Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18713, for John Paine, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Years.
NUMBER _____
Paige, John Rhoda
W. 18713
CONTENTS

Massachusetts - 437.
Rhoda Paine, widow of John Paine, dec.
who was a pensioner under the act of and who died on the 25 th day of Sept. 1820 of Bristol in the State of Mass s who was a Pen. in the Comp y commanded by Captain Payson of the Reg t commanded by — Rains in the Mass s line for 8 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass s at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of Sept. 38, and sent to A. B. Alpe n , Treasurer, Mass s
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. $66.65 Semi-annual allowance ending 13.33
$89.98
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdin Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 — Page 117.

Jaime
Rhoda Paine widow of John Mass
act 7 July 38 5 years
Married in 1780
admd Sonohri
26.66
no deduction
A. Bapett Taunton Mass.

State of Massachusetts Bristol County } ss. on this twentieth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the Honorable Oliver Prescott Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the said County of Bristol Rhoda Paine aged eighty six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4. 1836. or the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838. entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of John Paine late of Wrentham in the County of Norfolk deceased who was a Sergeant in the war of the Revolution, and and served a number of campaigns (as she believes) in that war. one of which she is positive was after her marriage with the said John Paine. She has no documentary evidence showing any part of his services. Her said husband the aforesaid John Paine first entered the service of his country voluntarily, on the night of the nineteenth day of April, Seventeen hundred and seventy five, and marched to Lexington and there as she believes was embodied in a company and marched to Roxbury near Boston and served eleven days but she does not know under what officers, he then enlisted into a company commanded by Captain Payson, and in Colonel Joseph Reed's Regiment and General Heath's Brigade according to the best of her recollection. And this enlistment was for eight months and he served to the end of his engagement, and was stationed at different places around and near Boston he was living at the time of his first engagement in a place now called Foxborough - in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. She verily believes that his whole service in the Revolutionary war amounted to not less than two years, and that she believes because she has often heard him say so, especially when he made inquiry and found he was not entitled to a pension under the Act of Congress of 18 March 1818, because no one term of his service amounted to nine months, and she knows of no living witness by whom she can prove any of his service except the eight months

already mentioned, and for proof of that. See Benjamin Billings affidavit herewith annexed.
She well recollects of hearing her late husband speak of one tour of his service which was in the State and near the Island of Rhode Island at the time which was three Month: and in the fall of the year 1777. She does not know who was the Captain under whom he served, but believes Samuel Bellings now deceased was an Ensign thinks it might have been in Capt Silas Cobb. Company. She remembers of its being at the time of General Spencer's private expedition (so called), and a Mr. Forest & said Foxborough who was a pensioner but is now lately deceased, was with her said husband at this time. She is not positive whether it was Samuel or Ebenezer, Forest, as they were both soldiers in that war. She believes it possible that their declarations for pension, may show this tour of service, and point to the roll upon which her said husband's name may be found, and she refers to the said declarations which are now on file in the war office at Washington.
Her said husband served one other term and it was after her marriage with him and in the year 1780. he then served on the Island of Rhode Island, but she is entirely unable to tell the officers under whom he served at this time. She has the most perfect recollection of his going into the service at this time, as it was only about two - months after their marriage, and of his hiring a man to take care of their vegetables during his absence in the Army. and she does refer to the rolls in the pension office at Washington for proof of all his services in the war except what is proved by the evidence herewith annexed, and if any services of the said John Pine are verified by the said rolls, after her marriage with him the said John Pine as herein after stated, and proved, then she claims to be pensioned under the said act of Congress of July 4. 1836. otherwise under the aforesaid act of July 7. 1837. The last mentioned tour of service of her said husband on Rhode Island was three Month and he served as a sergeant during all his services in the Revolution, and always enlisted voluntarily and the troops with whom he served she believes were called State troops or Militia.

She further declares that she was married to the said John Paine on the thirteenth day of March Seventeen hundred and eighty, and that her said husband, the aforesaid John Paine died on the twenty fifth day of September eighteen hundred and twenty.
That she was not married to him prior to his performing the principal part of his services in the said war, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four, with the time above stated, and that she has remained his widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
I were to and subscribed Rhoda Paine the day & year above written before Oliver Prescott
I Oliver Prescott Judge of the Probate in & for the County of Bristol, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that Rhoda Paine the above named applicant for a pension, cannot by reason of bodily infirmity attend the court - Oliver Prescott
Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Bristol ss. I Amos Barrett Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County, do hereby certify that Oliver Prescott is Judge of the Court of Probate in & for said County & that the signature to the foregoing certificate purporting to be his are genuine - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court this eighteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty eight - A. Barrett

March Thirtieth one Thousand seven hundred and Eighty Marria Each to the other Mr. John Paine and Rhoda Wellman both of Mansfield by the Rev. Roland Green
I William B. Bates Certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of the Record of s d Town of Mansfield with the exception of the date which is expressed in plain legible figures as follows March 30 th 1780
W m B. Bates Town Clerk of Mansfield
I W m B. Bates above named depa r and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the Town of Mansfield, County of Bristol, and State of Massachusetts and the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town with the exception above named as Certified by me
W m B. Bates Town Clerk of the Town of Mansfield
Mansfield Aug t 8 th 1838
State of Massachusetts Bristol County On the 9 day of August 1838. personally appeared William B. Bates, subscriber to the above certificate & affidavit, and made oath that the same is true in all its parts. Before me Corron t Leonard Justice Pease And I do further certify that the said William B. Bates is a credible & disinterested witness. Corron t Leonard Justice Pease

Rev WIDOW, &c.
16713 Rehoda Paine Widow of John Paine Seafarer July 7 th 1838 Vol. 11. Page 163
[Arranged 2/1870.]

