Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,430, for David Tarr, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Jarr, David Abigail
NUMBER
W. 19.430
CONTENTS
8

copy of papers sent to Dr. Scawell for Hon. Mr. Choate Aug. 2. 1893
October 18 1820 to Notification sent to Salmon M. Chase Seaborn Tucker,
(5167)
4
Massachusetts
David Parr,
private Mass.
Massachusetts line 31 years
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 5 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of Jan'y 1819 and sent to S. Putnam Esq. Salem, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 m. 27 39.20 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Mar 1819 48.00
$87.20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 19th March, 1818. }
Danvers, Essex County
Concord

Rep o .
2147
Massachusetts
Abigail Tarr M rs widow of David Tarr who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of Oct r . 1843 and sent to Wm. West Concord, N.H.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1, Page 55.

5.167
David Tarr
Jan'y 1819
Cont'd up 25
1820 C.M.
Much of his
his ability to labor & has since been reduced
age 58
laborn
has $66.
owes 47.

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, David Tarr resident in Danvers - - - - - in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 5167 - - - 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 Tarr - - - - - 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 eighth day of April - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
***** "Given at the War Office of the United States, this first - - - day * L. S. * "of January - - - 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,
(no real estate or income)
  Old household stuff - old desk - two tables - - - - - $7.50   windsor chairs six $4, six floor chairs $2.50 - - - - - 6.50   Two looking glasses - 6.00, crockery ware $4 tin ware 1.50 - - - 11.50   Teakettle & spider 1.25 - kettle $2.00 - five spoons 950 - - - 3.75   Pine table & pine toilet 1.25 - sea chest 2.00 - two pots 1.50 - - - 4.75   Two candlesticks 0.25, lanthorn & flatirons 1.75 - watch $5 - - - 9.00   Three trunks $1.00, box $20 - pig 2.25 - case of bottles 1.50 - - - 23.75   Knives and forks - - - - - 0.75   $65.50 
He owes forty seven dollars.
He is in the fifty eighth year of his age - a labourer.
His family are his wife aged 55, and son Hilder aged 19.

He owes to David Putnam - - $ 25.00 to Jas. A. Putnam - - - 20.00 to Sam l Flint - - - - 5.00 and to John Berley - - - - 2.00
He served from March 1781 to end of the War - at first in Capt. Tisdale's Company in Col. Greaton's Regiment - then in Capt. Pike's Company in Col. Scammell's Regiment - all in Massachusetts Line - Three years and nine months.
his David X Tarr mark

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. W m Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, David Tarr 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.
his David Tarr mark
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed David Tarr took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
W m Wetmore 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
Sixty five dollars 2 50 cts and owes $47.
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

292 Wid w Abigail Tarr
292
Abigail Tarr widow of David (Mass)
Ad. 7. July 38 5 years.
Mar d Feb y '86.
adm d 2 years pri 80 $
No deduction.
Benj Merrill Salem Mass.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay & pensions to certain Widows."
State of Massachusetts Essex County Is:
On this sixth day of August - 1838 personally appeared before the Honorable Samuel Putnam a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Sarah  Abigail Tarr a resident of Danvers in said County of Essex aged seventy years who first being duly sworn according to law on her oath makes 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 Tarr who was placed on the Pension list Roll of the Massachusetts Agency under the Act of 1818 and who served as a private in Capt. Sisdale's Company in Col. Greaton's Regiment (the third) in Massachusetts line and afterward in Capt. Pike's Company in Col. Scam- mel's Regiment, three years & nine months in whole.
She further declares that she was married to the said David Tarr on the second day of February in the year One thousand eight hundred and seventy eighty six : and that her husband the aforesaid David Tarr died on the twenty sixth day of September 1820 : that she has remained Sole & unmarried ever since his death : that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January eighteen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated.
Abigail Tarr
Sworn to and subscribed on this day & year above stated Before me - (the words "Sarah - seventy" having been first erased - and the words "Abigail" first interlined)
Samuel Putnam one of the Justices of the Sup. Court of Massachusetts.

