Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,545, Abraham Williams, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Williams, Abraham
S. 34,545
CONTENTS

13,471
Massachusetts.
Abraham Williams
of Gloucester in the state of Mass — who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Little of the Mass — line, for the term of one year
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 d of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of July, 1819 and sent to M rs Henson, Reg t Gloucester, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Nov 1819. amt. 2/30. 88:53
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819. 48:00
$136:53
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent October 13 th 1820 to Charles Snell, Esq., Salem, Massachusetts

13471
Abraham Williams
July 1877
Con 25 Sep 1870
Cong -
the seal of the said Court, as return, in said County of ... In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
city exhibited in the annexed Schedule is
the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the prop-
from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is
that the foregoing Oath and deposition thereby annexed are true and correct
ICHABOD TUCKER Clerk of the Court of Sessions for said County
took and subscribed the foregoing Oath
I have the above-mentioned
Abraham Williams
Abraham Williams
Abraham Williams
2. Record of said Court in said County of ...
and the same was by him, before the Hon. ...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, 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, Abraham Williams resident in ... in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 13,471 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Abraham Williams 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 third day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twentieth day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
Table listing assets: 1/7 part of a dwellinghouse 2 rooms ($25.00), 1/7 small barn ($8.00), 1/7 of 3/4 acre of poor tillage land ($5.00), Personal (iron cooking utensils $3.00, plates/dishes $2.25), Total $43.25, Owed debts to the amount of about 70.00.
The Declarant saith that he served as a private soldier in the army of the Revolution in the Company of Capt. John Baker in the twelfth Regiment commanded by Col. Moses Little in the Massachusetts line: that he enlisted in December A. D. 1775

and served as aforesaid until January A.D. 1777, that he is sixty three years of age, has a wife sixty two years old, who is a very sickly, weakly woman; that the Declarant is a ruptured man, which accident happened to him while in the war as aforesaid and which led to his discharge -
Abraham Williams
Sworn to and declared before Wm Wetmore Judge above named

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Abraham Williams do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Abraham Williams
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Abraham Williams took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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
forty three dollars twenty five cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July — A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker Clerk

Sal. Williams
✓ 44
Abraham Williams not on continental establishment
Little's Mass t Regt Jan y 1776 one year
Not on Cont t estab t
✓ Please to review this case.
If Col o Moses Little's Regt. was not on the Continental establishment, why were Pensions lately granted to Zebulon Elwell who served in Bunker's Company in Little's Regt. also to And ew Ingersoll & Jon o Burnham of Little's Regt.?
Admitted.

State of Massachusetts.
I Abraham Williams a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gloucester in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in the Month of July in the year of Our Lord One thousand, seven hundred & seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the Month of February in the year Seventeen hundred & seventy seven in the Massachusetts line of the army as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Captain Roley's Company in the Regiment of Colonel Little for eight months & to the Company of Captain John Baker in the same Regiment for one year, having duly enlisted therein for the year's service on the first of January A.D. 1776 and that I left the service on the Month of February being then honorably discharged and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty one years. My discharge this lapse of time is now lost & I have not any other evidence in my power to offer than what is herewith exhibited.
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Abraham Williams
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me
the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit within the State aforesaid & Presiding pro hac vice — the abovenamed Abraham Williams and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court. I further certify that the within named Deponent, are credible witnesses & disinterested & have been duly sworn. June 15 1818
Wm Wetmore

We the subscribers inhabitants of Gloucester do testify & say that we are acquainted with Abraham Williams the Declarant within named & believe him to be in his circumstances in life reduced & indigent & in need of assistance from his country for support. & we never heard his character for veracity called in question.
Isaac Elwell
Charles L. Roberts
Delectation
Sworn to 3 April 1818
before me W m Wilmore the Judge within named

I Zebulon Olwell of Gloucester in the county of Essex of common knowledge of Massachusetts of the age of sixty two years testify and say: That I served as a private soldier in Captain John Baker's company, in the regiment of foot commanded by Moses Little, in the revolutionary War, in the service of the United States against the com- mon enemy, from the commencement to the close of the year A.D. 1776. Abraham Williams of the same Glou- -cester served as a common soldier in the same company with me during the whole of the year A.D. 1776. And I further testify that the said Abra- -ham Williams now present is the same person who served with me as aforesaid.
Zebulon Olwell
Given under my hand this 9th day of June A.D. 1818. Then Zebulon Olwell made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. Gov. Louison Nash, Jus. Peace

UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
BY THIS PUBLIC INSTRUMENT,
Be it known unto all to whom the same shall come,
That on this eleventh day of May Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen before me, JOHN ROGERS, Esquire, Notary Public, duly constituted and sworn, dwelling at Gloucester, within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aforesaid, personally appeared William Rogers of Gloucester in the State aforesaid and on oath declared, That in the Revolutionary war he served the whole year of 1776 in Capt. Putnam's company in Col. Hutchinson's Regt. Also personally appeared Moses Lufkin of Gloucester aforesaid and on oath declared That in the Revolutionary war he served the whole year of 1776 in Capt. Richard Dodge's company in Col. Loami Baldwin's Regt. and they did each solemnly declare on oath that to their knowledge respectively Abraham Williams, who has made the within written declaration, served as a private in Capt. John Baker's company in Col. Moses Little's Regt. on the continental establishment the entire year of Seventeen hundred & seventy six, as he hath declared; and that Abraham Williams, the person now in their presence, is the identical person who served as aforesaid. In testimony whereof, the declarants have hereunto subscribed their names.
Wm Rogers Moses Lufkin
The Subscriber hereby testifies that the said Appearers, are persons of Credibility & disinterested, and to whose declarations, as aforesaid, Faith and Credit ought to be given.
In Testimony whereof, I the said Notary Public, have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed my Notarial Seal, at Gloucester, aforesaid, on the eleventh day of May. Anno Domini, 1891
John Rogers. N.Y. Public

Gloucester, Mass'ts May 12 th 1819
Sir, Herewith I return you the Application of Ab r Williams of Little's Reg t endorsed "Not on the continental establishments." This, I take the liberty to mention, is unquestionably an accidental mistake or error; and I refer to Zebulon Druell's Pension lately granted, who served in this same Bunker's company and same Little's Reg t And s Ingersall & Son s Barnham, both of Little's Reg t have lately rec d . Pensions.
In addition, I have in my possession an original paper, containing the names of the Br. Gen ls in Gen l Green's division and names of the Colonels under each Br. General. The following is an extract therefrom.
"Head Quarters Jan'y 24, 1776."
"Parole Siconderoga — Countersign Wolf"
"The L t Master Gen l & his Assistants are to look out in time for other Quarters if the Barracks are tho't insufficient to entertain the Troops. The Regiments are to be Brigaded in the following manner viz.
"Brig d Gen l Thomas's Do Gen l Heath's Br. Gen l Spencer's Br. Gen l Sullivan's Br. Gen l Green's
  Leonards  Prescotts  Parsons  Reeds  Varnums    Reeds  Sergeants  Huntingtons  Nixons  Hitchcocks    Whitcombs  Finneys  Webbs  Starcks  Little's    Waids  Greatons  Mylls  Poors  Bonds    Baileys  Baldwins     
"Whitcombs, Webbs and Hutchinsons Reg ts to join their respective
"Brigades as soon as provision is made for it, &c &c &c.
"Gen l Green's Orders — Field Officer of the day tomorrow
"Maj r M c Gaw. Adjut t of ye day from Col l Little's Regiment."
Gen l Heath in his memoirs says. April 17. 1775. Gen l Green's Brigade arrived at New York, as did a part of Spencer's. July 27. A Regiment of militia under the command of Col l Heolman, arrived from Massachusetts

July 29th. 1776. Col. Sargent's regiment of Continental troops arrived at Horn's Hook, from Boston, and Col. Hutchinson's from the same place.
Gen Washington in his Letters mentions Col. Little's Regiment arriving at New York, I think,
Col Wade is now alive in the adjacent town who can establish the facts of Little's Regt being on the Continental establishment
I am Sir respectfully Your obedt Servt.
Williamerson
Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of War

34 545 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34 545-
Abraham Williams
Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 459
[Arrangement of 1870.]