Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,415, Samuel Burbank, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Burbank, Samuel Mehetabel or Mehitable
No. 14,415
CONTENTS

1843 Mehitable Burbank widow of Samuel Burbank dec'd. who died in the month of January 1777 of Essex Co in the State of Mass a who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Pettengill of the Reg t commanded by Col Baldwin in the Mass a line for 14 months Mass
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass a at the rate of — 70 — Dollars — Cents, per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of March 1835 and sent from G. Cushing W m of Elmh t
Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $490.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. — 35.00
$525.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 2 d }
Recorded by W. H. Addison Clerk, Book 1 Vol. 2 Page 45

Mehitable Burbank widow of Samuel Map.
Manna 1770
Died Feb 1777
Aged 14 mo 1 day
$70 per Ann.
Census 4 March 1737
Mass Census
Col Baldwin
a 1776
Her Blanking HR

State of Massachusetts, Essex County ss.
On this Sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, personally appeared before Daniel A. White esquire Judge of Probate for said County of Essex,
Mehetabel Burbank a resident of the Town of Bradford in the County and State aforesaid, aged ninety-two years and upwards, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of Congress of July 4 th 1836.
That she is the Widow of Samuel Burbank, who was late of Rowley in the County and State aforesaid, and served in the Army of the United States in the War of the Revolution, as follows, viz: That some time in the latter part of the month of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, he enlisted in the Company whereof Rufus Wheeler of said Rowley was Lieutenant, (the Captain's name I do not now recollect,) for the term of two months, and did serve said term of two months, at some place in the vicinity of Boston Massachusetts,
That some time in the latter part of the month of December in the same year, he enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain Joseph Joseph Pettengill, in Colonel Loammi Baldwin's Regiment, for the term of one year, and did serve said term, at various places in the state of New-York and New-Jersey. I am made confident of this last years service by the constant correspondence he kept up with me by letters during said year, five of which letters I hereto annex, together with two orders, one drawn by Benjamin Child, dated at Peekskill December 31 st 1776, and the other drawn by Ephraim Witherbe dated at said Peekskill January 3. 1777. — And I do verily believe that he enlisted as a Sergeant and did the duty of a Sergeant in said Captain Pettengill's Company during the whole of the year aforesaid; I am led to this belief by having heard him spoken of at the time of his enlistment, as a Sergeant, and also by his own statements in some of the aforesaid letters, particularly in the one dated June 3. 1776, and the one dated October 11. 1776, — that he was the first Sergeant in said Company from November 14. 1776, to the end of the year, appears evident by his warrant of that date, hereto annexed, which Warrant I apprehend was one promoting him.
That he came home from the Army to visit his family some time during the first half of the month of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, with an expectation of returning to the Army again, but was immediately, or within two days from his arriving home, taken sick with the small pox, carried to the Rowley Pest-house, where he died some time in said month of January 1777.
That

That the aforesaid letters, from the time I first received them from my said husband; And the said Sergeants Warrant, and the orders of said Child and Wittenbe, from the time my said husband was taken sick with the small pox, as aforesaid, have all been in my constant possession and keeping to the day of the date hereof.
That she is not, - from age and infirmity able at this time to state more particularly, the service of her said husband during the War of the Revolution, - but asks leave respectfully to refer to such papers and documents as may be on file in the War Department at Washington, and also to such as she may be enabled to annex to this Declaration, in support thereof, and of her claim to the benefit of said Act. -
The said Mehitable Burbank, doth further on her oath declare, that she was lawfully married to the said Samuel Burbank at Nowley aforesaid, on the twenty-ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy, by the Rev d James Chandler. -
That by her said husband she has had two children, viz: Penhama, born January eighth in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy one, - and Mehitable, Born in the month of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy three, both now dead.
That her said husband died at Nowley some time in the month of January (I do not now recollect the day,) in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, as before stated. - and that she has not intermarried since the decease of her said husband. - Sworn and subscribed this - day and year first above written. -
Mehitable Burbank Before D r A. White Judge of Probate

