Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,554, Joel Bullard, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bullard, Joel Barns, Sarah
N. 18,554
Former Widow
CONTENTS

4162 Mont.
Repealed
Vermont.
Sarah Darns, for widow of Jacob Bullard who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 88
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of March '49 and sent to
Wm. L. P. Peck Member of Conn Grat
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 38 Vol. 3

accip 9582-13776 Mrs Sarah Burns died Oct 7 th July 1838 - 3 rd March 1843, 17 June 1841 and 2 nd February 1845
VI
Oct 7 July 1838
Mamma 1781
Instans duo. 1791
Secundo Instans duo 1847
Adm 8 mo 2 day in $26 88  \frac{3}{4}  full
full March 1836 to 4 March 1841
Adm act 3 March 43 17 June 44 not July 48
L. B. Peck $26 88  \frac{3}{4}  full On 4 March 1843
Hand L. B. Peck House of Reps

Declaration - Acts of 7 th July 1838, 3 d of March 1843, 17 th of June 1844 & February 2 d 1848
State of Vermont } Bradford District } On this 27 th day of July A.D. 1848, Personally appeared before the Probate Court at Lyndon thereof held at Corinth within & for the District of Bradford. Sarah Barnes a resident of Corinth in the County of Orange & State of Vermont, aged 88 years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the acts of Congress passed July 7 th 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows" also of the acts of Congress passed 3 d of March 1843, June 17 th 1844 and February 2 d 1848
That she is the widow of Peter Barnes, & late the widow of Joel Ballard deceased, who was a Private in the War of the Revolution that her late husband the said Joel Ballard enlisted from the town of Natcheeson (now Barre) in Capt Black Company immediately after the Battle of Lexington, for the term of Eight Months & served as I verily believe the full length of time for which he enlisted before he was discharged, during which time he was wounded at the Battle of Bunker hill, that while he was disabled by his wound he was attended upon by Surgeon Spring, that after his return from the Army he was placed upon the Roll of Invalid Pensioners, that the said Joel Ballard died

died at Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex County and State of Massachusetts, or what was then called Hopkinton, that she was appointed Administra- trix on said Bullard's Estate & herewith transmits her letter of Administration, that she afterwards Married Peter Burns who died on the 18 th day of March in the year Eighteen hundred & forty Six, that the said Bullard died on the Eighteenth day of October Seventeen hundred & Ninety - That she was Married to the said Joel Bullard by Rev Elijah Fitch at said Hopkinton on the Nineteenth (19) day of April, Seventeen hundred and Eighty one (1781), that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred & Ninety four (wir), at the time above stated - that her Maiden name was Sarah Powell & that she is now a widow - that he enlisted from Hutchinson in the State of Massachusetts
Isaac BURNS
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written in open Court
Before me. Stephen Thomas, Judge of Probate

State of Vermont. } I Daniel B. James Register of Probate Bradford District ss. } within and for said district, do hereby certify that the Hon. Stephen Thomas is Judge of Probate within and for said District duly qualified and commissioned. That his commission was dated on the first day of December 1848. and will expire on the 30th day of November 1849. and his signature above annexed, purporting to be his, is genuine. and was also duly qualified & commissioned as above from Dec. 1. 1847 to Nov. 30th D. 1848.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at West Fairlee in said District this 13th day of February D. 1849.
Daniel B. James. Register.

Affidavit of the marriage of Mrs. Sarah Barnes

State of Massachusetts. Middlesex County ss.
Town of Hopkinton
September 27 th 1848.
I, John A. Fitch Clerk of the first Church in Hopkinton, in the County & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the following certificate appears upon the records kept by Elijah Fitch then Pastor of said Church viz. April nineteenth, seven hundred and eighty one, Joel Bullard and Sarah Rowel were married.
John A. Fitch, Clerk.
I further certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of date, which is expressed on the records in plain legible words & figures as follows. "19 th April, 1781."
I John A. Fitch depose & say, that I hold the Office of Clerk in the first Church in the town of Hopkinton, in the County & State aforesaid; and the above is a true extract of the records of said first Church, with the exception above named as certified by me
John A. Fitch Clerk.
Sworn to, & subscribed the twenty seventh day of September A.D. 1848. before me Samuel B. Walcott, Justice of the Peace.
I further certify that the above affiant is personally known to me & that he is a credible witness.
Samuel B. Walcott Justice of the Peace.

Boston September 29 th 1848
Commonwealth of } Massachusetts } I here by certify that the within certifying officer Samuel B. Walcott is a regularly commissioned justice of the peace
M c Kim, Secretary of State

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By the Honorable
Oliver Prescott — Esquire.
J UDGE of the Probate of Wills, and for granting Letters of Administration on the Estates of Persons deceased, having Goods, Chatels, Rights or Credits in the County of Middlesex , within the Commonwealth aforesaid,
to Sarah Bullard on _____ in the widow.

