Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,019, for Timothy Rhoades, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass N.H.
Rhoades, Timothy Rowena
No. 20,019
CONTENTS

2225
Massachusetts
Sharon
Howena Rhoads Mass widow of Timothy Rhoads who was a Private & Lieut in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 63 Dollars 50 Cents Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Dec. 1843 and sent to Melatiah Everett Wrentham, Mass
[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 52

Roxbury
(974)
Mass.
at July 58
married in 78.
abm d
7 mo. 2 days pri
3 in SE
63.55.
no deduction
S. Leland
Roxbury.
Mass.

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 Massachusetts, } County of Norfolk } ss
On this twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight in session at Wrentham in said County of Norfolk personally appeared before the the Court of Probate now of the Lawrence Rhoads a resident of Wrentham in the county of Norfolk aged twenty eight years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the 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 Timothy Rhoads who was a* private, sergeant and Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution & according to the best of her information & belief served three weeks at Roxbury in the year 1775 as a private in the Army of the Revolution. Also five months at Secondburgh commencing in July 1776 under Capt Lewis Whiting - Also at Birmingham Vermont two months in the New Hampshire Militia under Capt. Harkness the first that entered the field & in that campaign captured from Hessian. Also was drafted in 1778 & went to the North River through Poughkeepsie & ashford & served as a sergeant at West Point eight months in that campaign. Also he served three months at Rhode Island in 1780 as a Lieutenant in the Militia in Capt Joseph Bakers Company. Also he served at Myrtle in Massachusetts in the year 1778 two months as a private in guarding the prisoners of Bennington army.
She further declares that she was married to the said Timothy Rhoads on the last day of July in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one ; that her husband, the aforesaid Timothy Rhoads died on the fifteenth day of May eighteen hundred and twenty seven that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz. : at the time above stated.
Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me, Lawrence Rhoads I. L. Cushman, Probate
* Here insert the rank the husband held in the army, navy, or militia, as the case may be, and specify the service performed, as directed in rule numbered one of these regulations.
The Deposition of George Haines, annexed by mistake to the case of Hannah Forster, belongs to this case I. L. Cushman, Probate

I Samuel Hovey of Cranston land in the State of Rhode Island aged fifty five years old then and say That I have been well acquainted with within named Timothy Rhoads & Rachel his wife over some forty years past having for the first thirty five years of my life lived a near neigh- to them and now live within two miles of same widow Rachel Rhoads. That said Timothy & Rachel have lived together in good uprightness as man and wife up to the time of his death which was about three years since and that said Rachel has not since remarried
Samuel Hovey
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Nathan S August 21 1830 Subscribed & sworn to by the said Samuel Hovey who is a credible Witness. Before Me Melchiah Ewer Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Norfolk
I Jonathan H. Cobb Register of the County Probate for said County hereby certify that Sherman Island is judge of said Court of Probate & that Melchiah Ewer is Will's Trustee A General Council are Justices of the Peace within said County of Norfolk & that the following signatures to the papers annexed are genuine & true.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at the seat of said Court of Probate this twenty fifth day of August A.D. 1835
Jonathan H. Cobb

Extract from the records of the Town of Wrentham viz-
"Married by the Rev d William Williams July tenth Nineteen hundred eighty one. Timothy Phelps and Rebecca Hill."
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of this record with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as following "July 10. 1781."
I Calvin Fisher above named do hereby certify that I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Wrentham in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named, as certified by me
Calvin Fisher Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Sayth I August 14, 1838, Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Norfolk the above named Calvin Fisher and made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him submitted. I also certify that said Fisher is a credible witness and that full faith and credit is to be given to his testimony.
Meliah Barrett Justice of the Peace

I William H. Metcalf of Franklin in the county of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age wit eighty three years of age Do testify and say That in the year 1776 I was in the Army of the revolution Stationed at Ticonderoga in the company commanded by Capt Lewis Whitney of Wrentham in Colonel Ephraim Wheelock's Regiment in which Service I continued for the space of five Months and further testify that Timothy Rhodes late of Wrentham deceased was a private in the same company contending and serving therein for and during the space of five months as above stated
William H. Metcalf
Norfolk ss August 17th 1838
Subscribed and sworn to by the above named William H. Metcalf who is a credible witness Before me
Willis Fisher
Justice of the peace

