Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24553, for Noah Litchfield, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass
Litchfield, Noah Mabel
W. 24553
CONTENTS
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5771.
William L
South Litchfield Pirate
Massachusetts Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Disbursed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of Jan y 1819 and sent to Albion R e Parris Esq. Paris Oxford County Maine
arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 \& \text{mo } \frac{7}{30} = 33.86 Semi-ann. all ce ending 2 nd Mar ch 1819 - 48.
381.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Let to J. O. L. Boston July 1. 1843
Antiquarian Soc y - November 16. 1843 to John W. Foster Esq. Portland Maine

(11085) NOAH M.
Mabel Sitchfield, decd. Widow of Noah Sitchfield who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818. and who died on the 17 th November 1827. of Lincoln in the State of Mass. who was a C.W.D. in the Comp. commanded by Captain Thomas of the Regt. commanded by Stockbridge in the M ass line for 8 months Capt 12 mo. Sergeant.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 89 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836, & end 12 th July 1838 the day of her death.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of August 1836 and sent. F. B. -pres, 8 Dollars, Maine
Total amount, $ 210.68
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. H. Wood Clerk, Book 8, Vol. 1. Page 11.
Payable to Children.
Reported.
The Children, are, Noah, Benjamin, Zacheus, Luther, Wade, Jacob & Nathaniel - Sitchfield, Mabel Williams, Elizabeth Ames, Charlotte Cole, and Priscilla Barker.

Payment to be made at Portland by W. Woodbury Agent for paying Pension- ers in the Agency of Maine Payable on the 4th March, and 4th September in each year.
Recorded in the Pension Office in Book D. Vol. 1, Page by D. H. Wood Clerk.
Duplicate,

WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Mabel Litchfield, dec'd late of Maine — widow of Noah Litchfield — who was a Corpl & Sergt. in The Revolution and died on the 17 day of November 1827 — is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of 89. dollars and 33 cents per annum, commencing on the 4 th March 1836 and terminating on the 12 th July  4 th of March , 1838, 1844, unless the Pensioner married or died before the above mentioned  date; in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such  marriage or death. payable to Noah, Benjamin, Jacobus, Luther, Wade, Jacob and Given at the War Office of the United States, this 27 th day of Nathl. Litchfield, and Mabel William, Elizabeth Ames, Charlotte States, this 27 th day of Colo, & Priscilla Barker, only children. August one thousand eight hundred and 46.
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
Commissioner of Pensions.
Duplicate.

142. Noah Litchfield
Copy
5,771.
Levi Litchfield
Levi Litchfield is the heir at law of the estate of Noah Litchfield deceased
Continued
Jan 19
WARRANT DISTRICT OF... total amount of value of the property... Heirs of the said Noah Litchfield... happy to certify that the foregoing copy... I am, Sir, your obedt Servt...
copy of... A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty... the said Noah Litchfield... of the county of... State of...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland . - within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixth . . . day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the thirteenth day of June . . . . in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS , Judge of said Court.
ON this thirteenth day of June . . . in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Noah Litchfield . . . . aged sixty seven . . . years, resident in Leicester . . . in said District, 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 Private . . . in the company commanded by Capt. Jacobs . . . in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey . . . . 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 28 th day of April . . . A. D. 181 8 , and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 5771 . . . 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 Litchfield
Sworn to and declared, on the thirteenth day of June - A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Albion K. Parris
U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate — none — Personal estate — one cow — a few articles of old household stuff — I have no income — I am justly owing two hundred dollars
Noah Litchfield
Sworn to
Before
Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Noah Litchfield, who, by occupation am a Farmer, which I am not able to pursue by reason of Palpitation Diabeles, for ten years
NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support. Wife — Mabel ... 52 lost the use of her limbs — able to do but little Noah Litchfield Sworn to Before Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge

United States of America
I, John Mussey, Atty. do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original of the foregoing said Schedule on the twelfth day of September A.D. 1820 before the Honorable Abner Peabody Barnes Judge of said Court.
And now the original declaration and schedules annexed of the foregoing are the true copies having been here presented in Open Court and duly considered & fully examined. It is here now considered & adjudged that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in said schedule is nineteen dollars & twenty cents and no more.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twelfth day of September A.D. 1820. John Mussey Junr. U.S.D. Clerk.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, 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 nineteen dollars and twenty cents, and no more.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this thirteenth day of June . . . A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Junr.
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$19.20

