Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18711, for Jacob Parmenter, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Parmenter, Jacob Lois
NUMBER
W18711
Mass.
CONTENTS

See letter 16 Sept. 1841 to Hon. S. M. Gates. A.W.M. Framham Sept 25. 1841
Albany New-York - 5624.
Lois Parmenter widow of Jacob Parmenter, Decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of June  July 1832 and who died on the 25 th July, 1836 - of Genesee co. in the State of N. York - who was a private in the _____ commanded by Captain Mapes of the Regt. commanded by Col. Webb - in the Mass. At- line for 16 months 15 days. pri.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 55 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March , 1836. } 26 July }
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of July, 1840 and sent to Hon. S. M. Gates, House of Representatives.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1840. $ 225.93 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mo. '41. 27.50
$ 253.43
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk. Book _____ Vol. 2 Page 98

24756 New York
Jacob Parmenter of Genesee Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Hayward of the Reg t commanded by Col Webb in the Massachusetts line for 16 months & 15 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 55 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Feb. 1834 and sent Hon G.W. Lay Ho Repre!
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1833 — $137.50 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Mar '34 27.50 $155.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Jno. Cromwell Clerk, Book 80 Vol. 4 Page 114
Dead. See letter to Hon. H. Put- nam, June 17. 1839 — do Hon S. M. Gates Dec 18. 1839

I Thomas Stearns Town Clerk of the Town of Sudbury in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts do hereby certify that I find on the Records of the said Town the marriage of Jacob Parmen- ter to Lois Goodenow recorded therein as follows that is to say - "Jacob Parmenter and Lois Goodenow were married January thirty first Seventeen hundred and Eighty two by Jacob Bigelow"
I certify also that the above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows - "January 31 st 1782"
State of Massachusetts Middlesex County } ss
I Thomas Stearns above named being duly sworn 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 Town of Middlesex  Sudbury with the exception above named as certified by me; and that Jacob Bigelow a minister of the Gospel and Pastor of the Church of Sudbury performed the said marriage and the said marriage was recorded by William Rice who was Town Clerk at that time as appears by the records of said
Sworn to and Subscribed
this fourth day of April
1840- before me
Thomas Stearns Town Clerk of Sudbury As her Godson Justice of the Peace
Middlesex County ss - I As her Godson the above

named Justice of the peace before whom the above affidavit was sworn to and subscribed do hereby certify that the said Thomas Stearns who has subscribed and sworn to the said affidavit is clerk of the Peace of Sudbury in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts and has the care and custody of the records thereof and is a man of integrity and reputable for truth and veracity and that his affidavit is entitled to full credit - Dated at Sudbury April 18 th 1840
Ashe Goodnow Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. I Elias Preney clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify that Ashe Goodnow Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within said County, and that his name subscribed to the within certificate, I believe to be his genuine signature. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the eighth day of April 1840. —
E. Preney

Lois Parmenter Dunsin papers
7199
Lois Parmenter N.Y.
act 7. July 38. m 82. d 36.
Adm 16mo. 1500 pri
55. pp
Died 25 July 36 pen: com: 26 July 36.
Hrs. S.M. Galt H 72

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows
State of New York } County of Genesee }
So. On this sixth day of February in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Genesee Lois Parman- ter a resident of the Town of Attin in the said County of Genesee aged Seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the follow- ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows - That she is the widow of Jacob Parmantie who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary Army and served as such in the Revolutionary War and was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 and received a pension certificate by virtue of said Act at the rate of fifty five Dol- lars per annum which was given at the War office in the year 1833 or 1834 - That he served in the Massachusetts Militia as a private soldier in the said War which services will more fully appear in his

application and declaration for a pension which was made in the year 1832 or 1833 before the Court of Common Pleas of Genesee County in the State of New York -
She further declares that she was mar- ried to the said Jacob Parmachuk on the thirty first day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Two at Sulbury in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts
That her husband the aforesaid soldier died on the twenty fifth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hun- dred and thirty Six at Attica in the County of Genesee and State of New York
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service; but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty four viz at the time above stated. -
Subscribed & sworn to in open court before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of Genesee County this 6th day of February 1840 L. L. Brown Dep. Clerk.
Lois Parmachuk

