Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 26512, for David Tarbell, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
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Farbell, David Hannah
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10.182
Massachusetts David Tarbell
of Middlesex in the State of Mass who was a sergt in the company commanded by Captain  of the  commanded by Col Bigelow in the Mass line for 2 Years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 120 Dollars  Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of   1833 and first Claimant Pepperell Middlesex Co Mass Arrears to the 4th of  1833 $ 240- Semi-annual allowance ending 21 Sept  60- $300-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H e/o Blain Clerk, Book  Vol. 2 nd Page 83.

3091
Massachusetts.
Hannah Farkell widow of David Farkell who was a Sergeant in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of Dec. 1842. and sent to
A. F. Lawrence Essex Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1 Page 55

+ David Tutell -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered that on this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me 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 aforesaid) came David Tarbell of Pepperell in said County of Middlesex and on oath declares, that he served in the war of the Revolution more than six years, he entered the service the first day of March One Thousand Seven hundred and seventy seven, upon the Continental establishment, served four years and upwards to the end of that war, and received a discharge and was honored with the Badge of Merit - He has always lived here, raised a small family, but has not been successful in any earning property, his power to labor begins to decline at the age of fifty nine years and
by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for his support - - David Tarbell
Then made, subscribed, and sworn to at Pepperell in said County of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid -
Sam l Dana

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David Tarbell
[Faint signature]
1268
June 1818
[Faint signature]

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, David Sarbell resident in Concord in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1. 258 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, David Sarbell late a Sergeant 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 ninth day of April — one thousand eight hundred and 18.
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this 30. day of June — one thousand eight hundred and 18.
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 none
Personal Estate viz.
  1 cow of the value of 15.00 2 pigs 2.00 $ 18.00   1 pot .50 1 Kettle .50 crockery 3.00 tongs .50 4.50   1 chest 4.00 1 table .50 3 chairs .50 5.00   1 bed iron .25 1 axe 1.00 1 hoe .25 1.50   $29.00 
David Sarbell.
And the said David Sarbell having been first duly sworn according to law does on his oath declare that he enlisted in March 1777 into the company of Capt. Sylvanus Smith 15th Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Col. Timothy Bigelow, that he served in that and other corps as a Private and non commissioned Officer till the close of the Revolu-

Revolutionary war was in the battles at Rhode Island Monmouth and at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis all which is particularly set forth in his original declaration on file in the war office - that he is sixty one years of age a cooper by occupation, but unable to support himself by labour - that he has no family except his wife Hannah aged fifty years who is also unable to perform much labour.
David Sarbell.
Subscribed & declared to before me
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,
4 I, David Larbell 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 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 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; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD. David Larbell
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed David Larbell took and subscribed the aforeswritten 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
twenty nine dollars
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 20th day of July 1820.
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

1231 1431
Baruch Spinoza
admitted
Sept. 27 th 1820
died Mar 27. 1677
A. F. Lawrence Puffin

State of Massachusetts } County of Middlesex } ss
On this twenty fourth day of August in the year eighteen hundred & thirty eight personally appeared before me Solomon Strong Esq. one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County of Middlesex Hannah Tarbell a resident of Pepperell in said County of Middlesex aged sixty nine 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, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of David Tarbell of said Pepperell who was a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution. Her husband the said David Tarbell served during the whole war and was part on the pension lists. She further says that her husband's Pension Certificate was sent to Boston when the arrearages of his pension were obtained after his death. She further declares that she was married to the said David Tarbell on the nineteenth day of May eighteen hundred and eighty nine at said Pepperell by the Reverend John Bullard who was then the settled and ordained minister of that Town. She further says that her said husband died on the seventeenth.

day of March eighteen hundred and thirty three and that she has continued this widow ever since never having since been married. That she was not married to her said husband prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four vix. at the time above stated. Her name before she was married was. Hannah Wright. She further says that her said husband at the time of her marriage was called Daniel Forbell from and it may be that he is so called in his pension certificate. Hannah Forbell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex County ss. On this twenty fourth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me Solomon Strong a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Middlesex the same being a court of record. Hannah Forbell the signer of the above declaration and signed the same in my presence and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me. The said Hannah Forbell by reason of age and bodily infirmity is unable to attend court and I took her examination at the office of the for Law Commission in said Poppelwell. Solomon Strong Judge C. C. Pleas

"The following is an account of Marriages which were solemnised by the Rev. Mr. Burdard viz May nineteenth Seventeen hundred eighty nine David Farbell Junr Hannah Wright."
State of Massachusetts } Town Clerk's office Middlesex County ss. } in Pepperell August 24. 1888
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record in my office with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "May 19. 1789"
Geo. W. Farbell } Town Clerk of the " " } Town of Pepperell
I Geo. W. Farbell above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town, County, and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Pepperell with the exception above named as certified by me.
Geo. W. Farbell } Town Clerk of " " } Pepperell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss. On this twenty fourth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared George W. Farbell above named and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed before me.
Solomon Strong. Judge C. C. Pleas.

