Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30561, Timothy Wakefield, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Wakefield, Timothy
830561
CONTENTS

15.146 Massachusetts Timothy Wakefield of Middlesex in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Bancroft of the Regt commanded by Col Reed in the Mass line for 15 Mo & 18 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 32 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of July 1833 and sent to John Prescott East Cambridge Mass Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $104.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 26.00 $130.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. Blagden Clerk, Book E Vol. 2 Page 92
78 Middlesex
Date of death unknown

215 1/2
Timothy Wakefield Mass
Thurs 15 Mar 18 days
Joshua Prescott Esq. East Cambridge Mass
Isaac Dashi Middlesex Co Mass

Asst.  BRIEF in the case of  County of Middlesex
Anthony Blakefield in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 76  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.     Enlist In 1775 — — 13 Private Capt Batchelder Col Bridge   — — — 2 do Eaton   1776 — 3 3 — Banerof. Col Red   1778 — 3 — — Alyman, Gerrish   — — 4 — — Sargants " "   — — 3 — — None  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Reading, Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? documentary, Living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. D. Clapp Examining Clerk.

Since my wakefield.
Declaration

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
On this fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honourable Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, now sitting, Simothy Wakefield a resident of Reading in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy six 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 7, A. D. 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated: viz, that he enlisted in the fall of the year in 1774 as a private in the 19th year of his age into a company in said Reading commanded by Capt John Batchelder, in Col Bridgeman's Regiment, and with said company on the 19th of April 1775 marched with said company to Concord and there met the British troops just as they were beginning to return who fired upon the company as they came up to them but not having a sufficient force to combat with them they were obliged to let them pass, and then immediately followed them to Lexington and Charlestown, and as they could find occasion harassed them on their way to Charlestown Neck. The British troops passed said Neck and went on to Bunkerhill where they remained till the next day when if he remembers right they went over to Boston. but He further declares that he remained there till the Army was reinforced, which according to his best remembrance was some time in May following.
see Secretaries certificate for this 13 days
In June following he says that he was again called out on an alarm with Capt Thomas Eaton's company in said Reading on the 17th June following on the day of the Battle of Bunkerhill and went to Cambridge and Charlestown and remained there according to his best recollection about three or four days and that he was again called out on an alarm in said company and went to Chelsea and remained there about three days. The reason of their being so often called out he says was the sight of some British vessels which were apprehended to be coming in to Boston.
as above 4 days
3 days can find no proof of this
He further declares that he enlisted in said Reading in the last of June or first of July A.D. 1776 as a private in the company commanded by Capt James Burroughs in Col Reed's Regiment for five months in the service of the United States and went from said Reading to Brattleboro in said County and there joined said company and marched from that place through St. John's Walpole, New Hampshire, and Ludlow, and Rutland in Vermont and on to
See Aaron Parker's deposition for this service of 6 months

Shensborough at the head of Lake Champlain, and there he took water passage to Siconderoga , where after his arrival he and his Company were stationed and did Military service, till a short time before his term of service was out; when his company were marched to Albany , and soon after its arrival there the term of his enlistment as well as that of the Company expired and he with the whole company were dismissed. He further declares that he enlisted for three months as a private in February 1778 in said Reading in to Col. Jesse Wymans Company in Col. Jacob Goshorn's Regiment and went from said Reading to Charlottesville and he and his Company were stationed on Bunkerhill and there he did duty with said Company in guarding Burgoyne's Troops during the term of his three months enlistment and there he and his company were marched to Albany in said Reading and were dismissed by their captain Jesse Wymans at a place in said Reading called "Black Horse Tavern".
He further declares that he was born in said Reading in Feb. 1756. That he has a record of his age on the Town records in said Reading , that he was living in said Reading when called into service, that he has not lived in said Reading since the Revolutionary war and now lives there. That he enlisted in to the service as aforesaid. That the names of his regular officers who were with him with the troops with whom he served, and the Continental and Militia regiments, and general circumstances of his services are as above stated. That he never received any discharge from service, and never had any commission that Col. Daniel Gilt, Col. Edmund Packer, Daniel Gilt, and Col. John Hart Esqrs. can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
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 any state,
Timothy Wakefield
We, Reuben Emerson a clergyman, residing in the South Reading and John Hart Esq. a Magistrate residing in South Reading hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Timothy Wakefield who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; — that we believe him to be seventy six years of age: that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
John Hart Esq. Reuben Emerson
J. P. Pay Wood
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 above-named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify, that it appears to them that Reuben Emerson who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in South Reading and that John Hart who has also signed the same, is a resident in South Reading and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. P. Pay Wood
I Isaac Iske Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Timothy Wakefield for a pension. It is not to the depositions of Jonathan Ames & Aaron Packer who answer is a petition of Reuben
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Isaac Iske
He further declares that he enlisted and served in North Reading in 1778 in August in Col. Goshorn's Regt. 3 months and served that time also in Reading . Col. Goshorn's Company, Col. Jesse Wymans Company, 1778. Col. Goshorn's Regiment and was there discharged. He further declares that he served over four months and was there discharged.
whole service is 15 months & 20 days

