Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30761, Nicholas Ward, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Ward, Nicholas
S. 30761
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Nicholas Ward
of Berkshire in the State of Mass ts who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Williams of the reg t commanded by Patterson in the Massachusetts line for 20 months from 1776.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 66. Dollars 66 Cents per ann. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21. day of Septem- ber 1832 — and sent to Pensioner Stockbridge, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of September 1832 $100. — Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March 1833 33.33 $133.33
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. M. Allison Clerk, Book D, Vol. 2, Page 93.

July 24 1852 Pension Office Hon. Lewis Cass 66.66 per annum July 18 Sanitary of War Washington
— G.W.W.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 —
State of Massachusetts,
County of Berkshire
ss
On this fourteenth day of July A.D. 1832 personally appeared before me Horatio Byington a justice of the peace within & for said County Nicholas Ward a resident of Stockbridge in said County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts aged Eighty one 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that he has been previously on the pension roll in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818 & that he has been struck from the same & also hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State & that at the time of his first application for a pension he lived in said Stockbridge & ever since has & now resides in said Stockbridge. I served as a private in the army of the United States, I enlisted according to my best recollection in the year 1776 at Cambridge Mass. for the period of eight months, & commenced service in the company commanded by Thomas Williams Regiment commanded by Col. Pattison at that

time, shortly after the company was commanded by Mous Ashley, at the expiration of the said eight months which time I served, I enlisted again as a private & served for one year, into the same company & commanded by the same Mous Ashley the whole period of service being twenty months. The following is a copy of the original certificate now in my possession.
War Department
Revolutionary Claims
I certify that in conformity with the laws of the United States of the 18 th of March 1818
Nicholas Ward late a Private 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 commence on the twenty seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred & eighteen - given at the War office
of the United States, this twenty second day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen (signed) J. L. Edmonds in the absence of and on behalf of the Secretary of War
C. L. S.
10 978
That I am the identical Nicholas Ward named in the certificate of which the above is a true copy, & belonged to the Massachusetts line
Nicholas Ward
Sworn & subscribed before me the 14 th of July A. D. 1822
Horatio Brigham
Not. Public

State of Massachusetts } County of Berkshire }
I Seymour Rockwell of Stockbridge in said County of Berkshire do on oath declare that I am well ac- quainted with Nicholas Ward by whom the preceding declaration was made & that I know he formerly had a pension & is generally reputed & believed to have served as a private in the army of the Revolution & that his name has been stricken off of the Pension Roll
Seymour Rockwell
Sworn & subscribed before me the 14th of July 1832 Horatio Byington. M.B. D.D.
I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the court of Common Pleas for the County of Berkshire & State do hereby certify that Horatio Byington before whom the foregoing declarations were sworn to, was at the time a justice of the Peace for the County & duly qualified & empowered to administer oaths & his signatures purpor- ting to be his are his proper signatures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this sixteenth day of July A.D. 1832 — Chas Sedgwick Clerk
Hon Lewis Cap. If Mr Ward's pension, I be allowed him as the preceding evidence. I mean before his certificate to him at Stockbridge. Mass. And if any payment can now be made please upon a draft to him on the W. S. branch bank at Boston Respectfully yours H. Byington

30761 Rev INVALID.
File No. 30761
Nicholas Ward
Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1897
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 427
[Arrangement of 1870.]

10.978 R Massachusetts
Nicholas Ward
of Stockbridge in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Patterson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of eleven months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd of May 1819 and sent to John Hooker, Esq. Springfield, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819  10 \frac{4}{30 \frac{3}{5}} 02.09 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 1 st Oct. 1819 — 48.00
$130:09
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Berkshire County.

Nicholas Ward priv: Paterson's Mass. regt Jan'y 26 - 11 months due: 27 April 1818.
+
Admitted:
_____
Rec. Oct. 24. 1818.
Springfield, Mass.
Jun 20
Mr. Hooper
1 Case 2455 V

District of Massachusetts.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY, ss.
ON this 27 th day of April in the year of our Lord 1818 before the subscriber personally appeared Nicholas Ward aged 67 years, resident in the Town of Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, in the said District—who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions 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 Nicholas enlisted in Cambridge in the company commanded by Captain Moses Askey of the Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Peterboro of the Massachusetts Line on 1 st January Anno Domini 1776 That he continued to serve in the said corps, in the service of the United States, until the month of December 1776 when on the troops returning from Canada he was left at Aldbury in the hospital and his Regiment having marched to New York and his time of service having nearly expired he was permitted by the Superintendent of the Hospital to return home & that the above is the only of his not having a discharge That he was in the battle of so called; - and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support; Lieutenant Sol Priest is a witness who served with him And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
John Hooker
Nicholas Ward
I John Hooker Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within the Western District in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Nicholas Ward did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, 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 aforementioned act of Congress.
John Hooker
I JOSEPH WOODBRIDGE , Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the County aforesaid do certify and attest, that the abovenamed John Hooker is Chief Justice of the Court aforesaid and that the foregoing is his signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, the day and year first above written.
J. Woodbridge CLK

Joseph Woodbridge Esq. Clerk of the Courts in Berkshire County is requested to take the affidavit of St Joseph Priest in regard to the knowledge he has of the Services of the within named Ward as stated in the within application — John Hooker, Col. Justice
Berkshire County ss: On the 12 th day of August Anno Domini 1818. Lieutenant Job Priest a Soldier in the revolutionary War appeared before me Joseph Woodbridge Esq. Clerk of the Courts in said County and upon solemn oath declares & testifies that he served as an Ensign in Captain Moses Ashley's Company within mentioned; that Nicholas Ward within named was a soldier in said Company from the first day of January 1776. to the Month of December 1776. and during that time the said Ward served as a Soldier faithfully & Honorably - and as the said Company were marching from France — By  the  order  of  the  General towards New York the said Ward was taken sick and left at the Hospital in Albany this was in the Month of December aforesaid —
Nicholas Ward
Job Priest Taken, subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid — Before me
J. Woodbridge Justice of the Peace & Clerk as aforesaid

I William Walker of Lenox, in the county of Berkshire, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Esquire - do testify and declare, that I have for many years been acquainted with Nicholas Ward of Stockbridge in said County of Berkshire, that he enlisted into the Continental service for eight months, ending the first of January A.D 1776, in the regiment, commanded by Colonel John Patterson, of which regiment I was then a Sub-jutant, That at the expiration of the said term, he enlisted in the same regiment, in the company commanded by Moses Ashley Esq, for the year then next ensuing, during which year, I was first Lieutenant in said company, and Sub-jutant of the said regiment, and I well recollect, that he was in said company in Canada, and after the retreat at Mount Independence, and I have no doubt upon my mind, but that he remained in the service of the United States, during the said year, as also during the eight months service, first mentioned, I also certify, that he sustained the character during said time of a good, faithful soldier. and further saith not
William Walker
Berkshire ss: Lenox October 26. th 1818 Then the abovenamed William Walker personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed - And I certify the said William Walker is a respectable Magistrate in this County & a Gentleman of strict truth & veracity
Is. Woodbridge Justice of the Peace for Berkshire County

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss. I the undersigned Joseph Woodbridge Clerk of the Judicial Courts within & for the County of Berkshire, do certify that Joseph Woodbridge Esq. whose signature is affixed to the certificate and who administered the oath to the said William Walker is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified - and that the foregoing is his signature with which I am well acquainted.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said County the 28 th day of October A. D. 1818
J. Woodbridge Clerk