Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11216, for William Parker, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Parker, William
S. 11216
carded
CONTENTS

Copy of Declaration Sent to Warren Parker Care of Ebenezer Parker & Son
Boston Mass
Nov. 13 th 1850
15080 New Hampshire
William Parker
of Hillsboro in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Walker of the Reg t commanded by Col. Saw t in the New Hampshire line for - 15 months
Mass. Line.
May 6/05 Records corrected.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 50 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of May 1833 and sent to Eben r . Parker Boston Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1833 of 100.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. - 25.00
$125.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
J. W. Clagett Clerk
Recorded by Book E
Vol. 20 Page 110.

No 23795 William Parkin Hillsborough County New Hampshire.
   Period Duration of Service Rank Name of General and Post Office     From 15 March      
Ebenezer Parker (Boston) March June Mass

BRIEF in the case of William Parker County of Hillsborough - in the State of New Hampshire (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 79 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted 9 th Ap l In 1775 - 4 - private Gen. Walcutt   Vol - Ap l 1777 - 5 - private Gen. Minto, Col. Law.   Enlisted Ap l 1778 - 6 - private Gen. Varnum, Col. MacIntosh  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Lexington  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Chelmsford Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence, Clergymans Certificate. Living Witnesses & Documentary  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Rich d H. Pratt Examining Clerk.

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William Parker
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty

State of New Hampshire of Massachusetts.
County of Hillsborough
SS.
On this
Third
day of
October A.D. 1832
Framstown
personally appeared in open Court before the
within and for the County of Hillsboro
now sitting at
aforesaid
William Parker of Hillsboro in said County Husbandman - aged twenty nine years
Who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say
that he was a minute man from the month of May 1774 during a period of several months in the Massachusetts volunteer State Corps - having his residence at that time in Cheapsad in the State of Massachusetts - That during said period he was occasionally on duty & was constantly attached to the service - That on the 19 th April 1775 he enlisted in said service of the United States in the State Troops at Cheapsad aforesaid, for the period of eight months, under the command of Captain Benjamin Waller - That he marched from Cheapsad to Concord Bridge and pursued the British Regulars to Lexington through the intervening places & was in the Battle of Lexington, and within a short distance of Capt Davis of Acton when he was killed - and was a private soldier - That he remained in said service until  two months  for a period of five months; that he from bodily debility went home unperformed - after hearing of the Battle of Bunker Hill he rejoined his corps - and was at Cambridge & remained there about two months -
That in April 1777, he again entered the service as a volunteer private soldier being then resident at Cheapsad aforesaid, upon the call for a certain quota of men in the State Troops of Massachusetts; in the volunteer corps commanded by Capt John Nims; which Lt. Proctor was Lieutenant - and Col. Bow commanded the Regiment to which said Corps was attached - That he marched from Concord & Walpole to Providence, Rhode Island passing through said towns, and occupied the College Buildings as Barracks, & was afterwards stationed principally at Warwicks - and having served five months, was dismissed - Also that in April 1778 he enlisted in said service as a private soldier for the period of six months in the State Troops in the volunteer corps commanded by Capt Joseph B. Varnum of Bristol, Massachusetts, in the Regiment of Col. MacIntosh - That he marched to Providence through Boston, Roxbury & Walpole, & went thence to Bristol Ferry and Little Compton - and afterwards was stationed at Butts Hill, where being disabled from duty by the service, he was sent to the Hospital at Paupackquash Island, as by the Certificate an

