Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15160, for Seth Packard, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Packard, Seth Lois
W. 15160
CONTENTS

Massachusetts 431
Lois Packard
widow of Seth Packard
who died on the 9. January 1809 of Plymouth Co. in the State of Mass. who was a Pr. Matross in the company by Captain Pierce of the Regt. by Col. Gullery in the Mass.
commanded commanded
  time for 8 months Pr. Inf. 26.66   12 " Matross 50.00   $ 76.66 
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 76 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of July 1837 and sent to Eliza Whitman, N. Bridgewater, Mass.
  Arrears to the 4th of March '37 466.00   Semi-ant. allowance ending 6. Sept. " 38.33 
$ 504.33
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 }
Entered by D. Brown Vol. 1
Clerk,
Page 64

V1398
Lois Packard moor of Seth Mass.
Marrried in 1765 died 1809- no deduction
Capt. Aaron of Bridgewater of artillery was in service 76 admd 12 mo. Massops '76- 8 mo. pre. dby
Ebenezer Whitman Esq North Bridgewater Mass. J. H. Lord Esq Dymouth Mass.

Plymouth ss. At a Court of Probate held at Plymouth in & for said County on the third Monday of February A.D. 1837.
Present Hon. Willey Wood Judge Then the within named Lois Packard appeared, subscribed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration & it is made to appear to the said Court that she is a credible person.
In testimony whereof I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twentieth day of February 1837
Jacob H. Lord
Declaration of Lois Packard
V1398
Lois Packard moor of Seth Mass.
Maries in 1765 died 1809- no deduction
Capt. Bruce of Bridgely regt of artillery was in service 76 adm
Dmo Mathias 176- 8mo. pri. bdy
Eliza Whitman Esq Northbridge water J. H. Lord Esq. Mass. Essex Mass.

State of Massachusetts.
County of Plymouth S. At a Probate Court began and held at Plymouth within and for said County of Plymouth on the third Monday of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven being the twentieth day of said month hereon all appeared in open Court before the Honorable Peter Wood Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Plymouth Lois Packard a resident of North Bridgewater in said County aged ninety two years who being first duly sworn doth upon her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress of the fourth of July A.D. 1835.
That she is the widow of Seth Packard late of Roxbury in the County of Suffolk and State aforesaid deceased; that her said husband was a soldier in the Revolutionary War that he went into the service of the United States immediately upon the commencement of the war of the Revolution and continued in the service till some time in March 1777 when he returned home from New York, that is to say according to the best of her knowledge he enlisted into Captain Elijah Dose's Company as a private in the spring of 1775, and served eight months with the Massachusetts Troops near Boston, also that he enlisted at the very close of the year 1775 or beginning of January 1776 as a private in Captain Thomas Pierce's Company of Artillery and marched to New York in the Continental Line and served thirteen months and a half according to the best of her recollection, or till some time in March 1777 when she returned home.
That her said husband resided in Milton in the County of Suffolk aforesaid at the time he enlisted into both of the aforesaid Companies; that she was married to the said Seth Packard with the addition of Simon his father Seth Packard being then alive, at Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth aforesaid on the seventh day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty five by John Miller Esquire a Justice of the peace.
That her said husband died on the ninth day of January one thousand eight hundred and seven at Roxbury aforesaid, in his sixty seventh year and that she has remained a widow ever since and is yet single and unmarried, as will more fully appear by the testimony hereto annexed.
Lois Packard

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Weymouth Election Office January 20 1937
I John B. Edwards Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Plymouth in the said Commonwealth hereby certify that it appears of record in this Office that on the seventh day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty five Robt. Richards junior and his heirs were joined in Marriage by John Withington a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal on the day and year aforesaid -
John B. Edwards

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15160
Louis Packard
Widow of
Seth Packard
Matross. Rev War
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index: Vol. 10 , Page 112
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Suspended
See let to P. H. Lord
May 24. 1857
let to E. Whitman 7 July 1857

Seth Packard
75. Elijah Vose no value
76 Thomas Pierce Liddley - 12 - 95
in 8 mo march 163

