Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14976, William Bond, Continental Mass.

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continental Mass.
Bond, William
S. 14976
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2662.
New Hampshire
William Bond
of Charlestown in the State of N H who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain  of the  commanded by Col Bond in the  line for 16 (May 12 Days)
Continental Mass
Records corrected Feb 5/04.
Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of 52 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of Dec 1832 and sent to St. Gubbard Charlestown N H
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $ 81.99 Semi-ant. allowance ending 21 Mar 33 27.33 $109.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. H. Blair Clerk Book D. Vol. 1 st Page 143.
Duplicate Certificate issued 19 th May 1842 and sent to Hon E. Burke House of Representatives.

William Bond
Private
1 year 4 Mo & 12 days,
March 20
Adm
Hon. A. Hubbard
$ 52.66

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
State of New-Hampshire, } County of Sullivan. } ss.
On this sixth day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judge of the Court of Probate, now sitting, William Bond a resident of Charlestown in the County of Sullivan and State of N. H. aged 72 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, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated
That in December 1775. to the best of declarants recollection he enlisted in Capt Fullers company, Col Bonds regiment, Continental troops, for the term of one year, & served his term as will appear by the Records of the War Department - That he has been on the Pension Roll, & was struck from the same as will appear by the letter accompanying this declaration, dated July 20, 1826 & signed by J. S. Edwards - That at the time of his former application he resided in Charlestown aforesaid, & resides there now -
Declarant further states that in the year that General Sullivan evacuated Rhode Island he joined the company commanded by Captain Whitney in Colonel Whitneys regt for the term of six weeks, & was with the American Army when it evacuated the Island, which was about a week or ten days before the end of his term of service - He remembers very well that La Fayette was there at that time -
Declarant further states that in the spring after Genl Burgoyne was captured he joined Capt. Belchers company, Colonel Symmes regiment, Massachusetts troops, for the term of three months - & was at Boston when some frigates came in laden with provision, to replace some which declarant understood had been procured by the English for the use of Burgoynes troops - He was principally employed in guard duty while at Boston, & at the end of his term he was discharged verbally -
Declarant was born in Weston Massachusetts in the year 1700 - Has no record of his age - When he joined the service he lived in said Weston - Since the Revolution he has lived in Charlestown aforesaid principally - He enlisted into the service - Never rec d any but a verbal discharge - He is known to his  his  brother  his

he remembers very well that La Fayette was there at that time -
Declarant further states that in the spring after Genl Burgoyne was captured he joined Capt. Belcher's company Colonel Symmes's regiment, Massachusetts troops, for the term of three months - It was at Boston when some frigates came in laden with provision, to replace some which declarant understood had been procured by the English for the use of Burgoyne's troops - He was principally employed in guard duty while at Boston, & at the end of his term he was discharged verbally -
Declarant was born in Weston Massachusetts in the year 1700 - Has no record of his age - When he joined the service he lived in said Weston - Since the Revolution he has lived in Charlestown aforesaid principally - He enlisted into the service - Never rec d any but a verbal discharge - He is known to Mason  William Bond & the Hon Henry Hubbard who can testify to his character for veracity & to their belief in his services as a soldier of the Revolution - He has no documentary evidence of his services & knows of no one who can testify to his services -
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,
Sworn to and subscribed, the day & year aforesaid
We, Jason Coe  William Bond residing in Charlestown and Henry Hubbard residing in Charlestown hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with William Bond , who has subscribed and sworn to the above obligation; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the
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 certifies, that it appears to them that Jason Coe  William Bond who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the Charlestown and that Henry Hubbard , who has also signed the same is a resident in the Charlestown and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Frederick Sumner Judge of Probate Register of the Court of Probate do
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of William Bond for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 6 th day of August  AD 1822
Frederick Sumner Judge of Probate

William Bond
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19,524. 7 Sep '19
Not entitled
Wm Bond

