Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33434, for Robert Parker, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Parker, Robert
S. 33434
CONTENTS
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696
Massachusetts Roll
Robert Parker,
Capt Kirkham
Private
4
Massachusetts line - 1777-83
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence the 15 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Edward Bangs, Worcester, Mass.
Arrearages to 1 st Sept. 1818
4 months 20/30
$37.33
{ Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818, }
✓ Parker, Robert

By Major General Rorer, commanding the Garrison of West Point and its dependencies.
Robert Forster. Late in the First Massachussetts Regiment, having been honorably discharged the service of the United States.
Given at West Point the 28 th day of October 1883.
H. Nixon M c General
By the Generals Command J t Lillie Aide de Camp.
Registered in the book of the Regiment.
C. H. D. M c Neill M c H gh

33434 Pay INVALID.
File No. 33 434
Robert Parker
Rev Rev Mr
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 816
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Massachusetts
I Robert Parker a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Barnes in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, one in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & eighty
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the twenty eighth day of October A.D. 1783 when I received my discharge which is herunto annexed
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to Captain Hildreth's Company in the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam and afterwards commanded by Col. Joseph Dose
and that I left the service on the twenty eighth day of October A.D. 1783 and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Seventy three years
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed. Robert Parker
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Edw Bangs Judge C. C. Com. plus western Circuit comprising said County
the abovenamed Robert Parker and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination du- made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Edw Bangs