Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10998, for Joshua Lovell, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Lovell Joshua or Lovel
S. 10998
Carded
CONTENTS

Massachusetts 27090
Joshua Lovell
Hampshire in the State of Mass
who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Freeman of the Reg t commanded by Col Crane in the Mass s ★
24 Months private
Mass s and Continental May 1805 Records completed. ★
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass s at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of Jan y , 1831 and sent to W m Ward Worthington Mass s
Arrears to the 14th of Sep r 1833. $ 200.00 Semest l allowance ending 4 th 34 . . . 40.00
$240.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 2 Page 51

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire County ss.
On this eighth day of August 1832 Joshua Lord personally appeared in open court before Hon Samuel Hinckley Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Hampshire now sitting, who is a resident in the Town of Cummington in said County. Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged sixty five years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That That he entered the service of the United States & served as herein stated - vii
That in the month of November or December (and he believes the former) of the year 1776. he enlisted as a private into the Company of Massachusetts State Troops Commanded by Captain Grafton for three months and served that term at Nantasket now called Hull he enlisted at Weymouth where he then resided. 3 Months
That in the month of June 1777. he again enlisted at Weymouth for three months into the Company of Captain Glover and served that term at Roxbury in 3 Months
That in the month of May 1778. he again enlisted at Weymouth for six months into the Company of Captain Poole and served that term on Castle William. in Boston Harbor now called Fort Independence - 6 Months
That in the month of May 1779. he again enlisted into the

Company of Captain Porter for six Months, and again served that period on Castle William in 6 Months
That in the Month of May 1780 he enlisted at Weymouth for six Months to join the Continental Army at New York and immediately marched for that place that, he joined the Army in New Jersey, and served in Captain Freeman's Company of Artillery in Col. Vose's Regiment, and under General Knox, till his enlistment expired, when he was dis- charged, which discharge is lost
That he was born in Weymouth as he believes in the year 1761, but he has no record of his age, that he lived there till the year 1793 when he removed to Barnstable where he has resided ever since
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 whatever
Joshua Sowell
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Before me Samuel Hanchett Judge of Probate

86
Sophia Lovell
No 6048.
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

We the undersigned Jonathan Knapp residing in Farmington Branch Leonard of Worthington hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Lovell who subscribed the foregoing declaration (he having resided in our immediate neighborhood nearly forty years) that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed before me, and I certify that the said Jon c Knapp & Branch Leonard are respectable men & credible witnesses. William Ward Justice of the Peace
Jonathan Knapp Branch Leonard
And the said Court hereby certifies its 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 above.
Samuel Hinsley Judge of Probate
I Sam e F. Lyman Register of the Court of Probate in said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joshua Lovell for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighth day of May 1832
Sam e F. Lyman Register

86 Johna Lovell N o 6048.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that William Ward Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this fourteenth day of May A. D. 1832
Sam d F. Lyman Register of Probate.
Johna Lovell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HAMPSHIRE ss. I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that William Ward Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and have no doubt that the Signature annexed to said deposition is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this tenth day of August A. D. 1832.
Sam d F. Lyman Register of Probate.

To Mrs Mary Lord at Weymouth in Massachusetts Bay To the care of D Tufts

Parker Artillery July 19 th 1780
Honoured Mother
This comes with with my Duty to you hoping they will find you & my Brothers & Sisters well as they leave me at Present Blessed be God for it we have not here after 13 days tedious march of near 300 miles in an Extreme hot Season, we are all Well & in good health as we left you I am now in Cap t Freeman Company in Col t : Cramins Reg t & expect to march from here in a short time towards New York, I desire you would Remember me to all Relations & enquiring Friends, & desire their Prayers for us that we may be Provided by the Divine Providence in all my Ways, & cover'd in the Day of Battle & Return'd home in Safety we are divided into several Companies, I am draughted in Cap t Freeman Company in Col t : Cramins Reg t
I add no more at Present but Remain your Loving Dutiful Son Joshua Love

