Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,304, Thomas Bartlett, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Bartlett, Thomas
NUMBER
S. 15.304
carded.
CONTENTS

History by M. M. Abbott Court
6379
New Hampshire
Thomas Bartlett
Heilbronn in the State of N.H. who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Washburn of the Regt commanded by Col. Brook in the N.H. for 15 months
* Mass Service
W.W.H. Sept. 29, 1908.
scribed on the Roll of New Hampshire the rate of 30. Dollars . . . . Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
ertificate of Pension issued the 1st day of March 1833 and sent to Hon. Thos Chandler Esq
arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 75.00 Emigrant allowance ending 4 March 25.00 $100.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by ok D
Daniel Page Clerk, Vol. 3 Page 144

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Hillsborough, ss. At a Court of Probate holden at Amherst
within and for said County, on the Sixth day of November Anno Domine, 1832, Before EDMUND PARKER, Esq. Judge of Probate. Personally appears in open Court, before the said Court now in session
Thomas Bartlett now a resident of New Boston in said county, aged 75 years,
Who being 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 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say, that in the month of June in the year 1775 at Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts he enlisted for four months in Capt. Coopers company, in the Massachusetts militia  the regiment , of one, he does not recollect - the above time he served in building the fort in Plymouth harbour, and was discharged in the month of October following at the fort. - The other officers he does not remember -
That in the month of November in the year 1776 at said Plymouth , he enlisted in Capt. Partridges company in Col. Seth Cushing's regiment of Massachusetts militia or state troops as he thinks, for the term of six months. He is not sure but it was in the United States service on the continental establishment. - He served at Bristol Rhode Island and was discharged at Bristol in May 1777. The then to the Lieutenant was Leonard , but is not certain. - Does not remember the other officers.
That in the month of November 1777 at said Plymouth he enlisted in Capt. Washburns company of Massachusetts troops to serve five months. The name of the Col. of the regiment he had forgotten until he saw it in the record from Massachusetts and then it appears that it was Brooks . He served at Cambridge in guarding the troops taken with Burgoyne and served at said time and was discharged at Boston  at  Cambridge .
That he was born in Plymouth Massachusetts in 1757 and lived there until about the year 1794 when he came to live in Londonderry N.H. where he lived about twenty years, since which time he has lived in various places. To wit,

Windham four years - in Bedford seven years - in Amherst two years - in Merrimack one year - in Pepperell one year - in Dunstable four years - in Litchfield two years - and last Spring came to New Boston - He has sent to Plymouth for testimony and has got some but is unable to find any person who was with him in his two first enlistments.
He 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,
Thomas Brattle
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Edmund Parker - Judge of Probate -
We a Clergyman residing in the town of residing in the county of Hillsborough aforesaid, and aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and 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 in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and 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 further certifies that it appears to them, that
who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of  and that  who has signed the same,  is a resident in the town of  and is a credible person, and that their statement  is entitled to credit.
Edmund Parker -
{ Judge of Probate for said County of Hillsborough.
I CHARLES H. ATHERTON, Register and Clerk 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 Thomas Brattle for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court of Probate for said county, at Concord in said county, this February day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two  Three .
C. H. Atherton
Register and Clerk of Probate, for said county of Hillsborough.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, SS.
At the Court aforesaid, On the application aforesaid, the following interrogatories were prop- osed Thomas Bartlett and the following answers given, on oath, to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer, I was born in Plymouth Massachusetts in the year 1757 -
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer, I have a record of my age in a bible, taken from the records of Plymouth -
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer, I lived in Plymouth at during the war, and have since lived in the places stated in my declaration
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer, I enlisted. -
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer, I have stated the names of such officers as I recollect.
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer, I never had a written discharge that I remem- ber -
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer, Rev. Silas Hiken - Samuel Battles - Dea. Phoebe Hiken Dea. John French -
Attest,
C. H. Thompson
Register and Clerk.

