Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,234, for Duty Marsh, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Marsh Duty Rhoda
W. 26. 234.
CONTENTS

Massachusetts - 592
Rhoda Marsh,
widow of Deity Marsh, dec d
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18. Mar. '18
and who died on the - Feb'y 1820 -
of Boston in the State of Mass s
who was a P er in the County commanded
by Captain [blank] of the Reg t commanded
by [blank] in the Mass s
line for 12 mo s
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass s achusetts at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of Oct r '38, and sent to L. G. Prouty Worcester, M s p 4
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r $100.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 20.00
$120.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838.
Recorded by R Burrows Clerk Book A Vol. 1 - Page 186

15.480
Massachusetts
Duty Marsh of Southbridge in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded Colonel Samuel of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 30 th of Sept: 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of Oct: 1817 and sent to Betsy Strong, Esq. Worcester, Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of section of Semi-ann. all'ce ending March 1820 $ 41. 29 " 5 mo / 30 / 31 $ 41. 29
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester, certify, that Simon Draper and Frederic W. Bottom Esquires before whom the annexed affidavits have been made, are Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that their names subscribed thereto are their own proper signatures
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this thirtieth day of September A. D. 1819.
Application of } Deputy Marsh }
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen  nineteen 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

State of Massachusetts
I Duty Marsh a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Southbridge in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the first day of January A. D. 1776
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 end of that year and about six weeks after the end of that year at the request of the Commander in Chief as a private Soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Captain Samuel Curtis in Colonel Spencer Larned's Regiment
and that I left the service on  in the month of February A. D. 1777 as above stated
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 eight years the eighteenth day of January last ; that by reason of the broken and disbursed condition of the Company I had not any written discharge; that I served in the  from the beginning of the war at Roxbury to Cambridge ; that I engaged for that year above mentioned in 1776 only at that time to serve beyond the time as above stated as a volunteer .
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.
Duty Marsh
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirtieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen 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, Solo. Strong Judge
of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit. Massachusetts.
the abovenamed Duty Marsh 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.
Witness my hand & the seal of the said Court.
I certify that Duty Marsh above named is Solo. Strong in reduced circumstances in life poor and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support. CSolo. Strong Judge

I Benjamin Tilton of Brookfield in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gentleman testify & declare that I knew Ditty Marsh, Subscriber of the within Application for a pension as read to me I being so blind that I cannot see to read; that he served in the war of the Revolution from the beginning of it till about the middle of February A.D. 1777 that his declaration in regard to his serving constantly & faithfully and that he has given the true reason for not having a proper written discharge is true
Benjamin Tilton
Worcester ss September 11 th 1819
Personally appeared Benjamin Tilton who has signed the above Declaration respecting Ditty Marsh who has made application for a Pension as within by making his mark, by reason of blindness, the said Application being read to him as it is within written & I hereby certify
That said Benjamin Tilton is a man of veracity Simon Draper Justice Peace
Josiah Eddy of Southbridge, in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and declare that I am acquainted with Mr Ditty Marsh, the Subscriber of the within Application for a Pension, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution against the common enemy in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Cutler in the Regiment commanded by Col Ebenezer Learned. Said Marsh served faithfully and without interruption, more than one year as he said Marsh has within declared and I know also that he has given the true reason of his not having a written discharge & I belonged to said Company and served during the same time
Josiah Eddy
Worcester ss September 13 th 1819
Then personally appeared the subscriber to the above Declaration and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me
Frederick S. G. Hall Justice Peace
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with Josiah Eddy and know him to be a man of truth
Frederick S. G. Hall

929 Rhoda French
Mass. at 7. July 38.
Married in 1781. died in 1830
born 12 mo. pri 40 #
No deduction
C. G. French Worcester Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Fred Barton is the Judge of said Court duly commissioned and qualified and that his signatures to the papers hereto annexed are his own genuine signatures.
I further certify, that George Davis and Frederic W. Bottom are Justices of the Peace within and for said County, and that their signatures to the papers hereto annexed are their own genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hands and affix the seal of said Court this twenty eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-eight.
Chas. G. Prentiss. Register

Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Worcester ss. Augt 25 th 1838
On this twenty fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred thirty eight, personally appeared before me Sarah Boston the subscriber and judge of probate of wills &c within and for said County of Worcester: Widow Rhoda Marsh a Resident of Southbridge in said County: Aged as she declares Eighty one years: who being first duly sworn by me the subscriber, according to Law, doth upon her oath, make the following declaration: in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress: passed July 7 th AD 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and Pensions, to certain Widows" That she is now the Widow of Duty Marsh, late of said Southbridge who died at said Southbridge in February 1830 and who was a Private in the Army of the War of the Revolution, that he enlisted at Southbridge according to the best of knowledge in the Spring of 1775 under Captain Adam Morton of Southbridge in said County of Worcester and regularly served until the term of his enlistment and that her Husband, was a Pensioner under the Act of Congress: passed March 18 th AD 1818: That her Husband drew the money due him upon his said Pension once and afterwards was left off the Pension List

