Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37172, for Noah M Littlefield, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Littlefield, Noah M.
S 37172
{ B.L.W. 1227-450 Lieut. Col. Issued Sept. 11, 1795. to Wm S. Thom, assignee No papers.
CONTENTS

5897.
Maine
Isaac M. Littlefield Soul Col d
'76 to 81 Colo Francis
Maple line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of Jan y 1819 and sent to Benjamin Greene Esq r Jth Berwick Me d
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818. 4m s  28 / 100 $98.00 Semi-ann l all ce ending 4 March 1819. . . 120. . .
$218.00
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
De to
Wells York County
W. H. Foster Mar 15. 1813
Information sent July 21st 1820 to Franklin County Maine

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
For Asahel H. Littlefield Esquire Greeting. We, Reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be a Lieutenant Colonel in the eleventh Massachusetts Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such from the 1st day of January 1777. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Lieutenant Colonel by doing and performing all manner of things therein belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders as Lieutenant Colonel. And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress beformentioned, or a Committee of the States.
Entered in the War Office Examined by the Board Attest Richd. Houlden Secretary of the Board of War
Witness His Excellency Saml Huntington Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia the 20th day of September 1776, and in the fourth Year of our Independence.
Saml Huntington President

Col o Noah M c Littlefield
Wells
5897
March 1819

STATE OF MAINE.
York ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first — Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at York within and for the County of York on the 1 st Tuesday of July — being the fourth — day of said month and by adjournment  from day to day, on the day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benjamin Greene, chief Justice Judge of said Court.
ON this fourth — day of July — in the year 1820, personally appeared in open Court —
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having “the power of fine and imprisonment,” and being a Court of Record for said Circuit , county, Noah M. Littlefield — aged eighty three — years, resident in Hills — in said County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a Lieutenant Colonel  in the company commanded by Capt. in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Francis, afterwards by Col. Tupper in the line of the State of Massachusetts — on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the eighth day of April — A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 5897 — was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner 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 18th day of March, 1818: 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; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me. Noah M. Littlefield.
Sworn to and declared, on the 4 th day of July — A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE Benj a Greene
Ch. Justice { One of the Judges of the said Court.
At t : Daniel Sewall, Clerk.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
No real nor personal estate whatever; I have not had for twenty years last past & I reside with my son who is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to give me any support. Noah A. Littlefield.
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Noah A. Littlefield who, by occupation am a farmer — which I am not able to pursue by reason of the infirmity of old age & being afflicted with a rupture —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     No family but myself — Noah A. Littlefield.  
STATE OF MAINE.
York ss. I, Daniel Sewall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of York , — do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 nothing dollars and — cents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighth day of July , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Daniel Sewall , { Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of

Noah M. Littlefield Lt. Col. 11 Massachusetts line '70 to '88
8 April 1818
Adm P .
He appears on the rolls 6 Nov '76 without farther remark

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. }
ON this eighth
day of April
A. D. 1818,
before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appears Paul Newton Littlefield aged eighty resident in Wells — in said county of York, who being by me first duly sworn according to
law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:"
That in the spring of the year 1775 he was appointed to the command of a sea coast company & continued in that service until the winter of 1776 when he was commissioned as a lieut. Col. under Col. Robinson & was stationed at Roxbury until the Enemy left Boston — when he was commissioned a Lieutenant Col. under Col. Francis of the 11 th Regt. Massachusetts Line & marched to Niagara — was engaged at the capture of Burgoyne's Army & continued to discharge his duty as a Lieutenant Col. in the Continental Army, in the various places in which his Regiment was stationed, until the year 1781 when having been much injured by a fall from his horse, which in a great measure disabled him from active service. He left the army & was honorably discharged. And in evidence of the truth of the foregoing Declaration the said Littlefield produces several commissions one of which is herunto annexed.
And the said Littlefield further testifies, and by a certificate of the selectmen & overseers of the poor of the town of Wells proves —
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj. Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Paul Newton Littlefield did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Thirteenth day of April — Anno Domini, 1818.
Benj. Greene

37172 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 37,172
Noah M Littlefield Lient Rev M D
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 248
[Arrangement of 1870.]