Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29549, James Wing, Mass.

SERVICE
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Wing, James
NUMBER _____
S. 29549
CONTENTS

10.741 Massachusetts
James Wing
of Berkshire in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Orphan commanded by Captain Oliver of the Regt commanded by Col. Woodhull in the Mass line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of March 1833 and Scrub  Rev. Mr. Bishop
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $ 160.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. 1833  40.00 $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. H. Wilson Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 2a Page 91
Dead Paid at the Treasury under the act of April 6 th 1838 from March 4 th to Aug 4 th 1841. Agent notis d June 9 th 1842
78 Berkshire

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPROLLER'S OFFICE,
June 22 d , 1842.
Sir:
Under the Act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"
The children of James Wing, deceased, late _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eighty _____ Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 11 th August 1841,
Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

I James Wing do testify and say that at the commencement of Revolutionary war, I resided in Conway in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was nineteen years of age that in the fore part of May in the year 1775 I enlisted in the Army of the United States and joined it at Cambridge near Boston in Capt Robert Olivers Company Col o Ephraim Doolittle Regiment Lieut Col o Holden Major - None our 1 st Lieut was Thomas Grover 2 nd Lieut James Pannel for eight months, we were in camp near Charleston Neck on the 17 th day of June our Regiment marched on to Bunker hill about 10 or 11 o'clock forenoon our two Col o s were absent on furlough Major More commanded the Regiment I was there all the time of the Battle did not leave the ground until the sun was set in retreating of the hill Major More our Commander was shot through the body & soon expire d . General Putnam commanded at the Battle on Bunker hill and until General Washington arrived which was in the latter parts of July we were in camp on Winter hill where I staid until the time of my enlistment expire d which was in the fore part of January in the year 1776 the lines being left very bare I enlisted again for one month in Capt Barns Company Col o Nixons Regiment staid my time out was dismist about the first of February same year the Regiments that lay near us was Col o Reeds Col o Pooles Col o Nixons Col o Starks then return d to Conway my place of residence - I soon enlisted again for one year under Sergent James Davis and was marched off through Northampton to Hartford and to New Haven in Connecticut put on board a Sloop Sailed to New York City was there Musterd and annexed to Capt o James Wilkersons Company (afterwards the famous General of that Name) and Col o James Wheells Regiment 1 st Lieut Thomas Grover 2 nd Lieut Thompson Maxwell staid there some time and was ordered to Canada went of I think in April to Albany staid there about two week and went on to fort Edward crossed Lake George Lake Cham plain to St Johns and to Montreal staid there 2 or 3 weeks soon after we arrived in Canada our Captain Wilkerson was promoted 1 st Lieut Grover was sent down the river from Montreal one night and was taken Prisoner and the command of the Company devolved on 2 nd Lieut Thompson Max well and he commanded the Company to the end of the Campaign

9 - Was order d up the river 20 or 30 miles staid there about 10 days order d back to Montreal and soon retreated out of Canada with the rest of the American army who a great part of them were taken with small pox arrived at Crown Point I think some time in July. staid there 3 or 4 weeks part of our company crossed Lake George I assisted in taking care of the sick and burying the dead returned to Ticonderoga stationed on Mount Defiance until latter part October was taken sick with fever & ague obtained a furlough to return home to rejoin again when colder got home some time in November was sick with fever & ague all winter unable to do duty or any labour until Spring after my enlistment was over I was never called for by the commanding officer of the Regiment my term of enlistment was out in February or March 1777 - In August same year soon after Bennington Battle I enlisted for three months was annex d to Capt. Abel Densmore's company 1 st Lieut. Simmons Col. Ruggles Woodbridge Regiment and march d to Bennington in the State Vermont thence to White Hall staid there 2 or 3 weeks I was order d to go as one of a guard to some British Prisoners taken at or near Ticonderoga to be sent to Boston I went with them through Northampton to Brookfield in the State of Massachusetts I then returned and join d my company & Regiment at Albany latter part of October staid there a week or 10 days March d down the river to Newburg was there a short time and sailed down and landed at Albany town march d to White Plains in the State of New York and encamp d there till some time in November until the time of our enlistment expired and was Dismissed - Some time in August in the year 1778 I was draughted to go to New London in the State of Connecticut for one Month I was annex d to Capt. Abel Densmore's company 1 st Lieut. Simmons Col. Elisha Porter's Regiment March d through Northampton and Springfield to New London and there served my time out of one month and was dischar d . I have taken pains to collect proof of the above statement and have here to annex all I can find verifying I have served in the army of the United States in the above named Regiments and companies and places two years and one Month. - I served one year & nine months in Col. Doolittle's Regiment and Col. Nixon's Regiment and Col. Reels Regiment which was Continental Service I served four months in Col. Woodbridge's and Col. Porter's Regiment which was Militia Service - Austin Ewing Esquire a Delegate in Congress from the Territory of Michigan is well acquainted with me and can give any information on the above subject that may be wanting I was born at Hiacwack, Barnstable County, Mass. where

