Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5137, for Nehemiah Parker, Massachusetts

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Parker Nehemiah
S 5137
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10. 1888 Massachusetts
Solomon Barker
of Worcester in the State of Mass. who was a Private in the Company by Captain Nice of the R.G. by Col. Hearns in the Mass. time for 11 months 25 days
Mass
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 11 Dollars 00 Cents per to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of Feb 1833 and sent Rev. Solomon Folsom  Worcester  Mass.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $120 Semi-annual allowance ending 14 Sept. " 30
$150
{ Revolutionary War Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by John G. D. Washburn Book 2 Vol. 2 Page 15
74 March

95 16 Nehemiah Parker Dorals
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March 29 1835
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Geo. Solomon Worcester Mass

BRIEF in the case of Nehemiah Parker County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1839.)
 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? 72 years  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.     Sub In 1776 3 priv Genl Schuyler   Vol 1776 3 Capt Ral Col Lenny   Enlist 1777 8 Billon - Sparkbank   Draft 1778 1 15 Heaynes. Mygaleworth   Enlist 1779 3 Subley. Whitney   18 14 Harrington. Macginnis  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Bemis Heights Saratoga  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Southboro Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary & Living Witness, 2 Certified as Credible (Draft)  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
 D. H. Hask Examining Clerk.

Declaration of Nehemiah Parker
Corrected —
Geo Johnson, Atty. —
Library of Congress

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this seventh day of September in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Nathl. Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester now sitting Nehemiah Parker a resident of Princeton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy two 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 7th, 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he went as a substitute for Richard Barnes of Southborough County of Worcester for three months (said Richard Barnes having been drafted) in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the Massachusetts militia in Capt. Asa Rice's Company) and he the said Nehemiah Parker went for three months in said service in Capt. Asa Rice's Company sometimes in the month of August 1776 and marched to Hartford Connecticut and from thence to New Haven and from thence to Horse Neck in New York and thence to Tarry Town and there joined the Regiment and there served a number of weeks and from thence to New Castle and there completed my term of time of three months where I was verbally discharged. The officers that I recollect at this service were of the company that I belonged Capt. Asa Rice, Lt. Fossitt, 2 d Lt. Joshua Smith, Col. Samuel Denny's Regiment. - For documentary evidence reference to (A) marked
(B.) Also he volunteered in the service of the United States in the Massachusetts Militia sometime in the month of December 1776 for three months in Capt. Elijah Bellows's Company Col. Sparkhawk's Regiment and marched immediately to Danbury in Connecticut and from thence to Peekskill in New York and there joined Col. Sparkhawk's Regiment and thence to an Island in the Hudson River on which was a fort the name of which I do not now recollect) and thence down the River and crossed King's Ferry and thence to Bound Brook where I completed the term of service of three months and there I was verbally discharged. The officers in this campaign that I recollect were Capt. Elijah Bellows Col. Sparkhawk Lt. Col. Jonathan Grout Maj. Job Cushing and Gen. Warner's Brigade for documentary evidence of this campaign reference to affidavit marked (B).
(C.) Also that he enlisted as a private in the Continental Line for eight months on or about the 10 th day of May 1777 in Capt. Aaron Haynes's Company of Infantry in the 13 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Edward Muzzlesworth and marched to

Pike'skill in New-York and there took shipping to Albany and thence to Saratoga and there joined the main Army under Gen. Schuyler and immediately we retreated to Mohawk Sprouts so called and there stayed a month or two and then the enemy retreated to Bemis Heights where we had a Battle and from thence we marched to Saratoga and I was in the Battle at said place and at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne on the 17 th day of October 1777 and from thence to Albany and from thence to King's Ferry and thence to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania and there served till the 10 th day of January 1778 where I was discharged (which discharged I have since lost for evidence of this service reference to affidavit marked (D.)
(D.) Also I was drafted and went as a private about the 20 th day of July 1778 in Capt. Sibley's Company and marched immediately to Newton and there crossed Howland's Ferry on to Rhode-Island and there joined Col. Whitney's Regiment and there served till Gen. Sullivan retreated off the Island and from thence to Providence and thence to Cranston where I was discharged on the 9 th or 10 th day of Sept being in the service six weeks - The officers that I recollect at this period were Capt. Sibley 1 st Lt Moses Hayden 2 d Lt Elisha Gray Col. Whitney Gen. Sullivan - for documentary evidence of this service reference to affidavit marked (D.)
(E.) Also that sometime in the month of August 1779 I enlisted as a private in Capt. Harrington's Company for three months and marched immediately to Gloveret a town on the Hudson River and there stayed several weeks and from thence to Albany and thence to Albany Flatts and there stayed a number of weeks and from thence to Nisker or some such name a town on the Mohawk River and there served a number of weeks and from thence crossed the Hudson River to New-York and there served till I was discharged by my commanding officer - The officers in this period of service that I recollect were Capt. Harrington 1 st Lt Thomas Hamilton 2 d Lt Solomon Maynard the 3 d I do not recollect - for documentary evidence of this campaign reference to Affidavit marked (E.)
I also further