Whole Amount of property ————— $ 1603. 89
less on this Eleventh day of July 1820
some justly owing to Aaron Dean 298.38
To Liberty Parks Parks 66.50
To Stephen Baker 17.00 Nathan Bond 27.00
To Eliza Parks 10.00 Do st  Elizabeth 7.74 17.74
To S r A Sumner 40.00 C o Hall 18.12 58.73
To W Ladd ————— 20.00
After deducting all that is due to me there will be owing from me in addition to the above Sum 2.77
Making all $ 493.12 — 493.12
leaving — $ 1110.69
William Bond

83.] STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
ON this eleventh day of July A. D. 1820 personally appeared
in open court before the Justices
county of Cheshire
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the
being a Court of Record, in and for the said county,
having the power of fine and imprisonment, William Bond aged
Sixty years, resident in Charlestown in said county, who be-
ing first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolu-
tionary War, as follows: viz. That he enlisted at Cambridge in Massachussetts as a private in Captain Nathan Filleurs company which company belonged to Col. Bonds Regiment of the Massachussetts ops. that he enlisted in December 1775 or January 1776 for the term of one year. That he was marched from Cambridge to New York and from thence to Canada - that he continued to serve during the year in the same Regiment and in Captain Filleurs company until he was promoted and then the same company was commanded by Capt. Nathan Smith - That he was discharged at Mount Independence after having served during the year. and he thinks he received his discharge in late in January 1777 before the expiration of my full term of service. my Colonel died at Mount Independence.
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 23 day of October
1818
The number of my pension certificate is 14324
I have received a Pension. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the
United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift,
sale, or in any manner 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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. My occupation is a Farmer
I am not of suf-
ficient ability to pursue it for reason of my very late and in firm state of health - for the last year I have not been able to do any work or labour of any consequence - and from what my Physician informs I have no reason to expect that my health will be any better
in family residing with me are four persons. my wife Sarah aged Fifty five years, Lewis aged Nineteen years. Charles my son, aged fourteen years and Betsey Bond my grand child aged Seven years
Their capacity to contribute to their support is as follows. Mrs Bond for a woman of her age is in tolerable health - altho she is feeble and is now able to do some work in the family - my son Lewis is able to earn his living - my son Charles is afflicted with soreness on his leg and from his appearance and from what the Physician informs me I have great reason to believe that his lameness which is in his foot will wholly unfit him for labour - my other children can earn their living - Wm Bond
Sworn to and declared at Charlestown in said District County on the eleventh day of July A. D. 1820, before
R. Rose } Judge of the said Court.
I Salma Hale Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Cheshire , do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do hereby certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property said schedule, is sixteen hundred three dollars and eighty one cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this eleventh day of July A. D. 1820
S. Hale } Clerk of the said Court.

SCHEDULE,
CONTAINING the whole estate and income of William Bond (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscrib- ed, exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Cheshire in the State of New-Hampshire, on the Eleventh day of  July 1820, and annexed to his oath, viz.
  Two plows 400 one old cart 300 one sligh 500 one horse shd 200 14 00   One brake 50 one ox yoke 50 three pitch fork 25 1 25   Four rakes 34 one shod shovel 50 one hoe 42 1 26   One old mare with a sucking colt 2500 one four yrd colt 4000 65 00   One 2 yr old colt 3000 one old harrow 60 one old horse waggon 1200 72 50   Six hogs and seven sucking pigs 2500 one yoke of oxen 5000 75 00   One pr of 3 yr old steers 3400 five cows 6400 one 2 yr old heifer 1000 108 00   One pr of 3 yr old steers 2500 four yearling 2400 49 00   Twenty sheep & 19 lambs 3700 four calves 1000 three ox chains 300 50 00   One horse chains 75 three old axes 150 one wooden clock 500 7 25   One small looking glass 30 four tables 600 six chairs 300 9 20   Fifteen chairs 375 one pr of fire dogs 50 one trunk 125 5 50   One tea table set 250 one waiter 75 four tumblers 34 3 59   Two decanters 50 seven wine glasses 25 five earthen oval dishes 83 1 68   Twelve nine plates great and small 187 five bowls 34 1 21   Peppers and salts 20, one butter boat 10 one creamer and sugar bowl 17 0 47   One set of cups and saucers 30 one tin oven 150 1 80   Eight tin dishes 125 old pewter 83 one pair of brass candlesticks 67 2 75   Two iron candlesticks 25 one pr of woolen cards 25 one old desk 250 3 00   Two kitchen tables 100 one warming pan 150 2 50   One brass kettle 600 one pr of shovel and tongs 125 5 25   One pr of iron dogs 75 crane and hooks 50 one spider 25 1 50   One tea kettle 37 one pot 34 one dish kettle 50 1 21   Roasting iron 25 hammer 17 two flats 50 steel yards 25 1 17   One loom & harness 150 one wheel 67 one reel 34 2 51   Three augers 25 hand saw 25 eight earthen pans 67 1 17   Two doz of knives and forks 150 one cheese tub 34 1 84   Barrels and casks 200 Real estate including lands & building 1140.00 1142 00   One grind stone 2 2 00   $1603.81 
Sum over

