Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21731, John Burridge, Mass.

SERVICE
SERVICE Hass.
Burridge, John Lois
NUMBER
1/2 21731
CONTENTS

5480. ✓
Massachusetts John Burridge Sergeant Mass'ts line 4 Yrs in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 th of March 1818
ertificate of Pension issued the 20 th of Jan'y 1819 and sent to Hon. L. Whitman H. Rep'r N. S.
years to 4th of Sept 1818  41.33 mi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819  48. 4 $89.33
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Middlesex County 4 years to end of War. Discontinued.

154255_00415 Notification sent to Abraham. Bigelow Esq r 22 d Sep 1820. Cambridge, Mass:

Massachusetts 552.
Lois Burridge
widow of John Burridge
Mass
who died on the 20 July 1832
of in the State of Mass
who was a Serjt in the Compy commanded
by Captain Pitteill of the Regt commanded
by Col Wesson in the Mass
line for
2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 120 Dollars 50 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of March 1837 and sent to Hon A. Lawrence
  Arrears to the 4th of Sept 36  $6,000    Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 mar. 37  1,000  
Pension
$720.
  {  Revolutionary Claim    Act July 4, 1836    Section the 3rd  
Recorded by Geo: M c Brummond Book A Vol. 1 Page 45.

"Intentions of Marriage between John Barradge and Lois Bathrick both of Lunenburg was entered April 7 th 1781." ——— I hereby certify that the foregoing is an entry on the town records of the town of Lunenburg Lunenburg June February 1. 1837 — attest N o F. Cunningham town Clerk.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester Feb y the 1 st 1837 Then personally appeared the above named N o F. Cunnin- gham and made oath that he is the Town Clerk of the Town of Lunenburg, and that the above Certificate by him sub- scribed is a true copy from the records of said Town — Before me Essek Whiting Justice of the Peace

I Jenny Little do hereby certify that I was present at the marriage of John Burridge to Lois Bothwick which took place May 11 th 1981 and that they were married by the Rev. Mr Adams of Lundenburg, at his House in said Lundenburg — Shirley January 31 st 1837. Jenny Little
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss. January 31 st 1837 Then personally appeared Jenny Little above named, and made Oath that the above statement Certificate by her subscribed is true before me Thomas Whitney Justice Peace

169. John Burridge Chesterford
54 00
Jany 1819 Not sent

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June. A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices
STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
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, John Burridge.
Medford resident at
in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 5480.
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, John Burridge late a Sergeant 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 thirtieth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty first day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary 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,
Table with 2 columns: Item description and Value. Items include maple desk, old clock, peculnola table, small maple do, other chair, bureau, tea kettle, Panderon, plates, silver tea spoons, knives, tumblers. Total: $34.75

Amount bro't over . . . . . 34.75
A lot of tin ware 1.50 coffee mill 75 . . . . . 2 25
Family bible & other books too tea tray 25 . . . . . 1.25
One ten dollar bill of the Castine bank which has failed stopped payment . . . . . 5 00
One note of hand signed by the house of Hall & Manning of said Meaford for four hundred dollars on interest from first of April last . . . . . 406 50
449.75
And I the said Burridge do further testify and say that I enlisted for eight months in Capt Butler company in Col Niyons Regiment in May 1775 and served out that time then enlisted in Captain Parkers company in Col Little, Reg't in Massachusetts line first of Jan'y 1776 for one year and served out that period and received my discharge. Then enlisted in Capt Pettengail's company in Col Messons Reg't Massachusetts line for three years and served until May 1780 when I was again discharged. Then in March following viz 1781 enlisted into Captain Howdains comp Col Prese Putnam, Reg't Mass't line for three years & served until the twenty third of December 1783 when I was finally discharged both which discharges I delivered to Hon John Davis judge of the U S District Court for the district. I am a distiller and shall be sixty five years old next August, have a wife & a daughter Betsy Buckman aged twenty five years wife of David Buckman fr of said Meaford a Spentthrift who has not done any thing for the support of his said wife & child for two years past, so that she with her child have constantly lived with me at my expence during all that time still do so with myself wife make up the whole of my family, I have laboured twenty three years in the distill house where I now work in said Meaford and the note mentioned in the annexed schedule of my property contains all the proceeds saved from my labour during that period, my health has considerably declined sif Messrs Hall & Manning the owners of said distill house should think proper to lower my wages or wholly decline to employ me, I am too old & decided to seek or obtain