I resided till I was about fourteen years of age when I removed to Conway aforesaid, and that was my place of residence till after the war, when I moved to Hinsdale in the said County of Berkshire where I have since then resided - I have no Record of my age - I never had a written discharge - The names of the witnesses whose affidavits are annexed, are John Howland - Isaac Wing and Matthew Butler - I refer to the Rev. Mr. Hawley and Mr. Simon Huntington of Hinsdale, who are knowing to my reputation.
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13916 13917 James Wing Flursdale Ms Application for Pension Sept 25 1832

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
James Wing
S. Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W. P. Walker J. Roberts
We William A. Hawley a Clergyman, residing in the town of Hinsdale and Simon Huntington in Hinsdale hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with James Wing who has subscribed and sworn to the above that we believe him to be seventy six years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
William A. Hawley Simon Huntington
S. Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W. P. Walker J. Roberts
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories, prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that William A. Hawley who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Hinsdale in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that Simon Huntington who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Hinsdale in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
William P. Walker Judge of Probate
I, HENRY W. BISHOP, Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of James Wing for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of said Court of Probate, this tenth day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Henry W. Bishop Register of Probate

29 549 INVALID. Rev
File No. 29,549
James Wing Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 a 89 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 454
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Berkshire, ss.
ON this twenty fifth day of September A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable WILLIAM P. WALKER, Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for said County of Berkshire, now sitting,
James Wing a resident of the town of Hawdale in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy six 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

15917 James Wing.
Photo 2 years
Capt Oliver Co Col Doolittle's Regt Mass
H W Bishop Senox Mass

War Department Pension Office February 2. 1833.
Sir
The papers in support of your Claim are herewith returned. The Negative answers in red ink in the enclosed printed brief will point out the objections which exist in your case.
Very respectfully Your ob t Servant.
J. L. Edwards
Mr. James Wing Hinsdale Mass.

I Isaiah Wing of Conway County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts depose and say that I enlisted into Capt. Abel Dinsmore Compa- ny on or about the seventeenth day of August - 1777 and was annexed to Col. Ruggles Woodbridge Regiment and left Thorne immediately after and marched to Beanning town in the State of Vermont and thence to White Hall performed services there - thence to Still Water crossed the River Situated on Bemis' heights, was a waiter to Capt. Dinsmore and from thence went to Albany where I was taken sick with the hooping cough pleurisy fever ague and had a furlough to return home and continued sick thro' the succeeding Winter — and was well acquainted with James Wing then of said Conway was a member of the said Capt. Abel Dinsmore Company that we marched together to the above named White Hall
Isaiah Wing
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ft - July 18 th 1832 - Personally appear- ed Isaiah Wing the subscriber of the above instrument and made solemn oath that the facts therein stated are True — John Williams Justice of the Peace

Isaiah Wing's depos- ition - sworn to July - 18 th 1832 -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Franklins - Feby. 20 th - 1833 - I do here by certify that I am and have been for nearly forty years personally well acquainted with Isaiah Wing the within named deponent and consider him a person of Truth & veracity. John Williams Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklins ss. I Elijah Alvord, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said Commonwealth, for the county of Franklin do certify that John Williams Esq. before whom the within affidavit was verified is a Justice of the Peace for the said county and as such duly qualified to administer oaths and take affi- davits. And I believe his name subscribed to the within certificate of caption to be his true and proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, at Greenfield on the third day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
E. Alvord Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire ss.
I James Wing of Hinsdale in the said county, by way of explaining the statement and application by me heretofore made to the Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary at War of the United States, for the purpose of procuring my name to be placed upon the pension roll thereof, conformably to the provisions of the act of the Congress of the United States of the seventh - day of June last, which statement and application have been returned to me for explanation and further evidence, do now depose and say that I served, as a private soldier, in the army of the United States, in their revolutionary war with Great Britain, for and during the several terms of time herein after specified, amounting in the whole to two years and one month, excepting that for a short part of the time I did the duty of a Corporal.
First term of service.
I first enlisted into the said army, at Conway, in the month of May 1775, for the term of eight months, and continued in the service until the month of January following when said term of eight months expired - and while I have a clear and distinct recollection of having enlisted and served the full term of eight months, as above stated, I am unable to give upon the precise day on which the term began or ended, nor have I been able to find any written memorandum to enable me to give them - My memory, in my own judgment, is unimpaired, and my recollection is very clear that I enlisted as above, within a very few days after the news of the battle of Lexington arrived, and that when I enlisted I was at work, aiding one Daniel Dunham, now deceased, in framing a house, which he commenced after the snow had disappeared in spring, and was anxious to raise before spring plowing.

