Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,472, for Thomas Lawrence, Massachusetts

SERVICE
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Mass.
or Laurence, Thomas Laurence.
W. 24.472.
Anna
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3095 Massachusetts.
Anna Laurence widow of Thos Laurence who was a Fife Major in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 108 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of Dec. and sent to
A. F. Laurence Petersfield N. H.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1 Page 47

10.947 R Massachusetts. R
Thomas Laurence,
of Middlesex  co , in the state of Massach ts - who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel M. Jackson , of the Massach ts , line, for the term of three years .
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts , at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 , of March, 1819 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 , of May, 1820 and sent to Samuel Dana , judge, Groton, Mass ts
Arrears to 4th of March, 1820. $: 95.46. Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Sept. 48 " 11 mo. 28 } 1820. $: 143.46. 31. }
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Notication sent to Abraham Dighton Esq. Secy of State September, 1820, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2490
Anna Lawrence of Thomas Leap.
act 7 July 1838 admitted p 2 m f 80
Died July 7 1822
G. S. Boutwell Boston Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. I Elias Thurney clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts, for the county of Middlesex, being a Court of record do certify that Solomon Strong Esq. is a Judge of said Court, and that his name subscribed to the certificate herunto annexed, is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court, the 6th October 1838. —
E. Thurney, Clerk

Edward Clarke officer Pepperell Commonwealth of Massachusetts August tenth one thousand Middlesex County ss. eight hundred and thirty eight
I Geo. W. Parkell Clerk in the town County, and State aforesaid, make the following extract from the records of the town, in my possession - Tho s . Lawrence and Anna Shattuck both of this town was married August tenth one thousand seven hundred and eighty By the Rev d Mr. Bullard - I certify that it is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows August 10-1780
2 L. A. No. 1
It is to the sons of Sarah

I Geo. W. Parkhill Clerk in the town County, and State aforesaid, make the following extract from the records of the town, in my possession. Thos. Lawrence and Anna Shattuck both of this town was married August tenth one thousand seven hundred and eighty. By the Rev. Mr. Bullard - I certify that it is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows August 10-1780.
I Geo. W. Farbell above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County - Town, and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me. Geo. W. Farbell, Clerk of the " " " Town aforesaid
Sworn to before me this tenth day of August 1838. Caleb Brainerd, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. I Elias Thumey, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the county of Middlesex, being a court of record, do certify that Caleb Butler Esquire is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, and that his name subscribed to the within Certificate is his genuine signature —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the 6 th Oct r 1838.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts } County of Middlesex } fs
I Royal Lawrence of Pepperell County and State aforesaid, aged thirty four years after being duly sworn according to law do upon oath depose and say; That I was formerly well acquainted with Thomas Lawrence late of Pepperell aforesaid, deceased, that he was a pensioner of the United States, that he died about sixteen years since, that his wife Anna Lawrence is still living and has not been married since the decease of her late husband the aforesaid Thomas Lawrence -
Royal Lawrence 1838. July 30 th Sworn before me (said Lawrence being known to me to be a credible witness) Bradford Russell Justice of the Peace I swear in & for the County of Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts } fs County of Middlesex
I Charles Lawrence of Pepperell County and State aforesaid, aged thirty eight years after being first duly sworn according to law do upon oath depose and say; That I was formerly well acquainted with Thomas Lawrence late of Pepperell aforesaid, deceased, that he was a pensioner of the United States; that he died about sixteen years ago; that his wife Anna Lawrence is still living, was always reputed his lawful wife, that she has not been married since the decease of her late husband the aforesaid Thomas Lawrence -
Charles Lawrence 1838. July 30 th Sworn before me (said Lawrence being known to me a credible witness) Bradford Russell Justice of the Peace I swear in & for said county of Middlesex -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss. I Elias Thurney, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the County of Middlesex, being a Court of record, do certify that Bradford Russell Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County, and that his signatures to the within certificates are genuine —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the 6 th Oct r 1838. —
E. Thurney Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex - ss-
On this eighth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before The Hon. Solomon Strong a justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Massachusetts Anna Lawrence a resident of Pepperell, County and State aforesaid, aged Seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1832 entitled, "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows" that she is the widow of Thomas Lawrence known as Maj Thomas Lawrence, late of Pepperell aforesaid deceased, that said Thomas, her late husband served as a Musician in the War of the Revolution as stated in his declaration for a pension under Act of Congress passed on the 18 th of March 1818 - That said Thomas obtained a pension Certificate on account of services performed in the Revolution, and received a pension from the United States until by direction of the Department his name was stricken from the Pension List as on account of the amount of his property he was not considered entitled to receive it -
all of which will more fully appear on reference to the records in the War Department and to the papers and documents which the said Thomas forwarded to the Department in order to establish his claim to a pension under the Act of the 18 th of March 1818 - She further declares, that she was married to Thomas Lawrence aforesaid, on the tenth day of August, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty at Pepperell aforesaid, by Rev. Mr. Bullock, then an ordained and settled minister in said Town of Pepperell, authorized by law to solemnize marriages - That her name previous to her marriage with said Thomas Lawrence, was Anna Shattuck -
She further declares, that her late husband, the aforesaid Thomas Lawrence, died on the twenty seventh day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, and that she has not been married since his decease, and having remained a Widow from that period to the present -

