Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15204, for Benjamin Pincin, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Cincin, Benjamin Molly
W. 15204.
CONTENTS

392) Massachusetts
Benjamin Pircin, privat
Captain  in the reg t . Comm d by Col d Greaton in the Revolutionary War.
Ratio of disability, Total Time of closing the 3 17. March, 1818. Date of discharge testimony
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 17 th of March, 1818.
Certificate of pension issued the 29 th of Mar: 1819 and sent to the Pensioner at Bridgewater, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts. Care of Bartholomew Brown, Esq r . Bridgewater East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th March 1819. 11 3/4 mo s $ 92.90
Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 Sep r 1819. $ 48.
$ 140.90
Invalid Law 3 d March, 1819
05.268 06.4 88 8 out 65 11 7 36 11 91 18

REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, ss.
ON this second day of July 1839, personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Wilbur Wood Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at East Bridgewater within and for said County of Plymouth, Benjamin Pinn a resident of East Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy nine 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 acts of Congress passed June 7, 1832, and February 19. 1833.  as every claim whenever in a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, according to the best of his recollection. He first entered the service in a company of militia or state troops, in October 1775 and marched to New-Port, Rhode Island, and served two months there in Capt Amos Turner's Company, and he thinks Col. John Cushing, or Col. Hall's Reg't - when he was dismissed and returned home to Natick. Mass. Soon after he returned home, he was called in to the service again, and marched with Capt. Francis Cushing's Company of Militia on an alarm to Rhode Island in December 1776, he was stationed at Bristol, and served he thinks six weeks when he was dismissed and returned home. - John Cushing, Col. of Regiment; he knows of no witness now living to prove their services.
He knows that there is now no settled min-

23 July He entered the service again and marched to Nantasket, (now the town of Hull), and served there four months in the winter and spring of 1777. He served in Col. Whitney's Regiment, and in Capt. Francis Cushing's Company; a part of the time he served there under two other Captains, whose names, he does not now recollect.
Immediately after his return from this service in May 1777 he enlisted again to serve on the Castle in Boston Harbor, now Fort Independence When he served there four months, one month in Capt. Bello's Company, and three months in Capt. Tufts' Company, in Col. Burbank's Regi- ment. He enlisted for one month at a time and was employed in the barge service; for proof of these services, he must refer to the Castle Rolls, and Massachusetts Documents now at Washington; whatever proof can be obtained here will be forwarded.
He afterward entered the service again and marched with Capt. Hayward Pierce's Company of Militia from situated at Hopkinton to Rhode Island to serve in the Secret Expedition the last of September 1777. He marched to Tiverton, and in a few days he was taken out of the Company with a number of others, and put in a Company of Dragoons under Capt. Newcomb, whose duty it was to scour the country & keep the British Guards in a state of alarm. He served there one month, perhaps a few days over.

In 1778 he removed to Pembroke, and the first of August he enlisted in Capt. Calvin Partridges company. Col. Whiting's Reg't Left Good Point and marched to Rhode Island, and was there in the August storm and in the battle on Sulli- van's Retreat from the Island; when he suffered much from fatigue and want of sleep; this service he thinks was six weeks, & such proof as can be obtained will be furnished in support of it. He last enlisted in the Continental Service for nine months passed muster at Springfield July 23. 1779. marched to West Point, was put in Gen. Nixon's Brigade, Col. Gre- aton's Regiment, under Capt. Comstock, was stationed as guards on the lines from Peekskill to Bedford & V. Ferry, went into winter quarters at Peekskill Highlands in December; in Jan y 1780 was put on the lines again on the northerly side of White Plains, and on the third of February was attacked by a party of British, when he was shot through the right arm, and taken prisoner & carried to New York, where he was put into the Hospital & kept a prisoner, until December 13. 1780, when he was exchanged & returned home; for fur- ther particulars of this service, he would refer to the statement and proof furnished, when his Invalid Pension was granted him under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1819. and also to the same documents for proof of his disability.
He was born in Scituate, Mass. April 15. 1760, known of no record, except his family record. - lived in Scituate until 1778 then moved to Pembroke; in 1782 moved to Bridgewater, where he has lived ever since & is that part now incorporated as East Bridgewater.
He never received any discharge except from his last service when he was exchanged he called on Col. Greaton, who gave him a discharge; and when he arrived at Boston, having some back pay due, he was required to give up his discharge to obtain it, which he did. - He is known to Hon. Nahuem Mitchell, who assisted him to obtain his Invalid Pension, & Hon. Aaron Hobart, Welcome Young Esqr & others, who can testify to his character & the belief of his services in the Revolutionary War.
He is now 84 years of age and there is now no other man