Whole Amount of property $ 1603. 89
And on this Eleventh day of July 1820
am justly owing to Aaron Dean 298.38
To Liberty Parks Parks 66.50
To Stephen Baker 17.00 Nathan Bond 29.00
To Eliza Parks 10.00 Do S. Prichard 17.74
To S. Summers 42.00 Old Hall 18.12 58.73
To W. Todd 20.00
After deducting all that is due to me there will be owing from me in addition to the above sums 2.77
Making all $ 493.12 493.12
leaving = $ 1110.69
William Bond

a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. William Boud. Sur. File 14976
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     2 Dec. 1775 1 year Pvt. Calhoun Fuller Wm Boud Mass.   Jan. 1776 Calhoun Smith   Jan. 1778 3 mos. Belcher Symmes "   * 1778 6 weeks Whitney Whitney  
Battles engaged in, * Rhode Island
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Weston Mass.
Date of application for pension, Oct 23 1846
Residence at date of application, Clinton, Berkshire Co. N.H.
Age at date of application, born at Weston Mass. in 1760
Remarks: In 1846 his wife Sarah was 60 years old. Son David 19 years old, Charles 14 years; other children referred to whose names are not stated. Grand-child Betsey Boud was 7 years old at that date.

1907 Sept. 14. Fish to Daniel W. Bond. V. L. etc. 1909 Oct. 13. David W. Bond info copies not furnished
Reuben
14976 INVALID.
File No. 14 976
William Bond Priv. Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 39
[Arrangement of 1870.]

14.324
New Hampshire
William Bona
Shasler in the state of N. Hamp. who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bona of the Massachusetts e, for the term of One Year
scribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 rd of October 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Sep 1819 and sent to Levi Woodbury Esq. Portsmouth N. Hamp.
  years to 4th of  Sep 1819  83 38    emi-anl. all'ce ending  Mar. 1820.  48.00    Mo 9 4      31 30        $131.38  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued.
Continental ★ Mass. Records corrected. Mch 5, 1907. B.
Notation sent to Army Standard Bg. 20 July 1820. Charleston.

Original Certificate burnt. See proof of the fact on file with the papers of Nathan Carr, N.H. roll act 1832, no. 3084.

William Bonds Certificate -

William Bond
SA Private
76 — 177
Bond Map 177
Life of Salma Hall
Amita
[Faint, illegible handwriting, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

State of New Hampshire
County of Middlesex
On this twenty third day of October 1878 before me the subscriber one of the judges of the Superior Court of Judicature for said State personally appears William Bond aged fifty nine years now living in Charlestown in the County of Cheshire & State aforesaid - who being first by me duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War - that the said William Bond entitled in the Town of Cambridge in the County of Middlesex  Massachusetts in the County of Captain in the  Massachusetts in lot W. in the month of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six for one year and served my time and faithfully afterwards was in the service in Capt. Whitney's company of Wor-  cester & while there serving under Capt. Whitney He was in the Battle of Rhode Island - That he is now in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support pendence And that he has not been able to produce any petition of her service aforesaid than the Affidavit of Nathan Fuller who is the same person under whom Defest enlisted & whose Affidavit is herewith annexed and the affidavit of Aaron Perkins herewith subjoined to that He never received a discharge from his Office.
I Aaron Perkins of Charlestown in the County of Cheshire & State of New Hampshire sixty years of age do depose & say that I be longed to Capt. Nathan Fuller's company in the years service and was well knowing that William Bond of the same Charlestown enlisted into the said Fuller's company as above stated and was well knowing that the said W m Bond faithfully served

