Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1126, Lebbeus Bates, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Bates, Lebbeus Libbeus Melstiah
W 1126 B.L.W. 7300-160-55
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4087. Massachusetts Libbins Bates
of Berkshire in the State of Mass who was a Serjt of Enn ts the company commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg t commanded by Col l Crafts in the Mass line for 2 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 120 Dollars ~ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of Jan y 1833 and sent to Col l Bishop Senior State
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1832 $ 180 ~ Semi-ann l allowance ending 1 st Jan y 33 60 ~
$240 ~
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by S F S P o Clerk Book D ~ Vol. 207 Page 95.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Berkshire, ss.
ON this twenty eighth day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable WILLIAM P. WALKER, Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for said County of Berkshire, now sitting,
John Bates a resident of the town of Windsor in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy two 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That I enlisted in April 1775 in the Company commanded by Joseph Trumbull for eight months & was discharged June 1776. That I enlisted for two months under Capt. Seth Storer & was at Roxbury when the enemy left Boston after my time was out in April 1776. I then enlisted for two months as a Carpenter my time was out in June 1776. I then enlisted into a Company of Artillery commanded by William Gray of Boston Thomas Crafts commanded the Regiment for the term of one year my time was out May 1777 in June same year I enlisted for two months under Capt. Moses French & marched to Rhode Island & was there when Major Gorton took Genl. Prescott & about 800 men & I was in the fort for three months under Capt. Theophilus Wilder Col. Lill's Regt. marched to White Hall from New York & joined the army under General Gates - after the capture of Burgoyne marched to the White Plains under Genl. Putnam - & was afterwards discharged at East Chester Nov. 28. 1777.
On the 8 th Decr. 1777 I enlisted in the only Regiment of Artillery raised by the State of Massachusetts at Nantasket in Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Capt. Amos Lincoln the Regt. commanded by Col. Paul Revere of Boston I enlisted & served as a Sergeant - I received the pay of a Sergeant namely eleven dollars

Weymouth - I was in the Battle on Rhode Island in Genl. Sullivan's expedition & was there under the command of Col. Crane whose Christian name I do not recollect but he was an officer in the Continental Establishment & therefore took rank of Col. Revere. I was in the expedition which went to Penobscot & in the battle fought at that place in 1779 I believe this was in 1779. In this battle many of our men were killed - the our ships were driven up the River by the British fleet & burnt - after this battle we were marched thro' the woods to Kennebec River a distance of one hundred miles without provisioning in circumstances of the greatest distress - I was discharged in 1780 having served in this Regiment for twenty nine months - The Regiment was raised in May 1777 for three years - I enlisted in December & continued in it the residue of the three years until on or about May 8. 1780. - I was born in Wey- mouth in the County of Suffolk Jan'y 16. 1760 & resided there when I first enlisted in the service of my Country until I was twenty two years of age. - After my final discharge from the service in 1780 I removed to Cummington in Hampshire County Mass s where I lived thirty six years. I then removed to Windsor in Berkshire County where I have lived 14 years & where I now reside & I am now in the seventy third year of my age. - I can furnish no other proof of my services than what is contained in the foregoing declaration & the

affidants hereto annexed. —
He hereby 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
S-
Lebbeus Bates
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W. P. Walker I. Probate
We Gordon Dorrance a Clergyman, residing in the town of Wadsworth and Stephen Hume residing in Saw Madsen hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Lebbeus Bates who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 80 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Gordon Dorrance
b.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W. P. Walker I. Probate Stephen Hume
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after 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 Gordon Dorrance who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Wadsworth in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that Stephen Hume who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Madsen in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
W. P. Walker I. Probate
I, HENRY W. BISHOP, Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Lebbeus Bates for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of said Court of Probate, this twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Henry W. Bishop Register of Probate

4802
Libby Bates Windsor
Berk Co
Mass
Sergt of Artillery
admitted
2 years
$120--
H. W. Bishop Lunne Mass.

BRIEF in the case of  Lebbai Bates -  of Berkshire in the State of Mass -  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 72 years -  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1775. Apr l — 8 — priv t Gen. Sab te Jos ph Dufunt -   " 76. — — 2 — — " Seth Stowers   " — — 2 — " " Gen l Prey - Col l Thos s Bragg   " June 7 1 — " " Moses French   " — — 1 — — " Gen l Prey - Col l Thos s Bragg   " Aug t — 3 — " " Gen l Prey - Col l Thos s Bragg   " Dec r 2 — — Serg t " Gen l Prey - Col l Thos s Bragg  
5. In what battles was he engaged? Rhode Island Penobscot -
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Weymouth -
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence Living Witness
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective, not properly connected -
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. H. McBlain Examining Clerk.