Rev  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18554
Sarah Swans Former Widow of Joel Ballard Pris Rev War
Act: Feb 23 48
Index:—Vol. A , Page 37
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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of Hopkins County and Commonwealth aforesaid, ss. Greeting.
WHEREAS Joel Bullard late of said Hopkins in said County intestate,
deceased, having while he lived, and at the Time of his Decease, Goods, Chattels, Rights or Credits in the County aforesaid, lately died Intestate,
whereby the Power of committ Administration, and full Disposition of all and singular the oods, Chattels, Rights and Credits of the said Deceased: and also the be examining and allowing the Accompt of such Administration to Me: Therefore in your Care and thereby, I do, omn it unto to administer all and singular, said Deceased, and well and to Law; and also to ask, gather, and natterever Credits of the said Deceased, which to him lived, and at the Time of his Death, did appertain, and to pay all Debts, in which the said Deceased stood bound, so far as his said Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits can extend, according to the Value thereof: And to make a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the said Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits; and to exhibit the same into the Registry of the Court of Probate for the County aforesaid, at or before the Eighth Day of March next ensuing: And to render a plain and true Accompt of your said Administration upon Oath, at or before the Eighth Day of December which will be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy two . And I do hereby ordain, constitute and appoint you Administrat rix of all and singular the Goods, Chattel, Rights and Credits aforesaid.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and the Seal of the said Court of Probate. Dated at Cambridge the Eighth Day of December in the Year of our Lord, 1791.
Oliver Prescott
Middlesex, At a Court of Probate held at Cambridge within and for said County, I order the abovenamed Administrat rix to give public Notice
of her Appointment and Acceptance, by causing a notification thereof to be posted in some public place in said Hopkins for the space of three weeks successively in the Boston Weekly Magazine or Massachusetts Magazine or Massachusetts Magazine and make return thereof to this office within seven months from this date.
Given under my Hand in open Court this Eighth Day of December 1791.
Oliver Prescott J. Prob.

Secretary of State Certificate of the Service of Joel Bullard

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
August 4 1847.
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 Joel Bullard is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt John Black's Company in Col Jonathan Brew-ers regt. in the Eight Months service, as a private of Hutchinson (now Barre) from May 16 August 1775. 92 days. Upon a Return of said Company, in said regiment as a private of Hutchinson No service named and said return is Not dated.
Upon an order of said Company for Coats dated "Camp Prospect Hill Oct. 26 1775"
No mention is made upon said rolls of his having been wounded — The above

is all the evidence of service of any one of the names shown by the Military records in this Office
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said appli- cation, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John E. Sawyer,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, made by the Widow — of the party who rendered the service.
State of Vermont County of Orange Town of South
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Joel Bullard in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Mendon in the County of Norfolk — and State of Massachusetts
He enlisted from the Town of Barn in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts in the year 1775 as a private — in the Company commanded by Captain Black in Regiment and he served as follows, * viz:—
he was in the Bunker Hill battle & was wounded by a ball in his hip, which ball was never extracted. He enlisted when he was about eighteen years, and I believe continued to his death the last a private as he lived, his wound disabled him from gaining a living by hard work, he was also wounded by having a ball shot through his body.
* 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.

The late Joe Bullen was my first husband and after his decease, I married Peter Burns for my second husband, who has since died and I am now unmarried & a widow.
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I am now 87 years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
WITNESS my hand, this 24, day of June A. D. 1847.
Signed by said Sarah Burns in my presence,
Sarah Burns
W. H. Spencer - JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

10593
Reported
Widow of Wm Sarah  Parsons  for Widow of  Doc  Fullard
who was a pensioner under the Act of _____ and who died on the 18th Oct 1790 of Bradford in the State of _____ who was a _____ in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by _____ in the _____ for 8 mos 2 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 26 Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of March, 1849 and paid to her L. B. Peck Widow of _____ Total amount, $ _____
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. Rumpkin Clerk, Book _____ Vol. 1. Page 125.

8496. Mount. Vernon
Reported
Sarah Parry, foy. widow of Joel Bullard
who was a Private in the Revolution
Husband died 18 th Oct. 1790
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 88
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of March, 1849 and sent to
Hon. L. B. Peck Nexy of Reps
[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book a Vol. 2. Page 68.

Dr Albian P. Cummings, Affidavit of the death of Peter Barnes

I Albion P. Cummings of Canaan in the County of Essex and State of Vermont of lawful age depose and say that I am a practicing physician; that as such I attended upon Peter Burns late of Pittsburgh in the County of Coos State of New Hampshire deceased, in his last sickness. That I was present when he died. That I made a charge upon my book for my visit to see him, the day that he died & I filed upon the examination of said charge; that he died on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and forty six; that he left a widow whose name was Sarah Burns, who has removed to Corinth Orange County Vermont to live with her son Joel Burns with whom I am personally acquainted -
(Signed) Albion P. Cummings
Sworn to and subscribed by the above affiant - Reference this 30 th day of December AD 1848 John L. Ingalls Justice of Peace
I further certify that the above affiant (Doctor Cummings) is personally known to me & that he is a practicing physician & a gentleman of truth & veracity John L. Ingalls Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont } Essex County ss }
I Isaac Cummings Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of Essex aforesaid; do hereby certify that John L Ingalls of Canaan in said County is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Essex duly commissioned & qualified That his Commission is dated November 30 to A D 1848 & will expire on the last day of Nov. A D 1849
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County Court & set my hand at Guildhall in said County of Essex the second day of January in the Year of Our Lord A D 1849.
Isaac Cummings Clerk