Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40235, for Abraham Parmetar, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Parmetars, Abraham or Parmetter
S 40235 B.L.Wt. 1071-100
CONTENTS

To Ohio 3517.
From Pennsylvania Roll
Abraham Parmetter. Capt Fowle, Private 4 Massachusetts line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence the 9 th of May 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of October 1818 and sent to James Watson, Agent - Jersey Shore. Penn
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 - 3 - \frac{23}{31} + \frac{4}{30} - 38.99 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 - 48.00
War 7 years
$ 79.99
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued Pottaw County
Abraham sent to Saml H Hunt Esq 20 May 1822 Cincinnati Ohio

1071
Abraham Parmeter priv: 3 rd Regiment Massachusetts line
Warrant issued
by 3 rd 1828

Abraham Parmeter
Con & Transfer J. L. P.
J. F. Hunt, Esq. Cincinnati, Ohio

The State of Ohio Hamilton Com Pleas
SG 3
On this 27 th day of December 1821 personally appeared in Open Court being a court of record for the said County expressly made so by the laws of this State Abraham Parmetter aged sixty one, years resident in said County but lately a resident in the county of Potter in State of Pennsylvania who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his solemn oath declare that, he served in the revolutionary war as follows, that he the said Abraham Parmetter enlisted, for during the war, in the Spring of the year 1777 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company Commanded, by Captain John Fowle, in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Mugglesworth, in the line of the State of Massachusetts on Continental Establishment That he continued to serve in the said Corps until the year 1783 when he was discharged from, the said Service at West Point in the State of New York, that his original declaration was dated on the 9 th day of May 1818 that he has received a pension Certificate given at the War Office of the United States on the 8 th day of October 1818 which said Certificate is numbered 357. And in pursuance of the Act of the 1 st May 1820. I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since, that time by gift sale or in any manner, 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 revolution- ary war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818. 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, which hereafter follows and is by me, subscribed. And I do further declare under oath that I am by occupation a labourer that I have a wife living, who is now fifty nine years of age that my children, are all grown up married and settled in life and who do not depend on me for support In consequence of my old age and indigent circumstances I do not at this time keep house but myself & wife live in the family of a son of mine. I solemnly declare that I need the assistance of my country for support
This Abraham X Parmetter mark
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court this 27 day of December 1821
Danl Gano Clerk
Schedule of Property belonging to Abraham Parmetter a U States Revolutionary Pensioner described on the Pennsylvania agency made this 27 th day of December 1821 to wit amt bro't up 2.50
  2 Chairs " " " 0.75 8 Tea cups & saucers " 50   4 Earthern bowls " 50 1 Tin bucket " 25   1/2 doz knives & forks " 75 1 Tea Kettle " 50   4 Iron spoons " 25 1 Bake Oven " 62 1/2   1 Pail " 25 1 Pot " 50   2.50 1 Meat bask " 50   5.37 1/2 
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court this 27 th day of December 1821
Danl Gano Clerk
This Abraham X Parmetter mark

The State of Ohio } Hamilton County } P
I Daniel Gano Clerk of the Court of Common pleas within and for said County Do hereby Certify that the foregoing Declaration & Schedule exhibited by Abraham Paxmutter are truly Copied from the records of said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount of in the property contained in said Schedule is Five Dollars and thirty seven and one half Cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at Cincinnati this second day of February Eighteen Hundred & twenty two.
Daniel Gano Clerk C. P. H. Co.

State of Pennsylvania, Lycoming County ss,
On this Ninth day of May, in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me the Subscriber, one of the Associate Justices in and for said Lycoming County in said State of Pennsylvania, personally appears Abraham Parmetter, aged fifty-eight years resident in Potter County said State, which County is attached to said Lycoming County in our Courts, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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." That he the said Abraham Parmetter enlisted in the year, 1776 under Captain Alexander of the Seventh Company, Thirteenth Regiment of Massachusetts, commanded by Colonel M'Gillivray under General Glover. That he continued to serve in the said Regiment towards the close of the war, when the said Regiment was reduced, he was put into Colonel Jackson's Regiment and continued to the close of the war, and commanded by Captain John Fowler, and discharged honorably at West-point in New York State, the inclosed certificate will show. That he the said Disponent was at the battle of B. Monmouth heights and the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey, also was in the Battle of the White Plains, and also all through the Siege of taking General Cornwallis in Yorktown Virginia. That he the said disponent is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said Service, only the inclosed certificate.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
James Davidson
Abraham Parmetter