He never received any money on the policy called on Col. Cushing, who gave when he was exchanged he called on Col. Cushing, who gave him a discharge; and when he arrived at Boston, having some back pay due, he was required to give up his discharge to obtain it, which he did. — He is known to Hon. Nahum Mitchell, who assisted him to obtain his Invalid Pension, & Hon. Aaron Hobart Welcome Young Esqrs & others, who can testify to his character & the belief of his services in the Revolutionary War.
He further declares that there is now no settled minister in East Bridgewater on whose services he attends.
Benjamin of Pines, mother Sworn to subscriptions on the day & year first before written in open Probate Court Attest J. H. Lord Register of Probate

We, Joseph Chamberlain  a clergyman residing in the town of East Bridgewater and Welborne Young residing in the town of East Bridgewater hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Pinin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy nine 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.
Welborne Young Joseph Chamberlain
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Attest J. H. Loud 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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Joseph Chamberlain who has signed the preceding certificate, is _____ resident in the town of East Bridgewater and that Welborne Young who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and the credible person s and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court, Attest. J. H. Loud Register
I, Jacob H Loud Register 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 Benjamin Pinin for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office, this nineteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine .
Jacob H. Loud

3 William Pinson's depo.
The Petitioner William Pinson's affidavit of the truth of the facts in the Petition

I William Pincion of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, man of lawful age testify and say that I have known Benjamin Pincion of said Bridgewater from his birth to the present time. That he enlisted into the American Army in the late revolutionary war between the United States of America and Great Britain in the Summer of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy nine and went immediately into service. Said Benjamin enlisted for nine months. In the winter of the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & eighty report came from the army, by way of letters sent by other soldiers to their friends that said Benjamin was in an engagement at Phillips manor and that he was either taken or killed. In the month of January in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one, said Benjamin returned from the army - He was very feeble & low & remained in my family in Bridgewater for nearly a year unable to perform any kind of work or labor, by reason of a wound in his arm just below the shoulder. The wound I frequently saw, and often assisted in dressing it. It appeared to have been made by a musket ball, and the bone was much fractured. I have no reason to doubt, and I do believe that he received said wound while in the said engagement at Phillips manor, as stated by him to me. He also stated that he had been taken by the enemy and had been imprisoned at New York and suffered much. I have frequently been with him to his surgeon, Doctor Isaac H. of said Bridgewater who deceased about thirty years ago. I have

several times since the said Surgeon extract bones from said wound. The said Benjamin is a farmer by occupation, and the wound has been & still is a very great injury to him in said business, having caused a frequent dislocation of his shoulder; and of late years he is more troubled with it than formerly, since it near healed, being frequently unable to do any labor by reason thereof. When said Benjamin enlisted he was an inhabitant of Pembroke in the same County, but since his return from the army he has ever lived in said Bridgewater.
William Pinion
District ss. March 17-1868. Then personally appeared before me the Subscriber William Pinion & made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed. I also certify that said Pinion is an acquaintance of mine & is of undoubted veracity.
Arthur Brown
Commissioner duly appointed

2245 Massachusetts Molly Simeon widow of Day Simeon who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 72 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of Nov. 1848, and sent to Hon. A. Hale Bridgeport Maine!
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 122 Vol. 2
Report Set to Hon. A. Hale Nov 24th 1848 and also to the Pension Agent at Boston same date.
(See letter Dec. 5. '48 to Hon. A. Hale, H. R.)