I, Thomas Bates of Windsor in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Seventy five years of age and say that during the Revolutionary War I was personally acquainted with Joshua Soull who then lived in Weymouth and now lives in Cummington in said Commonwealth
And this deponent further says that the said Joshua Soull was a soldier on Castle William in Boston Harbor two seasons when said deponent was on service there (he thinks in a company commanded by Capt Porter) Your deponent served on Castle William a part of the term in the years 1776, 1777, 1778 and the said Soull was there two of those years he is unable to state what length of time the said Soull served from age and loss of memory but he says confidently that that said Soull served there two seasons or a part of two seasons when said deponent was there and that he is now acquainted with said Soull and has been ever since
Cummington Dec 5 1833
Thomas Bates
Hampshire ss Dec 5 1833 Personally appeared Thomas Bates sign of the foregoing affidavit and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit and I further certify that the above deponent is a person of credibility
Elizabeth Parkhurst Justice of the Peace
Before me, whose name the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this tenth day of December A.D. 1833.
Sam F. Lyman Register of Probate.

I Hannah Bates of Windsor in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Seventy five years of age and say that during the Revolutionary War I was personally acquainted with Joshua Soull who then lived in Weymouth and now lives in Cummington in said Commonwealth
And this deponent further says that the said Joshua Soull was a soldier on Castle William in Boston Harbor two seasons when said deponent was on service there (she thinks in a company commanded by Capt Porter) Your deponent served on Castle William a part of the term in the years 1776, 1777, 1778 and the said Soull was there two of those years he is unable to state what length of time the said Soull served from age and loss of memory but he says confidently that that said Soull served there two seasons or a part of two seasons when said deponent was there and that he is now acquainted with said Soull and has been ever since
Cummington Dec 5 1833
Amasa Bates
Hampshire ss Dec 5 1833 Personally appeared Hannah Bates sign of the foregoing affidavit and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit and I further certify that the above deponent is a person of credibility
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Eliphalel Packard Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this tenth day of December A.D. 1833.
Sam F. Lyman Register of Probate.

Lebbins Bates & Lord Affidavit

I Lebbus Bates of Windsor in the County of Berkshire and born in the town of Massachusetts aged seventy two years - depose and say that I resided in the Town of Weymouth in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from the year 1775 to the close of the Revolutionary War. That during that time I was personally acquainted with Joshua Lovell who then resided in Weymouth but now in Cummings town in the County of Hampshire and that I have familiarly and intimately known him from the year 1775 - that in the Autumn of 1776. I enlisted into the Artillery Company of State Troops Commanded by Capt Amos Lincoln for three months and served that term at Nantasket or Hull on the right wing That the said Joshua Lovell was then there during that time in the Infantry Company Commanded by Captain Tristram and that he served at that place three months as in the Winter of 1776.
And the deponent further says that he knows that the said Joshua Lovell enlisted for six months into the Company Commanded by Captain Porter in the Spring of 1778. and served that term at least William now Fort Independence. And that he also enlisted into the same Company for six months and served the same term in the year 1779. This knowledge I obtained by having belonged the same during the said Lovell while in this service
And the deponent further says that he knows that the said Joshua Lovell enlisted at Weymouth in the Month of May 1780. for six months to join the Army at New York. That he marched for that place and was absent from home

time sufficient to have performed his engagement and returned and that at the time was and now is believed that he fulfilled his engagement of which I have myself no doubt
This deponent further says that the said Joshua Lord enlisted for three months in the summer of the year 1777 and served that term at Roxbury but he does not recollect the company in which he served not being on that service himself but he saw the said Lord while there and had two Brothers in the same company
Lebbeus Bates
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss July 14, 1832
Personally appeared before me Col. Lebbeus Bates who subscribed the foregoing affidavit made oath to the truth of the same and I certify that the deponent is a credible witness
William Ward Justice of the Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that William Ward Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this fourteenth day of May
A. 183 3 .
Sam. F. Lyman
Register of Probate.

