Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 22027, for Lemuel Raymond, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Raymond, Lemuel Jedidah
N 22027
B.L.Mt. 31576-160-55
CONTENTS

10961 Massachusetts
Samuel Raymond of Plymouth in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Warlick of the Mass commanded by _____ in the Mass time for 12 months
Entered in the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of May 1832 and sent to Mrs. Mary Dumey Mass
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $80.00 Pension allowance ending 17 Sept. 20.00 $100.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by _____ Clerk, Book _____ Vol. 2 d Page 71

16988 et et m... Edith Sept. 16 85 Jedidah Raymond via. Lemuel Raymond Paris Raymond
Cart... Leid.
Rev. A. A. A. Pension Mar. Feb 48-50
Ad: 16000 per. 23/56 Blyth
Thomas Plymouth. Mass.
Vol R. page 7.

535
Massachusetts Sedidah Raymond widow of Samuel Raymond who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Reported
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of June 1848 and sent to
M rs Thomas Plymouth Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 128 Vol. 2
169878

General Williams Spencer Mass 28/5/18

REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, ss.
ON this Eleventh day of April 183 5 , personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Plymouth within and for said County of Plymouth, Samuel Raymond a resident of Plymouth in said County of Plymouth, and Common- wealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquish- es 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. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That in December Seventeen hundred and sixty five he enlisted in the company under command of Capt. Dasset for six weeks. said company was raised to relieve the eight months men in the vicinity of Boston. That he enlisted in said company in Sandwich in the County of Barn- stable, and he cannot find any one living belonging to said company. That said company was stationed about a mile from Winter Hill in the neighborhood of Boston and that he served six weeks in said company.
That in August or in the early part of Feb. Seventeen hundred and seventy six he enlisted in the company under command of Capt. Humlin, Malachi Ellis, lieutenant, for six months to guard the works in and about Boston. That said company was stationed at Long Island in Boston Harbor, at Dorchester Heights and in Boston - and that he served in said company the full period of six months.

That in September Seventeen hundred and seventy seven he en- listed for the Service expedition in the company under command of Nath- aniel Goodwin, Josiah Thompson 1 st Lieutenant, Bartlett Holmes 2 nd Lt. That said company went to Kingston in the State of Rhode Island to reinforce General Spencer - and was at Kingston, Howland's ferry and Fall River, and that he served in said company in said expedition the term of six weeks, and knows of no one living, who belonged to his company or can testify to his service.
That in September in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy nine he enlisted in an expedition to the State of Rhode Island for three months, and served said term of three months in the company under command of Capt. Dasset. This expedition was for six months and the original enlistments were for that period. I took the place of one Benjamin Morey, and was hired by Silvanus Gibbs, who died at Sandwich a few years ago. Said company was stationed at Fall River. There is no one living that he can learn acquainted with him in this service. My enlistment was made in Sandwich on Cape Cod.
That in the several enlistments above specified he served twelve months by enlistment in the Militia, and never had a written discharge. That he was born in Middleboro' in the County of Plymouth in the year 1763, and his age is on the Town Books of that town, and that he has lived within the bounds of Plymouth since he was four years old - and is known generally to the inhabitants of Plymouth. For many years past he has been in feeble health, and lived quite retired from the world.
Given under my hand on the day and year above - Leonard Maynard before the undersigned for the said Nathaniel Maynard

We, James Hendall a clergyman, residing in the town of Plymouth and Joseph Thomas residing in the same Town hereby certify, that we are well ac- quainted with Samuel Raymond 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 neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. James Hendall
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Joseph Thomas
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that James Hendall who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Plymouth and that Joseph Thomas who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same Town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, William H. Wells of the Court of Pensions do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Raymond for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three

State of Massachusetts ss.
On this Fourteenth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas held at Plymouth in said County on this day personally
Jedidah Raymond, resident of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth, aged sixty seven 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 th , 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of Samuel Raymond, who was a Private in the War of the Revolution, and a Pensioner under the act of Congress of June 7 th , 1832, and she refers to his statement and evidence on file in the Pension Department

in proof of his service.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Samuel Raymond on the seventh day of November in the year seventeen hundred and ninety three. That there is no record of her marriage. That her husband, the aforesaid Samuel Raymond died on the twenty first day of May in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three. 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. That she has no documentary proof.
Subscribed Isabel Raymond mother Sworn and Subscribed on the day and year above written. before the Court of Common Pleas.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas on the day and year aforesaid.
John Thomas Clarke of the said Court.

