Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6,370, Caleb White, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
White, Caleb
NUMBER
S.6370
CONTENTS
carded.

Date of death not on AB
2476
Massachusetts
Caleb White
of Hampden in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Col Robinson in the field line for 9 Mos 21 Days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 32 Dollars 30 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of Nov 1832 and sent to P Sturtevant Northampton Mass
Arrears to 4th of Febr 1832 $48.45 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 16.15 $64.60
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H B Blair Clerk Book D Vol. 2 Page 93

No 4.353 Caleb White
Caleb White Declaration
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page, likely bleed-through from the original document.]

DECLARATION,
IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE 7TH OF JUNE, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss. COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE. }
ON this twentieth day of August 18 32 personally appeared in open court, before Hon. Samuel Hinkley Judge of the court of Probate now sitting, Caleb White a resident of Plainfield in the County of Hampshire, and State of Massachusetts, aged Eighty Eight 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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
I Caleb White of Plainfield in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say, that I was born at Weymouth in the County of Norfolk in State of Massachusetts August 19th 1744, now being in my eighty sixth  ninth year, and was a resident in said Weymouth thirty two years, and in Plainfield aforesaid the remaining fifty six years of my life. All my services in the revolutionary war were performed while an inhabitant of Weymouth , except three weeks done after I removed to Plainfield aforesaid. I entered the service the 19th day of April 1775 at an alarm on the day of the commencement of the war at Lexington near Boston, and continued in service until the ninth day of May following at which time I enlisted into a company commanded by Capt Joseph Truffort and Pegt. By Col. Robinson for eight months and left the said eight months service the 10th of January 1776 being dismissed by my Captain. I also went on an alarm to Dorchester Heights near Boston and did duty for one week under Capt. Nash in April 1776, I also went on an alarm while a resident in Plainfield aforesaid and marched to Manchester Vt. in July 1777 and did duty three weeks and one day at the expiration of which time I was dismissed, hav- ing served in the revolutionary war in all eight months and three weeks. Of the abovesaid service I have no documentary evidence and can obtain no living testimony, excepting of the eight months campaign which was performed at Weymouth guarding the shores against the approach of the enemy who were then in Boston and their shipping in the harbour the above said Weymouth lying on the shores of said harbour. I have no official record of my birth. I am known in my present neigh- borhood to Rev. Moses Hartshorn, Col. Jason Richards, John Black Esqr and many others any of whom can testify relative to my character.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any,) only on that of the agency in the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Caleb White
Before me Samuel Hinkley Judge of Probate for 3 d County
We, Moses Ballack residing in the town of Plainfield and Jason Richards residing in Plainfield hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Caleb White who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Eighty eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbor- hood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Samuel Hinkley Judge of Probate
Caleb White Moses Ballack Jason Richards
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Rev. Moses Ballack who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Congregational resident in Plainfield , and that Jason Richards who has also signed the same, is a resident in Plainfield and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Samuel Hinkley Judge of Probate
I, J. Lyman Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Caleb White for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
J. Lyman Register

July 9, 1935
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Mrs. Bessie A. Gross 722-4 th Street Albion, Nebraska
BA-J/EHL Caleb White-S.6370
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Caleb White, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1744, and died in Plainfield, Massachusetts, April 8, 1840.
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.6370, based upon the military service in that war of Caleb White.
Caleb White was born August 19, 1744, in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. The names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Caleb White enlisted April 19, 1775, at the time of the battle of Lexington and served until May 9, following; names of his officers are not shown; he then enlisted in Captain Joseph Trufant's Company served in said company and in Colonel Robinson's Massachusetts Regiment and guarded the seacoast; length of service, until January 10, 1776; he enlisted in October, 1776, and went on an expedition to Dorchester Heights, in Captain Nash's Massachusetts Company; length of this service, one week; while residing in Plainfield, Massachusetts, he enlisted in July, 1777, marched to Mansfield, Vermont and served three weeks and one day, names of officers not given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 30, 1832, while residing in Plainfield, Massachusetts, where he had resided for fifty-six years.
There are no data as to soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
Sol in mass A & B VOL 7 page 52 Disbanded Co. B became mass & B Grosvenor Co as an independent Co - though he was in Col. Timothy Robinson's Regt on the Vt. expe- dition
Thos Nash
Date of death not on AD

