Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 16260-160-55, for Leonard Parker, Massachusetts

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Parker, Leonard
B.L. list 16260-160-55
Abigail
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Mrs M. Bennett Springfield Vermont

79162 Bounty Land Claim Act of March 3, 1855.
Abigail Parker Widow of Leonard Parker of the Revolutionary War
Reply to John M. Bennett Springfield Vermont

State of Vermont County of Windsor } ss.
On this second day of April A.D. eighteen hundred and fiftyfive personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within & for the County and State aforesaid Abigail Parker Aged eightytwo years & upwards a resident of Springfield in the State of Vermont who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Leonard Parker who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution from the town of Chelmsford in the State of Massachusetts enlisted in the year 1780 for nine months Continental Service to go to join his company and Regiment. She cannot tell the names of his officers but has heard him say in his lifetime that he served actually nine months and was honorably discharged at the expiration of nine months service and has heard him say that Robert Spaulding and Benjamin Spaulding, was with him in said service which is the most she can now recollect. She will send for evidence of service hereafter.
She further States that she was married to the said Leonard Parker at Rockingham in the State of Vermont on the ninth day of February A.D. Seventeen hundred and ninetythree and that her name before her said marriage was Abigail Parker: that her husband died at Springfield Vt. on the ninth day of September A.D. 1840 and that she is

is now a Widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of receiving the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855
And she hereby appoints John M Bennett of Springfield Vermont her Attorney to prosecute her claim and receive the Warrant therefor
Attest James Walker
Attest H. H. Mason
Abigail D. Parker
We James Walker and Mary Walker residents of Springfield in the state of Vermont upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Abigail Parker in our presence and that we have been well acquainted with her for the thirty years last past and are therefore prepared to state that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. We also state that she is at this date of her declaration a Widow.
James Walker
Mary Walker
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons: that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim
H. H. Mason Justice of the Peace

STATE OF VERMONT, WINDSOR COUNTY, ss.
I, NORMAN WILLIAMS, Clerk of the County Court, of the County of Windsor, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Henry M. Mason was, at the date of the paper writing to which this is attached, and still is, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly qualified to administer oaths and take the acknowledgment of deeds, and that his signature Henry M. Mason is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 4 day of April A. D. 1855.
Norman Williams Clerk.
Note by Attorney -
For evidence of Marriage in this Claim see application for Pension of some Widow which may be filed before the examination of this will be had Please reply this to me at Springfield Vermont Very respectfully
John M. Bennett A Springfield VT.

STATE OF VERMONT,
WINDSOR COUNTY, ss.
I, NORMAN WILLIAMS, Clerk of the County Court, of the County of Windsor, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
Henry Barnard
was, at the
date of the paper writing to which this is attached, and still is, a
Justice of the Peace
in and for said County, duly qualified to administer oaths and take the acknowledgment of deeds, and that his signature herein in the paper attached are is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 22 d day of November A. D. 1854.
Norman Williams Clerk.
sister Abigail who was several years older than myself. I saw her married to Leonard Parker who had also moved, or who came from the aforesaid town of Chelmsford. This was when I was about twelve years of age and must have been about the year 1792. Said Leonard Parker and Abigail his wife who is my sister lived together as husband and wife and had a family of five children. Said Leonard Parker died in this town some fifteen years ago leaving Abigail his wife a widow who is still living a widow with one of her daughters.
I further state that I have examined the Book of family records kept by my said Sister which is a genuine record of her family written many years ago and find her said marriage to said Leonard Parker to have been on the 9 th day of February AD 1792 as appears of said record.
I also state that I have no interest in her Claim to Bounty Land in "dollars & cents" for she is supported by her Children
Betsey Parker

