Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29980, for Israel Mead, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Mead, Israel
NUMBER
S. 29980
CONTENTS

27.309 Massachusetts
Israel Mead
Middlesex in the State of Mass o who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the County Dept o commanded by Amasa Davis in the Mass a line for 17 months & 24 days
Deputy Commissary
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 35 6 Dollars _____ Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of March 1831 and to the said Israel Mead East Cambridge Massachusetts
Arrears to the 4th of March 1831 1068.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending Sept 4 178.00 $1246.00
Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by A. H. Madison Clerk Book _____ Vol. _____ Page _____

19459 Israel Mead Mass
Deputy Commrinary 17 mos & 24 adm d 5.06 Sep 17 1833
12 - 240 6 - 100 12 - 10 357
21480 240 120 360 266 357.34
11 2/3 9 600
Isaac Fiske
Esq Cambridge Mass
124 240 2180 30
66 2/3

BRIEF in the case of Israel Mead 60. of Middlesex in the State of Mass (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 81  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. As a Gen.     about the time battle of Dunk' hill In 1758 and until the British left Boston Dep'ty Commissary Digby   afterwards for about 16 June 1758 1 " Commissary General Davis   until that he held the same office till 1779. 4 7 "  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? —  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional and documentary  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
The period of service is not distinctly given — nor the exact length of time
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Payson
Examining Clerk.

Dep. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the twenty first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid now sitting, Israel Mead a resident of West-Cambridge in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth 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 act of Congress, passed June 7 A.D. 1852. That he entered the service of the United State under the following named officers, and served as herein stated; viz. He entered the service as a Deputy Commissary of provisions under Commissary General Rigian about the time of the battle of Bricken Hill and was in said Hill in that capacity on that day, that he held said office until the British evacuated Boston; that afterwards he was in the office of General Hovey in Boston as Clerk for about the term of one year

afterwards in the year nineteen hundred and twenty eight he again was appointed Deputy Quartermaster under Quartermaster Amasa Davis and was stationed at Rutland in Massachusetts from the sixteenth day of June to the twenty third of October in that year as by letter from said Amasa Davis herunto annexed will appear, that he held the same office until after the expedition to Penobscot in the year nineteen hundred and twenty nine and went with the troops to Penobscot where he lost all his clothing, haversacks, knapsacks and many etc of which fell into the hands of the enemy, that he all the time he was in the service here, side arms, though he was not in any engage- ment, in proof of the aforementioned service he refers to the depositions of Robert Patten, William Turner and Ebenezer Goss; which depositions accompany the petition of said Amasa Davis presented to Congress by the Hon. Edmund Everett, then an then your son, which petition and depositions may be found in the files of Congress

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 any state.
Israel Meade Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid J. P. P. Gray Clerk
We Thomas Russell and James Russell both Magistrates residing in said West Cambridge hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Israel Meade who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: That we believe him to be eighty one years of age; that he is respected and beloved, in the neigh- borhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Thomas Russell James Russell
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid J. P. P. Gray Clerk
And the 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 certify, that it appears to them that Thomas Russell and James Russell both

residing in said Wiltshire who have signed the preceding certificate are magistrates of said county and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
Y O'Callaghan
I Isaac Hicks Register of the Court of Sessions in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify, that the foregoing proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of General Meigs for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the day and year first above said
Isaac Hicks 19459
General Meigs

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss.
On this ninth day of October in the year eighteen hundred and forty three Personally appeared before me James Russell Esdaile a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex Northend Street of Boston in the County of Suffolk Commonwealth of Massachusetts being now fifty one years of age and being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain for himself and for and in behalf of John L. Russell and Sally D. Wyling the only surviving children of Israel Russell, arrears of Pension which was due him the said Israel Russell, his father; who was a Commissary and Deputy Commissary in the Army of the Revolution. That his said father Israel Russell died at his residence in Wat- erbury in the County of Middlesex on the twenty ninth day of December A.D. 1835, and

