Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35732, Paul Willson, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Wilson, Paul or Wilson
S 35732
CONTENTS
b. July 21, 1755, at Bolton, Worcester Co. Mass. i res. there at out. m. 18189-1834 res. Saratoga Co. N.Y. m. 1842 res. Goldinell Co. Ky.

Kentucky.
5,113
New York Roll A
Col. Superior Paul Wilson Hast. Line Private 4
the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of New York — at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 rd of April 1818.
ertificate of Pension issued the 28 th of Dec r 1818 and sent to John Prior Esq re . Ballston Spa N.Y.
  arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818. 4 \frac{12}{30} —  35: 20    emi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1818 —  48: —    $ 83: 20  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Since March 1779 — File Mich. 19 Continued Dudley Saratoga Co.

In let to Aaron Nash 28 Augt 1834 dit 19 Sept 34 to Aaron Nash
Letter to Hon L. Boyd. 27 Jan'y 1842.
Let to Pres Agt. - 8 March 1842.
To Kentucky from H. Sep 1841 28 March 1842. Notification to R. L. Cobb, Edgville, Ky
Notification to Mr. Nathan Barton the...

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
Commonwealth of Kentucky
County of Caldwell ss.
ss.
On this Tenth day of February 1882
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Caldwell personally appeared Paul Wilson
who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain
11 th Massachusetts in the Regiment commanded by Colonel
Benjamin Tupper in the service of the United States; that
his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York
from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State (District,
or Territory,) of Kentucky where he intends to
remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. The follow-
ing are his reasons for removing from Ballston Spa New York
to Eddyville Caldwell County Kentucky
where he had a step son John & Sallick who
was anxious to have his mother my wife Remona
to this place which I did in October last
Paul Wilson
Sworn and subscribed to before me, } the day and year aforesaid. }
Robt L. Cobb J.P. &c.
☞ The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. The County Clerk, Secretary of State, or some other officer, must certify, under his seal of office, that the officer who administered the oath is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Mayor, Alderman, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
☞ The oath must be supported by the testimony of some respectable person, as to the pensioner's identity. He must swear that the person who has taken the above oath, is the person described in the affidavit. The Magistrate must certify that the witness is a person of veracity; and the affidavit must also be authenticated in the manner above directed.
☞ In every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should be sent with the papers.
☞ Mode of authenticating papers. —In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officers who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or small ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Caldwell County Ky
This day February 15 th 1842 Moses Wilson personally appeared before Robt L Cobb a Justice of the Peace for said County and on oath states that the within named Paul Wilson whose name appears to the foregoing certificate of transfer of pension is the identical Paul Wilson who is named in a certificate of pension dated at the War Office of the United States on the 28 th day of Dec r 1818 and signed by J C Calhoun Secretary of War
Mrs. C. E. Wilson
Given under my hand before me this 15 th
day of Feb y 1842
Robt. L. Cobb
An D th witness
State of Kentucky County of Caldwell. Set.
I Charles B Wallan, clerk of the County Court for the aforesaid County of Caldwell, do certify that Robert L. Cobb whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavit and also to the oath of Paul Wilson is a magistrate duly commissioned and qualified in and for said County, and that said signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have unto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at office in Princeton this 17 th day of February A.D. 1842.
Chas B Wallan

Paul Wilson for an increase of his Pension

State of New York
County of Saratoga } ss. Personally appeared before me the un-
dersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Paul Wilson a resident in the Town of Ballston in said County, aged Seventy-nine Years on the 21 st of July last past who being
by me duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement in order to obtain such increase of Pension as he may be entitled to receive under the Act of June 7. 1832, That he was born in Bolton in the County of Worcester in the state of Massachusetts July 21 st 1755?
Where he continued to live except when in the service of the during the Revolutionary War,
That in June 1777 when he lived in Bolton aforesaid he went to West Point in the state of New York and there
Enlisted into the service of the United States for nine months as a private soldier in Captain Greenleaf Company of In- fantry, in Colonel Benjamin Tupper's Regiment of Continental Troops being the 11 th Regiment of the Continental line of Massachusetts in General Pattison's Brigade, he mustered at West Point & performed Garrison duty as a private under the aforesaid officer until March 1778 when he had served as aforesaid nine months, the full period of his said Enlistment, he at West Point received an Honorable dis- charge signed by said Captain Greenleaf.
That in March 1778 immediately after his said discharge, he this deponent at West Point again entered into the service of the United States and Engaged as a Volunteer to General Washington in person as one of his life Guard which consisted of from 20 to 25 Mounted Dragoons & he this deponent was appointed by the General as Sergeant Major and served as such, received written orders from the General and conducted the Guard pursuant to such orders, That in November 1778 left West Point took Winter quarters at Morristown in New Jersey and about

