Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,962, for Archibald Mack, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Mack, Archibald
S 18962
N.H.
Vt.
Carded.
CONTENTS

3833 Vermont
Sept. 18/89 Certified copy of brief showing service to Genl. Mack 624 S. S. P. City V.R.
Archibald Mack
of Windham Co in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Run of the Rgt commanded by Col Prescott in the Massachusetts line for 12 mo 22 days Private $42.41
Mass. & N.H. & Vt.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 142 Dollars 41 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Dec r 1832 and paid to Hon ble H. Hull in Fines Reps.
Arrears to 14th of Sept. 1832 $63.67 Semizant. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 21.20
$84.81
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by Book D.
Vol. 4
Page 13
Clerk,

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
State of Vermont
Windham County ss
On this sixth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Probate Court for the District of Westminster in said State now sitting Archibald Mack a resident of Windham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont said Windham being in said Westminster District aged Seventy eight 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 that he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War under the following named officer to wit on the 20 th of April 1775 the day after the Lexington Battle he volunteered in the service and marched from Londonderry Vt where he then lived to Cambridge Mass he remained there in the service two weeks then returned to said Londonderry & joined a Company under Capt. George Reed marched to Bedford was stationed there until the battle of Bunker Hill was in the Battle of Bunker Hill afterward went to Cambridge and enlisted in Capt. Maxfield's Company in Colonel Prescot's Regiment of the Massachusetts State Troops for eight months and part of the time he had then served was included in said enlistment for eight months he was stationed at Cambridge until the fall of the year and then went to Brookline's fort and remained there till the first of January 1776 and was there discharged, but had no written discharge and he served in the whole eight months and ten days
about the last of June 1777 he volunteered again in the United States service and marched from Londonderry Vermont formerly sent to Ticonderoga through Manchester he went with Vermont Troops and was in the service as a soldier two weeks. Genl St Clair then commanded

at P'keepsie fort he did not have a written discharge
he again entered the service on the 11 th of August 1777 and marched from said Loundersbury Vermont to Bennington Vermont and was engaged in the Bennington Battle he served in Colo Williams Regiment of the Vermont Troops he served something more than two weeks, Genl. Stark commanded at that time he was discharged in Aug t of the same year but had no written discharge
he again volunteered in the service in May 1779 in the Vermont Troops and marched to Rutland thence to Pittsford & Castleton thence to Loundersbury he was under the command of Capt s Sawyer and he served one month and a half and was then discharged, had no written discharge
In July 1780 he again entered the service under Capt s Safford of the Vermont Troops marched to Royalton thence through the Wilderness to Pittsford returned to Royalton procured a furlough continued in the service until some time in August of the year 1780 and in this campaign he served one month, afterwards he learned his company went to Battle fort
and he again entered the service about the last of October 1780 marched to Bennington fort in Vermont and continued in the service two weeks but does

not remember who commanded at the post, he was here in Landerderry N.H. Dec. 13 th 1753 is now 78 years of age but has no record of his age he lived at Landerderry N.H. when he entered the service but now lives in Windham P.R. and has lived there ever since the end of the war, he never served as a substitute nor was he ever drafted, he has no documents to corroborate his declaration -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever 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. Archibald Mack Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid
Before Peter M. Saff - Judge
Mr Benjamin Dine and Timothy Burton residing in Windham P.R. and Timothy Burton residing in Windham P.R. hereby certify that they are well acquainted with Archibald Mack who has subscribed and known to the above declara- tion that the believe him to be Seventy eight years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that they concur in that opinion Benj Dine Sworn and subscribed this Timothy Burton day & year aforesaid
Before Peter M. Saff Judge
and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the inter- rogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Archibald Mack who has signed the preceding certificate is now resident in Windham P.R. and that Timothy Burton who has also signed

the same is a resident in the  the and are respective persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit Peter M c Laff Judge
I, Ann Hayer, Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of Westminster aforesaid do hereby certify, that the fore- going contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of. Subhald Mack for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this eighth day of August. A.D. 1832. - Also Reg'd of

Stamped Nov. 3. 1832.
Judge Haight Present. Obj. 14.816.
No 1987 Archd Mack Vermont D 50 Solomon... ...
Admitted
Private
12 mo. 219
# 40.
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42.41
Non. H. Hubbard
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BRIEF in the case of  Abel Mack  of  Windham  in the State of  Vermont  (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 75  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.     Apr 20 In 1776 14 Private Gen. Capt Reed.   " 8 16 " Col Prescot   June 1777 14 " Genl St Clair   Sept 11th 16 " Col Williams, Genl Stark   May 1777 1 13 " Capt Sawyer   July 1780 6 " Capt Safford   Oct 12 mo. 28 15 " No recollection of his Officer.   382  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Bunker's Hill, Bennington  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Londonderry New Hampshire  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary & Living  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective Not attached together 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
L. Nelson Examining Clerk.

