Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,081, Timothy Walker, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Walker, Timothy Lois
W. 14,081
CONTENTS

13.106
Massachusetts.
Timothy Walker
of Hopkinton in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ward of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of April 1810.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of July 1819 and sent to John W. Davis, Esquire Boston, Massachusetts.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 22 3/4 30 3/4 06 89 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4th Oct. 1819 - 40.00
$134:09
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Recd.
Continued
Middlesex Co.
Notification sent to Abraham Biglow Esq. Oct 13: 1820.

1217
Massachusetts
Lois Walker were widow of Timothy Walker who died on the 20. November 1834 at Middlesex, in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain  of the Reg t commanded by Col Ward in the Mass line for two Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Boston at the rate of 96 Dollars 00. Cents per annum, to commence on the first day of March 18 July 1848 & Enig. 17 th April 1850
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of July 1851 and sent to Elijah Clark Esq
Arrears to the 4th of Brighton Semi-annual allowance ending Mass. Meal from 
Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd
Recorded by J. A. Wightman Clerk, Book  Vol. 2 Page 347
44
A. 1. 73

No 77 Timothy Walker 76 to 77 Ward Chapts Regt
22. Feb. 1810.
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page] I have cert as to claim reimbursement of the sum now certify to the credent of the sum owing to claim ants service
Admitted.
New Evidence marked B. & C
12 1/2 13

I Timothy Walker of Hopkinton a resident citizen of the united States do testify and say that in the latter part of the month of December in the year 1775 that I enlisted as a sol- dier in Capt James Millers Company in the 21 Massachusetts Regiment. Commanded by Colo Jonathan Wourd Esq. and that I joined said Company and Regiment in the town of Dorchester on the first of January in the year 1776 and served in said Company and Regiment until the first day of January 1777 and then was discharged at a place - called Piekskill near the Hudson River in the State of New York and was permitted to return home and I further say that in the year 1780 I again enlisted enlisted into the Continental Army for the term of six months and joined it at West- point in the month of July and was consigned to Capt John Blanchards Company in the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment then commanded by Lt Colo James Miller Esq who had been my former Captain and served in said Company and Regiment until the last of November at which time I was unfit for duty by reason of ill health. and the Army being then at their winter quar- ters at Westpoint. I was again permitted to be discharged and return home. a true Declaration Timothy Walker and and I further say that I am in reduced circumstances and stand in need of the help from my Country

Massachusetts District Ct. Boston 9. April 1818
The within Declaration sworn to before me
M c David Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.
[Faint, illegible text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

Lois Walker, Dec o
Inc 5 p th Dec 1860, Conng 1 July 1848 & endg 17 Apr 1850, payable to Lois Walker, Isaac G. Walker, Patta Walker, Nelly Stone Lois Pradley, Betsey Lazell, Fanny Kendrick, Lucy Pierce Abby Basworth Sally Pierce
Elijah Clark, Brighton Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, July 2 d 1851
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Elijah Clark and Abijah Ellis were Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to their 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 hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Susan Walker Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss.
On this sixth day of June eighteen hundred and fifty one Personally appeared before Elijah Clark, a justice of the Peace in and for said County, Otis Walker, a resident of Hopkinton in said County of Middlesex, aged fifty one years, who being first duly sworn ac- cording to Law doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration as well for himself as for Isaac G. Walker, Nelly Stone, Said Braley, Patsy Walker, Betsey Luzzel, Fanny Hendrick, Nabby Boonworth, Lucy Pierce & Sally Pierce, his Brothers & Sisters, claiming an increase to the Pension allowed to said Walker late of said Hopkinton deceased, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the law of Third Section of the act of July, 4 th 1836, at the rate of sixty dollars per annum, that he now claims an increase to the Pension allowed to said said Walker, agreeable to the law of Congress passed July first 1821, allowing to the widows of the officers and soldiers the same amount of Pension as they received, and deponent further declared that the said said was married to the said Timothy Walker, before he left the service, and that the said Timothy Walker his father, died in said town of Hopkinton on the day expressed in the former dec- laration of the said said Walker, and that said said Walker, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States

At the time of her decease, and was at that time residing in the town of Bellingham in the County of Norfolk in said Commonwealth.
His Wife
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first above written.
Before me Elijah Colbick. Justice of the Peace.