District of Maine
On this 7 th day of January in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty six personally appeared before the Hon Asahel Ware judge of the U.S. for the District aforesaid Nathl. Litchfield a resident of Lewiston in the County of Lincoln who being first sworn doth upon his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of 1836 or under the acts of 1838 1843 & 1844.
And this applicant believes that his father Noah Litchfield was a resident of Scituate in the State of Mass in the time of the war of the Revolution. and he believes that his father was a Sergeant in the 8 months service in 1775 and also a Sergeant in Capt Joshua Jacob's Company in Col Bailey, Regt. in 1776.
This declarant also believes that his father performed other short tours of duty in subsequent stages of the war but he is unable to state the names of his officers or the places where he was stationed. This declarant further states that he has seen his father's warrant as Sergeant in the revolution and he believes that his father sent the same to Washington when he obtained his pension under the act of 1818.

And this declarant states that his father Noah Litchfield died at Lewiston in the County of Lincoln on the 17th of November AD 1827 aged 74 years and upwards and left a widow who survived him and died on the 12th day of July 1838.
And this applicant states that his father Noah Litchfield intermarried with Mabel Wade his mother on the 9th of July 1778 and that his said mother was not again married after the death of his father but continued his widow to the time of her death.
And this declaration further states that the children and only children of Noah & Mabel Litchfield are the following to wit
Noah Litchfield Zacheus Litchfield Mabel Williams Luther Litchfield Benjamin Litchfield Charlotte Cole Elizabeth Ames Wade Litchfield Priscilla Barker Nathaniel Litchfield
and Jacob Litchfield. And for proof of his father's services in 1776 this applicant refers the board to the declaration of his father for the benefit of the act of 1818 as aforesaid
Nath l Litchfield
Sworn to before me
June 7 1846
Asa Weston
District Judge of the Dist. Court for the District of Maine

United States of America
District of Maine ss. January 22 d 1846
I Asahel Swan foreman of the U. States for said District hereby certify that it has been satisfactorily proved to me by credible witnesses that Noah Litchfield late of Lewiston was a pensioner of the U. States that he died on the 17 th November 1827 and that Mabel Litchfield his widow died on the 12 th day of July 1838 and that she was a widow at the time of her death. & that Noah Litchfield Mabel Williams Benjamin Litchfield Elizabeth Ames Zacheus Litchfield Luther Litchfield Charlotte Gole Wade Litchfield & Jacob Litchfield are his children & the only surviving children of the said Noah & Mabel Litchfield deceased
Asahel Swan.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston February 16 th 1846
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation. Ebenezer T. Sturgis was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John D. Sleeper, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Edmund D. Sewall of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, affirm and say that I am Clerk of the first Church & Congregational Society of Scituate aforesaid, that I have the custody of the Records of said Church, and that the following is an abstract from said Records viz. "Noah Litchfield married to Mable Wade; July ninth, seventeen hundred and seventy eighth."—
Edmund D. Sewall, Clerk.
And I further affirm that the above is a true abstract from said Records, except the date, and that is written in fair legible figures, corresponding to the above.
Edmund D. Sewall } Clerk,
State of Massachusetts, Plymouth County } ss. Feb'y 11. 1846. Subscribed and solemnly affirmed to
Before me, Ebenezer D. Dugg. Just Peace, And I further certify that the above named Edmund D. Sewall is personally known to me and that he is a credible person. Ebenezer D. Dugg. Just Peace.

To whom it may concern.
We the subscribers, Selectmen of the town of Lewiston, do hereby certify, that Mr. Noah Litchfield, an inhabitant of this town, is in circumstances, which in our opinion entitles him to relief from government by the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 for making provision for the indigent soldiers, of the revolutionary war.
Seated at Lewiston
April 23 rd 1818. —
Dea. Mead William Gason Calvin Gorham

Noah Litchfield Private Bailiffs Mass Regt Jan. 1. 1776 to Jan. 1. 1777
admitted
April 28. 1818
8 mo Corpl 25.33 12 - Sergt 60 84.33