annexed of the hereon, Ionia Arnold will appear I was thence honorably discharged, than which he has no other evidence - of contemporary service but that which is herewith subpoenaed.
He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity whatever, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
William Parker
Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate
We John Lawton a clergyman & Pastor of the Congregational Church in Hillsborough and Franklin Peirce, and
residing in the town of Hillsboro in the County of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Parker who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and 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 in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Franklin Pierce John Lawton
Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate
And the said Court thereupon proceeded to propound the following interrogatories, which he answered under oath, as follows:
1. Where and in what year were you born?
Answer, In Chelseaford in the County of Middlesex State of Massachusetts, on the Seventh day of October in the year 1752.
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer, I have and it is in my family Bible at my residence at home.
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? I was living when called to service in Chelseaford in the County of Middlesex State of Massachusetts. I have lived since the war in Hillsboro in the County of Hillsboro State of New Hampshire where I now reside.
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer, I was a volunteer.
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental, and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer, The only officers I recollect were Col McIntosh - Col Low of Manchester, Capt Munro - Capt J. Brattle of Dracut, Capt Walker, Capt Ford, Capt Charles Furbish of Andover - Lieut. Genl. Proctor - I did you ever receive a discharge from service if so by whom was it given or what has become of it - The only discharge I had or can find is hereto annexed - signed by J. Arnold.
6. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer, The Rev. John Lawton Minister of the Gospel & Pastor of the Congregational Church of Hillsboro - His Excellency Benjamin Peirce Governor of the State of New Hampshire - Major Isaac Andrews - General Solomon Merrill - Franklin Pierce Esq.
William C. Houghton Esq.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Rev John Sawton who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in the town of Hillsboro and Benjamin Pierce is resident in said Hillsboro an credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. Edmund Parker, J. Probate
Clerk of the Court of Probate
I Charles H. Atkinson  Register
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of William Parker for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this tenth day of September  October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
C. H. Atkinson  Register
I Benjamin Pierce of Hillsborough in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that I was a native of Chelmsford in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. and knew William Parker who signed the foregoing declaration. I have no doubt that said Parker went as a soldier in Captain Benjamin Walker's company to Cambridge in April 1775. That he was with Capt. John Stark at Rhode Island in 1776 or that he was with Rhode Island in Capt. Joseph B. Varnum's Company and Col. Stark's Regt in 1777. I was in the Army of the Revolution from the commencement of the war to its close, but having been stationed generally at the North West I had no personal knowledge of Parker's services.
Benjamin Pierce
Here State of New Hampshire Hillsborough County ss. October 13 th 1832
of which the year last aforesaid - Before me
Sworn & subscribed this day and
Solomon M'Neil - Justice of the Peace
Benjamin Pierce the above deponent was the late Governor of New Hampshire
Solomon M'Neil - Justice of the Peace

I Andrew Wallace, Clerk of the Superior Court of Jurisdiction for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire, certify that Solomon O'Neil is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Hillsborough as within named, and that the within signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my name, this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord, 1832.
A. Wallace Clerk
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23795
William Parker

Rev. War
✓ INVALID 11216
File No. 11216
William Parker
Pris Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. a , Page 289
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I John Lawton of Hillsborough in the County of Hillsborough and State of North Carolina do hereby affirm and testify, that William Parker of Hillsborough aforesaid has been a near neighbor and well known to me during the twelve years last past; he has ever been reputed to have been a Revolution Soldier. I think no one disputes it. If he cannot prove the time he served otherwise than by his oath from his character for veracity I think his oath to that point may be safely relied on John Lawton
State of North Carolina Hillsborough County ss October 27, 1832
Sworn and subscribed the day and the year last aforesaid
Before me Franklin Pierce Justice of the Peace
I certify that John Lawton the above deponent is known to me, that he is a Minister of the Gospel and Pastor of the Congregational Church in Hillsborough Franklin Pierce Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Secretary's Office October 27. 1832
The within named Franklin Penn is a Justice of the Peace for our County of Hillsborough duly constituted and sworn, as his signature is such genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set the Seal of State. Ralph Metcalf Secretary.

Genl Hospital Pappasquash Aug t 26 th 1778.
William Parker of Capt. Darnum's Co. of Col. M c Kinstry's Regt. is incapable of Duty from an Apoplexer Status. he is recommended to his Officers for a Discharge — Jon s Arnold Director
(Handwritten signature of Jon s Arnold Director)
To whom it Concerns

awarded
A. H.
23795
Prof.
Hon. Lewis Cass.
Secretary of War.
Washington - D. C.

Boston February 12 th - 1833.
The enclosed application is forwarded to the Hon Secretary at War - for a pension under the act of 1832. With the request that after approbation & allowance, the certificate may be forwarded to the subscriber who is the son of the applicant.
Respect ly Y our Obed ient Serv t Eben r Parker