State of Massachusetts County of Middlesex
Know all Men, by these presents, That I Otis Walker of Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex, do hereby, for myself and in behalf of my Brothers & Sisters, authorize, constitute & appoint, Elijah Clark, of Brighton in the State of Massachusetts, our true and lawful Attorney for us and each of us, to prosecute any claim we may have on the General Government of the United States, by virtue of the services of our Father Timothy Walker, deceased, and also any pension claim for an increase to the Pension allowed to said Walker, our late Mother deceased, or to which she was entitled to at the day of her death, and the said Elijah Clark is authorized to take all necessary proper and legal steps in the prosecution of said claim on our behalf in the same manner as we each of us for ourselves would do. In Witness my hand and Seal this twenty fifth day of June 1857.
Signed & delivered in presence of Abijah Ellis
Otis Walker
Middlesex ss. June 25 th 1857.
Then personally appeared Otis Walker and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be his free act & deed
Before me Abijah Ellis Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolk, ss.
I Sherman Leland Judge of Probate, in and for said County of Norfolk hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been adduced to me to prove that Lois Walker late of Bellingham, in said County but formerly of Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex, a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of the 4 th of July 1836. as widow of Timothy Walker deceased who was a Private in the Revolutionary War, at the rate of Sixty Dollars per annum, died on the seventeenth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty at said Bellingham and that at the time of her decease she had ten children, viz Otis Walker, Isaac G. Walker, Kelly Stone, Lois Braly, Patsy Walker, Betsey Lazell, Fanny Kendrick, Lucy Pierce, Abby Bosworth and Sally Pierce all of whom are still living except the said Sally Pierce who has deceased since the death of the said Pensioner.

In Witness whereof I the said Sherman Deland Judge as aforesaid have here unto set my Hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this second day of July A.D. 1857.
S. Deland

Timothy Walker
13006
Residence
Calif
TERMINAL 183

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820.
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Timothy Walker resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 13086, now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Timothy Walker late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty first day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
  One Service $7.00   Farming utensils 15 86   Household Furniture 16 78   One old gun without a lock 0 75   $37 89 
Timothy Walker.
And the said Timothy Walker being first duly sworn on oath declares, that he served in the war of the Revolution nineteen months upon the Continental establishment one year in the company of James Mellen in the Regt of Colo for a Ward in the Massachusetts line was in

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. the battle of Harlem heights, and afterwards in the year 1780 he served six months, his other services were in the place of his brother as he is now sixty seven years by occupation a husbandman but by reason of a rheumatic affection is often unable to labour.
his family consists of his wife Lois aged sixty three of a feeble constitution one son aged twenty one an active able young man Timothy Walker
Declared & sworn to before Sam Dana judge etc 11

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
11 I, Timothy Walker do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Timothy Walker
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Timothy Walker took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Sam Dana Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the 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 is Thirty seven dollars, eighty
nine cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss.
On this twenty seventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the county of Middlesex, aforesaid, now sitting at Framingham, Lois Walker, a resident of Hopkinton in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty 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 4th, A. D. 1836:
That she is the widow of Timothy Walker who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and that according to the best of her knowledge and belief he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated; That on or about the nineteenth day of April, 1775 he was drafted and marched to Cambridge in a Company commanded by Capt. John Homes and joined the Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Bullard and served as a private till the Company was discharged which was probably one month but this service being before she was married she cannot be positive about it, as she cannot find any person living to testify to his service who served with him; and that on or about the first day of January, 1776 he enlisted into a Company commanded by Capt. James Mellen in Col. Jonathan Ward's Regiment and served as a private one year, but this service being before she was married she cannot be certain as to the day of his enlistment; and that about the middle of July 1780 he enlisted into a Company commanded by Capt. Blanchard and march for West Point she thinks on the eighteenth day of July and joined the Regiment commanded by Col. James Mellen to serve six months as a private but he came home about the middle of December out of health, but he always said he drew pay for six months, the time he enlisted for, and that he was discharged on account of his being unable to do duty as a soldier; she says she remembers the time when he came home because she buried a child which died on the third day of December and he came home in a fortnight after; and that she has no documentary evidence, but his services

have been proved sufficient to obtain a Pension Certificate in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818, which certificate has, since his death, been given up to the Pension Agent at Boston.
She further declares that she was married to the said Timothy Walker on the sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven; that her husband, the aforesaid Timothy Walker, died on the twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four; and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herunto annexed.
Lois Walker
Subscribed & sworn to by said Lois Walker The day & year first above written before me J. P. Fay Probate
And the Court do declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, that the statements of the Applicant, in her above declaration are true & entitled to credit - she being a credible person.
J. P. Fay. W. P. Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Meadow I Isaac Riske Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby certify that Samuel P. May Esq whose own proper signature is here written on the foregoing paper is the judge of said Court of Probate duly commissioned & qualified; I also certify that Matthew Melick Esq whose own proper signature is written to the authenticity of the deposition of Samuel Cook & Elijah Fitch hereto annexed is a Justice of the Peace in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said Court of Probate this twenty seventh day of June AD 1837. Isaac Riske Reg

I Samuel Crooks of Hopkinton in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age, do testify and say, that Timothy Walker of said Hopkinton a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States died on the twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four in my presence, and that I am well acquainted with Lois Walker who was formerly the wife of the said Timothy Walker, and that she has not been married since his death, but now remains his widow. And further I say not.
Samuel Crooks
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex ss. June 23 d A. D. 1837. - Then the above-named Samuel Crooks, who is known by me to be a man of truth and a credible witness, personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit, by him subscribed, is true. Before me, Matthew Metcalf, Justice of the Peace.