That at the time of his decease was a Pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress 1832 and that having good reason to believe his said father did not receive the full amount of Pension which he was justly entitled to according to the highest rank his said father held as Commission in the Revolutionary War, he now appeals for himself and in behalf of his brother John L. Mead & his sister Sally Styling for whatever sum may be justly their due and for this he swith not. — Nathaniel Mead
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written Before me James Russell Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Nathaniel Mead is personally known by me to be a man of the above named Sarah Mead deceased. James Russell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston October 14 th 1843 —
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation, James Russell was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Wm A Doolittle Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Suffolk County.
I, Edward G. Loring, Judge of Probate for said county, hereby certify that Satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to me by the affidavit of I. G. Lewis and James Barry hereto annexed, that Israel Mead who was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $356. per annum, died on the 29th day of December, Eighteen Hundred Thirty Five; that he left no widow, and that he left three children and no more; viz: Nathaniel Mead, John L. Mead, and Sally D. Ayling; that the said John L. Mead has since deceased, and that the said Nathaniel Mead and Sally D. Ayling, are now living.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Probate Court hereunto affixed this
30th day of November 1853.
Edward G. Loring
Judge of Probate

State of Massachusetts.
County of Suffolk — ss.
On this twenty sixth day of November 1853 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County J. H. Lewis and James Barry who being duly sworn doth upon their oath testify and declare that they well knew Israel Mead, who
was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $356 per annum, that he died on the 29 th day of December 1835 — that he left no widow, and that he left three children, and no more viz: Nathaniel Mead, John L. Mead, and Sally D. Ayling ; — that the said John L. Mead has since deceased, and that the said Nathaniel Mead and Sally D. Ayling are now living.
J. H. Lewis James Barry
Subscribed and sworn to before me, and I certify that the deponents are respectable and credible witnesses, and that I have no interest in the matter to which the foregoing relates as Agent or otherwise.
Lyman Mason } Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, December 3 1853.
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Lyman Mason was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I know all men by these Presents that I. Nathaniel Mead do hereby authorize, constitute and appoint J. M. Thayer to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute any claim which I may have on the government of the United States for pension or arrears of pension due my father Israel Mead, decd as a deputy commissary during the Revolutionary War, and the said J. M. Thayer is hereby authorized to take all necessary, legal and proper steps in the prosecution of the said claim in the same manner and to the same extent that I might do for myself.
Witness my hand and Seal, this 25 th day of November 1853.
Nathaniel Mead
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk County.
November 25 th 1853 Personally came before me Nathaniel Mead and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney by him subscribed to be his free act and deed.
Before me, Lyman Mason Justice of the Peace

Israel Mead, Mass. Commissary D.F. 29980.
34 papers, receipts, accounts and orders, have been removed from this case to be forwarded to the War Dept.
AW
OCT 18 1910
Sent to War Dept. Jan. 16. 1913

29 980. Very INVALID.
File No. 29,980
Israel Mead
Commis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Medford Oct. 20 1818
To whom it may Concern -
We the undersigned was then - acquainted with Israel Mead before the revolutionary War in 1775 And was knowing to this serving as a commis- sary to Genl. Sullivan's Brigade from the first of it to the time that his Brigade march'd off to the Southward Medford Oct. — (of Genl. Sullivan's } Jerhema Teel Brigade & Col. Bunker's Regt. Capt. Halls Co. } William Bucknam of Genl. Sullivan's Brig. & Col. Bunker's } & Capt. Halls Co. } of Col. Gardner's Vanc. Col. Bonds Regt. Capt. Halls Co. } Nathan Pierce

to Elijah Clark Oct 18th 1844 Lot 6 Wm H. Parnata Oct 10.45
Elijah Clark Ph. '47 Dipete Mar 27/54

Israel Meade
Maps
Set June '32
Amount
12
17
25-
85-
34
425-
I want to see the papers - H. H. C. Supt.

Department of State, Washington, Feby 21. 1834
Sir,
In reply to your note of Jan y 5 th , I have to inform you, that the Revolutionary records on file in this Department, furnish evidence of the fact, that on the 20 th day of January 1776, Isaac Meade was acting as first clerk in the Spring Store, Medford Mass ts , at 4/8 per day and three rations.
I am respectfully Your Obat Servant
W. L. Mercy.
J. F. C. Tipton

Department of State Washington May 23 d 1845
Sir
In further answer to your letter of the 10 th inst t , I have to say, that the Washington Papers do not furnish any evidence of the service of Israel Mead as Commissary of Provisions, and that they contain no returns of Commissaries Trull and Lucas.
The papers transmitted in Meads case are herewith returned.
Very Respectfully
I am Sir &c
James Buchanan
James L Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Pension Office. Washington

Brighton October 26 th - 1843.
Dear Sir,
I enclose to you herewith the claims of the Heirs of Israel Mead of West Lambbridge clams, for arrears of Pension which was not allowed & paid to the said Israel Mead in his pension agreeable to the rank of office which he held in the Revolution,
Very Respectfully Yours Colt. S. Dyer Elijah Clarke
Hon J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions. Washington, City, D. C.

