Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 13824, for Thaddeus Pollard, Massachusetts

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Pollard, Thaddeus No. 13824. Mary
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Mary Pollard widow of Thaddeus Pollard who was a private Mass., in the Capt. line -
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of July, 1843 and sent to L. H. Stone Boston Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 — Page 57.

✓ Declaration 4411 Mary Pollard 1938
cit 7 July 38
M 81-d 26
Vol. 14. p 70. on 8 mo. 75 22.. 105. Muley - 2. 77 service under Capt. Hill not found on rolls
admd 10. mo. free $33 33/100
no deductions
Am W Parmenides AR

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss.
On this sixth day of November A.D. 1838 Personally appeared before Samuel W. Hay Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate for said County Mary Pollard of Shirley in said County of Middlesex, aged seventy six years, 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 Thaddeus Pollard, who was a private soldier in the army of the Revolution, and served therein three or four several times as follows - first , from the 19th of April 1775 to the close of that year, in the company commanded by Capt. John Davis, Jacob Tullam being first Lieut. and one Mead, 2 d Lieut. of Col. Whitcomb's regiment. This service was performed at or near Cambridge, in the State of Massachusetts. Second ; two months at New York, commencing in September, 1776 in the company of Capt. Hill of Harvard, Lieut. Hovey of Bolton, & Col. Converse's Regiment. Third , two months in 1777, in the company

commanded by Capt. Pope of Skenesbury, the reg- ment not known, partly at Wadsworth, and at the Battle of Bennington under General Stark.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Thaddeus Pollard on the fifth day of April in the year 1783. by Esquire Whitcomb of Bolton in the County of Worcester & Cam- bridge (her maiden name was Mary Fairbanks,) that her husband the said Thaddeus Pollard died on the twenty ninth day of October 1829. at Skenesbury in said County of Worcester. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated..
Mary Pollard
Subscribed & sworn to by said Mary Pollard in open Court the day & year first above written before
H. H. Fay Judge of Prob- for County - of Middlesex

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Madison County ss. I Isaac Fiske Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Madison affirmatively certify that Saml. P. May Esq. is the judge of said Court & that his signature written on the foregoing paper is his genuine signature. —
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate this tenth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty eight. —
Isaac Fiske Reg.

I. Jacob Pollard of Groton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged forty nine years depose and say, my father Madderus Pollard late of Lunenburgh in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth aforesaid, husband of my mother Mary Pollard, an applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress of July 1838 died on the twenty ninth day of October A.D. eighteen hundred and twenty six.
That my said mother Mary Pollard has not been married since my said father's decease, but remains his widow at this date
Jacob Pollard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss. January 2 d 1856
Then Jacob Pollard a credible witness personally appeared & made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit  statement by him subscribed is just and true
Before me
James Dana
Justice Peace for said County
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss.
I Isaac Pitkin Merriam of the County of Middlesex ss and the County of Middlesex aforesaid hereby certify that James Dana Esq is a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex, duly commissioned & qualified, and that his signatures within and above written are his genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this second day of February in the year eighteen hundred and fifty six
Isaac Pitkin Merriam

I Thomas Pollard of the City of Boston in the County of Suffolk in the Common- wealth of Massachusetts, aged forty years desire and say; my father, Hoadden Pollard, late of Lunenburg in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth aforesaid, husband of my mother, Mary Pollard, an applic- ant for a Pension under the Act of July 1838, died on the twenty ninth day of October A.D. eighteen hundred and twenty six - That my said mother, Mary Pollard has not been married since my said father's death, but remains his widow at this day.
Thos Pollard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss. December 17. 1858 Then Thomas Pollard a credible witness personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscri- bed is just and true
Before me James Dana
Justice Peace for said County
Sworn to before me 17. Dec 58

