Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13498, for Thomas Hurd, Massachusetts

SERVICE
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Mass.
Burd, Thomas
S. 13498
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21.854
Massachusetts
Thomas Hurd
of Franklin in the State of Mass a who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Haskell of the Regt commanded by Col. Marshall in the Mass a P a * line for 2 years
Mass a and Navy *
Records completed Apr 14/16/82
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of Feb y 1833 and Capt E. G. Haskell Greenfield Massachusetts
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $200.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 34 40.00
$240.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. H. Atkinson Clerk Book 1 Vol. 2 Page 35
74 Franklin
896 cons 11 May 1818 up to 13 May 1820 S y

No 22376
Thomas Heird Franklin County Massachusetts
Certificate of E. B. Bangs Reg'd 3 July 1893
Private & Marine 2 years
E. Blood Greenfield Mass.

BRIEF in the case of Thomas Hard County of Franklin. in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th 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? 72 years  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. As a Gen.     Enlisted - In 1776 6 private Capt. Marshall, Col. Marshall   1777 - 3   Enlisted - 1777 - 1 Marine on board Hancock, Capt. Manly   Enlisted 1780 Nov. 1781 1 on final settlement private Col. Sproat   Enlisted Spring 1782 & discharged in Dec. following  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? captured British ship Fox 28 guns  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sterling Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Refers to his papers in the War office and traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richd. H. Watts Examining Clerk.

Thomas Hunt Northfield 22376

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN COUNTY ss.
ON THIS nineteenth day of September A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Warwick Court of Common Pleas of the Pro- said Commonwealth, now sitting at Greenfield within and for the said County of Franklin, Thomas Fluud a resident of Northfield in the County and =bute Commonwealth aforesaid, aged Seventy 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 an act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. viz. In the summer of 1776 then residing in Sterling (Mass) and being in
his 17th year he enlisted for six months into Capt. Haskall Company & Col. Marshall Regiment of Massachusetts Militia and served that term of time on Castle Island and in the vicinity of Boston . He then enlisted again for three months and was stationed in Dorchester in the winter of 1777 - On the twenty eighth of March, same year he enlisted as a Marine for one year and went on board the Hancock under command of Capt. Manly . Said vessel cruised on the Eastern Shores and Newfoundland . took an English Merchant Brig and sent her into Boston about the first of June. Soon after had a severe engagement with the British ship Fox 28 Guns & took her. Then cruised about one month and was taken by the British ship Prairie =bow of 40 Guns and carried into Halifax . He was then put on board another British ship of war and continued there till the eighth day of May 1778 when being in the harbor of Liverpool (Nova Scotia) he made his escape undiscover- ed and after much fatigue and suffering got back to Boston in the month of June follow- ing. On the 17th of October 1781 he enlisted into the United States Service for one year and joined the army at Newburg N.Y. and was placed in the Company commanded by Lieutenant Whiting in Col. Spratt Regiment. In the Spring of 1782 was put on board of Col. Pickering Barge on the Hudson River where he served till December of same year and received a discharge from Col. Spratt .
He knows of no person now living, that can testify to his service. He has no documentary evidence of his service excepting a Pension Certificate which is hereto annexed numbered 16018 and dated the 13th of May 1820. He knows of no record evidence of his birth. He was Seventy two years of age last October. He removed from Stockbridge to Greenfield lived there about five years - then he removed to Northfield and lived there about 20 years then removed to Northfield where he resided
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that when he obtained his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Thomas Fluud
his Pension Certificate R. E. Sewcomb Judge of Probate and where he now resides. He refers to Preserved Smith a clergyman and Jonathan Blake Esq. both Rev. Preserved Smith a resident in Warwick and Thomas Mason a resident
both of Warwick residing in Northfield hereby certify that we are well acquainted with for traditional evidence of his service. Thomas Fluud 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 that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. R. E. Sewcomb Judge of Probate Preserved Smith Jonathan Blake for Thomas Mason
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 named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Preserved Smith
Junr. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the town of Warwick ; that Thomas Mason who has also signed the same is a clergyman resident in the town of Northfield , that Jonathan Blake Esq. is a justice of the Peace resident in the said town of Warwick and is a credible person; and that this certificate is entitled to credit.
Register R. E. Sewcomb Judge of Probate I, ELIJAH ALVORD , Clerk of the said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Fluud for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
E. Alvord , Reg. Prob. Clerk

1928 Apr. 78 Photo mailed to Mrs. Geo. Spangler. U.S.
Reuben
13.498 INVALID.
File No. 13,498
Thomas Hurd
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 186
[Arrangement of 1870.]

16.915
Massachusetts R
Thomas Hurd
of Northfield in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Root of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 14 mo. Mass. and Navy. Records completed Apr. 17/18.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of May 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 of May 1820 and sent to Hon: S. C. Allen B. Rep. U. S.
Arrears to 4th of March 1820 - 174.45 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1820 - 40.00 21 Mo. \frac{25}{31} $222.45
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Franklin Co.

Esq. Allen Sir I wish you to look on Col l Sprouts Regimental pay Roll, I think you will find my name as I Received my pay from the seventeenth of October 1782 till the first payment in January 1783 the next payment Lieut t Danford paid me at Newbrantree he being a paymaster according to my best Recollection the Rest I Received in Boston Several years after the close of the War

Ontario County State of New York
I Judah Piper being of Lawfull age of Cohasset and saith that I do know Thomas Hand, and was knowing to said Thomas: Serving in Colonel Shroy Regiment in the Massachusetts line, in the Continental establishment for the term of three years and further this deponent saith not Sworn to this 14 th day of September 1819. before me
Wm. Parsons a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario
The applicant does not state a service for more than about 14 mos.