Samuel Battles of Mont Vernon, County of Hillsborough New Hampshire, aged sixty three years, being sworn, testify and say, that I was born in Plymouth Massachusetts, and lived there until I was about forty six years old - I was well acquainted with Thomas Bartlett, who formerly lived in said Plymouth, and now lives in New Boston - I have frequently heard him speak of his services in the army, and as he is a man whose character for truth is good I never had a doubt he served as he states. I have lately been to Plymouth, and I found it was the general belief that said Bartlett served in the Revolutionary War.
Samuel Battles
Sworn to before me
Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate
And the said Court hereby certifies that it ap- pears to them that Samuel Battles who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the town of Mont- Vernon in said county, and is a credible person, and his statement entitled to credit. And the said Court further certifies that the reason why the clergyman residing in New Boston has not testified in this case is, that said Bartlett moved into that town in March 1832 and being a stranger there his services were not known or conversed about.
Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate. -

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File No. 15304
Thomas Bartlett
Pa Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 24
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, November 2 d 1832.
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 Thomas Bartlett served in Capt. Eleazer Wackburns Company 6 th Eleazar Brooks Regt. from the fifth day of November 1777 to the third day of April 1778 being four Months and twenty six days.
Edward D. Bangs, Secy

Thomas Bartlett Private Hillsboro 15 Months
at
$50
Washburn Brooks
Am: J Chandler H.R.

To whom it may concern, This may certify that we the subscribers have known Mr Thomas Bartlett for many years, and that he sustains a good moral character, and that he is a professor of the christian Religion and that we believe his oath would be considered good — in any occasion whatever
Bedford July 16 th 1832
William Moor Justice of the peace
James Moore Jr
Isaac Atwood
Elijah C Atwood
John Houston
Mr Chandler
James Gutter
Melatiah Cobb
Stephen Dearborn
David J. Duda
Daniel Gault
Solomon Prince
John French
David Stevens
Hiram Campbell
Samuel Battles
John Battles
Daniel Fendall
Brn Sherdall
Mr Holbrook
Ralph Holbrook
Ebenezer Holbrook
Jacob Himball

Thos Bartlett

We the undersigned, Selectmen of the Town of Bedford do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mr Thomas Bartlett of Bedford in the County of Hillsborough and State of N.H. and that he sustaining a good and fair character - We believe him to be honest and upright and a man of truth veracity - and we also certify that he is poor and needy and almost entirely destitute of the necessary means of supporting himself and family by reason of being lame and bodily infirmity.
Bedford April 7th 1818
William Moore John Macalister James Parker
Selectmen of Bedford
We the undersigned inhabitants of said Bedford do hereby believe the above certificate to be the truth in all its parts
Bedford April 7th 1818
William Riddle
Joseph Colley Jr. Isaac Riddle Alfred Foster John Parker David Batten Joseph Bell Hugh Riddle Rufus Merrill
Hillsborough April 14th 1818
We the above named William Moore Jr. John Macalister & James Parker members of the committee on the above certificate do hereby certify that the above certificate as then signed is just and true.
inform me -
David Batten Jr. foreman
Stephen Focke Leonard C. French
William P. Riddle Yates M. Foster David Wallace David M. Swerton Isaac M. Gaird Isaac Riddle Jr.

Dr Kendall & Rotton Esq. for J Bartlett
— I was deposed on before me Richard Bartlett Justice of peace

I James Kendall, minister of the first parish in Plymouth, Massachusetts testify, that by the records of the church in said parish Thomas Bartlett, then of this town was dismissed, with re- commendation to the second church in Londonderry in New Hampshire under date of Dec r 7-1794, six years before I was settled in this town; that he is known here to have been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, & I have no doubt of the fact from his honest reputation with those who knew him James Kendall
I Rositer Cotton aged 74 have always lived in said Plymouth & know said Bartlett from a boy, testify to the truth of all that is above written re- specting said Bartlett, & that I was his physician before he left the town for years Rositer Cotton
Massachusetts - Plymouth Oct 3 1832
Then the Rev d James Kendall, D. D., and Rositer Cotton Esq m subscribed & made oath to the truth of this deposition before me Zachariah Bartlett Justice of peace