November 20, 1931
BA-J/EEL
Mr. L. Parker Howard Reading Inn Reading, Massachusetts
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you requested information in regard to Timothy Wakefield, a pensioner of Reading, Massachusetts, also of other pensioners of that town.
The record of Timothy Wakefield is furnished herein. Revolutionary War pensioners are filed according to the full name of the soldiers and not in groups according to their places of residence, so there is no way to determine which ones resided in Reading.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.30561, based upon the military service of Timothy Wakefield in that war.
Timothy Wakefield was born in February, 1756, in Reading, Massachusetts. His birth was recorded on the town records of said Reading.
While residing in Reading, Massachusetts, he enlisted in the fall of 1774, in a company of minutemen commanded by Captain John Bacheller and Colonel Bridge, marched with his company on the alarms of Lexington and Concord, and they were fired upon by the enemy returning from Concord, and pursued the enemy to Lexington and Charlestown; he was discharged in May following; on June 17, 1775, he went out on an alarm and served three or four days in Captain Thomas Eaton's Massachusetts Company, and again on an alarm, date not given, served three days in same company; He enlisted about the first of July, 1776, and served five months in Captain James Bancroft's Company, Colonel Reed's Massachusetts Regiment; he enlisted in February, 1778, and served three months in Captain Jesse Wyman's Company, Colonel Jacob Gerrish's Massachusetts Regiment, and in same year re-enlisted and served a tour of four months in Captain John Berry's Company, Colonel Gerrish's Massachusetts Regiment; in August, 1779, he enlisted and
Not Cont. This was the Jas Bancroft who was in Col. Donathan Reed's Mass Regt. S. & S. Mass. S. & S. Vol. I, page 562 - also Mass S. & S. VOL. XIII pages 76 & 77

served three months in Captain Nathan Sergeant's Company, in General Gates' Guard.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, while residing in Reading, Massachusetts.
There are no data whatever as to his family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.
Date of death not on AB

30 561 INVALID. Rev
File No. 30 561
Timothy Wakefield Rev War
Act: Same In 39"
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 255
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1917 Aug. 21 Hist. to Mary L. Fay 1931 Nov. 20—Nest, to Mr L Parker Howard—Ech 1932 Jan. 19. L. Parker Howard adv. cost of photos. mm.H.G. 1932 Feb. 11 Photos mailed to L. Parker Howard Account. Rev. ntfd. 9.10.4

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Middlesex ss.
Dear Sir,
Secretary of War
As I send you herewith the Declarations of Timothy Wakefield, Jeremiah Hartshorn and Jonathan Nichols for Pensions under the Act of Congress of June 17th AD 1832. I have delayed sending them together with several others which I shall send you for the purpose of searching the Rolls in the Secretary's office in our State, and I have made a thorough search, but from the manifest deficiency on the Rolls, I have been unable to find so much on the rolls as they respectively claim, I have however procured in every case Depositions of credible witnesses to those not found, when any living evidence could be found. But in some instances, there were none or if any living, the Declarant was unable to find of remember any person who was in the service. It may also happen through the length of time, that some may have mistaken the year or the season of the year, or in some instances their Col. or Captains, and in others were not able through the shortness of the service, want of Memory, or other cause, to date their names or the even the year or time of the year when they performed them. But in most instances the place has not been distinctly remembered, and