James Davidson Esq.
I James Davidson Judge of the Courts of Lycoming County as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my Satisfaction, that the said Abraham Parmatter did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the with preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Ninth day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen - 1818.
James Davidson Seal
P.S. I James Davidson aforesaid do further certify from the best information obtained that the aforesaid Abraham Parmatter, an applicant for a Pension, is poor & reduced in circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for a support. James Davidson August 17th 1818
Lycoming County Pa
I Thomas Hays Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for said County of Lycoming in the State of Pennsylvania, do certify that the above and within named James Davidson Esquire is duly commissioned and appointed one of the Associate Judges in and for said County of Lycoming in the State of Pennsylvania aforesaid, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts as such. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said office Courts at Williamsport the ninth day of May - A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Thos. Hays Noty

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Abraham Parmeter or Parmetter a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. 40235
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Spring 1777 1778 Pvt. Alexander { John Fowles { Wigginworth Mellen Jackson Mass. " "        
Battles engaged in, White Plains, Bennington, Monmouth, Yorktown. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Not stated Date of application for pension, May 9, 1818. His claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Potter Co. Penn. Hamilton Co. O. in 1821 Age at date of application, 58 years.
Remarks: in 1821 wife aged 59 and grown up children, no names given. There is no further family data on file.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

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Abraham Purcell, late a private in Capt. Alexander Ey, of Col. Wiggles- worth's Reg. Mass. line, navy army, claims the bounty in land
J. M. Haws
Mem. Further certificate of service and identity from Capt. John Paul, in file in the Pension office - Purcell served under the immediate command of Capt. Paul - July 1 st 1823.

Know all men, by these presents that I Abraham Parmeter of the county of Hamilton & State of Ohio (but recently of the county of Potter, in the State of Pennsylvania) do hereby nominate, constitute & appoint Colonel Joseph Watson of the city of Wash- ington my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and for my proper use and benefit to ask for demand & receive of and from the Commissioner of the General Land Office or any other officer or agent of the States who may be authorized to issue the same the Land warrant for military bounty lands to which I may be entitled by virtue of my service in the line of the State of Massachusetts or continental establishment in the army of the Revolution and to receive for the delivery of the same and to do all other matters & things touching the premises as fully in every respect as I myself might or could do if I were per- -sonally present at the doing thereof Ratifying & confirming by these presents all & every what- -soever my said attorney shall in my name lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises aforesaid In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty first day of March 1822 signed in presence of
Isaac Burnett Samuel F. Hunt
Abraham his Parmeter (seal) mark
State of Ohio City of Cincinnati
Before me Isaac G. Burnett Mayor of the city aforesaid personally came

Abraham. Parmeter who has executed the power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the corporate seal of the said City this 21 st day of March. A.D. 1822.
Isaac G. Burnett, Mayor
State of Ohio City of Cincinnati } Before me, Isaac G. Burnett, Mayor of the city aforesaid, person- ally came Abraham Parmeter, who made oath, that he is the identical Abraham Par- meter, who, to the best of his knowledge and recollection, enlisted, sometime in the year 1777, in the State of Massachusetts, to serve for during the war, in the company commanded by Capt. Alexander in the Regiment commanded by Colonel, Brig- -adier, worth, in the line of the State of Massachusetts on Continental establishment, that he continue- -ed to serve in the company & Regiment aforesaid, and afterwards, in the company, commanded, by Capt. John Foulk in the Regiment, commanded, by Col. Mellen, in the line of the State of Massachusetts, until the end of the war, when he was, honora- -bly discharged, at Fort Point, and that his discharge, was, accidentally burned, several years afterwards, with his clothing & other property and consequently cannot now be produced, and further, he saith not. Sworn to & subscribed This 21 st day of March 1822 before me Isaac G. Burnett, Mayor Abraham his Parmeter mark

