Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,933, for Timothy Proctor, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Proctor, Timothy or Procter, Sally
W. 26,933
CONTENTS

9323
Vermont
Timothy Procter
of Windsor in the State of Ver- who was a pri- in the Com commanded by Captain Davis of the Regt commanded by Col. Bangs in the On a time for 8 mo 8 dys
Inscribed on the Roll of Ver- at the rate of 26 Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of May 23
and sent - Reuben Washburn Ludlow Vt
Arrears to the 4th of March 33 $ 53,88
Semi-ant. allowance ending Sep. 33 1347
$ 67.45
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E.D. Billings Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 3 - Page 83

6 9 3 days -
15. July. 80. 15. Dec 80
Timothy Proctor
N o 5187.
P.O.

To whom it may concern I Simeon Proctor of Lexington in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby certify that I enlisted in the year 1778 into the service of United States of America for the period of three months with the expectation of being sta- -tioned at Cambridge in said Commonwealth.
I further testify that my Brother Timothy Proctor now of Cavendish in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont who at the time of my enlist- ment lived in the town of Littleton in the Coun- ty of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts entered the service under my name and performed the tour of duty for which I en- listed. Simeon Proctor
Middlesex ss. June 25-1832
Personally appeared the above named Simeon Proctor and made solemn Oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is just & true -
Before me Nathaniel Mullen (Justice of the Peace)

Declaration of Timothy Proctor
State of Vermont } District of Windsor ss. County of Windsor ss. }
On this sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court, before the Judge of the Probate Court within and for the District of Windsor in the State of Vermont, now sitting, Timothy Proctor, a resident of Cavendish in the County (and District) of said Windsor 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 th 1832, That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, viz;
That at Littleton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where the declarant then resided, in the latter part of March or fore part of April 1778, he enlisted as a private for three months into Captain Isaac Wood's company in the Regiment commanded by Col o Jonathan Reed, and marched to Concord, Massachusetts, where he was mustered and immediately marched to Cambridge to guard prisoners of Burgoyne's Army; he remained on that duty, as near as he can recollect, about six, or seven weeks; he then marched with the prisoners, from said Cambridge, through Watertown, Northborough, Shrewsbury, and Holden, he thinks, to Rutland, where he was stationed and helped make a sort of picketed yard to keep said prisoners in. He well recollects going into a spruce swamp

where the mud and water was two, or three feet deep, and helping cut and carry out poles to build said fence. He quartered in an old barn. Here he remained in that service the residue of the time for which he enlisted. He also states that he had no written discharge; but one of the mess, to wit, Abel Proctor, or Thomas Scott went to the Captain the night before and asked him whether those in their mess might set out for home at midnight. He gave his consent, and they accordingly left the encampment.
Col d Reed commanded the Regiment at Cambridge, and declarant thinks, a Major Reed commanded at Rutland.
The declarant further states, that in the latter part of June 1780 he lived in Acton, in the County and State aforesaid, and was enlisted for six months by Captain Davis, and marched in two, or three weeks from said Acton to Worcester, and there drew provisions, and marched to Springfield in said State, and was there mustered, thence crossed Connecticut River to Litchfield; there drew more provisions & marched to Piskill, and thence to Robinson's Farms near Westpoint, and there joined Bigelow's Regiment, colonels' company, (so called) commanded by Simonds and Longley; he then crossed the North River, at King's Ferry, into New Jersey; passed through several towns until he came to Morristown; was there when Andre was taken; he was executed within about a half mile where declarant was stationed. Generals Glover and Poor, were officers in command. From Orange town he marched to Westpoint for winter quarters.
The declarant had been selected for a waiter by the Surgeon's mate, who, wanting to go to Worcester, Massachusetts, on furlough, (he thinks) told declarant that if he would con-

tinuue his services of the journey he would obtain his discharge, which was accordingly obtained. Declarant accompanied the Surgeon's mate on his journey to Worcester and from thence to his home in Acton, where he arrived in the month of January, three days before the soldiers did, who enlisted at the time he enlisted and marched with him. He does not recollect whether the Surgeon obtained a written discharge, or not; if the declarant ever had one it is lost - he has no remembrance of ever having one. In March 1790 he removed from said Acton in Massachusetts, to Cavendish in Vermont, where he has since resided.
The declarant says that the three first months that he served, he did not enlist as above stated, but his brother Simeon Proctor entitled, was taken sick and could not go, and he, the declarant, went as a substitute for his brother, and served out the term for which his said brother enlisted.
He hereby relinquishes every claim 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.
He was born at Chensford in the State of Massachusetts on the twenty ninth day of July 1762. There is a record of his birth in the said town of Chensford, which he has lately seen, and now has a copy thereof, attested by the Town Clerk of said Chensford, which he now exhibits here in Court. He refers to Revd. Warren Skinner and Junia Parker, as persons to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood, and who can testify, as to his character for veracity , and their belief of his services, as a Soldier of the Revolution.
Isimo the Proctor
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Jabez Proctor Judge

