Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15478, Edmund G Weld, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Weld, Edmund G. White, Sarah
NUMBER
W. 15478
Former widow
CONTENTS
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3799
Massachusetts
Yarah White lately formerly widow of Edmund T. Weld M.D.
who died on the 27 th February 1796 at Norfolk in the State of Mass a who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Williams of the Reg t commanded by Col. Heath in the Mass a line for 20 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 66 Dollars. 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of May 1834 to Yarah Baldwin Esq r . Boston, Massachusetts
Arrears to the 14th of Sept r 1834 $ 13.51
Annual allowance, ending 14 th Nov r 1834, the day of her death } 13.51
$ 713.44
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act July 4, 1836, } Section the 3 d }
Recorded by H. Addison Clerk, Book 1 Vol. 1st Page 66
Payment to be made to James Weld, Yarah Weld and Betsey Weld Children of said deceased.
Letter to Pension Agent May 27 1834

Mary P. Laurence , Widow of Benjamin - Sent proofs of services, obtained from the Sec y of State at Albany. She can produce no positive proofs of marriage, but the testimony of her sister Mrs. Van Wart who recollects the circumstance and time , though not the date , I had hoped would be sufficient. - I also sent the testimony of Mr. Van Wart, who has known Laurence since the year 1780, and respected him and his wife Mary the sister of Mrs. Van Wart, as husband  man and wife - never, for a moment doubting of their being so. - Mrs. Laurence went to Haverstraw, where she was married, by the Rev. Mr. Burns, but could find no written, or personal proofs. She there ascertained that Mr. Burns, at his death, left no papers about marriages, and I went to the same place and understood the same, from the mouth of a daughter-in-law of Mr. Burns - Neither has Mrs. Laurence any records of the births or baptisms of her children - In a letter from Mr. Edwards of Aug. 14 1839, Proof is required of Laurence having received bounty land, when Mr. Spencer went to Washington he took on an exemplification of Deeds which was afterwards sent back to me, but nothing said as to its having been satisfactory or not. - * If, in regard thereto, an affidavit of the widow Laurence, the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Mary P. Laurence, setting forth that she has seen the same in the family of her husband's parents, for the space of 30 years, will be satisfactory, it can be obtained.
* The affidavit referred to is herewith,
B. de la Pierre

Marriage Certificate
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Hampton. Falls N. H. April 19 1842
I Jacob Catwell do hereby certify that it appears from an examination of an original book of Church records in my possession that Edmund Grindell Weld of Roxbury and Sarah Weld of Brantree were lawfully married by Rev. P. Wingate, Pastor of the Congregational Church at Hampton Falls N. H. on the second day of March one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, and that occurrence is recorded in fair legible letters as follows — March 2 d 1776 March Edmund Grindell Weld of Roxbury and Sarah Weld of Brantree.
I Jacob Catwell above named do depose and say that I hold the office of pastor of the first Congregational Church in the town of Hampton Falls, County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire and that the above is a true extract from the original record as above certified by me
Jacob Catwell — Pastor of first Congregational Church in Hampton Falls N. H.
Sworn to before me —
Levi Lane Justice of the Peace Hampton Falls April 29 th 1842.

State of New Hampshire Rockingham County ss
I Ira B. Hovey Clerk of the Superior Courts within and for said County hereby certify that Rev. Ebenezer Dyer is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the twenty first day of June Anno Domini 1839. and will expire on the twenty first day of June AD 1844. and that his signature to the within certificate by him submitted is in his own hand writing and genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of our Superior Court of Judicature this Twenty seventh day of April Anno Domini 1843.
I. B. Hovey Clerk

Mr —
Dear Sir I should have attended to your request sooner had you not neglected to subscribe your name. I have sent to Exeter to the clerk of the Court and he says he can send on the certificate by some one who can find you by the direction of the street and number given in your letter. The record of marriage says Broughton instead of Randolph - the latter place has been set off from Broughton.
Respectfully Yours
J. Caton

count certificate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk ss I Herman Selcraig Judge of the Court of Probate in for said County, do certify that satisfactory evidence has been adduced to me to prove that Sarah White of Dorchester in said County, in application for a pension, under the acts of Congress of the fourth of July 1836 & the third of March 1837, as formerly the widow of Edmund C Welch deceased, who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, died on the seventeenth day of November last past, & that she left four children, Sarah Lake & Betsey Cobb, her only surviving children, who are still living & all over twenty one years of age. In witness whereof I the said Judge have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this seventh day of May A.D. 1842 H Selcraig

No 02495. Sarah White - Mass.
Sarah White July 4. 1836 Mass.
act 4 July '36.
m 76 -
adm d
20m p m 66.66/100
To James Wild - Sarah Lake. Betsy Cobb chil- dren of Sarah White dec? from 4 march 31 - to 17 nov. 1841 the day of her death
Reuben Baldwin Present
Dec 11: 41