20th of June 1779 returned to West Point crossed to Kings Bridge returned to Orange Town then with Wash- ington to Hartford Connecticut, to meet  with the French Commander, returned to West Point at the time Ar- nold fled to New York & Andrew was captured then to Williamsburg then & to York Town at Lord Cornwallis's cap- ture, That from March 1778 until December 1781 he served as Sergeant Major and served as such in manner aforesaid for at least three Years & Eight months and received an Honorable discharge signed by General George Washington at Williamsburg  West Point , which said discharge with the discharge for his Nine months Service in 1777 and many other papers were consumed by Fire when his house was burnt at Fort Miller in the Year about 1800
And the said Paul Wilson further saith that the following is a true Copy of his Original Pension Certificate under the Act of March 18 th 1818
War Department Revolutionary Claims.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18 th of March 1818 Paul Wilson late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the New York Agency at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the 23 d day of April 1818 One thousand, eight hundred and eight- =teen
Given at the War Office of the United States this 28 th day of December One thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War.
L. S.

And the said Paul Wilson further saith that he has received his semi-annual payments under the said Certificate until the 4 th of March 1834, but he is informed and believes under the Act of June 7, 1832 he is entitled to a Pension of One hundred and twenty dollars per annum and the difference by way of arrearage between that sum and his present Pension from the time that act took effect.
Subscribed & sworn the 20 th day of August 1834
Paul Wilson
before me A Goodrich Justice
State of New York
County of Saratoga Ss. I Alphens Goodrich Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Saratoga. Do Certify that Alphens Goodrich before whom the within affidavit purports to be sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature
Witness my hand and seal of office the 20 th day of August 1834
A Goodrich Clerk

Paul Wilson
(Ex. copy) Wilson
5713
March 1899 On

State of New York, } ss. County of SARATOGA,
ON this Twenty Second day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, in the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, the same being a Court of Record for the said County, 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, Paul Willson late a private in the Army of the Revolution -
aged fifty six - years, resident in the said County, in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:
That he enlisted in Boston in the State of Massachusetts in the Month of June 1799. for the term of nine months in a company commanded by Captain Grafton of the 11th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Tappan in General Patterson's Brigade under whom he served during the said nine months and was honorably discharged at West Point New York in March
1799 That his original declaration was made on or about the Twenty third day of April 1820 and that his Pension Certificate is numbered five thousand one hundred and eighty eight
AND I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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.
And he further saith that he had previously served in the American Army in the Massachusetts State Troops - That he was in the Battle of Bunker Hill when he received a wound on his left leg that he was in several skirmishes in one of which he recd. another wound in his right shoulder
SWORN to and declared on the Twenty Second day of August 1820 before me in open Court Thomas Palmer Clerk Paul Willson
I, THOMAS PALMER, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the 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 dollars and _____ cents.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Twenty Second day of August 1820
Thomas Palmer
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga.

The Inventory or schedule of the Within named Paul Wilms's) Pensioner's property
  One Bible Testament & a few small Books 1.00 Two Axes 75   Seven Sheep & four hogs small 15.00 8 Spoons 50   One Iron Kettle & pot 2.75 1 Tea pot Sugar & Cream cup (old) 50   1 Dish Kettle 62 ct , 1 Bake pan $1.25 1.87 1/2 Lott cups & Saucers 15   Two Milk pans 37 1/2 2 Decanters & 1 Bottle 75   1 Frying pan 62 3 Tumblers & 4 Plates 43   1 Cream pot 50 10 Plates & 1 Mug 74 1/2   8 Chains (old) 2.00 1 Pitcher 25   1 Fine Shovel & Forks 1.87 4 Pales (old) 1.00   2 Care of Stoves & Forks 1.00 2 Meat Pails 1.00   3 Decanter Malters 1.50 1 Tenpin Cash (old) 50   1 Churn 50 ct , 2 Chests $1.95 2.45 1 Wash Tub (old) 25   2 Tables $2. 3 hogs 2.75 1 Small Looking Glass 37   2 Old Spring Wheels 2.50   $30 $47.87 1/2 
My family consists of myself aged sixty six years a Wife aged forty two years - Three children one of which is a male child & will be Twenty one Years of Age the 27 th October next - Two Daughters one of which is four & the other thirteen years of age - I am myself of a very feeble constitution formerly a Farmer but unable to labour - My Wife is able to do but very little towards rendering a support to my family - My Son is an able bodied man but will not be under my control but a few Weeks and cannot expect any further assistance from him - My Two Daughters are unable to do anything towards providing for my necessities - Also Three Grand Children who reside with me for the present but not able to assist me in gaining support - What I reside in an old Log house for which I pay no rent -
Paul Wilms

