Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41331, Jotham Wheelock, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Wheelock, Jotham
NUMBER
S. 41331
CONTENTS
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14. 386 Vermont.
Jotham Wheelock,
of Cavendish, in the state of Vermont, who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonels Nixon & Spreat of the Massachussetts line, for the term of 18 months. 1781.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29. of November, 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25. of Jany, 1820. and sent to hon ble William Strong, member of Congress for Vermont.
Amount to 4th of Proportion of $: 25.56. Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. March
3 mo. \frac{2}{30} } 1820. $: 25.56. & 4 } 31 ... }
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
[Handwritten signature: J. Strong]
Application sent to Miss C. Hatch Esq. July 1822. Barnstable Vermont

Jotham Wheelock's Application for a pension Newcastle
Memorandum
Adm o
Hon. Wm Strong, Secy of Reps.

State of Vermont } On this twenty ninth day of November County of Windsor } in the year of our Lord 1819. before me the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor personally appears Jotham Wheelock of Cavendish in said District aged fifty six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declara- tion in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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" That he the said Jotham Wheelock on or about the first day of June in the year 1781 enlisted in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Capt Daniels in the 8th second Massachusetts Regiment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the Regiments were consolidated from that time in the 2d Regiment or in the service of the United States until the twenty third day of December 1783 when he was honorably honorably discharged from service at Westpoint in the State of New York that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except the enclosed discharge Jotham, his X Wheelock mark

Subscribed and sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Attest Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor
I Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jotham Wheelock did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I further certify that he the said Jotham is in reduced circumstances and for three years past has by reason of infirmity and still is confined to his bed and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress aforesaid
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Court at Cavendish in the County of Windsor this twenty ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen —
Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor

Jotham Wheelock

Application and schedule, exhibited by the Guardian of a pensioner, non compos mentis, the said Guardian having been appointed to that trust by the Hon. Court of Probate, pursuant to the Statute law of this State. State of Vermont. } At a Court of Probate begun and held
Windsor County, ss. } at Cavendish within and for the District of Windsor on the tenth day of June, on this tenth day of June A.D. 1822.
A.D. 1822, personally appeared in open Court, (the same being a Court of Record agreeably to the laws of this State,) Ebenezer Wheelock Esquire of Whiting in the Coun- ty of Addison and State of Vermont, Guardian of Jotham Wheelock of Cavendish aforesaid, to whom is committed the custody of the person and property of the said Jotham Wheelock, who is a non compos mentis and of the age of fifty eight years, and who is incapable of taking an oath. And the said Ebenezer Wheelock brings into Court here the pension certificate of the said Jotham Whee- lock numbered 16.386, and dated January 25 th 1820, by which it appears that the said Jotham Wheelock, late a Sargeant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension Roll of the Vermont agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the 29 th day of November A.D. 1819, and the said Ebenezer Wheelock brings into Court here the Letter of Guardianship, granted to him by the Hon. Judge of Probate within and for the District of Windsor and State of Vermont, within which District the said Jotham Wheelock resides, the said letter being under the seal of said Court of Probate, by which said letter the said Ebenezer Wheelock is duly appointed Guardian of the said Jotham Wheelock with

power to take charge of his person and property, agreeably, to the Statute in such cases, made and provided,
And the said Ebenezer Wheelock does solemnly swear, that the said Jotham Wheelock was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day, of March A.D. 1818. And I further testify, that the property, of said Jotham Wheelock has not since that time been disposed of in any, manner except for his support.
Schedule of all the property, belonging to Jotham Wheelock, non compos mentis, exhibited by, his Guardian, Ebenezer Wheelock, 3 cows $37.00, 1 yearling 3.50, 2 sheeps $ 8.00 $48.50 2 old chests 2.17, one old table 0.50 2.67 10 old chairs 1.67, iron ware $1.00 2.67 $53.84
The use of the land on which said Jotham now lives, in which he has a life estate appraised at the yearly value of ten dollars, the use of which is given to said Jotham's nurse for taking care of him, exclusive of his food, medicine, and clothing.
The said Jotham Wheelock is in a deranged state of mind, and has for more than two years past, been confined to his bed, he has no use of his legs and very little use of his arms, and is and has been for more than two years wholly unable to move himself, he has no family of his own residing with him.
Eben r Wheelock, Guardian, A.D. 1822
Sworn to and declared this tenth day of June, before said Court, Atty, Reuben Washburn, Register.

