Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37557, Solomon Whidden, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Whidden, Solomon or Whiten
S. 37557
CONTENTS

From 17. 781 Ohio. to Marne. R
Solomon Whidden, or Whiten, Clermont Co. in the state of Ohio, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradford, of the Massachussetts for the term of three years.
scribed on the Roll of Ohio, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28. of April, 1820. 1820
ertificate of Pension issued the 15. of Sept. 1820 and sent to Alexander Blair, agent, Williamsburg, Ohio
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1820. $ 225.86 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. March 48 " 28 mo. 7 } 1821. $ 273.86 30. }
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. } and 1 st May, 2 1820. }
Sarah Lane. Thos. Davis m. 25. '38.
Died Oct 4, 1841 (A.B.) Maria
Copied from the Land Off.

Affidavit of Mark Whidden & Jonathan McClure in favour of William Whidden Applicant Pensioner of the Revolution

The State of Ohio Clearmont County ss This day came Mark Whidden personally before me me Plumer Giamm one of the justices assigned to keep the peace within and for said County and being duly sworn according to law de poseth and sayeth on his oaths that he knoweth that Solomon Whidden is almost deprived of his eyesight inasmuch that he can scarcely discern any person when entering a house he further sayeth on oath that the said Solomon Whidden is disabled in his right arm occasioned by the fall that from a horse which hinders him from hard labour he further sayeth that he knoweth him the said Solomon Whidden does stand in need of assistance from his Country and for the sayeth not Also appeared Jonathan McClure before me and being duly sworn according to law de poseth and sayeth on his oaths that he knoweth that Solomon Whidden is almost destitute of his eyesight
he further sayeth that he knoweth that he the said Solomon is infirm in his right arm he further sayeth that he nearly believes he stands in need of assistance from his Country and further sayeth not;
Subscribed by } Mark Whidden
After this deponents where } Jonathan McClure duly sworn and examined they each subscribed the same before me October 4th 1819
Plumer Giamm J C 33

16,963. or Whiten Solomon Whidden, Clermont Co: Ohio, 28 th April, 1820.
Col: Bradford's regt. Massach ts line — May 1777 — 3 years.
found on the rolls, under the name of Solomon Whiten.
Schedule of the applicant's property to be taken and annexed. No property.
Rec d 12 Sep: 1820. adm d .
Alex r Blair, judge Williamsburg, Ohio. adm d 28 May 1820.

The State of Ohio ss. It remembered that Clermont county ss. On the 28 th day of April One thousand eight hundred & Twenty, came personally before me Alexander Blair a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said county, Solomon Whidden, aged Sixty Six Years a resident of the county and State aforesaid and after being duly sworn. Says that he enlisted as a private soldier in the Month of May 1777. for three Years, in the town of Bath, in the then district of Maine, in the Company commanded by Capt. John Lemont, in the regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Bradford in the Massachusetts line on continental estab- lishment, and that he was at the battle of Long Island and at Trenton and at Princeton in the American Army that captured, Genl. Burgoyne, that he then was marched to Philadelphia, that he remained in the State of Pennsylvania a part of the time at Valley Forge, afterwards he was marched to Monmouth in the State of New Jersey and was in the battle at that place, from thence to the White Plains and was in the battle at White Plains, from thence to West Point, after wards he was placed under the command of

Col Putnam, and served in that regiment till the January following, and afterwards was ordered back to Col Bradford reg. y and remained in that regiment, The full term of three Years, The time he had enlisted for and was discharged at West Point and obtained a written discharge from the said Col. Bradford, signed by Lieut Col. Basset which discharge he sent on to Boston by Col Bridge, to obtain his arrearages of pay which pay I have never rec d , or seen my discharge since, and that he makes this application ( ) in order to obtain a pension under the act of Congress, of the 18 th of March 1818. and that he served in the war of the revolution as a private soldier against the Common enemy, and that he has now no other evidence in his power to offer, & also that in the month of May 1818, he caused an app- lication and declaration to be made out, in order to obtain the pension under the act aforesaid which was sworn to before a notary, John Wiley a Justice in Belmont county in the State of Ohio where he this