Returns due to Benah Rogers South N. H. Seneca County

35 732
Revy INVALID.
File No. 35 732
Paul Wilson
His Rev Dad
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 458
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dear Department Pension Office August 28 th 1834
Sir
The application of Paul Wilson to the benefit of the Act of 7 th June 1832 has been examined. He alleges that he enlisted in Greenleafs Company, Tupper reg t Massachussetts Line for nine months in June '77, and in March '78 entered the life guards of Genl Washington and served three years & 8 months as Serg t Major to Dec r 81 after the surrender of York town in N o . If this declaration be true, he could not have been the same Paul Wilson who served in Tupper reg t in '79 & upon the faith of whose service he has been improperly drawing a pension since 1818.
The rolls furnish no evidence of his service in that reg t in '77 & consequently he should establish it by two credible witnesses who should state the time & manner of entering & leaving the service the company Reg t & Line to which he belonged.
With respect to his alleged service in the life guards of the command-
July 22 nd . Mass Archives shows his Mass Service

in Chief, it will be necessary to amend his declaration and designate the officers of the guard, procure two witnesses of the term and grade of service, and recite such incidents connected with it as may furnish light & aid in the investigation of his claim. The papers are placed of file
I am Respectfully Your Ob t Servant J. L. Edwards
See claim of Esther widow of Wm Belfas. R 2174 for a paper relative to Washington Life Guard copied from Custis Memoirs of Life and Character of Washington which states that the Life Guard was an Infantry Corps, but that the Horse Guard, was not a fused corps, but called from various regiments when circumstances required it.
This man states that he was a Mounted Dragoon, which may have caused the confusion, in determining his service.
Office Note. Jan 25, 1919. and
Aaron Nash Esq Ballston Spa N o York

Mar 14. 1842
Mr Evans.
James H. Bennett Esq. Somerset of Business New Bedford Washington City

MECHANICS' & FARMERS' BANK,
Albany Pension Agency,
March 11. 1842
JAMES L. EDWARDS, Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 8 th inst. — I have to state, that Paul Wilson a Pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818 — at eight — Dollars per month was last paid to the 4 day of Sept r . 1841.
I am, Sir,
Very respectfully,
Your ob't serv't,
Thos. M. Coles
PRES'T AND PENSION AGENT.

State of New York } County of Saratoga } fs.
Be it known that before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County
Personally appeared Paul Wilson of Ballston in the County of Saratoga aforesaid aged Seventy nine Years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose & say. That by reason of old age & infirmity of memory, in his affidavit made before A. Goodrich Esq. in the month of August last, he was so unfortunate as not to state with accuracy the date of his his enlistment & services for Nine months, in consideration of which he has drawn his Pension as a Private Soldier under the Acts of Congress of 1818 & 1820. That in truth and fact he did enlist in Bolton in the state of Massa- chusetts in the month of June 1779 for the term of Nine months, in a Company company commanded by Capt. Greenleaf of the 11 th Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Tupper in General Pattison's Brigade, where he served during the said Nine months and was Honora- bly discharged at West Point in New York in March 1780. as set forth in his declaration of August 22 d 1820. That within a few days after his discharge in March 1780. he did Volunteer his services as one of General Wash- ington's life Guards, and was appointed Sergeant Major and in the Autumn of that same year 1780 did accompany General Washington in that capacity to New- ford in Connecticut, it was said General Washington Went to confer with the two French commanders. That he knows of no living Witness by whom he can prove his services as a life guard to General Washington, altho in fact he did so serve from March 1780 until after the capture of Gen Wallis & was discharged by the Commander in Chief at William'sburgh in Virginia
In regard to his deponents service of Nine months he further says That by reason of old age & infirmity of mem- ory together with great deafness whereby he is wholly

unable to hear ordinary conversation altho near to the speaker, in Capt. Grunliaps Company in Colonel Tapp- -pers Regiment in this Department saith that during his Ser- -vice in that Company as aforesaid, there was belonging to the same no other person of the name of Paul Wilson and further that he has never known any person of the same name, Except his son who was born after the Revolutionary War, that from the same Town of Bottem there went with him and served in the same Company Samuel Moore or Moor, Rufus Moore or Moor, Ben- jamin Hastings, & John Barnard Paul Wilson
Subscribed & sworn the { 10 th day of Septm r 1834 }
before me Algood rich, Justice
State of New York } County of Saratoga } ss. I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Alpheus Good- rich before whom the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been sworn to at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County - And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature -
Witness my hand and seal of Office the tenth day of September 1834 - Algood rich Clerk