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT , Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
To all whom it may concern:
Edward Everett Know Ye, That Benjamin Richards Esq r . is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Norfolk, (and has been so for the last month) in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission- ed, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court, that the within Attestation is in due form and by the proper Officer.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this seventeenth day of June, A. D. 1837; and in the sixty first Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
John C. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Samuel Baker of Dorchester, in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being in my eighty seventh year of my age, do testify and declare that I was acquainted with Seth Suckard formerly stationed in the County of Norfolk and State aforesaid I remember of his being with me in the Revolutionary Army of the United States, and he served eight months with the Massachusetts troops at Roxbury as a Private in Captain Elijah Vose Company with me in 1775. And that he enlisted and served in Captain Thomas Pierce Company of Artillery and marched to New York in the Continental line and served thirteen months & two weeks, I was with him and enlisted at the same time, we enlisted for twelve months but we staid in the service six weeks longer than we first enlisted for the enlist in Dec. 1775 or first Jan y 1776. I cannot state the day we did enlist we were regularly discharged & came home together - the reason of my making this declaration is in a former declaration by me made to the War department of the same services, as above stated, I had read to me a letter of disqualification, from the War department and Pension office of May 21 th 1837. Stating that no such Captain as Elijah Vose appears by the rolls of 1775, in the eight months service I want hereby further state that this same Elijah Vose resided in Milton the adjoining Town to Dorchester, I was always acquainted with him from a boy, he lived but about three Miles from me - and I am very particular I have not made any mistake in my statement respecting his being my Captain in the eight months service as this circumstance seems to be very fresh in my memory at this time - and I think said Elijah Vose must have been my Captain, in the first eight months service as before stated - and if my Memory serves me the Colonel's name was Grolon I want further say that we went from Roxbury to Cambridge in 1775 - and served the greater part of the time there as this circumstance had escaped my Memory till this declaration was read to me by the justice taking down the same - and I had forgot probably to state this last circumstance in my former declaration -
Sam l Baker
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk County ss; June 13 th 1837, Then the above named Samuel Baker who is reputed to be a person of truth, and veracity in the neighbourhood where he resides, personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. Before me Benjamin Richards Justice of the Peace

I Amos Holbrook of Milton in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts Physician, do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Elijah Vose of Milton - that he served in the Revolutionary War, as a Captain in the Eight months service, at Cambridge & in the vicinity of Boston in 1775 - why I know this is I was Surgeon Mate of the Regiment in the eight months service at in 1775 - and well remember he was Captain of one of the companies in Colonel Gration Regiment - I was in the same Regt. Amos Holbrook
State of Massachusetts Norfolk County ss. June 14th 1837
Then the above said Amos Holbrook, who is an eminent Physician, and from a personal knowledge and acquaintance with him, can say that he sustains a good character and is reputed to be a person of undoubted truth and veracity personally appeared and made oath that the above Affidavit by him sub- scribed is true -
Before me Benjamin Richards Justice of the Peace

I have I think of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts. Now in my seventy first year to testify and say that I have known and been acquainted with Lois Packard a widow woman now residing in said North Bridgewater more than sixty years. Her maiden name was Lois Leach and she was married to Seth Packard or rather Seth Packard Jr., (his father Seth Packard Senior being then alive) in March 1703. The husband of said Lois Packard died in Roxbury near Boston, on the ninth day of January 1809. and said Lois Packard, to my certain knowledge has remained his widow to the present time, and is still single and unmarried. Mary S. White
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth County ss. Feb. 20. 1857. Then personally appeared the above named Mary S. White and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declarations to her subscribed, and I certify that I am personally acquainted with the said deponent and that she is a person of truth and veracity.
Elizab th Whitman Justice of the Peace

I, Thomas White of South Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts being in my seventh year do testify and say that I have known and been acquainted with Lois Packard a widow woman now residing in said South Bridgewater more than forty years. Her maiden name was Lois Leach and she was married to Seth Packard or rather Seth Packard Jr. (his father Seth Packard senior being then alive) in March 1763. The husband of said Lois Packard died in Roxbury near Boston on the ninth day of January 1809. and said Lois Packard to my certain knowledge has remained his widow to the present time and is still single and unmarried.
Thomas White Thomas White
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth County ss. Feb. 8. 1887. Then personally appeared the above named Thomas White and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declarations by him subscribed and I certify that I am personally acquainted with the said deponent and that he is reputed and considered to be a person of truth and veracity. Eliab Whitman Justice of the Peace

Commencement of Stephen's tenure
Concord, N. H.

