Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,799, Edward Wilkins, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wilkins Edward
S. 30,799
CONTENTS

10.421 Massachusetts
Edward Wilkins of Middlesex in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Granston of the Regt. commanded by Col Brigs in the Mass line for 7 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 23 - Dollars 33 - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of Feb. 1833 and sent to Sister E. Cambridge Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $46.66 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept., 11.67
$58.33
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by A. K. Adams Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 2 a Page 90

N o 5418 Eccles a Wilkins
Prate 7 Months
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20 Dec 1832
J. Fiske Esqf. E. Lamb c M ap .
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BRIEF in the case of  Edward Wilkins of the County of Middlesex in the State of Mass.  (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? 74 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 1776 — 2 — Drafted Gen. Putnam, Capt. Branton   "77 Apr — 5 — ditto Capt. Bell  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? White Plains  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Marlborough  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Depositions as to one enlistment  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin Bell Examining Clerk.

Edward Wilkins.
No 5418.
THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs. JOHN H. BARNES INDICTMENT FOR PERJURY IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF [illegible] TO THE HONORABLE [illegible] JUDGE OF THE COURT.
COMMISSIONER OF THE DISTRICT COURT.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss. August 18 th A D 1832-
On this eighteenth - - - day of August - 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, Edward Wilkins a resident of Marlborough in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy four 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: I the person Edward
Wilkins do testify and say that I was born in Marlborough in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the fifth day of November A D 1757 as will appear from the annexed copy of Record letter A. That I lived in said Marlborough at the commencement of the Revolutionary War of the United States and that I have lived there ever since with the exception of about five years before I was twenty one years old and during that period I lived in Boston in the County of Suffolk & Commonwealth aforesaid. That I was drafted out of a Company of Infantry in said Marlborough under the command of Capt. Amasa Cramston either in the month of August or fore part of September A D 1776 to serve as a soldier for the term of two months. That I marched from Marlborough on the first day of October 1776 was to be in readiness by the 17 th of September when my pay was to commence, and that I marched through Worcester Springfield Hartford New Haven & Fairfield & after tarrying about one week at Fairfield I marched to a place called Valentines Hill in the State of New York near King's Bridge was in the Battle at White Plains the officers of the Company in which I served were Capt. Amasa Cramston Lieutenants Nathaniel Sargent & Nathan Smith and the S d Col. of the Regiment was Oliver Brooks, the S d Col. was - Stone & the Major Beman. I was dismissed on the seventeenth day of November A D 1776 and had no written discharge - That I am well known to the following persons in my neighbourhood (to wit)

To whom it may concern, this may certify there stands recorded on the town book of Records in Marlborough the following birth viz,
Born to Edward Wilkins and Lydia his wife on the 5 th of November 1757 a son named Edward Wilkins —
A true copy as recorded —
Marlborough August 16. 1832
Attest Lambert Bigelow } Town Clerk
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I James Gleason of Marlborough in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts yeoman, aged seventy two years last December, do depose and say That I have been acquainted with Edward Wilkins of said Marlborough from my childhood. That he was drafted from a Company of Infantry in said Marlborough to serve as a private soldier in the War of the Revolution, in the month of August or Septem- ber A.D. 1776 and that I was drafted at the same time & according to my best recol- lection for the term of two or three months. That we marched from Marlborough in the month of August or September of that year, under the command of Captain Amasa Cromston and that we marched to Fairfield in the State of Connecticut where we joined the Regiment commanded by Col. Oliver Brooks and from thence we marched to Chester State of New York to a place called Valentine's Hill from thence to White Plains and thence to North Castle, where we were dismissed without any written discharge, the time of our service having expired. I then re- turned to said Marlborough and said Wilkins was detained on the way by a knap, and I do not know the time he returned but I ar- rived at Marlborough about the last

of November of that year - and further the deponent saith not -
James Gleason
Middlesex ss. August 13 th A.D. 1832
Personally appeared James Gleason and made oath that the facts set forth in the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed are true before me
Wm Dyer Justice of the Peace
C
Marked B.
I hereby certify that James Gleason the aforesaid deponent is personally well known to me & that he is a man of truth & veracity and that full faith & credit is due to his testimony
Wm Dyer Justice of the Peace