Brighton July 23/44
Elijah Clark.
Presents claim of Israel Mead's heirs for an in- crease of his pension.
C530. Rec July 27/44
Union Offic n
Mass Israel Mead du. p for increase.

Dear Sir,
Brighton, July, 23 rd 1844.
A communication from the commissioner of Pensions of date the 16 th inst has been received, respecting the claims of the children of Israel Mead of West Cambridge, for an increase to their fathers pensions which he received under the Law of 1832, for services as Dept Commissary. It is believed by the children, by those who were acquainted with him, & from some of his old papers which have been found since his death at his last residence, that he was in the service as a commissary of Provisions in Genl. Sullivan & Lincolns Brigade in 1775 & 76, that he was a Dept Commissary at the time Genl. Burgoyne's Army was under guard in this State, and that he was a commissary at the Benedict Expedition in 1779, and that his service would amount to three or four years, an application has been made for proof from the documents in office of the Secretary of this State, & the department has informed me, that there is no proof of said Meads service to be found, there being no documents of the kind in the office. I have therefore presumed that there are documents in the War Office at Washington which will show the full service of Israel Mead, and I herewith enclose a piece of the old documents of Mr. Meads, and request a further & a full examination of the case,
This case was forwarded Oct. 20 th 1843, and no other return has been received except the one here first mentioned, which is a very great length of time as what has been the usual time year past. I have a number of cases forwarded in Oct. Nov. & December which have not been heard from, which necessarily renders the claimants uneasy.
Verny Rust Gomball Elijah Clarke
Hon. M. S. Secretary of War at Washington, City, D.C.

Israel Mead Maps at 32
Wm L P New Camp Meigs
Capt. Priflett

Washington, July 22. 1854
Sir,
The case of Daniel Mearns, Mep. Rev '32, was admitted for 17 mos 5 days, as Epist. Care, upon documentary evi- dence submitted by him, but it was improperly computed, since at $25 per month, the pension would amount to $425.
He claimed in addition to have served 12 months as Clerk to a Cong. Stn., of which he produced no evidence. I now submit a certif- icate from the State Dept. showing that he did serve as such clerk and
at about $23. per month for his
Although the length of his service is now shown, yet as the evidence furnished corroborates his statement, it is herewith to allow him the 6 months 25 days required to make out his 2 years
Very Resp.
J. H. C. D. [Signature]

To the Hon. ble the Council and House of Representatives of the State of Mass ts Bay.
The Petition of Israel Mead of Boston Humbly sheweth
That your Petitioner having been ap- pointed Assistant Commissary of Issues, under John Lucas Esq r Commiss y Gen l on the Expedition to Pe- nobscot, & that your Petitioner has been on said Ex- pedition, And has Victualled the Troops which were under the command of the Hon. ble B. Gen l Lovell during the siege at that place, And at the time of our Retreat, up Penobscot River, our Troops were entirely out of Provisions (it being their draw d Day) Therefore your Petitioner tho't himself bound to do all in his power to land & secure what provisions he could, before the Vessels that contain- ed them were destroyed, Which he did to the utmost of his power, having but a very small assistance, and did not give himself time even to secure his own Cloaths except what he then wore. Which loss of cloathing to your petitioner was very considerable who could not replace them with six hundred pounds, And was not half the loss he there sustained, He also expended Ninety pounds to support himself and assistant in returning from that place. — He therefore prays for such consideration, As Your Honours in your Wisdom shall think proper to grant. — And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall pray. Israel Mead Boston March 1780

Secretary's Office May 19. 1847
I certify the within to be a true copy from the records of this Office.
John G. Bartoli, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Sent by Elijah Clark Asst for Pardoners
W. Lawrence Isaac Mead, dis.
To March 6. 1845.