I Samuel Holmes of Plymouth. Massachusetts a soldier in the war of the Revolution at Cambridge in said State in Capt Washburn's company in 1777 & 1778. - regarding the troops of the Convention testify, that Thomas Bart- lett, then of the same Plymouth was a soldier at the same time in said service, & having known him for many years while my townsman, I have no doubt but that he served for the term which he may declare David Holmes
- Massachusetts - Sep. 27 1832
Then said Samuel Holmes subscribed & made oath to the truth of this his deposition before me. - Ichabus Bartlett Justice of the peace.
I Silvanus Pats of Plymouth in Massachusetts 66 years of age & a soldier in the Revolution, testify, that I always lived within a few rods of Thomas Bartlett till he moved into the country. I believe into New Hampshire about thirty years ago, that I have distinct recollection of his going into the army of the Revolution

— and of his return in his Regimental I know nothing of his place or term of ser- -vice should give full credit to his de- -claration upon the subject. — Silvanus Patty
Massachusetts — Plymouth
Sep-28-1832 Then Silvanus Patty above named subscribed & made oath to the truth of this deposition before me.
Lucius Bartlett Justice of peace.
I Abigail Robbins of Sarum in the State of Massachusetts aged 70 years, & sister of Thomas Bartlett, lately of the town of Plymouth, but now of New Boston in the State of New Hampshire — testify & say that I always lived in my father's family in said Plymouth with my said brother Thomas till after the Revolution. That I well remember that he went three different campaigns into our army. One was on the 9th regt early in the war, at the entrance of said Plymouth harbor and I could now name several towns men now dead, who were there with him.

Another of his campaigns was near Boston in this state, but of his third campaign I have no other recollections, than that he returned in his regimentals He lived together several years after the war, & I frequently heard him speak of his services.
Abigail Robbins
Massachusetts Plymouth Sep-28-1832
Then said Abigail Robbins subscribed & made oath to the truth of this deposition before me Luther Bartlett
Justice of peace
I William Weston of Plymouth of the age of 75 - & of the state of Massachusetts - do certify that I always have lived in said Plymouth & well knew Thomas Bartlett of the town, till he re- moved I believe, into New Hampshire and I knew him to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolu- tion.
William Weston
Massachusetts - Plymouth Sep: 28-1832

Massachusetts - Plymouth Co. Sep r 29 1832
Then the forenamed William Weston subscribed, & made oath to the truth of this deposition. Before me
Lachins Bartlett Justice of peace
Deposition of Samuel H. Weston for the Plaintiff
200-100-1/2

I Phebe Warren of Plymouth. Massachu- setts aged 78 years, born & always lived in said town, & well knew Thomas Bartlett of this town from his boyhood, testify that I clearly recollect his being a soldier in the Revolution war at the Gunners at the entrance of Plymouth harbor. I think under Capt Cooper, my neighbor. The reason that I recollect so distinctly about Mr Bartlett is, that while in service he & Samuel Dote, whom I afterward married, wrote me in parts a joint-letter from the camp which letter is lost - I as distinctly re- member who was with me when I rec d it.
Phebe Warren
Masachusetts - Plymouth Oct 6 1832 Then said Phebe Warren subscribed & made oath to the truth of this deposition before me Zacheus Bartlett Justice of peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: The Commonwealth hereby certify that Zachary Bartlett Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, is a justice of the peace for the County of Plymouth. And that his name thereunto subscribed is his true & proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court at Plymouth in the sixth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
William D. Briggs
The Magistrate Must Certify to the Credibility of their Witnesses
House of Representatives
Feb 26 th 1833.
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Zachary Bartlett Esq - and Roswell Cotton Esq they are highly respectable Gentlemen and are en- titled to full faith & credit.
John Reed