Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,920, Edward Wigglesworth, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wigglesworth Edward
S 33920
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll
101,101
Edward Wigglesworth Colonel
Massachusetts line 7th 3 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of Jan 2 1818, and sent to Danl. A. White, Esq. Salem, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Service rendered
5 months 4/30. $102.66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
✓ d. Dec. 8. 1826.
Newburyport Esdaile Co.
The letter to Hon. J. Reed 15 th March 1826
William Smith Esdaile Newburyport Esdaile Co.

Col d Edward Wiggin Wigginworth
Newburyport - Mass:
1 st April
Correct J. H.

Edward Wigglesworth of Newburyport in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify and declare - that I was appointed a Colonel (and under Commission from Congress) served as such in the Army of the United States, in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment three campaigns, entered in the year 1776. 1777. 1778 and 1779.
Ed Wigglesworth
I do further swear that my commissions are with my papers at Wiscasset also that by reason of my reduced Circumstances I am in need of the assistance of my Country for support. I am unable now to say whether I can procure my commissions or not - I have understood that my papers, were sent into the Country - when the British made their appearance in Sheepscot River, the last war, (and I think my commissions were with them but of this I am not certain, it is more than five years since I have seen them)
Ed Wigglesworth

We the Subscribers Do hereby Certify that Colonel Edward Wigglesworth of Newburyport in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts is known to us as a Meritorious Officer of the Army of the Revolution, and now in need of the Assistance of his Country for Support. — Given under our hands at Newburyport aforesaid this first day of April in the year of our Lord 1818.
Step. Howard Arthur Gilman John Scott Prescott Spalding
Selectmen
Aaron Pardee Nathl Marsh Nicholas Johnson Jr
Executors

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Essex ss: I Daniel A. White, Judge of the Court of Probate of the said County of Essex do certify that Col Edward Wigglesworth of Newburyport in said County personally appeared on the first day of April A.D. 1810, and made the de- claration aforesaid by him signed under oath before me, & thereafter in like manner his additional declaration a- foresaid; and that it appears to my satis- faction that the said Edw. Wigglesworth served in the revolutionary war, as set forth in his said declaration,
Given under my hand & the seal of the said Court, the twentieth day of April, in the year aforesaid.
D. A. White.

Edward Wigglesworth 1101
1101. Npnl
June 1818
C
Sep 1818

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
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, Edward Wigglesworth resident in Newburyport in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1101 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, Edward Wigglesworth late a Colonel in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .”
***** * L. S. * *****
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this 30 th day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ” 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,
sundry books and small articles of furniture which he left in the District of Maine of the value of $50
That he is Seventy nine years of age; and by reason of a paralytic shock several years since, is much debilitated.
That he served in the army of the United States, in the war of the revolution, on the Continental establishment, as he stated in his declaration, made before the Hon. Daniel Write, on the first of April 1818: on his application for a pension, that he held the rank of Colonel in the Massachusetts line.
Edw d Wigglesworth
Essex ss. July 10. 1820. then the said Edward Wigglesworth made oath that the above declaration & schedule by him subscribed are true, before me
Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Edward Wigglesworth 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.
Edward Wigglesworth
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Edward Wigglesworth took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, 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
fifty dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Edward Kippenworth a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1776 3 years Colonel in the Massachusetts Troops                                            
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓
Date of application for pension, Apr 1. 1818 His ch. was allowed
Residence at date of application, Woburnport Essex Co. Mass.
Age at date of application, 77 years. Died Dec. 8. 1826*
Remarks: No family data on file.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
* from A.B.

Ed. Higgensworth. Mon d May 13 1836 by Col. Syle

Washington
13 April 1886.
Sir,
Having been requested by Mr. Duvall, who has a letter from one of the heirs, to ascertain whether Edward Wigylesworth late of Massachusetts and a pensioner under act 1818 is entitled to commutation I will thank you to inform me in when and in what way he went out of service.
I am very respectfully
Your Obed. Servt.
Francis A. Dickinson.
James L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions

Recd. line 2, etc. stamped envelope, Rev. War. on Rev!
at 11/2
Cupell, Ala., Sept. 30, 1915-
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: -
Can you give me any information of the Wriglesworth family? We have a family record that says 3 brothers James, John & Edward of Mass. were all officers in the Rev. I am descended in direct line from James who afterwards in the record is mentioned as

serving in Virginia.
Any information you can give me in regard to the Wigglesworths will be appreciated.
Yours truly,
Mrs. J. Fall Robson, Cropwell, Ala.

33920 Rev INVALID.
1915 Oct. 8 Hist. to Mrs. J. Fall Roberson. V.L. etc
File No. 88,920
Edward Wigglesworth Colonel Rev. etc
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 436
[Arrangement of 1870.]