She further declares that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz - at the time above stated -
She further declares that she has no documentary evidence to prove the service of her late husband except what is hereunto annexed unless it can be found in the war office - That the Pension of her certificate of her late husband is not now in her possession and cannot be found -
Anna L Lawrence.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex County ss. On this eight day of September eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before Solomon Strong a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Middlesex the same being a court of record Anna Lawrence otherwise named and made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration by her subscribed before me.
I certify that the said Anna Lawrence by reason of age and bodily infirmity is unable to attend court; and I took her examination at the place of her residence in said Dighton.
Solomon Strong. Judge, C. C. Pleas.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered that on this eighth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and nineteen before me Samuel Dana Chief justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, being a Court of Record duly established by law, Cometh Thomas Laurence of Lynn in said County of Middlesex, and on Oath declares, that he served in the war of the revolution against the common enemy for the space of four years and eight months —
He entered the service at the commencement of that war, and served the first eight months in Capt. Nuttings Company in Col. Prescotts Regt. was at the Battle of Lexington the evening of the Battle and in the Battle of Bunker Hill where he was wounded in the thigh — He next engaged for one year upon the Continental establishment, & served in the same Capt. Nuttings Company in Col. Prescotts Regiment & finished his years service. —
He next enlisted for three years under Lt. Silas Pierce, and was ordered into the Company of Capt. Bery Brown in Col. Michael Lockwoods Regt. in this Regiment he continued & served as Fife Major to his Regiment untill he completed his three years and a few days when he was regularly discharged, He has no distinct recollection about his discharge such has been the state of his health for many years past, that his memory has been greatly impaired  affected if a discharge was given him, he has lost it by accident & time. —
He was in the several Battles of white plains — Fort Stanwix at the Capture of Genl. Burgoyne's Army and in the Battle of Monmouth. When he left service, he found that he had accumulated nothing for his four years and eight months service — But since he left the service he has acquired and enjoyed some property, he devoted more than ten years to the Militia as a Fife Major, as a Captain and Major in the line, which took a large portion of his property and for fourteen years past his health has been declining, so that now at the age of sixty one years, his circumstances are so reduced that he stands in need of assistance from his Country for his future support. —
Thomas Laurence This made, taken subscribed and sworn to before me within said Circuit the day and year aforesaid — Sam Dana

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Thomas Lawrence
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not entitled May 1820 not entitled

