Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26307, for Cyril Peck, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Peck, Cyril Clarissa
W 26307
CONTENTS
This claim was not allowed for services of above Revolutionary soldier, but on account of service of widow's former husband, William F. Wheeler, a soldier in the War of 1812. all papers missing

3799
Rhode Island.
Clarissa Peck formerly widow of William J. Wheeler. Mrs also Widow of Cyrus Peck who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 22 Dollars 31.
Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of March and sent to
George C. Ames Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 53. Vol. A

Wm. T. Sherman

State of Rhode Island & C Providence County ss.
On this twenty first day of March A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within & for the city of Providence in said county to a Notary Public within & for said county. Mrs. Clarissa Peck, a resident of said city aged seventy five years who being 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 law of the United States passed on the 3 d of Feby. 1853 that she is the widow of William F. Wheeler Private in Capt. Janey's & Peckham's company Pa. & Duff. Mar. 1812 that she was married to the said William on the 10 th of Feb. 1797 that her husband the aforesaid William died as she believes in 1814 or 1815 at French Mills in consequence of wound received, or disease contracted while in the service of the United States or in the line of his duty, & that she was a widow at the passage of the act & is still a widow & that she had by the said William the following children viz. David R. Wheeler aged 55 years. Clarissa Davis aged 50 years. Merrill Wheeler aged 46 years. Julian Wheeler aged 39 years of age all of whom were over sixteen years of age at the date of the passage of this act, & that she rests in support of this declaration, & the evidence on file at the office of the Commissioner of Pensions in support of her claim for Bounty Land, on which

a County Land Warrant was issued, on the 10 th of March 1853. Being No 23,149 for 160 acres of land, under the act of Sept. 28. 1850.
Clarissa Beck
Subscribed & sworn to before me this day & year first above written. And I certify that I have no interest in the result of the case & am not concerned in its prosecution.
Samuel A. Bowler Justice of the Peace and Notary Public
Know all men by these presents That I Clarissa Beck of the City & County of Providence & State of Rhode Island do hereby make constitute & appoint Joseph T. Atman of the City aforesaid, my true & lawful attorney for me in my name to procure & receive from the Pension Office of the U.S. the Pension certificate to which I am entitled under the act of July 3. 1853. & also to prosecute any & all other claims by me or for my benefit made against the Government of the United States, hereby revoking all former inconsistent heretofore which I have heretofore made
Witness my hand Melissent C. Fick Samuel A. Bowler State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Clarissa Beck
On this twenty first day of March A.D. 1853

personally appeared the above named Clarissa Peck & executed the foregoing instrument in my presence & acknowledged the same to be her free act & deed hand & seal.
Before me
Samuel A. Barker Justice of the Peace and Notary Public
Providence March 21/1853
Sir
I herewith forward the claim of Clarissa Peck, widow of William F. Wheeler, for Pension under the act of 1853. Feb 3. which I request may be examined that her Pension certificate may be transmitted done as per Power of Atty accompanying
I am Sir very Respectfully
Yours obedient servant Joseph S. Atman Atty for C. Peck.
To the Hon Loren P. Waldo Commissioning Pensions Washington D.C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
Aug 3 rd 1853.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that The name of Cyril Peck is borne on list of Men kept by Capt Ide who did Service in the first Company of Rehoboth Not dated, Enclosed "2 Men for Shore" Cyril Peck one of them His Wages £ 10.0.0.
Also July 27. 1778 One of Steven men drafted to do duty in R. Island for six weeks.
Also on pay roll of Capt Nathaniel Searle Compt.
Col. Thomas Cushing's Regt. from Aug 1. to Aug 7. 1780
9 days including board, Served at R.I. from Rehoboth.
The names of the persons mentioned in application all appear among the soldiers. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. H. D. [Signature] Secretary of the Commonwealth.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, made by the Widow of the party who rendered the service.
State of Rhode Island , County of Providence , City Town of Providence
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Cyril Peck in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Seekonk in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts .
He volunteered  enlisted from the Town of Seekonk in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts in the year 1774 or 75 as a private in the Company commanded by Captain
Regiment
and he served as follows, viz:—
which was commanded by Captain Carpenter or was in his Regiment commanded by Col Carpenter. He went towards Boston in the first volunteer company which went from Seekonk previous to the battle of Bunker Hill. He was not present at the battle of Bunker Hill. It is believed that Eben Bucklin & a Mr Banows were with him in this service some of the services subsequently detailed. He continued a minute man and in about six months left home to engage in the field again. A Mr Stackweather & a Mr Loff of Seekonk were with him it is believed during some portion of the war. Capt Asa Bliss was in the service at the same time though not in the same company with Mr Peck. Mr Peck served on Long Island. It is believed he served there three months at least and in the war of the Revolution at different times but always in
* Here describe as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank, &c., of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.

