Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 13,667, for Benjamin Maynard, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Wish
Maynard Benjamin Martha
NUMBER _____
W. 13.667
CONTENTS

906 9096 Massachusetts Martha Maynard, bee d widow of Benjamin Maynard who was a private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars & 0 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Ending 20 Aug 1846
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of Nov 1851, and sent to
E. C. Ames Present
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book a Vol. 2 Page 34

1894. Massachusetts
Benjamin Maynard Shrewsbury in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Bellows of the Regt. commanded by Col. Sparhawk in the Mass line for Canoe
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 21 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Nov 1832 and delivered to J. Folsom of Worcester, Mass Arrears to 14th of Sep r 1832 $ 30 00 Pension allowance ending 14 Mar '33 10 00 $40 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by A. S. Adams Clerk Book D Vol. 2 . Page 67

Worcester ss Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
A
I Ebenezer Mann of Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age to testify and make oath - do say that in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six - I resided in the said Shrewsbury and in the month of December in the same year I entered into the Massachusetts Militia then in the service of the United States - and that Benjamin Maynard of said Shrewsbury entered the same service at the same time with me in the Company under the Command of Capt Billings & in Col Sparrowhawk's Regiment - and that said Maynard remained in the same Company 3 mo with me for the term of Three months which time expired in the month of March following - & then we were verbally discharged - During said time we were principally Stationed at Brownabrook in Somerset County, State of New Jersey.
B
Also I the said Mann further say that in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty seven that said Maynard entered the same service aforesaid with me in the month of July in the Company under the Command of Capt Asa Rice & in Col Cushing's Regiment and that said Maynard remained in the same service with me for the term of about six weeks - & then we were verbally discharged - During said time we were principally Stationed at Bennington in the state of Vermont - The Regiment in which we were - a few days before the Battle of Bennington was ordered to Halfmoon in the state of New York where we were when the Battle of Bennington took place - & we returned to Bennington immediately after the Battle. Ebenezer Mann
Vol 22 - 127
Worcester ss August 8th 1832
Then the above named Ebenezer Mann personally appeared & made oath to the facts contained in the above statements by him subscribed before me - & I certify that Nymphas Dadd Justice of the Peace said Mann is a credible witness.

Worcester ss Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Jonathan Harrington of Shrewsbury in the county of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts - of lawful age to testify and make oath do say that in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty nine - I resided in said Shrewsbury - And in October in the same year I enlisted as a volunteer for the term of three months into the Massachusetts Militia then in the service of the United States and that Benjamin Maynard of said Shrewsbury entered the same service at the same time with me in the company commanded by Capt Isaac Harrington & in Col Davis Regiment and when the said term had expired for which we entered said service we were both discharged honorably at the same time. During said time we were principally stationed at Puskayuna in the county of Schenectady & state of New York.
Worcester ss August 11 th 1832
Jonathan Harrington
Then the above named Jonathan Harrington personally appeared and made oath to the truth to the facts contained in the above statement by him subscribed before me - I certify that said Harrington is a credible witness - Nymphas Pratt Justice of the Peace

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 Tenth day of September in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Nathaniel Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester now sitting Benjamin Maynard a resident of Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Ninety two 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 in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety six. he resided in said Shrewsbury & in the month of December in said year he was drafted for the term of three months into the Massachusetts Militia then in the service of the United States in the Company commanded by Capt. Wilcox and that said Company marched directly to Bouldbrook in the State of New Jersey & there joined the Regiment commanded by Col Sparbock & that the Regiment principally remained until the time expired for which he had enlisted & then he was honorably discharged - for evidence of this service. See Deposition (A)
Also that in the year 1777 he resided in said Shrewsbury and in the month of July in said year he was drafted into the same service as aforesaid for the term of about six weeks into the Company commanded by Capt. John Rice & in Col Job 1st Cushing's Regiment & that said Regiment was principally stationed at Brownington in the State of Vermont & that said Regiment a few days before the Battle of Brownington was ordered to Halfmoon in the State of New York where it was when the Battle of Brownington took place - & immediately after the Battle it returned back to Brownington . It was then discharged when the time had expired for which he was drafted - for evidence of this service see Deposition B
Also that in October A.D. 1779 he resided in said
Shrewsbury & that he was drafted for the term of three months into the same service as aforesaid in the Company commanded by Capt. Isaac Harrington & that said Company marched directly to Clarmack in the County of Columbia State of New York & there joined the Regiment commanded by Col Dana after remaining at Clarmack a few days all the troops there marched to Albany where they stayed several weeks - & then marched to Siskayuna in the County of Schenectady State of New York where they remained until the service for the term for which he had drafted had expired and then he was honorably discharged - for evidence of this service see Deposition C. and that he has no documentary evidence of the extent of said service - & that he was born in said Shrewsbury & has ever resided in said Shrewsbury.
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.
Before me Nathaniel Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Benjamin Maynard

