Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1468, for Joseph Pearson, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Pearson, Joseph Martha
W. 1468
B.Y.Wt. 28.568-160-55
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1491. Massachusetts
Joseph Pearson of Sterling in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain  of the Reg't commanded by Col Smith in the (Mass) line for 10 Mos from 1776
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of November 1832 and sent to  Dag Worcester Mass
Bears to 4th of Sept 1832 $49 99 Remizant. allowance ending 2 Mar 33 16 66 $66,65-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H Sp9 Clerk, Book D , Vol. 125 Page 75

114.
Massachusetts, Martha Pearson widow of Joseph Pearson who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Musquidie
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33 Dollars 33,
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of March 1849 and sent to
Hon J. G. Palfrey M.C.
Record Roll of Pensioners under act Feb. 1848, Page 65 Vol. 1
July 29th Book D
A. B. Died Jan. 13 - 1858-
Reg 3 d mar 55 - 165276

165274
29 March June 11 50
Rev. E. Brown apl. 20/56
Martha Pearson wid of Joseph Pearson Del Pearson, Phil.
No 285684
Rev War.
Rev Pensioner act July 29. 1848 certy Dated March 22. 1849
Map July 48-114 W. W. May 26/52
E. W. W.
E. Browne Jr Boston Mass.
Vol P. page 56,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston,
June 7. 1855.
I Hereby Certify , That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed,
Silas Thruston was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; 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.
E. M. Wriggins
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Widow Revolutionary Pensions
APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY LAND.
(By the Widow of a deceased person who has not had a Land Warrant.)
STATE OF Massachusetts COUNTY OF Worcester
On this twentyfifth day of May A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Martha Pearson  Ninety years, a residence of Holiston in the State of Massachusetts who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the Widow of Joseph Pearson deceased, who was a Soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Revolutionary War , and served as a private in manner particularly set forth in the papers on file in the Pension Bureau in the matter of her application for pension under the Act of 29 July 1848 that in the Regiment of commanded by in the war with
Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, 1812,
She is now a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, at the rate of thirty three 33 1/3 dollars per annum that her pension Certificate was issued to her under date of March 22 nd 1849 and that she is now a widow.
the day of A. D. for the term of and continued of in actual service in said war for the term of and was honorably discharged at on the day of A. D. She further states that she was married to the said on the day of A. D. by one and that her name before her said marriage was that her said husband died at on the day of A. D. and that she is now a Widow.
She also declares that she has not received a Warrant for Bounty Land under this or any Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3d, 1855, and that she prays that the Witnes the Testimony of thereof may be sent for her to Ephraim Brown Jr Boston
Sally Davis Eliza Thompson Clara E. Bruce
Martha X Pearson mark

STATE OF Massachusetts COUNTY OF Worcester ss
We, Austin Davis Sally Davis and Clara S. Bance residents of Leicester in the State of Massachusetts upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Martha Pearson in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be  Know her to be the  to have been a wife of Joseph Pearson who was reported  Joseph Pearson who was reported  Revolutionary war that she is a  Revolutionary war that she is a  She is now a widow.  She is now a widow. Austin Davis Sally Davis
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Silas Thurston Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF COUNTY OF
I, _____ certify that whose genuine signature appears above, is and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission is dated on the _____ day of _____ A. D. 185____ that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand this _____ day of _____ A. D. 185____

Joseph Pearson's Application N o 2.732 P. 6
for Warrenton County, Tenn.

