Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18483, for Lot Marsh, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Marsh Lot
W. 18483
Lydia
CONTENTS

21068
Mass'ts
Lot Marsh
of Plymouth in the State of Mass who was a private in the Contl commanded by Captain Cushing of the Rep commanded by Col. G. Beane on the Mass line for 30 days.
Rate of Pension
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass'ts . at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Aug. 1832 and to  J. H. S. and Plymouth
Arrears to the 4th of Dec. 1) $333.33
Semi-ant. allowance ending 12/1/32 $333.33
$1666.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by P. C. Stiles Clerk, Book 6 , Vol. 2 , Page 53
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4550
Massachusetts
Sydia Marsh
widow of Lot. Marsh Mch who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 ,
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of March 1849 and sent to
S. C. Field Stockbridge Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 87 Vol. 2 .

Lot Marsh Maps
Plate 20 Months
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June 6 1833
P. 415
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J. H. Lord
Plymouth Mass

BRIEF in the case of Col. of Plymouth
Col. Marsh 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? 74  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.     May In 1775 & 1776 X 7 private Col. Cushing - Col. Greaton   June 1776 enlisted about 10 " " " "   after his return 3 " Col. Nash   20  
5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hingham Mass
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional and three living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the periods, nor length of service are precisely stated
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George D. Dyer
Examining Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County
Be it known that on this tenth day of January 1844 personally appeared before me the Subscribed a Justice of Peace in and for the County aforesaid Lydia Hersey a resident of Hingham in said County and Commonwealth, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the third day of March 1833 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the sister of Daniel Marsh, Betsy Marsh, Hannah L. Francis, Celia J. Humphrey, all the children of Lydia Marsh widow of Lot Marsh who was a private in the Revolutionary War and served as she verily believes as stated by her mother the said Lydia Marsh in her original declaration for a pension under the law of the 7 th of July 1830 to which declaration and the papers accompanying the same now on file in the War Department she would refer for a more particular statement of his services, for the proof of her mother's aver- rage, identity, and the time of her father's death.

She further declares that her mother was pensioned under said act at the rate of sixty six dollars 66 cents per annum which amount was received from the 4 th march 1836 to the 2 nd march 1841 at the Agency in Boston Mass achusetts and at the time of receiving the last payment surrendered the pension certificate granted her mother under said act to the Pension Agent at the said City of Boston agreeably to the rules of the Department.
And this declarant further alleges that her mother the said Lydia Marsh did not inter- marry since the decease of her said husband but remained the widow of said Lot Marsh due to the time of her death which was on the thirteenth day of June One Thousand eight hundred and forty Three and as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed, and further she saith not
Lydia Hersey
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first within written — and I certify that the applicant is personally known to me to be the person within described.
Before me
Marshal Lincoln Justice of the Peace

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L. Marsh
$66:66 per an
To the Penpines at Hingham Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston Jan. 7 1844
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Marshal Lincoln was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth,
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.

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REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, ss.
ON this thirtieth day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at Hingham within and for said County of Plymouth, Lot Marsh a resident of Hingham in said County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy four 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. 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. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. In May 1775, he enlisted as a private in Capt. Charles Cushing's company at Hingham as a substitute for John Jones then living at Scituate. The service commenced in May. In August the company marched to Cambridge and joined the Regiment, commanded by Col. Greaton, said regiment being a part of the Massachusetts line under Gen. Heath. The term of enlistment expired Jan 1. 1776, when he re-enlisted in the same company and regiment, and marched to New York from thence to Albany by water - thence to Ticonderoga - Crown Point - Chamblee & Dorset to Montreal and beyond that place. The army had the small-pox. He remained in the company until November 1776, when he received a discharge on account of sickness. He did not preserve his discharge and it is lost. In November, he returned home sick and was sick long afterwards. His term of enlistment was for one year making with his former service which expired Jan 1. 1776, twenty months. Benjamin Beal of Hingham deceased, was Ensign of the company when he went to Canada - Guild of Braintree was Lieutenant, as near as he can recollect. For proof of these services he refers to the annexed depositions of Israel Stowell -

Peter Henry and Thomas Marsh.
- After his return from Canada he served as a private for three months in Capt - Nash's company doing guard duty in Boston, and was stationed at the White Stores - in the winter season. He has no documentary evidence and knows of no person living who can prove this service. Said Marsh made all the foregoing enlistments as a private - he never had but one written discharge [before mentioned] which he has lost, and he has further documentary evidence to prove his services than the annexed deposition. He was born and has always resided in Hingham. The record of his birth is in the town clerk's office of that town a certificate of which is annexed. The Selectmen of Hingham, Caleb Gill, M. a magistrate, and William Gordon a physician & magistrate all of Hingham are personally known to him, and will testify as to his character for veracity and to the reputation of his revolutionary services, in addition to Time of service 21 mos } those whose certificate is annexed inc. sickness. - Jed. - Jos Marsh
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid, Attest
Jacob H Lord
Register of Probate

