Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33438, for Lemuel Parsons, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Parsons, Lemuel
S. 33438
CONTENTS

5436. 4
Massachusetts
Samuel Parsons Capt Colton's Co Maj H Private New Hampshire Line 1776 1777
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of Jan y 1819 and sent to John Hooker Esq Judge Springfield Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818. 4 20 / 30 7 4 / 30 Mo s 38.39 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Mar: 1819 - 48.00
Cont d $ 86.39
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Hampden County
Notification sent July 31 st 1820 to John Ingalls, Springfield, Mass.

Samuel Parsons — Private Jan'y 76 to Dec'r 76 Stoke N. Hampshire Ref? Admitted
I John Hooker within named do hereby return this Application do hereby return this Application with the affidavits hereto annexed, in which they state more particularly the knowledge they have of the service of the Applicant —
Dated 21. 10. 10
John Hooker

New Hampshire lines
Lemuel Parsons
Suspended
Not on the Roll

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden Co. Springfield April 11 th A.D. 1818
Personally appeared before me John Doolittle one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Hampden; Samuel Parsons now resident in Springfield in said County and made solemn oath that at said Springfield in the Spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy five he was enlisted as a private soldier in the American revolutionary Army in the Compa- ny of Captain Andrew Bolton's company of minute men for the term of eight months. That at the expiration of said eight months in the month of January in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six at Roxbury Mass ts he enlisted again for the term of one year as a private soldier in Captain Sylvanus Walker's Company of Colonel Stark's Regiment of Infantry of the New Hampshire line and served against the common enemy during the whole of said last mentioned term of enlistment That he never asked, or received any written discharge - & that by reason of his reduced circum- stances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support -
Samuel Parsons
April 11.
We Simeon Colton of Longmeadow aforesaid & Daniel Swetland of Springfield Mass ts do severally depose & say that we were in the same Company & Regiment with the sd Samuel Parsons in said Walker's company & Stark's regiment & that we did serve therein in the revolutionary army against the common enemy for the term of one year as he has stated in the foregoing affidavit. —
Simeon Colton
Daniel Swetland
April 11.

And I Lemuel Parsons do further testify & declare that after leaving Albany as testified to by him in letter, the said Company & Regiment went to Newton & that I was in the Battle of Trenton when the Hessian were surprised & taken by Genl Washington
Lemuel Parsons
Maple Woodshed. Dec 19. 1810 When the above Lemuel Parsons made the latter part stated in the his supplementary declaration
Reference to John Hooker Esq Justice of the Peace

I Simeon Colton of Long Meadow Mass ts do hereby further testify that in Dec r 1775 I enlisted with one S t Steele a recruiting officer at said Long Meadow to serve in the army of the United States for one year from the first day of Jan y 1776 - That by the direction of said Steele to Roxbury near Boston I saw the said first day of Jan y 1776 I entered the company of Captain Sylvanus Walker in the Regiment of Colonel Stark in the New Hampshire Line - and I do further testify that Samuel Parsons joined said company at the same time - The said company, that winter, were stationed at Winter Hill near Boston & until the British evacuated Boston - after that we were marched to New London - Then we sailed to New York - & after staying there a few days, the company went on board a vessel & failed to Albany - thence by land, to Fort George & from thence to St Johns in Canada - thence for, the said Parsons was with the said company, but said Parsons was when left at St Johns sick - thence the company went into Canada & retreated some time I believe in June back to St Johns where we found said Parsons & he then again joined the said company - & we then came to Crown Point and a place called Crumbly  Crumbly Point to Mt Independence - & were there stationed thro' the summer - and about the last of November, we were marched to Albany - where I was taken sick & left - the said company sailed down the river and I do testify that during all said time from the first of Jan y 1776 to the beginning of December of that year the said Parsons was with said company doing duty, except when he was left sick at St Johns - Simeon Colton
I Daniel Swelland of Springfield Mass ts do testify that I enlisted into the company of Sylvanus Walker in Col d Stark's Regiment of Infantry in the New Hampshire Line about the middle of Jan y 1776 to serve thro' that year - & that I went with said company in all its movements & marches as testified to by the above Simeon Colton, until the said company marched from Mt Independence the latter part of November 1775 - and that I was then left by order of Captain Walker at Mt Independence to take care of one Johna Leach a private soldier in the same company who was then very sick - that said Leach died in about ten days, when the officer commanding there, gave me a pass to return home, the said company & Regiment having gone to the south - and I further testify that the said Samuel Parsons was in said company when I joined it in Jan y 1776 & that he was in said company during all that time except when left at St Johns sick as said Colton has above testified - doing duty as a soldier - Daniel Swelland
Mass ts Hampshire County ss Dec r 21 st 1810 - Then personally appeared the above named Simeon Colton & Daniel Swelland & being duly confirmed examined upon oath to the truth of the facts set forth in the above deposition by them respectively subscribed - And I do also certify that I saw well acquainted with the said deponents & that they are men of good reputation for truth & are disinterested & credible witnesses -
John Hooker Chf Justice as aforesaid

