Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,546, for Joseph Phelps, Massachusetts

SERVICE
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Mass.
Phelps Joseph
S 18,546
Carded.
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6646 Massachusetts
Joseph Phelps
Stockbridge in the State of Mass who was a First Class in the company commanded by Captain Walker of the Regt commanded by Col Briges in the Massachusetts line for 8 Months Sergeant 9 days Corporal
Miles & Hale
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Middletown
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 46 Dollars 12 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of March 1833 and sent to Dana Dana Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 92.24 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 23.06 $115.30
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 2 Page 75

Affidavit of Peter Hunt in the case of Joseph Phelps

I Peter Hunt of Tewksbury in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy nine years, do depose and say, that I served in the war of the Revolution as by my Declaration on file in the Pension Office, will appear: And I do further testify and declare that I know and well remember Joseph Phelps of Tewksbury who served as a Soldier in that war, that he was a private  Corporal Soldier, in the Company of Capt. Benjamin Walbridge in Colo. Regiment, in which Company, I also served. In 1775— The said Joseph Phelps had been a minute man in Tewksbury in Ad. 1774 in Capt. Trull's Company in which we both belonged, and both went to Concord on the 19 th of April 1775. we came on to the main road just after the British troops and we fired upon them and followed to Bunker Hill that night. Trull was unable to continue in Camp & returned home as soon as soon as the eight months men were organized. We both enlisted in Capt. Benjamin Walbridge's Company , who was wounded in the Battle of Bunker Hill , and died of his wounds in Boston after which the Company was commanded by Lt. John Hunt and the said Joseph Phelps was a Corporal, and acted as Steward for the Company and mustered out the prisoners entitled the 1 st  January  Decr. 1776 when having served out his enlistment he was discharged and returned home.
✓ Peter Hunt
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Middlesex to wit October 12 th .
AD. 1832.
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for all the Counties in said Commonwealth Peter Hunt well known to me to be a person deserving full faith and credit and
who subscribed the
above deposition and made solemn Oath, that the same is just and true in all its particulars, according to the best of his knowledge and belief. Sam l Dana

Declaration of Joseph Phelps.
Please to direct to Sam d Dana Groton Ms
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Capital 9 days Supt 8 Mos 8 Mo 9 days
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James D. Dana Esq Present
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Nov. 28 1832.
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 Joseph Phelps is borne as a corporal on a Muster roll of the Minute company, under the command of Capt. John Gullow Col. Ebenezer Bridges regiment, April 19 th and after 1775 for the space of 9. days, from the 19 th April. 1775.
Again, Joseph Phelps is borne on a Muster roll of the company, under the command of Capt. Benjamin Walker, in the regiment of Col. Ebenezer Brooks, to the 1 st of August 1775 for the space of 3. months and 11. days, from the 19 th of April 1775.
I further certify that there is no roll of Capt. Benjamin Walker's company, in service after the 1 st of August.
Edward D. Bangs Secy

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex, to wit,
At the Court of Probate begun and holden at Concord on the seventeenth day of August within and for the County of Middlesex A. D. 1832. On the application of Joseph Phelps claiming to be a Soldier of the Revolution, the following interrogatories were propounded to him to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born? Answer,
In Holles in the state of New-Hampshire, June 80 A.D. 1746
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it? Answer,
I have a family record, and my name is recorded on the town book of Holles N.H.
3 Did you ever receive any written discharge from service? Ans r I have not any such discharge. —
4 Where were you living, when called into service, when have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? Answer,
In Tewsbury Mass, where I have since and do now live.
5 If you were called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom? Answer,
I was always a volunteer, and went into service on my own motion.
6 State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental, and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service? Answer,
I saw Gen. Washington at Cambridge — Gen. Putnam at Bunker Hill and Cambridge. Gen. Heath at Cambridge also Gen. Warren at Bunker Hill —
7 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution? Answer,
Rev d Jacob Coggin Lieut. Ebenezer Hunt William Rogers Esq r George Broome and Jonathan Clark Selectmen of Tewsbury
In witness whereof Joseph Phelps J. M. Day Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Middlesex ss.
On this seventeenth day of August  A.D. 1832. Joseph Phelps personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas Probate, now sitting at Concord within and for the County of Middlesex in the Commonwealth aforesaid.
Joseph Phelps of Leicester being in said County aged eighty six years Who being 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 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say
That on the last of April A.D. 1775 he engaged to go into the Army for eight months and was in the Company of Capt. Benjamin Walter, Lts. Job Hent and L. Ebenezer French of Bedford his Sergeants before Trenton and Princeton, he was appointed a Captain in his Company and did duty as such until the Battle of Brandywine in which he was engaged, the Company was in Col. Newbreds Regt of the Mass. Forces, after the Battle of Brandywine he was promoted to be a Sergeant in his Company and did duty as such from the 17. June till he served out his term of eight months.
Peter Hunt is the only witness he has been able to procure of the above service, none other are living that he knows of who are yet living served in that Company.
He

He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever except, the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Sworn to and
J. P. P. Gay Prob.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Joseph Phelps We Jacob Coggin a Clergyman residing in the town of Tewksbury Tewksbury the county of Middlesex and Peter Hunt of the same
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Phelps who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be eighty four years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Before me Samuel Dana Justice of the Peace for all the Counties in said Commonwealth.
Jacob Coggin Peter Hunt
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that the Rev. Jacob Coggin who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Tewksbury and that Peter Hunt of the same Tewksbury is a credible person, and that their statements are true to the best of their knowledge.
Joseph Phelps
J. P. P. Gay Prob.
I do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings, of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Phelps for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal. I office this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two
And I further certify that Samuel Dana Esq. whose official signature is affixed to the caption on the disposition of Peter Hunt is a Justice of the Peace for all the Counties in said Commonwealth and that the same is his proper signature. And that his signature to the above Certificate of the Rev. Jacob Coggin and Peter Hunt is also his genuine signature.
Samuel Dana

P 18576 INVALID.
File No. 18526
Joseph Phelps Corp. Rev. War
Act: Can 7" 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 444
[Arrangement of 1870.]