I Betsey Walker of Springfield in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont being now seventy five years of age and of sound mind & memory depose and say, In my infancy I resided in Chelmsford in the State of Massachusetts. I removed from said town of Chelmsford at ten years of age & have since resided in this town and vicinity. I now distinctly recollect that I was present at the marriage of my sister Abigail who was several years older than myself. I saw her married to Leonard Parker who had also moved, or who came from the aforesaid town of Chelmsford. This was when I was about twelve years of age and must have been about the year 1792. Said Leonard Parker and Abigail his wife who is my sister lived together as husband and wife and had a family of five children. Said Leonard Parker died in this town some fifteen years ago leaving Abigail his wife a widow who is still living a widow with one of her daughters.
I further state that I have examined the Book of family records kept by my said Sister which is a genuine record of her family written many years ago and find her said marriage to said Leonard Parker to have been on the 9 th day of February A.D 1792 as appears of said record.
I also state that I have no interest in her Claim to Bounty Land in "dollars & cents" for she is supported by her children
Betsey Walker

State of Vermont County of Windsor ss
At Springfield on this 21 st day of November 1855 personally appeared Betsey Walker the within named deponent and subscribed the within Affidavit and made oath to the truth of the same, and I hereby certify that the said Betsey Walker is a respectable Citizen of this place, possessed of good memory and is a credible person and a competent witness.
I have no interest in the claim which may be affected by this evidence
Henry Barnard Justice Peace

I Leonard Walker of Springfield in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of sound mind and memory depose and say: I well know Abigail Parker of this town for whose benefit in obtaining Bounty Land I now make affidavit. The said Abigail Parker is sister to my wife Betsey. I well knew Leonard Parker for many years of his lifetime having made his acquaintance while a young man. On one occasion while journeying with him to Boston Mass. I called with him at his father's in the town of Chelmsford & there became acquainted with his father & brother & thereby learned that he was formerly from that town. The said Leonard Parker & the said Abigail lived together as husband and wife & had a family of children together. About the year 1840 the said Leonard Parker died in this town and his wife Abigail is now a widow. Said Leonard Parker was reputed to have been a Soldier of the Revolutionary War, and I believe he must have served a short time at least not only from his stories of the War but from the History of the Town of Chelmsford published by Wilkes Allen, A.M. in 1820. On the page 181 it reads as follows "1780— The military officers were empowered by the town to hire 15 men for the Continental service and the selectmen instructed to raise money & produce to pay them for 9 months service and, Phineas Kidder, Peter Farrar, Jacob Marshall Robert Spaulding Noah Foster, Henry Fletcher Samuel Wilson Jr. Pelatiah Adams, Thomas Hutchins, Jesse Stevens John Keyes, Leonard Parker, Benjamin Spalding, Joseph

Warren, Jr. Robert Richardson were engaged." The history above referred to is now in possession of Widow Abigail Parker.
I further state that I have no interest in her claim to Bounty Land in dollars & cents as she is supported by her Children. Leonard Walther
State of Vermont County of Windsor ss
At Springfield on this 21 st day of November A.D. 1855, personally ap- peared Leonard Walker the foregoing deponent and subscribed the foregoing Affidavit and made oath that the same is true
I further Certify that I well know the said deponent. He is a credible man of sound mind & memory and is a competent and credible witness
I also certify that I have no interest in the claim which may be affected by this evidence
Henry Barnum Justice Peace

Record Evidence Land Claim No 79867 Act March 3, 1855
Abigail Parker
John M. Bennett Springfield Vermont

Application for Certificate of Revolutionary services made by the Widow of the party who rendered the service State of Vermont
County of Windsor — Springfield March 31, 1855
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence, from the papers and documents in his possession relating the Revolutionary War, of the Revolutionary service of Leonard Parker formerly of Chelmsford in the State of Massachusetts
The said Leonard Parker in the year 1780 resided in Chelmsford in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts and enlisted that year viz. 1780 for nine months service to serve in the Continental army and is believed to have served out his time of enlistment. His company name or his Officers are not remembered but one Robert Spalding and Benjamin Spalding & several others from the same town were said to have been in service with him in said service. — Should said Leonard Parker be found described on his enlistment she states that he was son of William Parker and enlisted at the age of sixteen years had very dark eyes and dark hair and lived at the time of his enlistment in Chelmsford Massachusetts
I am now eighty two years of age and my memory does not enable me to state the services of my husband more fully Attest H. H. Mason Justice Peace Abigail Parker
Reply to John M. Bennett Springfield Vermont

