Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19830, Nathaniel Upham, Mass.

SERVICE
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Mass
Upham, Nathaniel
S. 19830
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CONTENTS

Perkins
19830
INVALID.
File No. 19,535
Nathaniel Upham
His Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 428
[Arrangement of 1870.]

5 Disposition in Application of Nathl. Upham
Nathl. Upham

1833
1833
To The Hon. Nathl. Prime Esq. Judge of the Probate of the Will within and for the County of Westminster.
Enclosed are the Depositions of Samuel Gay, Justice Ellinwood, Warner Hinds, Joseph Green, and Joseph Knowlton, to be used in an application of Nathaniel Upham of Hubbardston in said County, for a Pension under the Act of Congress of the United States passed Jan'y. 1832. The first four were taken by me the last by Samuel Lee Esq. and in file.
Samuel Knowlton, Justice of Peace
Aug. 7. 1832

The the said Alpheus was born at Malden in the city of Middlesex July 4. 1745
That he has no record of his age, but suppose his age is recorded at said Malden -
That when called into service as aforesaid he was living in said Hubbardston, and since the Revolutionary War has lived, and now lives in said Hubbardston -
That at the first term of his service as aforesaid he was drafted as a Minuteman and the time other times of service as aforesaid he enlisted as a Volunteer -
That he knew at Cambridge Gen. Washington, Maj. Gen. Ward, Maj. Gen. Lee, Putnam, Sullivan, Greene, Col. Whittcomb, Col. Little, Col. Fox Col. Fox - Ward
At Fort Miller there were two other Regiments, one Commanded by Col. Wells, the other by what Col. does not remember -
That he never received a discharge from the service at the close of any of the terms he served as aforesaid -
That the Rev. Samuel Gay, Justice Ellsworth Esq. and Col. Warner Hinds can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution -

That Court
I Samuel Gay of Hubbardston in the County of Worcester Clerk do testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Nathaniel Upham of said Hubbardston, that I believe him to be of the age of eighty seven years, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I am in the top opinion also that his character for veracity is good.
Samuel Gay
I Justus Ellinwood of said Hubbardston in the County of Worcester Esquire do testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Nathaniel Upham of said Hubbardston, that I believe him to be of the age of eighty seven years, that he is respected and beloved, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I am in the top opinion also that his character for veracity is good.
Justus Ellinwood
I Warner Hinds of said Hubbardston Esquire do testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Nathaniel Upham of said Hubbardston, that I believe him to be of the age of the age of eighty seven years, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I am in that opinion also that said Upham's character for veracity is good.
Warner Hinds
I Joseph Green of Hubbardston in the County of Worcester Yeoman, of the age of eighty years, do testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Nathaniel Upham of the same Hubbardston; that I went with him in the same Company, a soldier from said Hubbardston, where we both then resided, to Cambridge, under Capt. William Warren, Lieut. Adam Wheeler, and Ensign William Hovey, on the nineteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, that I was at Cambridge with him only three days, when I was dismissed and a substitute took my place by request of said Hovey, as I had been his hired man, and wanted one on his farm; that I have no recollection of seeing said Upham afterwards in said Hubbardston for more than eight months from the time we left said Hubbardston as ministering for Cambridge, and I have no doubt but he served that term of time. I further testify and say, that said Upham as a soldier with me volunteered and entered the service of the United States, and I went with him from said Hubbards- ton, on the first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, and served under Capt. Josiah Hildreth together, till the day after Bunker Hill, his troops surrendered, and then were separated. to guard the prisoners on the way home to say nothing of that the company of Capt. Hildreth belonged to the Regiment
commenced