Plymouth, Massachusetts Feb 21. 1857
Sir
I send you herewith the pension application of Abiah Brumfitt & Lois Packard.
Any communications in relation to the above may be made through me
Yours with respect J. H. Lord
J. L. Edwards Esq Com. of Pensions Washington D. C.

answered -
July 8. 1837
Rev. J. S. D. Merrill Commissioner of Revenue Washington City
Rev. Elias W. Hildreth July 1837

North Bridgewater Mass. June 13. 1837.
Gen. J. S. Edwards,
As I was the principal agent in the preparation of the case of Mrs. Lois Packard widow of Seth Packard deceased, B. Lord Esq. Register of Probate in the County of Plymouth, had the goodness to send me an original letter from the War Department, a copy of which is as follows.
War Department Pension Office May 24. 1837.
Sir, The papers in the case of Mrs. Lois Packard widow of Seth Packard decd. have been examined and placed on our files.
It does not appear by the rolls of 1775 that there was such a Captain as Elijah Pote, in the 8 months service of that year. If any mistake has occurred in the name it should be corrected, that another search may be made for the evidence of that term of service which the Department would not feel authorized to admit in the present state of the proofs.
I am very respectfully Yr. Mr. Obt. H. B. Lord Esq. Plymouth, Massachusetts. J. S. Edwards.

According to the Affidavits of Samuel Baker and Thomas Leon on your files there cannot be any doubt, but that Col. Packard was in the 8 months service in the vicinity of Boston in the year 1775. The only difficulty appears to be that no such Captain as Elijah Rose, can be found on the rolls in the 8 months service of that year. To remove the difficulty arising from this circumstance, I have caused the deposition of Samuel Baker to be retaken which is sent herewith, and also the deposition of Amos Holbrook an old and now re- spectable musician. You will perceive by the affidavit of Samuel Baker that he still persists and in a very positive manner that Elijah Rose was his Captain in the first 8 months service. He stated in his former deposition, and in this that the Colonel's name was Packard and he states further that "we went from Roxbury to Cambridge in 1775 and served the greater part of the time there." The service at Cambridge was not alluded to in the former affidavit - and these declarations are fully sustained by the affidavit of Amos Holbrook who states that he was well acquainted with (Elijah Rose) of Milton - that he served in the Quock- houson War as a Captain in the 8 months service at Cambridge and in the vicinity of Boston. Holbrook was a Surgeon's mate in the 8 months service of that year.
I hope Sir that this simple matter of evidence in the case of Mrs. Lois Packard will be the determination of your Department in awarding fully her claim for the services of her deceased husband, and that a Service Certificate will be forwarded to her without any delay.

I feel a little interest for the lady who is year so many  years  old  and  so  helpless  and  in  distress  circumstances  lived  with  and  instanced  by  her  children  who  are  also  distressed . A little unexpected relief in the extremity of her life will be very gratifying.
I am, Sir,
Very respectfully,
Eliab Whitman Master of Pleas
P.S. I take the liberty of stating a case on which I will thank you for an early opinion. A. was in the Revolutionary War six or seven years a Lieutenant the whole time and regularly discharged. Before his discharge and while he was in actual service he was married. A. died before the year 1818. and his wife married again before the year 1833. A. had several children and one of them a minor at the time of the father's decease. I would inquire if there are any provisions of law which entitle the minor to a pension for the services of the father from the time of his decease to the child's twenty one years of age, and if so if the applicant for a pension under these circumstances is a same court must she apply alone or will it be proper that her husband should join with her in the application.
Respectfully,
Eliab Whitman

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT , Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
To all whom it may concern:
Know Ye, That Benjamin Richards Esq r is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Norfolk.
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission- ed, and that to his Acts and Attestations , as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the within Attestation are in due form, and by the proper Officer.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this sixth day of February, A. D. 1837, and in the sixty first Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
[Signature] Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Edward Everett