I John Walton of Pepperell in the County of Middlesex of lawful age testify & swear, that I was acquainted with David Tar- bell a Revolutionary pensioner for upwards of forty years previous to his death, & that frequently, as a Magistrate, I perused his papers preparatory to drawing his pension. I likewise state, that I attended said David in his last sickness, as his Physician & that he died March the seventeenth Eighteen hundred & thirty three & left a widow by the name of Hannah Tarbell, who is present, at the taking of this affidavit & is now unmarried & has never been married since the decease of her said husband David Tarbell. Said David Tarbell always lived in Pepperell, during my acquaintance and with him as heretofore stated.
John Walton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex County ss.
On this twenty fourth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared John Walton the signer of the above affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me. And I certify that said John Walton is a credible person.
Solomon Strong Judge C.C.P.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. I Elias Thayer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the County of Middlesex do certify that Solomon Strong Esquire is a Judge of said Court, and that his signatures to the three foregoing & annexed certificates are his genuine signatures. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court the third day of September 1838.
E. Thayer, Clerk

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of David Farbell a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. Nr. 26,512
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Mch. 1. 77 Pri. + Silvanus Smith Timothy Bigelow 15 Mar.   disc June 10. 83 brig. ✓ Rufus Putnam 5 "                                                          
Battles engaged in, R. I. Mon., cur Cornwall.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓
Date of application for pension, Apr. 9. 1818.
Residence at date of application, Pepperell Mass.
Age at date of application, 59 died Mch. 17. 1833.
Remarks: born  Wm rec - Pepperell, Mass. May 19. 1789 David Farbell Jr
Hannah Wright.
Wife died Aug. 24. 1838. at 69 res. Pepperell, Mass.
Disc. on file - Very respectfully,

17 August 1907.
Pepperell. Mass.
PRUDENCE WRIGHT CHAPTER
To the U.S. Commissioner of Pensions. Washington.
Dear Sir:
Will you please tell me if the following Revolutionary Soldiers were Pensioners; and if so, what is necessary to secure copies of their Pension Certificates.
Capt. Thomas Grant. Marblehead, Mass. b. probably 1731
Capt. John Wisner Jr. Orange Co. N. Y. b. 1737
Nehemiah Jewett. Pepperell. Mass. b. 1740.
David Tarbell. Townsend, or Pepperell. Mass. birth unknown. over

Josiah Wright - Groton & Pepperell. Mass. b. 1737.
I enclose a stamp for reply, and am,
Yours truly (Miss) Annetta Merrill Chapter Registrar.

OWN HENRY ERNEST WOODS NOTARY PUBLIC FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
P. O. Box 3372, Boston 18 SOMERSET STREET Boston, Mass., Do  Oct. 1904
Commissioner of Pensions, U.S. Department of the Interior.
My dear Sir: Will you kindly give me, for which I shall be grateful, the military history, with special reference to biographical information (date of death, etc., of him and his wife), of David Darbell (Jr.) of Pepperell, Mass., Lieut. in the 8th Infantry Co. of Col. Putnam's Regt. in 1758, a Revolutionary pensioner, whose wife Hannah survived him and had a pension. The information is desired in connection with title to a land grant made to his heirs by this Commonwealth.
Yours very Truly H. B. Woods

26512
8-068. (Old No. 8-649.)
Bureau of Pensions.
David Farbell
Apt 9 18.18 -59
Pepperell Mass
March 1.77
Mass
Col. Biglow 5 th Mass.
Sgt. June 10. 83
Col Rufus Putnam
Sgt 6 yrs
no Bat
Mar Hannah Wright
May 10. 1759. Pepperell
March 17. 1883

Payable on the 4. March & 4. Sept r . of each year at the N. States Branch Bank, Boston, Mass. x
Recorded C. D.

David Tarbell
Layton +
Josiah Brewer Company Nippon Putnam Sept. 5 1874

WAR DEPARTMENT.
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18. March 1818, David Tarbell, late a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution ,
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eighty dollars _____ cents per month, to commence on the ninth day of April one thousand eight hundred and 18.
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this 30. day of June one thousand eight hundred and 18.
J. C. Calhoun Sec y of War.