I William Thomas of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts of lawful age testify and say, That as the At- torney of Lidelah Raymond, Widow of Lemuel Raymond, a Revolutionary Pensioner, I have made diligent search to find a record of their mar- riage, and have found no such record. They were married within the bounds of the Town of Sand- wich, on Territory set apart by the State for the benefit of a Tribe of Indians, called the plantation of Nauskeet, and by the Missionary of that plan- tation, the Rev d Gideon Hawley. Mr. Hawley has been dead many years. The Rev d Phineas Fish is his successor in the Ministry. Search has been made among the papers of the Rev d Mr. Hawley, and no minute or record can be found. I am informed, and believe, that he was in the habits

of making records or minutes of marriages on loose slips of paper, most of which are lost.
I am informed and believe, that there never was any family record of this marriage.
I have known Samuel Raymond and wife thirty five or forty years. The Widow, Sedidah Raymond, who now makes application for a Pension is the same person, that was married to said Samuel in November seventeen hundred and ninety Three. Those who know the family have no doubt, that the marriage took place at the time stated.
I further testify and say, that said Samuel Raymond died in May eighteen hundred and thirty Three - and that the said Sedidah has not since been married, but remains his widow.
William Thomas

State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth ss.
On this seventeenth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Plymouth, per- sonally appeared the above named William Tho- mas, and made oath, that the foregoing Dep- osition by him subscribed is true.
And I further certify, that said Deponent is well known to me, and that he is a cred- ible witness.
Gustavus Gilbert, Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth
Clerks Office Sep 17 1833
I Matthew Hale the of the Judicial Council for said County of Plymouth hereby certify that Gustavus Gilbert Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition was sworn is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Plymouth duly commissioned & qualified and that his signature to the joint of said deposition is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on this day & year aforesaid
Matthew Hale

Barnstable
I Timothy Reed clerk of the courts in & for the county of Barnstable having been enquired of by William Thomas Esq of Plymouth whether there is filed in my office a record of the marriage of Samuel Naysmand & Judith Ellis hereby cer- tify that in 1827 the building con- taining the records & files of the courts in this county was destroyed by fire with all these records & files & there- fore that if any such record were ever filed in the clerks office it is lost — Timothy Reed Clerk

I Meribah Incket of Freetown in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts of the age of sixty five years, testify and say, That Sedidah Raymond, the widow of Lem- uel Raymond, who is now an applicant for a Pension, is my sister - That I was present at the marriage between the said Lemuel Raymond and my sister Sedidah El- lis - That the said marriage took place in the Plantation of Marshpee about seven miles from the Town of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable in this State, and the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Gideon Hane- ley, the Minister of the Plantation - and it took place in my Father's house. I further testify and say, that said marriage between

Said General and Individual took place in the month of November in the year one seventeen hundred and ninety three. It was the seventh day of the month and it was Thanksgiving day night. I am sure of all this from because I had a daughter born the night before and lay in bed in the same room where they were married. My daughter Lydia Niles, wife of David Niles, will be forty five years old the fifth or sixth day of next November, and she was born the night or night but one before the said mar- riage.
Heribah her  to Jacob mark
attest Henry Lamson

