Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3553, Jonathan Wild, Continental Mass. Navy Privateer

SERVICE.
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Wild, Jonathan
S. 3553
Navy
Privateer
CONTENTS
carded

15310
Massachusetts
Jonathan Wild
Norfolk in the State of Mass a private in the company commanded Captain Lawson of the Regt commanded by Col. Graton in the Mass line for 2 years
Mass. Navy and Privateer Records etc. Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts March 14th at the rate of 290 Dollars 99 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of June '33 Walpole Mass and sent applicant
Arrears to the 14th of March '33 - 581.98 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept n - 145.49 3/4 $727.47 3/4
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Wm Miller Clerk Book E Vol. 2 Page 91
Set to J. Gregory Sep. 23. 44

Mr. W.B. Anderson.
1877 The 2nd of the month

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Norfolk S.S.
On this twenty  fourth day of March, A. D. 1844, personally appeared before me Edmund W. Clapp a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Norfolk Sibbel Wild of Walpole, in the County aforesaid, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath testify and declare, that she is the widow of Jonathan Wild, late of Walpole in said County, deceased, that said Jonathan Wild was a Private, Gunner, and Surgeon's Mate in the Revolutionary War, for which service he was pensioned at the rate of two hundred and ninety dollars and ninety nine cents per annum under the provisions of the law of June 7th. 1832.
She further declares that she has, reason to believe that her said late husband did not receive the full amount of pension to which he was justly entitled, and she makes this declaration with the view of obtaining, for the use and benefit of herself, the widow of said deceased pensioner, as will appear by the certificate of the Register of the Probate Court hereto annexed, any increase or arrear of pension to which he might have been entitled from the date of the commencement thereof to the time of his decease which happened on the sixth day of September A.D. 1833.
Witnessed by, E. W. Clapp Sam. W. Bacon
Sibbel Wild
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written
Before me, Edmund W. Clapp, Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston April 8. 1844
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Edmund W. Clapp was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Norfolk,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; 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 hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Parsons, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF NORFOLK, ss.
I, SHERMAN LELAND, Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for said County, hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been adduced to me to prove that Jonathan Wild of Walpole in said County, a prisoner of the United States, under the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 as a pirate, Gunner & Surgeon's Mate in the service of the Revolution, died on the sixth day of September one thousand eight hundred & thirty three, & that he left Sibbel his lawful Widow, who is still living & resides at said Walpole.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this second day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty four
S Leland
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Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of Septem r next, in Boston - at the
U S. Branch Bank
Recorda

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Jonathan Wild — late a Mariner 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 com- mence on the fourth day of April — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this second day of April — one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Jon? Wild. Randolph

I Daniel Wild of Boston in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts gentleman aged sixty nine years, testify and say; that my brother Doctor Jonathan Wild of Walpole in the county of Norfolk and Commonwealth aforesaid was a soldier & surgeon in the revolution and I distinctly recollect the following particulars in relation to his service: to wit: He volunteered on the 19th of April at the first sound of firing and a few days after enlisted for eight months in my uncle Capt Silas Wild's company. During said term I saw him often serving at Roxbury. I assisted him to prepare to go on the expedition to Canada under Major Stevens, as a gunner and I know that he was absent almost a year in that service and returned sick. My brother had obtained a diploma as a physician just before the war commenced, and having recovered his health he engaged as surgeon's mate on board the Warren frigate and I brought him into town to enter on board said frigate. He was absent about a year on this service. He was after words, as I understood from him, at the time, surgeon on board a frigate

and left her at Martinique in consequence of a dispute between him and the Captain, and entered on board the U.S. sloop of war Revenge Capt Augustus Cushingham, where he served during the rest of her voyage as surgeon, and landed at Philadelphia from whence he came to our home at Braintree in said Co. of Norfolk, now Randolph, in the month of March A.D. 1779. - I further say that my said brother immediately established himself in the practice of physic at Walpole in said County of Norfolk, where he continued to practice extensively for forty five years and upwards. These facts have been known in the family & frequently the subject of conversation from the time that they took place to the present. I used to carry him hackwoods and forward, to and from Boston while he was studying Medicine and I was with him when he rec d his diploma, and returned to his parents in said Braintree.
Suffolk ss Boston - August 31. 1832. Daniel Wild Subscribed & sworn before me
Suffolk ss. Boston Dec 10. 1832. D. Lee Child J. Lee Child Jrs: Pease I further certify that the above named Daniel Wild is in my opinion a credible person and his statement entitled to credit D. Lee Child J.P. * See certificate of Secretary of Massachusetts accompanying application of John Hill.