The foregoing application was signed by said Abigail Parker in my presence H. H. Mason Justice of the Peace
Mr Secretary please be particular and state whether the soldier named was with Leonard Parker & if he is described state it accordingly &c, and reply to John M Bennett Springfield Va.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, April 13 th 1855.
W 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 Leonard Parker is borne on pay roll of Capt. Samuel Tapp (Comp. Lieut. Col. Commandant Webb's Regt. from Aug. 18. to Nov. 29. 1781. 3 Mos. 22 Days) travel included. from Chehnsford. The names of Asa, John, Benjamin & Asher Standing served with Leonard Parker. No further service for said Leonard.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Springfield Vt. Nov. 29, 1855
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
I enclose you the required evidence in the claim of Abigail Parker No 79867 for Bounty Land under the act of March 3 rd 1855, to be replied to me at Springfield Vt.
Very respectfully
John M. Bennett of Springfield Vermont
Hon J. Minst
Commissioner of Pensions Washington
D.C.
Revolutionary Bounty Land Claim No. 79,867 Act March 3 rd 1855

Springfield Vt. Feb. 8, 1856
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
I enclose you the additional evidence required in the Bounty Land Claim of Abigail Parker No 79867
Please examine this in connection with the other papers sent before & reply the claim as before directed to
John M Bennett
Springfield
Vermont

Additional Evidence in the Bounty Land Claim of Mrs. Abigail Parker No 79,867
Act of March 3/55
John M Bennett Springfield Vermont

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Additional evidence
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Pension Office
Washington
Dec 1818

Additional Evidence
Bounty Land Claim
No 79867
act of March 3/55
Mrs. Abigail Parker
Reply to
John M Bennett
Springfield
Vermont

I James Walker of Springfield in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont depose & say; I am now in sixtieth year of my age. At the age of eighteen years I became acquainted with Leonard Parker who died in this town of Springfield in the year 1840 or some fifteen years ago. and for twenty five years before the death of said Parker I was well acquainted with him and his family. My Father John Walker was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. William Parker was father of Leonard Parker & was also a reputed soldier of the Revolution. I have many times heard my father and William Parker when met for social visits, relate incidents of their individual service in said war, and have heard them state that the aforesaid Leonard Parker was old enough to then train he enlisted into the service I have also heard said Leonard Parker often speak of his own service in said war. My Brother Leonard Walker Esq. and said Leonard Parker owned a farm together for some years and I labored with them on the same farm & afterward married and lived a near neighbor to them. My Brother Leonard's wife was sister to Abigail the wife of said Leonard Parker. I was thus in a position to know the family well. And said Leonard Parker was generally reputed among his friends and associates a soldier of the Revolution

I have often heard it stated by my Brother Leonard Walker and others and by said Leonard Parker himself, that he moved from Chelmsford Mass. To Vermont and worked for Lieut Isaac Parker and afterward married his daughter Abigail. I further state that I give this evidence freely for the benefit of his Widow Abigail Parker in her effort to obtain Bounty Land in right of the services of her said husband Leonard Parker and have no interest in the result of the matter other than my good wishes for her welfare
James Walker
State of Vermont } On the second day of February Hindlow County ss } A.D. 1856 the above named James Walker personally appeared before me and made oath in due form of law that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true. I further certify that said James Walker is a credible person and that I have no interest in the claim which the foregoing affidavit is made to substantiate.
John Hase Master in Chancery