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Nathaniel Paine Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting Joseph Pearson a resident of Sterling in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy three 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 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
I was born in Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester in the year 1759 and suppose the record of my birth is there. In 1776 in July I enlisted for five months in the Revolutionary Service in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Saloyer in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Smith. I enlisted in what is now Sterling in said County and marched to New York City by New Haven and staid there a short time & soon after was quartered at Greenwich. We marched afterwards to Harlem Heights, were at the Battle of White Plains and were discharged at the end of our five months at Courtlands or Croton Manor in New York December 1 st 1776. I then returned home.
In July 1777 I again enlisted into said service in the Company commanded by Captain White of Lancaster. I enlisted in Sterling then a part of Lancaster and marched to Bennington Vermont & thence to Half Moon in New York & were then ordered back to Bennington & arrived there just as the battle was over. We were then stationed there till our two months were out and were then discharged by verbal orders. Our Company Regiment belonged to Col. Job. Cushing's Regiment. I then returned home.
In 1780 I again enlisted into said service for three months in the Company commanded by Captain David Moore of Bolton. We marched about the first of August to Rhode Island and were stationed at Battle Hill on the Island where our Company worked upon the Fort at that place. We served out our time there and after the expiration of three months I was verbally discharged and returned home. I have since that time lived in Sterling where I now live.
My proof of service consists of the accompanying Depositions of Calvin Kilborn, William Fairbank, John Robbins, James Brown and Ruben Wilder & have no documentary evidence. 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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me  Nathaniel Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Joseph Pearson

We a Clergyman residing in the  and  residing in  hereby certify that we are well acquainted with who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the and that  who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl. Folsom Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
I Joseph Wheeler Register , Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Pearson  Justice of the Peace in Worcester County for a pension. That said Alexander Dutton & Emily Washburn are IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand At the Seal of said Probate Court this 14 day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two .
Joseph Wheeler Register of the said Probate Court for Worcester County in Massachusetts
 Joseph Pearson's Application No 2. 732 P. 6 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston October 20 th 1848.
I hereby Certify, That at the dates of the annexed attestations Samuel Houghton and William D. Peck were Justices of the Peace for the County of Worcester,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to their 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.
W m D. Peck Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I William D. Peck, depose & say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Sterling, County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have been duly elected to that office, & qualified according to law, have in my care & keeping the records of said Town, & in the original records of intermarriages I find the following intermarriages "Joseph Pearson of Sterling and } September "between { Martha Willington of Worcester } 27. 1796
And in the records of deaths I find the following "Died in Sterling "Joseph Pearson of Sterling, August 16 th 1840. and aged 81 years.
A true copy from the Town Records. Attest W m D. Peck, Town Clerk.
Worcester ss: Oct. 17. 1848 Personally appeared the above named W m D. Peck, and made oath that the above certificate is true Before me Sam l , Houghton Jus. of Peace.
Oct 17 1848
848
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I, Nehemiah Pearson of Sterling in the county of Worcester & commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, fifty nine years of age, do testify and say, that I am the son of Joseph & Mary Pearson of said Sterling, & that my said mother Mary died April 1789, & that my said father Joseph was married to Martha Willington of Worcester in December 1796, & that I well recollect the said Martha Willington before her marriage to my father, & that they lived together from that time as husband & wife up to the time of my said father's death August 1840.
I further testify & say that my said father was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, & received thirty three dollars & some cents per annum, & that my said father Joseph Pearson & his said wife Martha Pearson had six children, whose names were Clara, Increase Sumner, Richmond, Marve, Joseph, & Charles, & that the said Martha Pearson widow of my said father Joseph Pearson still resides in Sterling & remains unmarried.
Nehemiah Pearson
Worcester ss: Oct r 17. 1848. Then personally appeared the above named Nehemiah Pearson & made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true, he being to my personal knowledge a gentleman of strict veracity.
Before me W m D. Peck Justice of Peace

I, Sally Hosmer, of Sterling, in the county of Worcester, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, seventy one years of age, do testify & say that I have always resided in said Sterling & within one mile of the residence of the late Joseph Pearson & of his widow Martha Pearson, that I well recollect Martha Willington before her marriage to the said Joseph Pearson, & also the time of her said marriage, although I cannot now recollect the precise date, but know that it was more than fifty years since, & that they lived together as husband & wife up to the time of the death of said Joseph Pearson, & that they had a number of children, & that they were persons who always sustained a good & respectable character in the community, & that said Joseph Pearson died in said Sterling seven or eight years since & Martha Pearson, wife of said Joseph, still resides in said Sterling & continues his widow.
Sally Hosmer
Worcester ss: Oct. 17. 1848 Then personally appeared the above named Sally Hosmer & made solemn oath that the affidavit above subscribed by her is true & she is personally known to me to be a person of veracity.
before me W m D. Peck Jus. Peace.