We Warren Skinner, a clergyman, residing in the town of Cavendish, in the County of Windsor, and State of Vermont, and Junia Parker, residing in the said town of Cavendish, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Timothy Proctor, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy years of age; that he is respected and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Warren Skinner Junia Parker
(Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.)
Isaac Proctor Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
I Ruben Washburn, Register of the Probate Court within and for the District of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
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 Warren Skinner, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Cavendish aforesaid, and, that, Junia Parker, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the said town of Cavendish, and is a credible person, and, that their statement is entitled to credit.
Isaac Proctor Judge
I Ruben Washburn, Register of the Probate Court, within and for the District of Windsor, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Timothy Proctor for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal

of said Court, this sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Reuben Washburn. —

Rep Aug 14
Vermont 1477. allot.
Sally Proctor, widow of Timothy Proctor who was a Private in the Mass. line for 8 mos & 3 days
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars & 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of August, 1843 and sent to Mrs. H. Hammond Brownsville Vt.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 29.

U356 Sally Proctor N.Y.
Act 7. July '38.
m 87. d 34
adm d 8 mo pri #26 66/1000
No deduction
Salmon F. Duthra Cavendish N.Y.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the seventh July, 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of Vermont, } On this twentieth day of March, in the year District of Windsor, ss. } of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, at Cavendish, in said District, per- =sonally appeared before the Hon. the Probate Court for the District of Wind- =sor aforesaid, Sally Proctor, a resident of Cavendish, in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged seventy seven years on the twenty seventh day of March instant, who, being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" that she is the widow of Timothy Proctor, late of said Cavendish, deceased, who was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution, and who on account of his services in that war was placed on the Pension List of the United States under the act of Congress passed on the 7 th day of June, 1832, under which act the said Timothy Proctor continued in the receipt of a Pension till the time of his death. That she the said Sally Proctor as widow of the said Timothy Proctor applied for & received the arrears of Pension due her said husband at his death, on which occasion and for which purpose, as this Declarant believes the Pension Certificate issued to the said Timothy Proctor under the said act of June 7, 1832, was returned to the War Department, to which Certificate as well as to the original Declaration of the said Timothy Proctor, and the evidence connected therewith, and to the other Files and Records remaining in the War Department, the said Sally Proctor refers for the particulars and proofs of the Revolutionary services of the said Timothy Proctor, her deceased husband.
She, the said Sally Proctor, further declares that she was married to the said Timothy Proctor in the month of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven. She thinks, she cannot be mistaken in relation to the month and year, but the particular day of the month she does not now remember; her name before her marriage was Sally White. Her marriage took place at her Father's Mark White's in Westford, in the common- wealth of Massachusetts, and ceremony of marriage was performed by Jonathan Reed Esquire, a Justice of the Peace, who resided in Lit- =ilton, (near Westford) Massachusetts, an old Magistrate and an old acquaintance of her family. This Declarant and her said husband remained for a short time after their marriage at her Father's, and then removed to Acton, Massachusetts, where they con- =tinued