No 52495. Sarah White - Mass.
Sarah White
July 4. 1836 Mass.
act 4 July '36.
m 76 -
adm d
20 mo p m
66. 6 3/4/100
To James Wild - Sarah Lake - Betsy Cobb chil- dren of Sarah White dec? from 4 march 31 - to 17 nov. 1841 the day of her death
Reuben Baldwin Present
Dec 11. '41

1841 84 57 Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston November 27 th 1841.
I hereby Certify, That Joseph Lewis is a justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk. (and that Edmund J. Baker is a justice of the Peace for the County of Norfolk, (and they have been so for the month last past)
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
John C. Sleeper
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ) ss Norfolk County }
On this sixteenth day of October, in the year Eighteen hundred and Fortyone. Personally appeared before the undersigned judge of the Court of Probate for Norfolk County in said Commonwealth, Sarah White a resident of Dorchester in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid; aged Eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 11 th 1836, and the explanatory act passed 3 rd March 1837. That she the said Sarah is the widow of Lot White late of Dorchester deceased, and that she was the wife and likewise the widow of Edmund G. Weld, late of Roxbury deceased. That said Edmund G. Weld her first husband was a private soldier and a Lieutenant in the army of the Revolutionary War. First He said Edmund performed a term of military duty of Eight months duration in the year 1775 in Captain Edward D. Williams Company of Colonel William Heath's Regiment of Massachusetts Troops. The Lieutenant Colonel was John Graton, and at the expiration of said Eight months service, said Edmund was promoted, and received a commission as a Lieutenant in Colonel John Graton's Regiment; and he continued in the service all thro' the year 1776, until after the taking of the Hessians at Trenton New Jersey, and he continued in service some time after that. She further declares that she was married to the said Edmund G. Weld at Hampton, New Hampshire on the second day of March 1776. That her husband the aforesaid Edmund G. Weld died on the twenty seventh day of February

in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety six that she subsequently married Lot White who died upwards of twenty years since & that she was a widow on the fourth day of July AD 1836. & still continues to live a widow. She further declares that in consequence of her house being burnt in Roxbury in 1802 she has lost all her documentary evidence.
Sarah White
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above mentioned before me S Leland page 8 Prob.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolk ss.
I Jonathan H. Cobb Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Norfolk, hereby certify that Sherman Leland is Judge of said Court of Probate & that his signature above on this paper is genuine & true. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court of Probate this eighteenth day of October, AD 1841.
Jonathan H. Cobb
Reg. Prob. Co. of Norfolk

Suffolk ss Boston Nov 20 1821 Personally appeared I James Weld of the City of Boston in the County of Suffolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged 53 Years being sworn do on oath depose and say that I am the reputed son and one of the Children of Edmund Grindle Weld late of Roxbury deceased; That my late Father said Edmund was always reported & believed to have been a Soldier in the Army of the Revolutionary War and as I have always understood served therein by two seve- ral terms of service in Col John Grates Regiment of Massachusetts Troops, during the Years 1775 & 1776. I have understood that my said Father held an Office but whether any higher than a Sergeant - I am unable to state; Said Edmund my Father died in Roxbury on the 27 February in the Year 1796 and left my Mother Sarah Weld his Widow who subsequently married Mr Lott White who died over twenty Years since in Milton and again said Sarah was left a Widow and continued the Widow of said Lott White until the seventeenth instant when she departed this life at said Dorchester Norfolk County in this Commonwealth
Suffolk ss. Boston Nov 20 1821
James Weld
Then personally appeared the above named James Weld well known to me as a person of respectability and veracity and made solemn oath to this affidavit by him subscribed
Joseph Lewis Justice of the Peace

Milton Norfolk County, Massachusetts
November 19, 1841 years
I Amos Holbrook of said Milton aged eighty seven Being sworn do on oath depose and say that I was formerly acquainted with Edmund G. Weld of Roxbury in the time of the Revolutionary War and since its termination. Said Edmund was one of the first Eight months men and I frequently saw him in the service at Cambridge during the summer of 1775 at which time said Edmund was one of Captain Edward P. Williams's Company of Colonel Wm Heath's Regiment of Massachusetts Troops, then under the immediate command of Lieutenant Colonel John Greene. When at the expiration of the Eight Months service was promoted Colonel and myself Surgeon of the the same Regiment, which Regiment marched from Cambridge in the Spring of 1776 to New York, thence by way of Albany to Canada. Said Edmund G. Weld I distinctly remember was one of the Subalterns, who marched with the said Regiment to New York, thence to the Northward in the Campaign of that year, I believe that said Edmund was a noncommissioned Officer, and a Sergeant in Captain Williams's Company according to the best of my recollection. I remember said Edmund perfectly well, he was a short thick set man and very active. There was a man by the name of Cheney from Roxbury whose Christian name I have forgotten who was an Ensign in Captain Williams's Company of Colonel Greene's Regiment, who also served to the Northward in the Campaign of 1776 Said Regiment was engaged for one year from the first of January 1776.
Since the termination of said War I have frequently met with said Cheney and also with said Edmund G. Weld in the Village of Roxbury and often- times conversed with them relating to Incidents connected with our services together as above described, and at the I cannot at this late period, and in my advanced stage-