No 119.
Martha Pearson, widow of Joseph Mass.
Act 29 July 1848
Married 1796
Husband died 1840
Adm o 10 months. per.
$33.33 per Annum
for March 1848
Wm J. D. Ralfeey, K. C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Worcester, ss.
On this seventeenth day of October, eighteen hundred and forty eight, personally appeared before the Court of Probate, in and for the County of Worcester and State aforesaid, Martha Pearson, a resident of Sterling in said County, being eighty three years of age, 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 the twenty ninth day of July 1848, granting pensions to the widows of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution.
That she is the widow of Joseph Pearson late of said town of Sterling, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, under the Law of Congress passed June seventh 1832, and that he received a pension of thirty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum, which was paid to him at the agency for paying pensions in the State of Massachusetts. She further declares, that she was married to the said Joseph Pearson, in said Sterling by Benjamin Richardson Esquire, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Worcester, on the twelfth _____ day of December in the year eleven hundred and ninety six. That her husband, the aforesaid Joseph Pearson, died in Sterling.

Aforesaid, on the fifteenth day of August — in the year eighteen hundred and forty. — That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January eighteen- hundred, viz. at the time above stated, and that she still remains his widow.
Martha X Pearson
Sworn to, and subscribed, by the said Martha Pearson, in open court, on the day and year above written, by making her mark — Before me,
Thos Kurnett Judge of Probate in & for said County of Worcester

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Thomas Fournier is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signature to the foregoing Certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
Chas G. Prentiss, Register.

BRIEF in the case of  Joseph Pearson  of  Sterling  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? Seventy Three Years  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.     In 17 76 " 5 " Private Col. Smith   77 " 2 " " Col. Cushing   80 " 3 " " Capt. David Moore  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? White Plains  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sterling  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living Witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? defective in Authentication, Seal not on the same sheet nor the tabs not under the seal as required - 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
H. Addison
Examining Clerk.

October 24, 1933.
Mrs. Pearl Wilson Taloga Oklahoma.
BA-J/ILL Joseph Pearson W. 1468
Dear Madam:
The record of Joseph Pearson is given below as found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 1468, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. His name is shown as Joseph Pairson on a copy of the Massachusetts military service pay roll on file in this claim, but his signature is "Pearson".
Joseph Pearson was born in the year 1759 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts; the exact day of his birth, and the names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Lancaster (the part which was later Sterling), Worcester County, Massachusetts, he enlisted, served as private in Captain Samuel Sawyer's company, Colonel Smith's Massachusetts regiment, was in the battle of White Plains and was discharged December 1, 1776, having served five months; he enlisted in July, 1777, and served two months as private in Captain John White's company, Colonel Job Cushing's Massachusetts regiment, during which enlistment he was out on the Bennington alarm; he enlisted in July, 1780, and served three months as private in Captain David Moore's Massachusetts company, a part of this time he was in Rhode Island.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 14, 1832, at which time he resided in Sterling, Massachusetts; he had lived there ever since the war. He died there August 5, 1840.
Joseph Pearson married September 27, 1796 or December 12, 1796 (both dates are shown), Martha Willington of Worcester; his former wife,

Mary, died in April 1789; her maiden name, date and place of this marriage, and age of said Mary are not shown.
Martha Pearson, the widow of Joseph Pearson, was allowed pension on her application executed October 17, 1848, at which time she was eighty-three years of age; the date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not shown. She was then a resident of Sterling, Worcester County, Massachusetts. She died January 13, 1858.
In October 1848, Nehemiah Pearson, the son of Joseph Pearson and his wife, Mary, was fifty-nine years of age and a resident of Sterling, Massachusetts.
Joseph Pearson and his wife, Martha, had six children, whose names are shown as follow: Clara, Increase Sumner, Richmond, Marve, Joseph and Charles.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Assistant to Administrator.

