Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,417, for Joshua Packard, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Packard, Joshua
S. 33,417
CONTENTS

(2740) Massachusetts.
Joshua Packard, Private, Massachusetts line 1782. 1 year Capt Lincoln
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. of May, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23. of Sept: 1818 , and sent to Samuel Hinckley, Esq. Northampton, Hampshire Co. Mass.
A rears to 4th of Sept: 1818 $ 32.03. Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4. March $ 48. - 3 mo: \frac{27}{31} & \frac{4}{30} 1819. $ 80.03.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 19th March, 1818. }

Norfolkpton Mass May 7
Written
Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Secy of the War Department
Washington
Application of Joshua Packard for a pension taken & sealed up before me Samuel Hinckley, Judge -
If granted it desired that the Certificate may be enclosed to S. Hinckley Norfolkpton, Mass.

I Joshua Packard of Goshen in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts V testify and say, that in the month of April 1782 I enlisted as a soldier under Captain Rufus Lincoln in Col. John Brooks Regiment being the Seventh Massachusetts Regiment, and General Pattersons Brigade, in the Continental establishment and I served the Captain Lincolns Company more than one year and then without any discharge I was transferred into Capt. Martins Company, in the fourth Regiment and there served untill the month of December 1783 and then was discharged by General Knox which discharge I have lost. I have never received any pension from the Government and from my reduced circumstances I am in need of assistance from my beloved Country being now Eighty two years of age.
May 5 th 1818
Joshua Packard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss May 5 th 1818 Joshua Packard came before me the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills for being a Court of Record within & for the county aforesaid and being carefully examined and cautioned to testify the whole truth, made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and it appears to my satisfaction that he served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war against the Common Enemy as stated in his deposition and he is in very poor means, in absolute need of assistance from his Country for support above mentioned, taken and sworn to before me. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the day and year aforesaid.
Samuel Hinckley

I, Shaddens Gilbert of Connecticut in the County of New-Hampshire affirm and say that I was myself in the Revolutionary war and saw the author named Joshua Packard when a soldier, during the years 1782 and 1783 and am knowing to his having served as set forth in the foregoing statement & deposition Shaddens Gilbert May 5. 1810
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss May 5 th 1810 Shaddens Gilbert personally appeared & made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him sub- scribed is the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth - Before me Samuel Hinckley Judge
Hampshire ss - Massachusetts - And I further certify that Shaddens Gilbert above named is a credible witness - he is reputed to be a man of great veracity - and he, said Gilbert, has received his Pension Certificate from the Honorable Supt of War - Sept. 4. 1810 Samuel Hinckley, Judge
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire County Sept. 5. 1810. I Patrick Bryant of Chesterfield in said County of Lincoln do hereby testify and say I served in the Revolutionary war from April 1781 untill Dec r . 1783 in the Company commanded by Capt. Parker part of the time and part of the time by Capt. Jon s Maynard and part of the time towards the close of my service by Capt. Nath l . C. Allen in the Reg t commanded by Col o . John Brooks, and in was a Serg t in s d . Allen's Company. And I know and do testify and say that Joshua Packard and who has on the other side applied for a Pension found as a soldier from the Spring of the year 1782 untill June or July 1783 in the same Reg t commanded by said John Brooks, and I think he was in Capt. Lincoln's Company but I can not say certainly that he was, but I know him in the Army & while in the Reg t aforesaid and have ever since known him - In June or July 1783 the During the war men, as they were called, were discharged from service and several Reg ts were reduced to lower, and the three years men, as they were called, were retained & transferred to the former reg ts and I with said Packard, we being both three years men, were placed in the fourth Mass t . Reg t and we were both discharged in Dec r . 1783 by Genl. Knox - and further saith not. Patrick Bryant

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss. Sept. 5. 1810. Patrick Bryant Esq. known to me to be the credible witness personally appeared before me and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth -
Before me Samuel Hinckley Judge of the Probate of wills etc. and a Justice of the Peace within for said County.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss. Clerk's Office. Northampton
I certify that Samuel Hinckley Esq. is Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills etc. and a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Hampshire & that his signatures to the foregoing Certificates are his own proper hand writings - In testimony whereof I have set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire this fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eight.
Josiah Dwight Clerk of the Sup. Jud. Court for the County of Hampshire

August 28, 1939
BA-J/MCS
Mr. John Craig Allen 285 Capital Avenue, N.E. Battle Creek, Michigan
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Joshua Packard, a Revolutionary War soldier from Goshen, Massachusetts.
The data furnished herein are taken from papers on file in the pension claim, S.33417, based on the military service of Joshua Packard, the only soldier of that name that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
The date and place of birth of Joshua Packard and the names of his parents are not shown.
Joshua Packard enlisted in April, 1782, place not stated, and served until December, 1783, as private in Captains Rufus Lincoln's and Hastings' companies in Colonel John Brooks' Massachusetts regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 5, 1818, at which time he was eighty-two years of age and was living in Goshen, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
The papers in this claim contain no data whatever relative to the soldier's family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Joshua Packard, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of soldier's death, it is suggested that you address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., 1878 1882 1956

giving the following data: Joshua Packard, Certificate 2740, issued September 23, 1818, rate $8 per month, commenced May 5, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818, Massachusetts Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLIER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

33 417 Rev. INVALID.
File No. 33 417
Joshua Packard Ph Rev W20
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 816
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1894 Aug 20 Hist to Capt J C Gruga Gt Schuyler N.Y.
1918, Mch. 16. History to Frank Coleman, Atty at Law Fr.
1924, May 1. Hist. to Laura B. Daniels. M.C.S.
1929, Aug 28. Hist. to Mr. John Craig Allen. M.C.S.