Companies sailed in Deckout or that vicinity. It may be that the applicant has confounded the service of Mr. Peck, which she above states was on Long Island with service he may have performed on
Moodie Island. Her memory is indistinct & her knowledge of his service was only gained by hearing his relations there & those of his friends and neighbors, none of which she particularly impressed upon her memory, as she never thought it would be of any advantage to her. She was married to Mr. Peck in 1816, and he died about fourteen years after that marriage.
She is unable to give the names of any of the officers under whom her late husband served, more distinctly than she has above.
I am now seventy six years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
Witness my hand, this eighth day of July A. D. 18 53
Signed by said Claudia Peck in my presence, Joseph S. Pitman } JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Clarissa Peck

Companies sailed in Deckout or that vicinity. It may be that the applicant has confounded the services of Mr. Peck, which she above states was on Long Island with services he may have performed on Rhode Island. Her memory is indistinct & her knowledge of his services was only gained by hearing his relations there & those of his friends and neighbors, none of which she particularly impressed upon her memory, as she never thought it would be of any advantage to her. She was married to Mr. Peck in 1818, and he died about fourteen years after that marriage. She is unable to give the names of any of the officers under whom her late husband served, more distinctly than she has above.
I am now seventy six years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
WITNESS my hand, this eighth day of July A. D. 18 53 ,
THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
PROVIDENCE, SC.
CLERK'S OFFICE, SUPREME COURT,
PROVIDENCE, July 8 th A. D., 1853.
I,
Edwin Metcalf
Clerk of the SUPREME COURT of said State, within and for the County of Providence:
DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That
Joseph S. Pitman Esquire is a justice of the Peace within and for said County
duly appointed and qualified, and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments, and that the signature to the annexed Certificate, purporting to be his, is genuine.
IN ATTESTATION WHEREOF, I hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, the day and year above written.
Edwin Metcalf Clerk.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, made by the Widow of the party who rendered the service.
State of Rhode Island County of Providence , City Town of Providence
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Cyril Peck in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Seekonk in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts .
He volunteered enlisted from the Town of Seekonk in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts in the year 1774 as a private in the Company commanded by Captain
Regiment
and he served as follows, viz:—
which was commanded by Captain Carpenter or was in the Regiment commanded by Col Carpenter. He went towards Boston in the first volunteer company who went from Seekonk previous to the battle of Bunker Hill. He was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. It is believed that Eben Bucklin & a Mr Banows were with him in this service. Some of the services subsequently detailed, he continued a minute man and in about six months left home to engage in the field again. A Mr Stunkweather & a Mr Lof of Seekonk were with him it is believed during some portions of the war. Capt Asa Bliss was in the service at the same time though not in the same company with Mr Peck. Mr Peck served on Long Island. It is believed he served there three months at least and in the war of the Revolution at different times but always in
* Here describe as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank, &c., of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.

State of Rhode Island as Punduee Co.
Punduee:
On this seventh  Twenty Fifth day of January AD 1854 personally appeared before the Supreme Court
of the state of Rhode Island in said county, Clarissa Peck a resident of the city of Punduee in said county & state, aged, seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3 d February 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Cyril Peck, who was a private in one or more companies which were raised in Massachusetts, in the town of Seekonk. That he served as she believes more than one year, that he was a portion of the time if not all, in Col. Cumpens Regiment as she believes, That she believes he was in the first company that was raised in Seekonk in the Revolutionary War, That he resided in Seekonk when he entered his service, that he died on the 15 th day August 1850 at Pawtucket, Mass. That she was lawfully married at the village of Pawtucket on the Rhode Island side to said Cyril Peck on the 18 th of October

1816: and that she is now a widow,
That she made application for Bounty Land under the act of 1850, & received a Warrant No 23,149, for the services of her first husband, William F Wheeler, & that she also applied for a Pension under the last proviso of the 1 st Section of the act of February 2, 1853, on account of the services of said William F Wheeler, & that said application for Pension was rejected June 22, 1853 on the ground of her second marriage, that in these claims for Bounty Land & Pension all the evidence necessary to establish her present widowhood & her marriage with said Cyril Peck was presented & is now on file at the Pension office to which she refers in support of this declaration. She further states that she was not married to said Cyril Peck prior to the second of January Eighteen hundred but at the time above stated,
Clarissa Peck

September Term A.D. 1853.
Be it Remembered That on the Sixth day of said term being the Twenty Fifth day of January A.D. 1854 personally came Clarissa Peck Subscriber to the foregoing declaration who being sworn to the satisfaction of said Court to be a credible person, in open Court made Solemn oath that the facts and Statements in said declaration contained are true.
In attestation whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of Said Court by order thereof the day and year above written.
Edwin Metcalf clerk.