165276
Martha Peirson
and Joseph
App
Con Josiah Windol Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Boynton

165276
Martha Rainson
and Joseph
App
Con Josiah C. Wincol Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Boynton

165276
From of Southern Washin
Hon. J. P. Noble
PAID

28.568
5 Sheo Aug

Know all men by these Presents That I Martha Pearson of Sterling in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts have made constituted and appointed and by these presents do make constitute and appoint Ephraim Browne Jr of Boston in the County of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name place and stead to prosecute before the Hon. S. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions a bounty land Claim I have against the United States Government under the Act of Congress passed 3 rd March 1855 giving and granting unto my said Attorney full power and authority to do and perform all & every Act & thing whatsoever requisite & necessary to be done

in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if personally present with full power of substitu- tion & revocation hereby ratifying & confirming all that my said Attorney or her Substitutes or Substitutes shall lawfully do, or cause to be done by virtue hereof
Sealed & delivered in the presence of us the twenty fifth day of May in the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty five Sealed & delivered in presence of (2 witnesses other than J.R.) Tustin Davis Sally Davis Clara J. Bruce State of Massachusetts } County of Worcester } Martha H. Pearson Mark 1855
On this twenty fifth day of May A.D. 1855 - before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace within & for said County personally appeared Martha Pearson & acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her free act & deed for the purpose therein mentioned & also made oath that she is a party directly interested in the above mentioned power as a claimant Silas Thurston Just Peace

Brighton. Nov- 7. th 1848
Dear Sir,
I enclose to you herewith the claims of Mrs Martha Pearson of Sterling. The widow of Joseph Pearson. late of Sterling deceased & a pensioner.
Respt your obedt Servt Elijah Clarke
Hon. J. L. Edwards.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City, D.C.

Bray  WIDOW, &c.
1933-Oct. 24 - Hist. to Mrs. Pearl Wilson - JLL
File No. 1468
Martha Pearson
Widow
Joseph Pearson
Br. Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index:—Vol. 92 , Page 119
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1-3 sent thru to some board returned to sender Oct. 24, 1933 OFFICE OF Superintendent of Public Instruction
Dewey County
PEARL WILSON, Superintendent HELEN CORN, Assistant
TALOGA, OKLAHOMA October 13 1933
U.S. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
I am trying to establish a record of my ancestors serving in the Rev. War.
Was William Crawford Boston Mass. Time of service between Nov 1 1782 and Aug 21 1783 on pay roll of Capt. Amos Lincoln's artillery Co. a pensioner? If so do you have the date of his birth, death, marriage? Who did he marry? I also want the place of birth, death and marriage. OK
OK I want the same information concerning Joseph Pairson Lancaster Mass. On pay roll of Capt John White's co. Col. Job Cushing's regiment. Enlisted July 28 1777 on an alarm from Bennington.
I will be so appreciative if you can get me these facts.
Very truly yours
Mrs Pearl Wilson
Mrs. Pearl Wilson Taloga Oklahoma

October 24, 1933.
Mrs. Pearl Wilson Taloga Oklahoma.
BA-J/ILL our
Joseph Pearson 37. 1468
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of your ancestors, William Crawford and Joseph Pairson.
The records of these soldiers are furnished herewith on separate pages, also the record of Benjamin Ainsworth.
Very truly yours,
E. D. HILLER, Assistant to Administrator.

Joseph Pearson Sterling e Mup
No 2. 732 7
Piwah
10 Months
Adm
$33.33
Hm J Davis Maurice Mup

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joseph Hanson which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes, in his favor
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes.
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? The seal is affixed and has an inscription whereby it can be distinguished - Quistler

 XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no  XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no  XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  XIV. †If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? yes  XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes  XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? no - Seal not on the sheet or the papers not known as required  XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? They are in the declaration 
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____ ; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
† QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
‡ QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, May 13 th 1856.
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 Pairson is borne on pay roll of Capt. John White's Comp. Col. Job Cushing's Regt. on alarm at Brimington, from July 28 th 1777, 1 month 8 days, as private, from Lancaster.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Francis D. Mills Secretary of the Commonwealth.