An extract from the records of the Town of Bolton in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts
Maurice Theobalds, Pollard and Mary Fairbank both of Worcester March fifth seventeen hundred and eighty one by John Whitcomb Justice Peace
I hereby certify that the above is a true extract copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "March 5. 1781"
Amory Holman Clerk of the Town of Bolton
I Amory Holman above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Bolton in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me Amory Holman Town Clerk of Bolton
State of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. Sworn this thirteenth day of December 1838
Before me Silas Holman Justice of the Peace
Washington July 20 1839. I certify that I am personally acquainted with the Hon. Silas Holman, that he is an acting Magistrate of the County of Worcester, Mass, and that I have no doubt of the genuineness of his signature to the above Certificate
Levi Lincoln

Thaddeus Pallard
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Massachusetts - 1938.
Mary Pollard widow of Maudius Pollard, decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 29 th of Oct r 1827 of Middlesex in the State of Mass ts . who was a private in the company commanded by Captain J. Davis of the Reg t - commanded by Col. Whitcomb in the Mass ts . time for 10 months, private.
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass ts . at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1830.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of March 1839 and sent to Hon. W. Parmenter, H. R.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. 1838 $83 : 32 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th March 39. 16. 66
$99.98
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk, Book Vol. 1, Page 120.

Not authentic card

I Cyrus Fairbanks, of Auburn-ham in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachu- setts - aged eighty six years - do hereby say that in the Spring of the year 1775 - Mr. Muddens Pollard enlisted into a company of Massachusetts Militia commanded by Capt John Davis - in Col Whitcomb Regt. & served in said company with me for the term of eight months - The first Line in said Co was Jacob Fullum - the second - I lead - We were stationed at Cambridge Mass - for the greater part of said eight months - I was well acquainted with said Pollard before said term of service & afterwards we both living at the time in Harvard Mass -
The said Pollard also served another term of two months in the same company with me in the army of the Revolution - We were drafted said company in the month of Sept. 1776 & marched to a place called Horn Brook in the State of N. York - under the command of Capt Hill of Harvard & Lt. Howe of Bolton Mass - The Com- pany was made up from the two towns of Har- vard & Bolton - The Regt. was commanded by Col. Gove & Maj. Rand - We were stationed a part of said two months at a place about thirty miles above New York City - name not re- collected - The river was about two miles wide at the place -
Cyrus Fairbanks

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss. Sept 15 - 1838 Then personally appeared Cyrus Fairbanks & made oath in law before me that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true. And I further cer- tify that I am well acquainted with said Fairbanks & that he is in my opinion a dis- interested & highly credible witness.
Geo. G. Parker J. sur. Peace
Washington Feby 20 1839
I certify, that I personally know Geo. G. Parker Esq. that he is an acting magistrate of the County of Worcester, Mass. and that I have no doubt of the genuineness of his signature to the above certificate.
Sam L. Snoddy.

Washington Feby 20. 1839.
Sir
I enclose you Mary Pollards application & testimony —
I am very respectfully
Yr obedt
Yrs Sincerely
James P. Edwards Esq
Comm. Peccin

Boston, 28 th April 1823.
Sir,
I enclose herewith the applications of Anna Bigelow, Sarah Cunningham, Wealthy Hancock, Ann Loring, Mary Pollard & Ruth Thayer, for pensions under the law of 3 d ult.
Very Resp t .
W m Oct. G t L. M c Stone
J. L. Edwards Esq r Comm te of Pensions Washington D.C.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 13824 Mary Pollard Widow of Thadous Pollard Priv. Mass. Line Act: March 3 rd 1843 Index:—Vol. M , Page 137
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I, Mary Pollard of Shirley in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy six years depose and say; When I made my declaration for a Pension under the Act of Congress of July 7. 1838, before Hon. J. P. P. Fay Judge of the Probate Court of said County - I then stated I was married to M c Adoo Pollard, on the 5 th April 1783. and that he died Oct r 29 th 1827.
Since which time I have become satisfied and convinced, that I was married to him on 5 th April 1781. and that he died Oct r 29 th 1827. and I was therefore mistaken in my first statement. The declaration was drawn in great haste; and I was called upon to give data, away from my home, and without any opportunity to consult any records or memorials of past events; and when my mind was in a somewhat confused state. From great age and infirmities, I am quite feeble in health; and my memory upon subjects to which it has not been called for some time, is not so bright and extensive as formerly: and this may account for my making a statement, which although not entirely correct, was solemnly so declared by me, at the time of making it.
I understand a record had been found which