2,200
Lois Walker widow of Timothy Mass.
Marr'd Oct. 10. 77-
old case. died 20 Nov. 1834. Deduct.
Boys 9 Ref. 6 mo. 1780
adm'd
18 mo. fri
60 3/4
Isaac Fish Esq Cambridge Mass.

October 16th 1777. Timothy Walker and Lois Gibbs were married.
I Elijah Fitch of Hopkinton in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say, that I am a son of Elijah Fitch who was the Minister for the Town of Hopkinton from the year 1772 to the year 1788 and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and with the book of the Parish Records kept by him during his Ministry and that the above is a true copy from the said Parish Records so far as the same relate to the marriage of Timothy Walker and Lois Gibbs, and the same is in my said father's hand writing.
And further I say not. — Elijah Fitch
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex ss. June 5th. A. D. 1837. Then the above-named Elijah Fitch, who is known by me to be a man of truth and a credible witness, personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. Before me, Matthew Metcalf, Justice of the Peace.

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Timothy Walker N.F. 14081
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 19. 1775 1 mo. Pvt John Homes Samuel Ballard Mass   Last of Dec. 1775 Jany 1. 1777 " James Mellen Jonathan Ward Continental   1780 6 mos. " John Blanchard James Mellen Mass.  
Battles engaged in, Harlem Heights
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓
Date of application for pension, Apr. 9, 1818 Hisch. al.
Residence at date of application, Hopkinton, Middlesex Co. Mass.
Age at date of application, 65 years. He died Apr. 20, 1834 at Hopkinton, Mass.
Remarks: Soldier married Oct. 16, 1777 Lois Little. She was allowed pension on an application executed June 27, 1837 while a resident of Hopkinton, Mass. aged 80 years. She died at Bellingham, Mass. Apr. 17, 1850. Children were: Isaac G. (Mrs. S. Stone), Lois Bradley, Patta, Betsey Lazzell, Fanny Hendrick, Abby or Abby Bosworth, Lucy, Pierce & Sally Pierce.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

1911 Dec. 7 Hist. Soc. Mr. A. H. Drake V.P. etc. 1916 Sept. 18 Hist. Soc. to E. H. Foster.
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14081
Lois Walker
Widow of
Timothy Walker
Rev. Rev. War
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index:—Vol. M, Page 309
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Massachusetts.....1217.
Lois Walker, widow of Timothy Walker, Dec?
who died on the 20 November, 1834; of Middlesex co. in the State of Massachusetts, who was a private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Ward in the Massachusetts line for 18 mos. private.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 60 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 1st 20 day of March Nov. 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of July, 1837 and sent to Sarah Fisk, E. Cambridge, Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of March, '37 = $136:34 Pension allowance ending 4 Sept. " 30:00
$166:34
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 }
Recorded by S. A. Elliott Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1, Page 73.

Timothy Walker Mass. act 1818 when cast for?
GMC
Died 20 th Nov 1834 p st that period July 24. 1857.
J/H

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
5. June 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Timothy Walker by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M c David
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston September 22 A. D. 18 18
Timothy Walker
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M c David
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

This may certify that I the subscriber was an orderly Sargent in the revolutionary war in Capt James Millens Company in the 21 Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colo Jonathan Ward Esqr. and that Timothy Walker of Hopkinton was a soldier in said Company and Regiment he joined said Company and Regiment at Dorchester the first of January 1776 and served as a soldier in said Company and Regiment untill the first of January 1777 and was then Honorably Discha- rged and I further certify that he the said- Walker was a good soldier always kept his- Cloaths neat and clean and did his duty - when called upon with cheerfulness and a willi- ng mind and that and that he was in the bat- tle that was fought at Harlem heights on York Island on the sixteenth day of September in said year and his conduct in said action was such as was highly Honorable to himself and met the approbation of his officers and fellow soldiers as was said by. Then that was with him in said action Joseph O'neill and Hopkinton March the 30: 1818