I Betsey Holt of Springfield in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont depose and say: I am one of three surviving Children of Leonard and Abigail Parker.
My father Leonard Parker died in the aforesaid Town of Springfield on the 9 th day of September in the year 1840 aged according to his previous recording seventy five years and nine months.
My Parents have told me that I was born on the 9 th day of December in the year 1800 and that my father said Leonard Parker was was thirty six years old the next day after my birth. Consequently my Father was born Dec. 10, 1764. I have heard him state that he was a native of Chelmsford in the state of Massachusetts. I heard him state in his lifetime that he had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and heard him from time to time relate stories concerning his own service in said war; this he did to interest myself & brother and sisters.
My own Mother Abigail Parker is now the widow of my said father and resides in said town of Springfield, I give this evidence for her benefit in obtaining Bounty Land which she claims in right of my said fathers service in the War of the Revolution
Betsey Holt

State of Vermont Windsor County ss }
At Springfield in said County on this second day of February A.D. 1856 the within named Betsey Holt personally appeared before me and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and made oath in due form of law that the same is true. And I certify that the said Betsey Holt is a respectable lady residing in the aforesaid town of Springfield. I also certify that I have no interest in the claim which may be affected by this evidence.
John Ward Master in Chancery

I Charles Holt of Springfield in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont do here and say:
I am now in the fifty-third year of my age. At the age of twentyfour years I married a daughter of Leonard & Abigail Parker. I had for some time previous been acquainted with said Leonard Parker. He informed me that he was a native of the town of Chelmsford Massachusetts & came from that town to this while a young man, and soon after the close of the Revolutionary war. He told me in his lifetime that he had been a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and I have heard him relate incidents of his own service in said war. He was generally reputed as having been a soldier of the Revolution.
Said Leonard Parker died in Springfield Vt. Sept. 9, 1840, in the seventy-sixth year of his age and Abigail Parker his Widow still lives in this town and is now a Widow.
Charles Holt
State of Vermont } At Springfield in said County, Windsor County ss } on the second day of February A.D. 1856. The above named Charles personally appeared before me and made oath in due form of law that the foregoing affidavit subscribed by him is true. I also certify that said Charles Holt is a credible person and that I have no interest in the claim, which the foregoing affidavit is made to substantiate.
John Ward Master in Chancery
of the revolution

I Ephraim Walker of Springfield in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont depose and say I resided in the town of Chelmsford in the State of Massachusetts from my infancy until I was thirty years of age, with the exception of two or three years, I was born in the said town of Chelmsford as appears by my family record, in the year 1772, and am now in the eighty-fourth year of my age. My Father Benjamin Walker was Captain of a company from Chelmsford who fought on Bunker Hill. He was there wounded and died some two months after, at Boston. I also had a Brother some seven or eight years older than myself who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. While I lived at Chelmsford I was well acquainted with Leonard Parker who was also a soldier in the same war, and in service at or near the same time with my Brother. Said Leonard Parker was some seven or eight years older than myself, I knew him well. He left Chelmsford several years before I did, in the employ of Lieutenant Isaac Parker and afterward married his daughter Abigail. I knew said Leonard Parker well up to the time of his death several years ago. He died in this town of Springfield. He was the Identical Leonard Parker who formerly lived in said Chelmsford. He was reputed a Revolutionary Soldier, I recollect well of having heard him relate circumstances which came under

his own observation while in service, I was well acquainted in the said town of Shelburne from my youth up to the year 1801, and never knew any other person in that town of the name of Leonard Parker.
Ephraim Walker
State of Vermont, } On this second day of February Windsor County, ss, } A. D. 1856, personally appeared Ephraim Walker the foregoing deponent and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and made oath that the same is true. And I certify that the said Ephraim Walker is a credible resident of Springfield in said County. His memory is good concerning transactions in his early life, and I consider him a competent witness and disinterested in the matter concerning which he testifies. I further certify that I have no interest in the claim which may be affected by this evidence.
Almond Darrow Justice of Peace
STATE OF VERMONT, WINDSOR COUNTY, ss.
I, NORMAN WILLIAMS, Clerk of the County Court, of the County of Windsor, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
Almond Darrow
was, at the
date of the paper writing to which this is attached, and still is, a
Justice of the Peace
in and for said County, duly qualified to administer oaths and take the acknowledgment of deeds, and that his signature
foregoing
is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 8 th day of February A. D. 1856.
Norman Williams, Clerk.