3.m. I enlisted as a private in Capt. Harrington's Company for three months and marched immediately to Gloveret a town on the Hudson River and there stayed several weeks and from thence to Albany and thence to Albany Flatts and there stayed a number of weeks and from thence to Niskay or some such name a town on the Mohawk River and there served a number of weeks and from thence down the Hudson River to New-City and there served till I was discharged by my commanding officer—
The officers in this period of service that I recollect were Capt. Harrington, 1st Lt. Thomas Hamilton 2nd Lt. Solomon Maynard the 3rd I do not recollect— for documentary evidence of this campaign reference to Affidavit marked (E.)—
I also further say that at the several places where I was discharged 1st at New-Castle in New-York 2nd at Valley Forge Penn. 3rd Valley Forge Penn. 4th Coaxton R. Island and 5th New-City New-York making upwards of one thousand miles that I had to travel to return home—
For further evidence of my character reference to Josiah Cutting & Jonas Beaman residents of said Princeton—
I was born in Reading County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts August 22 d 1760— and moved to Hopkinton where I lived till I was five years old
I was born in Reading County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts August 22 d 1760— and moved to Hopkinton where I lived till I was five years old and then moved to Southboro' Town of Hopkinton and there lived till I was twenty-one and in 1794 I moved to Princeton Worcester Co. Mass. and I have lived here since then.
He hereby relinquishes 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.
Jeremiah Tucker
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Nathaniel Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester

We Joseph Cutting a Clergyman residing in the Town of Inverness and Jonathan Beman residing in Princeton, found hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nehemiah Cutting Parker who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy five 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.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. By me Nathl Williams Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Josiah Cutting See Jonas Beman
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 mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Sarah Catten who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman , resident in the Town of Princeton and that Sarah  are who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Princeton and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
led to credit. Nathl. James Judge of Probate for the county of Worcester
I Theophilus Wheeler Regisiter or Clerk of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mehosiah Parkin for a Pension for a Pension to be paid out of the said County in full credit & that they signed the same affidavits were made & all proceedings of the said Court in full credit & that they signed the same IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this 17th day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two
Joseph Wheeler Regt of Probate for the county of Worcester in Massachusetts,
Worcester ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts I, Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Sessions for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify that, since the making the above certificate dated September 7th 1832, the affidavit of Stephen Bellows, man- ifest before Jonas Ball Esquire, and the certificate of Charles Russell Esquire, the affidavit dated April 29th 1833 and the certificate dated the same day, have been produced in said Court; and that the papers now connected by a ribbon under the seal of the said Court, contain the proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Nohemiah Parker for a Pardon - I further certify that the said Charles Russell and the said Jonas Ball are, each of them, Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Worcester, duly commissioned and sworn. and that the signature purporting to be their signature, is genuine in each case -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the first day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three—
Joseph N. Wheeler Regt of said District lost -

Rev has
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File No. 5137
Nehemiah Parker
Pris. Mass. 1818
Act: June 1st 82
Index:—Vol. M , Page 287
[Arrangement of 1870.]