We the undersigned citizens of Danvers in Massachusetts on oath testify That we were well acquainted with David Tatt late a U.S. Revolutionary Pensioner, whose widow Abigail  Sarah Tatt is now applying for a Pension; we know that he died in 1820 and that she is his widow and that she has not been married since his death. Andrew Batchelder Sally Batchelder
The words "Sarah" was crossed out the word Abigail interlined before signing. Osgood Justice of the Peace
State of Massachusetts E / ss / s. August 6th 1838 That the above named Andrew Batchelder and Sally Batchelder made oath that the above affidavit by them subscribed is true: They are credible witnesses.
Before me
George Osgood Justice of the Peace

I, Samuel Johnson Junior, of Andover in Massachusetts, on oath testify, That I am Town Clerk of Andover in Essex County, and have the custody of the Records thereof and that the following is a true transcript therefrom, viz:
" David Parr of Danvers and Abigail Stevens of Andover were married on the second day of February in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty six by William Symmes Pastor of the First Church in Andover."
and the above is a true copy of record with the exception of the date which is expressed in fair legible figures, viz:
" Feby 2d 1786 . "
Attest Sam. Johnson Jr
Town Clerk of Andover.
State of Massachusetts Essex County /s: August, 10th, 1838 Sworn to before
D. Smith Just. Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ESSEX, ss.
I, JOHN PRINCE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Essex, do certify, that Hon. Samuel Putnam is Judge of the Court of  Sup. Jud. Court of Mass ts within and for said County. That George Osgood Esq r and Nathaniel Swift
Esquire , are Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, and that their signatures hereon are genuine.
WITNESS MY HAND, and the Seal of said Court of Common Pleas, at Salem this 11 th day of August A. D. 1838
John Prince Clerk.

David Farr, —
Not on Greatons roll DA
Admitted
Returned for further evidence

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Be it remembered, That David Tarr of Danvers in the County of Essex in the Commonwealth aforesaid, doth make upon oath the following DECLARATION, to wit,
That in March, 1781 he enlisted as a private to serve Three Years or to the end of the War in Capt. Tisdale's Company in Col. Greaton's Regiment the 3 d in Mass ts Line - that he then marched to West point - in about six months after he was transferred to Capt. Pike's Company in Col. Scamell's Reg- iment and served in the whole three years and was at the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown that he after that returned from Yorktown to Westpoint; and that in the Spring of 1784 he was honorably discharged and came home
That the Declarant is infirm; that from his reduced circumstances in life he is now in need of assistance from his country for support; and that he hereby relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States.
his David Tarr Mark

AFFIDAVIT.
I Jonathan Waitt of Danvers in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, yeoman, do on oath depose and testify,
That I know David Tarr within named served seven months in Col. Scammon's Regiment - that he the Witness was in Capt. Pike's Company at the same time. that I came home to Danvers in Oct. 1783 - and I know that said Tarr got home in the Spring of 1784 and have no doubt he served the whole time he has stated, as it has always been so understood and believed Jonathan Waitt
Further proof
I David Putnam of Danvers on oath testify that David Tarr aforesaid was in 1781 an apprentice indentured to me: in the beginning of that year he enlisted at my request for Three Years in the Continental army: he was gone from Danvers more than three years, and I firmly believe and always un- derstood he served all that time in the army: after he returned to Danvers he continued in my service: and I went to Boston and received Tarr's Wages from the Paymaster.
David Putnam
Essex: Nov. 2. 1818 Then said David Putnam, a credible and disinterested witness, subscribed and made oath to the above before me
Brig. Merrick Just. Pac.
38 NB. Jon s Waitt has obtained a pension certificate. S.P. 3

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
On this Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before me Samuel Putnam a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State
the aforementioned David Tarr & Jonathan Waitt and in my presence severally subscribed and made solemn oath to the aforewritten Declaration and AFFIDAVIT , by them respectively made as aforesaid:—And it appearing to my satisfaction, that the aforementioned David Tarr served more than NINE MONTHS , to wit, from the first day of April A. D. 1781 to the first day of March A. D. 1784 at one period of the Revolutionary War, on the Continental Establishment, against the common enemy, I do hereby cer- tify the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the Department of War.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the Court a- foresaid, at Salem , this Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
S. Putnam Just } S. J. Court of Mass ts }
Nov. 2. 1818 I further certify that David Tarr is very poor and indigent and needs the assistance of his country for support.
S. Putnam Just } S. J. Court of Mass ts }

Essex ss
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Ichabod Tucker - clerk of all the Judicial courts of said State in & for the county of Essex do certify that the Hon Samuel Putnam is a judge of said Supreme Judicial Court, that the within signature is his own proper hand writing & that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said court
Salem April 20 1888.
Att. Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Hon. S. G. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington. C. B.