By a certificate returned to me on the Eleventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two,
It appears, That Samuel Burbank and Mehitable Foster, both of Mowry, were joined in marriage, on the twenty-ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy, by
Rev d James Chandler, Pastor of the Second Church in Mowry.
Attest, Humphrey Hobson, Town Clerk of Mowry.
A true copy of Record,
Attest, Thomas Gage, Town Clerk of Mowry.
I Thomas Gage, on oath do say, That I hold the office of Town Clerk of Mowry, and that the above is a true copy of a Record in my possession, with the exception only, that on the Record the dates are expressed in fair legible figures, thus, "By a certificate returned to me March 11 th 1772, It appears, That Samuel Burbank and Mehitable Foster, both of Mowry, were joined in marriage, March 29 th 1770. - By, James"
Rev d James Chandler, Pastor of the 2 nd Church in Mowry."
And further on my oath, I do say, that the aforesaid Town Records now in my possession, do show that the aforementioned Humphrey Hobson, was the Town Clerk of Mowry, and duly sworn as such, at the time the date of the foregoing certificate indicates. -
Thomas Gage.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Essex County ss.
On this fifteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. Thomas Gage above named, personally appearing, made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed, is true.
Before me Amos G. Benney Justice of the Peace.
I the said justice, hereby certify that Thomas Gage the abovenamed deponent, is well known to me, and that he is a credible witness.
Amos G. Benney
Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss.
I John Prince Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do certify that Daniel A. White is Judge of Probate for said County - that Amos J. Tenney is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that their signatures hereon are genuine
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court at Salem January 16. 1838.
John Prince

Peek skills January 2) 1777 to Col James Wesson for Blase to pay to Samuel Burbank the Money that you Drawed for my Clothe that I lost Coming out of New York & his Defait Shall be your Discharge for the same Ephraim Witherbe

Long I don't you get the note but you're warm for your old youth turnover feel as much Best as you think Best
To Mr Samuel Burbank In Rowley with Car & Speed Boat PND

Letter from S. Burbank Dated October 10. 1776
BURBANK, SAMUEL (CONT. MASS.) W. 14415

Joe Camped at New Garpes at Fort Constitution
October 10 1876 Morning Wife After move to you & my Children & all friends I remember my Duty to my Darrance & yours my Brothers & Sisters & Cousins I am Well & Blessed by God for it & I hope that these lines will find you & my Children & Grandchildren all Well all our Darrance & I hope is Well only the last Darrance she remains something Well but I believe will be well she is at home with all help as far as our time is out Hale Burbank has been sick three or four months but is getting better a Gain I Repealed your Sector by the hand of Captain & a Dain of Shirts & Repealed them Gladly that Day the Shirts Came I was a saying I did not know what to do for Shirts you offered Eight Dollars for them & I make no doubt but I could have got 9 or 10 if I could have spared them but I could not if you see Brother Charles Burbank I would have you tell him that I Repealed his 9 Sector as he called it but Henry Repealed his 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Give my Love to him & tell him that I have taken as Good Care of his Son as if he had bin anyone but Don't thank him for other Reflections he kept in his last Sector for it has cost me a Dollar for the Sectors I have sent to him & Father & all the Sectors that I have from them is 2 only I have sent him Great money but I should send so more for I understand that they have have got some out of them sent I understand that you are a fating the Black Cow Don't you sell the hide but get it tanned for your own use sell as much Beef as you think best turn over

I Shall Conclud this Letter with Giving some small hints of a Recount that our army has had since I wrote to you on the 15 Day of Sept Month our army was ordered March from the City of New York & the Regulars took Precedence the same Day our Brigade was ordered to march at 2 o'clock at night we packed our Clops up & I carried as many of mine in the Pack as I could git in & the rest of us put in the Chest with the Captains but the Wagoners Did not come to Carry the Bagage till morning we left all the Pots & kettles & all our tents & a grate many Shirts of the officers left Clops all Captains Pettengills Clops was left & my best lot & Jacob britches & Shurt that I could not Carry for I had not got my strength after my sickness but be fore the Wagoners Got out of the way the Regulars over took one & took it they took all our tents & Pots & a grate many Good Shirts of Clops a grate Many of the officers in our Regiment could not shift them selves for want of Clops but I kept Nothing the Cap & Clops & made all our safe for want of our tents the Regiment layed without anything to Cover them but the heavens & ground & lived all that time upon Rags of Pettats & some time had None that if God Spares our lives to come home we can tel what it is to be a Soldier but we have got Good tents & be gin to live below we are stationed at New Paps at Present the 16 Day of September the Regulars Come up to the line where our troops made Stand & gave battal our troops Returned the Complaint & Drove them back & killed a grate many with the loss of a few on our side & took 3 field Pieces & a grate many small armes & so Conclud for want of Paper Samuel Brunkank