2797
Massachusetts, Melatiah Bates, widow of Libbins Bates
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Sergeant of Art y
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120. Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of November 1852 and sent to
Eliphalet Packard Cummington Mass.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 41. Vol. A
1853
Reg 3 m 55-49169 Ser. A. W. Hayer Oct 22, 1857

State of Massachusetts Hampshire County ss
On this fifth of July 1853 personally appeared before the Hon. Nathan Cooksey Judge of Probate for the County aforesaid Melatiah Bates a resident of Worthington in said County aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed March 3 d 1853 and sundry previous acts that she is the widow of Lebbeus Bates who was a Sergeant and private in the Revolutionary war that as she believes he enlisted in 1777 for three years and served more than two years of that term as Sergeant in Col. Paul Brewes Regiment and Capt. Lincoln's Company for which service her husband received a pension of one hundred and twenty dollars from date to the time of her death for particulars she would refer you to the evidence he exhibited at the time he received his pension.
That she was married to the said Lebbeus Bates on the fourteenth day of June 1807 that her husband the aforesaid Lebbeus Bates died on the sixth day of September 1844 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Melatiah Bates
Subscribed & sworn to in Probate Court this fifth day of July A.D. 1853 -
Before me Nathan Cooksey Judge of Probate

I Sam l F. Lyman Register of said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before said Court in relation to the application of said Metcalfe Bales for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said Court this fifth day of July A.D. 1852
Sam l F. Lyman Reg t of Probate

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Richard Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Richard and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said Commonwealth, this 18th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
Samuel Wells Clerk.

Town Clerks Office
Cummington June 29 1853
Col Bales Libbus and Metatah Robbins were married June four tenth one thousand eight hundred and seven
By Rev James Briggs
I certify the foregoing is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed in less legible figures as, following June 14 th 1807
I Lyman D Daines declare and say that I hold the Office of Clerk of the town of Cummington County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named
L. D. Daines Town Clerk
Witnesseth June 29 1853 Then Lyman D Daines made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit Before me Richard P. Daines Justice of the Peace

49.169 { Act Mar 3 rd /33 { Aprio 9 th /33
Asst. Attorney, Sept. 14 th /35
Melatiah Bates (widow of Libbicus Bates)
Under act Feb 3 rd 1833
Melatiah Bates, wid. of Libbicus Bates, Concord Mass. Rep.
Revolution war
May 2 nd 1838 - no 2797
160 acs, Oct. 4 th 1855, Boston.
12 d S
Melatiah Bates Care of, Cunningham Elizabeth Packard, Mass
Vol. B. 1-7. -

State of Massachusetts } ss County of Hampshire }
On this Twenty seventh day of March 1855 before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Melatiah Bates aged Twenty four years a resident of Worthington County of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts who made oath in due form of law that she is the identical Melatiah Bates to whom under the provisions of the act of February 3 d 1853 a pension of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum has been allowed for the services of her late husband Lebbus Bates a Sergeant of Artillery in the Revo- lutionary War and late of Windsor County of Berkshire State of Massachusetts. She further states that her Pension Certy- ficate under the aforesaid act of Feb 3 d 1853 is numbered two thousand seven hundred and ninety seven and bears date the Seventh day of November 1853 and is payable at the Mass- achusetts Agency. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be intitled under the act of 3 d March 1855 never having received or known herself entitled or made application under any previous act of Congress. In evidence of her Marriage and proof of service of her said husband she respectfully refers to the proofs heretofore adduced now on file in the Pension Office and upon which her annuity as aforesaid was granted.
That since being placed on the list of Revolutionary pensioners she has not intermarried but continues the widow of the said Lebbus Bates
Attest Eliphatet Packard W. H. Bates
Melatiah Bates
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written I hereby certify that I know the aforesaid Melatiah Bates to be the identical person she alleges herself to be a pensioner of the United States and at the date of the execution of this declaration a widow and that I am not interested in her claim as Agent Attorney or otherwise. Eliphatet Packard Justice of the Peace