I Samuel Baker of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being in my eighty seventh year of my age do testify and say that I was acquainted with Seth Packard formerly of Milton, in the County and State of Sussex that I well remember, of his being with me in the Revolutionary Army of the United States, and that he served eight months with the Massachusetts Hillsdale troops at Roxbury as a private in Captain Elijah Vose's company with me in 1775, and that he enlisted into Captain Thomas Pierce's company of Artillery and marched to New York, in the Continental Line and served thirteen months and two weeks, I was with him and listed at the same time we first enlisted for twelve months but we staid in the service six weeks longer than we first enlisted for we enlisted the latter part in Dec r 1775 first of January 1776 do not now recollect the day which we did enlist we were regularly discharged and came home together. Sam l Baker
State of Massachusetts
Norfolk County, ss: February 6th 1837
Then the abovenamed Samuel Baker, who is reputed to be a person of truth and veracity and that his word may be depended upon personally appears and made Oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me Benjamin Richards Justice of the Peace

Thomas Lyon of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, being in my seventy ninth year of my age, and being an Revolutionary Pensioner, do testify and say that I well knew Seth Packard formerly of Milton near Milton Village, and who was a Revolutionary Soldier in the Army of the United States; I knew him to be a Soldier in the Eight months Service at Roxbury in 1775. I was not in the same company with him and I do not know at this time the officer who took the command of the Company but I frequently saw him on duty. I know that he enlisted into the Continental Army in Captain Pierce's Company of Artillery and I think marched from Roxbury to New York, according to the best of my recollection.
Thomas Lyon
State of Massachusetts Norfolk County } ss. February 6th 1837 Then the Above named, Thomas Lyon, who is a person reputed to be a person of Truth and veracity personally appeared and made Oath that the above Affidavit by him subscribed is true -
Before Me. Benjamin Richards Justice of the Peace

X

Massachusetts
Shepherd Bachard
Private, In the Revolutionary War.
Enlisted on the roll of Mass. ts at $5. increased to $44. 00 by law of the 24. of April, 1876
Formal certificate of pen- sion issued 1 May, 1821 Sent to the care of Saml. Wagge, Esq. Boston, Mass.
his son Thomas is now living in...
Young Bachard

From Samuel Blagge Esq. Boston, Mass. Answered 1 May 1821

L. L. Edwards Esquire
War. Department. Pension Office
Washington - D.C.

Boston. April 24. 1821
Sir
Return the enclosed Certificate for the purpose of having Thomas Plummer's Name inserted
I beg leave to call Your attention to the case of Stephen Packard for an increase of his on the Documents relating to which was transmitted to You on the 3 rd inst. will accompanied with a letter of which the foregoing is a Copy.
"Boston April 24. 1820 3 Aug 1820"
H. Edwards Esquire
Sir
Enclosed You have the Documents relating to Stephen Packard's Case. - The examining Physicians man is now in the and I hope to be increased. - The Certificate has been  transmitted  under  cover  of  your  respectful  servant  Yours  respectfully  Blagge
In consequence of the retention of Packard's Original Certificate at the Pension Office, he has not the evidence requiring by Law to obtain the Payment of what is now due

his case therefore is peculiarly hard. -
I am Sir,
Yours Respectfully
J. Blagge

Suffolk ss.
Boston March 5 th Septm 1809
— Shephard Packard a private in the service of the United States in the late revolutionary War. came before me one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Suffolk, State of Mass ts and made Oath that he is the same Shephard Packard named in a Letter from the Secretary of War dated the 2 nd day of May 1808. to the Commissioner of Loans in Massachusetts directing him to place the said Shephard Packard on the Pension list of the United States at the rate of $3 p r Month commencing on the 7 th day of Feb y 1807. —
John Gardner Justice

Shepherd Pachard an applicant for increase of pension
It will be necessary for the examining Physicians to state particularly the cause to which the increase of the disability of this applicant from 3/5 to the 2/ of a total inability to procure a subsistence, is by them attributed; whether it arises from the injury on account of which he was originally placed on the Pension list, or is owing to his declining years.
Suspended on letter to Samuel Blagge, Esq. Pension Office Boston, Mass. July 15. 1820 1 May, 1821.
It appears that the date of the old cert t : has been altered & that several lines have been inserted in the same since the deponents made affidavit to it, which being informal is now returned to be forwarded with a formal cert t : agreeably to the enclosed form to the War Dept t . Dec r 15. 1820

