Book 3 Vol. 2 Page 92
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1838 to 23 Nov 1838 the day of his death. Aft. Notified 16 March 1840
M rs D. Luce
Nov. 25, 1838

Jonathan Wellington Esq.
allow for 17 mo. 11 days
Hon. E. Everett H.R.
That he had no documentary

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Middlesex ss. On this fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judge of the Probate Court now sitting at Cornhill in and for said County, Jeduthan Wellington a resident of West Cambridge in said County, aged Eighty two 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 act of Congress passed June 7th, A. D. 1832.
THAT he was born at Waltham in said County on the fourth day of September A. D. 1750, and that there is a record of his birth in the town records of Waltham & family records : that he was in the United States service from the nineteenth day of April A. D. 1775, to the first day of January A. D. 1776 (8 mos 11 days) as a sergeant in the Massachusetts State troops : that he was residing at West Cambridge in said county when he entered the service; that he enlisted with Cap Benjamin Lock in November 1774 in a company of Volunteer troops and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Generals Ward & Washington in Col Gardner's Regiment and in said Lock's company. Lt Col Hammond & Major Bond were of the same regiment. Lt Bowman & ensign Frost were of the same company: that he marched from Cambridge to Charlestown ,
: that he served with many Provincials of the regular troops; and General Ward, Washington, Lee & Putnam regular officers were known to him: that he was in the battles of Concord & Lexington and Bunker Hill and at the end of his service received a discharge but not in writing: that he left the service on said first of January and that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at said West Cambridge where he now resides
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the tenth day of February A. D. 1776, to the tenth day of March A. D. 1776 (1 month) as a sergeant in the Massachusetts Militia that he was residing at said West Cambridge when he entered the service; that he volunteered on said 10th of February and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Genl Washington in the same company and same regiment as aforesaid : that he marched from Cambridge to Roxbury
: that he served with the main Army of the regular troops; and the aforesaid regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing and left the service on said 10th of March .
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the first day of September A. D. 1776, to the first day of December A. D. 1776 (3 mos) as a sergeant in the Massachusetts Militia that he was residing at said West Cambridge when he entered the service; that he volunteered and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Genl Washington in Capt John Walton's Company in Col Ezra Brooks Regiment Lt Col Stone & Major Bancroft were of same regiment: that he marched from Cambridge to Worcester thence to Hartford thence to New Haven & thence to New York .
: that he served with McDougall's Brigade of the regular troops; and Generals Washington & Genl McDougall regular officers were known to him; that he was in the battle
of White Plains and left that at the end of his service he received a discharge which is lost and left the service on said first day of December . Also that he served (1 mo) as a volunteer & private about one month in 1777 under Major Stone

Judith Wellington

Stone as a guard to Brigades Men . That he has no documentary evidence of his service or of any part thereof. —
The general circumstances of his services were as follows to wit, The four months service aforesaid from Nov 1774 to Apr 1775 was in a Volunteer Company raised by Capt. Lock which armed & equipped themselves & drilled all winter under Abram Watson as teacher of military tactics. — On 19 th April 75 he was called by a messenger from West Cambridge & in form of the landing of the British at Queen's Point. He proceeded to Capt Lock's & marched with the Company to Concord. — Soon after the British troops were drove to Boston which was in April his company was ordered to Punkin Hill and was in the Battle of June 17 th at that place & saw Col d Gardner carried off mortally wounded. Said Lock's company principally volunteered in the eight months service to which this applicant belonged.
In Feb 1776 he marched from Cambridge to Roxbury and was there 8 months as guard under Gen Washington in Lock's company. — About Sep r 1776 he was detached with a part of the Company to go to New York & was encamped on Valentine Hill when the Battle of White Plains took place.
Gen d M c Douglass commanded a Brigade in that action consisting of two Regiments of Regular Troops & one Brig that to which the applicant belonged of Militia troops. —
Two men of his Company who formed a file in front of him were severely wounded by cannon shot. Their names were Riley & Upham. — His Brother in Law Timothy Page was killed by a cannon shot. and this applicant buried him. — Total service 13 Months 11 days exclusive of first 4 months. — The Applicant considers himself fully entitled to the benefit of the act of 1828 for the services he rendered to the Government aforesaid.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
J. Wellington
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
We Frederick H. Hodge — J. P. P. Day residing in the town of West Cambridge and Thomas Clark  Reuben Johnson residing in West Cambridge hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jeduthan Wellington who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty two years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Reuben Johnson
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
J. P. P. Day  W. B. D.  Frederick H. Hodge
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 certify that it appears to them that Frederick H. Hodge who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clayman resident in the town of West Cambridge and that Reuben Johnson who has also signed the same is a resident in West Cambridge and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. P. P. Day  W. B. D.
I Jacobs the Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jeduthan Wellington for a pension. —
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Jacobs the Register
Charlestown Mass e 30th Oct r 1832. I certify that the above applicant Jeduthan Wellington is a person of highly respectable character & to the best of my knowledge & belief of unimpeachable veracity. Edward Everett — M. C. —

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 17 th 1840.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Jeduthan Wellington, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eighty six Dollars and eighty two Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1838, to the 25 th Nov. 1838. the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. P. T. [Signature] Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

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File No. 18646
Jonathan Wellington
Serg Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 407
[Arrangement of 1870.]