County of Bristol ss.
On this 3 rd day of September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appear- ed the aforementioned Meribah Locket, and made oath, that the Deposition by her above subscribed is true. and I further certify that said Meribah Locket is known to me, and that she is a credible witness. 2 page two erasures. one in the 2 nd line after "year" and one in sixth line after "this" made by me.
Benjamin Best Justice of the peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bristol ss. I, Anselm D. Davenport Register of the Court of Probate in for said County, do hereby certify that Benjamin Best whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the Peace in for said County of Bristol. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this sixth day of September eighteen hundred thirty eight.
D. Davenport

War Department
Widow's Pension
169174
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2 nd , 1848, Abigail Raymond widow of Lemuel Raymond, who was a Private in the Revolutionary War, is inscribed on the Pension list at the rate of Forty Dollars per annum commencing on the 4 th of March 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case, the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 28 th day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War
Examined and countersigned
J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
By F. S. Evans

Payment to be made at Boston by Franklin Haven Esq r , agent for paying Pensions in this agency of Massachusetts. -
Payable on the 4 th September and 4 th March -
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensions under Act February 2, 1848 page 128, vol. 2
• Geo. Perkins, Clerk
N o 53.5

State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth S.S.
On this twenty third day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five person- ly appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid Judithah Raymond aged eighty three years, who being duly sworn, according to law, declares, that she is the Widow of Samuel Raymond, who was a Private in the Revolution- ary War - That to the best of her knowledge and be- lief no Warrant for Bounty Land has ever been obtained for said service - That she is a Pensioner under the Act of February 2, 1848 - and that a Copy of her Certifi- cate is herunto annexed, but that all proof of her husband's service is on file in the proper Department at Washington - She further states that the Certificate and proof of her marriage to the said Samuel Ray- mond, and the death of her said husband have also

been duly filed, and that she has never since been married, but still remains the Widow of said Lemuel Raymond.
She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land, to which she may be entitled under the act passed March 1855, and prays that the Certificate thereof may be sent for her to William Thomas Esq r . Plymouth
Massachusetts,
her
Attest -
Jedidah T Raymond mark
Attest (S c al)
Plymouth S.S. sworn & subscribed before me this
day a year above written and I hereby certify that I believe the said Jedidah to be the widow of said Lemuel Raymond
and that she is now unmarried - (Lemuel Raymond, Asst. Clerk) We, Ezra Fanny and William Thomas, of Plymouth, in the state of Massachusetts, having been duly sworn, depose and say, that we well knew Lemuel Raymond, who was a Private in the Revolutionary War, whose widow, Jedidah Raymond, now applies for bounty land, that we knew him for more than twenty years, before his death

which occurred at Myrnoft many years ago, that we knew the time of his death, because we both were inhabitants of the same Town, and one of us, William Thomas, prepared his papers to draw his Pension up to the time of his death. We have known his Widow from her death to this time, that she is now unmarried, and that we are disinterested.
Wm. Thomas
Ezra Farnay
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year above written
Before me
Moses Bales Jr
Justice of the Peace
It is hereby certified, that satisfactory proof has been exhibited to me, the Undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, by the affidavits of Ezra Farnay and William Thomas; of the said County and State, who are personally known to me, who are entitled to credit, and who swear that they have no pecuniary interest in the result of the foregoing application; that Sedidah Maynard, the

applicant for the Bounty land in the fore- going Declaration is now unmarried, and that she is the Widow of the late Lemuel Raymond, who was a Private in the Revolution- ary War, and that the said Lemuel Raymond died, as above stated -
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand this thirty first day of March 1855. -
Mooses Bates Jr Justice of the Peace
(Commonwealth of Massachusetts.) I, Minister of Gospel, do hereby certify that Moses Bates Jr Esquire and William James  James Esquire, before whom the foregoing declarations & affidavits were made and sworn to, were at the rates thereof - Justices of the Peace for said County, duly sworn qualified and qualified, & authorized to administer oaths - to take acknowledgments of deeds &c. and that their signatures are genuine -
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County and Commonwealth this twelfth day of June A.D. 1855.
Wm H. Whitmore (Seal) Clerk of said Court

