Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,484, for Samuel Lakeman, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Lakeman, Samuel Abigail
NUMBER
W. 24,484.
CONTENTS
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899
Massachusetts
Abigail Lakenan, widow of Samuel Lakenan, deceased who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1838 and who died on the 10 th Nov r . 1840 of Boston in the State of Massachusetts who was a P er in the Comp y commanded by Captain  of the Reg t commanded by  in the Mass s line for 20 th months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14 th day of March, 1838
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of Nov r . 38, and signed B. J. Hall Boston
Arrears to the 14 th of Sep r . - $166.68 Semi-annual allowance ending 33.33
$199.98
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. B. Dyer Clerk Book A Vol. 1 Page 103
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 March to 4 th Sep r 1840. Age Notified 21. July 1841.

10,043
Massachusetts
Samuel Lakeman
of _____ in the state of _____ who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Little of the Mass. line, for the term of 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of April and sent to M c Kimmore Salmon M c Kimmore
Arrears to 4th of March  87 23 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept  28 115 51
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Information sent to Comtee 15 Nov 1818 9. 8. 1818. Mass.

2895
Papers for Pension of Abigail Lakeman
Mass.
at 7 July 38.
Married in 1782
Died in 1820
adm'd 20 mo/pri
$66.66/100
no deduction
B. F. Hallett Boston

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th of July 1838, entitled "an Act granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows,"
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk ss.
On this sixteenth  seventeenth day of September 1838, personally appeared before the Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, Abigail Lakeman a resident of Boston in the County of Suffolk, aged eighty eight years, who being first sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions 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 Samuel Lakeman who was a private in the army of the Revolution, and who was a pensioner under the Act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818, and is inscribed on the pension list roll of Massachusetts Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, as will more fully appear by reference to the evidence in the Department on which he was pensioned, No 10,050. as she believes
She further declares that she was

married to the said Samuel Lakeman, then Samuel Lakeman Jr, on the fourteenth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two, that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Lakeman, died on the tenth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and twenty, in the town of Ipswich State of Massachusetts; 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, and her maiden name was Abigail Piller her
Witness to signature } Peter S. Thacher }
Abigail X Lakeman mark.
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year first before written 20th September 17 th 1838 before me
and thereby certify that Mrs. Abigail Lakeman, the foregoing Applicant, by reason of age and bodily infirmity, is unable personally to attend in Court.
Peter S. Thacher, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston.

I Seth Lewis of Boston in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachu- setts aged fifty five years, depose and say that I am well acquainted with Abigail Lakeman of said Boston widow, was present when she made her declaration for a pension before the Hon. Peter O. Thacher Judge of the Municipal Court for the City of Boston, on the sixteenth  seventeenth day of September instant, and know her to be the widow of Samuel Lakeman who was a soldier of the Revolution and who died in the year eighteen hundred and twenty; that her name, as I have always understood before she was married to said Lakeman, was Abigail Spiller, and that she has remained a widow since the decease of her said husband, Samuel Lakeman
Boston Sept 16. 1838.
Seth Lewis
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffolk ss. On this seventeenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight the aforesaid Seth Lewis who is a person of respectability and veracity, appeared before me the subscriber and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit. Peter O. Thacher, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk ss;
I, Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston hereby certify that Peter O. Thacher Esquire is Judge of the said Municipal Court, & that the Signatures, hereon in these places, purporting to be the Signatures of said Thacher, are genuine!
Witness my hand & the Seal of said Municipal Court hereunto Set this seventeenth day of September A.D. Eighteen hundred & thirty eight
Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk.

Certificate.
Married a Samuel Lakeman Jr. to Abigail Spiller both of Ipswich town November fourteen One Thousand Seven hundred and eighty two.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss. town of Hamilton, June Aug. 2 d 1838.
I George W. Kelly depose and say that I hold the office of pastor of the Church in the County, town and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Church Records of said Church, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows "Nov. 14. 1782." (November fourteen, Seventeen Hundred and eighty two,) as recorded in said Records, by Dr. Cutler, the then acting pastor; as certified by me
Geo. W. Kelly } Pastor of the Church in Hamilton
The erasure of "July" and substitution of August 2 d and the erasure of "Nov 14" and interlineation of Church, were made before the acknowledgment
Essex ss: I sworn before me
Oleiver H. Crosby Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary Tiffin. Sept. 17. 1838.
I hereby certify that the within Oliver S. Crosby is a justice of the Peace for the County of Essex witness the Seal of the State
John P. Bigelow
Secy of the Commonwealth
John P. Bigelow

