Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32441, for Ithamar Phinney, Massachusetts

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NUMBER Ph. 1. Phinney, Othamar S. 32441 for Othaman
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21.04 2 Maine Ichaman Phinney of Pay Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Comp commanded by Captain Lamb of the Regt. commanded by Col. Prescott in the Mass line for 2 Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars (00) Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of Dec. 1833 and Subs. Jas. Starr Pay
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. $200 Semi-ant. allowance ending March 40 $240
Recorded by Rev. Col. Stiles Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 2 Page 13 { Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }

Hammerfest St.
19009

(No. 20)
Due sixty two dollars and twenty nine cents to the twenty third April 1780 to be paid in such kind as shall be paid for said time to the value thereof Ebenezer Storer PM
STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford ss. A. D. 183 , personally appeared in open Court, before the now sitting,
Phineas a resident of Jay in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 67 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That at Howland Ferry in that state service as a volunteer, in what was called the 15 month service, after being mustered by Capt John Cross; Lieut Barton & Ensign O'Callaghan, this was the sub- sequent commanded the Reg't he was in, there were Rhode Island troops, he was stationed at Bristol in the same state, from thence to Greenwich, thence back to Bristol, there in the state of Rhode Island, where he was engaged in what was called the private expedition, there were several times called out & prepared for action, to go on to Rhode Island (as he was informed) to attack the British who had possession of the Island at that time, were marched in the night over a mile to the water where they were to cross on to the Island, where he would be stopped a short time, then march back to their encampment again, this maneuver was repeated every 3 or 4 nights for some time, but he did not go on the campaign, from thence he was marched back to Bristol where he was stationed during the winter, at one of the times while he was at Bristol, Capt Barton, who was afterwards a brigadier, made his private expedition to New Port, on said Island in the night with a few selected men part of whom he was then stationed with his Prisoner, on the 16 of March 1770 he was probably discharged, having served the time which was the end of the 15 months service enlisted in - He enlisted at Middleborough in Massachusetts, he thinks in April or May 1770, for three months in the state service under a Captain or Lieut Barron, he with others marched to Roxbury adjoining Boston, where he joined the Reg't which he thinks was commanded by said Barron, after serving one month they were mustered out of the company, the muster master did not state to him the cause, others said he was too small, he believes there were but two or three companies stationed there at that time as it was after the British left Boston, he cannot recall the names of any other officers - In June or July 1770, at Middleborough he enlisted for six months in the state service of Massachusetts by a Lieut Barron, and joined a company, the Captain's name he cannot recall he marched to Providence in the state of Rhode Island, stationed there about a month, from thence to Pawtucket and on to Rhode Island, the British having left the upper end of the Island and gone to New Port, at the lower end, he thinks they were stationed at a place called Bulls Hill near said Ferry about a week, were then marched towards the lower end of the Island, about ten miles from New Port, then in possession of the British, he with the army were stationed here about four weeks, then marched back to Laddus Hill where they had a battle with the British, he does not recall the day of the month, but it was in September & Sunday, several were killed on both sides, the British receiving a reinforcement and troops retreated to Bulls Hill, he cannot recall the names of any of the field officers, but he does know that he knew some officers in the service the first campaign he enlisted, in about two days he with all the troops retreated off of the Island at Howland Ferry to the main, then to Little Compton in said state of Rhode Island where he was stationed nearly a month, was there mustered out by a muster master - from the best of his recollection he believes that he served but even three and four months in this campaign - In July 1779 at Middleborough aforesaid, where he resided, his Father Patrick Phineas, enlisted in the Continental service for nine months and marched to Join Army but was taken sick and returned home, he enlisted in his place, went & joined the Army at Fishkills in the state of New York, soon after leaving there, he was drafted out to a forage party that was under the command of Alexander Lamb, who signals as forage master, was called Capt Lamb, he continued with him till his term of enlistment expired, went to the Army then stationed at Fishkills and received a honorable discharge, dated April 23, 1780, when he received it, he signed the muster roll, he received a Certificate of the following purports: Due sixty two dollars and twenty nine cents, to the twenty third April 1780, signed, Ebenezer Storer paymaster, he being young took this and has not since said Storer since nor has never received any pay of the Government therefor, which Certificate or one similar that was left with him by a soldier from Middleborough who was discharged with him is herewith annexed. After he received his discharge, said Lamb was promoted to a Colonel in the same service in the Army - he and Capt Lamb agreed with him to stay with him, Lamb, a while longer but not any fixed time, which he did - In Boston state of Massachusetts 1765 on the Town records in Boston Mills. In Middleborough Massachusetts - In Middleborough in Bridgewater & New Salem in the state of Massachusetts, and in Jay where he now resides - Enlisted - Col. Gains - Maj. Barton & Capt Carr - in the first & second Regiments, Rhode Island state troops, in his two campaigns in that state - Never received any written discharge only in the Continental service dated April 23 1780 it is lost and I do not recall the name of the Officer who signed it - I have no documentary evidence to prove his service except the annexed matter and the accompanying Certificate from the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts - and he does not know of any man living by whom he can prove any of the foregoing service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity 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. Phineas Phineas
Before Stephen Emery, Judge