State of Massachusetts } ss County of Hampshire }
On this twenty seventh day of March 1855 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace authorized by law to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Ebenezer Robbins and Royal Fox - residents of Gummington County of Hampshire in the state of Massachusetts known to me as credible persons who made oath in due form of law that Melatiah Bates who in their presence has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing declaration is to their knowledge the identical person to whom under the provisions of the act of February 3 rd 1853 a pension of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum has been granted for the services of her late husband Lebbeus Bates deceased a Sergeant of Artillery of the Revolutionary War
That since being placed on the roll of pensions she the said Melatiah Bates has not intermarried but remains and now is a widow that they have known her for thirty or forty years for and are to their knowledge of the fact, known named from the following circumstances Viz
From a personal acquaintance and intercourse many years
Ebenezer Robbins Royal Fox
State of Massachusetts County of Hampshire ss Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written Elephat Packard Justice of the Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Oliphant Packard Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Oliphant Packard and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine: also that the instrument hereto annexed, purports to be duly executed and acknowledged, according to the laws of this Commonwealth, for the purposes therein expressed.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said Commonwealth, this Third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
Samuel Wells
Clerk.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1126
Melanch Bates
Widow
Libbins Bates
Sergt. Rev. War.
Act: Feb. 3, 1853.
Index:—Vol. A , Page 28
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Ex'r.
INVALID.
MM, 619
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Libbins Bates
. n.

No. 49169
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 9, 1855
Libbæus Bates Rev. War
Warrant 300-160-55
Melatiah Bates Cummington Mass

No 2687 Melatiah Bates Wid: of Silas.
Set to C. Packard 27 Sept. 1853.
Act. Feby. 3 d 1853.

Re: act 153, map:
Boston.
7300
160 Acres

July 21 st 1853
Appe. of Melatiah Bates, widow of Lebbus Bates, Hampshire co., Mass.
41087
Act 3 a Feb 1853. $120. 100 per An- num - Feb. 3 d 1853 Rec.
Eliphale Packard Gunnington, Mass.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business
49169
Melatiah Bates wid Libbens Prop Feb 53-2797
49168
Sally Nelson evidence taken out-
172483
Boynton Sally Shaw wid
John Eve, in this case taken
Department of the Interior, Pension Office Official Business

Pension Off: 2 nd Nov: /53.
Sir, Please Certify the term to which the within name pension was paid on the date of his death, Very Resp y :
J. Cole Pension Commissioner.
Libbicus Bates, Act 1832, $120.00 p. an. Paid to 4 th Sept 1844, no date of death on our Books.
Chas. S. Pierce Actg. Auditor.
Francis Burt Esq r . H d Auditor. } Mann }

State of New York Frederick Co.
In the Eighth day of September in the year one thou- sanda eighty Standard and a nineteen before me the subscribed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of One- and State of New York personally appeared Sibbens Bates aged fifty- three years last January lately of the Town of Windsor In Berkshire County State of Massachusetts but now of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York who being by me first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following decla- rations In order to obtain the provisions made by the Act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States In the Revolution- ary War that the said Sibbens Bates enlisted In the Town of Boston in the State of Massachusetts on the Eighth day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine In the Company Commanded by Captain Amos Smith in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Paul Revere of the Artillery Service as a Sergeant during his enlistment enlisted for three years which Regiment belonged to the Massachusetts Since that he served faithfully in the said Regiment the Eighth day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one Except about five months he was tramped with his Company In Colonel Cranes Regiment being three years to one day and a was then Honorably discharged from service In Wingham below Boston that he served one year next preceding this three years service that he was In his first enlisted service In a number of actions at the Tahringburg and elsewhere and during his last three years served at Rhoad Island at the Light Horse near Boston Harbor and that he is now in various circumstances that he has a large family that he has two nephews in the war and has had for about fourteen years and is unable to do but very little of service to support his family and that he has one daughter which has been sick for about fourteen years and for about twelve years the most of the time been under the doctors care that he is greatly indebted and that he usually stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he has never had other means of his said service but such as accompanies the proceedings sworn and declared the day and year aforesaid Manson Burr Judge as aforesaid