I Philip Curtis of Sharon in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, do testify and say, that in the year 1778 I was in the Army of the Revolution stationed at West Point, and I there knew a soldier by the name of Rhoads a son of Joseph Rhoads of Foxborough, then a part of Stoughtonham. I do not know his christian name but he was the only man of that family who was out at that time, and I suppose that Timothy Rhoads late of Wrentham was the person whom I knew at West Point.
Philip Curtis
State of Massachusetts, County of Norfolk ss. Subscribed and sworn this twentieth day of August 1838 by the above named Philip Curtis who is a credible witness.
Jeremiah Gould, Justice of the Peace
I Jeremiah Richards of Sharon in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, do testify and say that I am at this time the Treasurer of the town of Sharon aforesaid which was formerly named Stoughtonham, and have the custody and keeping of the books of the treasury of said town and on those books it appears that on the twentythird day of July in the year 1778 there was paid to Timothy Rhoads sixty pounds as part of his hire into the service of the State of Massachusetts Bay to fortify and secure the passes of the North River.
Sharon August 20. 1838
Jeremiah Richards
Treasurer of the town of Sharon
State of Massachusetts, County of Norfolk ss. Subscribed and sworn this twentieth day of August 1838 by the above named Jeremiah Richards who is the Treasurer of the town of Sharon. — before me
Jeremiah Gould, Justice of the Peace

I Calvin Fisher of Wrentham in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire aged seventy years do testify & say that I have been acquainted with Lieutenant Timothy Rhoads late of said Wrentham deceased about fifty years before his death he having lived & died within less than a mile of me. That I have frequently heard him relate the history of his revolutionary service more particularly his being the first to enter the fort at Bunkerhill in 1775 and the incident of his guarding the five Burgoyne prisoners as is related in his narrative hereunto annexed that I am well acquainted with his hand writing that I have repeatedly seen him write and do verily believe that the several papers marked A & B hereunto annexed are in said Lt Timothy Rhoads hand writing that I have seen said Rhoads sign and recite the substance of said narrative and do verily believe that said Rhoads served the several terms as is therein set forth that my brother James P Fisher served as writer to said Lt Timothy Rhoads three months on Rhoads Island in the fall of the year 1780. Calvin Fisher.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk August 17 1830 Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within & for the County of Norfolk the above named Calvin Fisher and made oath to the truth of the certificate by him subscribed I also certify that said Fisher is a credible witness and that full faith and credit is to be given to his testimony I further certify that the several drafts in said Affidavit were made before signing Relation Exhibits Justice of the Peace