State of Vermont. } I Reuben Washburn, Register Windsor County, ss. } of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Windsor, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Declaration and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of said Court. And I further certify, that it is the opin- ion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property, exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is fifty three Dollars, and eighty four cents, together with ten dollars a year for the use of the Land, on which the said Gotham Wheelock now lives, and in which he has a life Estate.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court this tenth day of June A.D. 1822.
Reuben Washburn, Register of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
S. 7 41331
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Jotham Wheelock 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.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 1, 1781 Dec. 23, 1783 Sgt Daniels 6 th regt of Mass.   2 " " "        
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted in Massachusetts
Date of application for pension, Nov. 29, 1819 His ch. was al
Residence at date of application, Cambridge Windsor Co. Vt.
Age at date of application, 56 yrs.
Remarks: In 1822 Ebenezer Wheelock of Whiting Addison Co. Vt. was Guardian of Jotham Wheelock who was "non compos mentis."
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

20 Park 17th New York. Feb. 2. 1914
Pension Bureau Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Will you kindly let me know if your Revolutionary Pension Records contain any data of one Solomon Wales of Union, Conn.

died Mar 20. 1805, Eudorus name Leey, was Capt. in the Revolution, also of the Shrewsbury Wheelock, born Shrew- sbury Mass, probably enlisted Peterboro New Hampshire, lived & died at Whiting Addison Co. Vermont.
 Jonathan Wheelock . born Shrewsbury Mass. enlisted Peterboro N. H. lived & died Castleton, Vt.
 Jonathan Wheelock , b. Shrewsbury Mass. enlisted Peterboro N. H. lived & died Castleton Vt.

and Zeruah Wheelock. b. Shrewsbury Mass. probably related Peterboro W. H. later history unknown. Information of any or all of the above will be much appreciated
Yours truly (Sister) Gertrude B. H. H.

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1914 Feb. 7 Hist. to Gertrude D. Tobin.
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Jotham Wheelock Esq Rev
Act:
18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol.
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Jotham Wheeler Sergeant _____ in the Second Massachusetts _____ Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the twenty third Day of
December 1783
By the General's Command,
H. Knox
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
J. Tupper adjutant

Oct 13 th 1788 Payment rec d by Lewis
Jotham Wheelock
Jotham Wheelock P.F. 41331 Rev. War. Mass.

Copy of Letter of Guardianship To Hon d Eben Wheeler

State of Vermont
District of Windsor ss
(Seal)
To all to whom these presents shall come Writ C. Hatch Esq. Judge of the Probate of wills and for granting administration on the estates of persons deceased within said district sendeth Greeting
Whereas it hath been made to appear to me by the inquisition of the Selectmen and civil authority of the Town of Cavendish taken and returned to me as the law directs, that Jotham Wheelock an inhab- itant of said Town is an insane person and is incapable of taking care of himself
Therefore know ye that I the said Judge, trusting in the care and fidelity of Ebenezer Wheelock, of Whiting in the County of Addison and State of Vermont have and by these presents do, pursuant to the power and authority to me granted in and by a law of this State in such case provided, assign and appoint the said Ebenezer Wheelock to be Guardian of the said Jotham Wheelock hereby directing and empowering him in said capacity to take care as well of the person as estate both real and personal of the said Jotham and to make a just and true inventory of the said estate, to be exhibited into the registers office of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor and the said Guardian shall improve frugally, and without waste and destruction, the estate aforesaid and apply the annual profits and incomes thereof for the comfortable maintenance and support of the said Jotham and also of his family or household (if any such be have,) and the said Guardian is hereby empowered to settle accounts, receive and if need be sue for and receive all such just debts as are due to the said Jotham from any person whomsoever, and to manage, improve, divide or take care of his real estate in as full and ample a manner as he would or might do were he restored to his right mind: and the said Guardian shall also pay all such just debts as are owing from the said Jotham out of his personal estate or in case that be not sufficient, then out of his real estate, being first empowered to make sale thereof

or of such part thereof as shall be sufficient for that end, by the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor, upon due application to said Court therefor, and he shall render a plain and true account of his guardianship when and so often as he shall be thereunto lawfully required
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at Cavendish in said District this twenty first day of March in the year of our Lord eight hundred and twenty two
Uriel C. Hatch Judge
State of Vermont } Probate office Cavendish June 7 th A.D. District of Windsor ss } 1822
The Subscriber Register of Probate for said District of Windsor hereby certifies that the within and foregoing is a true copy from the records in said Probate office
Given under my hand the day and year in this certificate above written.
Reuben Washburn, Register of Probate
State of Vermont District of Windsor ss.
Uriel C. Hatch Esq. Judge of the Probate of wills &c for said District HEREBY certifies that Reuben Washburn Esquire is the Register of Probate for the District of Windsor aforesaid and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the certificate by him above subscribed — Given under my hand and seal of office this seventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two
Uriel C. Hatch Judge of Probate

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Wheelock, Levi GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 5213 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Dec. 5, 1789 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.