continued to reside till they came up to said Caarendish, which as this Declarant thinks was in March, 1790, or thereabouts, where she and the said Timothy Proctor continued together as husband and wife until the time of his death - that her husband the aforesaid Timothy Proctor died at said Caarendish on the twenty first day of July A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty four; that she was not married to him, the said Timothy Proctor 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. She further declares that she hath never married since the death of her husband the aforesaid Timothy Proctor, but hath ever since remained his widow, and is now sole and unmarried.
Sworn to and subscribed by the said Sally Proctor Sally Proctor on the day and year above written, that is, on the 20 th day of March A.D. 1839.
Before, Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate Court.
I Stillman Proctor, of Caarendish, in the county of Windsor and state of Vermont, aged thirty seven years, being duly sworn, depose and say, that I am the son of Timothy Proctor and Sally Proctor, whose names are mentioned in the foregoing Declaration of Sally Proctor. That from my earliest recollection the said Timothy and Sally resided together at said Caarendish in the relation of husband and wife till the death of the said Timothy Proctor, which took place at said Caaren- =dish, on the twenty first day of July A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty four. I was present, and saw him die. My Father the aforesaid raised up a large family of children, by whom as well as by all their acquaintances the said Timothy and Sally have ever been regarded as legally married. I have never known a doubt suggested as to their marriage. The said Timothy Proctor was reported to be a soldier of the Revolution, and I used to hear him talk of his being out in the Revolutionary War; - previous to his death he drew a Pension under the act of June 7, 1832, I think it was. He was the only Pensioner of that name in this town, and I have never known any other person by that name in this vicinity excepting a brother of mine, who is still alive. My Mother the said Sally Proctor drew the arrears of my said Father's Pension after he died - I received the money therefor and paid it over to her - it was paid over to me by the Hon. Isaac Proctor. Since the death of her said husband the said Sally Proctor has never married, but has ever since remained and is now sole and unmarried.
Sworn to and subscribed by the said Stillman Stillman Proctor Proctor this twentieth day of March A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty nine, the words "the mother aforesaid" being previously interlined.
Before, Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate Court.

State of Vermont, } Thomas F. Hammond Judge of the Probate District of Windsor, ss. } Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid, hereby certify, that Sally Proctor who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration, and Stillman Pro- ctor who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, are each of them persons of truth and veracity, and that their respective statements, are entitled to full credit and belief. Witness my Hand this twentieth day of March A.D., eighteen hundred and thirty nine. Thomas F. Hammond, Judge.
State of Vermont, } Probate Registry for the District of District of Windsor, ss. } Windsor aforesaid. I, Salmon H. Dutton Register of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid, hereby certify, that Thomas F. Hammond, before whom the foregoing Declaration of Sally Proctor was sworn to and subscribed, as well as the foregoing affidavit of Stillman Proctor, is Judge of the said Probate Court, which Court is a court of Record, and that the signature annexed to the respective certificates of the oaths of the said Declarant and affiant, and to the Certificate of their Credibility, purporting to be the signature of him the said Thomas F. Hammond, is his own proper and genuine signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Probate Court, and subscribed my name at Canaan, in said District, this fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
Salmon H. Dutton, Register.

No 5787
Vermont.
admit 8 mo
3 days - mi -
$26.99 -
Reuter Washburn Esq Sudlow vt

BRIEF in the case of Timothy Procter of Carenail County of Windsor in the State of Vermont (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Apl In 17 78 Substitute 3 Private Gen. Capt Wood Col Rusk   June 1780 6 do Capt Davis Col Bigelow Genl Poor & Glover  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Littleton, Middlesex Co. Massachussetts.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective  Papers not attached & no certificate of credibility, except to the witness for the 2 months
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. M. [Signature] Examining Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. Littleton Oct 19 th 1839
It appears by the Registry of Marriages in the Town of Littleton, that on "September the sixteenth seventeenth hundred and eighty seven. Timothy Proctor and Sally White both of Acton were joined in marriage by Jonathan And Esqr a Justice of the Peace for his certificate." I hereby certify, that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on said record in fair legible figures as follows: "Sept 17 th 1787."
James Kimball Town Clerk of Littleton
I, James Kimball, above named, depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk, in the Town, County, and State, aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town, with the exception above named as certified by me —
James Kimball
Sworn before me
J. M. Russell, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex Ss. I Elias Thurney clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the County of Middlesex, being a court of records, do certify that Jona M. Reed Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County, and that his name subscribed to the within cer- tificate is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the twenty first day of October A.D. 1839.
E. Thurney

Vermont 4902
Sally Proctor widow of Timothy Proctor, decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June, 1832 and who died on the 21 st July, 1834 - of Windsor Dist in the State of Vermont who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Davis of the Reg t commanded by Col. Bigelow in the Massachusetts line for 8 months 3 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont - at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Jan- uary, 1840 and sent to Salmon H. Dutton, Cavendish, Vt
Arrears to the 4th of March, 1840 $106.64 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept r 13.33
$119.97
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by S. A. Elliott Clerk Book 1, Vol. 2 Page 52

