Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18086, for Thomas Lovering, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. 16.
Loveing, Thomas
S. 18086
cardeed
CONTENTS

Feb 745-
New Hampshire Thomas Lovering
of Northampton in the State of N.H. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Leavitt of the Regt commanded by Col. Moultier in the N.H. Stamp line for 2 Years from 1775-
Inscribed on the Roll of N.H. Pension at the rate of 25 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of October 1832 and sent to William Claggett Cert. Mnt. N.H.
Arrears to 4th of Dec r 1832 $ 120 Semi-annual allowance ending 2 Mar 33 - 20 $ 140
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. 67 Blair Clerk, Book D Vol. 121- Page 167.
This pensioner is dead & his payment would be suspended for reasons given to Wm Claggett & Wm B Parker in other cases March 1835 Seth D. Hadwick 20 Jan 1836

P 18086
INVALID.
File No. 18086
Thomas Lovring
Br. Div. Wis.
Act: June 7 th 89
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 228
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Thomas Loering
New Hampshire
No 3216
2 years Pay Book
on Roll capt. Dedrick's Regt Leavitt's Company
as must from 8 Feb 1779 for 3 months & 8 days
Adm J L E
Wm Schaggett Esq Asst
Palm Springs N H

BRIEF in the case of Thomas Lovering of Northampton Rockingham Co in the State of New Hampshire (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? - Before a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? Does not appear  3. How old is he? Seventy two  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.     In 1775 8 May to — 5 - Volunteer private Col. Moulton - Capt. Leavitt - Lt. Christopher Smith   don't specify the exact dates " — 3 - " Capt. Hobbs   " to 28 March 1776 2 1/2 - " Col. J. Burnham - Capt. H. Elkins   1776 April to Dec. 8 - " Col. Moses King - Capt. Leavitt. Capt. Smith   1777 July to — 3 - " Colonel Abraham Dake - Capt. H. Leavitt etc.   1778 July to — 3 - "  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? at the capture of Burgoyne's army  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Northampton  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By two living witnesses, his brothers 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? - They are not defective as to form or authentication  It has not the clergyman's certificate - only defective in that way I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
H. C. Easton Examining Clerk.

State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham ss
On this seventh day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature now sitting at Exeter in and for said County of Rockingham in said State, being a Court of Record
Thomas Lovering, aged seventy two years, a resident of North Hampton in said County, 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 th 1832 - That on the 8 th day of May 1775 at said North Hampton he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer soldier in the company commanded by Captain Moses Seavitt of the New Hampshire militia in the regiment commanded by Col. Jonathan Moulton, and served as a soldier in said Seavitt's company about one month, and was then transferred to the company under the command of Lieutenant Christopher Smith, in said regiment and served in said last company about four months in guarding the sea coast, after which time he enlisted in the militia company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Nobbs of said North Hampton in the aforesaid regiment, and served as a soldier in said last company about three months at Portsmouth immediately after which he enlisted in the company under the command of Captain Henry Perkins, in the regiment

under the command of Colonel Jonathan Burnham and then marched from Portsmouth to Winter Hill in Cambridge Massachusetts, and served as a soldier in said Kilborn's company about three months, when he was selected as a guard of General Washington at said Cambridge and so continued to serve as a guard about one month & a half, at the expi- ration of which last named time he returned home by consent of the commanding officer, having served all the time he agreed to serve that he was so discharged on the 20 th day of March 1776 but has no written evidence of his discharge
In the month of April 1776 at said Northampton he entered in the army of the United States with said Captain Moses Seavitt in the Regiment under the command of Colonel Moses  Ebenezer Wingate (he understands that his christian name was Moses  Ebenezer ) he supposes of the Hampshire militia, and after guarding the sea coast thrice monthly  time , marched to Mount Mount Independence, and Brown Point, and served there in the company under the command of Capt. Smith in said Wingate's regiment five months, and he returned home to said Northampton in December 1776 having been regularly discharged. That in April 1777 he again enlisted in the company under the command of said Moses Seavitt and served two months & a half in guarding the sea coast in Hampshire. In July 1777 at said Northampton he again enlisted in the Army of the United States and marched from said Northampton

to Still Water New York, in the company under the command of said Moses Leavitt and there joined the Abraham Regiment under the command of Colonel Drake Drake. In marching to said Still Water, he marched through Ithaca, Poudacieny, Charleston, passed over Housack mountain, Bennington where he viewed the battle ground where General Stark had a battle, & thence to said Still Water. That in three days after his arrival at Still Water, he was in the engagement with the enemy when General Burgoyne with his army was captured - That General Arnold was, one of the field  the commanding officers of our troops at said battle - that he was in the battle  after being wounded - There he served in said Leavitt's company three months, was discharged and returned home, but has no written discharge, In April 1778 he again served in said Leavitt's company in guarding the sea coast three months in July following he marched in said Leavitt's company through Massachusetts & Connecticut to Westport in New York, and there served as a soldier three months, in the Regiment under the command of Colonel Thomas Bartell, was discharged about the first of November and returned home to said Northampton where he has always resided except when absent on duty and where he now resides. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Thomas Leavitt
Albert Bradwick, Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the before named Ap- plicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
20 Memoranda Exeno
I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Lowring for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twelfth day of August Anno Domini 1832
P Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham Co. N.H.
State of New Hampshire Rockingham county ss
August 17. 1832. I certify that Thomas Lowring who subscribed the within declaration, in respect to truth is entitled to full credit and belief
William Blaggett Justice of the peace

N. 3215
Ex. N. 6 E

I Glenener Lovering aged seventy five years of North- ampton state of Newhampshire on oath testify and declare that I have resided from infancy in said Northampton, have ever been acquainted with Thomas Lovering of said Northampton, who is my brother, that I well know that he served at different periods as a soldier in the revolutionary war and generally in the militia service, in the service of the United States - that I was out in said service myself, but not always with him - that he first entered said service in 1775 and was not finally discharged until 1778
Glenener Lovering Rockingham Superior Court of Judicature August Seventh 1872 Sworn to in open Court Attest P. Chadwick Clerk
I John Lovering of Northampton Newhampshire aged seventy nine years on oath testify and declare that my brother Thomas Lovering of said Northampton served in the revolutionary war as a soldier at different periods between 1775 and 1778 more than two years - that I was in the service with said Thomas while he served as a soldier guarding the ascent in Newhampshire, when he was at Still Water and at Saratoga - that he served a long time in the company under the command of Captain Moses Seavitt, and I served also as a soldier in said Seavitt's company of the Newhampshire militia
John Lovering Rockingham Superior Court of Judicature August 7 1872 Sworn to in open Court Attest P. Chadwick Clerk