begin; and I am confident my time ended in January, and tho. I do not remember the exact day, I believe it was in the early part of the month -
In the summer of 1775 after General Washington arrived at Cambridge much was done to bring the army into regular order; and among other things the Regiment of Col. Doolittle was annexed to the brigade of Genl. Sullivan, which brigade was stationed on winter Hill.
After the most diligent enquiry I have been able to find no witness able to depose to my having served as aforesaid.
I was enlisted for said eight months by Sergeant James Davis and with him & other recruits joined the Army at Cambridge, as stated in my original application,
Second Term of Service.
In January 1776, and I verily believe in the fore part of the month, immediately after the expiration of my said eight months service, I enlisted, on said winter Hill, into the company of Capt. Bains, for one month, and served the month out, being stationed on said Hill during the whole of it.
My recollection is now perfectly clear as to my having enlisted and served during said month, but I have no documentary, or other evidence to prove the same.
Third Term of service.
After the expiration of the two terms of service herein before specified I returned to the house of my father, in said Conway, where I arrived in February 1776.
In the latter part of February last aforesaid, or the fore part of March following, I was again enlisted, for one year, by the same Sergeant James Davis, who belonged to said Conway, and afterwards became a Major in the regular Army of the revolution. This enlistment was for one year, and while I am unable to state the day on which I enlisted, I well remember staying at my father's two or three weeks after enlisting, and in the mean time I aided

my father, & family, more or less, in making maple sugar, a business usually done in March & April - I went with with said James Davis and other recruits to New York, where we arrived in April 1776 and where we were mustered and placed in the Company of Capt. James Wilkinson, (not Wilkerson as by mistake I heretofore stated)
I continued in the army, under my last mentioned engagement till the latter part of October when being sick I obtained a furlough and returned to said Conway, arriving there in November 1776 where I remained sick of fever and ague till the term of my enlistment expired. I had no discharge, and during the time I so remained sick, at Conway, I considered myself as a soldier belonging to the army, till my enlistment should expire, & liable to duty whenever my health would permit -
Fourth Term of Service,
In August 1777 I entered the Regiment belonged to the Company of Militia in Conway commanded by Capt. Abel Dinsmore. See and several other officers & privates of his Company volunteered, or were detached, a volunteer , or drafted for a tour of military duty of three months - among others were the myself. When the company was formed & ready for marching the officers were the said Dinsmore, Captain, first Lt. Fuller from Ashfield, second Lt. Wells, I believe of Montague. To this Company I was attached, & served in it as a corporal, - The Company did the tour of duty in the regiment and under the command of Col. Braggles Woodbridge. Upon this occasion I served full three months - In my original Application I have stated that I enlisted upon this occasion - but while my recollection of having performed the three months service is clear, I am now satisfied that I was drafted
Fifth Term of Service
Some time in August 1779 I was draughted for the said Company of militia in said Conway and mustered

To New London, in Connecticut, where I served one month in a company of militia commanded by said Dinsmore, and in the Regiment of Col. Porter of Hadley -
For the names of the several officers under whom I served and the history attending my several campaigns I refer to my original application.
In corroboration of my own statement and testimony respecting the said several Terms of service I refer to the following documents, viz -
1 st As to said first & second Terms, see the deposition of Jethro Butler, which accompanies this, my explanatory statement, which deposition I have procured since the preceding pages hereof were written -
3 rd as to said third term of service I refer to the deposition of Matthew Butler which accompanies my original application.
4 th as to 4 th fourth term I refer to the deposition of Isaiah Wing accompanying 3 rd application.
5 th as to 5 th fifth Term I refer to the deposition of John Howland annexed to 3 rd application.
6 th James Wing
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Berkshire ss. On the fifth day of March A.D. 1833 Personally appeared in open court before the Hon. William P. Natch Judge of the Court of Probate within & for said County of Berkshire now sitting at the town of Hunsdale in said County, who being James Wing a resident of the town of Hunsdale in said County, who being duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the foregoing supplementary declaration explaining of & in addition to his former declaration herunto attached in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 & the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion after putting the interrogations presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. W.P. Natch J. Probate
I Henry M. Bishop - Register of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original supplementary proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of James Wing for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office of said Court of Probate this fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three. H. Bishop. Register of Probate.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Berkshire ss. dny of February 21. 1833. — I Ithiel Buttr. of Stockbridge, in the County & Commonwealth aforesaid. Aged Eighty two years. do hereby say, that in the year 1775 I resided in the Town of Conway then in Hampshire County, now in Franklin County in said Commonwealth of Massachusetts. that I was well acquainted with James Wing who then resided in said Conway & now in Hinsdale in said Berkshire County. That in the Spring of said year 1775. I think in the month of May, the said James Wing enlisted under a recruiting Officer named James Davis in a Company of Massachu- setts Militia as I suppose, called Minute men. commanded by Capt. Robert Oliver for the term of eight months, as near as I can now recollect. There were others in said Conway who enlisted with said Wing in said Company, & left said Conway together with the purpose, as I then understood & believe of going to Cambridge near Boston. well recollect that said Wing had the re- putation as in said Conway of having been in the Battle of Bunker-Hills.
And I do further testify & say, that my Brother Israel Buttr, I think, in March 1776. enlisted under the same Recruiting Officer James Davis, for a year & marched from Conway with the purpose of going to New York & from thence to Canada. That he was absent from home a year or more, and after his return I often heard him say that, he said James Wing enlisted & served during the whole of said term in the same Company, which was commanded by James Wilkinson as stated by my said Brother. — And further

