Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,256, Asa Waite, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass
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18,256
Rebeckah
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426
Massachusetts
Rebeckah Waite widow of Asa Waite decd?
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 25th February, 1814 of Worcester Co. in the State of Mass. who was a Corporal in the _____ commanded by Captain Mass of the Reg't commanded by Col Jackson in the U.S. time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 88 Dollars _____ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of Sept. 1838, and sent Austin Flint Leicester Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $220.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March, 44.00
$ 264.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M. Addison Clerk Book A Vol. 1 st Page 143

498 Rebeckah Waite
Wid of Asa
Mass.
Act 7 July 1838
Manner 1787
died 1814
Allow 2 nd Capital
Col M. Jackson
Mass line $88
per ann. See
Mass R.R.
Austin Flint
Leicester

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Ira Warlow is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signatures to the papers hereto annexed are his own genuine signatures.
I further certify, that Austin Flint is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signatures to the papers hereto annexed are his own genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court this eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred
eight. Chas. G. Prentiss, Register.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Bristol
On this fiftieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared Mrs. Sarah Boston wife of the late of Bristol for some time deceased at house of Deborah Wright as it was former- ly written, a resident of Leicester in said County aged seventy five, who being first due ly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension under by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "an Act granting half pay pensions to certain widows"
That she is the widow of one Isaac or Wright, late of said Leicester deceased, who has a son, Johnathan and daughter in the law of the deceased, and served as many as the following war, as follows; He was at Boston about two months in the beginning of the war and afterwards at New York about

about five months. In the year 1777 he enlisted during the war in the Regiment of Michael Jackson and Company of Capt. Benjamin Hearn. In this service he was a Corporal and a Sergeant, and he served during the war. The declarant has seen his discharge, and he believes that it was delivered to the then Mr. Foster formerly a member of Congress from this district, for the purpose of aiding her service hereafter in obtaining her pension, and she has never seen or heard of the discharge since. She since therefore went with the service from her residence, since she always had near her and there is the reason of her knowing so much of his services. She has relative to her many particulars of his battles, fights and services but she cannot now relate them, and besides she trusts that her case is mostly furnished by the records now in the pension office.
She further declares that the war

marriage to the said Anna Knight at said Leicester by the Rev. Benjamin Catharine the minister of said Leicester on the thirteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred That he had known the said Anna Knight since of the lawfulness at said Leicester on the twenty fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and that she has remained his widow as since as will more fully appear by the facts annexed; That she was not married to him previous to his leaving the said, but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January in the year of our Lord one hundred forty four.
Witnesses and there to the Right Noble my dear your obedt servt.
Yours &c.
Mr. Boston Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Leicester.

Mr Asa Waight and Miss Rebecca Works were joined in marriage by Benjamin Curtis Minister of Leicester December Thirteenth Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Seven
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed in the Town record in plain legible figures as follows December 13 th 1787
John Sargent
I John Sargent above named do hereby certify that I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Leicester in the County of Worcester and common- wealth of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me
John Sargent
August 15 th 1838, known to be before me
Austin Flint Justice of the Peace
And I hereby certify that John Sargent is well known to me, and is a man of truth. Austin Flint Justice of the Peace

M rs Asa Waight marriage

Department of War Pension Office August 4 th , 1838.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 26 th ultimo I have to state that the name of Asa Waight is found, as you stated, on the roll of Colonel Michael Jackson's regiment, and Captain Brown's company. He was a war's man, and a corporal in November 1777.
I am very respectfully Your obedt servt. J L Edwards
Doctor Austin Flint Leicester Massachusetts.

I Austin Flint of Leicester in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Depose & say, That I became an inhabitant of said Leicester in April 1783. And that Asa Waite. (or Waight, as he formerly spelt it) of said Leicester returned home from the Continental Army (so call'd) in the month of June the same year, And from that time to his death, was personally & intimately acquainted with him, and that it was a matter of Notoriety in the town, that he was a Sargent in the Army, in Col. Jackson's Regt., & that his duty in said Regt. was that of a Drill Sargent, so called, and that he was a During the war man. — That some months before his death, he fell into a decline, and died Feb. 25 th 1814, in the 55 th year of his age. — I state his sickness & death from my own records, as I was his family Physician. His widow Rebecca Waite. (or Waight) is now living in said Leicester. & is a person of strict veracity She has so done, all her days, She is now believed to be 75 years old. & has not been married since the death of her husband. Asa Waight. — I have frequently heard him relate Occurrences in some of the battles in which he was engaged, & that the first fire, always gave him a tremor. (or flutter as he call'd it) After which he had no fear, One circumstance which took place, I believe, in the last battle with Burgoyne, on the 7 th of October 1777, Himself, & others, were hastily flanking the enemy, in woodland, commanded by Maj. Harwood & unexpectedly received a fire from the enemies, undiscovered, flank, just as the Major, who led the party, jump'd over a log that lay on the ground, He, the Majr., received a wound on his right hand, in which he held his sword, which fell to the ground, He snatched it with the other hand, uttering these words, G-d. D— m it, And releap'd the log giving his orders, flank again . They did so, & immediately dispersed the enemies flank. I relate this, as one evidence of Asa Waights undaunted courage through the revolutionary war. I will state further, that Asa Waight, above named, was always considered a man of honesty, and strict veracity.
Leicester August 15 th 1838. —
Austin Flint
The deponent further says, That after Asa Waite, or Waight, returned home at the close of the war, he was commissioned in the Militia, from an Ensign, to a Major. —
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Worcester ss. August 18. 1838 There personally appeared Austin Flint known to me to be a person of truth and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed to be true before me Nathan D. Dyer Justice of Peace

February 7, 1924.
Katherine Waits, Corinth, Miss.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim W.18256 it appears that Asa Waite (or Waight) enlisted at Leicester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at the beginning of the war and served about seven months, dates not stated. He enlisted in 1777 and served as a Corporal and Sergeant in Captain Benjamin Brown's Company, Colonel Michael Jackson's Massachusetts Regiment, was in the second battle of Stillwater and other battles not named, and was discharged at the close of the war. He died February 25, 1814, at Leicester, Massachusetts, in his 55th year.
He married at Leicester, Massachusetts, December 13, 1787, Rebecca (or Rebeckah) Works. She was allowed pension on her application executed August 15, 1838, while a resident of that place, aged 75 years.
There is no further data as to family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

1924, Feb. 7 - Hist. to Katherine Waite nm.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1825-6
Rebeckah Waite Widow of Asa Waite Corp. Rev. War
Act: July 17 th 1838
Index:—Vol. M , Page 3111
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Corinth, Miss.
Jan. 9, 1924.
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Have you a pension certificate of Asa Wait b. 1759 in Leicester, Mass., d. 25 Feb. 1814?
Have you a pension certificate of James Wait - no dates known.
Thanking you for your courtesy, I am yours (Miss) Katherine Wait.