Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,617, Abner Barrows, Continental Mass. Mass.Sea Service.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Barrows, Abner
S 29617
Mass.
Mass. Sea Service.
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Massachusetts - 30,703.
Abner Barrows.
of Boston in the State of Massachusetts who was a Pr. Sea. in the Campy. & commanded by Captain Brigham & of the Regt. & commanded by Col. Cotton & in the Mass. t.
  line for  8  mo.  8.  days.  Pris.  27.  64     8  "  12.  "  Seamen.  33.  60      61  24  
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 61 Dollars 24 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of June 1836, to Widow Mary Barrows of Boston, Mass.
  Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '36-  30  6.  20    Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Sept.  30  6.  82     61  12  02  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R. Brimmer Clerk. Book 8 Vol. 2 - Page 43.

Almeda Barrows application for a pension

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk ss
I, Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, (being a Court of Record) do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abner Barrows for a pension. Witness my hand & the Seal of said Court here set this Sixteenth day of May A.D. Eighteen hundred & thirty six Thomas W. Phillips.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Suffolk ss City of Boston
On this thirteenth day of May 1836 personally appeared before the Municipal Court of the City of Boston now holden in said Boston in & for the said County of Suffolk.
Abner Barrows a resident of said Boston & late a resident of Yarmouth in the Province of Nova Scotia aged eighty 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated
That on the first day of May A D 1775 he entered as a private soldier at Plymouth in the County of Plymouth & said Commonwealth in Capt John Bridgham company of Massachusetts troops in Colonel Cotts Regiment for the term of eight months, he commenced duty on the third day of May & soon after marched to Roxbury in said Commonwealth where his regiment was attached to General Thomas Brigade & took part in the siege of Boston; he served out the full term of his enlistment & at the expiration of said eight months he enlisted again in said company for the additional term of one year. His company was soon after transferred to Colonel Baileys regiment in General Heaths Brigade, & served in the American Army besieging Boston until the British troops evacuated that town upon which event he marched with the army to New York & served under General Washington in the Jerseys; on the twenty fifth of December 1776 he took part in the capture of the Hessians at Trenton. His terms of service expired Jan y first 1777. while the army was at Princetown he remained in service until the expiration of his enlistment & then volunteered anew for six weeks more & followed General Washington into the field of Battle at Princeton. He served out this period of six weeks in the fifteen th of February 1777. he was honorably discharged from the service.
He received no written discharge that he remembers, but an order for his pay which he presented at New Haven. He does not remember the Captains name under whom he served six weeks as a volunteer but he remembers that Samuel Lucas & Francis Lucas were sargents and Nathan Cobb a corporal of the company.
Late in the autumn of 1777 & soon after the capture of General Burgoyne he shipped as a mariner in the public armed Brig of War Hazard Capt

Simeon Sampson of sixteen Guns & about one hundred & thirty men at said Boston some time was consumed in equipping the brig for sea & before she sailed he distinctly remembers to have seen the troops of General Burgoyne marched into Cambridge as prisoners of war. The Brig was filled out by the State of Massachusetts for the purpose of capturing a British Sloop of War which had for some time infested the coast. He sailed in this Brig in company with his townsman William Stevens who still survives. about the last of December 1777. They went in pursuit of the Sloop of War but not finding her cruised on the coast of Maine & Nova Scotia where they took three prizes laden with fish & then upon the coast of Portugal & the West-Indies where they took two more prizes a Ship laden with salt and a brig laden with tea & other merchandise. They arrived safe in Boston late in the spring somewhere near the first of June when they were discharged. He feels confident that his service in this vessel exceeded five months & believes that it was as much as six which was the term for which he enlisted.
The whole time for which he claims a pension is two years one month & thirteen days. And he has not filed his claim at an earlier period because he has but recently returned here from Yarmouth aforesaid. He has no documentary evidence by which he can prove his services except that annexed which he is told has proved satisfactory to the Department. in other cases in respect to the one years service in Captain Bridgham company. He knows of no survivor except the said Stevens & his wife who can prove his services & he is not acquainted with any clergyman in said Boston. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
In answer to the several Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department he says
That he was born at Plympton in said county of Plymouth the third day of April 1756
He does not know whether any record has been made of his age except that in his family bible
When he enlisted he resided at said Plympton he moved from there to Yarmouth four years after the Peace in 1787 & has resided there ever since until his return to Boston aforesaid a short time since. He volunteered
He has enumerated his officers and the particulars of his service.
He served in the continental line of Massachusetts