He said Dependent Smith not. —
Jehho Butler
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Berkshire ss. On this twenty first day of February A.D. 1833. personally appeared before me, Jehho Butler, who subscribed the above foregoing Deposition in my presence, & who is well known to me as a person of truth & veracity & made oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed is true. —
George F. Tucker. Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss.
I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Berkshire do certify that George F. Tucker before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County & that the foregoing signature purport- ing to be his is genuine —
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this twenty first day of February A.D. 1833. Chas. Sedgwick Clerk

I John Howland of Conway County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts depose and say that I enlisted in Capt. Abel Hinsmore Company of said Conway in the latter part of August in the year 1779 was annexed to Col. Elisha Porter's Regiment & he was of Hadley in the County of Hampshire and State aforesaid I left my home soon after my enlistment & marched thro' Northampton & Springfield Massachusetts to thence to Colchester and Norwich in Connecticut to New London where I served in said Company & Regiment one Month from the day of Marching and was then dismissed - was well acquainted with James Wing of said Conway who was a member of said Company Regiment and do know that he performed a Month service and was dismissed at the time I the subscriber was -
John Howland
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ss - July 18 th - 1832 - Personally appeared John Howland the subscriber of the above instrument and made solemn oath that the facts therein stated are true John Williams Justice of the Peace -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss. I Elijah Alvord, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said Commonwealth for the county of Franklin aforesaid, do certify that John Williams Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was verified is a Justice of the Peace for said county and as such duly qualified to administer oaths and take depositions. And that I believe his name, to the above certificate of caption subscribed to be his true and proper sig- nature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court, at Greenfield, the third day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty two.
E. Alvord Clerk

John Howland's depo. Sition for James Wing Sworn to July 18 - 1832

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ss Feby - 20 th 1831
I do hereby certify that I am & have been for nearly forty years personally well acquainted with John Howland the within named deponent and consider him a person of truth & veracity -
John Williams Justice of the Peace

I Matthew Butler of Lenox in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of lawful age do testify and say. That I lived in Conway in the County of Hampshire in said Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the Month of January AD 1776. and that James King, now of Hinsdale in said County of Berkshire also lived at said Conway. That I enlisted for one year under Corporal Howard at the Primary in Captain Ogden's Company, and was then order- ed to Boston & stationed on Winter Hill where I remained about six weeks when we were ordered to the City of New York, when we arrived in the Month of April 1776. and there I was mustered in Captain James Wilkinson's Company & Col. James Reed's Regiment and there the said James King was mustered in said Wilkinson's Company, in said Regiment, and I served with said King, until sometime in the Month of June 1776 when I was taken prisoner with Lieut. Thomas Grouer, & other Soldiers as we were going down the river below Montreal. When we left New York City, our March was by the way of Albany, Fort Edward across Lakes George, & Champlain & thence to Montreal at the time I was taken prisoner. The said King was in the Service of the United States at said Montreal.
attest. Zachariah Sears Daniel B. Bush
Matthew his Butler Mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss. August 27 th 1832 - Then personally appeared Matthew Butler signer of the above deposition & made solemn oath that the

Same is true and Correct
Before me Daniel B. Bush Justice of the Peace
Berkshire ss I Charles Sedgwick a clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court do certify that Daniel B. Bush Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Berkshire live that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this Twenty first day of August. A D 1832 Chas Sedgwick Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire ss. February 15 th A D 1833
I hereby certify that Matthew Butler whose Deposition was taken by me on the Twenty Seventh day of August A D 1832 to be used by James Wing, in his application for a Pension and which S. Deposition is on this paper was a credible person at the time and remained so to his death. & his statement is entitled to full credit.
Daniel B. Bush Justice of the Peace