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of Sept. next, in Boston, at the Br: Bk: U. States, up to the 4 th March 1820
Massachusetts
Payable up to the 4 th March 1820. Before any payment thereafter, a schedule of property must be exhibited.
Recorded.

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, " " " "
Thomas Hurd — — — 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 eleventh day of May — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this thirteenth day of May — one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

I, Esther Sawyer of & testified in the county of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Testify & say, that, I have for many years been acquainted with Mr Thomas Hunt of North- field in the county of Franklin aforesaid - and that I well recollect of his enlistment into the army of the United States, I think, in the month of October seven hundred & eighty three, for he at that time lived with my mother - I am confident, he was absent more than one year when he returned, he came directly to my mother again, I am confident, that I have frequently seen his discharge - and have frequently heard it said, that he was an excellent soldier & served his time faithfully - I have understood he be- longed to Col. Sprague's Regiment - A further waith not -
Esther Sawyer
I hereby certify, that the said Esther Sawyer is a respectable Gentlewoman - and a man of truth and veracity -
John Stevens Jr. Justice of the Peace
Franklin Jp - Nov. 22, 1819 - Then personally appeared the above named Esther Sawyer & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed -
Before me John Stevens Jr. Justice of the Peace

I Silas Sawyer of Phillipsburg in the County of Franklin & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, testify and say that I remember that Thomas Heard of Warwick now reside at Northfield went into the continental army and was according the best of my recollection one of the last three years men - he at the time of his enlistment went into the army for the town of Templeton in the County of Worcester of course - I recollect that Thomas Heard lived with my mother before he went into the army and when he came home he then returned to my mother. I further then think that according the best of my recollection he was there more than one year. I will remember he came as one of the last three years men and further the Deponent saith not. Silas Sawyer
Witness my hand February 2 1859 Personally appeared the above named Silas Sawyer and made solemn oath to the that the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth above affidavit by him subscribed before me Doolittle Walker Justice of the Peace
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2nd day of February 1859

Thomas Hurd.
Priv:
Col. Marshalls Maj. Mr Ref.
1777 - 9 mo.
11 May 10/45
Col. Sprouts Maj. Mr Ref.
1782 - 14 mo.
Ship "Hancock" -
1777 - Prisoner till 1778 1783.
Not on Roll -
Admitted
See final settlement cert s Vol. 1 Fol. 170.

I Thomas Thane, a Citizen of the United States residing in the Town of Northfield in the County of Franklin in the State of Massachusetts, do hereby declare that I belonged to the Army of the United States in the revolutionary War. Previous to March 1777 I was in the service about nine months, the principal part of the time in the Company of Capt. Haz- lett in the Regiment of Col. Moulton of Massachusetts. And in March 1777 I entered the Naval service on board the ship Hancock commanded by Commodore Moulton, & I continued to serve on board of ship until July of the same year, during which time we took two prizes, & then our ship & crew were captured by the British ship Rainbow & carried into Hal- ifax, & I was detained a prisoner by the British until May 1778, when I made my escape. In Oct. 1778 I entered the service again in the Com- pany called Capt. Severy's company, but actually commanded by Lieut. John Whiting of the Regiment of Col. Spencer of the Massachusetts Line, & I continued to serve on board until the close of the War, that is to say until Dec. 1783, when I was honorably discharged at West- point in the State of New York. But the Discharge which I then received has not been or known any thing of for many years past. And by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my Country for support. Dated this 12 th day of May A D 1838
Thomas Thane

State of Massachusetts Franklin - May 11 th 1878 - The before named Thomas Hurd made oath that the Declaration within by him given is true before me John A. Leavitt Judge of the Cir- cuit Court of Common Pleas
I William Burnett Jr., one of the Se- lectmen of the Town of Warren in the County of Franklin do hereby certify that the before named Thomas Hurd lived in Warren for more than twenty years lately moved into the adjoining Town of Northfield, but now lives within about one mile of my house, that I am well acquainted with him, & know him to be in law circumstances as stated this 11 th Day of May A.D. 1878.
William Burnett Jr. Sworn to the day & year last aforesaid Before me John A. Leavitt Judge as aforesaid
To the Secretary of the Department of War, I the undersigned one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in the State of Mas- sachusetts, which Circuit includes the County of Franklin aforesaid, do hereby certify that from the testimony afor- said, it appears to my satisfaction that the before named Thomas Hurd did serve in the revolutionary War against the Commonweal th , as he has set forth in his Declaration afor- said, & that by reason of his reduced circumstances

circumstances being in need of assistance from his Country for support
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Court of this 11 th day of May A 1818
John Leavitt Judge pro tem
Thomas Ward
See Note

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April 23, 1928
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
..... Apr. 23 ..... 1928
Chief, Rev. and 1812 Wars Sector Division.
copies of two pages, each copied twice, Thomas Hurd, S. 13498.
I have this day received from Mrs. George Spangler cash in the amount of $ 60/100, requesting photostat copy as per letter herewith.
Spangler, Glenwood Iowa, Ills.
Apr. 28 1928 Copies mailed to Finance Div not filed
O. J. RANDALL Chief, Finance Division.
26 ER.
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April 23, 1928
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Sir:
Please send me photostatic copies of two pages, each copied twice, from Rev. War pension claim of Thomas Hurd, S. 13498.
Mrs. George Spangler, 212 So. Glenwood Classie, Ills.
Received payment
$0.60
April 23, 1928
W. O. Stokes
Rev. & 1812 War Section

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