I have the Maining of Goshen in the County of Hamp: there of Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify I say I was a soldier in the Revolution any near for more than six years and in the Second Massachusetts Regt. and I was discharged from the Army in June 1703, and in the year 1702 according to the best of my recollection Joshua Packard who was a Townsman & neighbour of mine joined the Army as a soldier in Col. Brooks Regt. & in 1703 I frequently saw him doing duty in said Regt. as a soldier - he was in said Regt. for one year or more before I left the service and when I left in June 1703 I left him in said Brooks Regt. doing duty as a soldier - he has ever since been a neighbour of mine & I am not mistaken respecting him nor respecting his service as a soldier as aforesaid - I was one of the "during the war's men" as they were called is the reason of my being discharged before said Packard was discharged
Thine has X Manning mark
Sept. 5. 1810
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss Sept. 5 th 1810 Personally appeared Thinehas disinterested Manning, known to me to be a credible witness, and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth - Before me Samuel Hinckley Judge of the Court of Probate of wills etc. and a justice of the Peace within & for said County.

Endorsement.
Adjutant General's Office, Washington, Aug 9 1894.
J. C. Grugan, Captain 2 d Arty.
Respectfully returned to Captain Grugan. There are no official records of the wars named filed in this office. The informa- tion desired may possibly be obtained from the Com- missioner of Pensions.
J. C. Gilmore Asst Adj t General.
Fort Schuyler, N. Y. August 11. '94.
Respectfully forwarded to the Commissioner of Pensions, with request for the in- -formation desired.

Fort Schuyler, N. Y.
August 7, 1894.
Adjutant General, U. S. Army.
Sir
Can I obtain from the records of the War Department information regarding Joshua Packard, a soldier in the French, Indian and Revolutionary wars? His rank - organizations in which he served, &c. &c.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
F. C. Grugan,
Captain 2 d Artillery

FRANK COLEMAN ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 25, LORAIN BLOCK LORAIN, OHIO
March 11th, 1918.
Chief of Records, Pension Department, Washington, D. C..
My Dear Sir :-
My wife wishes to obtain the records of some of her ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War in order that she may prove herself eligible to membership in The Daughters of the American Revolution.
Her ancestors are, Asa Whitney, Preston, Connecticut or possibly Pittsfield, Massachusetts where he moved later;
Joshua Packard, Bridgewater and Goshen Massachusetts ;
Captain Joseph Naramore, Woodstock, Connecticut or Goshen, Massachusetts. What my wife wants is the military record of any or all of these men if there is a records as tradition tells her there is. Thanking you in advance for any information you may be able to send us, I am,
Yours Very Truly,
A handwritten signature in cursive, reading "Frank Coleman", written in dark ink on a light background. The signature is positioned to the right of the closing "Yours Very Truly,".

To the Veterans' Division of Revolutionary Soldiers, -
Gentlemen:
Will you please send me a copy of the pension record of one of my remote grandfathers, Joshua Packard ?
Joshua Packard was born in North Bridgewater in 1730; married Mehitable Alden in 1755 and removed to Winthrop (or Readfield) Maine.
Any information, as given in his pension record, will be gladly received by Yours Truly,
Laura B. Daniels, 818 North Holliston Ave.,
Pasadena, California.
Friday, April 13, 1934.

285 Capital Avenue, N. E. Battle Creek, Michigan July 28, 1939
A. D. Hiller Pension Department Veterans Administration Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I should like the pension record of Joshua Packard, a Revolutionary soldier, from Northampton (also given Goshen) Massachusetts; engaged July 1, 1782, term three years.
I am also interested in family data.
Thanking you, I am
Very truly yours,
John Craig Allen

May 1, 1934
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Laura B. Daniels 818 North Holliston Avenue Pasadena California
BA-J/MCS Joshua Packard S. 33417
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for the record of Joshua Packard, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 33417, based upon the military service of Joshua Packard, the only soldier of that name that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
He enlisted in April, 1782, place not given, and served until December, 1783, as private in Captains Rufus Lincoln's and Hastings' companies in Colonel John Brooks' Massachusetts regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 5, 1818, at which time he was eighty-two years of age and was living in Goshen, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
The papers in this claim contain no data whatever relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator
Death not on agency book

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Joshua Packard a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. N. F. 33,417.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     April, 1782 Dec 1783 Priv. Rufus Lincoln Hastings John Brooks Mass.                                                   
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated.
Date of application for pension, May 5, 1818. His cl. was ab.
Residence at date of application, Goshen Hampshire Co, Mass.
Age at date of application, 72 yrs.
Remarks: There is no data relative to family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.