Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30747, Samuel Trowbridge, Mass.

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Trowbridge, Samuel S. 30747
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474 Massachusetts Samuel Fowbridge of Newton in the State of Mass who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Fallen of the Reg t - commanded by Colo. Bullard in the — Mass line for 6 Months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of June 1834 — and sent to Hono. William Jackson H of Representatives
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834 $ 60 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Sep 10 $ 70
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk Book 6 Vol. 2 Page 35
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11106
Samuel Troobridge

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Middlesex ss.
On this twenty second day of August 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 Charlestown in and for said County, Samuel Trowbridge a resident of Newton in said County, aged seventy five 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 said Newton
on the twenty fourth day of June A. D. 1757, and that there is a record of his birth in town Records of Newton: that he was in the United States service from the twentieth day of January A. D. 1776, to the first day of April A. D. 1776. (2m 5d) as a private in the Massachusetts Militia
: that he was residing at said Newton when he entered the service; that he entered the service as a volunteer on said twentieth of January — and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Gen Washington, in Capt Joseph Warren's company and Col Shute's Regiment, and St Col Hammond was of the same Regt — : that he marched from Newton to Cambridge
: that he served with none that he particularly recollects of the Militia or of the regular troops; and Ensign Hunt afterwards Captain Colonel in the American Army — regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle
but not in writing — and at the end of his service received a discharge : that he left the service on said first of April and that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at said Newton where he still resides. He has no documentary evidence of this service
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the first day of August A. D. 1777, to the first — day of January A. D. 1778 (5m) as a private — in the Massachusetts Militia that he was residing at said Newton when he entered the service; that he entered the service as a volunteer on said first of August and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Gen Gates in Capt Joseph Fuller's company and Col Bullard's Regiment : that he marched from Newton to Albany, thence to Bennington, thence to Stillwater thro' Northampton Mass. Manchester Vt : that he served with St Col Brooks Regiment
of the regular troops; and Gen Gates, Lincoln, Arnold St. Col Brooks & Major Hull — regular officers were known to him: that he was in the battle of Stillwater
that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing — and left the service on said first of January. Annexed is documentary evidence of a part of this service.
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the day of A. D. 17 —, to the — day of A. D. 17
as a — in the that he was residing at — when he entered the service; that he — and served for the period aforesaid under the command of
: that he marched from
: that he served with
of the regular troops; and
regular officers were known to him; that he was in battle
that at the end of his service he received a discharge the service on
and left

The general circumstances of his service were as follows to wit; At Stillwater it was a statement current at Stillwater that in the battle Gen Arnold ordered a platoon to be detached from the riflemen, and pointed out to them Gen Frazier, & said to them "Mark that man; he is a host" They fired and Frazier fell. This action was generally disapproved by the American Army. Some officers complained that in the battle that Arnold struck them with the flat of his sword and they demanded satisfaction for the insult; Arnold disclaimed all knowledge or intention of the kind. The regiment of this applicant supported the regular troops in the battle of Stillwater, and were charged to see that the latter were not surrounded.
Recapitulation    Under Capt Warren  2 m 5 d.    " " Fuller  5 "    Total  7 m 5 d  
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.
Samuel Trowbridge
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
We Jonathan Homer a clergyman residing in the town of Newton and Joseph Grafton a clergyman residing in said Newton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Trowbridge who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years 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.
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
Jonathan Homer Joseph Grafton
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 Jonathan Homer who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the town of Newton; and that Joseph Grafton who has also signed the same is a resident in said Newton and an credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. P. P. Fay  Prob
I Isaac Riske  Magistrate 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 Samuel Trowbridge for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Isaac Riske

I Elisha Bartlett of Newton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say that in the winter of 1776 preceding the Spring when the British troops evacuated Boston Mr. Samuel Frowbridge of Newton, who then lived in Newton, with myself enlisted in a company of volunteers and immediately after joined the American Army then stationed at Cambridge near Boston. said Frowbridge served with me in said company during the same winter. the exact time we were with the army I do not recollect but I think as long as two months or more.
his Elisha Bartlett mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. On the 14th day of September A.D. 1832 the aforesaid Deponent was examined and cautioned and sworn agreeably to law to the deposition of said by him subscribed taken at the request of the aforesaid Samuel Frowbridge and to be used by him in an application for a Pension under the laws of the United States passed at the last session of the Congress of the said United States. The said Deponent being very aged and infirm & unable to leave his place of residence in the cause of taking this