War Department.
PENSION OFFICE, JULY 17, 1838.
The following rules, prescribed by the President of the United States, and adopted by the Secretary of War, in order to carry into effect the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," are published for the information of applicants under that law:—
1. Applicants must produce the best proof the nature of the case will allow, as to the service of the deceased officer or soldier, and the time when he died. It must be clearly shown in what troop or company, and regiment or corps, he served, and the grade he held. Proof, as to service, must be had, either from the records of the War Department, the muster rolls, the testimony of commissioned officers, or the affidavits of persons of known respectability. Every applicant will make a declaration according to the subjoined form, before a court of record, setting forth, according to the best of her knowledge or belief, the name and rank of the person on account of whose service the claim is presented; the day, month, and year, (if possible,) when he entered the service, and the time when he left the same; and, if under more than one engagement, the claimant must specify the particular periods, and the rank and names of the officers under whom the service was performed; the town or county, and state in which he resided when he entered the service; whether he was drafted, was a volunteer, or substitute; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged; the country through which he marched, with such further particulars as may be useful in the investigation of the claim; and, also, if the fact be so, that the claimant has no documentary evidence in support of the claim. From the best sources of information, evidence must be derived as to the period of the death of the officer or soldier.
2. The legality of the marriage, and the time when it took place, must be clearly established; and it must also be shown that the widow was never afterwards married. Record proof, as to the marriage is always required, whenever it can be obtained. In a case where the town, county, parish, church, or family records afford no proof as to the period when the marriage took place, the fact must be established by the testimony of one or more respectable persons, whose credibility must be certified by the officer who may administer the oath. And, in order to prevent any mistake or improper use that may be made of the affidavit of an officer who may have the custody of records, from which he may make transcripts of the record, in relation to a marriage, the officer who may give his affidavit will, instead of copying the figures contained in the record, certify "that it 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:" [Here copy the day, month, and year, in letters and figures, in exact conformity with the original. Then let him add the following words:]
"I, A. B., above named, depose and say, that I hold the office _____ in the county, town and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said _____ with the exception above named, as certified by me."
Sworn before me, _____ A. B., Clerk of the _____ (or rector, or pastor, as the case may be.) C. D., Justice of the Peace.
And then will follow the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, as to the official character and signature of the magistrate who may administer the oath. Where no record proof exists, other than the family record, the original record must be produced and sworn to by the person in whose possession it has been kept.
3. In a case where the service of deceased officer or soldier is clearly proved by record or documentary evidence, or the affidavit of a commissioned officer, showing the grade or length of service of the deceased, the particulars in relation to the service are not required to be set forth in the claimant's declaration; but she must swear, in positive terms, that she is the widow of the person whose service is thus proved. And no claim whatever can be sustained without positive proof of service.
4. In every case in which the deceased officer or soldier was a pensioner, the fact should be so stated, and the deceased pensioner so described, as to enable the Department to refer immediately to the evidence upon which he was pensioned, and thus facilitate the investigation of the claim of the widow.
5. Applicants, unable to appear in court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, before a judge or justice of a court of record of the county in which the applicant resides, and the judge or justice will certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the court.
6. 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 of the Territory, or of the proper officer or clerk of the court or county, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such a person is a judge, or justice of a court of record, or a justice of the peace, and that the signature annexed, is his genuine signature.
7. The widows of those who served in the navy, or as Indian spies, will produce proof, as nearly as may be, conformably to the preceding regulations, and authenticated in a similar manner, with such variations as the different nature of the service may require.
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.
AN ACT
Granting half pay and pensions to certain widows and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any person who served in the war of the revolution, in the manner specified in the act passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution," have died leaving a widow, whose marriage took place after the expiration of the last period of his service, and before the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, such widow shall be entitled to receive, for and during the term of five years, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband in virtue of said act, if living at the time it was passed: Provided, That in the event of the marriage of such widow, said annuity or pension shall be discontinued.
Section 2. And be it further enacted, That no pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim or interest, in any
annuity, half-pay, or pension granted by this act shall be valid, nor shall the half-pay, annuity, or pension, granted by this act, or any former act of Congress, be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure, by any process in law or equity, but shall enure wholly to the personal benefit of the pensioner or annuitant entitled to the same; and that before a warrant shall be delivered to any person acting for, or in behalf of, any one entitled to money under this act, such person shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, to be administered by the proper accounting officer, and put on file, that he has no interest in said money by any pledge, mortgage, transfer, agreement, understanding, or arrangement, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any other person.
Section 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War shall adopt such regulations and forms of evidence in relation to applications and payments under this act, as the President of the United States may prescribe.