commanded by Maj Jonas Wilder of Templeton, having no Col, till we got to Saratoga, and his name I have forgotten. He said Upham marched with me under Capt Wilder from said Hubba- ton on said first day of October to Stillwater, thence to Saratoga, thence to Williamstown, thence to Bemington, thence to Saratoga, when we laid on our arms most of the day, then being a battle at Stillwater. At the close of the day our Regiment was called for, and he in the same company with me composed of men from Rutland and Templeton, reached for Stillwater, and crossed the river on Sturges at Schuyler's mills, the bridge being taken up by the enemy, and soon an Adjutant informed that the enemy were near, and soon Regiment retreated across the river to Saratoga barracks, and had nearly left there for the woods when we staid over night. Thence said Upham with our Regiment were near here. Thence Maj Frost Miller, thence to Fort Edward, when our Regiment staid till the day before Burgoyne with his troops surrendered having on the day before crossed the river; after Burgoyne surrendered our Regiment marched on to the ground, that his troops left. The next day said Upham and I separated to guard troops on our way home and I came as guard with others to Pison as far as Rutland. I got home after fore part of Novem- ber and said Upham about that time, I should think. said Upham was in the service at this time over thirty days.
Attest Samuel Swan
Joseph
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. No. 1832. On the fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two The aforesaid Deponents, Samuel Gay, Justice of the Peace, William Hind, and Joseph Green, were severally examined, cautions and sworn agreeable to law to the Deposition by each of them subscribed: taken at the request of Nathaniel Up- ham of Holderness, in the County of Worcester, and to be used in an Application of said Upham for a pension under the act of Congress of the United States passed June 7. 1832, before any Court of Record within said said County of Worcester. The income and expense of said Gay, Ellsworth & Hind attending, and the expenses of said Green attending a Court of Record, for the above purpose, are the cause of taking their Depositions aforesaid.
Samuel Swan, Justice of the Peace. I further certify, that all the Deponents aforesaid sustain good character for veracity, and full credit should be given to their testimony. Samuel Swan, Justice of the Peace.

I Joseph Knowlton of Hampden in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts age Seventy two years. Do on my oath testify and declare. That I was personally knowing to Nathaniel Lapham now a resident of Haverbarker in said County of Worcester. enlisting into the United States Service. in a Company of Artillery, commanded by Capt. William Marcan, then a resident of said Haverbarker. and the Regiment I think was commanded by Major Read. That said Lapham enlisted on or about the first day of April 1778 for the term of three Months. and that he served his full term of enlistment. That he marched with his company to Cambridge and there served as a guard to the prisoners captured with Burgoyne till about the first of June when he was ordered to Rutland in said County of Worcester, where he completed his term of service. I further testify that I was a soldier in the same Company and performed the same time of duty. Aug. 13 th 1832. Joseph Knowlton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss Aug. 13 th 1832. Then personally appeared the above named Joseph Knowlton and made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed. - Before me. Samuel Lee. Jur. Power

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester ss. I Abijah Bigelow, clerk of the judicial courts, holden within and for the county of Worcester, do hereby certify, that Samuel Swan, Esquire, before whom the foregoing and annexed Affidavits of Samuel Gay, Justus Ellinwood, Warner Hinds and Joseph Green, were made and sworn to, and that Samuel Lee Esquire before whom the within affidavit of Joseph Knowlton was made and sworn to, are Justices of the Peace within and for said County and that their signatures thereto appear to me to be in their own proper hand writing — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal this sixteenth day of August A.D. 1832. Abijah Bigelow, (Clerk.)
Depo m Jos. Knowlton