The Pension Certificate granted to her said Husband, is now lost, and cannot be found and that Reference to the depositions of Soldiers who served with him in the Army, and which are now supposed to be on file in the Office of the War De- partment, will prove the time he served in the Army and the Officers under whom the Service was performed and the Battles he was engaged in. She further declares that all said Soldiers who served with him and upon whose Evidence said Pension Certificate was granted him are all dead: Except Mr. Denson Shultz whose deposition accompanies her declaration. She further declares that she knows of no Soldiers now alive, who served with him under other forms of Service; besides the Enlistment testified of by said Shultz and that she has no documentary Evi- dence to prove his Service in the Army. She further declares that she was married to her late Husband Duty Martin, on the twenty seventh of March in the year of our Lord, one Thousand Eight hundred and Eighty one

By The Rev Joshua Baine, then Minister at Sturminster Newton according to a copy of the Record of Marriage entered and that her husband died at the time above stated; and that she was not mar- ried to him: prior to his leaving the Service. But that her marriage took place as above stated, and before the first of January, Seventeen hundred and ninety four; and at the time and place above stated. and that she is now a Widow and has not married another man since his decease -
Attest H. H. Borthom      Rhoda her H. Mark Marsh Mark
I am to ever subscribe the day and year above written - upon me
John Barton Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester.
I further certify that the words "of Church" and "seven" are interlined, and the word "eight" was erased, before the taking of the declaration
John Barton Judge of Probate.

March twenty seventh One thous and seven hundred & eighty one Married Duty Marsh & Rhoda Morse both Sturbridge for Joshua Paine Clerk
I Jacob Cory Town clerk of Sturbridge in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts hereby certify that 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: 1781
March 27 th . Attest Jacob Cory Town clerk of Sturbridge -
I Jacob Cory above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town, County, 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 Jacob Cory Clerk of the Town of Sturbridge Sturbridge August 28 th 1838
Worcester ss. Aug. 20. 1838. Commonwealth of Massachu- setts. Town of Sturbridge - Then the above named Jacob Cory personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit as before subscribed - I certify that the above named J. Cory is a person of high respecta- bility & sustains an unblemished character for truth
Before me Geo. F. Davis Jus. Peace.

I Governor Marsh of Southbridge in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts do affirm and say that my wife Sally Marsh is the daughter of Dody Marsh and Abigail Marsh his wife. My father Marsh died about eight years ago, and the following is a copy of the record of his death entered in our family Bible. "Dody Marsh died February 27th 1830 aged 79 years." I further affirm and say that my Mother Marsh has lived with me ever since her said husband's death, and has never been married since but is now his widow. Grover Marsh
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Incarnate p. August 25. 1888. Then personally appeared Governor Marsh who is known to me as a man of truth and made oath that the above affidavit is true
My own
John D. Sleeper Judge of Probate for said County.

I David Bullock of Southbridge in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being eighty five years of age and formerly a soldier of the War of the Revolution do declare and say that I was well acquainted with Duty North late of Southbridge deceased - Mr Duty North served in the War of the Revolution 1775 Eight Months and ten months days at Roxbury in Massachusetts - He enlisted into the company commanded by Captain Adame Martin of Sherbridge The Regiment to which he belonged was commanded by Col Ebenezer Learned of Bedford Worcester County He served out the term of his enlistment at Roxbury being Eight months and ten days I served and belonged to the company. After his term of service was out - He took a soldier's place in the Army and enlisted for

for one year under Captain Curtis of Charlton in Worcester County Name of his Colonel do not now recollect - I saw him in March 1777 at Middle Brook in the State of New Jersey - He was then in service of the United States But was not in the same company with me; and therefore I cannot tell the name of his Captain or Colonel But I now have a perfect recollection of his coming to our Encampment in the Spring of 1777 - Samuel Buell a late a Pensioner, was there at the same time from Sher- bridge - Buell is now dead. I do not know of any Soldier from this Town or Sherbridge who served in the years Service now living - Mr. Ditty North had a Pension Certificate granted him under the first Pension Act

of 1818 and died once and then was dropped: Because he had property; Ref- erence to the depositions filed in that case in the War Department, will prove that service performed by him in the War of the Revolution. Mr Marsh is now dead - But his wife Rhoda Marsh now a widow is still living in this town and has never been married since his death which was prior 1832. Jemson Wheelock
Commonwealth of Massachusetts-
Worcester ss. August 15 1838. personally appeared before me the Subscribed Jemson Wheelock who subscribed his name to the above deposition in my presence and made solemn oath that the same was true and I further testify that I have been acquainted with him many years and know him to be a man of truth and worth of belief. Before me Frederick H. Bottom Judge

Widfiles
8-079.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS, OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER,
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No. Claim, _____ Cert. No. 16 234 _____ Claimant, Rhoda _____ Soldier, Wm Marsh _____ Co. _____ Reg't _____ Mass Line Res _____
ACTION AND ORDER:
Papers filed Marsh
To Chf. _____ Div. _____ Action _____ OCT 8 1909 COMMISSIONER.
ADMITTED FILE OCT 8 1909 _____ Commissioner.

Ray
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26234
Rhoda Marsh
wid of
Dwight Marsh
Pri Mass Line
Act: July 3 rd 88
Index:—Vol. 7 , Page 13
[Arrangement of 1870.]