19503
Dr Jonathan Wild - - Walpole -
Now on the Pension Roll

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolk ss. On this fourth day of September 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 Dedham in and for said County, Jonathan Wild a resident of Walpole - in said County, aged seventy nine 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 Randolph (then Parish of Braintree) in said County on the nineteenth day of April - A. D. 1752, and that there is a record of his birth in the Town Rec d of said Braintree: that he was in the United States service from the nineteenth day of April A. D. 1775, to the first day of January A. D. 1776 (om 112) as a private - in the Massachusetts State Troops : that he was residing at said Randolph when he entered the service; that he volunteered on said 19 th of April and soon after enlisted for eight months and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Generals Ward and Washington in Capt Silas Wild's company 1 st Col. Greaton's Reg t and Lt. Viles & Ens. Harmon were of same Company: that he marched from Randolph to Cambridge thence to Roxbury, thence back again to Cambridge : that he served with the main army but he does not recollect by name of militia or of the regular troops; and Genl Washington Putnam Heath Thomas and Knox regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle
and at the end of his service received a discharge but not in writing - : that he left the service on or about said first of January and that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Walpole in said County where he now resides and he has no documentary evidence of this service ALSO: that he was in the United States service from about the first day of January A. D. 1776, to the first day of December A. D. 1776 (lin 11) (112) as a gunner in the Continental Artillery that he was residing at said Randolph when he entered the service; that he enlisted
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Major Stevens and one Lawson and one Dagget were Captains in the same battalion : that he marched from Cambridge to Otter Creek, crossing the Connecticut at Bellows Falls and thence cutting a road to Ot. Creek: that he served with none except his battalion afore mentioned of the regular troops; and
except as aforesaid, no regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing and left the service on or about said 1 st of December
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from about the first day of March A. D. 1777, to about the first day of March A. D. 1778 (19...) (12) as Surgeon's mate in the Continental Navy that he was residing at said Randolph when he entered the service; that he entered on board the Continental Frigate Warren and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Commodore John Hopkins and one Fillebrown was 1 st Lt one Page 2 nd and one Bradford Surgeon, and one Morris 1 st of Newfoundland Captain of Marines that he marched from sailed on two cruises from Boston and was out a long time but touched at no port and saw no land : that he served with
of the regular troops; and regular officers were known to him; that he was in no battle
that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing, and left the service on or about said first of March 1778.

The general circumstances of his service were as follows: to wit: A few days before the battle of Lexington, he completed his medical studies, and received a diploma signed by Doctors Warren, Gardiner and Baker. He was considering what place he should select for establishing himself, when the sound of firing reached him from Lexington battle. He immediately left home with about 150 volunteers and arrived at Cambridge about an hour after the enemy had passed on their return to Boston. From that time this applicant did not return to his home until he came back from the campaign in Canada. There was a mutiny in his Regiment at Cambridge in consequence of their being ordered to encamp where lice had been left in great quantities by a preceding regt. The men swore that they would not encamp on lousy ground and the tore up the tents and tossed them over the wall with fury. Washington came and held a council and the Regiment was assured all should be made easy. In two hours a team was seen ploughing the ground, which was beat down hard and smooth and the tents reset he 12 hours all was quiet. On one night in December a party of 500 went to forage at Basset's Hill. This applicant was one of the party. It was very cold and Washington was there. One Wilder, coming up behind seized him by the shoulders and shook him stoutly saying "Man alive, if you don't take a tool and go to work you'll freeze to death." This Wilder was in great confusion when he found that it was the commander in chief, but Washington was not at all disturbed. 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.
Jonathan Wild
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
We Asahel Bigelow & Clary man residing in the said  Watpole and Abijah Smith residing in Watpole hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Wild who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Scamman & an Officer of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
Asahel Bigelow  Abijah Smith
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 Asahel Bigelow who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Claryman resident in the said  Watpole ; and that Abijah Smith who has also signed the same is a resident in said  Watpole and a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Sherman D. and Judge of Probate
I Samuel Hovey, Register 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 Jonathan Wild for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Samuel Hovey

19503
Jonathan Wild —
(faint text: Show on the roll)
Adm t 12mo Surgeon Mate
$240
11mo as Gunner 47.66
1. " " 3.33
$298.99