(6) Aaron Haynes, of Princeton, County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, maketh oath and saith, That Jeremiah Parker of Princeton, County aforesaid, Commonwealth aforesaid, was out in the service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war, during the term of eight months, from the 10 th day of May 1777 to the 10 th day of January 1778. That during the time or term aforesaid, the said Jeremiah Parker served as a private in the Company of Infantry commanded by Captain Aaron Haynes, in the 13 th Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Edward Wigglesworth. — Aaron Haynes.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester ss. June 12 th 1832. Then the above named Aaron Haynes, made oath that the above Affidavit by him subscribed, was substantially true. Before me. — Charles Russell Justice of the Peace.

(D.) I Nathan Price of Northborough in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being eighty years of age do testify and declare, that I volunteered as a sergeant in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the Massachusetts Militia about the 20th day of July 1778 in Capt. Sibley's Company and marched to Tiverton and thence crossed Howland's Ferry on to Rhode-Island and there joined Col. Whitney's Regiment when the French Fleet was near the Island and there I was the Clerk of the said Capt. Sibley's Company and I have now the original minutes of the muster of men from the several towns from whence the company was made up and I find by said minutes that there were nine privates from the town of Southborough and a Mr. Nehemiah Parker then of said Southborough but now of Princeton in said County and Commonwealth aforesaid and I believe and from an interview with said Nehemiah Parker this day Sept. 6. 1832 (for I have had not an opportunity of seeing said Parker since I was upon said Rhode-Island) I have no doubt that Nehemiah Parker aforesaid was at said Island with me in said service which was six weeks in said Capt. Sibley's Company and we were verbally discharged at Cranston on the 9th day of Sept. 1778
Nathan Price
Worcester ss- Sept. 5, 1832, Then the abovenamed Nathan Price made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition before me and I certify that the said Deposition is well known to me to be a credible witness —
Martha L. Howe Justice of the Peace

(8.) I Solomon Este of Southborough in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being twenty years old do testify and say that I was drafted as a private in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the Massachusetts Militia together with Nehemiah Parker then of Southborough but now of Princeton in said County for three months in Capt. Harrington's Company sometime in the month of August 1779 and marched to Gloveret on the Hudson River and from thence to Albany and from thence to Niskene or some such name a place on the Mohawk River and there served a number of weeks and then crossed the Hudson River at a place called New City and there we were as probably discharged by our commanding Officer. — Solomon Este
Worcester, ss. September 5 th 1832 — Then personally appeared Solomon Este and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was just and true before me. — and that I personally know Solomon Este and he is a credible witness. — Benjamin Champlaine Justice of the Peace. —

State of Massachusetts,
Worcester ss. April 29. 1833.
I hereby certify that Aaron Haynes of Princeton, in said County of Worcester whose affidavit was taken by me on the 12 th of June 1832 in relation to the Revolutionary services of Nehemiah Parker of said Princeton, is a man of truth & veracity, and that his testimony relative to the services of the said Parker is fully entitled to credit.
Charles Russell Justice Peace.

A) I Stephen Bellows of Southborough in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being seventy five years of age do testify and declare, that I volunteered as a private in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the Massachusetts Militia, together with Nhemiah Parker of Princeton in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, sometime in the month of August 1776 for three months in Capt. Asa Rice's Company, Col. Samuel Denny's Regiment and marched immediately to Hartford in Connecticut and from thence to Horse-Neck in New York and from thence to Ferry Town and there joined the Regiment and from thence to New Castle and there myself and said Nhemiah Parker served in the service the term of time of three months and then we were verbally discharged at New Castle.
(B.) Also I further testify and say that I was drafted as a private together with the above named Nhemiah Parker in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the Massachusetts Militia for three months in Capt. Elijah Bellows's Company, Col. - Spurhawk's Regiment sometime in the month of December 1776 and marched immediately to Danbury in Connecticut and from thence to Stamford and from thence to Peekskill in New York and there joined Col. Spurhawk's Regiment and thence to an Island in the Hudson River on which was a Fort (the name I do not recollect) and from thence to Round Brook where we completed our term of service of three months where we were verbally discharged.
Stephen Bellows
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County ss. April 29 th 1833. Then personally appeared Stephen Bellows and made solemn Oath that the above affidavits by him subscribed are true and also that I am personally acquainted with the said Stephen Bellows and that he is a credible witness.
Jonas Ball Justice of Peace