Washington March 1 st 57
Hon L. P. Waite Sir,
Enclosed you will find the application of Clarissa Peck widow of Cyn't Peck of Rhode Island for a pension under the 2 d Section of the act of 3 d July 1853.
The Certificate of the Secretary of Mass. shows that Peck served for "the War" under Capt. Ide $10. also that he served in 1778 in Rhode Island & Wales, and in 1780 under Capt. Carpenter 9 days. The Annual service under Capt. Ide will cover 5 months, which added to the two last terms makes 6 mos 21 days. The Secretary further certifies that all the persons who Mrs. Peck states served with her husband, are found upon the Rolls, which identifies him as the person referred to in this Certificate.
For evidence of her marriage, Claimant refers to her papers under the 1 st Section of the act of 3 d July 1853 and also to those upon which Land Warrants are granted her on account of her first husband, Wm 7 Whalen, service in the War of 1812.

Mr Peck, Claim under the 1st Section was rejected on account of the Second Marriage -
Very Respectfully, Sam O'Keil Grobet Mgr

Copy of Pensions March 8. 1854
Clarissa Pickett

PENSION OFFICE,
March 8 th 1854.
SIR: Be pleased to inscribe on your roll under the act below mentioned the following names, and pay the pensions as directed opposite the names.
Respectfully,
To James Hill Esq.
L. M'aldoo Commissioner of Pensions.
   NAMES. RANK. ACT. ANNUAL AMOUNT. COMMENCEMENT OF PENSIONS. CONTINUATION OF PENSIONS.     Clarissa Jack. formerly widow of William H. Wheeler Private. Reg. July 3 rd 1833 July 3 rd 1833 widowhood  

PENSION OFFICE,
March 8 th 1854.
SIR: Be pleased to inscribe on your roll under the act below mentioned the following names, and pay the pensions as directed opposite the names.
Respectfully,
To Jno. Hill Esq.
Isaac Commissioner of Pensions.
   NAMES. RANK. ACT. ANNUAL AMOUNT. COMMENCEMENT OF PENSIONS. CONTINUATION OF PENSIONS.      Clauissa Peck. formerly widow of William H. Wheeler.   Private.   Rev. 1833   $29.60   July 3 rd 1833   July 3 rd 1833 widowhood   

Third Auditor's Office
June 17 - 1855
Sir
Every examination that could be; from the information furnished in this case has been made; but without finding any evidence of the service of Wm F. Wheeler - Further infor- mation will therefore be necessary.
F. Root
Third Auditor
Com. of Pensions Dept. of the Interior
Half Price
S.M. ...

Agents Office Providence March 13. 1854
Sir
I have received your notification dated 10th inst in favor of Clarissa Pack, in lieu of one dated the 8th inst - which is herewith returned Respectfully, &c
Paris Hill. Pr. Agt
Yrs T. Green Clk
G. P. Waldo Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.

To the September 19. 1897 Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. Dear Sir
Will you please send me the record of the Revolutionary services of Cyril Peck, for which a pension was given to his widow Clarissa Peck, formerly widow of William F. Wheeler,

on the 10 th of March 1854 and is recorded on page 53 vol. A.
The papers were made out to Clarissa Peck for- merly widow of William F. Wheeler who served in the war of the "rebellion"; it was her second husband. Cyril Peck who served and on account of whose ser- vices the pension was granted. Because of this mistake I cannot

use the papers for the purpose desired and must ask the favor of the second.
Would the daughter of Cyril & Clarissa Peck, now living, an inmate of a home for aged women, be entitled under the recent law to receive this pension?
Thanking you in ad- vance I am very truly yours, Miss Amelia S. Knight 366 Broadway Providence R.I.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by F.W. Rice
Claim No. W. 26307
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier William F. Wheeler
Service Capt. Fanny and Pick-
Additional Service  harris cor.
W.S. Inf., War 1812
No _____ claim, State records _____, 191_____
No claim, combination records _____, 191_____
REMARKS:
No Surv. Wid. or Rejd. other than above-
No Rev. claim of Wm. Wheeler in which soldier was not alive in 1818-
JUN 6 - 1911

3.799
Rhode Island
Clarissa Sick formerly widow of William T. Wheeler who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 29. Dollars 60.
Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of March 1853 and sent to
George C. Ames Present.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 53. Vol. A.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by M. Rice
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Cyril or Cyrus Peck
Service Mass. Rev.
Additional Service _____
No _____ claim, State records _____, 191_____
No claim, combination records _____, 191_____
REMARKS:
No surv. Wid. or Rejd. other than papers found in W. 26307 Clarissa Peck, former wid. of Wm. F. Wheeler
JUN 6 - 1911

Oct. 1/97 Mrs. Amelia S. Knight, Providence, R.I.
Reay & 1812
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26307
Clarissa Peck former Widow of William F. Wheeler Also Widow of Cyril Peck
Act Feb. 3 rd 1877
Index : Vol 9 , Page 125
[Arrangement of 1870.]
see Bounty Land Wt. 23,149-160-50