BRIEF in the case of  Jonathan Wild -  County of Norfolk  in the State of  Massachusetts -  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? seventy nine 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. As a     In 1775 April 8 11 Private Genl Ward & Washington   1776 May 11 — Gunner Col. Graton   1777 March 1 — Surgeon's Mate Surgeon's Mate Col. Silas Wild   1778 Dec 7 3 Surgeon of the U.S. Brig Warren Major Stevens   Surgeon Cap. Lawson   U.S. Hoop Renegade Comd. John Hopkins   Cap. Aug. Cunningham U.S. Navy  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Randolph Massachusetts -
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Documentary proof - traditional evidence, living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Improperly attached
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
John L. Watson Examining Clerk.  1st charab

August 18, 1934
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BA-J/MCS Jonathan Wild, S.3553
Mrs. M. Frances Wild Carmel, Box 883 California
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Dr. Jonathan Wild, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.3553, based upon the military service of Jonathan Wild.
He was born April 19, 1752, in Massachusetts in the parish of Braintree which was later called Randolph. The names of his parents were not given.
While living at Braintree, Massachusetts, he volunteered and marched to Cambridge on April 19, 1775, and a few days later he enlisted and served eight months as captain's clerk with the rank of private in the company of his uncle, Captain Silas Wild, in Colonel Graaton's Massachusetts regiment. He enlisted about the first of January, 1776, and served eleven months as sergeant and gunner in Captain Ebenezer Stevens' company in Colonel Henry Knox's regiment of continental artillery. Having obtained a diploma as physician and surgeon before the war commenced, he entered on board the continental frigate, "Warren", Commodore John Hopkins, commander, Philip Brown, captain, about the first of March, 1777, and served until about the first of March, 1778, as surgeon's mate. He then served three or four months as chief surgeon on the privateer, "Speedwell", Jacob Donnell, commander. He served from December 15, 1778, until March 15, 1779, as chief surgeon on the United States sloop, "Revenge", Captain Augustus Cunningham.
After his return from service in the army he established himself at Walpole, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, as a physician and continued to practice for at least forty years.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 4, 1818, at which time he was living in Walpole, Massachusetts.
He died September 6, 1833.
His widow, Sibbel, was living in Walpole, Massachusetts, in 1844. The date of their marriage was not given and there are no data relative to children.
The soldier's brother, Daniel Wild, was living in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1832 and was then sixty-nine years of age.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

1922-Sept. 22 Fish to Mr. Thos. Call Campet, MNR 1934 Aug. 18. hist. to the Mr. Francesco Wild, M.C.
Rev. War
3558 INVALID.
File No. 3558
Jonathan Wild Surg te Mate Kaplanine
Act: June 1 st 32
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 406
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Mass. Navy & Privateer Records corrected Mar. 14 '04 A.

July 27 th 1934
Veterans Administration Percolutionary Division Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Can you furnish me with some information about Dr. Jonathan Wild ? I think he enlisted from Braintree Mass. I understand he served 3 years in the navy. He was born in Braintree Apr. 20 1753 and died in Waipole Sept 6 1833.
Very truly Yours
(Mrs.) M. Frances Wild

17183
To the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions Dept. of the Interior Washington, D.C.
105 Upper Mountain Ave. Montclair, New Jersey August 16 th 1922
Dear Sir, Please furnish me with such information concerning the war service and family data of the following ancestors who were said to have been pensioned for services in the War of the Revolution , —
His Jonathan Ball of Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts —
His Jonathan Wild of Walpole, Mass.
Only two furnished each, original etc. Said to have been pensioned under the Act of 1818 for services in the Navy.
John Hamilton of the Eastern Shore, Virginia. (Wife's name Elizabeth.)
and oblige Yours truly,
Thomas Ball Couper

3. ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the fifteenth day of Decem r A. D. 1778, to the fifteenth day of March A. D. 1779 as a Surgeon in the Continental Navy — : that he was residing at said Randolph and serving in a Privateer as Surgeon when he entered the service; that he entered on board U. S. Sloop Revenge and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt Augustus Cunningham
Philadelphia, from to from to : that he sail  sailed from Martinique to
: that he was in no battle
THAT he was placed upon the pension roll under the act of 1818 as a mariner in the service of the Revolution — and that at the time of his application, he was residing at said Walpole, that his certificate of Pension is herunto annexed, that he has ever since been in the receipt of the aforesaid pension, and he now applies because said pension was granted to him in the lowest capacity in which he served without reference to the one  two much higher in which he served more than a year; for which he

was regularly prepared and authorized be- fore the war broke out; and which he has reputably fulfilled ever since until prevented by the infirmities of age, aggravated by the total loss of the earnings of a long practice  life , vyz for a period of forty years. During the interval between the cruise in the Warren and that in the Revenge he served as surgeon on board the American privateer Speedwell, which cruised successfully and had much hard service.

