Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,140, Thomas Caldwell, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Caldwell, Thomas
S. 34,140
CONTENTS
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11 6 00
Wassachusetts
Thomas Caldwell Jr.
of Ipswich in the state of Vermont who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Little of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 1 year & 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of June 1819 and sent William Wetmore
Boston Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819 10 mo 24/30 4/30 = 87.43
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 48.
$135.43
cont { Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. } Notif. sent Dec 21. 1820 to Ichabod Tucker Esq. Salem Mass

✓ Tho: Caldwell Jr. 2
Enlisted July 1775
18 months
✓
In the evidence of service in Col. Little's regiment (waiting)
Certified 20 May 1819.
Adm. 6
p.

State of Massachusetts
I Thomas Caldwell Jr a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Ipswich in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the fourth of July in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the said service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the fourth of January in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & seventy seven when I was honorably discharged & again entered the service aforesaid in June 1777 & served accordingly until February Anno Domini 1778 as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Captain Dodge's Company in Colonel Dittle's Regiment for one year & six months & to Captain Hodgkins Company in Colonel Digebow's Regiment for eight months all in the Massachusetts line of the Army
and that I left the service on the expiration of the term aforesaid being honorably discharged and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty seven years. I have no other evidence to offer than is herewith exhibited, I also declare, that my first enlistment was until the next January, being the residue of the eight months service, for the year 1778 & that immediately on the expiration of the term viz in January 1776, I enlisted for one year & continued in the service accordingly.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Thomas Caldwell Jr
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me
The Subscriber One of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit within the State aforesaid & presiding pro hac vice
the abovenamed Thomas Caldwell Jr prior and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court
Wm Wetmore
May 20. 1819. I now further certify the
annexed

annexed Supplementary evidence; & that I am personally acquainted with the Magistrate & Deponents therein named & know them to be persons of truth & credit & that the signatures are their proper hand writing & they are in my opinion altogether disinterested - I am also satisfied that the said Declarant is in such reduced circumstances in life & so poor as that he stands in need of the assistance of his Country for his support. Witness my hand & the Seal of the Court above, and as within affixed
Tom Wetmore

We Nathaniel Wade and Joseph Hodgkins Esquires both Commissioned officers in the twelfth Regiment commanded by Col Moses Little in the revolutionary war, to wit, the said Wade a Captain & said Hodgkins a Lieutenant in said Regiment, and we are well acquainted with Mr Thomas Caldwell from the person who has applied to Hon William Wetmore for a Pension under the act of March 1818 and we declare that he enlisted in Capt Abraham Dods's Company in the same Regiment in the beginning of the year A D 1776 and we often saw him in the Service during the whole of said year, and was discharged and we now know him to be the same person as we are in habitants of the same town, and that he is in low circumstances in life he has no real Estate or nearly personal Estate is seventy years old, and unable to gain a support by Labor
Nathaniel Wade Joseph Hodgkins —
Commonwealth of Massachusetts — Essex ss May 15 th 1819 Then Nathaniel Wade and Joseph Hodgkins Esquires appeared and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition and further they certify that the said Nathaniel Wade & Joseph Hodg- kins are entitled to full faith & credit are respectable Witnesses the said Wade is a Magistrate of said County of Essex & said Hodgkins a man of impenetrable Character Am Andrews Justice of the Peace —

11600
Thomas Caldwell Junr.,
age 59 wife dep 19 ok Girl 14 two years Can $101- Can
Can J

The Clerk has now certified, agreeably to law, the Opinion of the Court, as to the value of the property as the Schedule

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
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, Thomas Caldwell Jr of Ipswich resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 11,600 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, Thomas Caldwell - - - - - late a private 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 seventh day of April - - - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifth day of June - - - - - one thousand eight hundred and nineteen the behalf of the Secy of War J. L. Edwards in the absence & on the behalf of the Secy 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,
Real Estate -
One acre & three quarters of wood land & meadow in Ipswich - - - - - 40.00
Personal Estate.
One cow & one swine - - - - - 27.00
one desk one bureau, four tables ten chairs - 13.00
Two brass kettles, 3 iron pots one frying pan & 1 skillet a spider and old crockery ware - 13.25
Two looking glasses. 3 old chests - one trunk - - 6.25
one old axe, pitchfork spade shovel & hoe - - - .75
one spade shovel & hoe - - - - - .75
101.00
Thomas Caldwell owes to John Baker 3? 95.00 by note
Simeon Palmer by note - - - - - 30.00
Ezra Palmer by note - 30.00
135.00
Balance more than all his property - - 34.00