He received no written discharge that he remembers
Abner Barrons
Sworn to and subscribed in open court, before me on the day and year aforesaid Peter O. Thacher Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston.
We John M. Marston residing in said City of Boston & Merchant & Eleazer Himeon of Yarmouth Nova Scotia now commorant of said Boston master mariner hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abner Barrons who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty years of age; that he is reported & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier and mariner of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed in open court before me, on the day & year aforesaid Peter O. Thacher, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston
John M. Marston Eleazer Himeon
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the in- vestigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories propounded by the War Department, the answers which are embodied in the foregoing Decla- ration, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John M. Marston is a Merchant's disresi- dent in the City of Boston & that Eleazer Himeon now is in said City of Boston but of Yarmouth & Nova Scotia, are both persons of un- doubted truth & veracity, & that their statement, which they have severally signed, as is seen before set forth, is entitled to credit.
Boston May 13 th 1836
Peter O. Thacher Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston
See Clerk's certificate on other side of this sheet.

29617 INVALID. Rev
File No. 29,617
Abner Barrow
Pa Rev Me
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 25
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N o 33729
Abner Barrow
Massachusetts
Suspended
See let to Mess rs
Herby & Andrews
May 23 1836
do Herby & Andrews, June 9 th 1836
Act 7 June 1832

Boston May 17 th 1836 4 State St
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir
We have the honor to forward to you the application of Mr. Abner Barron for a pension By the proof annexed you will perceive he served twenty six months & we trust you will find his services fully substantiated. In respect the Brey of War Hazard her pensions have been taken from the Mass State House or were never filed there. We are told however that pensions have been granted to the survivors who remained in her. Your speedy attention to this claim will much oblige
Yours very Respectfully
DeWolfe & Andrews.
P.S. Please direct the certificate to our care Since writing the above letter we have obtained from an

Secretary of State a certificate of Mr. Bancroft's services in the Hazard Brig of war by which you will perceive how conventional & unbusiness like he is in his departure as he is allowed by the Navy roll for 8 months & 12 days service & has claimed for 5 only.

June 6.
Mass:
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Friend.

State St Boston June 2 d 1836
D. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Your favor of May 23 d in relation to the claim of Mr. Abner Banons is received. You observe that your regulations require the best evidence in the power of a claimant to obtain & he should therefore establish his service in Capt. Broughams Company in 75 & 76 by a certificate of the Secy of War in whose office there are rolls of that service. We have instituted a diligent search in office of the Secretary & you will perceive by his inclosed certificate that the Rolls of the above Company from July to 1775 to Jan'y 1777 are not on file. His certificate however proves the fact that Mr. Banons was a member of said Company from April until July 1775 when he claims to have renewed his enlistment & thus strongly corroborates his own deposition which is minute & definite, you will also find annexed to his deposition

for the affidavit of his former schoolmate which furnishes very strong evidence of his service in the army from April 75 to Jan'y 1777.
As he has furnished the "best evidence" of which the case admits he trusts you will expedite his Certificate
Very Respectfully Yours
Derby & Andrews Atts

Abner Barrows
June 17
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions War Department Washington D.C.

State Street Boston June 13th 1836
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
Your favor of the 9th instant in re- lation to the claim of Abner Barrows has been duly received & contents noticed. It is with great regret that Mr Barrows finds himself delained from a part of his rights & feels much chagrined that the loss of one of the Rolls of his Company from our State House where as I well know they have been much sought & exposed should deprive him of more than a quarter of the amount due. In case you cannot therefor see your way clear to allow him a full sum run notwithstanding his oath & the corroborating tes- timony he has forwarded he wishes for a certificate for the 16 months & 21 days proved. & will thank you to

forward the same to Yours Very Respectfully Darby & Andrews
P.S. He supposes his claim for the balance will not be extinguish- ed in case any new testimony should be found

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, May 16 th 1836.
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 Abner Barrew is borne on a "Pay Roll for the Officers, Seamen, Marines &c belonging on board the Brigantine Hazard fitted out by the State of Massachusetts Bay, during her first Cruise under the Command of Simeon Samson." where he served as a Seaman from the 8 th of September 1777 to May re 1778 and was allowid Eight months & twelve Days.
M.D. 8. 12
John P. Bigelow Secretary.
Orphan - Bailey - 76