Rhoades, Timothy Max-NH W20019

To Lieut. Rhoades of Wrentham
is You being appointed a Lieutenant of a Company Now raising in this State for the Term of Three Months You will Govern Your Self accordingly and be ready to march at the shortest notice
Walpole June 27 th 1780
Seth Willard Maj
order to the pay Discharge

(B)
A short tale of my services in the Boer War in the year 1878 when the battle was at Spion Kop in the year 1878 in February I was to work at the ferry in what was called Spion Kop the snail shell was called so together for to raise money for two months to go to Kimberley & Potchefstroom out and left the ferry where we was making war stood where I had worked a year and took a boat of hand on the Clark for one hundred and sixty dollars gave my services there and went to Kimberley and stood for several times on the neck in a gun part of the British sentry and when our troops went on Driefontein hill I was called out the first night and did work on the first redoubt where the British won us by Times all the first day and I was on that place two nights and the second day I was relieved I had the mumps but would not complaining way so I thought I could stay till I was relieved and I took cold in that today storm that I had the mumps fever and was sent home before the British left Boer under Capt Ponsonby
in the year 1876 my father was drafted to go to Pietermaritzburg I went in his room and went with Capt. Louis Shilings he departed and left me under Lt. General Bellchick my charge was very heavy I found a door and found a meet but a little fat and two of my men died with the band and I was able to do my duty all the time and when I had changed I carried the pack for them that was on well and my one that my life paid so great to be able to carry my pack for coming through the woods I saw some that could not help themselves and was all most starved when I got through the woods I hired on of the inhaliene to go back in the woods and pick up some men & strangers to me they told me that that they belonged to Rehoboth the man went with two boys and a wagon he was now for it to his father

and which were men strangers to me They told me that that they belonged to Rehoboth the man went with two horses and an wagon he was paid for it to his satisfaction
Augt 1777 I was to work at Keene Buryone took the front all Secondrey and was busy on a poor plow they were men sent for to enlist for two months I enlisted under Capt Mack and was discharged to Rehoboth and went to Bennington and was in that battle there and then went to Stillwater and was at Bennington where I was discharged by General Gates and then came home to Salisbury and went to work there to Anne Corn I lost my clothes was poor and had no money to buy with I worked all the mill Clark Marion and then went to work at North Berwick and was drafted in July by Capt Moulton for the gale to the North River and the Captain turned my name to Colonel Gill as a sergeant for that campaign The Colonel wrote to me to come and take the care of the men that the Governor of Milton an Doctor had left in his care I refused to to take the care of them there was five of them that were busy and he told me that he had separated from him and he feared the other four would be killed the little clips of the gun and they were all killed except one and then the Colonel said if you would go with them that he would pay the Governor of Bangor Milton should pay me for all the work that I was at Capt Ellis and Lt Griggs had men and said that Lt. Glouster was in the hospital sick with the small pox and said that I may see them on Court what it would be to go with them and all went out the other men that were with me went on seven miles further that day and left me with the five Buryone and the Laman group where we were told me not to venture with them alone because they were them say that they would put me in a pan away to the the experiment continued on the

agreed upon for our next uprisal the five Bruggans that had listed in our Company under my command with in fulling Company and said that they would not go any further and that if the Indians would not their vessels that they would put me aside and as soon as together of one of them went one step with me they would shoot him through the heart few minutes and then charged my guns and fired my Braganza and started to run and told them to march they then tried to run away I told them to keep the horses and keep four hand from me and in half an hour six horses would have eaten them they had five guns and three pistols and I marched them in that order till we came up to the other of my Company and then they were very obedient to me and told that they didn't to try if they could have me but says they that the Devil could not have in that they never had much Courage before they united on me with as it seems to me with respect they being very respectable young men of service about twenty five years old well dressed and very expert in military Exercise and one of them is a complete a German as a Coachman and we marched the next day to Springfield and that night two of them deserted and went to Covington and left the rest their likely could make a case for them that running and hired Capt Rust of Covington to go with me and was Road for four days in pursuit of them and concluded by the Bast a count that we got that they went to the British at Newbern and went on with the rest of our men and joined the rest of our Company at White Plains and then our Regiment went to West Point S. W. this