I, Nathaniel Mead of Boston in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, fifty two years of age, Do Certify and say, That my father Israel Mead of Westham Bridge deceased, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. That I have good reason to believe, that my said father did not receive a pension for all the service he rendered, according to the rank, & the responsible station which he held, and according to the best of my recollections of his former expression, and the best evidence within my knowledge my said father Israel Mead of Cambridge was a commissary of Provisions to Genl. Sullivan's Brigade under commissary General Trull, that he was a commissary at Rutland in this State for near one year or more, also at Cambridge previous under commissary Lewis. That he was a commissary in the Penobscot Expedition in 1779, where he lost his chief Notes &c. and also an arrest to this State Troop in clothing, and as the documents in this State do not furnish proof of his service, I now request an examination of the Washington Papers, in the City of Washington, for proof of my said father's service. And I hereby authorize and appoint Elijah Clark of Brighton in said Commonwealth, to be my lawful attorney for me, & my Brother & one sister, for us and in our names to make the necessary application for proof and to prosecute the claims which I have previously made now on file in the Pension Office, at Washington. I, Witness, Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 4 th day of February in the year A.D. 1845, Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, in presence of me, Nathl. Mead
Feb. 4. 1845. Signed by Nathaniel Mead, above named, in presence of me Bradford T. Fernald

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston February 6. 1845.
I hereby C ertify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Bradford Sumner was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Brighton, February 7th, 1845
Dear Sir, I enclose to you herewith the power of attorney of Nathaniel Merrill of Boston, formerly of West Cambridge, and I would respectfully ask, an examination of the Washington Papers for proof of the services of General Merrill of Cambridge as Commander of the Continental Army as described by the applicant.
Very Respectfully Yours & Elijah Clark Attorney for the Claimant in of Genl. Merrill's services.
These claims are filed in the Pension Office.
Hon. William Purnente M. C. Washington City D. C.
the evidence is - p. 1 - col. 1 v. 1. p. 1 - col. 2 - p. 2 - col. 1

Brighton. May. 25. th 1845.
Dear Sir,
I enclose to you herewith a copy of the original Petition of Israel Meed, who died in West Cambridge. I would refer you, for further proof, for an increase, to his original declaration & paper- -rs. The application on your files for an exam- -ination of the Washington papers.
Very Respect Yours Obt. S.A. Elijah Clark
Hon J. L. Delano Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex County ss
I Isaac Brooke, Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been established that Israel Mead late of West Cambridge, in the said County of Middlesex, who was a Pensioner of the United States, died at said West Cambridge on or about the twenty ninth day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty five, & that he left three children only, to wit, Nathaniel Mead, John L Mead, and Sally D Mead, (now Sally D Ayling) all of whom are now living.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this fourteenth day of October in the year One thousand, eight hundred and forty three. Isaac Brooke Reg

East Cambridge March 20. 1834
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir,
I herewith return to you the Application of Mr Mead for a Pension; the documents accompanying the same are numerous & many of them unimportant; but they are forwarded at the request of the Applicant! —
There have been two Applications for Pensions for Pensions under the Law of June 7, 1832 forwarded to the Department from me, of which no return have been made to wit, one by John Merrick of Concord, the other by William Blanchard of Wilmington both in the county of Middlesex. Mass. —
I have also addressed two Letters to the department requesting information relative thereto, but have received no answer: —
Will you have the goodness to cause an examination to be made & give me information respecting; — the Applicant, have been very anxious upon the subject.
I am respectfully yours, Isaac Tinker

No 579
Israel Mead
Madison
le companies not provided for
insects Williamstown Massachusetts

Be it remembred, That Israel Meade of Boston in the County of Suffolk & Com th Wealth of Mass ts was engaged in the service of the United States on the 20 th April 1775 as a Commissary of Provisions for the Troops in General Sullivans Brigade, and continued in that service until 4 July under the Commissary Gen l Pidgeon, After which the Continent l took the matter up, & he was continued in that service until after the British Troops evacuated Boston, & our Troops marched off, when he went to settle his Ac cts at Hartford w th Mr. Turnbull the Commissary Gen l for the United States, & did it to his satisfaction, & for which he took his receipt; After which he was ordered to Rutland as Commissary to Burgoynes con- -vention Troops, & staid there until they were marched off to the Southward, After which he went Commissary to the famous expedition to Penobscot where he lost all his Papers, he was then an Assistant to Mess rs Wales & Davis Agents for Cloathing the Army, for one year, & was an Assistant to Jas s Lucas Esq r Commissary of Prisoners for more than two years, And last of all he was Commiss y for Gen l Lincolns Army in pursuit of the Hays — I further say that I am in just reduced circum- stances as to require aid from my Country for support —
Israel Meade
Mess rs the Dis rs , May, 22. 1810
Sworn to before me M c Devitt Boston June — 1810 Dis r Judge M c Devitt

