Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,066, Thomas Boyden, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Boyden, Thomas
S 34,066
CONTENTS

To Thomas Boyd — of the Mason Company, in the Third Massachusetts Regiment, in the Service of the United States of America.
G R E E T I N G.
R EPOSING especial Trust and Confidence in your Prudence and good Conduct, I do, by these Presents, appoint you Third Serjeant to the 11 th C o Massachusetts Regiment, in the Service of the United States ;---you are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Serjeant, by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereinunto belonging: And I do strictly charge and require all Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers, under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders, as Third Serjeant. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from me, or any of your superior Officers, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in pursuance of the Trust reposed in you ; for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant.
Given under my Hand, at Peters Hills August 9 th 1779
H. Moulton Col o

The Hon. Timothy Knapp who has testified in Thomas Boyd's case, was an officer in the war of the revolution, & has been a Major General in this state & one of the Governor's Councils —
April 13. 1818
G. D. Davis —

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File No. 34,066
Thomas Boydew Serg Rev and
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 45
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3669.
Massachusetts Roll
Thomas Boyden, Lt Capt Summers,
Sergeant. Mass. Line 75. - 4 Years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of Oct. 1818 and sent to the Hon. Isaac Parker Worcester Massachusetts
  Arrears to 4th of Sept.  1818  37.86    Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 th Mar  1819  48.00    Arrears 4 Mo 22/30   $85.86  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Sturbridge, Worcester County

Thomas Boylan
Hartness
13 day April
Admitted
Found on the correct in the has omitted filling up the blank in his Certificate
Worcester 25 Jan 1810
The word Eighteen in the Certificate written inserted by me
Isaac Parker
ESSE

State of Massachusetts
Thomas Boyden of a citizen of the United States now resident at Haverbridge in the county of Worcester in the state aforesaid do hereby testify & declare, that in the war of the revolution, in the month of April seventeen hundred & seventy five
I enlisted & was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment & served accordingly from that time to the eighteenth day of November A.D. One thousand eight hundred & seventy nine as a soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence; that I belonged to Capt. Job Sumner's company of the first Regiment commanded by Col. Grooton of the Massachusetts line - and that I left the service on or about the 18th day of November 1779 & received my discharge which I have lost, and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life & poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support being now of the age eighty five years & assisted by the town to which I belong for support.
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension here tofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been allowed. Thomas Boyden
Be it remembered. That on this 13 th  mark day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War", made & passed the 18th of March A.D. 1818. Personally appeared before me Isaac Packer Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts
The above named Thomas Boyden after due examination & caution to testify & declare the whole truth, he made oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribed the same in my presence; and on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeared to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true - which my hand & the seal of the court the day above stated Isaac Packer J.S.

that I am acquainted with
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the within named Sergeant Thomas Boyden. That I am personally known to his being in the war of revo- lution on the continental establishment, in the year seventeen hundred & seventy five & that I have no doubt but that he served the time as within stated by him - Tim o Newell
Sturtevant April 13. 1818-
Personally appeared before me the above named Timothy Newell, who subscribed the above cer- tificate, & made solemn oath to the truth of the same - before me Thomas Upham Justice Peace
April 13. 1818-