I Peter Conant of Stow in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts yeoman aged seventy six years do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Edward Wilkins that I know him in the time of the Revolutionary war. That he served in the army of the Revolution with me in a company of Infantry commanded by Capt. Amasa Brackett and that he was in the State of New York at White Plains in the month of October the 1776 and I believe he served as much as two months, and farther the deponent saith not. Peter Conant
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. August 18 th 1832.
Personally appeared Peter Conant and made oath that the facts contained in the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed are true — Before me Wm. Brackett Jus. Peace.
C.D.
I hereby certify that Peter Conant the aforesaid deponent is a person with whom I have had little acquaintance, but verily believe from information derived from respectable sources that he is a man of veracity and that full faith & credit is due to his testimony.
Marked: C.D. Wm. Brackett Justice of the Peace

We Isaac Stratton being a clergyman & local preacher of the Methodist order, in the town of Marlborough County of Middlesex & State of Massachusetts, and Joel Cranston of said Marlborough do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Edward Wilkins, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and we concur in that opinion
Isaac Stratton Joel Cranston
Middlesex ss. August 18 th A.D. 1832
Personally appeared Isaac Stratton & Joel Cranston above named and made oath that the facts set forth in the foregoing certificate are true
Before me W m Draper Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Isaac Stratton is a clergyman & local preacher and personally known to me & that I also am well acquainted with the above named Joel Cranston & that they are both credible and respectable men —
W m Draper
( B )
Marked A.D.

to Benjamin Priest to Joel Cranston to Wm Gates to Jedediah Barnum & Ivory Barnum all of said Marlborough to whom reference may be made - That by reason of sickness I did not return home until the first of December 1876 - To verify the foregoing statement reference may be also had to the affidavits of James Gleason marked B. & Peter Conant marked C. - That in the month of April A.D. 1877 I was drafted from a company of Infantry in Boston in the County of Suffolk commanded by Capt. David Bell in Ward N o 8, to serve in a Company of Guards to protect the Publick Stores and Offices in Boston where I served for the term of five months. That I believe that I was the youngest of the Company and that I now know of no person alive who served with me - The name of the Commandant of the Guard I have wholly forgotten, and cannot now name any of the Offi- cers of the Company - The orders posted in the Guardhouse were signed "Per order of Gen. Wm Shattuck" by his Adjutant I Keith And I further say that I have no written discharge or other written docu- ment in my possession which will furnish any light on this subject. And the said Wilkins 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,
Edward Wilkins
Reference to paper marked A.
We,
a clergyman, residing in the
and
residing in quainted with
hereby certify, that we are well ac- who has subscribed and
sworn to the above declaration; — that we believe him to be 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.
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 Isaac Stratton who has signed the annexed preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in Marlborough and that Joel Cranston who has also signed the same, is a resident in said Marlborough and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. P. Doyen Probate
I
Isaac Fish
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 Edward Wilkins for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Isaac Fish
I also certify that William Draper whose own proper signature is set to the certificate of the Dispositions marked B. C. & D. is an Justice of the peace within said County of Middlesex In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal official the day & year aforesaid
Isaac Fish

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. W. 23044. I. 30799.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
June 8, 1897.
Sir:-
In response to an inquiry on the part of Hon. C. A. Boutelle, for information concerning Oreno Tourtilot, Abraham Tourtilot and Edward Wilkins, soldiers of the Revolutionary war, I have the honor to advise you as follows:
A very careful search has been made and from the data given the name of Oreno Tourtilot has not been found upon the Revolutionary war pension records on file in this Bureau.
Abraham Tourtilot made an application for pension on April 7th, 1818, at which time he was 72 years of age and residing at Orono, Me., and his pension was allowed for one year's actual service as an ensign and lieutenant in the Rhode Island troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Blackman and Col. Hitchcock. Place of his enlistment not stated. His widow, Leah, made an application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
Edward Wilkins made an application for pension on August 18, 1818, at which time he was 74 years of age and residing at Marlborough, Mass., and his pension was allowed for seven months' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Cranston and Col. Brooks. He enlisted at Marlborough, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. J. W. Porter, Bangor, Maine.

No 5418
Edw. Williams
J. Fiske Esq.
Cambridge Ms.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Edward Wilkins which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? no Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes in one no in one
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? no.
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes,
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days. I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”
8. v. 2. n. 1. p. 1. v. 1. p. 1. v. 1. p. 1.

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
† QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡ QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Searched by Simmons
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Oreno Tourtellot
Service Rev.
Additional service _____
No. Claim, New Records _____
No. Claim, Old Records _____
Remarks not I
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Acting Chief of Division.

30 799 INVALID. Recy
File No. 30.799
Edward Wilkins
Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1824
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 455
[Arrangement of 1870.]

June 8. 1897- History to Mr. J. H. Porter - Bangor, Maine