Declaration of Molly Brine widow of Benjamin Brine
Act 2 July 48
Maria 1783
husband died 10 Sept 1848
Adm # 72 nd p.m.
on 10 Septm 1848
Hon A Hale Prosecuting Mass

Declarations
In order to obtain the benefit of third section of the Act of Congress of the 29 th of July 1848. and previous Laws.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth County ss. On this nineteenth day of October in the year 1848 Personally appeared before me the subscriber Judge of Probate in & for the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts  Molly Pinnin Widow of Benjamin Pinnin a resident of East Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts 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 provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 29 th 1848. That she is the widow of Benjamin Pinnin who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and served in various campaigns therein as a private and at one time he served at New York, was taken in a skirmish by the British and imprisoned ten months and ten days before he was exchanged as I have heard him say. He at the same time received a wound in his right arm and received an Invalid Pension Certificate under the law of the third of March 1819 bearing date the twenty ninth day of March 1819 and numbered (392) and signed by J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War. He also

received a pension Certificate, as a private in the War of the Revolution, signed by S o Cooper Acting Secretary of War, bearing date the 24 th day of September 1839 and recorded in the Pension office in Book E Vol 2 d Page 66. She enlisted from Scituate in said County of Plymouth. She further declares that she was married to the said Benjamin Pincin in the month of November A d 1787 at Bridgewater in the said County of Plymouth and that her husband Benjamin Pincin aforesaid died on the tenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty eight and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed -
Molly her { Pincin mark
Plymouth ss. I hereby certify, that the above Declaration of Molly Pincin was sworn to & subscribed before me, the day & year above written, and that the same was done at the Dwelling House of the said wholly in East Bridgewater, she being unable by reason of age and bodily infirmity to attend the Probate Court for that purpose.
Aaron Hobart J. Probate for said County.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth Y. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Hon. Saml Hobart is Judge of Probate for said County duly Commissioned and qualified & that the foregoing is his true & genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this twentieth day of October 1848. Jacob H. Lord

Extract from the Records of Marriages in the Town of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts November Fifteenth Seventeen hundred and eighty seven. Benjamin Pincham and Molly Stetson
By Revd Samuel Auger
The above is a true extract from the Records of Marriages in the Town of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth with the exception that on the Records the day of the month and year are expressed in fair legible figures as follows Novr 15 th 1787 Benjamin Pincham & Molly Stetson
By Revd Samuel Auger Lewis Holmes Town Clerk
I Lewis Holmes of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts do hereby certify and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the Town of Bridgewater aforesaid and that the Records of said Town are in my custody & that the above is a true extract from said Records as expressed thereon in fair legible figures
Bridgewater October 27 1848
Lewis Holmes Town Clerk
Sworn to before me October 1848
Philo Leach Just of the Peace H

I certify that Philo Leach, within named is an acting Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth and that the within is his signature
Bridgewater Oct 27. 1848
Asa Hale Mem. Congreg

Rev-WIDOW, &c.
File No.
15:204
Molly Pincin Widow of Benj m Pincin Brv Rev. War
Act:
Feb 2 nd 1848
Index:—Vol.
M
Page
131
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Benjamin Pincin Map. act 7 June 1832 $72 00 per
To what time was he last paid? 9. 66 4
Pension Office March 14 48
Paid to 4 th Sept. 1847. 12 13.

Dec 9/40 Molly Pincus Certificate
W. D. May
Got the Paper for JLE
Hon. A. Hale HR

Washington D.C. Dec 5 th 1848
Sir
Herewith I return the Certificate of Molly Poinin, and will thank you to forward it to me, when corrected
Very Respectfully
Your Oble Servt
William Hale
J. L. Edwards Esq Comm r . Pensions

Buy Pinion
How?

The Honble
Mr. Lacock.
Senator.

35025 Benjamin Pincin Mass.
act 7. June '32
Vol 3.209. Turner - 1.28 1.141 Cushing - 11 3.22. Newcomb - 1.5. 3.63 Partridge 1.13
4-27 Grazers reg. 23 July } 16.21. 79. to 13 Dec 80 } 21.18
admd 21 mo. 1881
72 $
Anthony Collamore Dembroke Mass.