General Parsons
Missfield
52 36 January 1819
Can March 1813
Property unproductive - He is disabled -
July 3,

COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY of Hampshire
ss.
ON this tenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas the same being a Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at Springfield within and for said county of Hampshire .
Saml Parsons of Springfield in said County
aged sixty five years, resident in Springfield in said County 1775-who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: That in December or about the first of January in the year 1775 at Roxbury he enlisted on the continental establishment in the company of Captain Sylvanus Walther of the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Stark in the New Hampshire line & served in said company during one whole year next after said enlistment, to wit at Bunker Hill near Boston until the enemy vacated Boston when he marched to New London in Connecticut thence to New York when he arrived in April 1776 thence to Albany & to Lake George which he crossed into Lake Champlain, thence by Ticonderoga to St Johns, where he was left sick & remained there until the Army returned in June following, when he returned with them to Ticonderoga at which place he remained with said Army until November 1776 that he then returned by Albany with the Army & marched to New York New Jersey & was employed about said New York & Trenton until the first of January 1777 being the termination of the whole period of his enlistment. That he was in the battle of Trenton in which eight or fifteen hundred Hessians were captured by the American Army, that his original application for a pension under the Act of March 18 th 1818 was made on the and that his Pension certificate issued to him is numbered 5436.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818. And that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale or manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule by me subscribed.

and that his Pension certificate issued to him is numbered 5436.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale or manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
SCHEDULE.
Ten acres of land valued at $ 50.00 Income of land of which I have a life lease, per annum, — 30.00 One dung fork — — — 20 One axe — — — — — 1.00 One broken Wagon & harness — 2.00 Three old hoes — — — — 50 One pot, one dish kettle one tea kettle one spider } — 1.20 One shovel — one saw — — 1.00 two tin pans — — — — 40 One shovel & long & hand dugs — 1.00 Three pails — — — — 30
three plates, two bowls, two platters } $ 00.50 tree turn bles & one pitcher } — 20 One looking glass — — — — — 20 One old chest and broken case of drawers 3.00 One plough & chains & harness & stand table 2.80 One old sleigh & 4 old broken chairs 1.00 two tables one rake, 3 old casks, 1 old wheel 1.40 One grind stone & shovel and basket — 1.75 One half bushel — — — — — 12 One old loom — — — — — 10.00 One row & two pigs — — — — 5.00 One horn — — — — — 15.00 Seven sheep — — — — — 3.00 One note of hand against John Benton 1.25
amounting in all to 132.62 Debts due from said Parsons are to Rice & Holt $ 1.00 to Nelson & Kirkham $ 9.26 to Dwight $ 1.30 to Howard & Hattorp $ 5.89 to Solomon Hatch $ 21.66 to George Cotton $ 2.10 to Jones & Lillie $ 3.90 Total amount of debts due from said Parsons $ 44.72.
And the said Lemuel Parsons further declares on oath that his family consists of his wife Sarah Parsons aged fifty nine years unable to support herself & Lucina Parsons her daughter of said Lemuel aged twenty one years who is also feeble & low in health & unable to support herself and that said Lemuel is also infirm by a disease upon him called the Hydrocele and is able to do but very little towards his own support. Lemuel Parsons
Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of July before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is One Hundred Ninety Dollars and Sixty two Cents. exclusive of debts.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this fifteenth 15 th day of July 1820 John Ingersoll Clerk of the Courts for the County of Hampden.

O. M. DIVISION AUG 20 1900 RECEIVED
Glenn
To the Corresponding Secy or proper official
Will you kindly give me account of Rev. Ranchard (who wife was V. C. of General Parsons, Pennsylvania by whom I became a member of the D. A. R.? Please send me account of your bill for such information - Direct
Mrs Cornelia M Castle 26 College St - Watertown Conn.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampshire ss. B E IT REMEMBERED, That on the Eleventh day of
April — A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Hampden — the above named
Samuel Parsons the Applicant & the said Asmen Colton & Daniel Sweetland respectively
made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits, by them respectively subscribed, and hereto annex- ed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said
Samuel Parsons — the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a res- ident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampden to be affixed hereto, this eleventh day of April 1818
I do therefore hereby certify the above & annexed as the testimony proceedings had exhibited on the foregoing application to me & transmit the same to the Sec'y of the Department of War of the U. States.
JOHN HOOKER

33 438 Rev INVALID.
Sept 21-1900 - H. 15 1/2 Mrs. Amelia M. Castle Waterbury Conn.
File No. 33 438
Lemuel Parsons
Dis Rev Ins
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 316
[Arrangement of 1870.]