4 To the Hon. Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled.
The subscribers in Ireland & England, who in the County of Plymouth and Devonshire & elsewhere do hereby represent that he served a private soldier in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the year One thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight in New York and New Jersey and that by informing some of his friends that he was old & by reason of his age required an pension in his old age which is not available to the extent that he has accumulated some money by his own labor & etc. and has made him dependent on a pension in the country of four dollars and eighty cents per month which this year and growing interest is sufficient for his support; he therefore prays Congress to take his case into their consideration and if they think proper to allow him an addition to his pension that will afford him support for the remaining days of his life in only several well care things.
Dated in New York 23rd Dec 1849
Shepherd Paddock
5/15 Feb 4.20 Jan 1850

Increase of Pension.
UNITED STATES.
DISTRICT, ss.
To Doctor Hector C. ... of Bridgewater and Doctor Jonathan ... Wales of Randolph in said District.
Pursuant to An Act of Congress of the United States, passed the 25th of April, 1812, entitled "An Act to revive and continue in force An Act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War, and for other purposes," you are hereby appointed and authorised to examine Shepherd Vick who is inscribed on the Pension List of the United States, and is claimant for an increase of pension conformably to the 5th section of the act of the 10th of April, 1806, revived as aforesaid; and you are to report in writing and on oath or affirmation, your opinion of the nature of his disability and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor; and in your proceedings in the premises you are to be regulated and governed by said act.
GIVEN under my hand and seal at Bridgewater this Twenty seventh day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty
J. H. ... Dist. Judge U.S. Massachusetts Dist.

Original Claim.
UNITED STATES.
DISTRICT, ss.
I,
Judge of the
DISTRICT COURT of the United States of America for the
District, by Authority of an act
of Congress, passed the 25th day of April, 1812, entitled
"An Act to revive and continue in force An Act to provide
"for persons who were disabled by known wounds received
"in the Revolutionary War, and for other purposes," do
hereby especially authorise and commission
of the county of
and District of
to take all evidence pursuant to the rules and regulations of the said act for substantiating the claim of
of the town of
in the county of
and district of
to be placed on the Pension List of the United States, by reason of known wounds received in said war, or since, (as prescribed in the 4th section of "An Act concerning invalid pensioners," passed the 25th of April, 1808,) while in the actual service of the United States, and in the line of his duty. And when the same shall be completed, to return the evidence, affidavits, certificates and proceedings had hereupon, together with this commission, to the Secretary for the Department of War.
GIVEN under my hand and seal at
the
day of
in
the year one thousand eight hundred and

Military District,
Massachusetts
(Date.)
28 July 1862
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, That Shepard Packard a Soldier in the company of Zadariah Watkins Lt Comd in the Regiment of United States commanded by Col E Wood is rendered incapable of performing the duty of a soldier, by reason of wounds or other injuries inflicted while he was actually in the service aforesaid, and in the line of his duty, viz: at a place called White Plains in the State of N York  being employed on fatigue duty By satisfactory evidence and accurate examination, it appears, that on the same  time on the day of the month of August in the year 1862 being engaged on fatigue duty at or near a place called White Plains in the State, District, or Territory of New York — he received an injury, by over exertion in his back, by which the spine has become incurably distorted. And this distortion was caused by the injury which he received in the U.S. service, and is not the effect of declining age and he is thereby not only incapacitated for Military Duty, but, in the opinion of the undersigned, is totally disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor.
Hector Orr, M.D. { Surgeon & Physician of the appointed  John D. Davis { by John D. Davis U.S. Dist. Judge U.S.  Massachusetts Dist.  Hospital Surgeon.
N. B. The blank in the last line but one is to be filled up with the proportional "Degree" of disability;—for example:—"three-fourths"—"one-half"—"one-third," &c. &c. or "totally," as the case may be.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
and 29th August
Remond to Bridgewater 25 July 1830 Personally appeared before me Joseph Silvester Justice of the Peace by legal authority appointed & sworn to continue in Bridgewater aforesaid C. Hector Orr & Jonathan Wales Surgeons & Physicians and made oath to the truth of the annexed certificate by them subscribed
Joseph Silvester Justice of the Peace July 25 1830
5/15
8/3 26 4.20
Common

