Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,119, William Bucknam, Continental Mass.

SERIAL
Continental Mass.
Bucknam, William
NUMBER
S 34,119
CONTENTS

6,446
Massachusetts.
William Bucknam
of Medford in the state of Massachusetts who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Grafton of the Massachusetts Line, for the term of three years. 80
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of - 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of Jan y 1819 and sent to J. Davis Esq. Boston.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818  41 - 31    Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 Mar ch 1819  48.    5. 1/31 5 3/30 th  89.. 31  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Ex a W.S. Continued
Report dated in '25
Notification sent to Abraham Bigelow Esq. on Sept: 1820. Cambridge Mass.

No 95
William Buckman Corp. Greyton Mafat Regt. 1778 To 1780
Correct

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, William Bucknam of Medford, in the County of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby depose & say that I served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution Four Years that in 1770, I enlisted in Capt Hale's Company the other Officers were Lieut. Hardy, & Ensign Pritchard, Col. Stark, (commander of the Regiment) - that I afterwards enlisted & served as a Surgeant Three Years in Capt Childs Company in the 3 d Mass ts Regiment, commanded by Col. Greator, that I received regular discharges from my Officers which are now lost & my Officers dead & that I am in reduced circumstances. William Bucknam Medford March 31. 1818
Massachusetts District } Boston 31. March 1818 }
Sworn to before me M c Dacri
Dist d Judge Mass D ts

Massachusetts District ss. } Boston 21 M. "
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 6 June
A. D. 18 18
William Bucknam
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that William Bucknam subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M Davis
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

(Am memorandum of Massachusetts, St.
Medford March 31. 1818
We the Subscribers, Selectmen, & others of the Town of Medford in County of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts do hereby certify that William Bucknam is an inhabitant of the Town of Medford & a Citizen of the United States & we do believe all he says in his Affidavit to be true & that he was a Continental Soldier in Revolution some Years we some of us know to be true, & that he is miserably poor we also know & he stands greatly in need of his Country for support
Thatcher Magoun } Selectmen Luther Stearns } of Jon a Brooks } Medford D. Hall Joseph Manning
I fully concur in the above certificate so far as I am acquainted with the facts, that is to say, that the said Bucknam is an inhabitant of said Town of Medford & a citizen of the United States & that from his destitute situation in point of property he stands greatly in need of the assistance of his country for his future support A. Bartlett Justice of the peace

170
William Buckman Meadford
6446
Jany 1819 Cont d Sep 22 1820.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820.
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, William Buckman resident at Meadford in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 64766, now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“ WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. ”
“ I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, William Buckman late a
Sergeant in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the
“ Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight
“ dollars per month, to commence on the thirty first day of
March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
“ Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth
“ day of January one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“ Notwithstanding he having neither real nor personal estate of any description. And said Buckman further states that he served in the war of the Revolution in the New Hampshire line as follows enlisted for one year in Capt Childs company Col Rains Regt first Jan 1776 served there until January 1778 then honorably discharged which I have lost. I then enlisted into Capt Childs company Col Greenes Regiment Penobscot Brigade Massachusetts line for three years commencing in January 1777 and served out that period and recd my discharge which I have lost. I then enlisted in Capt Pritchards company same Regiment and line last mentioned for six months and served it out and was regularly discharged since the

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
11 I, William Buchanan do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
William Buchanan
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Wm Buchanan took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Revolution I have followed the business of a lighterman on the Mystic since until eighteen hundred and seven when I had the misfortune to break my leg and have been ever since lame with it and rheumat h and unable to do any thing at said business to labour but very little in any way and for several years next before I received my pres- ent pension I had been wholly supported in the Almshouse at said Medford I was sixty two years old last April, I have no wife living but three daughters to wit Patty Gardner wife of Joseph Gardner of said Medford, Margaret Phillips wife of Nathaniel Phillips of Boston and Lucretia wife of Mr Fisher of Boston they are all too poor to contribute any thing to my support I have therefore no income of any kind but my pension which if taken away I must go im- mediately back to the Almshouse in Medford
William Buchanan
Sworn to & declared before Hon. Melvine Judge,,

Rev.&1812 Wars Section. ADY
July 22, 1929.
Mrs. N. C. Phillips, 926 West Stephenson Street, Freeport, Illinois.
Dear Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 34119, it appears that William Bucknam was born in April 1758, place not stated.
He enlisted January 1, 1776, served one year as a private in Captain Hale's Company, Colonel Stark's New Hampshire Regiment.
He enlisted January 1777, served three years as a sergeant in Captain Childs' Company, Colonel Greaton's Third Massachusetts Regiment.
He then enlisted and served six months in Captain Pritchard's Company, Colonel Greaton's Third Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 31, 1818 while a resident of Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
In 1820 soldier stated his wife (name not given) was not living and that he had three daughters: Patty Gardner,

wife of Joseph Gardner of Medford; Margaret Phillips, wife of Nathaniel Phillips of Boston; Lucretia, wife of Fisher (first name not clearly written) of Boston. There are no further family data.
This is the history of the only soldier named William Bucknam found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH, Commissioner.

34119 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34, 119
William Buckingham Sergt Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 99
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Nov. 9-1902 Miss Ella S. Hinckley Helford Mass
1929 July 22. Hist. to Mrs. N.C. Phillips A.D.F.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 10 January 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, William Buchanan by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
J. C. Davis { District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

MRS. N. C. PHILLIPS 926 WEST STEPHENSON STREET FREEPORT, ILLINOIS
Please send me whatever data you have on any William Buckman (also spelled Buck- nam), who served in the Revolution from Massachusetts.
Yours,
Mrs. N. C. Phillips
4-2-'29

Needford, Sept. 30, 1902.
Commissioner of Pensions - Sir:-
The Town of Needford was interested in 1818 in procuring a pension for Wm. Bucknam of Needford. His service was at Lexington, 1775- 8 mos. at Prospect Hill - Enlisted in Capt Child's Co. Greaton's Regt for 3 yrs Promoted to corporal and sergeant - 6 mos. 1780. Age at that time 21. Crocker's Co - Greaton's Regt 1780.
I would like a certificate of his pension.
Yours Respectfully, Miss Ella S. Hinckley.
City Hall, Needford, Mass.