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Thomas Lawrence resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 15. 947 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Thomas Lawrence of Middlesex county, 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 eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.”
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this seventeenth day of May — one thousand eight hundred and twenty”
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“Real estate viz.”
About 80 acres of land with a dwelling house, barn & other buildings thereon valued at — } $ 2000.00
1 pew in Pepperell meeting house — — — — — 60.00
Amount of real estate — — — — — $ 2060.00
Deduct over appraised by Assessors — — — 320.00
$ 1740.00
Personal estate viz. 1 pair of oxen valued at — 60.00
1 pair two year old steers 35.00 3 cows 50.00 3 yearlings 25.00 — — — — — } 110.00
22 sheep & lambs 22.00 1 two year old colt 25.00 old horse 5.00 — — — — — } 52.00
1 old chaise 5.00 1 cart 10.00 1 waggon 20.00 1 ox yoke 12.0 — — — — — } 36.20
1 swine 20.00 1 do & pigs 10.00 1 grind stone 1.00 3 ploughs 7.00 — — — — — } 38.00

  1 harrow 3.00 1 iron bar 2.00 3 chains 4.00 2 shovels & dung fork 1.50 $10.50   2 hoes .75 2 scythes 1.00 4 rakes 1.00 2 pitch forks .75 3.50   Old iron 2.00 cooper's tools 10.00 2 axes 1.00 13.00   Cooper's stuff 5.00 1 watch 3.00 8.00   Household furniture valued at 55.00 65.00   Cash on hand 12.50 Edmund Lawrence's note 33.59 46.09   Amount of Personal estate. — $442.29   Deduct over valued his personal estate — 50.00   392.29 
And the said Thomas Lawrence justly owes to the following persons the sums set to their several names as follows viz.
  To Samuel Parker Esquire 410.74 David Blood 74.00 $484.74   To Charles Lawrence 203.50 John Ames 109.00 312.50   To Mary Lawrence 37.09 Luther Tarbell 45.50 82.59   To Samuel Parker Esq. 15.00 Joseph P. Wheeler 22.54 37.54   To Polly White 21.00 William S. Brazer 13.60 34.60   To Alphens Richardson 11.00 Jonas Parker 7.51 18.51   To Anas Adams 7.67 7.67 
Thomas Lawrence.
And the said Thomas Lawrence having been first duly sworn according to law does on his oath declare that he served as a private four years & eight months in the Revolutionary war - first 1 year & eight months in capt. John Nutting's company in the Regiment commanded by Col. William Prescott in 1775 & 1776 last 3 years in the companies of capt. Benjamin Brown & capt. Heath in the Regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson being five major of the Regiment - was in the battles of Bunker hill where he was wounded by a ball passing through his thigh White Plains, Siege of Fort Stanwix, Saratoga & Still water & at Monmouth - that he is sixty two years of age by occupation a husbandman but from ill health for the last fourteen years occasioned by a blow on the head is incapable of labour - that his family consists of the following persons viz. his wife Anna aged 58 years of a feeble

constitution, his daughter Mary aged 26 years his son Luther aged 18 years of good health, his son Royal of good health but maimed in his left hand.
Thomas Lawrence.
Sworn & declared to before me.
Samuel Dana Judge."
" Maj Thomas Lawrence served nearly the whole war with great credit to himself as a soldier, was Life Major in Col. Brooks Regiment - his constitution is broken - his health fast declining, so that he cannot live long & his property dimin- ishing for want of power to save it - he received little or no- thing for his services and was a soldier of peculiar merit.
S. Dana Judge."
and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana — a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, Thomas Lawrence do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my prop- erty, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Thomas Lawrence
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Thomas Lawrence took and subscribed the forewritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana, Judge of said Court."
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule 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 one thousand one hundred &
fifty four dollars & fourteen cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820.
Attt.
Abraham Biglow

Rev  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24,472
Anna Lawrence Wid of Thomas Lawrence Meth. Rev war
Act: March 3 d /48
Index:—Vol. A , Page 421
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Payment to be made at Boston — by J. Haver Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of Massachusetts.
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each 2 years. Five major year.
108
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 103, by deduct any paym t . under the other certi- ficate -
L. M. Lundy, Clerk.
Geo. S. Boutwell Groton Mass.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years' Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Anna Lawrence of Massachusetts, widow of Thomas Lawrence, dec d cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Eighth day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
J. P. Poinsett Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
4. 3 0 12 $ 4. 0 0 108

June 13 In at mail Lawrence
FREE
J. S. Edwards Esq. Com. of Pensions Washington City, D. C.