deponent then resided, That he cannot find out what has been, the result of said Application, that he has caused a letter to be wrote to a Mr. Jennings, who prepared the papers, but can get no satisfactory Infor- mation, & that he is now so poor, old & infirm, as to be unable to travel to that place, being upwards of two hundred Miles and that he has reason to believe, that his papers did miscarry, while in the mail. And that the said Solomon Whidden further On his oath saith that owing to his reduced circumstances in life, he stands in need of the Assistance of his country for support. And that he has never yet obtained a pension and hereby relinquishes every claim to any pension heretofore allowed him, before the 18 th of March 1818. — I Solomon Whidden
The above being my affidavit I do hereby certify that the above named Solomon Whidden took and subscribed before me on the date first mentioned the aforesaid oath & that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Solomon Whidden served in the war of the revolution against the common enemy & that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. April 28 th 1820 —

The State of Ohio ss I David C Bryan Clerk of Clinton County
The Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do Certify that Alexander Blair Bryan whose name is subscribed to the within certificate of the deposition of the witness named Solomon Whidden and before whom the same appear to have been made, now is and was at the time of signing his name thereto a Judge of said Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credibility and ought to be given to all his official acts as such. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the 9 th day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
David C Bryan Clerk

January 27, 1936
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Miss E. Florence Elliot 59 Oxford Street Somerville, Massachusetts
JAMES WHIDDEN, W. 26622 SOLOMON WHIDDEN, S. 37557 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of James Whidden, of Maine, also, of Solomon Whidden or Whiten, of Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine, and later lived in Ohio.
You are furnished herein the record of James Whidden, the only soldier of that name, under any spelling, found in the Revolutionary War records of this office who served from Maine, also, the record of Solomon Whidden, the only soldier of that name found in those records.
JAMES WHIDDEN W. 26622
The data herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 26622, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of James Whidden, whose name appears also as Whedden.
James Whidden or Whedden was born in Penobscot, Massachusetts (Maine); the date of his birth and names of parents are not given.
This soldier enlisted in April, 1781, for a period of three years, served as private in Captain James Tisdale's company, Colonel Greaton's 3 rd Massachusetts Regiment, was in the battle of King's Bridge and was discharged October 28, 1783.
James Whidden was allowed pension on his application executed April 21, 1818, at which time he gave his age as sixty years and was residing in Canaan, Somerset County, Massachusetts (Maine).
In 1820, the soldier was still living in Canaan, Maine, and at that time gave his age again as sixty years, with no explanation of the discrepancy. He died March 30, 1828, in Canaan, Maine.

James Whidden married April 13, 1792, in Winslow, Kennebec County, Maine, Sarah or Sally Parker. The date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not shown. Their marriage was recorded in the town clerk's office of Winslow.
Soldier's widow, Sally Whidden, was allowed pension on her application executed October 1, 1838, at which time she was aged sixty-six years and a resident of Canaan, Somerset County, Maine.
In 1820, the soldier, James Whidden, referred to the following children then living at home: John aged twenty-three years, Nancy aged seventeen years, Abel aged fourteen years, Sarah aged twelve years, and George aged ten years. No other names were designated as those of children.
In 1820, James Whidden and James Whidden, 3rd, were both residents of Canaan, Somerset County, Maine, relationship between the two not shown.
In 1838, one George Whidden of Canaan, Maine, made an affidavit in behalf of the soldier's widow, Sally Whidden, but did not state his relationship to her.
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SOLOMON WHIDDEN S. 37557
The record of Solomon Whidden follows as found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 37557, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of this soldier's birth and names of his parents are not shown.
Solomon Whidden or Whiten (soldier's surname shown under both spellings) enlisted and was in the battles of Long Island and White Plains, no other details of this service given. He enlisted in May, 1777, at Bath, in the District of Maine, for a period of three years, served as private in Captain John Lamont's company, Colonel

