Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,571, Peter Wright, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wright, Peter
S. 34571
CONTENTS

15.066 Massachusetts
Peter Wright
of Littleton in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baily of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Twenty Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 13 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of Sep r 1818 and sent to Samuel Dana Esq r Boston Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1819. 133.86 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4/Nov 1820. 48.89 18 M ts 22/50 181.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
R.
10.066 Massachusetts Peter Wright of Littleton who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baily of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Twenty Months Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 13 of April 1818 Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of Sep r 1818 and sent to Samuel Dana Esq r Boston Massachusetts Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1819. 133.86 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4/Nov 1820. 48.89 18 M ts 22/50 181.86 Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. R.

Peter Wight

Common Wealth of Massachusetts. —
13 th Be it remembered that on the thirteenth day of April in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and eighteen, before Samuel Dana Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the middle Circuit, comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex being a Court of Record duly established by law within the Commonwealth aforesaid, James Peter Wright of Littleton in said County of Middlesex — and on Oath declares that he served in the war of Revolution against the Common Enemy for the space of twenty one months — He served at four different times, nine months and upwards in the militia — In the month of May or June for the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and eighteen the Town of Littleton procured him to go into the Army upon the continental establishment for the term of nine months he went to Concord in Massachusetts and was there mustered by Col: James Barrett, and proceeded to Worcester, and from there he proceeded by the way of Fresh Kill to West Point in New York and went to work upon the Fort, from there he was ordered to White Plains and placed in the Company Capt Samuel Darling in Col: Badgley's Regiment in the Massachusetts in this Company he continued until he completed his full term of nine months, and received a discharge from Capt: Manswell then commanding the Regiment and returned home to Littleton — He afterwards served three months on Rhode Island in Capt: John Porter's company in Col: Haws Regiment — This discharge he has lost by time or accident, he is now fifty eight years old, is very destitute of property and —
By reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he stands in need of assistance from his Country for Support. —
Peter Wright
This move, token, subscribed, and sworn, to at Littleton in said County of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid. —
Sam l Dana

Peter Wright 1770 to 79
Bailey Map to Rept
He was for the purpose of the petition of the petition of the petition of the petition of the very much
Rept
23 Claimant for, by Roll, one year & eight months
Admitted

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . - - - - Peter Wight Personally appeared and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Peter Wight did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
Sam d Dana I Samuel Dana Chief justice above named Do further Certify that Peter is a poor man in reduced and indigent circumstances - Aug t 5. 1819 Sam d Dana

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Peter Wright
Peter Wright
15066
9 Sep 1817
AM

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1821
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice , and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Peter Wright resident Littleton in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 15.005 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Peter Wright  late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
4 Real Estate none Personal Estate viz;
  1 Brass kettle valued at 2.50 $ 2.50   Pot kettle and tea kettle 1.75 12 old chains 1.50 3.25   3 tables 2.00 light stand .75 4 old chests 3.75 6.50   2 wheels 1.00 2 old axes .50 shovel & tongs .75 2.25   Hooks & beams .75 pewter & spoons 2.50 hoe 10 3.35   2 sadirons .52 grid iron & toaster .75 meat tubs and other tubs 1.00 2.27   brockery & earthen ware 1.25 glass ware 1.50 and irons .75 3.50   Old irons .40 tin ware .75 candle sticks .75 spider .40 2.30   Warming pan .75 2 looking glasses .75 knives & forks .33 1.83   $27.85 
Peter Wright.
And the said Peter Wright having been first duly

sworn according to law does on his oath declare that he served as a Private in the Revolutionary war nine months or more together in capt. Sam- uel Darby's company in the Regiment commanded by col. Bailey Massachusetts line at West Point White Plains &c. in the years 1778 and 1779 as is more partic- ularly set forth in his original declaration on file in the war office dated April 15 th 1818 - that he is sixty years of age a common laborer by occupation but unable to perform much labour through infirmity of age - that his family consists of the following persons viz. his daughter Esther aged 22 years, his son Charles aged 17 years and his son George aged 15 years
Peter Wright.
Sworn & declared to before me
S. Dana Judge."