Elisha Fairbanks of Hopkinton to take evidence of Joseph Freeland Attest J. Davis Clk.
Middlesex ss. April, 13. 1818 - Then the within named Joseph Freeland personally appeared before me, and made oath that the within certificate by him subscribed, was true in all its parts.
Elisha Fairbanks Justice of the Peace
ss

Payment to be made at Boston, by J. K. Simpson, Esq. Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Massachusetts
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 73 by S. A. Elliot, Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1830, Lois Walker, of Massachusetts, widow of Timothy Walker, deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary War, is entitled to receive Sixty ————— dollars and  cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1834,  20th of Novr. 1834 and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty-sixth day of July, ————— one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.
J. B. Poinsett Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. §
J. G. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Brighton Mass. June 3 rd 1857.
Dear Sir,
I enclose herewith the claims of the children of David Walker late of Hopkinton, for an increase to her Pension.
Very Respectfully
Yours Sincerely
Elijah Clark
Hon. J. P. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Washington City, D.C.

Dist. Clk's Office
Baton 15. Sept. 1819
Hon John E. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Sir
I have the honor to enclose the Pension Certificate of Timothy Walker in correction of an error. By the present Certificate his pay is made to commence on the 22. Sept. 1818. But he made out to his Declaration before the Judge on the 9. April 1818.
With the highest respect
I am Sir
Your most obt Servt.
W. Davis Clk.

I Samuel Small of Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify and say, that in the Revolutionary war this Deponent was a soldier in Capt. James Miller's Company in the twenty-first Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Jonathan Ward— Tristram Walker of Hopkinton aforesaid was a soldier in the same Regiment and Company with this Deponent from the first of January in the year 1776. to the first day of January in the year 1777. and was then honorably discharged at Poughkeepsie in the State of New York, and further the Deponent saith not. — Samuel Small
Midsex ss May 24. 1819 Then the above named.
Samuel Small personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the said County, and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed, I also certify that the said Samuel Small is a credible witness.
Before me Elisha Haisbroke Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex.
I Abraham Biglow Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County of Middlesex, do certify that Elias Fairbanks is a Justice of the peace acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, & his name set to the within certificate is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 31 st day of May 1819.
Abraham Biglow

I Benjamin Holden of Liverett in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of lawful age testify and say. That in the Revolutionary war in the year 1776. I was a Soldier in Col. James Miller's Company in the twenty first Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Col. Jonathan Ward. — Timothy Walker of Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex and Com- monwealth aforesaid was a Soldier in the above men- tioned Regiment and in Company with this Deponent from the first day of January 1776 to the first day of January 1777. at which time, the term of our enlist- ment expired, we were both honorably discharged, or dismissed there being no written discharge given at that time we were dismissed at Pekskeill near the Hudson River in the State of New York, and further this deponent saith not. —
his Benjamin Holden mark
Middlesex ss. May 24. 1819. Then the above named Benjamin Holden personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace within and for said County and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed by making his mark in my presence, I further certify that he is a witness of credibility.
Before me Elisha Hemenway Justice of the Peace

Middlesex.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Abraham Biglow Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County of Middlesex, do certify that Elisha Fairbanks is a Justice of the peace acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, & his name set to the within certificate is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 31 st day of May 1819.
Abraham Biglow

Mr. E. W. Foster, Room 446 Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C.
Personal inquiry Sept. 14, 1916

Mr. A. H. Drake 16 Somerset St Prov. R.I.
Com. of Penzance Dear Sir -
I have made two attempts, and I am now making another, as my two attempts, which gave me the information I desired. I am trying to get the military record of my great great grandfather, Anthony Walker, whom I am told was a officer, of the War of the Revolution,

I would write to the Dept. of the Interior Bureau of Pensions, and ask them to send me information as contained in file 14,081, of the Old War + Navy limited period of service showing of our father . I did this in my first attempt, but received an answer as above stated, - that the file no. 14,081 referred to the widow of Francis Miller, not Timothy.
My great great grand father, Timothy Miller received a pension, and act of 1818, after his death, his wife

4 Louis (Sebb) Walker, also received a pension. I have seen her name in a list of Revolutionary Pensioners, dated 1840. I hope you can find this information, I want to join the Sons of the Revolution. I will be very thankful to you for what effort you will put forth to secure this information. Thanking you in advance for this information. I will now close.
Yours Truly A. H. Drake

In my first attempt to secure this information, you inform- ed me that the file number I gave you (17,081) referred to the widow of Thomas Walker. I am informed by the compiler of the Walker genealogy that the ancestor said Thomas, but the original said Timothy. It was the compiler of the Walker genealogy to whom I first wrote to get this information that informed me about the records at your office. In answer to my letter, he said if