any other employment must soon come to want they have heretofore allowed me four hundred dollars a year but my said daughter Bucknam is out of health under the Doctor's hands has been sick for seven months past, my wife also is afflicted with a cancer under the Doctor's care a great part of the time, I am in debt to Doctor Daniel Swan fifty dollars, also to John Brooks forty eight dollars, I am also under an obligation to pay house rent for the family of my late son John Burridge lately deceased twenty four dollars, I also owe in small debts in the neighbourhood fifteen dollars more  John Burridge.  Sworn to & declared before W m Wetmore Judge sc 11
and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. W m Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
11 I, John Burridge 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.  John Burridge
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed John Burridge took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
W m Wetmore Judge of said Court."
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, 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
Three hundred & twelve dollars & seventy five cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820 .
Attr. W m Wetmore

No 33
John Burridge
Admitted
Hon. E. Whitman, H. of Reps

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, John Burridge of Middlesex, in the County of Middlesex, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, depose & say that I served as a Private in the War of the Revolution during the term of three Years in Capt. Joseph Pettengill's Company in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment, Col. Nathan Cushing. That I served as Sergeant & Private in different Companies upwards of Four Years more until Peace took place when I was discharged Medford March 30. 1818 — John Burridge
Mass. Dist. H. March. 30. 1818 I want to be sure Mr. D. Cook Dist. Judge M. D.

March. 30. 1819
Wants Express P.D.
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston September 22 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that John Burridge subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A B, C together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M Davis
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

I Lois Burridge of Medford depose and say that I was born in the town of Concord in the County of Middlesex in this Commonwealth, that I am now about Seventy six years of age - that my maiden name was Lois Battrick, and that I am now the widow and have so remained of John Burridge late of said Medford (and that he died on the 20 th July 1822 - That we were married according to my recollection (and according to the record of it in my family Bible, on the eleventh of May 1781, whilst the said John Burridge was in the service of the United Colonies - at Sunenburg in the County of Worcester by the Rev d Mr Adams - then the Pastor of the First Parish in that town - That on application to the Rev d Mr. Hubbard late Minister of said Parish for a Certificate of our Marriage, he has answered that no Record of Marriages was kept within his knowledge by the pastors of said parish between the years 1733 (and 1802 - That the Town Clerk finds the publication of our intended Marriage in the Town Records - That my late Husband John Burridge was born in the said town of Concord - (and I believe enlisted into the Revolutionary Army at the first, while living in said County of Middlesex That he was many years before our Marriage in the Army and remained in it sometime after - and in consequence of his service and honorable discharge he received a pension from the United States - according to a Certificate signed by J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War, and bearing date the 21 January 1819 - as a Sergeant, and commencing the 30 th of March 1818 - That his papers having been sent to Washington to establish his claim for the pension he received - I have no means to ascertain the number of his Regiment or the name of his Colonel

or what Company he served in.
Medford February 6 th 1837. Lois Burridge
Middlesex ss. Medford February 6 th 1837
Then the above named Lois Burridge personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing deposition by her subscribed is true before me
Jonathan Wait Justice of the Peace
Medford February 8 th 1837. We the undersigned a majority of the Selectmen of the town of Medford do depose and say that the aforesaid Lois Burridge is the widow of the late John Burridge mentioned in the foregoing deposition of the said Lois - and that she has never been married since the death of the said John but has ever since remained a Widow - and that she is personally known to us.
Medford February 8 th 1837 Dinothy Colting } Selectmen James A. Curtis } of Medford
Middlesex ss. Medford February 1837.
Suffolk ss. Boston February 8 th 1837.
Then the above named Dinothy Colting and James A. Curtis being personally known to me appeared, and severally made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by them subscribed.
Before Wm. Tufts Just of the Peace.