Sir
Concord N.H. June 28 th 1845
I herewith transmit to the department the Petition of Abigail Farn, (a resident of Cambridge Mass,) in lieu of Daniel Farn, for a pension, under the Act of Congress of 3 March 1831
When examined please to return the result to me, at Concord N.H. P Office
I am very
Respectfully your
Obt Servt
Hon. J. G. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Wm West G. Farn (Claimant)

James L. Evans Esq. Commissioner of Pensions. City of Washington.

Salem, Mass ts , July. 27. 1833
To James L. Edwards Esq r Comr. of Pensions,
Sir,
The Heirs of a deceased Revolution- ary Pensioner, David Tarr, who in 1818 was placed on the list of Pensioners under the Act of Congress of 18 th March 1818, wish to obtain copies of the Affidavits of Milan Murphy and Jon a Wait, which are annexed to the application of David Tarr, now on file in War Depart- ment, and also a copy of Tarr's Decla- ration under the same Act of Congress.
If you will take the trouble to cause the same to be forwarded to me, you will confer a favor on them.
I am very respectfully,
Yr. O bedt Servt.
Rufus Choate-

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
No. 19,430
Abigail Tars widow of David Tars Pri Rev War
Act: March 3 rd 43
x:—Vol. M , Page 265
[Arrangement of 1870.]

James L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. Papers
Washington D. C.

Salem, Mass'tts, 11 th Augt. 1838
James L. Edwards Esq c
Sir,
I inclose the Applications for Pensions un- der the Law of 7 th July 1838 of
1. Mrs Polly Quarles, 2. Mrs Abigail Larr.
Please address reply to
W m M c M c S r vice
Br d S. Merrill

2439
Abigail Dorr - 1843. Ex
Massachusetts Role $80 per ann
Wm West Concord N.H.

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Middlesex
ss.
On this twelfth day of June 1843. Personally appeared before
Lucius R. Paige a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Abigail Darr , a resident of Cambridge in the County of Middlesex and State aforesaid, aged 76 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 3d day of March, 1843, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of David Darr , who was a private during the Revolution in the Massachusetts  line
That she was a pensioner under the Act of 7th July, 1838, which she received at the rate of eighty dollars  cents per annum,
She further declares that she is still a Widow.
With { Jacobs Darr Lucius R. Paige
her Abigail Darr x mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me.
Lucius R. Paige { Justice of the Peace I certify that the above named declarant, is personally known to me, that she is a credible witness, whose statements are entitled to full credit.
Lucius R. Paige { Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston June 12 th 1843
I hereby Certify , That Lucius R. Paige is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; 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.
Wm. A. Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Massachusetts - 213.
Abigail Farr, widow of David Farr, deceased, who was a pensioner under the Act of 18: Mar 18 and who died on the 26: Sept: 1820 of Essex in the State of Mass - who was a P in the City commanded by Captain M c Intosh of the Reg t commanded by Col. G. H. Thomas in the Mass t line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass t at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 7: day of Sept: '38 and sent to David M c Intosh Essex, Mass t
Arrears to the 4th of Sept: $ 200.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4: June 40.00
$ 240.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838.
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk Book A - Vol. 1 - Page 136

I George Osgood, a practising physician in Danvers in Massachusetts, do certify on oath that I am well acquainted with the circumstances of the family of David Tarr, a Pensioner of said town - the said Tarr is a day laborer, - his wife is infirm, I have attended her in two fevers, and him in one fever within two or three years past - they have within one year lost a son and daughter from their family and necessarily incurred much expense and trouble in the last sickness of their children. Their son Hildre is a sailor absent on an India voyage, and probably will not return before he is of full age. George Osgood
Subscribed: Aug. 8. 1820 subscribed & sworn to by said Doct. Geo: Osgood, a credible & respectable witness before
C. Merrill Just. Pac.
Subscribed. Aug. 8. 1820 I certify that said Merrill is a Just. of the Peace, and the above is his signature.
Atty. Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Courts