Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33091, for Elijah Meech, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Meach, Elijah Meach or
8 33091
CONTENTS

This, of papers sent to Lewis Collins, Boston, Mass, Feb 18, 1835.
Notification sent July 29th 1821 to John Ingersoll, Springfield, Mass.
4,485
Massachusetts
Elijah Neech Capt Allen Private 4
Massachusetts line In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence the 28 th of April 18183
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of Nov 1818 and sent to Joh: Hooker Esq , Judge - Berkshire Co
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818-47 3/4 = 33 11 86 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 th Mar 1819-48 11 86
$81.86
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
2 years War
Continued
ester Hampden

Elijah Meech
4485. Chester—
Am 1818
Em
Mar 1819

COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY of Hampden
ss.
ON this Eighteenth day of July 182 0 , personally appeared, in open court, before the Right Court being now in session at Springfield within and for said county of Hampden by adjournment from the tenth day of July Instant
Elyah Meech aged Fifty Eight years, resident in Chester 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:
That he served as a soldier from Right , on till the Year Seventeen Hundred & Eighty three in Noah Allens Company & several other Captains in Col. Joseph Hards Regiment in Massachusetts line - Original application was on the 28 th day of April 1818 - I have received a pension, or Certificate Number 4,485 -

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, in any manner, disposed of any property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to defraud as to bring myself within the provisions of the 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 of March, 1818. 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 mentioned in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
SCHEDULE.
Real Estate None
  Personal - 1 Cow worth $18.00   1 Hog " " 4.00   3 Chairs " " .30   1 Table " " .80   Sundry other articles worth .75   $23.55 
Elijah Muech
Sworn to and declared on the Eighteenth day of July before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas. Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
John Ingersoll Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the 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 Twenty three Dollars and fifty five Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this Nineteenth day of July 1820  John Ingersoll { Clerk of the Court for the County of Hampden

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampden ss.  B E IT REMEMBERED, That on the 20 th day of April — A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State , and including the said county of Hampden — the above named Elijah Nash —
Ebenezer Ingersoll Clerk of the Court
made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Elijah Nash the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid; and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampden to be affixed hereto, this 20 th day of April 1818
I do therefore hereby certify the above & annexed as the testimony & proceedings had before me on the application aforesaid & transmit the same to the Secretary of the department of War of the United States —
J. H. Hooker

I Bariah Eggleston of Lenox in Berkshire Mass ts - late Paymaster of the First Mass ts Regiment in the revolutionary war commanded by Col l Joseph Vose do testify that Elijah Meach now of Chester in the County of Hampden was made up on the rolls of said Regiment as a private in said Regiment up to Dec r 31. 1783 & was paid by me the arrear of wages due to him - The whole amount of arrearages due to him I paid by me was Two hundred & twenty five dollars & \frac{80}{90} - said Pay roll is now in my possession & the above appears from said Rolls -
Bariah Eggleston
Mass ts
Berkshire. Oct r 29 th 1810 When the above named Bariah Eggleston personally appeared before me John Hooker Esq r Justice L r . & being duly cautioned examined upon made oath to the truth of the facts set forth in the above deposition by him subscribed -
And I do hereby certify that I have examined the Rolls now in possession of said Eggleston as Paymaster of said Regiment, I find the same as stated in said Deposition & receipts of the said Meach for said arrearages -
John Hooker

State of Mass s
Hampden Co. On the 28 th day of April 1810 before me John Hooker Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State personally came Elijah Meach of [illegible] of the United States & now resident in Chester in the said County of Hampden who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth as his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late law of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, that at West Springfield in said County of Hampden in the Month of May 1781 he enlisted into the first Mass s Regiment commanded by Col l Joseph Vose into the first company in that Regiment commanded by Capt n Noah Allen - that he served for the term of three years - that he continued in the service in the revolutionary army on the continental establishment until Dec r 1783 when he was discharged at West Point in the state of New York - that my his said discharge was delivered to Solomon Ingham one of the Selectmen of Middlefield in the County of Hampshire - that he is now reduced in current means in life & stands in need of assistance from his country for support - & that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service except the testimony of Col l Ingham & John Coats
Elijah Meach
Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid
J. M. Hooker
23.
I Solomon Ingham of Middlefield in the County of Hampshire State of Massachusetts do depose & say that about fifteen years ago Elijah Meach then a resident in said town now resident in Chester in the County of Hampden in said State became very poor & stood in need of relief, & the Selectmen of said town of Middlefield of which I was one attempted to have him supported by the State as a State Pauper - That at the time said Meach delivered me the discharge which he received on leaving the army - which purported to be a discharge after having served in the revolutionary army in the continental establishment for three years it was signed Maj r Gen t Henry Knox - that I delivered said discharge to Gen t Woodbridge then a representative in the Gen l Court of this State to forward our design of getting said Meach supported by the State - That said Woodbridge has been dead several years & said discharge was never returned to me - & I further depose & say that I have known said Meach more than twenty years - that he has many years ago told me of his serving in said army & always said he served three years and I have no doubt of the truth of his statement - and I have every reason to believe the discharge a true copy -
Sworn to before me
Solomon Ingham
J. M. Hooker Clerk of Court

