Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15206, for Jesse Peirce, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Peirce, Jesse or Pierce
W. 15206.
Lydia
CONTENTS

219574
Massachusetts
Lydia Pierce dec d .
widow of Jesse Pierce dec d . who was a Private
in the Mass a Line
Rep d . 17 Feb 44
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. and ending on the 25 th Apr l 1843. the day of her death.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Feby. 1844
and sent to Asa N. Waters Esq. Millbury Mass a .
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1
Page 50.
Pay d to Jesse Pierce. Josiah G. Pierce Abram Pierce. Soah Danton. V. G. a. W. Pierce. Children of Lydia Pierce Dec d .

31st 1820 Notification sent July 31st 1820 Major Bigelow, Worcester, Mass.
Massachusetts Roll.
1,521
Jesse Pierce, Private, 11
Massachusetts line - 1779 3 years 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 8 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818, and sent to the Hon. Isaac Parker, Worcester, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Signed & Witnessed
4 months 27/30. $39. 20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
William W. ...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER COUNTY, ss.
I, William Garrison , Assistant Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, That Elias Forbes, Esquire , is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the certificate, on the deposition of Jesse Pierce and others , — hereunto annexed, is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the Seal of said County, this twenty sixth day of January , in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four .
William Garrison , Asst. Clerk as aforesaid.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County ss. On this 18 th Day of Jan y 1844 Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, Jesse Pierce, Joseph Dale Pierce Abram Pierce George W Pierce, and Zoa Dunton (wife of Moses Dunton, all Children of the late Widow Lydia Pierce deceased,) 1 who being first sworn according to law, Do make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of congress passed on the 3 rd Day of March 1843 granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, that she was the Widow of Jesse Pierce who was a Private in the army of the Revolution That she was a petitioner of the United States under the act of Congress granting pensions to widows for five years at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum. That she never inter- married after the death of the said Jesse Pierce - but Died on the 25 th Day of April 1843. and pray that they may receive so much of the pension as was due their Mother from the 4 th of March 1843 to the Day of her Death
Jesse Pierce Joseph Dale Pierce
Abram Pierce Zoa Dunton George W Pierce
Sworn and subscribed on the Day and year above written before me. As I certify that the said Widow Lydia Pierce was personally known to me, and also the Children who have here subscribed their names
Elias Folsom Jus of the Peace.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Sydia Pierce was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $80 per annum ; was a resident of the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and died in Millbury, in said County in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty- three on the twenty fifth day of April ; and that she left five children, to wit: Jesse Pierce, Josiah Gale Pierce, Abraham Pierce, Zora Denton, wife of Moses Denton, and George W. Pierce.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Worcester, this fifteenth day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty- four .
C. G. Prentiss , Register.

Lebo Pierce
1521
June 1818.
Millbury
Sep 1818
LEVI PIERCE, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, Middlesex, ss. I do hereby certify that the within copy is a true copy of the original now on file in my office and of the whole thereof. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court at this 15th day of June, 1818.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this twenty second day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, Jesse Pierce aged fifty four years, resident in Millbury, in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: I enlisted in December 1780 under Capt Thomas Turner in the Regiment commanded by Col John Brooks, and served 3 years, as will appear by my discharge, which accompanied my first application for a pension in April 1818 - certificate numbered 1521
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 in any 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.
I have no property except necessary clothing and bedding. My occupation is that of a Laborer. I have a wife and one child aged 15 years with me. I am infirm & in a bad state of health. Jesse Pierce.
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty second day of June 1820 before the said Court.
Attest, Abijah Bigelow. Clerk.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, 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 said Jesse Pierce has no property whatever necessary clothing & bedding excepted.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty second day of June, 1820.
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

1086 Sydney Peirce Massachusetts.
Admitted for a yr $80.
died 13 Nov 1820 Preston list.
Chas G. Prentiss Worcester.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Mr. Barton is the Judge of said Court duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the papers hereto annexed are his genuine signatures.
I further certify, that Edwards Clarke is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to one of the papers hereto annexed is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this thirty first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-eight.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss
On this Twenty fourth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Eight personally appeared before me Nathan Judson of the Court of the  General Sessions County of Worcester Lydius Pierce a resident of Norbury in said County of Worcester Widow aged sixty two 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 the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows:"
That she is the Widow of Jesse Pierce who was a Private Soldier in the Revolutionary Continental Army under Captain Thomas Turner in Col: Henry Jackson's Regiment first and afterwards in Col: John Brooks Regiment: that he enlisted for three years as a volunteer agreeably to the Resolve of Dec r 2 d 1780 - that he was then a Resident of Sutton in said County of Worcester:
She further declares that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18 th of March A D 1818 said Jesse Pierce was inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the Massachusetts Army: and further on her oath she doth declare that she is the Widow of said Jesse Pierce whose name is inscribed on the Pension Roll aforesaid.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jesse Pierce on the sixth day of March in the year Seventeen Hundred & Eighty four

That her Husband the said Jesse Pierce died on the thirteenth day of November in the year Eighteen Hundred & Twenty.
That she was not married to him the said Pierce prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four (viz). At the time above stated and that she has not been married since. — She further declares that at the death of her said husband, as his widow she drew the balance then due him, and has received from the State of Massachusetts sixty five dollars in lieu of the weekly pension for the widow of three years more.
Witness my hand and seal this the day and year above written
In Lydia K. Pierce mark
Before me
J. M. Bartol Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Worcester
Lydia Pierce
As to the balance due