his country the term of his enlistment - as I served the same time with him as before stated by the said Bond.
Amos Patten
Both of the above affidavits & declarations were sworn to & delivered before me this day & year aforesaid - and I Levi Woodbury Judge of the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Bond did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the foregoing declaration against the Common Enemy on the Continental establishment longer than Three Months at one time - and that I think him entitled to relief under the above act. And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Department of War pursuant to the provisions of the aforementioned Act of Congress Act. 232. 1818
Levi Woodbury As. Jn. Sup. Ct. (N.H.)
I think him entitled to relief from his reduced circumstances. July 22d. 1819
Levi Woodbury As. J. S. Ct.
Cheshire
I Salma Hale Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said county certify that Levi Woodbury is one of the Honorable Justices of said court and that the foregoing is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court this 20th day of October 1818
S. Hale Clerk

I Nathan Fuller of Newton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby declare that I am well acquainted with William Bond of Charleston in the County of Cheshire & State of New Hampshire. That in the Year seventeen hundred & seventy six he enlisted into the service of the United States in the Company under my command in Col. William Bond's Reg t . Major. line, and served in the Revolutionary war in the Continental establishment faithfully & honorably for one year being the term of his enlistment. - Col. William Bond died at Princeton, and his Books and Papers were all lost, and destroyed the names of the Soldiers who composed his Reg t will not probably be found on the Army Rolls. Nathan Fuller
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. Watertown October 16 th 1818. Personally appeared Nathan Fuller, and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true and I hereby certify that the said Nathan Fuller is a Respectable & creditable witness.
Levi Thaxter, Justice of the Peace

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, in Portsmouth at the U.S. Branch Bank
Reswara

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
William Bond late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Hampshire Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the Twenty third day of October one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
J C Calhoun Secretary of War.

Record Division.
October 13, 1909.
Hon. Daniel W. Bond, Mayor,
Woburn, Massachusetts.
Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 8" and received the 9" instant, you are advised that owing to the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, this Bureau is unable to furnish full copies of papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claims; but any one designated by you may examine and copy the papers in the Revolutionary War claim of William Bond, Sur. File No. 14,878.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

City of Woburn Office of the Mayor
October 2, 1909.
W. Hervey, Esq., Commissioner, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
I received from your department on September 16th a statement of the military history of William Bond, my grandfather, in the Revolutionary War, which was a great satisfaction to me. I am anxious to clear up his genealogical record, there being no record of his birth or parentage, and as I presume he was obliged to send you affidavits or other papers upon which to base his claim for a pension, I would like very much to get copies of all such papers. Will you please inform me if I can have them? If you will send me copies I shall be very grateful to you, as I was for the statement you sent.
Yours very truly,
Daniel K Bond
Mayor.

City of Woburn Mass. Office of the Mayor
September 2, 1909.
Department of the Interior, Record Dept., Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-
I desire to ascertain whether or not my grandfather, William Bond, was a Revolutionary pensioner. There is a tradition in our family that he was, but we have no actual knowledge or proof. We know nothing of his Revolutionary record, but wish to ascertain it.
His name was William Bond, and he was born about 1757 or 1760, supposedly at Watertown or Weston, Mass., and at the time of the Revolutionary War was living, we believe, at Weston, Mass. He was married September 18, 1783 at Lincoln, Mass. to Sarah Parks of that town. She was born there December 17, 1765. Soon after their marriage they removed to Charlestown, N. H., where they continued to reside during the remainder of their lives. He was a farmer there. She died in Charlestown September 8, 1845, and he died there October 19, 1852.
Thanking you in advance for any information you may give,
I am
Yours very truly,
Daniel W Bond
Mayor