I fully believe from this statement that there has not been one instance where there has been any fraudulent statement made by any of those who have applied to me for to frame their Declarations. It will be seen in some instances that in the Declarations, the services are not put exactly in the order of the time in which they happened. This I always intended to do, but from their defective memory or from not being able to recite some of their services which took place after others, the latter are in some cases put in the Declarations before others of a prior date. And although order might have facilitated the Secretary in his investigations yet I apprehend it will not materially effect the truth of their statements.
I have correc comied the Declarations of all but one that of Daniel Flint to the Secretary and got him to certify the amount claimed , the time when they declare to have entered , the service found and that not found and the place where they were stationed , or performed the service supposing that it might be of some service to the Secretary to have it all stated thus, that he might at one view see all claimed, allowed &c.
Yours with sincere Respect Joshua Peirce

Claron Parker Depo. for Timothy Wakefield
Timothy Wakefield
21513
Ames

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Novem 20 1832.
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 Timothy Walfield has served under the following
Officers
   Captains Colonels Term of service service claimed Rolls found Rolls not found Where Stationed   When Entered on Rolls ended     Jn o Bacheller Bridge 1775 April 19 th May 3 rd 13 13 0 Cambridge   Tho s Eaton Green D o Marm June 4 2 2 Marm   D o D o D o D o 3 3 Chelrey   Jn o Bancroft Reed 1776 June last or 1 st July 5 m o 2 5 Secondaroga   Joseph Wyman Gerrish 1778 Feb y 18 May 18 3 3 Bunker Hill   John Berry D o 1778 Aug 16 Dec r 24 4 4 0   Nath l Sargent Gen l Gates 1779 Feb y 14 May 14 3 3   15. 20 10. 24 5. 5  
Sum of whole service found on the Rolls Ten months & twenty four days.
Edward D Bangs Secy.

I, Jonathan Eames of Wilmington in the County of Middlesex and state of Massachusetts do depose, and say that I enlisted in the service of the United States for the term of three months in the Company commanded by Capt. Jesse Wyman in said Wilmington and Col. Jacob Gerrist Regiment in February in 1778 and went from said Wilmington to Charlestown and were stationed on Bunker Hill and there performed military service in guarding Burgoyne's troops during the whole time or term of three months and was was then regularly dismissed some time in May following, I well remember that at the close of the three months, that Capt. Wyman marched with his company from Bunker Hill to Woburn in said County of Middlesex and there we were all dismissed at a place in said Woburn called the "Black Horse Tavern" During which time I was well acquainted with Timothy Wakefield of Reading in said County of Middlesex, Esq. who was enlisted in the same com- pany with me and performed military ser- vice in said company with me during the whole of said three months, and was then dis- missed with the rest of said company at the place in Woburn aforesaid.
August 28 th 1832
Jonathan Eames
State of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex ss
On this twenty eighth day of August 1832 personally appeared the above named Jonathan Eames and made oath that the facts stated in the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed were true before me Joshua Prescott Jus. Peace I further certify that said Jonathan Eames is

a highly respectable man and that his testimony is worthy of full credit and belief
Joshua Pennott Jr. Pae.

Jonathan Eames Depa for Timothy Wakefield

I Aaron Parker of Reading in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts do depose and say that in the latter part of June or first of July A D 1775 I enlisted for the term of five months in the service of the United States as a private in said Reading into the Company commanded by Capt James Bancroft in Col. Nicks Regiment, and went from Reading to Bil- lerica in said County, and there joined the said Company, from that place we marched through Greene New Hamp- shire, and Ludlow, and Rutland Vermont, and on to Skeneborough at the head of Lake Champlain, and there we took water passage to Ticonderoga, where after our arrival we were  stationed and performed milita- ry service, till a short time before our time was out, when we were marched to Albany, and soon after our arrival there, the term of our enlistment expired, and we were dismissed, and came home, there
During which time I was well acquainted with Timothy Wakefield of said Reading Esq who I well remember enlisted at the same time into the same Company and there with me performed Military service during the whole of said five months, and we were dismissed at the same time and came home together. Aaron Parker August 28 th A D 1832.
State of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex ss.
On this 28 th day of August A D 1832 Personally appeared the above named Aaron Parker and made oath that the facts stated in the above Deposition by him subscribed were true before me and I further certify that said A. Parker is a credible witness. Joshua Prescott Just Peace