State of New York Genesee County
vs. Nathan Parmenter of the Town of Attica in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the son of Jacob Parmenter deceased mentioned in the declaration for a pension hereto annexed - And further this Deponent saith that the said Jacob Parmenter deceased died in the prison and at the house of this Deponent in the said Town of Attica on the twenty fifth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty Six - Nathan Parmenter
Sworn to and subscribed This 25 day of July 1840 before me
Clanton Farnham Commissioner of Oaths of Genesee County -
Genesee County vs. I Clanton Farnham before whom the above affidavit was sworn to and subscribed do hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Nathan Parmenter who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit for fifteen years and that he is a man of strict integrity and reputable for truth and veracity and that his affidavit is entitled to full credit Dated June 25, 1840 -
Clanton Farnham Commissioner of Oaths of Genesee County -
which serves as a voucher for the

State of New York Genesee County ss.
I certify that Moulton Farnham was a Comr. of Deeds of said County, authorized to take affidavits at the time of the taking of the within and that the signatures to the Certificate of taking the same are his hand writing.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and set my official seal this 28 th June 1840
N. D. Dyer. Clerk of Genesee County
State of New York Genesee County
S. C. Nathan Parmenter of the Town of Attin in said County and State being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that he is the son of the said S. C. Parmen- ter the applicant for a pension named in the declaration for a pension herunto annexed. That she has resided with this Deponent ever since the death of her husband, Jacob Parmenter deceased and that she has never married since the death of the said Jacob Parmenter but has at all times remained and now is a widow a widow since the death of the said Jacob Parmen- ter and has never married since his death, and is now the widow of the said Jacob Parmenter deceased. Sworn to and subscribed this 30 day of June 1840 before me Moulton Farnham Commissioner of Deeds of Genesee County
S. C. Nathan Parmenter
Parmenter

1803 1/2 - on Rolls 6 mo.
Jacob Paranantler
Mafters
L.C.
Admittut
Private 16 mo 15 days
Harly W. Lay House Reps N.Y.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Jacob Parmenter Genesee County New York
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Country through which he marched. Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Entered   July 1778 " 6 " priv Capt Lagelle Col Col Bunker Hill Pondicherry Framingham   Aug 1779 " 1 6 do Island Adm Howe Newport Massachusetts   Feby 1780 " 5 6 do Blankenship Gen Sullivan Castle William Boston   Aug 1781 " 3 20 do Howland Col Major Genl Major Col Mott Midpoint Gallows Hill N.Y.   16 15 age 70 years 7 months Declaration  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.
16 4-19

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers..  3. Persons employed in the Naval service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this _____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ 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 enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I, _____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _____ day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____ hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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 named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person.

will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  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 services.  6. { To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?  7. 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. 
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be required, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[k] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[l] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[m] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[n] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

Jacob Parmantier Pension Papers on Rolls - Virgin 14 July 80 to 19 Nov '80 5 Nos 1678
First certificate to Clinton Farnham 4th Genesee County N York

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Novem r 16 th 1833.
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 that the name of Jacob Parmenter as a private is borne on Pay Roll of Capt Joshua Leland's Company of Major Nath l Heath's Detachment of Guards, where he is allowed, from Sept 30 th to Nov r 10 th 1779, for services and travel one month and one day. —
m. d. 1-1
Jacob Parminter's name as a private is borne on a Pay Roll of Capt. John Hayward's Company in Col. Webb's Regt. where he is allowed from August 21 st to December 1 st 1751, for services and travel three Months and twenty days. —
3-20
Jacob Parminter claims for services under Capt. Aaron Edgill, in Col John Jacob's Regt. in 1778, the rolls of which are not found in this Office.
4-21
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

State of New York } ss. On this Sixteenth day of County of Genesee } October in the year of Our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Genesee now sitting Jacob Darmantia a Resident of the Town of Attica in the County of Genesee and State of New York aged Seventy years and Seven months 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 in the month of July but on what day he does not recollect but thinks it was the very first of July in the year 1778 he enlisted as a private soldier for the term of six months under Captain Aaron Edgell in the Town of Framingham in the County of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts where he then lived

That he with ten or twelve other soldiers immediately marched from Framingham aforesaid under the command of Barakias Wait first Sergeant directly to Providence in Rhode Island and there joined the said Captain Edgell's Company which company was attached to the Regiment of Massachusetts State Troops commanded by Colonel John Jacobs and Lieutenant Colonel Wade. That he has forgotten the Brigade to which the said Regiment belonged and who commanded it. That he was stationed in Providence about a month with said Regiment. That he then with the said Regiment crossed at Howland's ferry onto the Island and was stationed on Butts hill about a week and then marched towards Newport in Rhode Island and there remained a little out of Newport till the night before the battle and the night before the battle moved back to Butts hill. That the next day which was the very last of August 1778 a severe battle was fought between the British and American Armies. That he was in the battle with said Regiment but not in close action. That the Americans held their ground except the pickets were driven in. That General Sullivan commanded the American Army during the engagement as he understood. That he with