I Munson Buel the of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green in the State of New York do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Gibbons Bates did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy and I do further state from testimony before me that the said Gibbons Bates is a very poor man and really stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony before me and had before me to the Secretary of the department of war pursuant to the provisions of the act for the relief of certain soldiers of Congress given under my hand and the seal of the Court the twenty ninth day of April 1820 And I do further state the witnesses and in the shape interested from evidence on both before me -
Munson Buel
judge as aforesaid
State of New York Greene County } Clerk's office - }
I hereby certify that the above named Munson Buel was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Green at the time of signing the foregoing affidavit. I further certify that I am acquainted with the signature of the said Munson Buel & truly believe the signature to the same to be the proper handwriting of the said Munson Buel given under my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of said County this 28 th day of August 1820
W. S. Berghen Clerk of said County
Gibbons Bates

17, 260.
Libbens Bates, Green Co: N. York. 8. September, 1819.
Col: Paul Reeves regt. Massach'tts May 1779, to May, 1781.
619 Not on Cont. Est. Inadmissible.
Rejected. Col Revere was not on Continental Estab- lishment - 30 Mar Munson Buel, 1821 agent, Catskill, N.Y. 15. Aug! 1820.

We, Nehemiah Jay, and Jacob Nash, both of Mainfield, in the County of Hampshire, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being of law- ful age, do testify and say, - That we now know Lebbeus Bates, & that he now lives in Windsor, in the County of Berkshire. - We also well knew the said Lebbeus in the time of the Revolution. - We also knew the said Lebbeus to be a Soldier in Col. Amos Lincoln's Company of Artillery, & Col. Paul Revere's Regt. and that he served in said Company and Regt. more than two years. - The said Regiment was raised the eighth day of May, Seventeen Hundred, & seventy-seven, for the term of three years, and we also knew the said Lebbeus to be reg- ularly & honorably discharged the eighth day of May, one Thousand, seven Hundred & eighty. and we served in the same Regt. with him. - We were together in Genl. Sullivan's expedition on Rhode- Island, and were there under the command of Col. Crane. Col. Revere was not on R. Island in said Expedition, & at the close of it we returned to the command of Col. Revere, in Massachusetts Line.
Furthermore your Deponents say not.
Nehemiah Jay Jacob Nash
Hampshire ss. February 28, A.D. 1820. - Then
Nehemiah Jay and Jacob Nash, signers to the fore- going Deposition, personally appeared before me, and made oath to the truth of the same.
I am personally & particularly acquainted with the aforesaid Deponents, and know them to be men of undoubted Probity - Truth and Veracity
James Richards Just of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss I Josiah Dwight Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire certify that James Richard Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that his signature to the within Certificate is his proper hand writing. In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the seal of said Court this seventeenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty
Josiah Dwight
State of New-York } Green County }
I Munroe Buel one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the said county do hereby certify that I am satisfied that the within named Nihemias Gay and Jacob Nash are in no wise interested in the event of the applica- -tion of Libbeus Bates for a pension - from the testimony of witness on oath before made to that effect. Munroe Buel Judge as aforesaid

Mc Nathan Bates and Libbens
Commodore Bates Commodore of Person Seal Washington D.C.