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Penobscot ss. ON this 10th day of July
A. D. 183 10th , personally appeared in open now sitting, Thomson
Phinney a resident of Jay in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, aged 67 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That at Howland Ferry in the state of Rhode Island, he first entered in that state service as a volunteer, in what was called the 15 month service, after five months of the same had expired, entered in a company commanded by Capt. John Carr, Lieut. Barton & Ensign Watten , these were the subaltern officers believed, but he is not certain but they received their titles. Col. Carrier commanded the Regt. he was in, there were Rhode Island troops, he was stationed for about two months at Howland Ferry where he enlisted, then marched to Bristol in the same state, from thence to Greenwich, thence back to Bristol, then back to Howland Ferry, then to Little Compton, (all those places are in the state of Rhode Island) where he was engaged in what was called the private expedition, that was, the Regiment he was in with other troops sent from Massachusetts, were several times called out & prepared for action, to go on to Rhode Island (as he was informed) to attack the British who had possession of the Island at that time, were marched in the night over a mile to the water where they were to cross on to the Island, where they would be stopped a short time, then march back to their encampment again, this maneuver was repeated every 3 or 4 nights for some time, but he did not so on this occasion, from thence he was marched back to Bristol where he was stationed during the winter, at one of the times while he was at Bristol, Capt. Barton, who was afterwards a Col., made a private expedition to New Port, on said Island in the night with a few selected men part of them was taken out of his company, and took General Prescott a British officer from his lodging chamber in a secret manner and returned to Bristol where he was then stationed with his Prisoner, on the 16th of March 1770 he was probably discharged, having served ten months which was the end of the 15 months service he enlisted in - He enlisted at Middleborough in Massachusetts, he thinks in April or May 1770. For three months in the state service under a Captain or Lieut. Barrows , he with others marched to Roxbury adjoining Boston, where he joined the which he thinks was commanded by said Barrows after serving one month nine days out of the company, the master master did not state to him the cause, others said he was to small , he believes there were two or three companies stationed there at that time as it was after the British left Boston, he cannot recall the names of any other officers - In June or July 1770. at Middleborough he enlisted for six months in the state service of Massachusetts by a Lieut. Howland , and joined a company, the Captain name he has forgotten he marched to Providence in the state of Rhode Island stationed there about a month, from thence to Howland Ferry, and on to Rhode Island, the British having left the upper end of the Island and gone to New Port, to the lower end, he thinks they were stationed at a place called Bulls Hill near said Ferry about a week, were then marched towards the lower end of the Island, about ten miles from New Port, then in possession of the British, he with the Army were stationed here about four weeks, then marched back to Suckaw Hill where they had a battle with the British, he does not recall the day of the month, but it was in September & Sunday, several were killed on both sides, the British receiving a reinforcement our troops retreated to Bulls Hill, he cannot recall the names of any of the field officers, but he does know that he knew some officers in the service the first campaign he enlisted, in about two days he with all the troops retreated off of the Island at Howland Ferry to the main, then to Little Compton in said state of Rhode Island where he was stationed nearly a month, was there mustered out by a muster master - from the best of his recollection he believes that he served between three and four months in this campaign - In July 1779 at Middleborough aforesaid, where he resided, his Father Deletick Phinney , enlisted in the Continental Service for nine months and marched to Join Army but was taken sick and returned home, he enlisted in his place , went & joined the Army at Fishkill in the state of New York, soon after arrived there, he was drafted out to a Forage party that was then under the command of Alexander Lamb, who signals as Forage master, was Col. Capt. Lamb, he continued with him till his term of enlistment expired, went to the Army then stationed at Fishkill and received a written discharge, dated April 23. 1780, when he received it, he signed the muster roll, he received a Certificate of the following particulars Due sixty two Dollars & twenty nine cents, to the quantity of 1700 lbs. signed, Ebenezer Storer - paymaster, he being young took this and has not since and Storer since nor has he received any pay of the Government therefor, which Certificate or one similar that was left with him by a soldier from Middleborough who was discharged with him is hereto annexed. After he received his discharge, said Lamb was promoted to a Col. in the same service in the Army - he only tells what Department, Lamb agreed with him to stay with him, Lamb a while longer but not any fixed time, which he did - In Easton state of Massachusetts 1765 in the Town records in Easton Mass. In Middleborough Massachusetts - In Middleborough in Bridgewater new Salem in the state of Massachusetts, and in Jay where he now resides - enlisted - Col. Carrier - Maj. Barton & Capt. Carr - in the first & second Regiment, Rhode Island state troops, in his two campaigns in that state - He never received any written discharge only in the Continental service - the date of April 23. 1780. It is last, and I do not recall the name of the Officer who signed it, Joseph Adams Dea. Sige. Alden that he has no documentary evidence to prove his services except the annexed note that he has no documentary evidence to prove his services except the annexed note now that he has no documentary evidence to prove his services except the annexed note that he has no documentary evidence to prove his services except the annexed note
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity 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. Thomson Phinney
Before Stephen Emery, Judge