till we were ordered to Kings Ferry and then I was sent with a small detachment or party of men in command to North Castel and there in time coming out took our defences till the time came and did not leave one hour of duty as a Remount In the year 1779. I returned from the Continent and took Aaron Miles' farm to the house and then went to call for one boat that I had from my County that I thought I had been given me and the money was all most run out it would punch out all the time and my wages. Eight dollars per month did not bare my expenses. Good work. All most out of hand then a party of men in all hands to pay one way for my wages that I worked for in the promise that was paid in two years from the date one hundred and ten dollars and the principal and interest was about Eleven dollars for the promise of the Congress Run down that my four hundred dollars that I was saved for would not pay my taxes and by me a suite of clothes etc. I should have been taxed every year since my twenty one years old until one year and that year they called me undressed and cleaned me that year and know name - Sixty one years old and have served as a Lieutenant in the Militia two years and five months, fought to secure of a settlement in the Revolution war and two years chose a share of the ways and have paid all the taxes that was laid on me but the last is not paid
I this day voted for a governor Shrewsbury April 6. 1818 - Timothy Rhoads

remained in the camp... the Captain Lead us... got behind a large rock... and rustled the front and... went to look over and... the long and thin... let us pass over and... we went into the front... one from the other and... last it was a trying time... to know what to do... and as the noon day... to my mind that... but rejoice that the... He only Emancipator... say was a... of his man... minute landing... Enemy out of the... on our Regiment... stated the Indians... as they was... and said the... seemed to me that... to me that our hearts... that the Lord was... not seen of the... to a place... then there was... to something... and staid till... coman so... and dismissed us... of getting... out of the Bunker
and when bags and his - shallers and soldiers come to Cambridge I lighted for two months to go and find him and went and called Stephen at Nisbet and found that they had captured him and that to go to West Point on the South River and did join our army at White Plains; and when I came home time being expired I came here to New Haven and was in hopes I should enjoy the privilege of returning again but the Secy of War ordered me to go again as a Levit three months present again and served three months with Raritan Battery in New Jersey
my first seizure in the army was two months at Roxbury in the ye 1776' with the Enemy. Left Boston March 17th and the next time I saw it as a jailer. was at Boston again in the ye 1776'. five months at Barring-ton two in the ye. 1777 and all this time two months and a half at Roxbury called out of the militia and then eight months in the ye 1778 and the last at the fort of Rhodius in the ye 1780. I told you that I was absent seven months the last year of my prosperity and had I think the blessing
My reverence of my father has grown and has that evidence that there is no strength in the natural man but all strength is from the Crucian Trinity which he can make any thing of before a god and man. I have longing and been put upon to write all and I think I have made his things pleasant to each I think I have found the evidence of a great improvement 1844 against the Lord for the remainder of a good life, I have

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK ss.
Edward Sampson
I, JAIRUS WARE , Clerk of the Judicial Courts, being Courts of record, within and for the County of Norfolk, hereby Certify that
Meletiah Everett Esquire,
2 of the Quorum is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Norfolk aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified to discharge the duties of said office, and that his signature to the annexed certificate is genuine and true.
In Witness Whereof, I have subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid at Dedham, this Nineteenth day of September A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety  forty three  Edward Sampson Clerk
in the year 1700 in the Province and Campaign in Capt James Baco's Company Col Brayer's Regt all in the Revolutionary War also that my said husband performed as he verily believes performed among other Revolutionary Services of which he left a memorandum in writing in after Lexington Battle March next at Boston Roxbury 2 months next at Roxbury 2 months next at Weymouth 1 Month But in what Regiment he ever not know that she received under the act of Congress of July 7 1838 a pension of forty three dollars - fifty per cent per annum for so much of said Revolutionary Services of

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk ss. On this seventh day of September A.D. 1843. Personally appeared before me the sub- scribed justice of the peace for said County of Norfolk Rachael Knowles a resident of Wrentham in said County aged eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by an act of Congress passed on the 3 rd March, 1842 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War That she is the widow of Timothy Knowles late of said Wrentham deceased who was a private and Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution, that her said husband served as she verily believes full months in the year 1775 in the Trenchard's Campagn in Capt. Lewis Whitney's Company Col. Ephraim Dike's Regt. also that my said husband served three months in the year 1780 in the Rhode Island Campagn in Capt. James Bacon's Company Col. Magoon's Regt. all in the Revolutionary War. Also that my said husband performed as she verily believes performed among other Revolutionary Services of which he left a memorandum in writing after Lexington Battle 3 weeks next at Boston in Roxbury 2 months next at Roxbury 2 months next at Weymouth 1 Month But in what Regiment she does not know, That she received under the act of Congress of July 7. 1838 a pension of forty three dollars - fifty per cent per annum for so much of said Revolutionary Services of

