Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,339, for Samuel Lancaster, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Lancaster, Samuel
S 21,339
CONTENTS

15787 Massachusetts
Samuel Lancaster
of Grey Co in the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Company raised by Captain McGil of the 2d Regiment by Col Johnson in the Mass: m line for 13 mos 12 ds.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of $44 Dollars 65 Cents per annum to commence on the 24th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of May 1833 and sent to H. W. Woart Newburyport
Arrears to the 1st of March 1833 $89.30 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 1st 22.32
$111.62
{ Revolutionary Pension } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Col. S. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 2 Page 57

16.742. Samuel Lancaster
Plant 13 M rs & 12 days
4 3/4 3 3/4 1 1/2 3 3/4 4 3/4 6 3/4
W m Stuart Esq Newburyport Mass

167-12.
BRIEF in the case of Samuel Lancaster of Essex in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? —  3. How old is he? 75.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted as a Minute man in 1775. 10th April. — 8 — Private Capt. Whipple, Col. Prescott.   Enlisted afterwards 1777 — 4 — " Capt. Tufts, Col. Johnson,   — in 1778 afterwards. — — 42 " Genl. Warner Capt. Maloon, Col. Wadsworth.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Bunker Hill - Stillwater —  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional, & Documentary  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Note. — He states that he was an applicant under the law of 1818.
J. Waugh Examining Clerk. March 1st 1833.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS; COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss.
On this eleventh day of September A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, now sitting, Samuel Laneester , a resident of Essex , in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 75 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
He first enlisted as a minute man (so called), at Rowley in the company commanded by Captain Timothy Knight , in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wadsworth (A.D. 1775) and on the nineteenth day of April of that year, the day in which the battle was fought with the enemy at Lexington, marched with said company to Cambridge, and at said Cambridge, after afterwards, collected in the same company to serve for eight months, and did faithfully serve his said term at said Cambridge; was with said company engaged in the battle fought at Bunker's Hill (so called), and when his said term of service expired, received an honorable discharge at Rowley in said Essex County, the said regiment then under the command of Colonel Prentiss . His pay and his rations were, by order of Captain Wright detained for the service of the United States, were then considered of the value of Twenty dollars, and for these he has never received any compensation whatever.
He afterwards enlisted at Newburyport , in the company commanded by Captain Stephen Dutton , in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sullivan , and under General Warren , and served in said company as private, at Cambridge and Boston in the year 1777 the full term of four months, the term for which he enlisted and was then discharged at White Plains ; was with said company engaged in a severe battle with the enemy at Bunker's Hill - had no written discharge.
He afterwards enlisted at Rowley (so called) in the company commanded by Captain Malcolm , in the regiment which was commanded by Colonel Wadsworth in the year 1778 and served in said company at Block Island , a further term of six weeks, was then discharged at Peterboro had no written discharge.
That in September A.D. 1800, he made application for the benefit of the act of Congress of the 18th of March A.D. 1800, and acts in addition thereto, then considering himself as having served nine months in the Continental Establishment and entitled under the said act, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life to the assistance of his country for support, and also presenting a schedule of his effects, at a value of Commonplace, being a small amount for said County of Essex , held in at said Newburyport in said County on the third Monday of said September, pursuant to the Act of Congress of May A.D. 1800 with such evidence of his said service as it was then within his power to produce, and forwarded the same to the War Department with certificates under the seal of said Court, on the 1, on the 10th of January A.D. 1801, and was afterwards informed that his claim was not considered by the department as within the provisions of said Act, and that his papers had been withdrawn, by the Honorable Salmon W. Chase then member of Congress for this district, but the same have not yet been returned to him.

That he was born in Rowley in the year 1757, as recorded in the church books - lived at Mount Pleasant when he voluntarily enlisted - Thayer's age 47 (The Defendant can testify as to his morality, and other vital facts in connection therewith. That he now resides in Haverhill aforesaid, and has resided there about 30 years, previous to which he resided in Haverhill, in Easthampton and Haverhill, Vermont.)
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.
Isaac Lancaster
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
L. Gilson
JUDGE OF PROBATE.
We, Rev. Daniel Tilton a clergyman, residing in Ipswich aforesaid, and William Frost Wade Esquire, a magistrate, residing in Ipswich aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Lancaster who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 70 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Daniel Tilton Wm Frost Wade
Subscribed and sworn to before me
W. W. Crabb, Justice of the Peace

And the said Court hereby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Reverend Daniel Tilton who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in said Ipswich and that the said Wm Foster Woodley who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at Ipswich aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
D. S. White Judge of Probate
I, NATHANIEL LORD Junior, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Lancaster — for a pension.
TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eleventh day of September A. D. 1832.
Nathl. Lord Jr. D. S.

