Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33419, for William Parker, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Parker William
NUMBER
S. 33419
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll.
(2282)
William Parker, Jr.
Capt Ballard
Sergeant
Massachusetts line - 17th. 1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th of June 1818 and sent to the Hon. Saml. Dana, Boston.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
4 months 27/30. $39.20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued
Childs & Co. 1818
Posterior to 1818 to Samuel Dana Esq. Boston Mass

33 419 Levy INVALID.
File No. 88 419
William Parker
Levy Rev Mo
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 316
[Arrangement of 1870.]

182.
William Packer 3 rd
June 1518
2287
Residence
my family N o
see the case N o 82
Cam
John V. D. 182

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, William Packer resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. Chelmsford now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, William Packer late a Sargeant in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Given at the War Office of the United States, this eleventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. L. S. J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
  1 cow 18 1 porridge pot 42 $18.42   Tea kettle 50 dish kettle 25 0 75   6 chairs 1 50 audiron, 100 2 60   Small audiron, 50 old shovel 17 0 67   1 rake 17 old tools 100 2 17   Wm Packer. $74 51 
And the said William Packer says he served as a Sargeant in the war of the Revolution one year and two months, in Cap t Ballard's company and Col t Whitecomb's Regiment from Jan y 1 st 1776. as is more fully set forth in his declaration now on file in the War office.
And the said William Packer further says, that

he will be eighty years old next September, that he is now almost blind, being unable to distinguish one man from another by sight, that he lives with his son, is a shop joiner by trade, but wholly unable to work at that or any other calling
Wm Packer "

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
// I, William Packer do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Wm Packer
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Wm Packer took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
twenty four dollars &
fifty one cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820 .
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

By ASA WHITCOMB, Esquire;
Colonel, commanding the Sixth Regiment of Foot in the Continental Army of the Thirteen United Colonies.
To William Barker
I Reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Courage and good Conduct, do appoint you to be a Second Sergeant in Capt. W m Hudson Ballard's Company, and in the above-named Regiment; and by Virtue of this Warrant you are to be obeyed as such; And you are carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Sergeant — in said Regiment and Company, for which this is your sufficient Warrant.
Given under my Hand and Seal of the Regiment, at Boston, this First Day of January 1776.
Asa Whetcomb Coll

William Parker - Not on the list

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered, that on this eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me Samuel Dana, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, comprehending the counties of Essex and Middlesex in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, comes William Parker of Chelmsford — in said county of Middlesex and on oath declares that he served in the war of the revolution more than twenty months, having finished the first eight months, service under the State of Massachusetts — On the first day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred, and Twenty six, he enlisted into the Army upon the Continental establishment, and received a Warrant of that date by which he was appointed a Sergeant in Capt. William Hudson Ballard's Company, in the Tenth Regiment of foot commanded by Col. Asa Whitcomb, in this Company and Regiment he served his full term of one year, and was  at Frierderoga and he returned home — No discharges were then given to any Soldiers — He is destitute of property, is Twenty seven years of age, and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his County for support. —
William Parker
Thus made, taken, subscribed, and sworn to at Chelmsford in said County of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid —
Sam l Dana

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being the seventh thousand eight hundred and Eighteen Personall appeared William Parker and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed. he exhibited to me the Seayants warrant therein described —
from which it appears to me, that the said William Parker did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months. upon the Continental establishment
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration & the warrant aforesaid to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
Sam. Dana