Groton, Middlesex Co. Mass, June 7, 1839.
Dear Sir:
Your letter 23 d ult, directing that the Pension Certificate of Anna Lawrence should be returned to your office for enlargement, was duly rec d . I herewith enclose said certificate - When the necessary alterations shall have been made, you will please return the certificate to me.
Yours truly -
Geo f . Boutwell
J. L. Edwards Esq. Com. of Pensions

Rev. Doc. Oct 15 7 July. 1838. Oct 15 7 July. 1838. 7 July 1838. Mrs. Laurens
Three
J. L. Edwards Esq - Commissioner of Pensions War Department Washington D. Columbia

Groton Mass ts Middlesex County October 9-1831-
Dear Sir You will please find enclosed the declaration of Anna Lawrence for a Pension under Act of July 1831. When an examination shall have been made you will please communicate to me- Respectfully Yours- Geo. J. Boutwell
J. L. Edwards Esq- Washington D. C.-

Lawrence
Groton N.Y. May 16 1839.
Free
In at May 21 Maf.
J. L. Edmonds Esq. Com of Pensions, Washington - D. C.

Groton Mass. May 16. 1839.
Sir;
I wish to enquire of the Department if the widow of the Fife-Major of a Regiment is entitled to larger pay under the Act of 7 th July 1838 than a private soldier?—
Anna Lawrence has been allowed $80 per annum under that Act. She is the widow of Thomas Lawrence who was a Fife-Major in the Revolution.—
A communication upon the subject will much oblige
Your Ob st servant
Geo. S. Boutwell
J. D. Edouards Esq.
Com er of Pensions Washington - D. C.

Certificate of Magistrates -

To whom it may concern
We the Subscribers, Justices of the Peace within for the County of Middlesex — do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Major Thomas Laurence of Pepprell, who has heretofore enjoyed some property, & been considered a reputable liver.
But for several years past, he has been much out of his health, and been subjected, to much sickness and expense in his Family, by which his estate has been declining, & he is now, so reduced in his circum- stances, as in our opinion, to entitle him, to relief under the Act of Congress for the benefit of the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, in which he served with great credit, & fidelity.
Pepprell. Nov. 19 th 1819.
John Waldo Joseph Heald Wm. Hutchinson Sam l Parker Sam l Parker

Certificate of Selectmen

To whom it may concern —
We the Subscribers, Selectmen of the Town of Pepperell in the Commonwealth of Mass a .
Do Certify, that Major Thomas Lawrence of said Town, who it is said served as a True Major in the Army of the Revolution, is now a man in reduced circumstances. —
Pepperell Nov r 19 th 1819
John Walton Abel Gennett W m Buttrick
Seal. Hereof the Seal of the Town of Pepperell
Pepp r Nov r 21. 1819
I the subscriber clergyman of this town unite with the selectmen in their certificate written above —
John Burroughs

Certificate for Maj. Thos. Lawrence
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SECRETARY OF STATE TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME GREETING: In Witness Whereof, the seal of the Commonwealth has hereunto been set and the signature of the undersigned Secretary is hereunto affixed. Given under my hand and the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this _____ day of _____, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and _____, and of the Independence of the United States the _____. [Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page]

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT, Nov 2 10 th 1819
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Thomas Lawrence served as a Soldier in Capt. Brown's Company, and Col. M. Jackson's Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from Feby - first 1777 to Feby - 5 th 1780, being three years and months and a few days - he having en listed for three years - Alden Bradford Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Said Lawrence was fife Major A. Bradford Feby - as

Thomas Laurence Middlesex County, Mass s 5658 Sam d Dana Judge
Groton, Mass. H Rec d Jan y 20. 1820.
8 th March, 1819.
found on the rolls of Col o . Michael Jackson's regiment, as a fife- major, 3 years.
Reduced circumstances proved by the testimony of several justices of the peace, &c.
Admitted.