Letter from S. Burbank dated Jan 29/1716
To Mr Samuel Burbank in Red Woodley in a Shirengland in the Province of Massachusetts Bay
BURBANK, SAMUEL (CONT. MASS) W. 14415

Encamped at New York at North River 29 of June 1776
Young and Most Obedient Wife after my Love to you and my children & all friends I was in hurry so that I am well & your brother Abraham is Well John Dole is Well & all the Men that belong to Bowery is Well I send you a letter but as I have a Go & Give you some small hint a bottle the Sons of the Generals Wife Gard C I have the pleasure to inform you that one of the Generals Wife Gard her bid tried by General Court Marshal is found guilty And sentence to death & was executed yesterday at a Seven O'clock With that attended by a Court of Officers & it is Expected that a Number more of the Generals Wife Gard Will share the same fate & one in Capt Mcgill Company if it is true but in all the Old that they have laid it against a Red egland there is a lot a Red egland there that is found among them With Give me Great Satisfaction on that belong to the Generals Wife & others of Capt Mcgill Company is not handish men and old regulars that you say those stories that belong to the City will be tried by the Congress that we long to the City so I Expect that they will come of Site I have not heard from you since Capt Grant brought that letter I should be Glad that you Would send me letters as often as you can if can hear from Boston very often but can't hear from you I have heard that they cleared Boston harbor harbor of all the shipping I think I have nothing else to send to you at present Give my Compliments to Mrs Brocklebank and tell her that her Sun Job is Well and Still waiting on St Tompson as you can't but see the Danger We are in I hope you Don't for get me in your Prayers this from your sincere and Obedient husband
Samuel Burbank

J. Burbank.
Sergeant, warrant,
Dated Nov. 14, 1876.

Sammi Baldwin Esq r Colonel of the 26 th Reg t raised by the Thirteen United, Free & Independent States of North America
To Samuel Burbank Greeting
By Virtue of the Power & Authority to me given, in and by the Delegates from the said States, in Congress Assembled, I do by these presents, by the Consent & Approbation of your Captain, reposing especial trust & confidence in your Loyalty courage and good Conduct constitute & appoint you the said Samuel Burbank to be First Serjeant in a Company in said Regiment commanded by Joseph Pettibone Esq r
You are therefore, carefully & diligently to Discharge the Duty of a Serjeant in ordering & exercising said company in the Service aforesaid, commanding them to obey you as their Serjeant, & you are to observe such orders & instructions, as you shall from time to time receive from me, or other your Superior Officers According to the Military Rules & Discipline, pursuant to the trust reposed in you. For which this shall be your Sufficient Warrant
Given under my Hand at North Castle State of New York November 14 th 1776
Sammi Baldwin Col o 26 th Reg t

BURBANK, SAMUEL (CONT. MASS.) W14415

Plain December 1852 1716
Mr. Calvin Gaynor of the 2d District Sir 31st Dec 52 Gaynor & Samson
Surcharge the interest on my mortgage which is
due to me for this year & Mr. Right Share
in your & charge for the same Benj. Child

Letter from S. Burbank Dated October 11. 1776
BURBANK, SAMUEL (CONT. MASS) W14415