Joseph Hodgkins of Haverhill in the County of Essex Esquire, testify before and say that I was commissioned as first Lieutenant on the first day of January A.D. 1776 in Capt Nathaniel Wades Company in the twelfth Regiment of foot in the Massachusetts line of the Continental Establishment in the army of the United States of America in the Revolutionary war, and Samuel Lake man being a townsman & Neighbor I knew him & that he enlisted in Captain Abraham Dods Company in the same Regiment in May A.D. 1775 and served eight months and when his term expired he enlisted for one year and served the whole of that Period & was then discharged honorably from the Service and I further declare that said Samuel Lake man by reason of reduced circumstances in life, stands in need of assistance from his Country for support. Joseph Hodgkins
I John Lake man on oath declare that I was first Sergeant in the said Abraham Dods Company during the whole of the above twenty months Service and I know that the said Samuel Lake man served the whole of said Period as above stated by Joseph Hodgkins & that Col Little and Capt Abraham Dodge are both dead - and that the above statement is true. John Lake man
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss June 10 th 1818 Then Joseph Hodgkins & John Lake man above named appeared and made oath to the truth of the above affidavits before me. Rev. Andrew Justice of the Peace

Sam: Lohman
V 2
Not on continental
establishment
Titles, Maps Reg
Jan 4 1776 one year
Not on continental establishment.
Adm C
pd

State of Massachusetts
I Samuel Larkman a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Natick in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the Month of April in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred & seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the Month of January in the Year Seventeen hundred & seventy seven. being one year & eight months.
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Captain Abraham Dodge in Colonel Little's Regiment. in the Massachusetts line, having re-enlisted in the same company & regiment, for the year 1778, on the first of January A.D. 1778 and that I left the service on the expiration of the term aforesaid being honorably discharged
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty nine years I have no other evidence in my power to offer than is herewith exhibited
Vol 14. 73. Not on
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Samuel Larkman
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me
The Subscribed One of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit within the State aforesaid & presiding pro hac vice the abovenamed Samuel Larkman
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court Wm Wetmore
June 15 1818 I further certify that the within

named Deponents are credible & disinterested witnesses have been duly sworn
Wm Wetmore

10043
April 1819
Samuel Lakeman
Nov 25 th
1820
age 72 W/m
wife 72 1/2 Do
Served 20 months
worth $130.75
Con

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
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, Samuel Lakeman of Ipswich resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 10043 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, Samuel Lakeman — 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 seventh day of April — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
***** L. S. *****
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth day of April — one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ."
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.
One half of an old one story house with three eighths of land adjoining } 125.00
Six old chairs two tables, shovel & tongs, handirons, one pot one iron kettle one teakettle. } 5.75
Owes to Samuel Lakeman fr. a note of — 130.95 40.00 Whole property 90.75
Enlisted April 1775 for eight months, and served that time, and in January 1776 enlisted for one year in Capt. Abraham Dodge's Company Col. Moses Little's Regiment in the Massachusetts line on the Continental

Establishment and served the whole of that year and was discharged. Was in the battle at Bunker hill at Flat bush on Long Island at White plains and a skirmish between New York and Kingsbridge.
Is seventy two years old and rheumatic & unable to labour.
His family consists of himself and wife Abigail aged seventy two years and six months.
Samuel Lakeman.
Essex ss. July 12. 1820. Then the said Samuel Lakeman made oath that the said schedule & statement by him subscribed, are true, before me;
Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Samuel Lakeman 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.
Samuel Lakeman.
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Samuel Lakeman took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me
Stephen Minot , Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, 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
ninety dollars Seventy five cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July — A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker Clerk

Ref
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24484
Abigail Packman Wid of Samuel Packman Brn Mass - June
Act July 7th 1898
Index : Vol A , Page 421
[Arrangement of 1870.]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 9 th , 1841.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The child ren of Abigail Lake- man, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Sixty Six Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of March, to the 4 th Sept. 1840.
Respectfully yours,
William B. Paton
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.