Said Regiment and he thinks all the American staid on the Island the next day after the battle and at night retreated from the Island and crossed at Howlands ferry and from there to Fall River and there the said Regiment pitched their tents which was 25 or 30 miles from Prov- idence and there the said Regiment remained some time - That in about a week after the said Battle and while at Fall River he the said Remnant was taken sick with the bilious fever and removed to the hospital and there remained till the last of November 1778 till he got better and then received a furlough to go home to Framingham aforesaid; and he returned home to his father's and there remained about a month under the doctor's care at which time he was able to return to said Regiment. That he returned to said Company and Regiment stationed at Fall River - That he served in said Company and Regiment till the first day of January in the year 1779 on which day he was dischar- ged, but received no written discharge - That he served the whole of his said term of enlist- ment in said Company and Regiment as above stated - That during the above campaign he

frequently say General Gloom and his Brigade also General Sulloway - That he served in said company under said Captain Ely; but has forgotten the names of the ensign and lieutenant That the said Baraboo Wait was the Orderly sergeant of said company - That he has forgotten the names of the officers excepting those above named that he lived in Framingham at said time when he enlisted as aforesaid

That in the month of August but what day he does not know in the year 1779 he then said Jacob Parmachute at Framingham aforesaid enlisted for the term of One month and a half as a private soldier into the Massachusetts Militia under Captain Leland - That im- mediately he marched to Dorchester and from there went to Castle William three miles below Boston and there joined the company of Militia commanded by the said Captain Leland and staid at the Castle only One day and then marched to Boston at which place he was stationed in said Company till the expiration of the said month and a half and at Boston was discharged but received no written dis- charge - The duty which he did was to guard Boston and he did not see but a few troops there and he did not see but a few officers and he does not know that there were any Continental troops stationed at Boston while he was there - that he has forgotten the names of the officers except the said Captain Leland who was a Militia Captain - That he was in no battles while at Boston - That nothing of any great consequence happened in the said month and a half service - That he has mentioned

all the particulars of the last campaign which he can recollect. — That said company was stationed by themselves and does not know to what Regiment the said company belonged
That he the forpart of June but on what day he does not recollect in the 1780 at Framingham aforesaid he the said Jacob Parmantee enlisted as a private soldier for the term of six months under Major Leason a Major of the Militia but did not go into the service. That soon after he so enlisted he and twenty four others were mustered by a man by the name of Barrett in the Town of Concord and from there he went to Springfield with the others and was there inspected by the Superintendent and then joined the company under the command of Captain Hancock a Continental officer and the said company and he with them marched to West Point directly under the command of said Captain Hancock and then and there the said Captain

Hancock left then and he saw no more of him. That as soon as he and the said company arrived at West Point he and the said company joined the Continental Army in the Massachusetts line in Captain Toogood's company as it was called and the said company was attached to Colonel Thomas Moxon's Regiment and General John Moxon's Brigade of the Massachusetts line. That he served in said company and Regiment for the term of six months from the time he so enlisted and was discharged in the latter part of the month of December in the year 1780 at West Point aforesaid; and arrived home at Framingham aforesaid on the fifth or sixth of January in the year 1781. That he never saw the said Captain Toogood to his knowledge as he was not with the army while he served during the said term of six months. That he understood the said Captain was in some other parts of the army on command. That he never saw the Lieutenant or Ensign of said company as they were on command in some other parts of the country. Samuel Fairbanks was the Ensign  lieutenant he thinks and the Lieutenant's name he has forgotten but never saw either of them. That the said company during the said term was commanded by Sergeant Ransom. Mellican and Foster were sergeants of said company and Phineas Buttrick a Corporal.