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Rev WIDOW, &c.
July 17-1903. His C. M. Hawley Painesville Ohio
File No. 21731
Lois Barridge Widow of John Barridge Sergt Rev War
1905 Dec. 28. B.M. Hawley informed copies not given and that service had been furnished him as above. CW
Act: July 4 th 36
Index:--Vol. A , Page 106
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Penn Offic
March 1. 77
To what time was John Burridge of Mass paid under the Act of March 11 1818.
A. B.
Min Audubon Off.
John Burridge, Sergeant was paid to March 4, 1820 John Selsford

T HE Bearer hereof John Burridge a Soldier in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment, having served as a faithful good Soldier in the said Regiment, the Term of three years being the full Term for which he inlisted, is hereby discharged from the same.
Given under my Hand, at Westpoint this Twelfth Day of May , 1780.
J. Loring Maj t Commandant.

No 33
John Burridge
B

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
We the subscribers, Selectmen & Magistrates of the Town of Medford in the County of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts aforesaid do hereby certify that John Burridge an inhabitant of said Town & a resident citizen of the United States is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of Assistance from his country for support, We likewise certify that we have examined his Affidavit of this date, stating the time he served in the Massachusetts line of the American Army of the Revolution & give full credit to the truth of the same
Medford March 30. 1878
Luther Stevens Thatcher Magoon Jon a Brooks
Selectmen of Medford
Wath! Hall Ins. of Penn
John Bartlett Justice of the Peace

At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Medford qualified to vote in the choice of all Town Officers on the second day of March 1818 for the purpose of choosing all Town of- ficers for the ensuing year
Luther Thams Jonathan Brooks & Thatcher Magoun } were chosen Electmen.
A true Copy from the Town Book
Abner Bartlett Clerk of the Town of Medford

Louis Burridge
and of
552
M c Burnage
Mass
per 1878
Allac $120 per annum
no deduction
1226
13 Feb
Mr A Lawrence
Care Mrs B. Burridge
at 4
Mark Lane
Leicester
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Mr A Lawrence
AR

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT , Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
To all whom it may concern:
Edward Everett
Know Ye, That Nathan Wait and Thomas Whitney Esqrs are justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex; — William Duffs Esq, is a justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk; — and that Essek Whiting Esq is a justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester, (and that they were such at the date of their respective signatures,) in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission- ed, and that to their Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the within Attestations are in due form, and by the proper Officers.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this eighth day of February A. D. 1837, and in the Sixty first Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
John P. Bigelow Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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Painesville Ohio
July 10 th 1903
The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir; Will you kindly inform me from the re- cords, if the widow of John Burridge of Braintree Vermont  revolutionary sol- dier, ever received a pension from the Government and greatly oblige
Sincerely Yours
C. M. Hawley Painesville Lake Co. Ohio

CHARLES M. HAWLEY, M. D.
PAINESVILLE, OHIO, Dec 6 th 1905
The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
My Dear Sir; - Kindly send certified copy concerning pensioning of widow of Mr. John Burridge, soldier from Mass. in Revolutionary War - of Braintree, in Capt. T. Newcomb's Co., Col Eben. Thayer's Regt. Widow when pensioned I think lived in Perry Lake Co. Ohio.
Any fee charged will be promptly forwarded to your office. Thanking you in advance, Sincerely Yours
Charles M. Hawley Painesville Lake Co. Ohio

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Wid.File No.21731, John Burridge, Rev. War. am
Dec. 28, 1905.
Sir:
In response to your letter dated December 6, 1905, and received December 8, 1905, you are advised that it is not the practice of this Bureau to furnish copies of papers in its files. On July 17, 1903, you were given a statement of the service of the above-noted soldier of the Revolutionary War.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
Dr. Charles M. Hawley, Painesville, Ohio.