William J. Freeman Clerk of the town of Sandwich County of Barnstable, and State of Massachusetts, Certify that Samuel Raymond and Judith Ellis both of Sandwich in the County, and State aforesaid, were entered to be published by Abraham Williams Town Clerk - And that this is a true copy of record with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in full, legible figures as follows. October 19th. 1793. October the nineteenth in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three.
I William J. Freeman above named, do hereby certify that I have the office of town Clerk in the County, town, and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Sandwich in said County and State aforesaid with the exception of the above named as certified by me.
William J. Freeman } Clerk of the town of Sandwich. August 12th. 1830
Also certify that I have thoroughly searched the records of the town of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts, and cannot find any record of the marriage between Samuel Raymond and Judith Ellis of Sandwich.
William J. Freeman Town Clerk. Sandwich. Aug. 12th. 1830.
Barnstable J. August 4 th 1830 - worn before me
W. H. H. Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable Ys-
I Timothy Read Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Barnstable and Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby certify that Seth F. Vose Esquire is a justice of the Peace within and for said County of Barn- stable duly commissioned and qualified and was on the tenth day of August last past, and that being very familiar with his hand writing and signature I believe the within signature purporting to have been made by him to be genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this eighth day of September A.D. 1825
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24818 Leonard Raymond Plymouth Mass.
Yrs First 12 Months Adm.
Ha I. L. Adams Lurey Meph K. B. Thorne Plymouth Mass.

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 subjoined 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. These 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, showing the Service of Joseph Raymond Weymouth, Mass.
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Enl 1775 " 1 15 priv Capt Basset 70 years State of Massachusetts   " 1776 " 6 " " Capt Hamlin State of Massachusetts State of Massachusetts   " 1777 " 1 15 " " Goodwin 70 years No Colonel given   " 1779 " 3 " " " Basset 70 years  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.

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 } ss.
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 days 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 (a) 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 the 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 annexed, stating that such 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.
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 ————— years ————— 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 years, 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.

WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____
2202
Jedidiah Slagmound widow of Lemuel Slagmound Pria New York
Act _____
Feb 24, 48
Index: Vol. _____
16
Page _____
150
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Massachusetts 1769.
Jedidah Raymond widow of Samuel Raymond who was a Private in the Mass line for 12 months,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Sept, 1843 and sent to Wm Thomas Plymouth Mass
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book • 4 Vol. 1 Page 32

Massachusetts - 1418
S. H. Adams 26. No 38
Jedidah Raymond, widow of Samuel Raymond, deceased
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June, 1832 and who died on the 21 st of February, 1833, at Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts - who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Howland of the Massachusetts commanded by _____ in the Massachusetts - line for 12 months, private.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts - at the rate of 40 Dollars _____ Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1830
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of De- cember, 1838 and sent to Mrs. Jedidah, Esq. Plymouth, Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838 $101.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 20.00
$120.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by S. H. Adams Clerk, Book 4, Vol. 1, Page 126

5 31.576
} New Am

J. L. Edwards Copy

Sir,
Enclosed are Declarations of Susannah Wright, Deborah Raymond and Ichabod Raymond for the benefit of the provision made by the act of March last.
The certificates may be for- warded to me. Yrs. Nat. Sect.
Wm. Thomas
Plymouth, Mass. June 12 th 1843

I Caleb Raymond of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts of the age of seventy two years testify and say that I am the brother of Samuel Raymond, and that we were brought up together from children. I further testify and say, that I well recollect that my brother Samuel, who is now living, and an applicant for a pension, enlisted in the Winter of Seventeen hundred sixty five - six, for six weeks to relieve the eight months men, as it was called, and that he went to Boston, and served his time out, and returned to our Father's house. I mean he went to the vicinity of Boston. I further testify and say that my Brother enlisted enlisted in the summer of Seventeen hundred and sixty six in the company under command of Capt. Hamlin for six months to guard the military works in the neighborhood of Boston. We enlisted together at Sandwich, and we served together in said company for six months, stationed in Boston, at Long Island in the Harbor, and at Dorchester Heights. I further testify and say that I well remember that my Brother, Samuel, was in the secret expedition, so called, to Rhode Island - and that he was in one campaign to Rhode Island after the secret expedition, but the year I cannot name. We lived in the bounds of Plymouth, but nine miles from the village, and about the same distance from Sandwich in Barnstable County, and were always acquainted with each other's business.
Caleb Raymond

