Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,123, for Joseph Perkins, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Perkins, Joseph.
S. 14123
carded.
CONTENTS

See letter 16 Nov. 1836 to P. Redfield S.P. Ag t
Vermont 28.070
Joseph Perkins
Four Comrades in the Brattleboro who was a Private in the Com commanded by Captain. of the Regt commanded by Col Sedgwick in the Vt. Hoos time for 10 mo. 16 days -
Corporal - 9 mo -
Sergeant 4 mo 14 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 90 Dollars 43 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11-day of Feb 1834 and sent S. H. Redfield Present
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 $226.07 Semi-ant. allowance ending Mar 4 34 45 21
$271.28
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by C. D. Bullock Clerk.
Book 2 Vol. 3 Page 85

State of Vermont — on this 15 th day of 1. District of Orleans August A. D. 1862 before the Honorable Robert Court within one for the District of Orleans now sitting in the City of St. Albans in open court before me, the undersigned Shipton in the County of Franklin & District of New Rivers & Province of Lower Canada a resident aged twenty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law depos on his oath that the following particulars for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1862. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officer and served as herein after stated. He was in the town of Epping in the State of New Hampshire in the year 1875 when enlisted in the Militia or State troops of the State of New Hampshire for the term of six weeks in the Company commanded by Captain Robert Clark of Epping for the purpose of guarding the western border. He served near Port mouth New Hampshire in month to town Island and then removed in Ford River for the term of about two months. But this was discharged but without writing the term of service before in September or October of the year above named, he returned home and in the month of October under the command of the same Captain for the term of two months and was stationed in the College in Cambridge

Bridge 2 in the State of Massachusetts where he remained on guard until he was ordered to Myrtle in Ford State where he remained until the expiration of his term of enlistment when he was discharged without pay. He next enlisted in February 1776 at said Upton in the Company commanded by Isaac Worthen Captain & marched to said Cam- bridge where he remained on guard a short time & was then removed to Myrtle in the State of Massachusetts where he remained until the term of his said En- listment being two months before. In the month of April or May 1776 at said Upton he enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain William Doherty for the term of six months and marched to Crown Point in the State of New York from thence to Skenesborough in the State of New York & immediately to Mount Independence where he was stationed until his said term of enlist- ment expired. He served for this term in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Brook in the field. He was employed on Mount Independence in build- ing fort, making roads & ditches, when the first began he was discharged and returned home. In the year 1778 at said Upton he again enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain Isaac Worthen for the term of six

3. months, & months to return to the state of Rhode Island; where he remained a few weeks and on the first day of August of same year under the command of General Sullivan he marched on to the Island for the pur- pose of dislodging the enemy which they remained until the 29 th of August when the detachment returned; During that time the Island experienced one of the most destructive storms since Providence on Sept. 19 th 1775 months to continue on the Island he remained here till the expiration of his term of six months when he joined a regular discharge but without receiving a return home He next joined at Mendon in the state of New Hampshire in the company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Dibbels & Ellis Lempkin the month of Nov 1782 for the term of six months and marched to Newbury in the state of Vermont and there served in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Solomon General Lord of Brattlebury during the command in Chief. He served as a sergeant at the black house to collect the forage He states that the papers attached to this dis- cortation are genuine and correct.

4 The time they bear date & that Joseph Perkins then married is his own former he knew till the expiration of his term of enlistment and then with a party of twelve men for an hour after the remaining force had dispersed and was then discharged & returned to Methuen. he was born November 1758 in the town of Litchfield which if any who may be found the end of his birth. Since the revolution he has resided in town Methuen the eighteen years and that two years in Shipton of course; he never knew him as a volunteer. He never knew a written discharge. He truly relinquishes all claim to a pension — 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 and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
like Nathan Barlow and Nathan Williamson residing in the town of Shipton being the same place in which
Joseph Perkins
the witness named applicant resides hereby certify that Joseph Perkins who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 74 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion —
Sworn and subscribed in open court on the date of the within declaration —
Nathan Barlow
Nathan Williamson

Joseph Perkins S. File 14,123.
(List of 25 men from Capt. Webster's Co, on a scout in 1782; Oct. 19 th  to War Dept )
Two reports of Guard at Blockhouse, Newbury Coos Sept. 7 & 10, 1782 signed by Sergt. Joseph Perkins;
Lt. Perkins' furlough for 8 days signed by Col. Charles Johnston, Haverhill Nov. 12 th , 1782;
notice of shipment of box to Sergt. Perkins, dated signed by Charles Johnston, Haverhill July 27, 1782; have all been removed from the case for the purpose of forwarding the same to the War Dept. at some future date, all papers may be found in the safe, in the room

of the chief of the Old Mar & Navy Division
S.S.C.
Feby. 27, 1904.

Haverhill July 27. 1762
Sir I have sent the weight of beef for the party with you - you will give to the men keeping an account of each mans name you deliver it to your humble serv t
Serjeant Perkins
Charles Johnston
S. File 14,123.