2890 H. Tarbell
$120 per an
A. F. Lawrence Pepperell Mass

State of Massachusetts Middlesex County - S p . On this fifth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before me Asa F. Lawrence a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Middlesex. Hannah Tarbell a resident of Pepperell in said County aged Seventy Three 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 1831 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War - That she is the widow of David Tarbell late of said Pepperell deceased who was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War having enlisted soon after the Revolutionary War commenced in the company commanded by Capt. Sylvanus Smith & afterwards enlisted and served during the war. That she does not now recollect in what Regiment he served - That he was a Revolutionary Pensioner Under the acts of 1818 & 1832 & that for a more particular description of the said David's Revolution- ary services reference may be had to the said David's declaration & the accompanying 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 twenty dollars - And the

the said Hannah further declares that she is still a widow — Hannah Tarbell
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year before written by the abovenamed Hannah Tarbell Before me the subscribers who do hereby certify that the declarant Hannah Tarbell abovenamed 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 Denny 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 Middlesex, duly com- missioned & qualified, and that his name subscribed to above certificate is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands & affixed the seal of said Court the 4 th day of August 1843. —
E. Denny Clerk

Providence Dec 27
Free
Hon Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington City
all Henry C Mott

Pepperrell, Co. of Middlesex, Mass. Dec. 29. 1832.
To the Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War. &c.
Sir,
I herewith transmit to you my Pension Certificate No. 1265. in order to avail myself of the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832 entitled an Act supplementary to an Act for the relief of the surviving Officers & Soldiers of the Revolution. And I request that my name may be entered on the List of Pensioners at ten dollars per month instead of eight dollars, as by the Certificate included; ten dollars per month, being the pay of a Sergeant.
And I do hereby declare, that I served as a Sergeant in the War of the Revolution from the 14th day of July A.D. 1780, till the tenth day of June A.D. 1783, partly in the 15th & partly in the 5th Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Col. Timothy Bigelow, & Rufus Putnam all which will more fully appear by my original declaration in the Office of the Secretary of War.

And I further state & declare, that I now reside in the Town of Pe- rnell County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and have resided there ever since the close of the Revolutionary War.
David Garbill
David Garbill
Sergeant
2 years
$120—
Drop his name from the Roll of Pensions under the act 18 March 1818 & inform the Pension Agent
Claimant
Reference
Reference
Middlesex Co Mass

David Tarbell again
Lowest D ay

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 ninth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  David Farbell personally appeared and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed. and at the same time he exhibited to me the discharge therein mentioned
from which it appears to me, that the said David Farbell did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months. Upon the Continental establishment
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred 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 & the discharge aforesaid to you the said Secretary, that such further 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 ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Sam. Dana

Motion sent Oct 20 th 1820 to Abraham Beyley, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Roll.
1,268
David Tarbell Sergeant, 4
Massachusetts line 77 th Ovens In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818, and sent to the Hon. Sam l Dana, Boston, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
4 months 26/30. $ 38.93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Concurred Approved Administrator

Massachusetts - 1231
Hannah Tarbell widow of David Tarbell, deceased
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June, 1832 and who died on the 17 th of March, 1833 at Middlesex, in the State of Massachusetts. who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg't commanded by Col. Bigelow in the Mass'ts. line for 2 years private.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts - at the rate of 120 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1832
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of De- cember 1838 and sent to F. Lawrence, Pepperell, Mass'ts
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838 = $300:00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4th Mar '39 = 60:00
$360:00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by J. A. Elliott Clerk Book 4, Vol. 1, Page 136

May 2, 1904 - K. 6 Henry E. Woods Darton Mass
1907 Sept. 17. History to Miss Annette Merrill - C
Reg
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26.512
Hannah Tarbell
Wid. of
David Tarbell
Sergt Pa. u
Act: Mch. 3rd 1842.
Index: - Vol. 7 , Page 266
[Arrangement of 1870.]

By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof David Tabor, Sergeant in the 8th Massachusetts Regiment, having faithfull- ly served the United States for Six Years & Upwards and being in listed for the War only, is thereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the Tenth day of June 1783.
G. Washington
by Command, William Lee
REGISTERED in the Book of the Regiment,
H. Knox, Esq. Adjutant.
THE above Sergeant Tabor has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for Six Years faithful Service.
Major General Mott Colonel of the Mass. Key