We George Allen a Clergyman residing in the said Shrewsbury and Fort Harrington residing in said Shrewsbury hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Maynard who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy two 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.
Depe Nathl. James Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Geo. Allen Fort Harrington
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 George Allen who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the said Shrewsbury and that Fort Harrington who has also signed the same is a resident in the said Shrewsbury and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl. James Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
I Theophilus Wheeler  Register or 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 Benjamin Maynard for a pension, That the same was read before me and the annexed affidavits were made in a notice of the hearing in said Court in full credit. That I have signed the same IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 10th day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Theoph. Wheeler Reg d of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts
Benjamin Maynard Declaration
5211

March 13 1773
Joseph and
Benjamin Maynard
were born January the 4 1785
Oliver Maynard
July the 19 1787
Polly and Sarah
Maynard February
the 11 1790
(A)

THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR Jesus Christ
Newly Translated out of the Original Greek, and compared with the former Translations, and di- ligently Corrected and Re- vised.
By His Majesty's Special Command
Appointed to be read in Churches
L O N D O N
Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, 1705.
CUM PRIVILEGIO.

Martha Maynard widow of Benjamin
Mass.
act 7 July 38.
m. 83 d 34
Capt. Hill -
Nov 22: 147. on 1 mo 9 d
Harrington
19. 191 - on 1. 15
County of Worcester
Witnesseth
Mr Benjamin Maynard
10
C. G. Grafton
Worcester
Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Worcester ss.
On this twenty third day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me Nathan Judson of the County of Pulaski for said County, then the Mayhew, a witness of Swearing in said County before twenty six years , the being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration and order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress of July 7, 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.
That she is the widow of Benjamin Mayhew late of Swearing in said County deceased who was a private soldier in the Army of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the law of 1832 the being just said term of Swearing then

he went into the service and the delinquent, at the same time, belonged to the loan of Box ford in the County of Essex, and she did not become acquainted with her said hus- band till after he came out of the service. She cannot therefore speak as to his affairs, and services, but for the reasons above expressed the bills in the said Department are to the hazards in her said husband's case.
She further declares that her maiden name was Martha Cool, that she was married to the said Benjamin Maynard at said Hoxford by the Rev. Mr. Holyoke the minister of the Gospel, on the thirteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. The said Holyoke was then an old man, and she will not be confirmed at the marriage but a Cousin by the name of Styles and his wife who were considerably older than she, and also the witnesses are dead.

Whether her marriage was recorded or not she did not know. There is herewith annexed an unauthenticated (A.) a leaf from their family bible in the handwriting of her said husband, showing the time of their marriage and the birth of their children.
She further declares that her husband the deceased Benjamin the Maynard died at said Shrewsbury on the eighteenth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and thirty five, and that she has mentioned his sister as such. That she was not married when first to her leaving the service; but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred and nearly five, to wit at the time above stated She is also a subscriber to the her Maynard the day and year also entered mark
Before me — Mr. William Phelps of the Cost of Pulpit and pulpit Army of Boston.

I Ralph Dean of Shrewsbury in the county of Shropshire, being duly sworn and calling to law do depose and say that I moved into the town of Shrewsbury about forty years ago, and when I moved, I found Benjamin Meynell and his wife Martha Meynell established there. He was reported to be a soldier of the revolution and was a prisoner of the United States. He died about four years ago, and she has remained his widow ever since. The paper annexed to her declaration for a pension (marked A), I should think was in his hand at his death. They are neighbors to me, and people of respectability. Ralph Dean
Announcement of Massachusetts births. Aug. 23. 1838 The family of Francis Ralph Dean Esq. - He is known to me as a man of faith and respectability, and made at the time the declaration is here - N.Y. 22
James B. Buel Justice of Peace for Shrewsbury

I Benjamin Maynard of Shrewsbury in the County of Lincoln and State of Mas- sachusetts, do here by say that I am the oldest, or one of the oldest sons of Benjamin Maynard and Martha his wife, I having a twin brother Joseph, and that my said father died on the eighteenth day of January in the year eighteen hun- dred and thirty five and that my mother the now resides with me, her sons have married since his death Benjamin Maynard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Lincoln ss. Aug. 23. 1838 Therefore knowly affirm that Benjamin Maynard who is here to me as a man of truth and not know that the above deposition is true to the best of my knowledge
James Badger judge of probate for said County

I Benjamin Maynard of course do further desire and say, that I have always understood and will believe that the name of my fair mother's father, was anciently called Ellis , as designated in the record of the marriage of my fair mother, but I know that the family of her father has since called the name Lord , and I know that she was published by that name in the town of Shrewsbury to which my father brought her when they were married.
Benjamin Maynard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Shrewsbury ss. Sept. 7, 1838. Then personally appeared Benjamin Maynard who is known to me as a man of truth and made oath that the above declaration is true.
My Mother's father of Boston for some years.