May 23, 1935.
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Miss Rosa P. Mandvill 1620 West Seventh Street Aberdeen, Washington
BA--J/ady Shepard Packard S.5876
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Shepard Packard, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The records of this office show that Shepard the name is also shown as Shepherd Packard, while a resident of North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, enlisted, date not stated, and served nine months and four days as private in Lieutenant Zachariah Watkins' Company, Colonel Ezra Wood's Massachusetts Regiment. About June 17, 1778 or in August 1778 while on fatigue duty at White Plains, New York, he received an injury in his back, from over exertion, which occasioned a distortion of the spine.
On account of disability resulting from the above named injury he was pensioned from February 7, 1807 while a resident of Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
In 1819 he was living in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
The date and place of his birth are not shown and there are no family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

See also
INVALID.
1935 May 23. Visit to Rosa P. Mandville A.L.O. 7
File No. 5876 ★ Shepard Packard See also 1001
Act: _____
Index — Vol. M , Page 287
[Arrangement of 1870.]
★ Shepard Packard Records corrected May 1935

Emerson L. Phillips reporting Shelburn. Vermont

INCREASE OF PENSION.
IT is hereby certified that Richard Parkhurst formerly a Officer of captain  captain  Isaac  Wadsworth  Wadsworth's company, in the 6th  Regiment of Infantry ; Nixon's  Brigade who it appears by the accompanying certificate was placed on the pension roll at the rate of Seven dollars 83 3/4 per month, on account, as he states, of having received an injury which
occasioned a distortion of the spine
while in the line of his duty, and in the said service, on or about the seventeenth day of June in the year 1775 at a place called White Plains in the state or territory
of New York , is not only still disabled in consequence of the said injury, but, in my  our opinion is entitled to Three dollars 83 3/4 per
month more than he already receives as a pensioner. Being disabled in the degree of total loss of earning his subsistence by manual labour
Bridgewater, May 10 th 1821
Hector Orr, M.D. Jonathan Wales
Physicians appointed by the District Judge of Massachusetts
Plymouth Feb 10 th 1821 Personally appeared Dots Hector Orr & Jonathan Wales & made oath to the truth of the above certificate by them subscribed - before me Joseph Silvester Justice Peace

I hereby certify that the within is the genuine signature of Joseph Silverton, and that he is an acting magistrate in the county of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts, duly qualified to administer oaths -
Reuben Hobart
July 29. 1823

Mr. Herbert
Mylord Palmer Case
See letter to Hon. J. A. Herbert dated Feb. 25, 1823.
Packard's certificate sent to W.H. in a separate cover.
Mr. Edwards Pension Office

Case of Sheppard (628) Packard: claim to an increase rejected. See letter to Hon. A. Hobart H. R. Feb. 25, 1823.
Nuc 24-p 113. on - 9mo 40y

It is Mr. D. D. D. in the case of the ...

I have been thinking of you and your dear children and how much I should like to see you all again after all this time. I have been very busy lately but I have managed to find some time to write to you. I hope you are all well and happy. I have been thinking of you and your dear children and how much I should like to see you all again after all this time. I have been very busy lately but I have managed to find some time to write to you. I hope you are all well and happy. I have been thinking of you and your dear children and how much I should like to see you all again after all this time. I have been very busy lately but I have managed to find some time to write to you. I hope you are all well and happy. Daniel Brett

INCREASE OF PENSION.
United States.
Massachusetts DISTRICT, ss.
To Doctor Hector Orr of Bridgewater and Doctor Christian Wiles of Reynoldsburg in the Counties of Plymouth & Norfolk said district.
Pursuant to an act of Congress of the United States, passed the 25th of April, 1812, entitled "An act to revive and continue in force 'An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary war, and for other purposes,'" you are hereby appointed and authorized to examine Stephen Packard
who is inscribed on the Pension List of the United States, and is claimant for an increase of pension, conformably to the 5th section of the act of the 10th April, 1806, revived as aforesaid; and you are to report, in writing, and on oath or affirmation, your opinion of the nature of his disability and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor; and in your proceedings in the premises you are to be regulated and governed by said act.
Given under my hand and seal, at Boston this fifteenth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and Twenty Three .
J. M. Davis Dist Judge U. States Mass. Dist

