Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18150, for Aaron Parker, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Parker, Aaron
S. 181350
carded
CONTENTS

~ 4024 ~ Maine
Aaron Parker of Standish in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Flint of the Reg't commanded by Col Holman in the Mass's time for Militia for 17 mo - 15 days -
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 58 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of January 1833 and sent to J. Ander- son House of Reps -
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 $87. 55 Semi-ann. allowance ending Oct 1833 29. 18
$116.73
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E.D. Bullock Clerk Book D Vol. 1 st Page 78 -

18.150 INVALID.
File No. 18.138
Aaron Parker
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 426
[Arrangement of 1870.]

A. Parker
Advent
mate 17 th 15 days
58.33 0
A Parker called 21 st July 80 /a 6 th acc due 20 th Dec 1780
John Anderson Hann of Shop

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
AT a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the twelfth  twelfth day of October  October A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two  two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
ON this thirtieth day of October aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Warren Parker a resident of Penobscot in the county of Penobscot in said Maine District, aged seventy five 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he was a soldier in the army
passed June 7th, 1832. That he was a soldier in the army of the Revolution & enlisted at Hubbardston in the County of Worcester in Massachusetts in June 1776 for five months under Capt. Flinn of Westminster Col. Holmans Reg't & marched to the City of New York & then remained a few days then marched out 5. of the City about a mile on the North River & thence Harlem Heights. Genl Putnam was there. Thence in March to the Mile Square this side Kings Bridge. Thence on to White Plains. Thence to Bridge Bridge & there he was regularly discharged late in November & had no written discharge.
written discharge - That he again enlisted in December 1876 in Capt Thos Massarks Company of said Hubbardston Col Sherman As Regt for the services & was in medality march- ed to Becks Hill in New York. Marched from Becks Hill to Boena Brook having on our march met Gen. Washington at Merriestown in New Jersey & then acted as guides. & ended the enlistment at Boena Brook & was then discharged in March 1877 - December 1877 in 11th Regt. Massarks Company of
He again enlisted in Capt. Brereton's Company of Hartfordshire in Middlesex County, Massachusetts for then when the Company was formed in and they were marched to Providence, Rhode Island. Then they were marched to Rhode Island & then moved out to Green which in said Rhode Island & then moved out to Providence in March 1775.
London Packer
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before
John Warr
{ U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Aaron Packer for a pension. And that John Anderson Esq. who took the annexed depositions of E. Lomond & W. Cummings - & W. Cummings Esq. who took the annexed depositions of Benj. Headborne & others are severally Justices of the Peace duly qualified & that their official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this sixteenth day of November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
John Nussey } Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
his age is recorded in the town Books of New Town as present - & he does not know of a single person who knows of his service. all are dead as he believes.

I Ebenezer Lord have a clergyman residing in Goshen in the County of Cumberland hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Asa Parker who has subscribed his name to the within declaration that I believe him to be upwards of seventy years old. That he is respected & beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides. to have been a soldier of the Revolution & I concur in that opinion.
Ebenezer Lord
I William Cummings of Cape Elizabeth in said County Esq. aged fifty five years do hereby declare that I have been acquainted with the within named Asa Parker, who has signed & sworn to the within declaration. I have very frequently been in his neighbourhood & constantly acquainted with him - I believe him to be upwards of seventy years old. & he is respected & beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution & I concur in that opinion - I further say that he has ever maintained a most excellent character for truth & honesty & all his statements have ever received the full belief of his neighbours.
Wm Cummings
Cumberland 10 Oct 30 th 1832 Then the above signed Cumberland & Cummings made oath to the above particulars by them signed before me John W. D. Dean
I also certify that since E Lord is a clergyman in said Goshen & W Cummings Esq. a highly respectable magistrate
John W. D. Dean

We Benjamin Chadborn Esq, Josiah Mose, Joseph Waterhouse, John Cummings, Thomas Cummings, and Simon Cummings, yeoman all of Standish in the county of Cumberland and State Maine on oath declare that we are well acquainted with old Aaron Parker of said Standish yeoman, and unhesitatingly declare that he has ever sustained an unblemished character for truth and veracity and he is reputed and believed in his neighbourhood to have been a soldier in the revolutionary war, and we concur in that opinion, we also believe him to be upwards of seventy years of age, he is now very poor & very infirm and helpless -
Benjamin Chadborn
Josiah Mose Joseph Waterhouse
Simon Cummings
Thomas Cummings
John Cummings
Cumberland ss October 25 th 1832 Then personally appeared the above named Josiah Mose Joseph Waterhouse John Cum- mings Thomas Cummings and Simon Cummings and made oath that the above statements by them signed are true -
Before me W m Cummings Justice of the Peace
Cumberland ss October 24, 1832 - Then personally appeared the above named Benjamin Chadborn and made oath, that the above statements by him signed are true -
Before me W m Cummings Justice of the Peace