Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,261, John Boutell, Mass.

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Boutell, John
S 12261
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4175
Massachusetts
John Boutell
Seamen's fee in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Stearns of the Reg t commanded by Col. Woods in the Mass line for 13 Mos
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of May 1833 and Stat. Hon. J. G. Kendall Sec y of War
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1833 $ 64 99 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Mar ch 33  21. 67
$86.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. D. Adarn Clerk
Book ① Vol. 2 Page 95
Hon A.D. Witt Dec 19 1856 Same, Feby 14, 1857.
70 Writ

John Boatells Application
7605.
Private
13 Mar
adm
4333
Hm I G Kendale. R.R.

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this Fifth day of Sept in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Nathaniel Dyer Judge of Probate In the County of Worcester now sitting John Boutell a resident of Leominster in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty nine 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 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 in the month of May 1778 as near as he recollects he enlisted in a Company of Massachusetts Militia commanded by Ephraim Stearns of Petersham - one Graves was Lt Lieutenant & Thos. Hoxwell of Fitchburg in said County was D. Lieut. - Col. Woods was our Colonel - Hale was our adjutant - The field officers he does not recollect - that he resided in said Leominster at this time - was a volunteer - that he marched to Fishkill New York - thence to Peekskill - thence to White Plains - where his Company & Regiment joined the Continental Troops under Washington - that his said Regiment was a part of Gen. Patterson's Brigade - that he served for eight months at this period under this enlistment & was about from home nearly nine months in New York except that said service having been off in Connecticut & was stationed at Litchfield - that he has no discharge - one never had one.  That in 1779 he resided in said Leominster & in the fall of that year (in Aug. or Sept.) enlisted into a Company of the Massachusetts Militia commanded by Capt. Thos. Coudin of Fitchburg in said County - Wm. Linsley was one of the Lieutenants - that he does not recollect the field officers, as the Regiment was distributed among several places on the North river. That he marched thro' Petersham in Mass. to Claverick in New York - then to Albany & thence to New City now Lansingburg - that he served at this time two months, as he thinks, but is not positive, as Calvin Hale whose testimony is herewith offered, testifies to a longer period - that he was for the most part of said period at New City & was discharged about three miles below said town - that he has no discharge from said service - never having had any -
he now resides

tributed among several that he marched thro Petersham in Mass. to Clear- erick in New York. Then to Albany & thence to New City
now Lansingburg - that he served at this time two months, as he thinks, but is not positive, as Calvin Hale whose testimony is herewith offered, as testifies to a longer period - that he was for the most part of said period at New City & was discharged about three miles below said town - that he has no discharge from said service - never having had any -
That in August or near as he remembers in the year 1781 - he resided in Leominster & then enlisted into a Company of Militia Commanded by Capt. Sibley of the Massachusetts State Troops or Militia for three months - that he then marched to Westpoint where said enlistment The field officers he does not recollect - except that Gen. Mc Dougall commanded there at West Point - that he marched to Constitution Island upon a fatigue party & repaired a fort there - that he served three months at this time - & was discharged at West Point - & has no written discharge as none was given - that he was born in said Leominster in the year 1763 - that he has a record of his age left by his father in a book has always lived in said Leominster 48 years two years since the revolutionary war - that he always volunteered in said service - that he has stated the officers at troops with him since the service as far as he can recollect - never had any discharge - from the service - that he is known to Thomas Robbins & Jacob Fullam his neighbors who can testify as to his character for truth & their belief of his services in the revolutionary war.

We Abel Conant a Clergyman residing in the town of Leominster and  Calvin Hale residing in Leominster aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Boutell named who has subscribed and sworn in the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  3 day of Sept. 1832  Abel Conant.  Deputy Joseph E. Woodworth  Calvin Hale.  M.C. for Worcester North District
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories described by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. and the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Abel Conant who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Leominster and that Calvin  Hale who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Leominster and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl D. D. Judge of Probate  for the County of Worcester
I Theophilus Wheeler Regista, Clerk of the Court of Probate for Worcester  county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John  Boutell for a pension.
TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this  5th day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Theophilus Wheeler Reg d of the said Court of Probate for Worcester County in Massachusetts

State of Massachusetts County of Worcester } ss.
On this third day of February A.D. 1857. Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas, it being a Court of Record of said State of Massachusetts Lucy Davis, a resident of Fitchburg in said County of Worcester & State aforesaid aged 70. years who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3 rd day of February A.D. 1853. granting pensions to widows of pensioners who served during the revolutionary war: that she is the sister, heir at law & legatee of Lydia Boutelle who was the widow of John Boutelle who was a private soldier in the Army of the Revolu- tion, that during the latter part of the life time of the said John Boutelle he received a pension from the United States of $42:00 per annum for & on account of services rendered by him in the Army of the Revolution, reference being had to the evidence filed in his application when he obtained said pension, now supposed to be in the Pension Office -
She further declares that her said Sister, Lydia was married to the said John Boutelle the 19 th day of January A.D. 1826 - that the said John Boutelle died on the 4 th day of August A.D. 1837 in Leominster in said County of Worcester. that the said Lydia was not married to the said John Boutelle prior to the second of January eighteen hundred but at the time above stated - She

Further declares that the said Lydia Boutelle remained the widow of the said John Boutelle till her death, never having had any children that the said Lydia died in Fitchburg in said County of Worcester on the 4 th day of December A.D. 1854.
The said Lucy Davis further declares that the said John Boutelle while he was a pensioner as aforesaid was paid his pension at the Chapachuckts agency for paying pensions in Boston but she is not able to state under what act said John Boutelle was pensioned. She further states that her said sister, Lydia Boutelle, never received any pension from the United States as the widow of the said John Boutelle.
Lucy Davis
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written in open court
Before me Edward Mellen Ch. J. Court of Common Pleas. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester County, ss. Joseph Mason Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, which is a Court of Record for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify that Edward Mellen Esquire whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate, was on the third day of February current, and still is Chief Justice of said Court, and that his signature to said certificate is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this fifth day of February A.D. 1857.
J. Mason Clerk

Perman
12,261 INVALID.
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File No. 12,261
John Boutell Brn. Rev. War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 39
[Arrangement of 1870.]