ORIGINAL CLAIM.
United States.
DISTRICT, ss.
I, _____ Judge of the District Court of the United States of America, for the _____ District; by AUTHORITY of an act of Congress, passed the 25th day of April, 1812, entitled "An act to revive and continue in force an 'Act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Re- volutionary war, and for other purposes,'" DO HERE- BY ESPECIALLY AUTHORIZE AND COMMISSION
_____ of the county of
and district of
to take all evidence pursuant to the rules and regulations of the said act, for substan- tiating the claim of _____ of the town of
_____ in the county of _____ and district of
_____ to be placed on the Pension List of the United States, by reason of known wounds received in said war, or since, (as prescribed in the fourth section of "An act concerning invalid pensioners," passed the 25th of April, 1808,) while in the actual service of the United States, and in the line of his duty. And when the same shall be completed, to return the evidence, affidavits, certificates, and proceedings had hereupon, together with this commission, to the Secretary for the De- partment of War.
Given under my hand and seal, at _____ the _____ day of _____ in the year one thousand eight hundred and _____

B. Harrison L. Harrison in the town of Bedford July 1892

I enclose herewith a description of the County of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts of which age is thirty years or more as I can collect that about the year 1848 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was then in the to give that Richard P. Dinsmore of West Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth was a private soldier in a Company that some time in June 1848 as near as I can recollect while at a place called Wiltshire in the state of Vermont the said Richard P. Dinsmore was then of the age of thirty years or more as I can collect that he was then from some party and was never used and would be considered unemployed  unemployed at the time of his death in the different way that it was at the time of his death
Barnabas Horton
I enclose herewith a description of the County of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts of which age is thirty years or more as I can collect that about the year 1848 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was then in the to give that Richard P. Dinsmore of West Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth was a private soldier in a Company that some time in June 1848 as near as I can recollect while at a place called Wiltshire in the state of Vermont the said Richard P. Dinsmore was then of the age of thirty years or more as I can collect that he was then from some party and was never used and would be considered unemployed  unemployed at the time of his death in the different way that it was at the time of his death
I enclose herewith a description of the County of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts of which age is thirty years or more as I can collect that about the year 1848 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was then in the to give that Richard P. Dinsmore of West Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth was a private soldier in a Company that some time in June 1848 as near as I can recollect while at a place called Wiltshire in the state of Vermont the said Richard P. Dinsmore was then of the age of thirty years or more as I can collect that he was then from some party and was never used and would be considered unemployed  unemployed at the time of his death in the different way that it was at the time of his death

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War Dept. Pension Office, Feby. 25", 1823.
Hon. A. Hobart H. Reps.
Sir:
Upon a full investigation of the claim of Shepard Packard to an increase of his pension, it would not appear that he is entitled to any further allowance than he already receives. He was originally placed on the Pension Roll, I find by reference to the U. S. laws, on account of a wound . On looking over some old informal papers left here some years since, it would appear that the injury of which he complains (a distortion of the spine) was occasioned by "over exertion". It is evident therefore that the same disability for which he originally received his pension is not the same on account of which he now claims an increase; and as the law allows of no increase in such a case as this, none can of course be granted. I have therefore to inform you that the claim is rejected. The papers, according to the regulations of the Dept. will remain on our files.
I am J. L. E.
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May 2nd 1935 Aberdeen Wash
United States Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Gentlemen
Will you please give me the full history of Shepard Packard S 5876 who was a resident of Bridge Water Mass in 1819 and who served in the Revolutionary War if any charges please notify me of same.
Thanking you in advance Respectfully Rosa Packard Mandville 1620 West 7th St Aberdeen Wash
Will consider this a great favor as I would like to become a member of the R.D.A.R.

Re-Issued
No. _____
Massachusetts
Name Shepherd Packard
Rank: Private Comp'y: _____
Reg't: Mass. Line Rev. War Proclamation No. 100, 1862. * Shepherd Packard  Dec. 9, 1862.
Mass
Agency.
RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st Issue { _____ Comm'g _____
2d Issue { _____ Comm'g _____
3d Issue { _____ Comm'g _____
DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
1st Issue { _____ Sent to _____
2d Issue { _____ Sent to _____
3d Issue { _____ Sent to _____
Act 14th July, 1862. Bk. G., Vol. _____, Page _____
Registering Clerk: _____
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