Rev WIDOW, &c. 269.33
File No. 24746
Sally Proctor wid of Timothy Proctor Pr. Mass Line
Act: March 3 d 48
Index:—Vol. P , Page 142
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jonas Faulkner's Affidavit

I Daniel White of Acton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hereby depose & say. That in the year A.D. 1780 Timothy Procter of Cavendish in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont. Enlisted in to the Continental Service in the Town of Acton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the term of six months and Marched with me to Springfield and there passed Muster. Thence Marched to Robertson's Farms near West Point and there joined the Regiment.
Daniel White
Middlesex ss June 23 1832
Then the above named Daniel White personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was just & true
Before me
Francis Tuttle } Justice of the Peace

Jonas Faulkner of Rindge in the County of Cheshire & State of New Hampshire hereby depose and say. That in the year A.D. 1780 Timothy Proctor, now a resident in Cambridge in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, Enlisted into the Contin- -ental Service, in the town of Acton in the County of Middlesex and State of Mass- -achusetts for the term of six months and marched with me to West Point and there joined Col. Bigelows Regiment in Glousters Brigade, where I frequently saw him, the said Proctor, during said term doing duty in said Regiment
Jonas Faulkner Cheshire Co. June 20 th 1832
Jonas Faulkner above named personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Affidavit.

Jonas Faulkner of Brimfield in the County of Cheshire & State of New Hampshire hereby depose and say. That in the year A.D. 1786 Timothy Proctor, now a resident in Canadish in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, Enlisted into the Continental Service, in the town of Acton in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts for the term of six months and marched with me to West Point and there joined Col. Bigelows Regiment in Glousters Brigade, where I frequently saw him, the said Proctor, during said term doing duty in said Regiment
Jonas Faulkner Cheshire Co. June 20 th 1832
Jonas Faulkner above named personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Affidavit by him subscribed before me - Joshua Converse Justice of the Peace

Joel Davis for T. Procter
(Name to the within is a magistrate duly qualified and that I believe the same to be his genuine signature — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Woodstock

Joel Davis of Cavendish in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont, being seventy-seven years of age, Do depose and say, That I was acquainted with Timothy Proctor, formerly of Littleton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now of Cavendish in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, That in the year of our Lord 1778 I was a citizen of Townsend in Massachusetts, and enlisted into Capt. Isaac Woods company in Col. Jon. Reed's Regiment for three months; That I was stationed at Cambridge in Massachusetts - That Timothy Proctor was in the same company with me, stationed at Cambridge, for the purpose of guarding the prisoners taken at the surrender of Genl. Burgoyne's army. I well recollect that during the time we were stationed at Cambridge, a soldier belonging to our Regiment, standing sentry, shot a British officer attempting to force his way by in a chaise - Witness Jacob Washburn Joel his Davis mark
State of Vermont } Before me remembered that on Windsor County } this 3 rd day of August 1832,
Before me Jacob Proctor a Justice of the Peace within & for s d County - personally appeared the above named Joel Davis & made oath that the above deposition contains the truth & nothing but the truth - and that the s d Joel Davis is well known to me & is a credible witness - Sworn, subscribed & confirmed by &
Before me Jacob Proctor Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont } Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor Windsor County } County Court, do hereby certify that } David Rooter who has offered his
name to the within is a magistrate duly qualified and that I believe the same to be his genuine
signature — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Woodstock this 11 th day of August A.D. 1832
Benjamin Swan Clerk
Forl Davis for T. Rooter

1647
Sally Proctor
$26:66 per ann
The J. Hamnads Brownsville Vt

State of Vermont, } District of Windsor. ss. }
On this twenty second day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the Probate Court, in and for said district of Windsor, Sally Proctor, a resident of Cavendish in the county of Windsor and state of Vermont, aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3 d . March, 1843. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Timothy Proctor, who was a waiter and private in the war of the revolution, and for whose services he obtained a pension of twenty nine dollars and ninety nine per annum, under the Act of the 7 th June, 1832; That she received a pension of twenty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum (or about that sum), under the Act of July 7. 1838. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sally Proctor
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written.
Before me, Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of s d Probate Court.
And I hereby certify that Sally Proctor, the above declarant, is personally known to me. Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of s d Probate Court.
In testimony of all which, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Probate Court, and subscribed my name at Windsor in said district, this 27 th day of May, in the year, eighteen hundred and forty three.
Thomas F. Hammond, Judge.