To the Honorable John C. Calhoun Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit comprehending the Counties of Essex, and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by law, do hereby certify, That on the eighth --- day of March --- in the year of our Lord one Thousand, eight hundred and Nineteen --- Personally appeared Thomas Laurence --- and made and subscribed the declaration which is here unto annexed. — And at the same time, he has also exhibited to me the Certificate of Alden Bradford Esq. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Certificates of John Walton and other Mag- istrates for the County of Middlesex, and John Walton and other Select- men of the Town of Pepperell all which are herewith annexed
From which it appears to me, that the said Thomas Laurence did serve in the war of the Revolution, against the common Enemy upwards of --- nine months.
Wherefore in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress made and passed, the eighteenth day of March one Thousand eight hun- dred and eighteen entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said declaration and the Documents aforesaid to you the said Secretary, that such fur- ther proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed —
Given under my hand within the said Circuit the twelfth day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and twenty
S. Dana

Massachusetts. 2,705.
Anna Lawrence widow of Thomas Lawrence who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 th Mar. '1 and who died on the 7 th July 1822 of "Fife Regt." in the State of Massachusetts who was a Middlesex in the Company commanded by Captain  of the Regt. commanded by Jackson in the Mass. line for 2 years.
~ Increased for $80.00 ~
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 108 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of June '39, and sent to Rev. S. Boutwell, Brookline, Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of March - $324.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 54.00
$378.00
Spencer
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 Page 104

Massachusetts 2705
Sol. Gen. S. Boutwell, May 23. '39.
Anna Lawrence widow of Thomas Lawrence, dec.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 7 July 1822 of Middlesex in the State of Mass who was a priv in the CO commanded by Captain of the regt commanded by Col Jackson in the Massets line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massets at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of May 1839 and sent to G. S. Boutwell, Groton, Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839 $ 240.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep 39 40.00 $280.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838.
Recorded by D. M. Curdy Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1. Page 103.

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Anna Laurence
$108 pr an
A. F. Laurence
Pepperell
Mass

State of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss. On this fifth day of July in the year eighteen hundred & forty three personally appeared before me Asa F. Lawrence a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Middlesex Anna Lawrence a resident of Pepperell in said County of Middlesex aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3 d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War - That she is the widow of Thomas Lawrence late of said Pepperell deceased who was a Fife Major in the Revolutionary War in Colonel Jackson Regiment for the term of three years - having previously served eight months in the com- mencement of the Revolutionary War in the company commanded by Capt. John Nutting in Col. Prescott's Regiment & was wounded in the Bunker- Hill Battle. He was also a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of 1818 and for a more particular description of the said Thomas' services reference may be had to the said Thomas' declaration and his own former declaration with the accompany- ing papers probably now on file in the War Department - That the annual amount of the pension which she received under the Act of

July 7. 1838 was one hundred and eight dollars. And the said Anna Lawrence further declares that she is still a widow -
Anna Lawrence
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year before written by the abovenamed Anna Lawrence Before me the subscriber, who do hereby certify that the declarant the said Anna Lawrence is personally known to me and that she is a person of truth and veracity -
Asa F. Lawrence Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex County ss.
I Elias Thayer Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify that Asa F. Lawrence Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Middle- sex, duly Commissioned & qualified - And that his name subscribed to the above certificate is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the fourth day of August 1843
E. Thayer Clerk