To M rs Samuel Burbank In Rowley New England

43 I'm Camped at a New Camp at Fort Conquistador October the 15 th 1876 My young Wife & After my Love to you & my Children & all Friends I send you that I have sent one hundred Dollars all in Continental Bills & I believe that will pay you for the things but if you think that Don't Pay you take Good Cains of the Coat & Jacket & Britches that I sent & My old fine Shirt & two Glase Cantars with my Name on a Piece of paper Put on the inside of the Cantars my Name is on all my Glase the Coat on the top of the Box is Sargents Spats all the things in the Box Belongs to Samuel Burbank. William Chandler & Job Brocklebank & their Sons on their Glase for me sent all the money that I expected to make Clear this year & if you think best I shall Cum home when my time is out if God Spares my life. I Put on one of my old Shirts to Day & I just had a Shirt full below I sold one of my old Shirts that one that I got of Joseph Walker I sold it for 3 Dollars & two hundredths of a Dollar & that was all the Shirts I had left I Wood inform you that when Mr William Chandler sent in his a Court he ordered Capt Pettengill to Pay me for 12 yards & I Want to know Whence you have got Pay for Eight yards or 800 or whether Mr Chandler made a mistake for Jeremiah Chandler Give me an order on Capt Pettengill for 20 yards but he wont Pay me but only for 12 yards & if you havnt got your Pay go to Mr Chandler & find out the mistake The money that I sent you Put it to the Best youse you can of Cont Point Plaster for you to Day but take the advice of your father & set as you think best Corporal Chandler gives his Compliments to Mrs Burbank & Wood be Glad she Wood fat one of her best Gears for him & Sargant * Burbank to her Christmas With & To Contend Samuel Burbank

Letter from S. Burbank dated Nov. 30. 1776
So Samuel Burbank for Rowley West Perry by the paper of our letter
BURBANK, SAMUEL (CONT. MASS) W. 144/5

South Capel November the 30 th 1876
Dearest Wife
After this hour do you & my Children & all friends I shall inform you that I am well at this time & hope that these few lines will find you & your family all well & enjoying all the comforts of life that Earth can afford & making preparation for a better & better world where Earthly Enemy can but interrupt Don't for Git me in your closets Prayers We are in a Christian land & stand in a dread of the Prayers of all God's people in a Christian land that otherwise be kept from sin Exadance & Death which we are so much exposed to & out with the Regiment know but am in a house about 52 miles from the Regiment I have bin well as I ought to be Got this for a Month but am in a better state of health than I have bin Ever since I was Sick in the City of New York you will expect to hear something about the Army but I only say that our army has Retreated from York about 40 or 45 miles & what our General Burnside brings of the Regulars & Volunteers they have taken fort Washington & all the men that was for it the number of men that was in the fort I can't tell it is reported in Camp for the truth that the number of Regulars killed in the fort taking fort Washington was five thousand killed on the spot & thirty wagons full of wounded was carried off from you Sister & loving husband till Death Samuel Burdick

BURBANK, SAMUEL (CONT. MASS) W 14915
To Mr Samuel Burbank In-Rowley In the Province of the Massachusetts Bay In New England

Camp at New York June 2. 1776
Living wife it is with Great Pleasure that I write these few lines to you I remember my Love to you and my Children and Duty to father mother and Love to your brother and Sisters and all my friends I am sure you that I am well and in as Good health a you are all our Danish People is well and in Good Spirits I was in form you that I received your Letter in May 31 and it was with Great Satisfaction that I could hear once more from you and my Children I was Glad to hear that you dont meet with trouble about your farming work I would have you sell one of your Cows if you can and if you cant you must get some hay of St Bradstreet you not to worry that you have sent me 3 Dollars but I want none since that Capt Pettengill brought me Dated March 30 and that Dated May the 20 I understand that Sargent Walker has bin to see you and told you that he would not come back again for a Generals Commission but if he dont mind his Eggs he may come back and take a Striped Jacket for he Did Desert from the Company and Capt Pettengill Swears by God that that he will send and fetch him if it cost him a muth Waighs you in hope that I shall send this year out and still Desert it is a Great Shame for a Sargent to Desert I have time to send you at present only that our army at Luebeck has took a hole Regiment of Regulars it may be Depend upon to be a true truth for Governor Galtoun came out to Preside hope of our army that he drove back and Did not so that our Regulars Reinforcement head got up and General Thomas surrounded the Regulars army and took and held all that was out that was about 4 hundred we expect a little in easy way but are much afraid for there is so much Good artillery in the one league as there is in New York and I think I never was in so bad a time of People swearing Drinking swearing and stealing and lying and all sorts of evil things to tell

and I think I can sincerely ask the organ of a good Bishop for me that I may be kept from Sin Exa Dance and both with an so much Exposed I have something to write that is very Satisfying to me if it out to I Doant know that any of our Parish men goes out any where after fun set and I think by what I can hear that they have gone into the Company at the time our Parish Solders Bains the Corral of one in the Company they have made a Serjeant of Abraham and a Caprit of William Chandler and a Writor of Job Brock Lebank but they may think we lost the Serjeant wanted a Writor and I told him to take Job Give my Complement to Mrs Brock Lebank and tell her that her Sun Job is well and he used of lives in as much Love and Peace as you and she can for he is of lives in a mess John Dool thinks heard that you Did not mention him in your letter and I am most Enred Give my Complement to Capt Adams and Lady J. C. Chandler and Lady and so Concluded at Present with Stating my Self your Loving Husband
William Burbank