18 962 INVALID.
File No. 18 962
Dr. William Mack
St. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th '89
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 241
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Feb. 21, 1902 Miss Nellie Mack      city May-1, 1902 Mrs S. Mack, Anson      Ill 1912 June 15. Mrs. E.C. Dallas

Wanted the service of this soldier in War of independence Hodges
Archibald Mack Vermont Troops
Revolutionary Soldier
Miss Nelly Mack 624- A. South East, City

2. Hatzlander

Request of Miss. Abby Mark D.C.
Please send Military history & things for Royal Union Star of Michael Mark to
For Mr. William S. Mack, Aurora, Illinois.
Archibald Mack Windham, Enlisted from Vt. Londonderry Londonderry, N.H.

Mrs. E. G. Dallas. Thr "Roanoke" Euclid Street (bet. 13 th & 14 th ) N.W. Wash. D.C.
JUN 12 1912
Send Archibald Mack Mass. S18962

for a statement of the military history of Archibald Mack a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
S. File 18962
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apl. 20 1775 7 mos. 12 days Priv. { George Reid ✓ N.H.   June 1777 2 weeks ✓ Brattle Mass   Aug. 11 1777 2 weeks ✓ Williams Vt.   May 1779 1 mo 2 wks Sawyer ✓ "   July 1780 1 mo. Safford ✓ "   Oct. 1780 2 wks. ✓ at a Fort in Vt. ✓  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill - Bennington, Residence of soldier at enlistment, Londonderry, N.H. Date of application for pension, Aug. 6, 1832. Allowed. Residence at date of application, Windham, Vermont. Age at date of application, born Dec. 13, 1753 at Londonderry, N.H.
Remarks:
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

State of Vermont- Windham County Court Clerk's Office, New Haven, August 11. 1832-
I certify that William Harris Es- quire is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Windham aforesaid, and that the within and an- nexed are his signatures-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County Court on the day and year above written-
James Elliot, Clerk.

The within Deposition of Nathaniel Aiken was taken and sealed up by
William Harris Justice of the Peace
I do hereby certify that the above and within named Nathaniel Aiken is a man of truth and veracity
William Harris Justice of the Peace

I Nathaniel Atken of Windham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont of Lawful age being duly Sworn do depose, testify and say, that Archibald Mack of Windham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont turned out at the alarm of Tienderagon and went in the Company with me in the year of 1777 the aforesaid Windham was then called Kent. I do further say that he the said Archibald Mack is Seventy eight years old I do further say and testify that the said Archibald Mack is a man of truth and veracity and further I say not Nathaniel Atken.
State of Vermont } Windham August 2 nd the day A.D. Windham County ss } 1832 Then Nathaniel Atken of Windham in the County of Windham personally appeared and after being Carefully examined and duly cautioned, and after being sworn to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Before me William Harris, Justice of the Peace The above deposition taken at the request of the said Archibald Mack to be used at the Secretary of War Department at the City of Washington for the purpose of showing evidence of the services of the aforesaid Archibald Mack in the Revolutionary Service Service above named.
Certified By William Harris Justice of the Peace
I certify that Nathaniel Atken the deponent is a credible and disinterested witness
William Harris Justice of the Peace

The within deposition of Archibald McCormick was taken and sealed up by William Harris Justice of the Peace I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the witness named Archibald McCor- =mick and do not hesitate to say that he is a man of truth and veracity William Harris Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont } Windham July 25 th A. D. 1832 Windham County ss to then Archibald McCormick of Windham in the County of Windham and State aforesaid, personally appearing and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath the foregoing deposition by him substituted contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth Before William Harris Justice of the Peace
the above deposition taken at the request of Archibald Mack and to be used at the Secretary of war department, at the City of Washington for the purpose of showing evidence of his services in the Revolutionary Service above named Certified By William Harris Justice of the Peace
I certify that Archibald McCormick the deponent is a credible and disinterested witness William Harris Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont.
Windham County Court Clerks Office,
New Haven, December 21. A. D. 1832.
I certify that William Harris, Esquire, is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Windham aforesaid, and that the pre- ceding are his signatures.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County Court on the day and year above written.
James Elliot, Clerk.

I Archibald McCormick of Windham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont of Lawfull age being duly sworn do before testify and say that. Archibald Mack of Windham in the County of Windham and State aforesaid. turned out from Landonbury in the State of New Hampshire on the 20. th day April A. 1775. at the alarm of Lexington Battle. that said Mack was in Bunker Hill Battle. and Remained in the Service from the 20 th day of April above named until the first of January. A. 1776. that Mack and my self then removed to Vermont to a place then called Kent. now Windham. that in the month of June 1777. said Mack turned out at the alarm of Ticonderoga. that I well knew that he the said Mack turned out and went to Bennington Battle in the year A. 1777. that I was knowing of said Mack's turning out and going to Bennington. in the year A. 1779. that I was well knowing that said Mack turned out and went Brattleboro. in A. 1780. for four or five months Same year said Mack turned out at an alarm and went to Barre in the month of October and further I say not. Archibald M c Cormick