of life distinctly remember all the particulars of the service of the two individuals, yet I have no doubt in my mind but that said Cheney & Edmund G. Wild continued in the service thro' the whole of the Campaign until the one year men were discharged at Morristown New Jersey in the month of February 1862, many of whom reengaged for a short period after their one year had expired - six weeks volunteer service I believe.
Amos H. Brooks
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk County November 19-1841
Then personally appeared the above named S r Amos H. Brooks subscribed to the foregoing affidavit who made solemn oaths to the truth of the same.
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named S r Amos H. Brooks and do know him to be a person of the first respectability for truth and veracity.
Permeel J. Baker Just Peace
Rev. Frank White. formerly rector of Colonel S. G. Weld. etc.

I Thomas Lynn of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged 84 years do depose, and say, that I am a Pensioner of the United States for services rendered in the Army of the Revolutionary War during the years Seventeen Hundred Seventy five and Six in Colonel Grafton's Regiment of Massachusetts Troops.
I know and was perfectly well acquainted with Edmund G. Weld, who served in the same Regiment with myself though not in the same Company. Said Edmund G. Weld whom we familiarly called Sergeant Ned Weld was a Roxbury man and was a short thick set person and an efficient non-commissioned Officer, and according to the best of my recollection he served in Captain Edward P. Williams Company of the said Colonel Grafton's Regiment, but whether the service of said Weld as a sergeant, was in the year Seventeen hundred Seventy five or Seventy six I cannot through lapse of time and loss of memory now determine. I further say that Sarah White formerly the Widow of the said Edmund G. Weld died in this town in November last.
Thomas Lynn
Norfolk Dorchester May 12. D 1842. Then personally appeared the above-named Thomas Lynn long & well known to me as a man of strict veracity and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is True.
Before me Robert Vose.
Justice of the Peace

Boston, Massachusetts.
Sir
May 14 th , 1842
I transmit herewith further proof in support of the claim to Pensions by Benjamin Lyon, under the act of Congress June 7 th 1832; and of Mrs Sarah White, formerly the widow of Edmund G. Weld, and under the act of 4 July 1836 & 3 March 1837.
The testimony in these two separate cases, the Secretary of State has inadvertently connected together. But can be easily disconnected, if found necessary, as the official capacity of Robt. Vose has often been established during the pendancy of Mr Lyons case.
The case of Mrs Sarah White formerly the widow of Edmund G. Weld, was replied to in your letter to me, dated December 14 th 1841. In which it is said substantially her claim for the services of her late Husband is proved for 8 months in 1775 & twelve months in the year 1776.
"But the alleged grade in 1776 is not sustained by any evidence whatever."
Dr Holbrook testified that said Edmund G. Weld was a Sergeant according to the best of his recollection. and Thomas Lyon (In the enclosed document) testifies that "said Edmund G. Weld was familiarly called Sergt. "Red Weld", in the service, & proceeds to describe his person, "and that He made an efficient Non Commissioned Officer"
I hope that the testimony, as to grade, above recited, may be deemed satisfactory.
Very Respectfully Sir I am your Obedient Servant
James L. Edwards Esq. Reuben Baldwin Commrs of Pensions Washington

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, November 11 th 1841.
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 Edmund Weld is borne in a Master Roll of Captain Ezra Payson Williams Company in the 26 Regiment of foot in the Continental Army Encamped in Fort N o 2. October 3 rd 1775, as a private from Roxbury. The name of Edmund Weld appears on an order from the Soldiers of said Company (Capt Ezra Payson Williams) to the Committee of Clothing, dated Cambridge Camp Dec r 22, 1775. the Order is signed by Edmund Weld and forty one others. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John D. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.

(5495)
Massachusetts
Suspended
Set to R. Baldwin
Recd. H. 1841
act 4 July '36

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Rev  WIDOW, &c.
No. 15478 Sarah White Widow of Edmund F Weld Pri Sec War Act: July 4 th 86 Index:—Vol. M , Page 331
[Arrangement of 1870.]