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14415
Mahitah Burbank Widow of Samuel Burbank Sergt Rev War
Act: July 4 th 86
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 103
[Arrangement of 1876.]

Washington March 3. 1838
Sir:
Will you be good enough to inform me whether the papers of Mehitable Burbank, widow of Samuel Burbank, have been received; & if so, what is the decision of the Department in her case.
Very respectfully
Washing.
Mr. L. Edwards Esq.

Rowley Jan y 18. 1830,
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir,
Hencewith enclosed, I send the application of Widow Mehetabel Burbank for a pension, together with the evidence of her late husband's service in the War of the Revolution, — that he served fourteen months in said War, one and a half month of which as a Sergeant, I think you will find sufficiently proved by the documents accompanying the application. — It is believed he served as a Sergeant, twelve months, and it is so stated in the Widow's declaration, but I do not expect you will think we have furnished sufficient proof of that fact, and we must rely on such further evidence as may be found in your office. If you can find the roll of Captain Joseph Pittingills Company for the year 1776 in Col. Loammi Baldwin's (26 th ) Regiment, that will undoubtedly settle the question, but if you find no evidence in your Department of his having so served as a Sergeant, for 12 months, then you will please make her a Certificate for the service we have proved, — and forward that Certificate to the Subscriber.
Yours &c, Thomas Gage
N.B. As we have two post offices in Town, please direct to me at " New Rowley " that being the name of our post office,
T. G.

I Athan Foster of Bridge in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, aged Seventy Seven years, and upwards, on oath say, that I am well acquainted with Mehitable Burbank now of the town of Bradford in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and do know that she is the widow of Samuel Burbank formerly of Rowley in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aforesaid, the having been married to the said Burbank I think, in the year 1770
My means of knowing the above facts are, I am a brother of the said Mehitable, and lived in my father's family in said town of Rowley with him till her marriage as aforesaid. She the said Mehitable is now ninety two years of age - I do know that sometime in the month of October or the fore part of December of the year 1775, that he the said Samuel Burbank enlisted in the Company whereof Rufus Wheeler of said Rowley was Lieutenant (the Captain's name I do not now recollect) for the term of two months, and that he did serve at a place called Jamaica Plains in the vicinity of Boston Massachusetts, the said term of two months - my means of knowing are, I was a private in the same Company and in the same service during said term - I do also know that at or near the close of the aforesaid two months service, and before the said Burbank or myself left the Camp at said Jamaica Plains, that he the said Samuel Burbank did enlist (I think as a Serjeant) in the Company commanded by Captain Joseph Settingoff, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Loammi Baldwin to serve for one year, and that I have good reason to believe that he did serve in said Company the full term of one year

as I well recollect his coming home (which I think was in the fore part of January 1777), and immediately on his arriving home he was taken sick with the small pox and died in the posthouse in said town of Rowley - my means of knowing the facts last above stated are, I lived in my fathers family during the whole of said time, and my Sister Burkana, the said Mehitable, lived in the same neighborhood and within two miles of my said fathers who kept up a corres- -pondance with her husband by letter during said time, untill his return home as above stated
Abner Foster
Cheshire So. January 8 th 1838
Abner Foster above named personally appearing made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me - Joshua Converse Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that Abner Foster the above named deponent is a credible witness
Joshua Converse Justice Peace

State of New Hampshire Cheshire County ss.
I Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature, certify, that Joshua Converse, was on the 8 day of January instant, & still is, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Cheshire duly commissioned and qualified - and that his name subscribed to the within certificate is his genuine signature -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Keene this ninth day of January A.D. 1838.
H. Coolidge Clerk