6
Simon Gannett's Defe.

I Simeon Gannett of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gentleman of lawful age testify and say That I have been acquainted with Benjamin Pircion of said Bridgewater for many years. He came immediately to Bridgewater after being discharged from the American army in the late revolutionary war with Great Britain and has remain there ever since. Being in his neighborhood I frequently saw the wound in his arm, which I understood he received while on duty as a soldier in the said army. The wound was not healed & the bone appeared to be broken. I have lately seen the wound, which is now healed, and the appearance of a ball having passed through it is very evident. He is a farmer and I have no doubt that said wound is & has been a great impediment in his business. —
Simeon Gannett
District ss March 17. 1818 Then personally appeared before me the Subscribers, Simeon Gannett & made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed. I also certify that said Gannett is one of my particular acquaintances & his veracity is undoubted
Bartholomew Brown
Commissioner duly appointed

5
Joseph Chamberlain's Depe.

I Joseph Chamberlain of Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman of lawful age testify and say that I am well acquainted with Benjamin Pinnin of said Bridgewater & have been for many years. That some time in the winter of the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred & eighty one I saw said Benjamin on his return from the army. He was very sick and worn out. He told me at the time that he had been wounded while on duty as a soldier, taken and imprisoned by the Enemy. I could have no reason to doubt his assertion. Shortly after I examined his arm which appeared to have been perforated by a musket ball near the shoulder. His coat also had the appearance of the passage of the ball. I frequently saw his wound as he lived in my neighborhood while he was under the care of his surgeon, Doctor Isaac Otis who lived in Bridgewater near me, & who has been deceased for nearly thirty years. Said wound must be of much injury to said Benjamin in his business, which is farming. He is a man of the strictest habits of sobriety and industry and of undoubted veracity.
Joseph Chamberlain
District ss. March 17. 1881. Personally appeared before me the Subscriber Joseph Chamberlain & made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed. I also certify him to be one of my acquaintances & of undoubted veracity -
Bartholomew Brown
Commission duly qualified

7
Ezra Ringman's Depo.

I Ezra Kingman of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esq. of lawful age testify and say That I am and have been for eighteen years last past one of the Selectmen & Assessors of the said town of Bridgewater, and I am know- ing that Benjamin Pincion an Inhabitant of said Town has never been assessed in the tax bills thereof for his poll during my con- tinuance in said office of assessor. The reason of which has been because of bodily infirmity caused by a wound in his arm which he received in the army while a Soldier in the late revolutionary war with Great Britain. Said Benjamin now resides in Bridgewater and ever has done since he left the army, which I believe was in the year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and eighty one. Said Pincion is a man of small estate, but is economical and prudent - and by careful management and industry, as far as he has been able to labor, has made out to support a small family. He possesses sober habits and his veracity is undoubted. Ezra Kingman

Given at March 1848. Then personally appeared before me the undersigned Esquire Kingman Gray and made oath to the truth of the within deposition by him signed - I also certify that I am particularly acquainted with said Kingman & that he is of the strictest veracity -
Samuel Brown
Commission duly appointed

Dr. Hector Orr's Depo.

I Hector Orr of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Physician and Surgeon depose and say - That Benjamin Pincion of said Bridgewater is a particular acquaintance of mine. He has a wound in his right arm, which I believe he received while engaged on duty as a soldier in the late revolutionary war, although I have no knowledge of the fact. I have examined the wound. It was undoubtedly made by a musket ball; and is about two inches below the shoulder joint. More than two inches of the bone of the humerus was carried away, and in consequence of the subsequent sloughing of the wound the arm was rendered in a degree incapable of being useful and entirely incapacitated for sustaining the usual labor of a farmer, of which occupation he is. Hector Orr
District ss. March 17 th 1818 Then personally appeared before me, the Subscriber, Hector Orr Esq. & made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed - I also certify that the said Hector Orr is an Officer Massachusetts Medical Society & is highly respectable in his said profession of Physician & Surgeon -
Barth. W. Brown.
Commission duly appointed