W. Robbins Affidavit.

I John Robbins of Sturminster in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, testify and say, that I have been acquainted with the late Deacon Pearson of Sturminster aforesaid, ever since we were boys, that some time in the summer of 1777, I went out into the Service, as a volunteer, in the Revolutionary War, in the Company commanded by one Capt. White then of Lancaster in said County, in the Regiment of Col. Cushing of Shrewsbury in said County - that said Deacon Pearson, was in the same company a private soldier, that we marched from that part of said Lancaster, which is now Sturminster, through the town of Deerfield on the Connecticut River, through the now Bennington in the State of Vermont, to Half-moon on the North River; after remaining there a short time we marched back to said Bennington, and there found the British prisoners, whom General Stark had taken, guarded in the Collecting-house in said Bennington; that said Deacon Pearson all the time continued to do service in said Company; soon after I was taken sick and  went out of the Camp; and after my recovery I returned into Camp, and the Company was then dismissed. I cannot recollect the term of time for which we volunteered, but think, according to the best of my recollection it was not far from two months.
Sturminster Aug. 10 th 1832.
John Robbins
At Worcester ss. August 10 th 1832. Personally appeared the above named John Robbins, subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit. Before me, Dea. Dutton, Justice of the Peace 
I certify that the above Deposition is known to me to be a true copy of the original and is entitled to full credit as a witness. Emory Washburn Justice of the Peace

We Calvin Kilborn of Princeton in the County of Worcester aged seventy four years and William Fairbanks of West Boylston in said County aged seventy three years, having been severally cautioned and sworn do depose and say that we were early friends and acquaint- ances of Joseph Pearson of Sterling who is now present at the taking of this deposition and that we entered with him into the Revolutionary Service in the Company commanded by Captain Sawyer in Col Smith's Regiment. We all enlisted for five months in July 1776 in what is now Sterling in said Company, and did duty for that term in said Company and were regularly discharged at the end of the term at Courtland, or Cootons Manor in New York. We again enlisted for two months together with said Pearson in the Company commanded by Captain White and served out the term of enlistment together, and were discharged at Bennington Vermont. We in this way know that the said Pearson served the above terms of five and two months as aforesaid & was discharg- ed at the end of his said terms of service.
Calvin H. Kilborn Wm Fairbanks
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. Aug 14 1832 Then the above named Calvin Kilborn and William Fairbanks personally appeared before me & made oath that the fore- going deposition by them subscribed in my presence is true
Emory Washburn Justice of the Peace
I also certify that the Depponents are in my opin- ion entitled to credit as Witnesses
Emory Washburn Justice of the Peace

I James Brown of Princeton in the County of Worcester aged Seventy one years, and I Ruben Wilder of West Boylston in said County aged seventy years, having been duly cautioned and sworn do depose and say that we have known Joseph Pearson now of Sterling who is present at the taking of this Deposition ever since the year 1780. We know that the said Pearson belonged to Captain David Moores Company in the Revolutionary service. He enlisted at Watertown Sterling in July 1780 and marched with the Company to the State of Rhode Island we were both members of the same Company with said Pearson, and our Company were stationed on the Island of Rhode Island at Butts Hill & worked a part of the time on the fort at that place. We served three months and were then discharged by verbal orders. The said Pearson was then discharged also after having served out his term of three months.
James Brown
his
Ruben Wilder mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Presented Aug 14 1832 Then James Brown and Ruben Wilder both personally appeared before me & severally made oath that the foregoing Deposition by them subscribed is true.
Emory Washburn Justice of the
Peace. Also certify that the said Depositions are in my opinion entitled to credit as authentic.
Emory Washburn Justice

Army Pension Agency Boston 13 May 1856.
Sir
Herewith forward Certificate of Secretary of State of Massachusetts of service of Joseph Pearson husband of Martha Pearson, applicant for Donated Land No. 165.276
Respy Hon. Josiah Minot Commissioner of Pensions
J. H. H. H.

Army Pension Agency Boston 8 June 1855
Sir
Herewith forward the application of
Martha Pearson for Cumberland - She is a pensioner on the Roll of Mrs. Hasty under Act 29 July 1848
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2 the Hon W m Pals Comr of Pensions
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