my said husband Timothy Rhands as were substantiated by proof
She further declares that she is still a widow without Melatiah Everett
Shenah Dood
Raven her X Rhands mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Witnesseth to Sept 7 1843 Personally appeared the above named Raven Rhands and made oath to the truth of the declaration above by her subscribed & further testifies that said Raven Rhands is personally known to me and that full faith & credit is due to her testimony before me Melatiah Everett Justice of the Peace

4390

Massachusetts 896
Letter to M. Everett, Aug. 30. 1843
Rowena Rhodes widow of Timothy Rhodes, who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 15 th day 1827 - of New Bedford in the State of Mass - who was a P. & S. in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt. commanded by [blank] in the Mass. line for 10 mos & 2 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass - at the rate of 6 3/4 Dollars 5-5- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of Nov '38, in 2 sets to S. G. [blank] Roxbury, Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Jan - $158.87 Semi-annual allowance ending. 31.77 $190.64
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by R. [blank] Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 - Page 126

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20019
Rowena Rhoads Widow of Timothy Rhoads Lieut Genl Was
Act: March 3 rd 43
Index:—Vol. M , Page 160
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sep 22 1843
Romana Rhoads.
Oct 1843.
$63:55 per Map. enf
Melatiah Everett Wrentham Map
Edward Ag.
Commissions on Pensions Washington

Wrentham Sept 20/43
J L Edwards Esq Commissioner on Pensions In England are the declarations of Rebecca Fisher & Rachel Rhoads made for the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the late Pension Act Mrs Patience White has claimed since the former declaration which you returned here obtained. Yours Melatiah Barrett

Timothy Whobes
75. 6 - 2 Terms - Capt. Jas Penniman - 3 weeks & 2 mo - hot support 76. Capt Whiting vol 24. III - proved 6 mo - 77. Mack - NHP - on Roll 2:2 - 80. document — L. 3 mo -
23.73  22 55-
127.10 31.77 158.87

Hannah Foss
(973)
Mass.
act 7. July 38
married in 1786
Died in 1837
acmd
23mo. 1701 pri
AT 8. 36/100
deduct. died on 7. Sept. 1837. pen: commence 8 Sept. 1837.
J. Leland Roxbury Mass.
This data pertains to Hannah Forrest, widow of Ebenezer Forrest 71. 242 32. This paper was found in chest drawer - MM172.

Hannah Forest
(973)
Mass.
act 7. July 38
Married in 1786
Died in 1837
acmd
23mo. 170s pri
$78.56/100
deduct. died on 7. Sept. 1837. pen: commence 8 Sept. 1837.
J. Leland Roxbury Mass.
This data pertains to Hannah Forrest, widow of Ebenezer Forrest 76. 242 32. This paper was found in chest drawer — MMH.

I George Hawes of Boston in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire age twenty six years. do testify & say that I have been well acquainted with Lt Timothy Rhoads late of said Boston deceased. That to my personal knowledge said Rhoads served as a second Lieutenant in a Company commanded by Capt Joseph Dyer in which said Dyer was first Lieutenant. Col. Dyer's Regiment on Rhode Island in the fall of the year one thousand eight hundred & eight for the term of three months. I served said term as a private in said Company. John P. Fisher served as said Rhoads' writer.
George Hawes.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Norfolk ss. August 14 1820 Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Norfolk the above named George Hawes and made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed. I also further certify that said George Hawes is a credible witness and that full faith and credit is due to his testimony. Melatiah Everett Justice of the Peace.
This paper belongs to the late B. Rowena Rhodes & was here contained by mistake. Helen J. Peabody