We, Joseph Richardson a clergyman, residing in the town of Hingham and Jotham Lincoln a Magistrate residing in the said town hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Lot Marsh who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four 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. Joseph Richardson
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Jotham Lincoln Attest Jacob H Loud Register of Probate
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 Joseph Richardson who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Hingham and that Jotham Lincoln who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court Attest Jacob H Loud Register of Probate
I, Jacob H Loud 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 Lot Marsh for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said office, this thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two .
Jacob H Loud

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"Lot, son of John Marsh & Hannah Born Nov. 20th, 1757"
The above is a true copy from the Town Records of Births in Hingham -
Attest,
James S. Lewis, Town Clerk.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth p. August 27 th 1832. Then personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for said county, the above named James S. Lewis, and made solemn oath that the above is a true extract from the Town Rec- ords of Births in Hingham, and that he believes it to be the record of the birth of Lot Marsh now living in said Hingham and reputed to have performed military services for the United States, in the war of the Revolution, and the said justice do further certify that said James S. Lewis is Town Clerk of Hingham and that he is a man of good repu- tation for truth.
Solomon Linnun Jus: Peace.

I Peter Hersey of Hingham in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being seventy four years of age do testify, and say that I was a Drummer in Capt Guild's company, Col. Greateon's Regiment and was stationed at Cambridge at the time the British evacuated Boston in 1776. Capt Charles Cushing's company was a part of the Regiment and Lot Marsh now living in Hingham was a soldier in his company. After the evacuation of Boston in March the Regiment of Col. Greateon marched to New York, and Lot Marsh was with it in the company of Capt Cushing. I had two brothers in his company both of whom are dead. When we arrived at New York I was taken sick - but the troops went up the North River and to Canada - Capt Cushing's company went to Canada - and Lot Marsh was in the company as I always understood at the time. I wrote a letter to my brothers when they were at Montreal informing them of my recovery of health. - The troops in Col. Greateon's Regiment enlisted for a year. - Peter Hersey
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth p. August 23 d . 1832. Then her-

sonally appeared the before named Peter Hensey and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscri- bed. And I certify that said Hensey is a man of good reputation for truth -
Solomon H. Hensey
Just: Place for said country.

I Thomas Marsh of Hingham in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being in the eighty fourth year of my age, do testify and say, that my brother Lot Marsh now living in Hingham, enlisted in Capt Charles Cushing's company in the service of the United States in the year 1775 at Hingham and marched to Cambridge, where he performed the duty of a private and wrote to the Captain, or Colonel for the term of eight months - and at the expiration of said term he re-enlisted in Capt Cushing's company and marched to New York. Benjamin Bear was an officer in the company, The troops then went up North River to Lake Champlain and Canada - and afterwards retreated - Many of the men were sick as we knew at the time by letters to their friends in Hingham. We heard that our brother Lot was sick by Moses Shugart (a sergeant) letter to his wife, and on the tenth or eleventh of November 1776 I set out from home on horse-back - to go after him to get him home - I found him in Vermont almost to the Lake - beyond Bennington - I think in the Town of Pownal, and gave him the horse & he rode home & I walked - He was then sick of fever and ague and had served about nine months. His term of enlistment was

for one year - but he was unable to do duty - we got home Nov 28th, 1776 - Said but afterwards sent under Gen. Lincoln at Charleston South Carolina from a- bout Christmas time to June when my brother arrived home. -
I knew these facts from living in my father's family at the time of my brother's enlistments - from letters from him home and from the information of other Hing- ham people at the time of their oc- currence as well as from my own personal knowledge. -
Thomas Marsh
Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Plymouth ss. August 21st, 1832. Then personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace for said county of Plymouth, the above named Thomas Marsh and made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed. and I certify that said Thomas Marsh sustains an un- questionably good character for truth & veracity -
Solomon Lincoln Jus: Peace

I Israel Stowell of Hingham in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being seventy eight years of age do testify and say that I was a private soldier in Capt. Charles Cushing's company, 3 d Col. Grafton's Regiment, in the year 1776, and was stationed at Cambridge when the British evacuated Boston. After that event our regiment went to New York and Canada - and our term of service was one year. I was in the company the whole of that time. Benjamin Beal of Hingham deceased was one of our officers. Col. Marsh now living in Hingham was with us a part if not all the year, at Cambridge, New York and I think at Canada - Israel Stowell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. August 24 th , 1832. Then personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for the said county, the above named Israel Stowell and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed. Said Stowell is a man of good reputation for truth. Solomon Lincoln, Jus: Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth Y. I Jacob H Lord Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Solomon Lincoln Esq before whom these several annexed affidavits were sworn is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that I believe his name subscribed thereto to be his true & genuine hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this first day of November in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
Jacob H Lord