Gamaliel Bradford's Massachusetts regiment, and a part of the time under Colonel Putnam, served at Valley Forge, was in the battle of Monmouth and was discharged by Colonel Bradford after having served the full term of his enlistment.
Solomon Whidden or Whiten was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1820, at which time he was aged sixty-six years and a resident of Clermont County, Ohio.
In 1820, the soldier referred to his wife, Sally, aged sixty-four years. The date and place of her birth, maiden name or names of parents were not shown, nor date of her marriage to the soldier.
In August, 1826, Solomon Whidden or Whiten moved to Kennebec County, Maine, in order to spend the remainder of his days with his children whose names he did not give. He died October 4, 1841.
In 1819, one Mark Whidden made joint affidavit with Jonathan McClure in Clermont County, Ohio, in behalf of the soldier, Solomon Whidden, but did not state any relationship to him or to each other.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Dear Sirs, only me
Will you please send me the record of Solomon Whidden (or Whitten) of Somerset Co., Me. in 1835 & 1840 Census of Pensioners — p. 69 of the 1835 vol. for Maine. In 1840 he lived in Skowhegan. I would like to know all the facts stated, including anything showing when & where he lived in Ohio.
In 1835 Me. Census, p. 68, there is a James Whidden. May I have an account of him too?
Thanking you, Yours very truly,
Miss E. Florence Elliot 59 Oxford St. Somerville
Jan. 14, 1936.
Mass.

37557 Rev INVALID.
136 Jan. 27 - Hist. to Miss E. Florence Colin. - MLB
File No. 37557-1 or Whiten Solomon Thiddeu His New Law
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 155-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

James L. Edwards Esq

Augusta Maine Oct. 2 1876
Sir,
I enclose you the application of Solomon Whidden, to be transferred from Ohio to Maine — Old W. Whidden, left Ohio in August last and has not been paid his last 4 th Sept r payment, but I presume he must send his power to Ohio to enable him to receive it, unless you can order the whole year which will be due to be paid next month at the Cumberland Bank —
I am very respectfully Your ob t Serv t Robert C. Vose — 3 —
James L. Edwards Esq chief clerk Pension Office War Department

Application for a Transfer.
County of Kennebec, ss:-
On this second day of October 1826, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Kennebec personally appeared Solomon Whidden, who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain John Lement in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Bradford in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Ohio from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State of Maine where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future, in future; and that his reasons for removing to the State of Maine, are that he may spend the remainder of his days with his children.
Sworn & subscribed to, before me, the day & year aforesaid.
Solomon his  X Whidden mark
Robert C. Vose, Just. Peace
I Robert C. Vose, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within the County of Kennebec & also a Justice of the Peace within & for the same County do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence, viz, having for more than twenty years been well acquainted with Solomon Whidden, who has this day appeared before me on his return from the State of Ohio - that the said Solomon Whidden is the identical person named in the pension certificate, which he has exhibited before me numbered 17,781 and bearing date at the War Office the 15th day of September 1820 & that the said certificate was originally issued for him.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, & subscribed my name, this second day of October A.D. 1826.
Robert C. Vose.

Solomon Whidden
application
entd

The State of Ohio Germantown County - ss on this 18th 19 th day of August 1820. personally appeared in open court, being the court of common pleas, within and for said County, and also being a court of record, which have the power of fine and impris- onment. Solomon Whidden (otherwise Solomon White) aged 66 Years, a resident in said County, and who first being duly sworn, according to law oath on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows. (To wit.) in the regiment, commanded by Col. Gamarick Bradford (in the company commanded by Capt. John Lemont, in the Massachusetts line - and that he was notified of his being inscribed on the pension . And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner dispose of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it, as to being myself within the provi- sions of an act of congress, entitled. "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war." passed on the 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or security, contracts or debts due to me nor have any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed to wit, real estate none, personal proper- ty none except the necessary wearing apparel & bedding & that he is a daily laborer, but owing to age & infir- mity is unable to do but very little towards supporting himself, and that he has no family

except his wife Sally aged 64 years, but owing to great age and bodily infirmity is unable to do but very little, towards their support sworn to and declared on the 18 th day of August 1820. before the said court.
His Whiten Solomon X Whidden mark.
I David C Bryan Clerk of the Court of common pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the record of said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule amounts to nothing more than the necessary wearing apparel, bedding &c.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 29 th day of August 1820.
David C Bryan Clerk Court of common pleas of Clermont County Ohio