State of New York Saratoga County ss. On this 23 d day of April 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Saratoga personally appears Paul Willson Aged Sixty three years & Nine Months resident in the Town of Hadley in the County aforesaid & State of New York who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on this Oath make the follow- ing Declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the late Act of Congress entitled an Act for providing for the relief of certain persons engaged in the land & Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war " That the said Paul Willson is listed in the Massachusetts line in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Benjamin Tupper in Captain Groom- s Company & in General Patterson Brigade it being the 11 th Massachusetts Regiment, at the Town of Bolton in the County of Worcester in the month of June in the year of our Lord one thou- sand seven hundred & seventy nine, and that he服- ed Nine Months in the said Corps in the service of the United States and that he was discharged from service at West point on the river Hudson in the County of Orange & State aforesaid, in May after and that he is in indigent 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 ser- vices sworn to and declared before me the Day and Year aforesaid Jerry Rockwell
I Jerry Rockwell Judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas in and for the County of Saratoga as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Paul Willson did serve in the revolu- tionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and Testimony taken and laid before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforesaid Act of Congress. Dated at Hadley April 23 d 1818
Jerry Rockwell

Saratoga County ss. I William Stites Clerk of the County of Sa- ratoga do certify that Henry Brockwell is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County and that the with- in is true to the best of his knowledge.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court this 23 rd April 1818 -
Wm Stites Clerk
State of New York ss } County of Saratoga ss }
I John Prior one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that from testimony had before me this 9 th Day of December 1818 by credible witnesses I am fully satisfied that the within named Paul Wilson who made the foregoing Declaration is in fact reduced circumstances that he actually stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support
John Prior
State of New York Saratoga, ss County Clerks office
I certify that John Prior named in the above Certificate was at the date thereof an acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County duly Commissioned under the Author- ity of this State and that the above is his Signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the County
Seal the 12 th December 1818
Thomas Palmer Clerk
In the Matter of Paul Wilson

For the Pension Office
To the Honble
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City D. C.

Ballston Spa August 20 th 1834
Sir
Enclosed you! receive the affidavit of Paul Wilson a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818 for an increase of his Pension his Original Certificate is also Enclosed herewith Have the goodness to examine his claim & make returns to me as early as convenient
Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Servant Aaron Nash
To the Honorable Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington City D.C.

Cadizville Ky Feby 22-
Free
Hon. Simon Bryan Representative in Congress Washington City D.C. Mail B

Edinburgh Feby 22 nd 1842 Dear Sir John Boyd.
Enclosed please find the necessary papers for a transfer of the Pension of Paul Wilson which please place before the Commission of Pensions that the transfer may be made
Very Respectfully yours D. R. L. Hill

N.Y. Aug 26. Paul Wilson act 1814 P.M.
To the Hon.ble
Louis Camp
For the Pension Office
Secretary of War
Washington City
D. C.
ad 7 June FREE ap 1/2

Ballston Spa Sept. 10 th 1834
Sir
Enclosed you receive the Affidavit of Paul Wilson relative to his claim for an increase of Pension under the act of June 7 1832. and as it is not in his power to procure any living witness to support his claim prove his services as one of Genl Washington's life guard & since it appears by Mr. Edwards letter of the 28 th March last his name is not found on the rolls at the War Dept. He is therefore compelled to relinquish that claim, and requests that his Original Certificate may be returned. Have the goodness to direct it to me at this Post Office.
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Serv t
Samuel Nash
In Answer to Mr. Edwards of the 28 Aug. last relative to the Pension of Otis Bartlett, can only say I received his Certificate for $43. 33, bearing date Nov 6 1833, which I delivered to his Son in Law to convey to him and was informed that Mr. Bartlett had gone to the West-ward to live with a Son & have heard nothing from him him (Mr. Bartlett) since.
Respectfully
Yours &
S. Nash

J. S. Edwards Esquire Examiner of Pensions Washington City D. C.