We Roswell Hawks, a clergyman residing in the Town of Cummington and Eliphalet Packard residing in the same Town do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Goodell who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of age. that he is respected & beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the 14 th day of May 1833
Before me
Roswell Hawks Eliphalet Packard
Samuel Hinckley Judge of Probate And the 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 & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it ap- pears to them that Rev. Roswell Hawks who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the Town of Cummington and that Eliphalet Packard of who has signed the same is a resident of the same Town, and is a credible person. And that their statement is just & true to the best of their knowledge Samuel Hinckley Judge of Probate
I Samuel F. Lyman Register of the Court of Pro- bate in & for the County of Hampshire do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the amended proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joshua Goodell for a pension in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the 14 th day of May 1833. Sam F. Lyman Register

Mr. H. M. Parker Rm 248, Penn. Ave. Station Washington D.C.
paid for photo. of 1 page from the Rev. War pension claim S. 10998 of Joshua Lovell.
rec'd payment 15 cents
A. E. Wilson
Rev. War Section
Sept. 19. 25-

3-2233
113
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
Sept. 21, 1925
Chief Rev. Sect. Division.
I have this day received from H. M. Parker cash No. 15/100 in payment of requesting
photostat copy post office address as per memorandum letter herewith.
Copy mailed to Finance Div. (with) Sept. 22/25
O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Div. H.C.L.
Request for Photostating 3-2006 (To be prepared in duplicate.)
Ex. Aw
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK
2415
Job No.
Date Sept 19 25-
Subject Joshua Lurell Rev 810798
1 copies of 1 pieces consisting of 1 pages to be forwarded when completed to the Rev. & M. Ward Section Division.
Remarks:
Approved:
O. M. Wilson
Chief Division. Sect.
Chief Clerk.

3-2233
113
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
Sept. 21, 1925
Chief Rev. Sect. Division.
I have this day received
from H. M. Parker
15 No.
for $100 in fragment of Requesting
photostat copy post office address
letter herewith
copy mailed to Rev. Sect. Division
O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Div. H.E.L.
Request for Photostating (To be prepared in duplicate.)
3-2006
Ex. aw
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK
Job No. 2415
Date Sept. 19, 25-
Subject Joshua Lovell Rev. 810998
1 copies of 1 pieces consisting of 1 pages to be (No.) (No.) (No.)
forwarded when completed to the Rev & 182 Ward Section Division.
Remarks:
Approved:
A. E. Wilson Chief Division. Sect.
Chief Clerk.

Joshua Lovell 6048
1000 10th Street Cap. Frederick Baltimore
Washington City
Commonwealth of Virginia
James D. Edwards Esquire
William Ward Esq. Washington Mass Dorchester

Northington Wt Dec. 7, 1823
Col. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
I now reinclude the papers of Joshua Lord relating to his application for a pension. Mr. Lord has made an affidavit explanatory of that part of his original declaration so far as regards the Corps to which he belonged in 1780. The Certificate of the Secretary of the Commonwealth will show that the Service was performed.
Mr Lord has been unsuccessful in finding the rolls of the other Service in the Secretarys office, and it is no wonder to one who has examined that mass of rubbish. He has however procured in addition to his former testimony the deposition of Amasa Bates an aged & respectable man with whom I have been acquainted for forty years that he did serve two seasons in South Williams. He is to be relied upon in every thing but want of Memory. I find in many cases that from that cause these old Patriarchs confound dates sadly. Mr Lord informs me that they marched from Weymouth in 1780 under charge of a Sergeant and were assigned to Companies & Regiments when they joined the Army, and can it be strange

that they have forgotten their offices.
I have known Mr. Lovel for forty years well and have never heard his veracity questioned. And cannot but trust that the evidence taken together will satisfy the department that he is entitled to the pension he claiming.
I am Most Respectfully
Yours ob t Servant
William Ward