Gummington Mass Oct 27 1853
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir I enclose the affidavit of William Packard Esq and Ichabod Reed at the request of Widow Melatiah Bates as to her identity as being the widow of Lebbus Bates a Revolutionary Pensioner
I have known personally Col L Bates and his wife long before they were married and know that the inclosed affidavit is true Yours Respectfully Elisha Packard

Cummington Oct 1 1855
Commission of Pension
Sir I enclose to you the certificate of the Secretary of War State showing the Service of Lebbeus Bates in the Revolutionary army late husband of Abigail Bates whose application for bounty land is numbered 49169
Also a certificate of the Marriage of Sally Nelson No 49168 also evidence of the death of her husband
Also a certificate of the Service of John Shaw in the Revolutionary War whose Widow Sally Shaw has made application for bounty land No 172983
Respectfully Yours                      Elizabeth Packard Or in case of Shaw & Nelson taken out

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Eliphalet Packard Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Eliphalet Packard and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said Commonwealth, this 15th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
Samuel Wells Clerk.

We Jotham Randall and William A Bates of Worthington in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts of lawful age depose and say that according to our best knowledge and belief Col Libbous Bates a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States died in the town of Windsor in this State on the sixth day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty four that at that time we both resided in said Windsor and attended the funeral of said Bates on the eighth day of said month and that he left a widow Melatiah Bates who still survives. Grimmington June 29 1853
Jotham Randall
Wm. A Bates
Hampshire ss June 29 1853 Then personally appeared Jotham Randall and Wm A Bates and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit before me. And I further certify that the foregoing deponents are credible persons. Elphatet Parkard Justice of the Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE SS.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Clifford  Athearn Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Clifford  Athearn and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said Commonwealth, this Twenty fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three .
Samuel Wells Clerk.

We William Packard and Ichabod Reed of Cummington in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts aged Sixty two and sixty one years on oath depose and say that we were well acquainted with Lebbeus Bates deceased late of Windsor in the County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts who was a Pensioner of the United States for service in the Revolutionary War and who died in Summer or Autumn of 1844. And we further depose and say that we are well acquainted with Melatiah Bates who has made an application for a pension on account of the services of said Lebbeus Bates that she was the wife and is now the widow of said Lebbeus Bates and that her maiden name before her marriage with said Lebbeus Bates was Melatiah Robbins. We further depose and say that we have been well acquainted with the said Lebbeus Bates and his wife Melatiah for the last fifty years.
Wm Packard
Cummington Oct 13 1853
Ichabod Reed
Hampshire ss October 13, 1853 Sworn to and subscribed by the above named William Packard and Ichabod Reed before me and I certify that said William Packard and Ichabod Reed are residents of said Cummington and are personally known to me and are credible witnesses. I further certify that I have no interest in the claim of Melatiah Bates to pension and am not concerned in its prosecution and that she is personally known to me and is the widow of Lebbeus Bates deceased formerly a pensioner of the United States as she has declared.
Eliphalel Packard justice of the Peace

No 4802. b Jacob Nash
Deposition
Lebbeus Baley Application for Pension Windsor Mass Aug l 28. 1832

I Joshua Lovell of Cummington in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say that I know Lebbus Bates and that he now lives in the town of Windsor in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts I knew the said Lebbus Bates in the time of the Revolutionary war I also knew the said Lebbus to be a soldier in Capt Amos Lincoln's Company and Col. Paul Reivers Regt. of Artillery and that he served in said Company and Regt more than two years as a sergeant the said Regt. was raised the eight day of May one Thousand seven hundred and Seventy seven for the term of three years I was with him the said Bates part of the time tho' not in the same Company and Regt. with him I belonging to a Company of Infantry further your deponent saith not.
Joshua Lovell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss July 30 1832 Joshua Lovell came before me and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true William Ward Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss.
I Solomon Stoddard, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire, do certify that William Ward Esquire whose signature is affixed to the above certificate, was at the date thereof one of the Justices of the peace within and for said County duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth - and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity - and that the signature to said certificate is known by me to be the handwriting of the said William Ward.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two S. Stoddard Clerk