I John Coates of Middlefield Mass ts do depose & say that I served in the revolutionary army in the continental establishment in the first Massachusetts regiment under Col Joseph Vose having enlisted to serve three years. I was at first in the company commanded by Capt Allen - who being made a Major, the company was after commanded by Capt Miller - But said three years were not expired when peace was declared - that for more than two years of the said three in which I served, the said Elisha Menden was a midate & did service in the same company & regiment with me
John Coates
I swear to before me
Joseph Hooker Chf of Police

11 Nov 1810 Elijah Mearns
Admiral
I do hereby return this application with the additional evidence of Francis Eggleston Esq late Paymaster of the regiment to which the applicant states he belonged to when discharged — Nov 4 1810 J. M. Hooker

South Mead dec d ? Wid of Elijah Connt. Act 11 July 1836. Rejected see let H. Clark Ap d 23/52
H. Clark. Chester Village Mass.

State of Connecticut ss Litchfield County On this Eighth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me John S. Turrill a Justice of the peace for Litchfield County and State of Connecticut residing in New Milford in said Litchfield County Elizabeth Eggleston a resident of the town of New Milford in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut aged Sixty years who being just duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act provision made by act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836: That Ruth Clark and Elijah Meach were united in marriage about the year Spring of the year Seventeen hundred & eighty five And that ever thereafter until the death of the said Elijah Meach they cohabited together as man and wife: That the said Elijah Meach died on the 15 th day of December in the year 1821: That Ruth his widow was never married again and died on the 12 th day of April in the year 1836: That she the said Elisabeth Eggleston is a daughter of the said Ruth and Elijah Meach and was born at Montgomery in the County of Hampshire and state of Massachusetts on the Second day of July Seventeen hundred & ninety one in the year: That Elijah Meach was a pensioner of the war of the Revolution, and that after his death his widow never received any pension as will more fully appear by reference to the records of the Department of war at Washington She further declared on her oath that according to the best of her knowledge and belief, there exists no official or other reliable record of the Marriage of the said Ruth and Elijah Meach

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me
Elizabeth Eggleston
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me John Scunill Justice of the peace
I certify that I have reason to believe that the above named Elizabeth Eggleston is a person of truth and veracity and that she has truly sworn in the matter of the above declaration
John Scunill Justice of the peace
clerk entitled

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, } ss. LITCHFIELD. COUNTY OF LITCHFIELD, }
I, Ebenezer H. Wolcott
Clerk of the County Court
in and for the County and State above mentioned, do hereby certify that
John S. Durill Esq
whose genuine signature appears to the accompanying instrument,
is and was, at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly elected and sworn, and by law authorized to administer Oaths, and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds; and that all his official acts, as such, are entitled to full faith and credit: and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of of Record, having general jurisdiction.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Litchfield, this 24 th day of December A. D. 185 / .
Ebenezer H. Wolcott Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden S.S.
Personally appeared before me Aaron Hunter of Chester in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts and upon his oath declares that he was acquainted with Ruth Clark and Elijah Meach: that they were united in marriage at Montgomery in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts about  in the year Anno Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty five: That they cohabited together as man and wife thereafter till the death of the said Meach on the fifteenth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and twenty one: That Elisabeth Eggleston of New Milford in the county of Litchfield and state of Connecticut is a daughter of the said Ruth and Elijah Meach. He further declares upon his oath that according to the best of his knowledge and belief there exists no official or other reliable record of the marriage of the said Ruth and Elijah Meach. And that Ruth was never married again after the death of the said Elijah Meach.
x Aaron Hunter
Signed and sworn to this tenth day of January in the year Eighteen Hundred & Fifty two at Chester in the county of Hampden aforesaid.
Before me Eamuna Nelson Justice of the peace
Hampden S.S. I certify that I have reason to believe that the above named Aaron Hunter is a person of truth and veracity and has sworn truly in the above affidavit.
Eamuna Nelson Justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HAMPDEN ss.  George B Morris Clerk pro tempore I, RICHARD BLISS, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampden, do certify, that Edmund Kelso Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Edmund Kelso and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this fifteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty third
Geo B Morris Clerk.
pro tempore

33 091 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33,091
Elijah Murch
Dr Rev Dr
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900

Jan 19-1882 App of Ruth Meech deceased
Jeremiah
H. Clark
Heather Village show map
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Chester Village Mass Jan 16 th 1852 Commissioner of Pensions
In hr. If there is any defect about any of these papers I wish I might be notified of it early Respt Yours
H Clark

Adm. Reg. 1002, and 1003
REJECTED
7070
P. O. Ruth Hoach
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

I hereby constitute Homer Clark of Chester in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts my Attorney to transact all the business necessary to procure the arrears of the pension to which my mother Ruth Meach was entitled at the time of her death, and to secure whatever benefits may have accrued to me as a child of the said Ruth Meach.
Signed & sealed
In presence of
A. G. Ferris
J. Merrill
Elizabeth Eggleston
Hector's Connecticut
Dutchess County
Oct 8 th 1867
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for said County the above named Elizabeth Eggleston who is to me personally known and acknowledged acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her free act and deed John Merrill Justice of the peace