To the Honorable Albion K. Parris, District Judge of the United States for Maine District.
Noah Litchfield
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
that he served as a private for eight months & sergeant twelve months of Lewiston in said Maine District, in the war of the revolution twenty months & a on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at Lewiston aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicants reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support.
AND your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a sergeant to Capt Leary Company of the 23 Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and that he left said service on or about the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and 1777 , that he was at or near Forkills at the battle of Capt Leary & that he is sixty five years of age - Was .
WHEREFORE inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions of the Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Noah Litchfield
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the twenty eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, ALBION K. PARRIS, District Judge of the United States for the Maine District, Noah Litchfield the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Noah Litchfield farther offered in evidence
his original warrant hereunto annexed, and the affidavits of John Linedon and Robt Silverton, signed and sworn to before me
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Noah Litchfield served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy, and that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of the assistance of his country for support IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for the Maine District, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second.
Albion K. Parris

Personally appeared John Lincoln & Job Sylvester, made oath that they well knew Noah Litchfield the within named in the army of the United States, the Revolutionary Army & they & each of them were in the same company & well knew that the within affidavit by him subscribed is true in all its parts
John Lincoln Job Sylvester

Recd
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24,553
Mabel Leitchfield Wid of Noah Leitchfield Corpl Mass line
Act: July 7th 1838
Index:—Vol. A , Page 437
[Arrangement of 1870.]

V N 12636
Mabel Setchfield and
Mr
205 N. Bradford June 12/46
act of July 1838

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39:5:6 Duck & Geese 17:12:6 52:17:6 21:5:0 my work 6 0 1/2 17 1/2 5:12:6 1/2 Morton 5:00:0 Barkers house 37:17:6 Barkers house 1:10:0 59:07:6

By the Hon ble John Bailey
Col l of the Twenty Third Regiment of foot raised In Defence of the Twelve United Colonies In North America Annoq Domini 1746
To Noah Litchfield Greeting
By virtue of the power and authority to me Committed I do by these presents By the consent & approbation of your Capt. Presposing Special trust & confidence In your loyalty Courage and Good Conduct I do by these presents constitute and appoint You the S d Noah Litchfield to be the Second serg t of a company in my Reg t Commanded By Capt Joshua Jacobs You are therefore Carefully and diligently to perform the Duty of a serg t In leading ordering and Exercising S d Company as Circumstances may Require & to be all in your power to keep them in Good order & Discipline & the Soliere In S d Company are hereby Ordered and Commanded to obey you as their serg t & you are to Obey such Orders as You shall receive from Your Capt. Or any other of Your Superior Officers Whereof this is Your Sufficient Warrant Given under my hand and Regimental Seal Witness to Joshua Jacobs Capt. John Bailey Col l

To be filed in the case of Mabel Litchfield wife of Noah Litchfield - see official letter Jan 12 th 1840
J. Bradford Portland Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss.....
I Charles Cobb, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that
Stephen H. Read Esq is a Magistrate
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly qualified to act as such; that his Commission bears date March 5, A. D. 1840, and will expire March 5, A. D. 1847.
and that the — following — signature purporting to be his is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this twenty first day of July Anno Domini 1846
Charles Cobb CLERK.

State of Maine County of Lincoln and Town of Lewiston
Pitchfield Widow Mabel wife of Noah senior deceased July twentieth eighteen hundred and thirty eight H. G. Phillips Town Clerk
I hereby certify That the above 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 (July 12 1838) E. P. Tobie Town Clerk
I E. P. Tobie above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Lewiston and county of Lincoln 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
E. P. Tobie, Clerk of the Town of Lewiston Lewiston June 25, A. D. 1846
Lincoln ss June 25 th 1846 Personally appeared the above named E. P. Tobie and made oath to the above affidavit by him Subscribed before me, Stephen H. Pease Just of the Peace

June 17 '43 Dunton Me June 14th Marie Hon. Noah Littlefield Eugene P. Landers Central Union Washington D.C. free

Lewiston, Maine, June 13. 1883.
Hon. J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir:
Abah Litchfield served in the war of the revolution, but in what capacity I am not informed. The records of your department will show as his name was on the pension list. He died leaving a widow who was married to him July 9. 1778 and she died July 12. 1838 . Now can the heirs of his widow receive the pension, to which she was entitled by act of Congress of July 7. 1838, (if she was entitled) and the acts or resolutions supplementary thereto?
I have been requested to render my professional services in the procurement of a pension in the above case, but not having the means before me or at my command to decide whether the any one can receive a pension in such case I respectfully ask that your department will furnish me the desired information.
Yours,
Res: Servt.
James O. L. Foster

Noah Litchfield, Maine Roll, act of March 18. 1818,
Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid?
Pension of his } Died 17 th Nov r 1827. June 30 - 1843. } Paid to the day of his death — [Signature]

me June 26 1843.
Noah Litchfield Maine, June 23
free
Conrad Clegg Conrad Prunier Washington D.C.