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss.
15 th September 1832 - Then personally appeared the within named Caleb Raymond before me the subscription testimony of the Peace in and for said County, and made oath, that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is true and I further certify that said Caleb Raymond is a credible witness.
William Thomas, Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Albany ss. I the undersigned of the probate court for the County of Albany do hereby certify that William Thomas appears before me the foregoing deposition was sworn to as a justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth and that his name and rank subscribed in his line & signature, in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Superior Judicial Court on this eleventh day of April A.D. 1832.
William Lloyd

I John B. Thomas, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Plymouth hereby certify, that there is exhibited in open Court the Records of Nathaniel Goodwin, late of Plymouth in said County, Esquire, deceased who was appoint- ed by the Government of Massachusetts, Military Superinten- dent for the County of Plymouth, during the war of the Revolution - and that said Records contain "A list of men raised for the Secret expedition to Tiverton, as a reinforce- ment to Genl. Spencer agreeable to the Resolves of the General Court, Sept. 16, 1777." - And that the Name of Samuel Ray- mond is borne on said List as of Plymouth and as belonging to the company of said Nathaniel Goodwin, who was a Captain in said expedition, and in the handwriting of said Goodwin, which is well known to me - and there can be no doubt that the present applicant is the same person there mentioned
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seals of the said Courts at the 10 day of June 1882.
John B. Thomas

admitted
M c Thomas Plymouth Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss.
On this second day of June 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid † Isidore Raymond, a resident of Plymouth in said County, aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the second February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Samuel Raymond, who was a resident of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, and is the identical person who drew a pension, under the Act of 17 th June 1844 on account of the Revolution.

any service of her late husband aforesaid at the rate of Forty Dollars per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow -
Sworn to and subscribed by  before  me  Raymond and on the day and year mark above written before me
William Thomas
In presence of Justice of the Peace of Sarah L. Thomas Rebecca L. Thomas
I certify that the Declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner, as she declares -
Wm. Thomas, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth So.
I John D. Sleeper Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that William Sleeper is a Justice of the said Court for said County duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the papers hereto annexed is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this fifteen th day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
John D. Sleeper Clerk

1975 Judith Raymond
$40 per ann
Wm. Thomas Plymouth Mass

State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth ss.
On this twenty sixth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and forty three, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Rebecca Raymond, a resident of Plymouth in said County, aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn, doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision, made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3 d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons, who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Samuel Raymond, who was a Private in the War of the Revolution, and for particulars of said service , she refers to her application on file in the Department - for which service she received a

Pension of Forty Dollars per annum under the act of July 7 th 1838.
She further declares that she is still a widow. before me Attest Sedidah his Raymond Joshua B. Thomas clerk
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written by Sedidah Raymond, who is personally well known to me as the widow of Lemuel Raymond of Plymouth in said County, deceased - and she is also personally well known to me to be the same person, who received a Pension under the act of Congress passed July 7 th , 1838. before me Wm. Thomas, Esq. Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss
I, John B. Thomas, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the said County of Plymouth, do hereby certify, that William Thomas Brown before whom the foregoing Declaration was sworn, was, on the day of the trial of the same a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth, duly commissioned and qualified under the authority of said Court. Massachusetts Land Court, and the State of Massachusetts, and that his signature to the trial of the same Declaration is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court the seventh day of June in the year eighteen hundred & forty, three
William H. Wells