Seventeen hundred and eighty three Nov r thirteenth Benjamin Maynard jun r of Shrewsbury married to Martha Eills of Boxford Elizer Holyoke Clerk
I Samuel Kimball of Boxford in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath depose and say that I am clerk of said town of Boxford that I have the custody of the rec- -ords of marriages and that the above is a true ex- -tract therefrom except the date, which instead of written words, is expressed in fair legible figures as follows (viz)
1783 Nov. 13 th
Attest Samuel Kimball } Clerk of the town of Boxford as aforesaid
State of Massachusetts Essex ss Sept r 5 th 1838
Sworn to before
Moses Dorman Jr. Justicing the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County ss
On this 12 th day of July A.D. 1851, personally appeared before the subscri- ber a judge of the Court of Probate for said County Benjamin Maynard a resident of Shrewsbury in said County aged 66 years who upon oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the pension that was due his mother Martha Maynard under the acts of July 7 th 1838, March 3, 1843, June 17, 1844.
And this declarant states that he is one of the children of Benjamin and Martha Maynard late of said Shrewsbury both deceased. He fur- ther states that his father the said Benjamin Maynard resided in Shrewsbury in the time of the Revolutionary War. His father was a Soldier of the Revolution and served six mos- as a private as will appear by his declara- tion for the benefit of the act of 1832, and was placed on the pension roll under said act at the rate of $20. per annum which Pension he drew to the time of his death in 1834. He further states that his said mother Martha Maynard survived the said Benjamin Maynard and made applica-

tion in her life time for the benefits of the provisions of the acts aforesaid, but never obtained a pension. He states that his said father Benjamin Maynard died Jan'y 18, 1834, and that his mother Martha Maynard died on the 30 August 1846 and that Benjamin Maynard and Patty Stone are the only surviving children of said Martha Maynard deceased. He therefore in his own behalf and in behalf of the said Patty Stone claims the pension that was due his said mother under the acts aforesaid and for proof of his father's marriage to his said Mother he refers to the evidence now on file in the Pension Office. Benjamin Maynard
Signed and sworn by the said Benjamin Maynard on the day and year  first above written.
Before me Wm Kimball Judge of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Probate Court Worcester County ss. 3
Be it known that on this twelfth day of July A.D. 1851. it has been satisfactorily proved before me, Thomas Kilmerick Judge of Probate in & for said County of Worcester, that Benjamin Maynard late of Shrewsbury in said County was a Revolutionary prisoner of the United States, that he died at said Shrewsbury on the eighteenth day of January A.D. 1834. - And that Martha Maynard was the widow of said Benjamin Maynard deceased; that said Martha Maynard remained a widow to the time of her death which took place at said Shrewsbury on the thirteenth day of August A.D. 1846, & that Benjamin Maynard & Patty Stone are the children, & only surviving children of the said Martha Maynard deceased.
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of office of said Court, & subscribed my name this twelfth day of July A.D. 1851. Thos Kilmerick Judge of Probate of Worcester County. 3

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Worcester ss.
Probate Office July 12 A.D. 1857
I Charles G. Brewster, Register of Probate hereby certify that Hon: Thomas Dinnicutt, before whom the foregoing declaration was made, is Judge of Probate in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Constitution and Laws of the Commonwealth, that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine, and that full faith and credit should be given to his official attestations. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal official of said Court the day and year first above written.
Chas. G. Brewster, Register
The Probate seal must be put on the ends of the tape
F. B

Rejected 1792 Ms. A. 9. 2. 10. 7 July 1838.
Let. to C. G. Prentiss Dec. 17, 1838.
ack 7 July 38

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 13667
Martha Maynard Widow of Benjamin Maynard Rev. Rev. War.
Act: Mar. 3 rd 1843
Index:—Vol. 14 , Page 7
[Arrangement of 1870.]

11,199
Massachusetts Martha Maynard
Widow of Benjamin who was a pensioner under the Act of _____ and who died on the _____ of _____ in the State of _____ who was a pirate in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ _____ commanded by _____ in the _____ line for _____
Inscribed on the Roll of Boston at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of Nov 1831 and sent to H. C. Ames Present
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. E. Robinson Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 Page 525

Brief Case of Martha Maynard Wid of Benj n

Brief in the case of Martha Maynard Worcester County and State of Massachusetts act July 7 '38 f.c.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Service the same as allowed to husband under Act 7. June '32 Records proof of marriage Parole proof of Identity
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent.
George C. Ames Washington
H. H. D. D. D.
Examining Clerk.

Martha Maynard Wid. of Benj n Mass. Ad July 7. '38
Allowed 6 m. $20.00
Comm. Mar. 4. '36 End Aug. 30 th '46
to Benjamin Maynard Patty Stone. Surv d Children Nels '43 44
Geo. C. Ames Washington

James E Beach Esq Sir
Washington July 19. 1857
Enclosed you will please find the declaration of Benjamin Maynard one of the Children of Martha Maynard Widow of Benjamin of Mass. for arrears of Pension alleged to be due his Mother
It appears from the papers filed in support of this Claim that the Marriage of the parties has been established And as the husband has himself a pension no objection can exist to issuing a certificate to her Children.
Very Respectfully Your Ob't Serv't Geo. C. Ames

1798
1387
Matthew Maynard
attorney
Please return the Certificate in this case to Chas. G. Prentiss Esquire Magistrate of Probate, Worcester (Mass.).

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, September 15 th 1838.
I hereby Certify, That Ezra Barton Esq d is judge of Probate for the County of Worcester; — and Moses Dorman Esq d is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex; (and they were so at the date of their several attes- tations)
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to their 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 P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.