Gariston, Maine June 22/43.
Sir:
Yours of the 19 th inst. in reply to mine of the 13 th has come to hand. I regret that my chirography misled you as to the name of the widow's husband about whose claim I enquired. In consequence thereof I am apprehending the information you have given me does not apply to my case, and I have therefore to trouble you again. Noah Litchfield was the pensioner; his widow was married to him, of I am correctly informed 17/78 and died July 12. 1838. If she was entitled to a pension under what act & of how much, and can the claim be prosecuted by one of her children?
If my former letter is on your file, please refer to it.
Yours
With respect
James C. L. Foster
x. for "Noah W. Litchfield" as you have it.
James L. Edwards Esq.
Incl d 1 Jan 77
Court of Pensions.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
March 9. 1846.
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 Noah Pitchfield, of Scituate, is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt Samuel Stockbridge's Company, in Col John Thomas's regt, in the Eight months service, as a corporal from May 10. 1775. 2 Months 3 week, 26 days Upon a Return of said Company in said Regt as a corporal — said Return is dated October 7. 1775 — Upon an Order of same for Military Coats dated, January 5, 1776. — No roll of Capt Jacobs, Col Bailey.

18/5.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sawyer, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Secretary of State. Setts Massachu
The undersigned one of the Children of Noah and Nabel Litchfield, requests the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to furnish from the rolls and other Documents relating to revolutionary service in the War of the Revolution the evidence of the Service of Noah Litchfield,
And this applicant states, that, his father was a resident of Scituate in the time of the Revolutionary War, and he believes that he served in the 8 months Service in 1775, in Col Bailey Regt, as a Sergeant, In 1776, he believes that his father served in Capt. Jacobs Company in Col Bailey regt, for the whole of that year also, as a Sergeant, In subsequent stages of the War, he believes that his father served in other campaigns but is unable to state the length of his service or the officers under whom he served
His father was a pensioner of the U.S. under the Act of 18 March 1818, and drew his pension as he believes in consequence of his service in 1776. This applicant therefore requests the Secretary to give all the service performed by his father which can be found upon his rolls,
And for the purpose of this application I appoint Joseph Duley of Nattawam my attorney in the premises. Nathan Litchfield

I Stephen H. Read of Lewiston in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine first being aware of age, on oath depose & say that I am personally acquainted with Nathaniel Litchfield of said Lewiston son of Noah & Maria Litchfield deceased, and that he is very poor and destitute, and is in pressing want of the portion of his mother's pension, belonging to him.
Stephen H. Read
State of Maine
Lincoln Yrs Decr 30. 1845.
Sworn to. Before me
James A. L. Folsom. Clerk.

United States } Maine District }
Circuit Court Clerk's Office.
I hereby certify that the Honorable Ashur Ware before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is Judge of the United States in and for Maine District and that the several signatures thereto purporting to be his are his genuine signatures.
In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Circuit Court this thirteenth day of March A.D. eighteen hundred and forty six.
John Nussay Clerk U.S.D.C.
12636
H. Bradford Portland Maine

No 12436 Mabel Sitchfield and Moms of Noah Mr act 7 July 1838
Adm?
8 Mo Carpent $29.33 12 Mo Singl. 60.00 $89.33
from 4 March 1836 to 12 July 1838 the day of her death Mayala to Noah Sitchfield Mabel Sitchfield  McCayns Benjamin Sitchfield, Elizabeth Ames, Zuckens Sitchfield, Suckens Sitchfield Charlotte Cile, Wade Sitchfield Jacob Sitchfield, Priscilla Barker and Nathaniel Sitchfield and children of Mabel Sitchfield also.
Freeman Bruford Pattang Mr

No 12636
Mabel Litchfield aw Mow of Noah
Mr
Act 7 July 1838
Marmo 1778
hust aw 17 Nov 1827
widow aw 12 July 1838

Portland March 21. st 1846
Sir
I herewith send you the declaration of Nathl Litchfield one of the children of Mabel Litchfield in whose right a pension is claimed under the act of 1838.
I refer you to the declaration of Noah Litchfield under the act of 1878 for the service of his son in 1776.
I am Respectfully
Your obt. t Servt:
H. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.