states I was married to Thaddeus Pollard on 5. th  March 1781. This may be true, and I may be mistaken in the month, but I still strongly believe it was March  April instead of April  March and that there is an error in the record. Mary Pollard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Middlesex ss. January 8 th A.D. 1859 Then Mary Pollard known to me as a person whose statements are entitled to credit, personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed is just and true. Before me Stephen Longley
Justice Peace for said County
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. I Isaac Pitkin Mayhew of the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that Stephen Longley Esq. is a justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified & that his signature above written is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this second day of February in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine Isaac Pitkin Mayhew

I Samuel Stone of Harvard in the County of Worcester aged 87 years depose and say I served in the war of the revolution as appears by my declaration now on file in the war Department. In the year 1777 was a volunteer in Capt Pops Company - went to York - was at the Battle of Bennington under Stark. I was in service at this time two months. During this time I well remember Thaddeus Pollard late of said Harvard, who was in the same company with me and I know that he served at that time full two months being the full time for which we volunteered and I further say that at the battle of Bennington a Comrad who was dangerously wound- ed and lay on the field was taken on a blanket by said Pollard, Dan l Symans, and myself and carried to a house near by. I Samuel Stone
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. Sept 27 1838
Then Samuel Stone known to me as a credible Witness, personally appeared and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true
Before me
Jerome Gardner Justice of the
Peace for said County -
Washington Feb 26 1839
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Jerome Gardner Esq. that he is an acting Magistrate of the County of Worcester Mass. and that I have no doubt of the genuineness of his signature to the above certificate Levi Lincoln.

Admit, private $33.33
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Send to L. M. Stone
Boston
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County } ss.
Be it known that on this nineteenth day of April 1843. Personally appeared before me, the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Mary Pollard a resident of Shirley in said County and Commonwealth aged eighty years, 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 on the 3 d day of March 1833 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Thaddens Pollard who was a Private in the Revolutionary War served as she verily believes as stated by her in her original declaration for a pension under the law of the 7 th of July 1838, to which declaration, and the papers accompanying the same, now on file in the War Department, she would refer for a more particular statement of his services; for the proof of her marriage, identity, and the time of her husband's death.
She further declares that she was pensioned under said act at the rate of Thirty Three 33 / 4 dollars per Annum, which amount she received from the 11 th of March 1836 to the 11 th of March 1841 at the Agency in Boston Massachusetts, and at the time of receiving her last payment surrendered the Pension Certificate granted to her under said act to the Pension Agent at the said City of Boston, agreeably to the rules of the Department.
And this declarant further alleges that she has not remarried since the decease of her said husband, but is now and ever since has been the Widow of said Thaddens Pollard deceased as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed.
And further she saith not.
Mary Pollard
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first

within written. And I Certify that the Applicant is person- ally known to me to be the person within described.
Before me,
James D. Whitney Justice of the Peace
I Thomas Pollard of Boston in the County of Suffolk, of lawful age on oath testify and say that I am well acquainted with Mary Pollard named in the foregoing application and have been for many years last past. I know that she was the wife and is now the widow of Thaddens Pollard and that she was pensioned under the law of 1838. as stated by her. Thomas Pollard
Suffolk County, ss. City of Boston - on this twenty second day of April 1843 came Thomas Pollard and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true -
Before me
Lowell M. Stone Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston April 24 th 1843
I hereby Certify , That at the date of this several attestations James B. Whitney was a justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and Lowell M. Stone was a justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk.
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Jno. A. Bolles Secretary of the Commonwealth.