N o 4353 Caleb White
Private
9 Month 21 days
Admitted
$32.30.
C. P. Huntington Northampton Mass
of the Hospitals in the city of (Ver. Sup. June, 1888) in the State of

BRIEF in the case of  Caleb White of the County of Hampshire in the State of Mass.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court,  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 88 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1775 Apr. 19 th — — 24 Private Gen. Col. Robinson, Capt. Tuent,   " 75 — 8 — ditto Same   " 76 Apr. — — 7 do. Capt. Nash   " July — — 23 do. —  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none.  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Weymouth  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Deeds  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin Bell Examining Clerk.

1906 Apr 17- History to Mrs Charles Dudley. M.B.H. [Letter in S.F. 19127 Josiah Forney]
1915 June 30: History to Mrs. D. C. Peck. M.B.H.
Rev War
6370
INVALID.
File No. 6370
Caleb White
Print Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832.
Index:—Vol. M , Page 403
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Primghar Telephone Exchange
MS1 Rev Sec
D. C. PECK, PROP.
PRIMGHAR, IA., June 25 1915
Pension
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen
Have you any pension record of Caleb White of Mass. who served in the Rev. War.
Respectfully (Mrs) D. C. Peck.

Albion, Neb. 6/20/1935,
To the Pensions Department, Washington, D.C. Gentlemen:
Do your records contain any thing relative to Caleb White a soldier of the Revolutionary War? He was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1744, and died in Plainfield, Mass., Apr. 8, 1840, aged 96. Living to such an advanced age, I thought he might have applied for a pension. If so will you please send me a copy of whatever is on the records, and accept my sincerest thanks for the same.
Yours respectfully (Mrs.) Bessie A. Gross 722 - 4 th Street, Albion, Nebraska.

I, Lebbeus Bates of Windsor in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify, that I knew Caleb White in the time of the Revolutionary war, - I also know that the sd Caleb White now lives in Plainfield in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth aforesaid I also knew the sd Caleb White to be a soldier in Capt Joseph Knapp's company of Infantry, and Col Robinson's Regt. and that he served in sd company one year, eight months it being the first Troops raised after Lexington fight". The sd Comp Company was formed the tenth day of May A.D. one thousand seven hundred & seventy five I also knew the sd Caleb to be regularly and honor- -ably discharged, the tenth day of February A.D. one thousand seven hundred & seventy six - - P. Lebbeus Bates
Hampshire ss. July 13 th 1832 Then Lebbeus Bates above named personally appeared before me and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement - I am personally acquainted with the aforesaid deponent - and consider him to be a man of undoubted probity truth & veracity - John Mack. Just Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire
I Solomon Stoddard Clerk of the Judicial Court of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire do certify that John Mack Esquire whose signature is affixed to the within certificate was at the date thereof one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly Commissioned and acting under the Authority of this Commonwealth and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity and that the signature to the said certificate is known by me to be the hand writing of the said John Mack
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
S Stoddard Clerk
Col. Bates for C. White

No. 73. H.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Sur. File. 6370
Bureau of Pensions,
Rev. War.
Washington, D. C., April 17. 1906
Madam:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Caleb White , 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.     Apr. 19. 1775 May 9. 1775 Private Served in the Lexington alarm Mass.   May 9. 1775 Jan 10. 1776 Private Joseph Trufant Robinson, Mass.   April 1776 1 Week Private Noah. — Mass.   July 1777 3 Weeks Private Marched from Plainfield to to Manchester Vt. Mass.          
Battles engaged in, None stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Weymouth, Norfolk Co., Mass.
Date of application for pension, August 20. 1832; His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Plainfield, Hampshire Co., Mass.
Age at date of application, Born: August 19. 1744; in Weymouth, Mass.
Remarks:
Very respectfully,
Mrs Charles Dudley,
Nauseon,
13484blm6-04
Ohio,
Commissioner.