We the subscribers of Jay & Canton in the County of Oxford and State of Maine hereby certify that we have been personally acquainted with Thomas Ahern the within applicant the who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration that we believe him to be 67 years of age, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion and from our personal knowledge we believe him to be a man of truth & veracity
Joseph Adames Cornelius Holland
Silas Alden
James Pass
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court the day of your signing
Stephen Emery, Judge
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 above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, he adducing in corroboration of his own declaration, a certificate from Edward D. Bangs Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; an original certificate signed by Ebenezer Dyer hereto annexed, and the foregoing certificate of Joseph Adams, a clergyman, set the Hon. Cornelius Holland, & others, gentlemen of good reputation for truth & veracity.
Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register Clerk 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 Ithamar Phinney for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 19 th day of September A. D. 1832.
CLERK.
Joseph G. Cole Register

Itheimer Phinney of Jay in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, makes the following statement in addition to his former declaration made before the probate Court for said County, on the nineteenth day of September A.D. 1832, to explain and remove the objections stated in J. L. Edwards communication of the 15 th of May 1833, which is hereto annexed.
That before he entered his first service in the Revolutionary war, in the Rhode Island fifteen months service; his Mother died, and his Father married a second wife, they were in poor circumstances for a living, and hearing what bounty and pay the Government was giving to soldiers who entered the service, and that boys as small as he was had enlisted and were received as soldiers, his Father & Step Mother were anxious to have him enlist that they might receive his pay, and they frequently conversed on the subject with him, and encouraged him to enlist - that his Father took him to places of enlistment, several times in order to enlist him, but did not effect it - After this, several men from the town where he lived went to Rhode Island and enlisted into that state's service for fifteen months, returned home on a furlough, and stated that there was some in the regiment they had entered in, that was not larger than he was; on his Father & Step Mother hearing of that, they got one of the men when he returned to the Army to take him there and enlist him, but he did not effect it - the next day after he arrived at the Camp, his Father came there and told him he had found an officer who would enlist him - his Father then took him to the Officer with whom he enlisted, and his Father received the bounty of twenty dollars, which was then paid - He was born February 15, 1765, and this first enlistment of his was on the 16 th of May 1779, which made his age at that time twelve years & three months - The first service he performed was looking for the noncommissioned officers of the Company in which he had enlisted, and they taught him the Manual exercise while he was in that employment, which was short of two months - he was then put into the Ranks, took his regular turn on duty, and performed the duty of a soldier during the remainder of his term of enlistment, which was ten months, (in the whole) to the satisfaction of all his Officers, he was Verbally discharged on the 16 th of March 1780, being thirteen years and one month old - he was large of his age, a description and measurement of all the soldiers in his company was taken & returned while he was in that service, and his, and his height was four feet & eleven inches - his Father received his pay for those services - When his time had expired the Officers under whom he had served during said term, tried to enlist him again, but he declined on account of his Father not being present - That in his third campaign when he states he enlisted in June or July, 1780 he cannot recollect the precise length of time he served in that campaign, but from his best recollection it was not up then three months - That after he was mustered out as he stated in his former declaration, he took the place of a soldier by the name of Jehabed Phinney and performed his