I am H. Weeks of Melbury in the County of Dorset do hereby certify that that I know Josiah Pierce late of Melbury formerly Station; that he died about seventeen or eighteen years ago leaving Lydia Pierce his widow who has never been married since. He was a free citizen of the United States, and after his death I married Mrs. Pierce in obtaining from the State of Massachusetts the bond provided for the widow of Revolutionary soldiers who served three years. Mrs. Pierce is a woman of truth and respectability.
(S) E. A. S. Water
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Dorset ss. July 24. 1838. Personally appeared Amos H. Weeks Esquire who is well known to me as a magistrate & man of truth, and made oath that the above deposition is true.
Before me
Amos Batchelder of Public Justice County

Jesse Peirce and Lydia Gale both of Sutton were joined together in Marriage by Amos Singletary Justice of the Peace — A true copy of record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows March 6 1784 March the sixth seventeen hundred eighty four.
Attest Dan. Tenney Clerk of the Town of Sutton in the County of Worcester Massachusetts
Sutton August 29 th 1838
I Dan. Tenney above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk in the Town County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Sutton with the exception above named as certified by me
Dan. Tenney Clerk of the Town of Sutton sworn before me
Edw Clarke Justice of the Peace
Sutton August 29 th 1838

8 April
John Pierce
Milbury
Correct - Pay a discharge from Ft Washington
John Pierce

State of Massachusetts
I Jesse Pierce a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Millbury in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on The Twelfth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & Seventy Nine
I entered and was engaged in the service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to - The Eleventh day of June in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & Eighty Three
as a Soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to The Seventh Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col o M c Brooks - and that I was in Capt Thomas Furness Company
and that I left the service on The Eleventh day of June A D 1703. as will appear by my discharge signed by George Washington and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty. I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Sixty Three years -
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed. -
Jesse Pierce
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 10 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me Isaac Parker Chief Justice of the
State of Massachusetts.
the abovenamed Jesse Pierce and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court the day & year before written
Isaac Parker C.J. S.C.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Jerre Peirce or Pierce a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. W. 15,206
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Dec 12 1779 or Dec - 1780 June 11, 1783 Pvt. Thomas Turner John Brooks. Henry Jackson Mass.                                     
Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Sutton, Worcester Co., Mass.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 8, 1812. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Millbury, Worcester Co., Mass.
Age at date of application, 54 years in 1820
Remarks: He married Mch 6, 1784 at Sutton, Mass. Lydia Gale; he died Nov. 13, 1820 and she was allowed pension on an ap. of $4. Aug 24, 1838 while a resident of Millbury, Mass., aged 72 years, she died Apr 25, 1843, leaving the following children: Jerre; Josiah Gale; Abram; George W. and Zerah who was the widow of Moses Dutton in 1844.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 3 rd March 1843 Lydia Pierce deceased widow of Josiah Pierce deceased, who was a Private in the Revolutionary War, was entitled to receive a pension at the rate of eighty dollars per Annum, Commencing on the 4 th of March 1843 and ending on the 23 rd of April 1843 the day of her death which will be paid which will be paid to Josiah Pierce, Josiah G. Pierce Abram Pierce, Joah Dunton and George W. Pierce, Children of Lydia Pierce deceased
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 17 day of Feby! one thousand eight hundred and forty=4
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
Commissioner of Pensions.

532B
Lydia Peirce, del d
$80 per an
Payable to 25 April 1843 when she died - to Jesse Peirce, Josiah G. Peirce, Abram Peirce, Joab Dunton and George W. Peirce, children of Lydia Peirce, del d
Asa H. Waters Milbury Mass

Wiltbury July 3 rd 1844
Hon Henry L Ellsworth Commissioner of Patents Washington -
Dear Sir
I have been requested to forward to You the vouchers for a small Bal. of Pensions due the Heirs of the late Widow Lydia Pierce deceased which please examine & acknowledge & oblige
Most Respectfully Sir Ye Oble Servt M att Waters

The discharge copied for his Son, March 11. 1833

Massachusetts 790
Sydia Pierce widow of Jesse Pierce dec d
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 13th November 1820 of Worcester in the State of Ms. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Turner of the Regt. commanded by Col Jackson in the Ms. time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass a at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Aug. 1838 and sent Mr. G. Pension Worcester Ms
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $207.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Mar. 39. 40.00
$247.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by H. M. Addison Clerk Book 9. Vol. 1 Page 119

THE MARGARET BRENT CHAPTER BALTIMORE, MD.
John Eager Howard Chapter.
Dear Sir:
Kindly give me all the data you have concerning-
Jesse Price born 1764 married Lydia Gale.
Enlisted from Massachusetts in 1777.
Would like to find out if you have on the pension roll such a name - also the names of his children and where he lived when drawing a pension and so on.
1-141

Kindly advise me as soon as possible -
Ever Oblige Mrs H. C. Thomas 2110 Mt. Royal Terrace Balt. Md.

We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Millbury hereby certify whom it may concern, That Jesse Pierce who was a soldier in the revolutionary war is a person in needy circumstances, destitute of property sufficient to make himself comfortable
Millbury April 6 th 1818
Caleb Burbank Dunham Norton John Jacobs Josiah Woodward } Selectmen of Millbury

Rev WIDOW, &c.
1914. Sept 4. Hist to Mrs. H. C. Thermal. Mark
File No. 15206
Lydia Pierce Widow of Jesse Pierce For Rev War
Act: March 8 th 48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 134
[Arrangement of 1870.]

By His Excellency George Washington Esq. General and commander in chief of the forces of the United States of America —
The Board certify that the bearer Jesse Pierce joins in the 7 th Pennsylvania Regiment, being enlisted for three years, and on transfer to an officer who retires on furlough. But by an arrangement with the Secretary at war for that purpose, is hereby discharged the American Army General at Head Quarters this 10 th June 1863
By his Excellency Command Turnbull Ind g Genl
G. W. Harper
Registered in the Books of the Regiment
J. H. Haskell Adjutant