One 2 cent stamp paid ✓ MM Stamp retd Read Commissaries Cu Sec of D of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly send me at once a statement with regard to the record of Timothy Wakefield of Reading, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, and was placed on the pension roll of the State of Mass. Aug. 1, 1833. He was a private

allowance $52.00 - $ and his annual allowance to cover with the statement to cover by my claim to the Daughters Colonial Society at Wash- ington, D.C. by the  the  Daughters of Reaching, the  the  Daughters Committee Massachusetts as a Revolutionary an- cestor of mine.
Thanking you in advance, and requesting a speedy reply.
Respectfully yours,
Mary L. May - 225 East Third St. Elyria - Ohio.
Aug. 16 th 1917 -

THE READING INN
193 MAIN STREET , READING, MASS.
Nov. 30, 1931.
A. D. Hiller, Asst. Veterans Administration, Washington, D. C.
I recently asked your office for the affidavit made by Timothy Wakefield , a Revolutionary War pensioner, S. 30561, in his application for a pension, 1832. In your reply, you give his service record which I already had from "The Mass. Soldiers & Sailors of the Rev. War."
Will you be kind enough to copy his own statement , and that of any others that were made at that time for him.
Respectfully yours, L. Parker Howard
See BA-J/EEL

Reading Inn, Reading Mass., Oct. 21, 1931.
Pension Office, Washington, D. C.
Will you please send me a copy of the deposition made by Timothy Wakefield of Reading, Mass., a pensioner of the Revolutionary War, which gave the facts as to his service therein.
What other pensioners in that war were listed from the same town.?
Will you please send me a copy of their depositions and of any other letters giving information of their services or their experiences while in the army.
Any regular charge for performing this work, I shall be glad

to meet, if you will first give me an estimate. My ancestors were some of the founders of Reading in 1644; I have spent a great deal of time upon its history, and shall publish such information of its Revolutionary soldiers as your office  is able to supply.
Respectfully, (Mr) Loaa Parker Howard.

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON
January 19, 1932.
IN REPLY REFER TO: BA-J/MMHF
Mr. L. Parker Howard, The Reading Inn, Reading, Massachusetts.
33716
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request photostatic copies of original papers on file in Revolutionary War claim for pension of Timothy Wakefield (S.30561).
The number of pages to be copied is seven.
The cost is fifteen cents a page.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this office by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States.
Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.
Dear Sir, - I enclose a money order to cover the cost of the copying the Revolutionary papers of the above named pensioner.
Very truly yours, L. Parker Howard
January 20, 1932.
See copy of pension record

Rev. & 1812 No. 68.
February 1, 1932.
Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
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UNCERTIFIED.
Rev. War claim for pension of
Timothy Wakefield, File No.
S. 30561.
Actual 1 of each page.
$1.05.....7 pages
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Kindly leave margin of 1 1/2 in. at top of each page and return papers in each case in folder with corresponding name and number. The word "omit" written in pencil on those pages which are not to be copied.
Chief, Rev.&1812 Wars Section
[Faint handwritten notes and dates, including "Rev. & 1812 Wars Section" and "Feb 2-1932"]

  List to L. Parker Howard:     Sol. decl. Sept. 5-1832  2 pages    Secretary of Mass. Certificate Nov. 20-1832.  1 "    Jonathan Eames' affid. Aug. 28-1832  2 "    Aaron Parker's affid. Aug. 28-1832  1 "    Sol. Ctf. jacket No. 15646  1 "   
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January 19, 1932.
BA-J/MMHF
Mr. L. Parker Howard, The Reading Inn, Reading, Massachusetts.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request photostatic copies of original papers on file in Revolutionary War claim for pension of Timothy Wakefield (S.30561).
The number of pages to be copied is seven.
The cost is fifteen cents a page.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this office by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
S. F. No 5-61
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Timothy Wakefield a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Fall of 1774 ✓ Minuteman John Bocheiler Bridge Mass.   Apr. 19 1775 3 days John Bocheiler Bridge   June 1775 3 or 4 days Thomas Eaton at Cambridge & Charlestown   ✓ 3 days Thomas Eaton at Chelsea   June & July 1776 5 mos. Pvt. James Bancroft Rec'd   Feby 1778 3 mos. " Jesse Hyman Isaac Garrison   Aug. 16 1778 4 mos. John Berry Garrison   July 14, 1779 3 mos. Nathan Sargent ✓  
Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Reading, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Sept 5 1832 The claim was ab.
Residence at date of application, Reading Middlesex Co. Mass.
Age at date of application, born in February 1756 at Reading Mass.
Remarks: There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.