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
4 I, Peter Wright do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD. Peter Wright.
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Peter Wright took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana Judge of said Court. 4
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
Twenty seven dollars and eighty five Cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820.
Attr.
Abraham Biglow Clerk

34571 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34,571
Peter Wright
Rev Rev Wm
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 471
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Littleton June 29 th 1778 Recd We the subscribers being engaged in the Continental Service for nine months agreeable to a late resolve of the General Court of the State of Massachusetts Bay - Have each of us received; of the Selectmen and commission officers Militia officers of the Town of Littleton one Hundred and thirty pounds in full for serving the above said term of nine months in the army
David Baker Abel Proctor Peter Wright Lemuel Dole Nathaniel Reed John Foster

May 25 th 1819. —
Abel Root. John Foster
Continental men Receipt £740.0.0
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John Forster
Affidavit-
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I John Foster of Boxborough in the State of Massachusetts, Do testify & say I was a Soldier in the war of the revolution as will appear by Documents on file in the war office, in the spring of 1778 The Town of which Boxborough was then a part, was called upon, to procure 100 men to go into the Continental Army for nine months, the Selectmen & Militia Officers procured the men to engage, Capt. Aaron Jewett was their Captain, & the men he engaged went to Concord together on election day & were mustered by Col. Barnett, Peter Wright was one of the men, & I know he joined the Army, he belonged to Col. Michael Jackson's Regt. we all signed a receipt to Capt. Jewett, who afterwards was a minister among the Shaking Quakers, this document I have seen & know it to be genuine, & have endorsed it. — JOHN FOSTER
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the twenty fifth day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me Samuel Dana Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit and a Justice of the Peace throughout the same Common- wealth, personally appeared John Foster and made Oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed is just and true in all its parts — And I add that the said John Foster is a man of veracity and that he is entitled in the application of Peter Wright to be placed on the pension list —
S. Dana
May 25.

Peter Wright Affidavit

I Peter Wright of Littleton in Mass a do depose and say, that since I received my application from the Pension Office, I have endeavored to ascertain all the facts relative to my having served full nine months, in the Revo- lutionary Army, upon the Continental establishment, and I do now further declare that having recollected that Capt Aaron Dinsmore commanded the Company of Militia in the Town of Littleton to which I belonged in Oct 1778 I caused search to be made among his papers which were left with the Society of Shaking Quakers, or Believers as they term them- selves, and found the original receipt which I gave for the Bounty given me by said Town, which will accom- pany this Affidavit, how many days, before the date of that paper I was mustered, I can not tell, but nearly believe, it was on the last Wednesday in May being the day of general election so called, in Massachusetts, and I well know that I enlisted & was subject to orders before that day — And I further declare as well as I can recollect three or four weeks before my term of nine months expired I was detached to chop Wood, & I drew seven days provision at a time, when I began to chop Wood, we were to cut ten cords each, four feet long & the Wood was very dry & hard Genl M c Dougall perceiving he had given us a hard task to perform within our time, agreed & directed that we might cut the Wood, eight feet, instead of four feet, which saved us & gained some time, after which we went into Camp, & our discharges were given us by order of Genl M c Dougall Commander of that division, & ten of us departed together I having been in service on several days over nine months. Peter Wright

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen, personally appeared Peter Wright and made Oath, that the above Deposition by him subscribed is just and true —
Before me Samuel Dana jus Peace throughout the same Commonwealth —

Abel Proctors Affidavit

I Abiel Prator of Acton in the Commonwealth of Mass- -achusetts Do depose and say that I was a Soldier in the war of the revolution, and in the Spring of the year AD 1778, was hired by the Town of Littleton, to go into the Continental Army, for nine months I was with five other persons, mustered at Concord by Col o Barrett on the day of General Election, which in Massachusetts is always on the last Wednesday in May, I marched from Littleton with men Peter Wright joined Capt o Darby Company, in Col o Baileys Regiment and we both continued attached to that Company, untill we had compleated our term of nine months, and the next day after my time was out, I was discharged about 30 miles west of Berk- -shire. About one month before our times were out, Gen l W. Doug- -lass came to Col o Baileys Reg t & wanted ten many of the nine months men, whose time would soon be out, to go into the woods which was about eight or ten miles from where the Regiment then lay, and said Wright, and one Reuben Lane, who belonged to Acton were ordered to go on that duty, of they were absent from the Company, & I did not see either of them, after they went away to chop wood, untill I saw them at home, but I never heard or knew, but they were both regularly discharged — 25 th 1819 upon which I have signed my name, dated May 25. 1778 was a signed authentic document & was subscribed by me, before I left Littleton to go into the service. — Abiel Prator
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the twenty fifth day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirteen, before me Samuel Dana Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit and a Justice of the Peace throughout the same Commonwealth, personally appeared, Abiel Prator and May 25

and made Oath, that the above Deposition by him subscribed is just and true, and I certify that the said Abel Proctor is a man of veracity, and that he is disinterested in the application of Peter Wright to be placed on the pension list —
Sam l . Dana

