Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6926, for Zebulon Marsh, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Marsh, Jebulon
R.6926
CONTENTS

State of New-Hampshire.
County of Rockingham, ss.
ON this Sixteenth day of October A D 1833 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas of Rockingham now sitting at Exeter in said County  Zebulon Marsh a resident of Exeter in the County of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire, aged Seventy three 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832:
That he enlisted about the fifteenth day of March 1776 at Portland in what is now the State of Maine in Capt. Smith's Company in Colonel Weston's Regiment  General Glover's Brigade in the line of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment - that he marched through Portsmouth the New Hampshire  Newbury Port Salem to Boston  Massachusetts where he joined said Regiment - that he remained some time at Boston and then marched with said Regiment through Connecticut & New York and joined the Army under General Washington that he continued to serve in said Army in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania until the last of September or first of October 1777 when he left the service of the Army and served in privateers until the close of the war - that he remembers that the Major of said Regiment was Smith a brother to his Captain and Morris was Brigade Major of said Brigade that during the winter of 1777 he was under the immediate command of General Patnam
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State.
Wilbur Peter Chadwick
Zebulon Marsh
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Atten Richard Black

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss
And the said Court hereby declares its opinion after the investigation of the matter that the said Zebulon Marsh the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states -
Attest Chadwick, Clerk
I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Zebulon Marsh for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 16th day of October A.D. 1833
Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County
D.S. 14
Zebulon Marsh
Notice to be sent to Peter Chadwick Esq. Clerk
Peter Chadwick Exactor M.P.

Application must be made to E. H. Bangs Esq. Secretary of the State of Mass. for Evidence of the claimant's service as it has been recent- ly ascertained that there are rolls of the Militia State troops of other states deposited in his office
Concord Office Nov 24. 1833

New Hampshire Lebanon March suspended
Col. P. Chadwick 16 th December 1834
6926

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873
P. O. 6926
Service: Jobulon Marsh
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Exeter N.H. Dec. 8-1834
J. L. Edwards Esq r Comm'r of Pensions.
Sir I return you the declaration of Lebulon Marsh accompanied with the affidavits of Col Nath l Gilman and Josiah C Smith - two highly respectable citizens of this place. For the high standing of Col. Gilman I beg leave to refer you to the Hon- Secretary of war - I have delayed returning the Dec n in hopes that the applicant would be able to obtain some direct evidence but he is old feeble and ignorant; and having entered the Service at a distance when he was quite young he has been unable as yet to find any one who was acquainted with him while in the service - I have applied to the Secretary of the Com y of Massachusetts
Yours

for a certificate of the services of March -
In answer he informed me that the Rolls were very imperfect - that he had been unable to ascertain whether his name was there on the Rolls or not - Under these circumstances I have enclosed you the affidavits - as the best evidence that he has been able to prove
Very respectfully Your H on ble Servt P. Chadwick

Dec 15.
EXACT
J. L. Edwards Esquire Commence of Pensylvania City of Washington

I Nathaniel Gilman of Exeter in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged Twenty five years. depose and say that I am well acquainted with Zebulon Marsh of said Exeter, and have this day examined his declaration made before the Hon. Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Rockingham on the sixteenth day of October A.D. 1833. For the purpose of obtaining a pension for services as a private in the Revolu- tionary War. That I have a perfect recollection that said said Zebulon Marsh was absent from said Exeter a part of the time during the Revolu- tionary War. That I remember his returning to said Exeter, to the best of my recollection dressed in a soldiers uniform - that I then understood that he had been in the Army. - and that from my long acquaintance with him I have no doubt of the truth of the facts stated in said declaration by him made - said Marsh was a native of said Exeter
Nath. Gilman

I Josiah Coffin Smith of Exeter in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged seventy — years depose and say that I am well acquainted with Zebulon Marsh of said Exeter and have examined his declaration made on the 16 th day of October A D 1833 before the Hon ble Justices of the Court of Common Pleas — for the purpose of obtaining a pension for services as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war. That I well remember that said Zebulon Marsh was absent from said Exeter a part of the time during the war of the Revolution — that I recollect his returning from the army as I understood at the time and have no doubt of that being the case — and that from my acquaintance with him I have no doubt but he has stated the truth in his declaration above mentioned. I think said Marsh was a native of this Town. Josiah Coffin Smith

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham p. At the Superior Court of Judicature holden at Exeter within and for the County of Rocking- ham on the first Tuesday of December Anno Domini 1834 Present the Honorable
Samuel Green Joel Parker } Justices Nathl. G. Upham
Personally appeared in open court the afore- named Nathaniel Gilman and Josiah Coffin Smith and severally subscribed and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits by them subscribed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this fifth day of December Anno Domini 1834
Edward Clerk of the said Superior Court of Judicature