Deposition - The said Deponent being unable to sign his name by reason of his infirmities has placed his mark to said Deposition in my presence - The said Deposition was taken by me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace with and for the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth aforesaid.
James Allen Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Aug 21 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
The name of Saml. Frowbridge is borne on a roll of Capt Joseph Hulle's Company 1st Bullards Reg t and he is therein stated to have served as a private at Stillwater from Aug 20. 1777 three months & twenty two days.
Edward D Bangs. Leg.

Same! Trowbridge

1850. Samuel Trowbridge

I Phinehas Bond of Wardsboro in the County of Windham and State of Vermont Yeoman aged seventy five years testify and say that I was a soldier of the Revolution & served about five months in the latter part of the year 1777 at the taking of Gen Burgayne, and was in the company of Joseph Fuller in Col Bullard's Regiment; that Samuel Trowbridge then and still of Newton, and now present at the taking of this deposition was also a soldier of the Revolution and served in the same company during the same campaign & did his duty as a good soldier
Phinehas Bond
Suffolk ss Boston August 10. 1832. Subscribed & sworn before me
D Lee Child Jus: Peace
* See certificate of Secretary of State of Massachusetts accompanying the Application of John Hill

11106 Samuel Frowbridge Mass
Reported with letter 16 May 1833 to do see Chula Eng
See letter to the Hon Mrs Jackson May 31. 1834—
Adm? for 6 mo. — by E. M. JLE

BRIEF in the case of Newton
Samuel Frombridge in the State of Ohio (Act 7th June, 1839.)
 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? 75 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.     20 th Aug In 1796. 2 5 Private Gen. Putnam. Col. Thatcher   11 Aug. 1777 3 " Col. Fuller. Col. Waller & Col. Morris  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Newton Ohio  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By 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.
Nicholas Cotts Examining Clerk.

80 747 By INVALID.
File No. 80 747
Samuel Footbridge
Rev No
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 122
[Arrangement of 1870.]

S. Trowbridge's case
William Jackson
Hon. W. Jackson

War Department Pension Office May 11. 1833
Sir
The documents in support of the claim of Samuel Hobridge have been examined and placed on our files. He states that he served 2 Mos and five days in Capt Morris Company and five months in Capt Fullers Company. From the Certificate of E. D. Bangs Esq. it appears that he served only three months and twenty two days in Capt Fullers Company.
It would therefore appear that he served only five months and twenty seven days, as the act of June 7. 1832. To provide for none who did not serve at least six months his claim cannot be allowed.
I herewith return the papers in the case of Elisha Bartlett and Ephraim Hyde the defects are pointed out in the accompanying brief.
I am respectfully Your Abt Servt
J L Edwards
D. Lee Child Esq Boston Mass.

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J. L. G. Cottonwoods Colo. & Nevada.
Hon. W. Jackson

J. S. Edwards, Esq., Com r of Pensions
Washington June 5. 18311
Dear Sir
By yours of the 2 d inst I understand that same Snowbridge Petition for a Pension is rejected on the ground of the improbability of his having been in the Battle of Lexington as stated in his affidavit. — And this doubt of the truth of his affidavit is produced entirely by the circumstance of his having omitted to state this important fact in his first affidavit.
This I admit was an extraordinary omission, and in the absence of other circumstantial evidence, of an opposite character I should judge ought to go far towards justifying the decision.
With your permission I will state some of the circumstances which induce me to believe that he was, in that Battle.
Mr Snowbridge is a neighbour of mine — he was a neighbour and an intimate acquaintance of my Father from their childhood. — My Father, now deceased, was in that battle and by him I was made acquainted with many interesting incidents relative to the part taken in it, by the the young men of Newton. The Town is but eight miles from the scene of action, & about the same distance from the City of Boston.
A company of minute men had been formed some months previous, for the purpose of drill, & preparation for such an event.
I have reason to believe, and do fully believe, that not less than nine tenths, and probably nineteen twentieths, of all the young men from that Town, say from fifteen to twenty five.