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, June 1st, 1836.
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 "Abner Barrows" is borne on a Roll, viz:- "Plimpton in the County of Plymouth. A Roll of Capt John Brigham, who marched with his Company on the 19th of April, 1775 to Marshfield, and then returned, by order of Col: Cotton, where he was allowed twelve days, and "in service!"
Do. 12.
The name of "Abner Barrows" is borne on a Muster Roll of Capt. John Bridgham, in Col: Cotton's Regiment, where he enlisted May 3 d 1775, and served three months and six days.
3 06
Abner Barrows claims eight months service from 3 d may to 1 st Jany May, 1775, 8. 9 under Capt Brigham, in Col: Cotton's Regiment, and for twelve months service, in 1776, under the same Capt. Brigham, in Col: Bailey's Regiment. The Rolls for 1775, the eight months service after the 1st. of August, 1775, and the Rolls of the twelve months service in 1776, are not found in this Office.
John P. Bigelow, Secretary.

Abner Barron Mass.
3 3 3 8 26 6 4 9 9
May be adu d for
8 mo. 9 ds pri
8 " 12. Seaman
adu d
8 mo. 9 days pri.
8 " 12. " Seaman
Messrs Derby & Andrew Boston Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Decem r 9 th 1835.
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 Abner Barrons, as a private, is borne on a roll of Capt. John Bridgham's Company, where he is allowed from April 19 th 1775, twelve days. ————— m. d. 12 = 12
Abner Barrons' name is borne on a musterroll of Capt. John Bridgham's Compy. in Col. Cotton's Regt. where he is allowed from May 3 rd to August 1 st 1775, for services and travel, three months and six days. — 3 = 6
Abner Barrons' name is borne on an abstract of pay due to Capt. Perez Churchill's Company in Col. Daggatt's Regt. where he is allowed from August 25 th to Sept r 2 nd 1778. Nine days. ————— 9 3 = 27

Amount brought Over — m. d. 3 = 27
Abner Barrons' name is borne on a pay-roll of Capt. Abner Bourns' Company, in Col. Eben d White's Regt. of Militia, where he is allowed from August 1 st to the 9 th 1780, nine days, ————— 9
Abner Barrons claims for services of twenty Months, under Capt. John Bridgham, in 1775, and 1776, — but the roll is not found in this Office, for services in 1775 & 76, after the 5 th of August, 1775. — Abner Barrons also claims for services in 1777, but he not recollecting the name of his Captain, evidence is not found in this Office.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

Mr. Doyly's case

I William Stevens of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts merchant aged eighty years on oath depose & say that previous to the war of the American Revolution I resided in Plympton in the said County of Plymouth where I was well acquainted with Abner Barrows formerly of said Plympton but more recently of Yarmouth Nova Scotia. we were both born in Plympton & were near neighbours. I well remember that soon after the battle of Lexington the said Barrows entered the American Army & continued in the service nearly two years. after the siege of Boston he accompanied General Washingtons Army to New York & the Jerseys & did not return to Plympton until after the Battle of Princeton. My Brother Lemuel Stevens served with him in New York was taken risk & died at the encampment a short distance from the City of New York. This fact distinctly fixes in my mind the period when Mr Barrows served in the army. = Late in the fall of 1777 I shipped as a mariner in the public armed brig of war Hazard of sixteen guns & about one hundred & thirty men & commanded by Captain Thompson an a long cruise. This Brig was fitted out by said Commonwealth. The said Abner Barrows shipped with me as a mariner in said Brig & we sailed on our cruise about the first day of January 1778. We cruised on the Coast of Maine & Nova Scotia then on the Coast of Portugal then struck over to the West Indias. we took five prizes but did not succeed in finding a British Hoop of war of which we went in pursuit. we were discharged to the best of my belief & recollection about the first day of June & certainly as late as the month of May 1778 on our arrival at Boston I have heard very frequently from Mr Barrows during the past fifty years having a sister still living in said Yarmouth who resides very near the spot where Mr Barrows has lived many years & I feel certain as to his services as identity..
William Stevens
Plymouth ss Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts On this Thirteenth Day of May A.D one thousand eight hundred & thirty six personally appeared before me the above named William Stevens to me well known & made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed. And I do hereby certify that said

William Stevens is an ancient & highly respectable citizen of Plymouth that he is a credible witness & his statements are entitled to full confidence
Wm. Thomas Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Massachusetts I John B. Munroe Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that William Thomas signed before whom the foregoing deposition was sworn is a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth, acting under the authority of said Commonwealth - and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on the thirteenth day of May A.D. 1886
John B. Munroe
Mr. S. D. H. case