duty for two weeks, while he went home & returned - he has not included the two weeks time in the three months service before stated, but thinks it ought to be allowed to him agreeably to the secretarys regulations -
As it respects his fourth campaign when he served nine months, the reason why he cannot state who commanded the Regiment is, that immediately after he joined the regiment at head quarters, at Fish Kill in the State of New York as he stated in his declaration before the Court, he was dropted out to go in a Forage party under Captain Lamb, and continued with him to the end of his term of enlistment, and not returning to the Regiment only to receive his discharge (which is lost) is the cause of his not recollecting the name of the Officers commanding the Regiment & Company at that time -
That he did not leave the service at the time he received his discharge on the 23 of April 1700, - Capt Lamb wishing him to continue with him in the same service large, he agreed to, but not for any definite time; that he continued with Capt Lamb in his service from the time he received his discharge to the 20 th day of December 1700, when he informed him he wished to return home, and received his consent that he might - While he was in this last service under Capt Lamb he was promoted to a color sergeant in that department and he drew a suit of clothes for him out of the United States Stores, the buttons on the blouse had the letters on them of U.S.A. Therefore he concluded he was in the service of the United States, and that he is entitled to receive his pay for have the time he served under Capt Lamb after he received his discharge allowed to him
That he does not know how the Forage department was organized at that time by the government, but recollects there was a Col. Hay & a Maj. Cook who were Officers over Captain Lamb, till he was promoted to a color sergeant and took weeks leave, after that Maj. Lamb did his duty in the office that Maj. Cook had before assumed -
That by reason of old age and infirmity he cannot swear positively to the exact time he served in each campaign, that from his best recollection and belief they were not less than the following viz -
  First Campaign at Rhode Island 10 months   2nd Campaign at Roxbury, State of Massachusetts - 1 month 9 day   3rd Campaign in the State of Rhode Island - 3 months - - -   same Campaign as a substitute as before stated - - - - 14 days   4th Campaign at Fish Kill State of New York 9 months - - -   In the same service often he was detached from his enlistment as before stated - 7 months 27 days   making in the whole 31 months, 20 days 
State of Maine. { Ithamar Phinney Oxford County ss On this 4 th day of September 1833. Personally appeared Ithamar Phinney of Jay in the County & State of Maine, who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that the foregoing James Parr Just. New Statement by him signed is true - Before me

To J. L. Edwards Esq, Commissioner of Pensions
Sir. I have been acquainted with Whamer Phinney of Jay, in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, for about thirty years, and that I have resided in the neighborhood with him during that period of time. And know that he is a man highly respectable in point of character, a man of truth and veracity. That said Phinney is much above the middling size - That I am with him this day, & have examined him relative to his Revolutionary services, and have no doubt, that his former declarations made before the Court, and the one herunto annexed, are correct & true.
Pass 81.
STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
James Starling whose genuine signature
annexed to the foregoing Deposition of
Whamer Phinney is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this sixth day of September in the year A. D. 1839.
R. K. Goodenow
Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

To J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Sir. I have been acquainted with Shamar  Phinney of Say. in the County of Oxford & State of Maine. for about thirty years, and that I have resided in the neighborhood with him during that period of time. and know that he is a man highly respectable in point of character. a man of truth and veracity. That said Phinney is much above the middling size. That I am with him this day. & have examined him relative to his Revolutionary services. and have no doubt, that his former declaration made before the Court, and the one herunto annexed. are correct & true.
Say Sept. 4. 1833. Cornelius Holland

32 441 Rev. INVALID.
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Thaman Phinney
His Rev. War
Act: June 1 st 1862
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

William McKinley William McKinley 19.009
Rural System
James Starr Sayre

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency LEVI LINCOLN , Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
To all whom it may concern :
Know Ye, That Caleb F. Leonard Esq re is a Justice of the Peace, for the County of Plymouth, ————— 3
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission- ed, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this Sixteenth day of August A. D. 1833, and in the Fifty eighth Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
Edward D. Bangs
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Henry Andrews of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged 69 years, do testify and say, that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and enlisted in the state of Rhode Island fifteen months service in 1777, and was discharged in March 1778, that I was acquainted with Ithamar Phinney who was a soldier in the same service with me, and that he there performed a soldiers duty to the satisfaction of his officers as far as I had any knowledge of. after the war. about the state of Rhode Island talked of making an additional allowance of pay to the soldiers of said fifteen months service for the depreciation of paper money and I purchased said Phinneys share in that allowance, he was a boy at that time and I have understood that the same Ithamar Phinney moved into the state of Maine -
Henry Andrews
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
County of Plymouth ss. on the 2 nd day of August 1833 personally appeared before me Henry Andrews and made oath in due form of law that the above deposition by him subscribed is true, and I hereby certify that the said deponent is a reputable witness. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above named
Caleb F. Leonard - Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, September 7 1832
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
Date — that Ithamar Thimney served under Vi 1778 (as 2 d Jn o Barron, in Col. Abijah Stearns Reg t ) m. 2 one month & nine Days } 1-9
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