years of age were enrolled in that Company - On that day the Company was commanded by Michael Jackson. He had been a Lieutenant in the French War, was known as a brave and experienced officer, and was doubtless, the Soul of the Company. Mr Snowbridge was a near neighbour of his, and such was the enthusiasm of the day, that if I had not been informed he was in the battle I should have concluded, with almost entire confidence that he was so. - The Company, was one of the first brought into action, and continued near and in frequent contact with the British through the day, - was among the last who fired upon them in Charleston and received the thanks of the Commanding Officer for their energy and bravery on the spot. - In a few days afterwards Michael Jackson received a commission as Major in the Continental Army, and subsequently became a Col. in one of the Regiments of the line.
I will only add, I have been intimately acquainted with Mr Snowbridge myself for forty years - No man in that vicinity has more uniformly sustained, or now sustains a better moral character. - His veracity is unquestionable, and no one who knows him, would believe it possible to induce him by a pecuniary temptation, to take a false oath.
With the hope that these circumstances, may outweigh the unfavorable one to which you allude, and produce the same conviction on your mind that they have done on mine, I am very respectfully
Your obedient Servant
William Jackson

Samuel Towbridge
Hon. W. Jackson

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency LEVI LINCOLN , Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
To all whom it may concern:
Know Ye, That William Garrison Esq. is a Justice of the Peace, for the County of Middlesex, —————
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission- ed, and that to his ——— Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this fourteenth day of October, A. D. 1833, and in the Fifty eighth Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
Edward D. Bangs Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Levi Lincoln

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. Court of Probate Jan 7, 1824 44 th Samuel Trowbridge's Claim for the pension.
And now said Trowbridge comes & amends his declaration and states that he served two days on the occasion of Lexington fight, that he volunteered in Capt Amariah Fuller's company, that he marched from Newton to said Lexington and there served under the command of Col Gardner in said Gardner's regiment, that he was in the battle of Lexington, and was dismissed and returned home on the following day. Isaac Jackson was Lieut and Edward Fuller 2 d do. That subsequently in the same year on or about the last day of April said Trowbridge served two days at Roxbury in a company commanded by Lt Isaac Jackson in Col Benjamin Hammond's Regiment, and said Isaac Jackson was the only com- missioned officer in the company This service was voluntary and the occasion was to guard

against an irruption from the enemy, who were expected to sally out of the city to destroy military stores in the direction of Roxbury.
And this claimant declares that the reason why he did not mention the above short term of service, was that he thought he had enough service to obtain a pension without setting forth that which he has above stated.
Samuel Crowbridge
Sworn to & subscribed the day &
year aforesaid J. M. Day Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Isaac Tiske Register of the Court of Probate for and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify that the foregoing & annexed contains the original proceedings of the said Court on the matter of the additional application of Samuel Probridge for a pension and of the said Probridge's amended declaration in support thereof.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day & year first above
Isaac Tiske Regr of Probate
Isaac
Isaac

I Smith Adams of Natick in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say, that in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy five on the nineteenth day of April I was engaged in Battle at Concord in said Massachusetts in opposing the British forces, in the Company of Infantry Commanded by Capt. Amariah Fuller of Newton in said County, That Mr. Samuel Frowbridge now residing in Newton in said County was engaged in said Battle with me in the same Company under the Command of the said Capt. A. Fuller and that he the said Samuel Frowbridge served and did duty in said Company on said nineteenth of April.
I do also further testify and say that during the the Spring of the same year before mentioned I was stationed at Roxbury in the (now) County of Norfolk in said Commonwealth, in a Company of Infantry under the Command of Lieut. Isaac Jackson of Newton in Middlesex County and did duty in said Company, two or three days, and that the said Mr. Samuel Frowbridge of said Newton was a member of said Company and did duty with me during the same time — further saith not —
Smith Adams
Middlesex ss, Oct-10th 1833.
Then personally appeared the above named Smith Adams and made Oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed,
Before me William Garrison Just. of Peace
I also Certify that the above named Smith Adams is reputed a credible person and his statement entitled to full Credit
William Garrison