4
Philip Bolton's Diplo.

I Phillip Bolton of Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman of lawful age testify and say That I was a private soldier in the Army of the United States in the late revolutionary war with Great Britain. That I was taken prisoner by the enemy on the first day of May in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and eighty near Morrisania in the State of New York, at which time I belonged to a Company commanded by Capt. Pillsbury. I was made prisoner while on an expedition in order to take a Refugee Colonel whose name I think was Delancey. When taken I was conveyed to New York and confined in what was called the Sugar House, where I became acquainted with Benjamin Pincion of said Bridgewater, who was also a prisoner with me. It was there understood by all that said Pincion was taken at the battle or engagement at Phillips Manor which was in February of the same year. He was imprisoned many months before I was and I did not become acquainted with him until after he was removed from the hospital. I remained in the prison until the first day of January following, when I was exchanged. Said Pincion was exchanged before I was, but I do not now recollect the exact time when. He left the

Hospital before I became acquainted with him on account, I believe, of some contagious sickness that prevailed there, and most of the wounded, who were particularly attended by surgeons, being in the hospital, and the said Sugar house being very full and extremely crowded I had no opportunity to examine said Pincion's wound in his arm but have not the least doubt of the fact his having received the a wound in the arm & being taken by the enemy as aforesaid -
his Phillip of Bolton mark
District of Columbia 17 th Nov r 1861 Then personally appeared before me the Subscriber Phillip Walton & made oath to the truth of the above disposition by him signed. I further certify that said Walton is a person of undoubted veracity and an acquaintance of mine -
Barth t Brown
Commissioner duly appointed

I Doctor Pratt of East Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age to give evidence do testify and say that I have been intimately acquainted with Benjamin Pircin late of East Bridgewater deceased for twenty years last past and for five years last past he and his wife have lived in the same house with me - That I was present at his decease and attended his funeral - That he died on the tenth day of September last past. I further certify that I am well acquainted with Molly Pircin of said East Bridgewater widow of the said Benjamin Pircin and that the said Molly Pircin is a person of truth and veracity -
Doctor Pratt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } Plymouth County - - - } p. November 9 th - 1848 Then personally appeared before me the above named Doctor Pratt and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed was true - And I further certify that the said Doctor Pratt is a person of truth and veracity - Welcome Young, Esq. Peace

I certify that Wilborne Garry within mentioned is an attorny Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth and that the within is his hand writing Attestuss Wale Mann Esq.
Nov 9, 1848
From the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mass. Sept. 18th 1884 My dear Sir, I have been thinking of you and your work, and how much I should like to see you again. I have been very busy lately, but I have managed to find some time to write to you. I hope you are well and happy. I have been thinking of you and your work, and how much I should like to see you again. I have been very busy lately, but I have managed to find some time to write to you. I hope you are well and happy. Yours sincerely, John D. Sleeper

Papers & documents in support of the Petition of Benjamin Pincion
Pensions
filed 6. February - 1878
Whitman W. B. to same Com. at the file

I certify that Benjamin Pincian and also the Deponents testifying in his favour are persons with whom I have had a general acquaintance having been brought up in this vicinity - That I believe them to be men of veracity - That Benjamin Pincian is an industrious & worthy citizen - and that I have no doubt the facts by him stated are true.
Ebenezer Whitman
Representative Hall Feb. 6. 1818

UNITED STATES.
DISTRICT, Ss.
To Doctor
of
and Doctor
of
in
said District.
Pursuant to an Act of Congress of the United States, passed the 25th of April, 1812, entitled "An Act to revive and continue in force an act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War, and for other purposes"—You are hereby appointed and authorised to examine
who is
Commission to Bart Brown Esq to take evidence

Original Claim.
UNITED STATES.
DISTRICT, Ss.
I, John Davis Judge of the DISTRICT COURT of the United States of America for the Massachusetts District, BY AUTHORITY of an act of Congress, passed the 25th day of April, 1812, entitled, " An Act to revive and continue in force an Act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War, and for other purposes," —DO HEREBY ESPECIALLY AUTHORISE AND COMMISSION Bartholomew Brown of the county of Plymouth and District of Massachusetts Esquire to take all evidence pursuant to the rules and regulations of the said act for substantiating the claim of Benjamin Tincion of the town of Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth and district of Massachusetts to be placed on the Pension List of the United States by reason of known wounds received in said war, or since, (as prescribed in the 4th section of " an Act concerning invalid pensioners," passed the 25th of April, 1808,)—while in the actual service of the United States, and in the line of his duty. And when the same shall be completed, to return the evidence, affidavits, certificates and proceedings had hereupon, together with this commission, to the Secretary for the Department of War.
Given under my hand and seal at Boston the 26 th day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J Davis