United States.
Massachusetts District,
Jonathan Wild of Walpole Walpole in the County of Norfolk and
District of Massachusetts a resident citizen of the United States and applicant for a pension from the United States under 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 make oath, That he served as a Surgeon's mate in the war of the revolution, for upwards of nine months in manner following viz - Early in the year 1775 - He entered on board the Warren Frigate - commanded by John Hopkins and served on board said frigate nearly the whole of that year - when he was honorably discharged - and is in sub. reduced circumstances as to require the aid of his country - He also enlisted in January 1776 as Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Stevens in Colonel Knox's regiment and served in said corps one year, when he was honorably discharged -
Jonathan Wild
Massachusetts District. Boston 13. April 1818 Sworn to before me
W. D. Davis Dist. Judge Mass. District

James Richardson of Dedham Esq. appointed to take evidence on the within application.
With this application I received the letter from James Richardson Esq. not marked. C - Instead of an correction in the first affidavit of April. 4 th or to admitting a substitution of the second declaration for the first. Re have thought it proper that both should be transmitted.
Mr Davis
Dist Judge Dedham

196 Jonathan Wild
at Mayner Admitted as free Hd. @ $8. -

Jonathan Wild of Waltham in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Physician a President of the United States testify and say that I served as Captain Clerk in the United States Service in the revolutionary war from May 1775 for eight months in the Company commanded by Capt. Silas Wild in Col. Grafton's Regiment. On the expiration of that service about the first of January 1776 I enlisted as a soldier  Sergeant in a Company of Artillery commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Stevens in Col. Henry Knox's Regiment of Artillery on the Continental establishment, and served as gunner in said Company to which office I was promoted in said Regiment for one year from the said first day of Jan- uary and was then honorably discharged soon after this having prior to my entering the United States Service nearly completed my medical studies, I entered on board the Frigate Warren of thirty two Guns Commodore Stephens commander - Philip Brown Captain, as Surgeon's mate and continued to serve on board that vessel in that ca- pacity for the greater part of a year and the exact time I do not remember - I was then permitted to leave that Service and enter on board the Brigantine Reedwell of sixteen guns and seven swivels Jacob Donnell commander as chief surgeon in which capacity I served three or four months, and being sick was landed on the Island of Martinique for my recovery after a few weeks I recovered - after my recovery the Revenue Cutter of about 100 Guns beside Swivels Augustus Canning has commander, put in there a list of to Surgeon, I then entered on board the said Revenue as Chief Surgeon and served in that capacity a course of two or three months according to the best of my recollec- tion when we arrived in Philadelphia about May 1778. The whole time that I served on board the said vessels in the said capacities of Surgeon & Surgeon's mate was according to the best of my recollection about fifteen months to wit from about the first of January 1776 to about the first of May 1778.

I am now in reduced circumstances and in need of support from my Country Jonathan Wells
Massachusetts District J. } Boston 4. April 1818 }
I worn to before me
M c David's
Dis o bedie
Mar. Dis o

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston July 15 A. D. 1818
Jonathan Wild
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Jonathan Wild 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. B. C. 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.
Wm D. Davis
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

8814
Massachusetts
Jonathan Wild
of Walpole in the state of Mass. who was a Mariner in the regiment  Navy, Frigate commanded by Warren  Colonel  Capt Hopkins , of the line, for the term of 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 d of April 1819 and sent to Judge Davis, Boston.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 . 10 mos \frac{27}{30} \cdot \frac{4}{31} . 88.23
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1819 . 48 —
$ 136.23
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent Oct: 20: 1820, to Jairus Ware Wrentham, Mass.