Haverhill Nov. 4th 1882
Sergeant Perkins the Barrer has leave of absence from this place eight days Charles Johnston Col.
S. File 14,123.

Reoham
14123 INVALID.
File No. 14123
Joseph Perkins Prv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 293
[Arrangement of 1870.]

INVALID
File No. 14,123
Joseph Perkins private Rev. War
act June 7, 1832
10 mo. 16 days - Val 1 page 293
Corporal - 9 mo Vermont 28.070
Sergeant - 4 mo. 14 days Joseph Perkins Lower Canada
private in command of Col. Seabody V. 76 Troops for 10 mo. 16 days.
Described on Roll of Vermont at 90 43 per annum
arrears to 4 th of Sept 1833 ————— 226.07
service allowance ending Mar 4, 1834 ————— 45.21
271.28
Recorded by E D Bullock, Clerk
Book E Val 3 page 85
58 42 32 78

Joseph Perkins
Affidavits & certificates - subscribed to by Andrew Henderson of Steinsstead Joshua Bagley - Newburyport John Bagley

12.363
Joseph Perkins
Joseph Perkins 34 1/2 Col. Perkins Reg. Mass. Co.
32.53 177 335.10
22.33 33 35 16 90.43
for 20 days
4 m o 16 days long 7 m o 16 days long
10 m o 16 pinnate
$90.43
S. Fletcher Redfield Esq.
Darby Jt. Present

B R I E F objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joseph Perkins. Lower Canada 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? no
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?  yes
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? no
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? no
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? no
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
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? yes

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? no
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 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?
XVI. † Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
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, deposeh 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. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
Not found on the rolls, the best evidence to be had expected to prove the service of applicant.
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 official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
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.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Joshua John Bayly
Joshua John Bayly affidavit

We the subscribers of Newbury in the County of Orange in the State of Vermont to wit Joshua Bayley aged eighty years and John Bayley aged sixty eight years do hereby certify and depose that we were well acquainted with Joseph Perkins while a Sergeant in the year 1782 in a Company stationed at said Newbury under the command of Capt. Ebenezer Webster in the service of the United States: That said Perkins served in said Company as a good and faithful Soldier and friend to his country for the term of one year or more previous to the close of the Revolutionary War and that as we ever understood said Webster's Company was raised in the State of New Hampshire for the purpose of defending the frontier against the invasions of the British and Savages in Canada. Newbury Oct. 2 d 1833.
Joshua Bayley
John Bayley
State of Vermont Orange County ss at Newbury in said County on the 2 d day of October A.D. 1833 Then the above named Joshua Bayley and John Bayley personally appeared before me Isaac Bayley one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Orange aforesaid duly appointed and sworn, and severally made oath that the above affidavit by them severally subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth.
for $1.00
J. Bayley Just of Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Joshua and John Bayley are credible witnesses and so considered by all who are acquainted with them.
J. Bayley Justice of Peace

State of Vermont } I Harry Hale, Clerk of the Orange County } County Court, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Isaac Bayley is a justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified. That his commission was dated on the 9 th day of November 1832, and will expire on the 30 th day of November 1833, and that his signature within written is, in my opinion genuine.
Given under my hand, and the seal of said County Court
this 2 nd day of October A.D. 1833.
Harry Hale, Clerk.
Isaac John Bayley affidavit

Nov 14 Derby, rec. S cost 8. S 2800 935 Warfield Nov 14
Free
Mary J. L. Edwards born Pinsons City of Washington (D. C.)

Derby Vermont Nov 6 th 1836
Hon. J. L. Edwards Esq., Pensions
Sir
I enclose for your inspection a Power of Attorney given by Mr. Perkins of Shipton L. C. read and executed at my house on the 5 th of Sept r last and perhaps it would not be improper for me to come to you some time in circumstances relative thereto and the parties concerned. Mr. Perkins is a feeble old man residing some 60 or 70 miles from this place & possibly may never be able to come to this place again and being indigent I paid him his money at the time the Power of Attorney was executed receiving to myself two Dollars only for my services and the trouble and expense of getting the money from Burlington a distance of 85 miles all of which and more has already been expended it has been sent three times the first time it came back on account of the bond of Pensions & see of years names being omitted though mislaid the 2 nd it came back for me to sign the certificate on the margin the 3 rd time it came accompanied by a law laid made for the purpose of more effectually to prevent fraud and compelling me to send this for your inspection I am told the Power expires in 90 days from date and to excite your sympathy in this case I mention that my circumstances are by no means opulent and that it will be a material injury to me to be kept out of the money and desire and hope I may receive it in the life of the Power of Attorney and to remove any suspicion of fraud should any arise in this case I just mention that I am father to Isaac D. Redfield one of the Judges of the supreme court of this state and that John W. Brant is the Attorney is a son of the Hon. Samuel Brant a senator in Congress who is Attorney and counsellor at law in this

in this village and whose character for integrity stands as high as any other mans
Respectfully yours.
Oliver Phelps
P.S I am agent for some 20 or 25 Pensioners most ly living in Canadaw among whom is William Sweet of Danville at now of Stannards could be transferred from Danville to Burlington it would be an accom- modation and save expense will you so transfer and give me notice
Very respectfully your hum l serv t
O. Phelps