State of Ohio City of Cincinnati } ss. Before me, Isaac G. Burn- =net Mayor, of the city aforesaid personally came Pentheus J. Holcomb, a citizen of the U. States, who, on his solemn oath declares that he has been long acquainted with Abra- =ham Parmeter, who has subscribed the afore- =going affidavit, and well knows that he is the identical person he therein repre- =sents himself to be, and further that he believes that he did perform the Military Service therein stated Penthues J. Holcomb
In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the corporate seal of said City, this 12 th day of June 1823
Isaac Burnet, Mayor
I do hereby certify that Pentheus J. Holcomb the foregoing deponent is a man of respecta- bility & truth - June 12 th 1823
Isaac Burnet, Mayor

Abraham Parmeter.
Transferred from Penn. to Ohio 20 May 1822 from 4 March 1822.
Mar 19

State of Ohio City of Cincinnati } ss Before me Isaac G. Burnet, Mayor of the city
aforesaid personally came at the city aforesaid on the 10th day of December 1821, Abraham Parnetter, who, on his solemn oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain John Foulk in the Regiment Com- =manded, by Colonel Wigglesworth in the service of the United States, that his name, was placed, on the pension Roll of the State of Pennsylvania, from whence he has lately removed, that he now resides in the State of Ohio where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future
Abraham Parnetter
State of Ohio } ss Isaac G. Burnet City of Cincinnati } ss Mayor of the city aforesaid
do hereby certify that Abraham Parnetter the above deponent, person- ally came before me and was sworn to, and, subscribed the foregoing deponti- =on at the time and place therein mentioned
In Testimony whereof I have

hereunto. Subscribed my name and affix- -ed the corporate seal, of the said city on the day and year first above written.
Grace Burnet, Mayor

Correct
Abraham Pamater

Keith Ills + Parmelia Clark Ia Ills -
40.235
INVALID.
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File No. 40.235-
Abraham Parmelia
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: Vol. 3, Page 882
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Feb 4 - 13 - 1901 Mrs. Elizabeth E Princeton
Aug 5 - 1903 - Margaret Clark
1909 Aug 3. Tombstone data to R.R. Jones Ohio S.A.P. Cincinnati Ohio, letter in S.7.9559
1914 June 15: History to Mrs. G.M. Kerr. M.B.H.
1914. Aug 3: History to Miss Margaret Clark. M.B.H.

OWN E.O.V
Princeton Illinois Feb 6, 1901.
Hon. S. Clay Evans, Com. of Pensions,
My Dear Sir;
The name of Nehemiah Cleveland is on the pension list of Revolutionary Soldiers . Will you please give me such data as you have in your possession in regard to his claim. He enlisted from Massachusetts.
Will you also tell me if you find the following names, all enlisting from Mass. Noah Edwards , Simeon Edwards , Jacob Parsons  Abraham Parmeter or Parmeter .
Yours very truly Elizabeth E. Keith.

W.W.C. Chicago Ills July 26/1903
Pension Department Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir -
I desire very much to have some record of pension paid on Abraham Hammer Hammer who enlisted with a Mass. Regiment. His application for pension came from Potter, Pa. where he resided.
I desire this infor-

Mahin in order to verify my eligibility to become a daughter of the American Revolution .
Any information you can give me will be much appreciated by Margaret Parmeter Clark 101 1/2 Adams St., Chicago, Ills.
I enclose stamp for reply. Thanking you in advance. Abraham Parmeter served during the Revolutionary War.

Watertown Sept 16 th 1810
This may Certify that Abraham Parmelee was a Soldier in my Company in the 8 th Massachusett Regiment during the Revolutionary war and was Discharged honorably
John French

Comm. of Pensions Washington D.C.
June 10 th 1914
Dear Sir:-
Will you please give me as full an abstract as possible of Pension Declaration of my Ancestor Abraham Parmenter (sometimes spelled Parmeter ) of Sudbury Mass. who served as Private in the Continental for three years and was pensioned in 1818. I desire to know date and place of marriage and death; name of wife - children - as well as Battles and Officers he served under. Thanking you for any Particulars - Mrs G. M. Kerr 199 Hamilton Ave - Detroit Mich

Miss Margaret Clark 1330 Mass ave. N.W. City
Personal request of August 3, 1914