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 15 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Israel Mead subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testi- mony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain per- sons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M c Dermit
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

Middletown Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On this eighteenth day of March A D 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid Israel Mead who on the twenty first day of October A D 1832 made a declaration before the same Court, and now makes this further declaration or amendment explanatory of his former declaration to wit, that he received his Commission as Deputy Commissary from Commissary General Pigeon as early as the first of June 1775. That he served under said Commission till some time after the seven- teenth of March 1776 when the British evacuated Boston, being more than nine months , that he served in said capacity under Commissary Amasa Dana from the eighteenth day of April to the twenty third day of October Six months and four days as set forth in his former declaration; that he was appointed Deputy Commissary of issues, by Commissary General Pigeon and served two months and two days as by the Certificate of Leonard D. Bangs Esq., herewith annexed, making in all of which the evidence is herewith submitted the term of fifteen months and seven days . That he does not now distinctly remember what was the amount of his monthly pay but that he is confident it was equal to the pay of a lieutenant in actual service and he thinks it was more, that his

Commissions, books, papers and clothing were all lost in the Penobscot expedition mentioned in his former declaration
Israel Head
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid J. P. P. Judge of Probate
I the subscriber one of the Clergymen residing in the Town of West Cambridge affirmed hereby certify that I am acquainted with Israel Head who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be in the eighty third year of his age, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Deputy Commissioner during a part of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion
Ebenezer Nelson
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid J. P. P. Judge of Probate
And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the new Department that the above named applicant was in the Revolutionary service and in the capacity of Deputy Commissioner as he states in his declaration

Further certify that it appears to them that Phoebe Wilson is a Clergyman residing in said West Grenville who has signed the preaching certificate a credible person and that his statement is till. to credit
J. V. P. P. P. P. P.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. I Isaac Fisher Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex hereby certify that the papers hereto annexed contain the original petition and proceedings of said Court of Probate thereon in the matter of the application of Israel Mabel for a Pension I also certify that Thomas Mufill whose own proper signature is written on the affidavits hereto annexed is a justice of the Peace within said county of Middlesex In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court of Probate Isaac Fisher Reg

Dec. 10. 1828 Ref d to Com ee Rev. Claims Jan. 8. 1829 Ref d to Com ee Mil. Pensions Jan. 10. 1831 Ref d to Com ee Mil. Pensions
Everett H. Perry Wolf disch d to Pensions Everett H. Perry

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the twentieth Congress of the United States of America The Petition of Isreal Head , of West Cambridge & late of Medford, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts —
Humbly Representeth, that I captured and made prisoner in that part of Cambridge, which is now West Cambridge on the 19 th of April 1775, a British Lieutenant out by the name of Gerald , who was wounded, with his horse, on which he was then riding, who was returning from the main body of the British troops in their retreat from Concord & Lexington to Boston, and convey- ed him to Medford, where he was kept until he was duly exchanged — and on the same day I was one of the party of about twelve citi- zens who captured three British Baggage Wagons of provisions that were passing by West Cambridge Meeting house for Concord, under a guard of a number of men, and killed one man, wounded another, whom we made prisoner, & killed several horses, & put the rest of the enemy to flight — and that I was engaged in the American Army of the Revolution from the month of April 1775 as a commissary of provisions for the troops in Genl. Sullivan's Brigade & continued in that service until the fourth of July, under commissary Genl. Pigeon, after which the Continent took the subject up, & I was continued in that service until after the British troops evacuated Boston, and our troops marched off, when I went to