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She further declares that she was married to the said Lot Marsh November Second Seventeen hundred Eighty six; that her husband the aforesaid Lot Marsh died on the twelfth day of January Eighteen hundred Forty three; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the marriage took place prior to the first of January Seventeen hundred ninety four, in at the time above stated.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss
Be it known That on this twelfth day of June 1843 personally appeared before me the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate of the County aforesaid Lydia Marsh a resident of Hingham in sd County and Commonwealth aged Eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 7 th day of July 1838 - and on the 3 rd day of March 1843 granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War
That she is the Widow of Lot Marsh who was a private in the Revolut- ionary War and served as she verily believes as stated in his declaration for a pension under the law of the 7 th of June 1832 to which declaration and the papers accompanying the same now on file in the War Department she would refer for a more particular statement of his services.
For the proof of her marriage, Identity, and the time of her Husband's Death. She would refer to the accompanying papers.
And this declarant further alleges that she has not intermarried since the decease of her said Husband but is now and ever since has been the Widow of said Lot Marsh deceased and as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed. and further she saith not.
Lydia Marsh
Plymouths June 12 th 1843.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above men- tioned before me. & I certify that the Declarant is by age & infirmity deprived of the use of her limbs & unable to attend a Court to make her declaration Wilkes Wood J. P.

I the subscriber of Hingham in the County of Plymouth Deposed & says that I have known the deceased Lydia Marsh for a number of years and that she is the identical widow of Lot Marsh as stated in the application. Jairus Thayer
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss June 14 th 1843
Then the above named Jairus Thayer Swore to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me Marshal Lincoln Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. I Jacob St. Lourd Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Willes Wood is Judge of Probate & that the foregoing is his true & genuine signature. I Also certify that Marshal Lincoln Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that the above is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony of all which I have here to set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this fifteenth day of June 1843
Jacob St. Lourd

Lot Marsh and Lydia French were joined in Marriage November Second Seventeen hundred & Eighty Six Lot Marsh, died Jan'y. twelfth Eighteen hundred and fifty three, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth ss. Hingham July 1 st 1843.
The above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows.
1786. Nov. 2 d Lot Marsh and Lydia French were joined in Marriage Lot Marsh died Jan'y 12 th 1853.
Attest Joseph Sprague Town Clerk of Hingham
I Joseph Sprague, above named, depose and say; that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the county, town, and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Joseph Sprague. Town Clerk of Hingham
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. July 1 st 1843
Sworn before me
Marshal Lincoln Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston July 3 1813
I hereby Certify, That on the first day of the present month of July Marshal Lincoln was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth
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. Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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BUREAU OF PENSIONS, OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER,
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No. Claim, _____
Cert. No. 18 483 _____
Claimant, Lydia _____
Soldier, Lt Marsh _____
Co. _____ Reg't _____
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ACTION AND ORDER:
Paper Place Marsh
  Acting _____  Dir. _____    Action _____    OCT 9 1909    COMMISSIONER.  
  ADMITTED FILES    OCT 9 1909  

Letter to P. A. S. Feb 23, 1850.

7645
Massachusetts
Sydia Marsh widow of Lot Marsh
Pens Sep 13
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 12th January, 1843 of Plymouth in the State of Mass. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Cushing of the Regt commanded by Colonel in the Mass. line for 20 months,
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 66 Dollars & 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Sept, 1843 and sent to Pensioner Hingham, Mass.
Whole amount due $ 333.30
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Thomas Vaughan, Clerk. Book A. Vol. 1. Page 107.

Payment to be made at Boston
by
Franklin Haven
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Massetts
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 87 Vol. 2
Geo. H. Perkins Clerk.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Lydia Marsh, widow of Lot Marsh, who was a Private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Sixty Six, dollars and Sixty Six — cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior, this 26 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty six
T. Ewing
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned.
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

4866 Massachusetts
Lydia Marsho widow of Lot Marsho who was a private in the Mass ts Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of Feby 1844. and sent to
Pensioner Hingham Mass ts
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. / Page 48

Rev 18-483 WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18-483 Lydia Marsh Widow of Lot Marsh Priv Recd. Ware
Act: Feb. 2 nd  1/48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 9
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N o 9203 Lydia Marsh Mass s Act July 7 th 38
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$66.66 per an
Pensioners Hingham Mass s

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss.
Hingham June 19 th 1833 -
Personally appeared before me the undersigned Solomon Lincoln, a justice of the peace within and for said County of Plymouth, Lot Marsh, a resident of Hingham, in said County of Plymouth who being duly sworn, deposeth & saith, that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For
Y. y. m. 7 0. 7-0
Seven months as a private in Capt. Charles Cushing's Company, Col. Grafton's Regiment at Hingham and Cambridge in the year 1775 - said service terminating on the
0. 10. 0 1. 5. 0
last day of the year 1775 - - For ten

months, as a pirate in the same J. m 2 Company and Regiment from January 1. 1776 1. 15. 0 1. 1776 to November following in the vicinity of Boston, and on the Canada Expedition, as stated in my original
declaration - For three months I 0. 3. 0 served as a pirate in Capt. Nash's 1. 8. 0 - Company in Boston, doing guard duty as set forth in my original declaration. - And for such service I claim a pension.
Lot Marsh
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written -
Solomon Lincoln Jus: Trace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Solomon Lincoln Ezra is a justice of the Peace in the said County & that the foregoing signa- ture purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this twentieth day of June A.D. 1833
Jacob H. Lord