Whiting was Lieutenant Colonel and Herod Major of said Regiment while in the said War was after served therein and Samuel Frost was adjutant of said Regiment - Elisha Horton was sergeant Major Thomas Mixon Jr. was sergeant master sergeant of said Regiment - That after he joined the army the said Regiment crossed to Fishkill on the East side of the Hudson River and there staid a short time and from there marched to Kings ferry and then crossed the Hudson River to the Jersey side and from there marched to Tappan and while the army lay at Tappan Major Alden the British Spy Spy was hanged and he saw the gallows but had no desire to see him executed and from Tappan to the English Neighborhood, and from there to Patoka and the American Army was then in the vicinity of these places till about November and arrived at West Point in the fourth part of December in the year 1780 and there remained till he was discharged as afore said in the latter part of December but received no written discharge - Captain Daniels Captain Bickel, Captain Clois, Lieutenant Joseph Balcomb served in said Regiment Colonels Sprout and Graton belonged to said Brigade - That he frequently saw Baron Steuben

General George Washington, and General Glover and his Brigade - That he resided in Framingham aforesaid when he so enlisted - That he frequently saw General Howe -
That in the month of August he thinks in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty One at Framingham aforesaid he the said Jacob Par- menter enlisted as a private soldier for the term of three months under Lieutenant Joshua Tro- bridge into the Massachusetts Militia, and soon after he so enlisted he with some others went with the said Lieutenant Trobridge to a place called Gallowshill in the State of New York and there joined the company of Militia of Massachusetts commanded by Captain John Howard Lieutenant Trobridge and Am Loring first Lieutenant and there and there was attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Webb Lieutenant Colonel Whiting and Major Porter That he served in said Company and Regiment in the Brigade commanded by Colonel Graton

which Brigade in the year 1780 was commanded by General Mixon and which, as he understood was a Continental Brigade - That he served in said Company, Regiment and Brigade for and during the said term of his enlistment and was discharged in the month of November in the year 1781 at a place called Soldiers Creek fort four miles below Fishkill near the East side of the Hudson River in the State of New York - That after he joined the said Company Regiment and Brigade at Gales Creek Hill aforesaid he was stationed there with them about a month, then the Brigade and he with them encamped on the flat about a half a mile from Gales Creek about a month more and then marched onto a hill two or three miles from Gales Creek and there remained till he was discharged as aforesaid but received no written discharge. That he served under the above named officers except the said Captain Howard left the Army on account of sickness and Lieutenant Loring left the Army for some reason unknown - He knew Captain Bowker and Captain Newcomb Lieutenant Lilly of said

Brigade - also Colonel Nixon & his Regiment and Colonel Graton and his Regiment of said Brigade - That he also knew Adjutant Frost of Colonel Nixons Regiment - That the above officers were all that he knew during the said last term of service that he can now remember - That he resided in Framingham atound said when he so enlisted -
That he was born in the Town of Sudbury in the County of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1762
That I have a Record of my age at my dwelling house in my Bible -
That when called into service at each of the above terms I lived in the said Town of Framingham -
That since the Revolutionary I the said Jacob Parmachute have lived in Sudbury atound said, also in the Town of Ashburnham in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts; also in the Town of Richmond in the County of Cheshire in the State of New Hampshire; also in the Town of Malbury in the said County of Cheshire; also in the

Town of Swansea in the said County of Cheshire; also in the said Town of Malbury aforesaid; also in the Town of Brutes in the County of Cayuga in the State of New York; also in the Town of Groesland in the County of Livingston in the State of New York; and also in the Town of Attica in the County of Genesee in the State of New York; and I now live in the said Town of Attica —
That I volunteered or enlisted as afore- said into service in the Revolutionary War
That I never received a discharge from the service —
That the names of persons to whom I am known in my present neighborhood and who can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution are Elder Rufus Cherry, Daniel Still Chester Townsend, Jacob Wood, Peter Eastman and Michael Andrews —
That I have stated the names of all the officers and the circumstances of my service as truly as I can remember —
And also that I have no documentary evidence and that I know of no person whose testimony I can produce who can testify to my 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 -
Jacob Parmachooz
Sworn to and subscribed } the day and year aforesaid } in open court Timothy Fitch Clerk
We Rufus Cady a clergyman residing in the Town of Attica in the County of Genesee and State of New York and Daniel Steele residing in the said Town of Attica hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Parmachooz who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age That he is reputed and believed in the neighbor- hood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution; and that we concur in that opinion -
Sworn and subscribed the } day and year aforesaid } in open court Timothy Fitch Clerk
Rufus Cady Daniel Steele

And the said board do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as a states - And the board further certify that it appears to them that Rufus Sherry who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the said Town of Attica and that Daniel Steele who has also signed the same is a resident in the said Town of Attica and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Isaac Atkinson William Mitchell Robert Carrick
I Timothy Fitch clerk of the court of common pleas of Genesee County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings.