I Jacob Nash of Waltham in the County of Norfolk Commonwealth of Massachusetts, - do testify and say, that I knew Lebbeus Bates in the time of the Revolutionary war; I also now know that the s d Lebbeus Bates lives in the town of Windsor in the County of Berkshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I also knew the s d Lebbeus to be a soldier in Capt. Amos Lincoln's Company of Artillery, and Col. Paul Revere's Regt., and that he served in s d Company and Regt. more than two years - as a Sergeant. The s d Regt. was raised the eighth day of May A.D. One thousand seven hundred & seventy seven for the term of three years. I also knew the s d Lebbeus to be regularly and honorably discharged - the eighth day of May A.D. One thousand seven hundred & eighty. I served with him in the same Regt. We were together in Gen. Sullivan's expedition on Rhode Island and were there under the command of Col. Cram, Col. Revere was not on Rhode Island in s d expedition - and at the close of it we returned to the command of Col. Revere in Massachusetts Line.
Jacob Nash
Norfolk ss July 13 th A.D. 1832. Then Jacob Nash subscribed to the foregoing deposition personally appearing before me and made oath to the truth of the same. I am personally and particularly acquainted with the aforesaid deponent and know him to be a man of undoubted probity truth & veracity.
John Mark, - Just Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss
I Solomon Stoddard Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire do certify that John Mack Esquire whose signature is affixed to the within certificate was at the date thereof one of the Justices of the peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth - and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given to his acts and attestation done in that capacity - and that the signature in said certificate is known by me to be the hand writing of the said John Mack
In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth this thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
S. Stoddard Clerk

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Lebbius Bates Berkshire 6th Mass. which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? yes IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? no XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? yes And is the official character and signature of the magistrate certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? yes XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? no XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____: and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Libbens Bates
Payments to be made
at Boston / see add
by the Paym t of B t Bank
Agent for paying Pension-
ers, in the Agency of / see add
Capt t Lincoln Com d
Col Rivers Reg t
lived in Windsor 17 in 1834
before in Farmington
Recorded by S. H. S t Clair
Clerk, in Book D. Vol. 2 nd
page 92.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Libbius Bates of the State of Massachusetts who was a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution.
is entitled to receive One Hundred & Twenty dollars and _____ cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Tenth - day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three
Lewis Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. Edwards

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, Sept. 26 th 1855.
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 the name of Sethus Bates is borne on Continental Army Books in Capt. Vincent's Comp. Col. Hovey's Regt. from Feby 14. 1778 to Dec. 31. 1779. 22 mos. & 17 days, as Corp!

Sept 25
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Depy. Chas M. Doret Secretary of the Commonwealth.

The Secretary of the State of Massachusetts is requested to search the rolls of Revolutionary service for the service of Lebbeus Bates who served in the Revolutionary war he enlisted in your Applicant's service in 1777 for the three Years in the Company commanded by Capt. Lincoln and Regiment commanded by Col. Brewer and was in eastern campaign except with a Revolutionary Pension she make this application for the portion of obtaining Pension under the act of March 3 rd 1855
Cummington Sept 21 1855 Melatiah Bates.
Hampshire ss Sept 21 1855 Personally appeared Melatiah Bates and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit Before me Elisha L. Peabody Justice of the Peace

Cummington Mass July 16 1853
Secretary of the Interior
Sir I enclose to you the declaration of Melitiah Bates widow of Col. Lebbeus Bates a Soldier of the Revolution for a pension under the law of March last the papers may not be in the exact form prescribed under that law yet I think they set forth all the material facts in the case
Respectfully Yours Elizabeth Packard
Cummington Hampshire Co Mass Oct 9 1853
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir I enclose the Application of Martha Knapp widow of William Knapp for bounty land Also the original pension Certificate of Lebbeus Bates for revolutionary Service No 49169
Yours Elizabeth Packard

Brief in the case of Meliah Bates, Mdw of Sibley's. Hampshire County and State of Mass; act 3 d Feby, 1853.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of June, 1832.
Second evidence of Marriage
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Eliphalet Packard, Esq., Cummington,
Name and residence of Agent
Mass;
Examining Clerk
H. G. Bates

Northampton Mass
Oct. 14, 1857
Geo. C. Whiting Esq. Court of Pensions Sir
Mrs. Melatiah Bates, of Worthington, widow , who is a Pensioner of U.S. under the act of 1853, having been informed that by a deci- sion of the Court of Claims she is entitled to an add- tional pension of five years, commencing 1848, wishes me to ascertain what form of proceeding is necessary in order that she may obtain the same . Will you be good enough to instruct me on that point? Respectfully &c A. W. Thayer