settle my accounts at Hartford, with Mr. Fournier the Commissary Genl. for the United States, and did it to his satisfaction, for which I recd his Receipt, after which I was ordered to Bathland as Commissary to Bragg's convention troops, & continued there until they were marched off to the Southward, after which I went as Commissary to the Forward expedition at Penobscot, where I lost all my papers & other property by fire, in the Depot that was burned, for which I never received a cent. I was then assistant to Messrs. Wales & Davis, who were agents for clothing the Army, for one year, & was an assistant to Genl. Lucas Esq., Commissary of provisions prisoners for more than two years , and last of all I was Commissary for Genl. Lincoln's Army, in pursuit of the famous Shen , and finally I have been in the Service of my Country almost the whole time during the war. I am now over twenty six years of age, have mostly lost the use of one hand, have been sick and infirm for many years, & am wholly unable to perform manual labour of any kind whatever, & wholly destitute of property, directly or indirectly, and am obliged to live on the charity of my Sister for subsistence. I applied to the Secretary of War, in the year, 1818. but was informed by that department, that the door was shut against me. I now appeal to your Honorable body - trusting that you will take my case into your

wise and deliberate consideration, and if found just and equitable to grant me such pecuniary relief & compensation as my case shall appear to merit, from my country,
as in duty bound will ever pray-
West Cambridge Octr 20 1828
Isaac Meade
W

Medford Oct 20 th 1818
To whom it may concern
We the undersigned was Acquainted with Israel Meade before the Revolutionary War in 1775 and was know ing to his serving as a Commissary to Genl Sullivan's Brigade from the first of it to the time that his Brigade March'd off to the south as Medford Oct r — (of Genl Sullivan's) Gershom Dole Brigade & Col d Bond's Reg t — Capt s Hall's & Mill m Buchanan of Genl Sullivan's Brig. & Col d Bond's Reg t & Capt s Hall's Co o } Nath l Pierce of Col d Gardner's & after Col d Bond's Reg t & Capt s Hall's Co o

I Watts Turner of Medford in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Yeoman and being upwards of eighty years of age depose and say that I have been acquainted with Israel Mead late of said Medford but now of New Cambridge in said County for more than sixty years, that I now distinctly remember the said Mead as an assistant Commissary in the service of the Continental army that the said Mead was in said service and in the capacity of assistant Commissary of issues of Provisions before the Battle of Bunker Hill which was on the seventeenth of June A.D. 1775 and that the said Mead continued in the said Continental army in the capacity of assistant Commissary till after the British troops evacuated Boston which was in the year 1776 Watts Turner and further I say not Medford April 2 d 1828. Attest. Thomas Ropes
Middlesex ss. April 2 d 1828 Then personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace for said County, the above named Watts Turner, & made Oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is the truth. Thomas Ropes Just. of peace

I Ebenezer Hall of Medford in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being upwards of seventy years of age do hereby say, that I have been acquainted with Israel Moad late of said Medford but now of Med Cambridge in said County at least sixty years, and that I most distinctly remember that the said Moad was in the Continental army in the capacity of an assistant commissary before the battle of Bunker Hill which was in the year 1775. and that the said Moad continued in said service in the capacity of assistant commissary of issues of Provisions, till after the British troops evacuated Boston which was in the year 1776. and further I say, that
Medford April 2 d 1828
Ebenezer Hall
Attest Thomas Russell
Middlesex ss. April 2 d 1828. Then personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace for said County. The above named Ebenezer Hall , a male Oath, that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is the truth.
Thomas Russell Just. of Peace

I Robert Polley, of Westford in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts being upwards of seventy years of age depose & say, that I have been acquainted with General Israel Hove of said Middlesex, but none of Westford in said County, at least sixty years, and that I now distinctly remember that the said Israel was in the Continental Army in the capacity of an Assistant or Deputy Commissary before the Battle of Brinker Hill, which was in the year 1775, and that the said Israel continued in said service in the capacity of Assistant Commissary for issues of Provision till after the British troops evacuated Boston which was in the year 1776.
Westford April 2 d 1828
Attest Thomas Ransom
Robert Polley
Westford 2 d April 1828 - Then personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace for said County, the above named Robert Polley, & made oath, that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is the truth -
Thomas Ransom Justice of peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, March 13, 1834.
* hereby Certify. That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Israel Mead, as a "Commissary of Issues," is borne on a Pay Roll of Commissary General Lucas, where he is allowed for service from July 2 to Sept. 4 1780, two months and two days
ms. d. 2 2
Israel Mead claims for further services as a Commissary - but the Rolls he describes are not found in this office Edward Bangs Esq