Ha Downs.
Lord
Affidavit

I Asa Town of Cummington in the County of Hampshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Seventy years depose & say That I resided in Weymouth in the said Commonwealth in the year 1775 and to the close of the Revolutionary War. That I was during the whole time, and now am personally acquainted with Joshua Lord who then lived in Weymouth but now in Cummington. That I know that the said Joshua Lord enlisted into a company of State Troops in the fall of 1776 and went to Nantasket and performed a tour of duty. And that he also enlisted in the summer of 1777 and went to Roxbury and performed a tour of duty there. This deponent does not recollect the names of the officers of his company nor the length of service but always understood and believes that it was three months at each place. This deponent further says that he knows that the said Lord enlisted for six months each in the years 1778 and 1779 and marched to Roxbury or Fort Independence and was absent both seasons and as the deponent believes that he served out both enlistments. This deponent further says in the month of May 1780 the said Lord enlisted at Weymouth for six months to join the Army at New York and marched for that place and was gone from home time sufficient to have performed the service which this deponent fully believes he did do
ASA TOWN
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss July 25. 1832
Personally appeared before me Asa Town who subscribed the foregoing deposition & made oath that it is the truth. And I certify that the deponent is a credible witness.
July 25
William Ward Justice of the peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that William Ward Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said , this fourteenth day of May
D. 1833.
Sam F. Lyman Register of Probate.

Personally appeared before me William Ward a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Joshua Sowell an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of June 7 1832 who being duly sworn deposeth & saith owing to loss of memory he now believes that in his declaration he was mistaken in saying that in the year 1780 he served in Col. Wesson's Regiment. He now is confident that it was in Col. Brown's Regiment. He is induced thus to believe from having found preserved in the family a letter which he wrote to his Mother while he was on the duty which he believes stated his case as it then was (The original letter accompanies this affidavit for the inspecting of the department. The deponent further says that he cannot be positive that it was Capt. Freeman's B. Co. that as it may according to the best of his recollection the company was for a part or
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that William Ward Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this tenth day of December A. D. 1833.
Sam F. Lyman Register of Probate.
was called the Captain. The records will show that the wide in regard to his officers
Joshua Sowell
aw

Personally appeared before me William Ward a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Joshua Sowell an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of June 7 1832 who being duly sworn deposeth & saith owing to loss of memory he now believes that in his declaration he was mistaken in saying that in the year 1780 he served in Col Wesson's Regiment. He now is confident that it was in Col Brans Regiment. He is induced thus to believe from having found preserved in the family a letter which he wrote to his Mother while he was on this duty which he believes states his case as it then was (The original letter accompanies this affidavit for the inspection of the department.
The deponent further says that he cannot be positive that it was Capt Newman Co. be that as it may according to the best of his recollection the company was for a part or whole of the time under the command of a Lieutenant who was called the Captain. The accompanying Certificate of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts will show that the deponent has informed the same whether he is correct or otherwise in regard to his officers.
Sworn & subscribed this Seventh day of December, 1833
Before me, William Ward Justice of the Peace
Joshua Sowell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, October 5 th 1833.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Joshua Lovell is found on a Pay Roll of six months men, raised in the Town of Weymouth, to serve in the Continental Army, in 1780, where he is allowed from July 1 st to December 22 d 1780, for services and travel, six months and three days. — M. do 6 = 3
Joshua Lovell's name is found on a Muster Return of Capt. Pool's Company taken March 1 st 1777, No time of service mentioned.
Joshua Lovell claims for services under Capt. Trufant in 1776. also under Capt. Glover in 1777. and Capt. Porter on Castle William in 1778. and 1779. the rolls of which are not found in this Office. —
Edward D. Bangs, Secy

Connecticut
Joshua Sarell rejected
See letter to Claminus 1 Octo 1833.

1925 Sept. 22. Copy mailed to Mr. Wm. Baker
Rev. Mays
10998 INVALID.
File No. 10998
Joshua Lurell Rev. Rev. war.
Act: June 2 nd 1832.
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 227
[Arrangement of 1870.]