Increase of Pension.
Commissary to Bart Brown Esq to take evidence
UNITED STATES.
DISTRICT, Ss.
To Doctor
of
and Doctor
of
said District.
Pursuant to an Act of Congress of the United States, passed the 25th of April, 1812, entitled "An Act to revive and continue in force an act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War, and for other purposes"—You are hereby appointed and authorised to examine
who is
inscribed on the Pension List of the United States, and
is claimant for an increase of pension conformably to the 5th section of the act of the 10th of April, 1806, revived as aforesaid; and you are to report in writing and on oath or affirmation your opinion of the nature of his disability and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor; and in your proceedings in the premises you are to be regulated and governed by said act.
Given under my hand and seal at
this
day of
in the year one thousand eight hundred and

I Benjamin Pison of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby depose and say. That in the month of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy nine, being then an inhabitant of Pembroke in said County I enlisted into the service of the United States as a soldier in the revolutionary army for the term of nine months in the regiment commanded by Col. Preston and in Genl. Nixons Brigade. At the expiration of said term I again enlisted into said service, and the whole time of my being in said service and in prison was nearly four years. On the nine tenth of July aforesaid I marched to Springfield and from thence toward New York. On the third day of February in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and Eighty I was detached into Capt. Watson's company & sent with a party commanded by Lieut. Col. Thompson to guard the lines near Phillips Manor so called, in the State of New York. Said party was attacked by the enemy, and after an engagement which continued nearly three quarters of an hour I. (the said Pison) together with my Col. & three companies of Officers & soldiers were taken prisoners. While engaged in said action I received several musket balls through my clothing.

I also received one through my right arm near the shoulder, by which the bone of my arm was broken. I remained in this situation two days, before my wound was dressed, and was carried to the City of New York, and there detained as a prisoner until the thirteenth day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty and was then exchanged. During the time of my imprisonment I suffered greatly for want of proper attendance. I took the small box which added to my distress & my life for some time was in despair. The yellow fever came into the hospital when I was confined on which account I was removed into the Surgeon's room, so called, before my wound was in a suitable state therefore, I was thereby deprived of proper attendance. On my return to my regiment I was discharged my term of service for which I had interest being ended on the twenty third day of April immediately previous. I returned directly home and went to reside in the family of William Pincin of said Bridgewater. My arm being not yet healed I applied to a surgeon, D o ct r Isaac Olin of said Bridgewater for assistance. My wound continued open & unhealed for eight months - during all which time I was totally unable to support myself and depended entirely on my friend therefor, suffering much pain & distress. The payment of my wages I received in paper money,

forty dollars of which I at one time gave for a dinner, having it at my option to pay that or a portion in silver. I have been ad much of a for doctoring, nursing or on account of said wound and have never been able to perform hard labor or exercise, although by economy I have made out to support a small family of four persons including myself. I am now nearly fifty eight years old, and find that the trouble from my wound increases upon me as I increase in age. I have made diligent search and enquiry to find some officer or fellow soldier of my acquaintance who is the record, or were taken or imprisoned with me, & have been able to find one only & his affidavit I have procured. I know of none living who were in said Watson's company & taken with me. The said company was detached for the 1 st occasion & taken from different regiments and the soldiers almost all strangers to each other, and were mostly killed or wounded & left on the field - I have made particular enquiry for Capt. Watson and find that he died in New York about ten years ago. The reasons of my not having made application for relief before are the following viz Shortly after my return from the army I petitioned the Legislature of Massachusetts for a pension on account of my wound & suffering. A decision was delayed for some time, for what reason I know not, as I always understood that my claim by them was by them considered just and sufficiently supported by evidence. At length the Genl Court of said Com.