I Reuben Laro, now of Sharon in the State of New Hampshire, do desire, and say, that I lived in Acton in the State of Massachusetts, untill the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine, when I removed to Sharon In the year seventeen hundred, and seventy eight, I was procured by said Town of Acton, to go into the Army upon the Continental establishment, I was first mustered at Concord Mr, by Col: Baugh & proceeded to Worcester, from whence, I was conducted to Fish Kill in New York, by Lt: Joseph Brown, where I was again mustered and ordered into the Company of Capt: Samuel Dabey (by my own consent) in this Company I completed nine months service, and during the time I belonged to it, I well knew, one Peter Wright who then resided in Littleton N.E. about Six miles from me, I well remember his belonging to Capt: Dabey Company, & that he served out his term of nine months — Some days before our terms expired, there was an order from Capt: Manwell, then Commanding Col: Baileys Regiment, to detach ten men of the nine months, to chop wood about two or three miles from Camp accordingly, I, Jacob Richardson, Abel Richardson, Joshua Felt, James Murdock, Peter Aldreth, Peter Wright, ——— B. Laro, Thomas Reddington, ——— B. Laro & myself, were ordered before that service, & we were told, that if we would chop ten Cords each, it should be in full for the remainder of our term, & we accordingly did cut, & cord each his ten Cords, the whole of which was inspected by Genl: McDougle, or his Aid de Camp, & we gained by exertion, a few days, & we returned to Camp, & received our discharges — I have mine now in my possession, which is in the words & figures following to wit

There may Certify, that Reuben has served his time out as a nine months man in Col. Baileys Regt. Caps Baileys Company, has not drawn any Blankets, since he joined said Regiment. Simon Lord Lieut. Camp Continental Village Feb. 18. 1779. — This Lieut. Lord then commanded Cap. Baileys Company.
I did not read Peter Wrights discharge, but they were given to each one of us, who dropped word, and we all proceeded from Camp together, & travelled in company with said Wright to Lancaster in Massachusetts, within about twelve miles of our respective homes. —
Reuben Law
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and Nineteen, before me Samuel Dana Chief justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit and a Justice of the Peace throughout the same Commonwealth, personally appeared Reuben Law, and made Oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is just and true in all its particulars. —
Reuben Law Affidavit
And I Certify that the said Reuben Law is a man of good credit entitled to full faith and confidence, before all Courts and in all tribunals, and that he is disinterested in the application of Peter Wright to be placed on the pension list —
Saml. Dana

Axel Richardsons
Barbara Lewis
Affidavit
Affidavit
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I Abiel Richardson now of Ashley in the Common Wealth of Massachusetts Do testify & say that among other services which I performed as a Soldier during the Revolutionary War, I was procured by the Town of Townsend to go into the service to fill the ranks of the Continental Army for nine months - And during this service I well knew one Peter Wright of Little- ton in said Commonwealth who belonged to Badgley's Regiment, to which I also belonged & was of Capt. Seth Drews Company, before our times expired there was an order from Genl. M c Dougall then Commanding at Patriot's Hill for a number of the nine months, men to chop a quantity of Wood, & the said Peter Wright myself & eight others five of whom resided in my Neighbor- hood were ordered on that service, & we were told if we w d out ten Cords each, or on hundred Cords it should conflict our term of nine months we refused to the Wood, they extra selections gained a few days returned into Camp, where we all received our discharges, & an order for two days provisions, & left Camp the five together were part of Company at Worcester & the said Wright proceeded to Littleton having completed his term of nine months as all the rest of us did - Abiel Richardson
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the twenty sixth day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen, before me Samuel Dana Chief Justice of the Superior Court

Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit Court a Justice of the Peace throughout the same Commonwealth personally appeared Alvin Richardson and made Oath that the within Deposition by him subscribed is just and true and I Certify that the said Alvin is a Citizen of good credit and the best of faith and entire credit before all tribunals and in all places and that he is disinterested in the application of Peter Wright to be placed on the Pension list —
I am. Yours