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this Twenty First day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty Two personally appeared in open Court, before Nathl Paine Sugg of Middle  in the County of Worcester now sitting Nathaniel Upham a resident of Hubbardston in the County of Sterling — and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Eighty seven 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 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That through the War Department and Secretary of War, he belonged to a Company of Minute men under Capt William Moore of said Middlebury, that on the third day of April in said year, as he came to said Hubbardston on the battle at Concord and Lexington and on that day he as one of said Company collected at said Hubbardston and marched through Newland, Holden and Shrewsbury, when his Company were directed to march to Concord and when at Newton he collected Capt Moore to march to Cambridge where he arrived in his Company on the tenth day of said April; the Company consisted of twenty-four men and fifty horses under said Capt Moore, Lieut. Charles Wheeler and Ensigns John Moore, all of said Hubbardston; soon after having arrived at Cambridge he enlisted said Wheeler, who was made Captain, for eight months; Lieut. Stearns of Rutland and Ensigns Brunt and said Wheeler were also of the said Company; that the said Moore said Wheeler said term of eight months. Col. Spofford - Don Little of Newton, Lieut. Col. Benjamin Holden of Shrewsbury, Maj. McVard Moore of Newton in said County were the Field Officers of the Regiment to which he and his Company belonged. After Maj. Moore was killed at Bunker Hill the battle, Maj. Miller of Middlebury supplied his place. That he was in the battle at Bunker Hill and said Wheeler.
In July 1777 he thinks on the second Monday, or an alarm, that Brandywine was marching through the country, he entered again the service of the United States as a vol- unteer, went to Peter Shipp's the place of rendezvous, with fifteen other soldiers from said Wash- ington, and under Capt John Boynton of Winchester drove marched to Northampton, thence to Williamstown, thence to Hulse's Moon so called or Lewisburg, New York, staid there two or three days, and returned from Hulse's Moon to Bowneington the next day after the Battle of Brandywine. He staid there about one week and guarded the captured troops, then returned home the latter part of August the next following. That he was in the service at this time five weeks or more as near as he can recollect. Last battles of Tompkinsville and Red Bank. John Stone of Red Bank was an Officer of his company. Col. John Lusk of Shrewsbury, and Col. Ben- jamin Brachfield he believes were Officers of his Regiment, but that Maj's name he does not recollect.
On the first day of October seven hundred and sixty three he volunteered as a soldier and entered the service against the rebels under Capt. Francis Williams of Templeton, that Maj. Jonas H. Dyer of Templeton was one of the officers of the Regiment to which he belonged, that his company which was made up of men from said Middlesex County and Templeton and Newton marched in the same route as before to Basington, thence were ordered and marched to Stillwater, then were ordered and marched to Saratoga and there stood for some time most of the day, and at the time of the battle was a half high his Regiment called into battle, and marched for Stillwater where the battle was, where the river at Schuyler's Mills, and near Fort Edward and Bingen, and his Regiment went to Fort Edward and crossed the river to Saratoga where his Regiment stood over night, thence he went with his Regiment were marched to Fort Miller, thence to Fort Edward, where his Regiment stayed till the day before Burgoyne was defeated at Saratoga, on the day before, he and his Regiment crossed the river, and on Burgoyne's surrender were marched on to the ground as Burgoyne and his troops were had off for the next day he left Saratoga, went a few miles to a place called Boltonville, where he was taken prisoner and released and returned home to Middlesex County. He for a part of the time served this time over thirty days.
But on the first day of April 1864 he again enlisted and entered the service of the United States as a soldier under Capt. C. Williams. He was soon after assigned to the 1st Battery of Artillery, and at the battle of Ream's Station was captured by the enemy. He was taken to Danville, Virginia, where he was confined in a prison. He was released from the prison on the 3rd day of April 1865, and returned to his home in the District of Columbia. He was again mustered into the service of the United States on the 10th day of April 1865, and was honorably discharged on the 10th day of May 1865.
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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Meigs, Acting Judge of Probate In the County of Worcester
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We
a Clergyman residing in the
and
I am residing in  Elizer Mason hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Upham who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty seven years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before Nathl. Prine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Elizer Mason
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 mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Nathl. Upham who signed
the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the  is a resident in the Town and that of Hall and
who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Hubbardston
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl. Prine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Further certify that I am well acquainted with the Rev. Mr. Gay & Presb. Allen and that they are entitled to full credit. Nathl. Prine Judge of Probate
I Theophilus Wheeler Register , Clerk of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathan Upham for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand Seffixed the Seal of the Court of Probate aforesaid this 21 st day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two
Theophl. Wheeler Reg of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts
Mr. Nathl. Upham's Declaration for a Pension