He is sixty nine years old has a wife an invalid which is all his family. He is infirm unable to support himself by labour.
In 1775 he served in Capt. Abraham Dodge's Company Col. Moses Little's Regiment 5 months and an half. In January 1776 enlisted in said Abraham Dodge's Company in Col. Moses Little's Regiment in the Massachusetts line for one year and served one whole year and was discharged on the continental establishment. In 1777 enlisted in Capt. Joseph Hodgkins' Company & Col. Timothy Bigelow's Regiment on continental establishment in the Massachusetts line & served eight months & was discharged. In 1778 served in the same war in the Militia at Rhode Island six weeks.
Was in the battles of Long Island, York Island, & at Newport Rhode Island.
His family consists of himself aged as aforesaid his wife Elisabeth sick & unable to labour, a girl taken to assist aged 14 years.
Thomas Caldwell Jr.
Exeap. p. July 12. 1820. Then the above named Thomas Caldwell Jr. made oath that the above schedule & statement are true, before me,
Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Thomas Caldwell Jr. 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.
Thomas Caldwell Jr.
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Thomas Caldwell Jr. took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
Stephen Minot , Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, 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 one hundred & one dollars  dollars  nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D. 1820.
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk,

Rev. and 1818 War Section.
aws April 30, 1925.
Mrs. Carl Muff Clarence, Mo.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 54140, it appears that Thomas Caldwell, Jr. enlisted in July 1775 and was a private in Captain Abraham Dodge's Company, Colonel Moses Little's Massachusetts Regiment, he was in the battles of Long Island and York Island and served until January 1777.
He enlisted in June 1777 and served until in February 1778 in Captain Joseph Hodgkins' Company, Colonel Timothy Bigelow's Regiment.
He served six weeks in 1778 and was in the battle of Newport, Rhode Island.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, while a resident of Ipswich,

Essex County, Massachusetts, aged sixty-seven years.
In 1820, his wife Elisabeth was alive. There is no further family data on file.
The above noted Thomas Caldwell is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully
WILDER S. METCALF, Commissioner.

34 140 Rev INVALID.
1913 July 1. Hist. to Mrs. J. S. Hill. & 1925 Apr 30 Hist. to Mrs. Carl Muff Aug.
File No. 34 140
Thomas Caldwell
Dr Rev 1880
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.]

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Thomas Caldwell Jr. a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. File 34,140
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     July 1775 to Jan'y 1777 Pri. Abraham Dodge Moses Little Mass.   June 1777 to July 1778 Joseph Hopkins Timothy Bigelow   1778 6 mos. on Rhode Is.  
Battles engaged in, Long Is. York Is. + Newport Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated. Date of application for pension, Apr. 7. 1818. His claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Spewick, Mass. Age at date of application, 67 years.
Remarks: His wife Elizabeth was alive in 1820, but there is no reference to children
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Thomas Caldwell, Private U. S. Pension roll Mass. June 5th, 181 7 April 7, 1818.
Died May 25th, 1824.
the same
Thomas Caldwell, Vol 3 Mass. Page 20. Enlisted May 19th 1777. (Rev. sol.) " " for 8 months, sworn into camp near Half Moon, reported lame in camp.
Joseph Hodgkins Co., Col. Timothy Biglow's Reg. muster roll Jan -Sept. 1777, Dated Van Schaick's Island. (not intended to be marked out)
Thomas Caldwell, Cumberland Co. Va. recommended as Ensign Dec. 16th. 1794. previously served as a private.
John Caldwell of Marshall Co., Va. age 90 years a pensioner residing with Ezekiel Caldwell on June 1, 1840 from page 135 Va. state pensioner's roll for the Western District.
Please return this memo with whatever can be found in the Rev. records.
Mrs. J. S. Hill, Box 73 Bethesda, Maryland.
Send to his desk for Mr Jones Sup't. of Building

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REV. & 1812 WAR SECTION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON
January 5, 1925.
Mrs. Carl Muff, .....
Clarence, .....
Mo. .....
Madam; .....
I have to advise you that the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to any Thomas Caldwell and Francis Montgomery, or to James Tate, John Epperson, Edward Hall and William Montgomery as described by you. ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
Respectfully,
Hayo Haymaker
Very much dislike bothering the War-Office again  RECORDED Commissioner. with this same question again-But the 17th Annual D.A.R. Report to the Smithsonian Ins. was made up from inf. from Government Records I am told. That was my reason for writing again-Thomas Caldwell was mentioned in this REP report- to what Officer was the back pay for Thomas Caldwell sent?
Winnie Epperson Muff,
(Winnie Epperson Muff) Mrs. Carl -
(over)

# 68434, 69430, 69682, 74680, 75676.
This is an name of Thomas Paltwell in 17th Annual D.C.R. Report to Smithsonian Inst.
WASHINGTON
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Caldwell, Thomas GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9131 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED September 23, 179— (torn) to John Hoge, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.