War Department Pension Office May 15. 1832
Sir,
The papers in the case of Nathan Phinney have been examined and are herewith enclosed to you.
He states that he served ten months in 1776, when he was only eleven years old. As no enlistments were authorised of boys of that age, it is not very probable that he could have performed the alleged service; and in no case like this can a pension be allowed, unless it can be clearly shown that there were some peculiar circum- -stances relating to the applicant which excepted his case from the general rules. The applicant must give the name of the Colonel who commanded the Regiment to which Captain Lamb's company was attached, in which he alleges to have served in 1777. He must also state the precise length of his second service in 1778. The phrase between two and three months is entirely too indefinite. He must give the exact

length of this service. As soon as these objections are removed and the papers returned to the Department, a final decision will be had upon them.
I am respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
J. G. Edwards
James Starr Esq r .
Jay
Maine

Gayville Sept. 9 1893
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comt of Pensions-
Dear Sir,
relative to Nathan Ahern's claim for a pension. For your communication to me of the 15th of May last, wherein you say, "He states that he served ten months in 1776 when he was only eleven years old. As no enlistments of boys of that age were authorized of that age, it is not very probable that he could have performed the alleged service, and in no case like this can a pension be allowed unless it can be clearly shown that there were some particular circumstances relating to the Applicant which except his case from the General rule." To remove these objections, by having recourse to his first declaration which you returned you will find by his age there stated he was out twelve years old when he enlisted. his  first Ten months service which was his first, commenced on the 16th of May 1777 (not in 1776) he was discharged on the 16th of March 1778, by his age, you will find he was born in 1765 which makes him 13 years old when discharged, his family are a large race of people, his boys are men in State when very young which I have no doubt was the case with him. He has made his second statement to show the reasons how he came to enter the service at so young an age, and was examined under oath - and I think the reasons he there states will satisfy you how he came to engage at so young an age. The Hon Cornelius Hall and late member of Congress from this State was present, and has given you his views by his certificate annexed to Mr. Ahern's second or additional statement. When he made his first application he did not know of any man living that was in that service with him, to remove all doubts he has taken unswearing pain, and has found one, & only one, that is, Henry Andrews whose deposition is here enclosed with the other papers, which I believe will fully satisfy you that he was in the service as he stated, and that he performed the duties of a soldier, and is entitled to have that ten months service allowed to him, in making up his claim.
The second thing you remark is, requiring the Applicant to give the name of the Colonel who commanded the Regiment to which Captain of the  of the  Company  Company was attached. In order to remove that & satisfy you, he has in his second statement above referred to, given you all the information in his power, he was young at that time, and has stated that he was  that he was who he then understood were officers in the Horror department to which he was attached, but what he cal  cal means was that commanded the regiment in which he enlisted & by whom he was discharged after after performing his nine months service being the term for which he engaged, he cannot recollect, neither does he know of any man living that was in that service with him, but the due bill annexed to his first declaration before the Court together with his reputation of credibility for truth and veracity which he has proved by the Rev Joseph Adams & Clergymen and others whose names are there to subscribed; may remove all doubts as to his performing that nine months service. To obviate the objection to the indiscriminate manner the he in some

instanced stated, as to the length of time he served, he has at the close of his additional statement, fixed it precisely according to his best recollection, and made oath to the same, with other things and circumstances therein named, and one thing in particular, that is, the length of time he continued in the Forage department under Capt Lamb, after he received his discharge from the regiment in which he enlisted, which he named in his first declaration, but did not state any length of time, which he now has, - which was about eight months, and the circumstance of his drawing a Continental suit of Uniform clothes while in this last eight months service, will go clearly to show that he was in the service of the United States at that time.
Having made a few brief remarks relative to the obstacles which presented in his case, I would say that he is a man with whom I have been personally acquainted for more than forty years, and never heard his character ever doubted in the least, as to his being a man of the utmost truth and veracity, he may be said to be ridgedly so, for in making his declaration & the additional one, that he would not put his expressions in any language that a different inference, in his favor might be taken from them, than the simple truth - Refusing you wish to do justice to all Just Claimants. I leave it with you to decide on its merits. With due respect I am your most obedient Servt.
Jemima Parr
3. You are requested to examine particularly his first declaration as to his being one of Capt. Lamb's Company. In there states he was detached out of his Company & Regiment, and put under Capt. Lamb in the Forage department, whose duty was to provide Forage, viz. Hay and Grain for the horses that belonged to the Army