mmh S 3553
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., Sept 22 , 1922
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Jonathan Wild a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Reg. of Artillery
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr 19-1775 8 mos 11 das First Lieut. Captain's Clerk ✓ Silas Wild Wren Mass   Jan 1-1776 11 mos. Sgt. and Gunner's Ebenezer Stevens Henry Knox "   Mar 1-1777 1 yr. Surgeon's Mate Comm'dre John Hopkins, Frigate "Warren" Navy   " 3 or 4 mos. Chief Surgeon Comm'dre Jacob Dmell, Pirate "Speedwell" "   Dec 15, 1778 to Mar 15, 1779 Chief Surgeon Capt. Augustus Cunningham, Sloop "Revenge" Navy  
Battles engaged in, none.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Purdie (then Braintree) Norfolk Co. Mass.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 4, 1818. His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Nepole, Norfolk Co. Mass.
Age at date of application, Born Apr 19 1752, in Purdie Mass. over 45 yrs
Remarks: He practiced medicine over 40 yrs. after his services in Rev. War. Died Sept. 6, 1833. His widow Libbel was living in Nepole, Mass. in 1844. No children are mentioned.
Respectfully,
( Bro. Daniel Wild was living in Boston, Mass. in 1832 aged 69 yrs. Capt. Silas Wild was their uncle. )
Commissioner.

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The Honorable John Davis
Boston

Dedham April 13 1831
Hon John Davis, Sir, Dr Wild some time since applied to me to draw an affidavit, which I did not knowing he intended to lay it before your Honor, - there was no affidavit that he was in Reduced circumstances &c - it having been drawn the day before the order of the secretary as to an was published in Boston - that may be added as it is strictly true within my own knowledge - Dr Wild finds from Capt Page's affidavit which was made after referring to books & papers on the subject that he had made a mistake of one year as to dates, which is not to be wondered at, he not having received any thing in writing relative to his services - I presume your Honor will allow him to correct the affidavit as to dates.
I am very respectfully Dr Sir your most obed t servant James Richardson

Deposition Benj. Page

I Benj m Page of New Portmouth in the county of Newport & State of Rhode Island & Providence plantations on Solemn Oath declare say that I was on board the Warren Fregate & acted as second Lieutenant in the year 1778 at said time, M c Jonathan Wild. was in the Medical in the Navy & served as Surgeons first mate on board the said Fregate on a Cruise, or nearly the whole of that year Newport April 9 th 1818
Benj m Page
Newport ss State of Rhode Island & Providence plantations
Personally came Benj m Page Subscriber to the above Deposition and on his Solemn Oath declared the same to be the the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth, before me Nath l Taylor Chief
Newport April 9 th 1818 Justice Court of common pleas county of Newport.
1/2 Rhode Island District. Providence 9 April 1818. I certify that the P er Benjamin Page is to me well known an respectable nautical commander during the revolutionary war and since - and that the P er Nicholas Taylor is also to me well known - an C. J. C. C. Clerk C o Newport in the State.
David Howell District Judge.

Massachusetts District J.
Boston 13. April A.D. 1818
James Richardson of Dedham, Esquire, is appointed Commissioner to take evidence on the application of Jonathan Wild for a Pension, — by order of the District Judge.
Attest Moll Davis Clerk of Mass ts District —

2 I Samuel Doggett of Dedham in the County of Norfolk. Herewith wealth of Massachusetts testify and say that I well knew De John Athens Wild now of Walpole in the same County, that he was a Soldier in the revolutionary war, that he served in and near Canada, in Col. Knox's Regiment of Artillery in the Company commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Stevens in which Company I was a Lieutenant for one year from the first of January 1776, as a gunner, faith- fully. I further testify that I have known said Wild a great number of years since the close of the war that he is a man of veracity, and is reported to be in reduced circumstances. Samuel Doggett
Dedham April 14 1810
Then the above named Samuel Doggett personally appeared & made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed was true
before me James Richardson Just: of Peace

Marblehead, May 1,th, 1844.
Honored Sir!
At the request of Mrs. Sibbel Wild, widow of Doctor Jonathan Wild , Revolutionary Pensioner, late of Walpole, County of Norfolk, Massachusetts, deceased, I have the Honor to forward herewith a Declaration of hers made with the view of claiming any increase or arrears of Pension to which said Doctor Wilds might have been entitled, by virtue of any declarations since made relative to the grade of pay allowed to Sergeants Mates &c in the Revolutionary War.
It is understood that Dr. Wilds served several years as an Officer of different grades in the Army and Navy of the Revolution.
I am, with very great respect, Your Honor's humble servt. James Gregory
James L. Edwards Esq Commission of Pensions, Washington, D. C.