Massachusetts - 427
- Rhoda Paine -
Widow of John Paine, dec.
She was a pensioner under the act of and who died on the 25 th Sept 1820 - at Bristol in the State of Mass. who was a S er in the Reg t commanded by Captain Payson of the Reg t commanded by Col. Root in the Mass. line for 8 m th
(Inverness)
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts. at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of Nov r 1838, and sent to A. B. Paine. Treasurer, Mass.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept - $100.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 20.00
$120.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burleigh Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 - Page 119.

Mr. Paine.
W. C. Payson
Vol 15 p 93 on 8 mo

I Elkanah Bates of Mansfield in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts being fifty nine years of age do testify & say, that I am acquainted with Rhoda Paine who was the wife, and is now the widow of John Paine deceased, the said Rhoda Paine is now a resident of the said Town of Mansfield, and I was acquainted with her when she lived with her said husband the said John Paine deceased. I cannot testify to the exact day or year when the said John Paine died but according to the best of my recollection & belief it was not less than fifteen years ago. But I know the said Rhoda Paine to have been a widow on the fourth day of July March in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six. And that she has never intermarried with any person since that day, but now remains the widow of the said John Paine and that the said John Paine is reported & believed to have been a soldier in the war of the revolution.
Mansfield 9 Aug. 1838.
Elkanah Bates
State of Massachusetts } V. Mansfield August 9 th 1838. Bristol County
Then personally appeared Elkanah Bates subscribed to the above affidavit and made oath that the same is true, according to his best knowledge & belief, in all its parts.
Before me Leonard Justice Paine
And I do further certify that the said Elkanah Bates is a credible & disinterested witness. C. Leonard Justice Paine.
I certify that the word March, was interlined, and the word July, erased, in this affidavit, before the same was signed.
Leonard Justice Paine.

I Benjamin Billings of Mansfield in the County of Bristol in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, physician, do testify & say, that John Paine, late of Wrentham deceased, who died more than twelve years since, in the month of April or May in the year of our Lord, seventeen hundred & seventy five, enlisted in the Company of Infantry commanded by Samuel Payson, for the term of eight months, and served in said Company, as first Sergeant, during said eight months in the war of the revolution, until said Company was discharged; the said Company belonged to the Regiment of which Col. Joseph Reed was commander, and was stationed in & near Roxbury in the County of Norfolk - The reason why I know the above facts is, because I served as a private soldier in said Company during said eight months.
I further testify & say, that I have been acquainted with Rhoda Paine, who was the wife of the said John Paine, more than forty years, that she now lives in said Mansfield, and has not been married since the death of the said John Paine.
Benjamin Billings
Bristol J. August 14 th 1838. Then the above named Benjamin Billings personally appeared and made oath, that the above affidavit by him subscribed, is just & true in all its parts -
Before me David Gilbert Justice of the peace -
I hereby certify, that I have been acquainted with the above named Benjamin Billings the Deponent more than forty years, and that he is a man of truth & veracity; and that I believe he has no interest in obtaining a pension for the above named Rhoda Paine.
David Gilbert

Commonwealth of Massachusetts To all to whom these presents shall come, I, Amos Barrett Register of the Court of Probate in for said County hereby certify that David Gilbert Cornwell's Last Will and Testament are severally the last wishes of the testator in for said County and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates purporting to be their are genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this eighteenth day of August Eighteen hundred thirty eight - A. Barrett

Nov 3 rd
PORTLAND NOV 2 WASH
Int. lab.
map. Gayne
J. L. Edwards Esq. comm. minister of Nervins
Washington —

Taunton Mass. Nov. 1. 1838
Sir
The agent of Mrs Rhoda Paine, requests you to re-examine her application for a pension — He says, her husband John Paine served as an Orderly  Sergeant during the Eight months which has been allowed —
Very Respectfully Newport R.I. A. B. Almy
H. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington —

Payment to be made
at - Boston - by J. Brown, Esq., Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Massachusetts
Upon new Certificate 8mo Servt. 40 $
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year thereafter . First pay- ment to be made 31st De- cember, 1838
no deduction
A. Bapett by Jacenton Mass
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A Vol. 1- Page 119 by
R. Burvis Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Rhoda Paine widow of John Paine , deceased, — who was a Private during the Revolutionary War — and died on the twenty fifth day of September 1820, is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of twenty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty fourth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
J. Cooper Acting Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.