House Rep
Dear Sir,
Herewith I enclose the of Mr Levi Dacron relative to a pension for Mr Boutell. Will you have the goodness to inform me, if there is any law, by which the widow is entitled to a pension -
Very Respectfully Yr Obt Servt Wm. D. Witt
Hon. Geo. A. Whitney Com te of Pensions Washington

Fitchburg July 6 th 1857
Dear Sir
Yours is received and the papers made out as we suppose to be right, if they are not please return them and state the errors so that we can correct and make them right.
Yours Respectfully
Levi Drown

Underwood
or Baldwin Map Lydia B. Bontille and 4175 John Oct 1853
Department of the Interior, Pension Office, Official Business
Hon. Alexander De Witt N.Y.C.

Calvin Hales Affidavit -

I, Calvin Hale of Leominster in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy one years, testify & say, that early in September 1779, being an inhabitant of said town, I enlisted into a Company of Massachusetts Militia, Com- manded by Capt. Thomas Crowdin, when Lincoln being Lieutenant of said Company, for three months service - I do not recollect the field Officers of our regiment - I then well knew John Bortell then & now a resident of said town instar - that he enlisted in said Company & marched with us to Claremont in New Hampshire - thence to Albany - & afterwards to a place then called New City, & now, as I suppose, Lansingburg - I recollect that we did not serve three months, but as near as I can recollect we served two & a half months, were then discharged. Our regiment was distributed along the River Hudson, but we were not together at all, until we were assembled to be discharged - This fact may account for my being unable to recollect the field officers - I have no doubt that said John is about Seventy years of age & he is reputed to be a man of truth -

In the Affidavit of said Boutell in my case he testifies that we think we served three months I think he has stated the time too short, & I believe it was two & a half months that we were in the service of our Country - Calvin Hale.
Worcester J. Sept. 3 d 1832 Then personally appeared the above named Calvin Hale & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affida- vit by him subscribed - I certify that said Hale is a man of truth & a Credible Witness - Joseph P. Kendall Jus. of Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I Abijah Bigelow, clerk of the Judicial courts, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that Joseph G. Kendall, Esquire, before whom the foregoing Affidavit of Calvin Hale was made and sworn to, and William Perry Esquire, before whom the annexed Affidavits of Edward Phelps and Oliver Sullam were made and sworn to, are Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Worcester, and that their signatures thereto appear to me to be in their own proper hands writings.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands and affixed the County Seal, this fifth day of September, A.D. 1832.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.

I Edward Phelps of Stoddard in the County of Cheshire and State of New-Hampshire, aged seventy years next Septem- ber, testify & say that on or about the eleventh day of August in the year 1781, John Boutell of Scituate in the County of Dorchester and State of Massachusetts, and myself enlisted as Sol- diers for the term of three months in the company com- manded by Capt. Sibley, of the Massachusetts State Troops, and marched from said Scituate to West Point in the the State of New-York, in which State we served as Soldiers in the war of the Revolution three months & about one week - and having completed our full term of enlistment, said John Boutell and myself were discharged from the army, and both of us returned to said Scituate. I further testify, that said Boutell and myself served as Soldiers together in the same company and in the same mess during all the term aforesaid.
Leominster July 11. 1832.
Emerson Phelps
Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Worcester County ss. Seaminster July 11. 1832. Then the above named Edward Phelps personally appeared & made solemn oath, that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true, Before me W m Perry Justice of the Peace I certify that the before named Edward Phelps, is, in my opinion, a disinterested and credible witness - W m Perry Justice of Peace.

I Oliver Fullam of Fitchburg in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Sixty five years & seven months testify & say, that I am well acquainted with Deacon John Boutell of Leominster in the County & State aforesaid; That in the fore part of June in the year 1778. I marched to Fishkill in the State of New York as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, having some time in the month of May preceding, enlisted for eight months in a company of Infantry of whom Ephraim Stearns of Petersham was Captain, and Luther Graves of Leominster & Thomas Hartwell of Fitchburg were Lieutenants, in the Regiment of the Massachusetts State Troops commanded by Col. Woods — I arrived at Fishkill in said month of June, when & where I found the said Boutell, he having arrived there some time previous — I further say, that said Boutell be- longed to and performed duty in said company with me during all the time I remained a Soldier of said company, which was eight months; after the expiration of which time said Boutell & myself were honorably discharged.
Leominster July 18. 1832 Oliver Fullam
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. Leominster July 18. 1832
Then the above named Oliver Fullam personally appeared & made solemn oath, that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me W m Perry Justice of Peace I certify, that the above named Oliver Fullam is, in my opinion, a disinterested & credible witness — W m Perry Justice of Peace