clings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Parmantie as for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this sixteenth day of October in the year 1832 -
Timothy Titus Clerk
State of New York } County of Genesee } ss On this 29 th day of May 1833 personally appeared before me Frederick C. Hartman the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County Jacob Parmantie of the Town of Attica in said County who being duly sworn, deposes and saith that he is the very same identical Jacob Parmantie who has subscribed and sworn to the declaration for a pension herunto annexed - And further he deposes and saith that in the first term of his service he enlisted July 1788 and served six months in Captain Edgells Company and Colonel Jacobs

Regiment as stated in said declaration as a private soldier - That he served just six months in the field
1.15 That he enlisted August 1779 as a private soldier and served in Garrison in Boston in Captain Leland's Company for the full term of One month and fifteen days - That he had no Colonel Lieutenant Colonel or Major and was attached to no Regiment
That he served not less than the periods above mentioned - and that he served not less than the periods mentioned below
6. That in June 1780 he enlisted for six months and served in Captain Hicks  Hancock's Company and Colonel Moxon's Regiment the full term of six months in the field as stated in said declaration as a private soldier and was discharged at West point -
3. That he enlisted as a private August 1781 for the term of three months That he served for the full term of three months as a private in Captain Sparhawk's Company and Colonel Webb's Regiment the same as he has stated in his said declaration which service was in the field.
That he served all the terms with an

embodying corps called into service by competent authority and for the term during which the said service was perfor- med he was not employed in any civil pursuit - That he served in the whole one year four months and fifteen days and for such service he claims a pension - And further saith not
Jacob Pennock.
Sworn to and subscribed this 29 th day of May 1833 before me
Frederick C. Farnam J. Peace
State of New York Genesee County ss.
I, Timothy Fitch, Clerk of said County certify, that Frederick C. Farnam before whom the above affidavit purports to have been taken and made was at the date of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and truly believe his name subscribed to said affidavit is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal of office this thirteenth day of June A.D. 1833
Timothy Fitch Clerk By B. Pringle Dep. Clerk

Jacob Parmenter NY Albany - 55 p. act 7. June 32. when last paid?
10 July 40
G. M. C.
Died 25 th July 1836 paid to that period
JH

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18711  (Am)
Liz Parmenter
Widow of
Jacob Parmenter
Pri. Rev. War.
Act: July 7 th 1835
Index:—Vol. M , Page 113
[Arrangement of 1870.]

June 17. Conr.
Jacob Paruncle N. 70 E.
Free H. Putnam M.C.
Hon. James L. Edwards Commission of Pensions Washington

Attica, Gunner Co. N. Y. June 16 1839 -
Dear, J. L. Edwards,
Dear Sir, Jacob Parmachute a Pensioner died in July 1836, annu- about 57 Dlls per year - He left a Widow Louis Parmachute - his now living - They were married in 1781 after which time he continued in service - Please inform me whether she is entitled to her husband's pension - (She an act was passed July 1836) And what proof is necessary for her to make and whether any thing more than proof of the marriage - and what evidence is required as to that -
If you have any pamphlets of forms and citations as to pensioners and have an extra copy you will oblige me much by sending me one - Since my return from Congress I have called unusually on this subject from Soldiers' Widows, & for their accom- modation I conclude to inform myself as to the pension laws - I have heretofore advised attending to some business and refused those who have called to others - Please forward me any papers you may have which you think I may want - Should be glad of an answer soon as your communication will admit -
I am Your obedt Servt Henry Pitman

House of Representatives 17 Dec 1839
Sir - I am requested by Moulton Farnham Esquire of Attica Genesee County, to instruct the application for a Pension made by one Jacob Parmenter, now deceased, on file in your office, & "ascertain whether it is stated in said application, that he served in the War of the Revolution in the year 1782 at all , if so, when, where, how long, in whose Regiment & Company," & to communicate the result to him. The information is sought to obtain a pension for his widow, Mr Parmenter himself, having been allowed a pension. If it be proper, that the information be given; may I ask that the examination of his affidavit on file should be made, & the result certified to me, in accordance with the above request. He was a pensioner under the act of 7 June 1832, but in what year the papers were filed, I am not informed. I am Sir
Your Obedt Servt
Seth M. Gates
Hon. S. L. Edwards Comfr of Pensions

House of Representatives Washr. July 8 1840
Sir I enclose sundry papers from Moulton Farnham Esqr in regard to increase of the Pension of Lois Parmenter, Ascuta Roberts, & also in regard to Pension for Lois Parmenter Very Respectfully S. M. Grates Hon. N. L. Edwards