Commonwealth determined that it was a case proper for the consideration of Congress, and gave me leave to withdraw my application. Afterward I petitioned Congress, but it was previous to the enacting of the pension law of April 1806, and my petition not being offered within the time then required by law for similar applications, of which requisite I was ignorant, could not as I understood be acted upon and was therefore dismissed. I further testify that I am not on the pension list of any of the United States. The said Dr. Isaac Abi has been deceased nearly thirty years.
Benjamin Pincion
District SS. March 17 th 1818 Then personally appeared before the Subscribers Benjamin Pincion and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed. I also certify that said Pincion is an acquaintance of mine & is of undoubted veracity.
Barth W Brown
Commissioner duly appointed
The Petitioner's affidavit of the truth of the facts in his Petition etc.

Benjamin Pincin
Pet n of
Benjamin Pincin
for a pension
Aug - 12 - 1818
Ref d to the Committee on pensions & Revolutionary Claims
Whitman P. 12. / new date

To the Hon. Senate & House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled —
Respectfully shews Benjamin Pynchon of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth, Massachusetts, that in July 1779 he enlisted in the nine months campaign in the service of the United States in Col. Greaton's Regiment of Genl. Nixon's Brigade, & on the 19 th of said month marched to Springfield, and from thence towards New York, and on the 3 d day of February 1780 at Philip's Manor near the White Plains, being on a detached party commanded by Lieut. Col. Thompson for the purpose of guarding the Lines, and while actually on guard, was surrounded by the British troops and taken prisoner with the Col. and three companies after a severe action of three quarters of an hour, during which he received a ball through his right arm just below the shoulder joint, which very much fractured his arm, and in that condition was carried a prisoner into New York and remained two days without any dressing of his arm or surgical assistance, and was there detained as a prisoner till the 13 th of December 1780, when he was exchanged. During the whole of his confinement, ten months and ten days, he suffered very much and particularly by the want of proper attendance.  want of proper attendance. Soon

after his arrival at the Regiment he was discharged, and notwithstanding immediate application to a surgeon after he returned home his arm did not heal in eight months, and not till many pieces of the fractured bone were discharged from it. The shoulder joint was also so much injured by it, that it has been constantly liable to dislocation ever since & still is, and has in fact been dislocated more than one hundred times, and renders him incapable of hard labor. While a prisoner he took the small box and had it very severely so that his life was despaired of. His sufferings were indeed great, and all the compensation he received for (just 17 months & 12 days) nearly 18 months of service and suffering was four months pay, and that in depreciated paper, forty dollars of which he paid for a single dinner before he arrived home, having his choice at the same time of paying this, or a pistareen in silver. Your petitioner has hitherto been able by great diligence and economy to maintain himself and a small family (a wife & 2 daughters) but now that he is 58 years old, and what little bodily strength was spared him being nearly exhausted, he is induced to pray your honors to consider his case and make him such an allowance as a wise policy tempered with hu-

manity may justify and require.
Bridgewater Jan. 6. 1878.
Benjamin Pincin.

Rep. 5 Oct. 39
Massachusetts - 31,662
Benjamin Pincin
of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts who was a P.M. in the County commanded by Captain Burleigh of the Regt. commanded by Hall - in the Mass't line for 21 m - 18 3/4
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 72 Dollars 7 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of Sept. 39, and sent to Anthony Collinson, and Pembroke, Mass't
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. - $ 612.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 36.00 $ 648.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
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James L. Edwards Esq Com d of Pensions Washington D.C.

Pembroke, Mass. August 23. 1839
James L. Edwards Esq r
Sir, I herewith transmit to you the Declaration of Benjamin Paine for a Pension under the Acts of Congress of June 7. 1832 and of Feb y 19. 1833. He now receives an Invalid Pension granted him by an act of Congress of March 3. 1819. Being disabled by the loss of the principal part of the bone of his right arm it was thought by the explanations of the Attorney General, that he was also entitled to the benefit of the Act of June 7. 1832. If that should not be the case you will please inform me; but if he is entitled and the papers are not made out correctly, please give me notice of any defects. I have sent no evi- dence in proof of his services, for with the exception of his services to Rhode Island under Capt Partridge in 1770 and perhaps of the service in the secret expedition of 1777, none now can be obtained in this vicinity. all which is respectfully submitted,
Very respectfully
Your obed Serv t
Anthony Collamore