W.A!
January 6, 1927
Mrs. Jane Leighton 510 Garlani ave. Iowa City, Iowa
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension list, S. 7137, it appears that SAMUEL LANCASTER was born in 1757 in Rowley, Massachusetts.
While a resident of said place he enlisted and served as a private with the Massachusetts troops as follows:
In 1775 he was a minuteman in Captain Nighill's Company and on April 19, 1775, he marched to Cambridge and late in April, 1775, he enlisted in said company; he was in the battle of Bunker Hill and after serving eight months he was discharged from Captain Nighill's Company in Colonel Prescott's Regiment.
From August, 1777, served four months in Captain Stephen Jenkin's Company in Colonel Johnson's Regiment; he was in the battle of Stillwater.
From June or July, 1778, served six weeks in Captain Malloon's Company in Colonel Tadsworth's Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.

In 1830 he referred to his wife as being sixty-nine years of age and also referred to his daughter but he did not give any names.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

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[Arrangement of 1870.]
1892 May 14 - Miss A. B. Millerton City.
1901 Jan 1. sent to Mrs. J. A. S. - See page 100.21

Revolutionary war Department
Nov. 5. 1926
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions. Washington D.C.
Dear Sir. would you please give me a Duplicate of Samuel Lomeaster's Pension certificate who was a Rev- war Soldier. he served with the Mass-Troops. he was in the Battles of Bunker Hill. and Saratoga. he died at the age of 89. and was buried Rowley mass- many thanks in advance for this favor
Mrs Jane Leighton 510-Oakland ave
Iowa city Iowa

Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., _____, 189__
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Samuel Lancaster , a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT.  LENGTH OF SERVICE.  RANK.  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  STATE.    CAPTAIN.  COLONEL.   
See brief attached
Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Town not given
Date of application for pension, Sept 11 1832
Residence at date of application, Ipswich Mass
Age at date of application, 70 years
Remarks: Pension allowed.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

O. W. & N. DIV.
Treasury Department. Washington.
April 16, 1892
Dear General Raum,
Will you please cause to be furnished me all information pertaining to one Samuel Lancaster, who fought in the battle of Bunker Hill, that the old records of your office will show.
Mr Lancaster resided for a part of his life at Ipswich Mass & later at Newbury, Vermont.
Very truly yours
Hon. Green B. Raum. A. A. Wetton Bout. of Pensions.

General Clinton P. O. Newburgh
in order to be furnished with a return of the number of persons who have been admitted into the several Prisons of the Colony during the year 1876.
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Afterwards, in the year 1779, he enlisted as a volunteer officer in the company commanded by Captain Stephen Halsey in the Continental Service, also in the Independent Artillery and went to New York where he was engaged in the battle of Red Bank and Red Bank and was engaged in a severe battle with the enemy at Red Bank and when his term of service expired, was discharged at White Plains. That afterward he enlisted in the Continental Service in the year 1780 in the Continental Service and served six weeks at Rhode Island. That at the time he was discharged from said service, he had regular discharge they are now here. That he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension except the present.
And the said Samuel Lancaster is hereby to the best of his knowledge and belief by him fulfilled with Schedule
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I solemnly declare to the best of my belief and knowledge that the foregoing is a true and correct statement of the facts of record in my hands, and that the same has been permitted to be read to said parties. The foregoing being the only statement of fact made by me, the total amount in view of the facts stated is the sum of _____.
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On the 10th of March, 1861, President Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months in the service of the United States. This proclamation was issued at a time when the Southern States were in the process of seceding from the Union, and the President was determined to preserve the integrity of the United States. He called for volunteers to put down the rebellion and to protect the national capital. The response was immediate and enthusiastic. Over 100,000 men volunteered in the first month alone. The President also called for a special session of Congress to meet on July 4, 1861, to discuss the measures necessary to preserve the Union. In the meantime, he took steps to secure the loyalty of the border states and to prepare for the coming conflict. The Civil War had begun, and the President was determined to save the Union.
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United States of America Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I William Wood Notary public for the county of Essex, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office and of the whole thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Notary public.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this the 14th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
William Wood