12.343 Disposition Joseph Perkins
J. H. H. David D. D. D. Agent and Attorney.
Isaac Elliot Smith Chester N. H.
Dec. 178
May John B. B. B. Isaac B. B. B.
are as a separate list for the various departments from Mr. Fleming instructions and reports for and your list above with ten.
Joseph Perkins
Roles of Webster
4.14.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 4 th day of September 1833 And the said court also further certifies that on the same day personally appeared Andrew Henderson, a servant of Sturtevant aforesaid, and knew of the same certificate and made oath in due form of law that the same is true and the court further certifies that it appears to them that the said Henderson is a credible person & that his statement is entitled to credit. In testimony whereof the said court hereunto set my hand & seal of office this day & year last aforesaid John H. Mitchell Register.

State of Vermont } to a Probate Court held at Derby District of Orleans } on this 11 th day of September A.D. 1833 within and for said district in open Court appears Andrew Henderson of Steubenville in the Province of Lower Canada and subscribed and made oath to the following certificate that in the month of May 1782 I enlisted into  of the a company of the New Hampshire troops in the later war of the Revolution in a company commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Webster belonging to a detachment under the Col. Charles Johnson & Gen. Isaac Bailey about the time of my enlistment into said company Joseph Perkins then of Epping in the State of Newham- -shire now of Shipton in the Province of Lower Canada joined said company as orderly Serjeant at Newbury Vermont I continued in said company at Newbury in the State of Vermont with him about one month, when I was sent up the Connecticut river as a Serjeant having under my command about ten men on a scouting party where we continued at Lancaster & Jefferson then called Dartmouth and scouting in the woods in that vicinity for about six months during which time I returned to Newbury some time in the month of September for provisions at which time I saw said Perkins in said company at Newbury and then returned back to Lancaster where I continued and in vicinity about six months from my first going there after which I returned to Concord New Hampshire by the way of the notch of the White hills and did not see said Perkins afterwards — Andrew Henderson
In the dog lost above written at Derby aforesaid the said Joseph Perkins personally appeared and made and subscribed in manner aforesaid the following Supplementary Declaration. I know of no testimony which he could procure in relation to any of the preceding terms except the testimony already connected. In relation to the term of service on great Island mentioned just in his said subscription on great Island he is confident he served not less than six weeks and believes he must have served two months but fipes it with certainty at six weeks. As to the three next terms of two months each two months and six months he does not know for any particular living, whose testimony he could procure to the proof of any portion of said service, as to the six months service at Rhode Island he knows of no witness to his

Service and the Booklet of which in the State of New York where is living of which he is not certain who was his hideout the last term of six months he proved of no testimony except the foregoing certificate of Andrew Henderson providing that he is in accord the testimony of Isaac Dain who is a son of General Dain the Commander of the forces at Newbury and only fifteen years of age at the time of his said service and it may be quite uncertain how much he may recollect. The number paper number 4. and containing the names of 25 persons is an original paper containing the names of a recent order from the Com- pany in ordering the officers and the said Andrew Hender- son at the time of the last term of service of said. The two papers number 77 are the original morning reports of the quarter of the duties which they bear. The two papers number 6. are the original papers of protest they purport to be such they were signed by the said Colonel Charles Colborne and given to the deponent, he has no further documentary evidence and could procure the testimony of a clergyman as the rules of the department require except at great expense as he resides more than 60 miles from the line of march and has no means of getting a clergyman to travel the distance and as a substitute he has taken the enclosed certificate from Mr. Fleming
subscribed and sworn to this day an year last above with ten.
Joseph Pemberton Ruler of Webster's 4.14.
12.343 Joseph Pemberton J. H. Hunt Esq. H. Agent and Attorney. Lord Elliot Esq. Chester N.H. Esq. 178 John Pemberton Isaac Dain Esq. Esq.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 4 th day of September 1833 And the said court also further certifies that on the same day personally appeared Andrew Henderson, a resident of Stoneham of Middlesex, and signed the foregoing certificate and made oath in due form of law that the same is true and the court further certifies that it appears to them that the said Henderson is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this day & year last aforesaid John H. Kimball Register

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 within named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states — And the court further certify, that it appears to them that Nathan Barlow and Nathan Williamson who have signed the within certificate are residents in the town of Shipton aforesaid and that their statement is entitled to credit and that they are credible witnesses —
I John H. Kimball Magistrate of the Probate Court for the District of Caledon aforesaid — do hereby certify that the foregoing and the within annexed sheet contain the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Joseph Perkins for a pension —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 15 th day of August 1832 —
John H. Kimball Magistrate.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Perkins, Joseph GRADE Sergeant } + Private LINE New York (1st Regt.)
Pension notation only
WARRANT NUMBER 7630 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 14, 1791 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.