Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,677, Richard Bunker, Mass. Mass. Sea Service

SERVICE
Mass. Mass Sea Service
Dunker, Richard
NUMBER
S. 29,677
CONTENTS

SERVICE
Dunker, Richard
NUMBER _____
D. 29,677
Mass. Massachusetts Service
CONTENTS

24178 Massachusetts.
Richard Dunker
Voluntarily in the State of Mass.
was a Private in the Comp. J. commanded
Captain Smith of the _____ commanded
in the _____ Mass
for 7 Months 14 days
Private (M)
scribed on the Roll of Mass
the rate of 24 Dollars 99 Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Feb'y
1834 and sent to Hono.
J. Reed House of Representatives
years to the 4th of Sep 1833. $ 62.47
Quarant. allowance ending 4 th Mar 34. . . 12.49
74.96
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Payson Clerk, Vol. 2 Page 42
76 Duke

State of Massachusetts Dukes County ss Court of Common Pleas September term 1832
On the twenty sixth day of September Eighteen hundred & thirty two personally appeared at Edgartown in the County and Court aforesaid Richard Bunker a resident of Edgartown in the County of Dukes County State of Massachusetts, aged Seventy five years, who being first sworn according to law, with an oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. that he enlisted in a company of State troops commanded by Captain Benjamin Smith of Edgartown aforesaid on the eighteenth day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy six, and served in said company in the capacity of private one month and fourteen days from the date of his said enlistment, that at the expiration of said term he renewed his enlistment & remained in the said company as private a further term of three months; namely from the first day of March of the said year to the thirty first day of the succeeding May, that the said Richard for the next succeeding three Months viz from the first day of June to the first day of September, continued to serve his country in the same company as private under the said Capt. Smith, that the whole period of the said Bunkers service was seven months and fourteen days, that the

said Company of Infantry was always commanded by said Smith was stationed at Martha's Vineyard for the defense of the sea coast in said Massachusetts.
And the following interrogations were put to the applicant aforesaid. Richard D. Dusen.
1 st When and where were you born;
Answer, in Edgartown County of Dukes County
2 Have you any record of your age and if so where is it — Answer, in my Bible I am Twenty five years of age —
3 Where were you living when called into the service, where have you lived since the Revolution — any war, and where do you now live,
Answer, in Edgartown and Falmouth in the State of Massachusetts
4 Have you ever been called into service; when you drafted ed, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if so for whom,
Answer I entered in the State Corps as a volunteer
5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were in the troops where you served ; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service
24472 Richard Dusen

Answer Benjamin Smith captain of the company & Meliah Davis Lieutenant
It 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 I had no written discharge
It State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revo- lution —
Answer Cornelius Norstrom Isaiah D Pease, William Gernigon & others
And the aforesaid applicant further declares that on or about the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven he entered on board the Brig Resistance, as a Sergeant of Marines, a vessel of 20 guns belonging to the State of Massachusetts, commanded by William Dunk, that one John Marchant, seaman and one Jonathan Pease, a Sergeant of Marines belonged to said Brig: that we were taken by an English Squadron when sent out to sea to put Petros on board the French fleet then bound from Rhode Island to Boston, that he was a prisoner Eighteen months and then was paid his wages for about two years service by the board of War at Boston. had no written discharge that he remembers. had no written discharge that he remembers.

Richard Bunker
Richard Bunker et
18723
We Cornelius Morchant and Isaiah D. Pease
citizens of and residing in the Town of Edgartown, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the aforesaid Richard Bunker who has subscribed to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy five years of age, that he is reputed to be believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion, and we having seen the certificate of the secretary of the Commonwealth do believe that the said Richard Bunker is the person described in said Certificate
18723
Isaiah D. Pease
Cornelius Morchant
Subscribed & sworn
Before John W. Williams, Jus. C. C. Pease,
J.
And the said board do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after noting the interrogatories presented by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the board further certifies that it appears to them that Isaiah D. Pease and Cornelius Morchant
who have signed the foregoing certificate are residents of the Town of Edgartown and are credible persons that their statements are entitled to credit
John W. Williams, Jus. C. C. Pease, Cornelius Morchant Clerk

Richard Burken application for a pension

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Dukes County ss. Court of Common Pleas. May Term 1824.
In the fiftieth year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, personally appeared Richard Bunker of Edgartown in the County of Dukes County aged Sixty Nine years, and in open Court, being a Court of Record for the County of Dukes County in the State of Massachusetts. He being a Resident in Edgartown in said County, who first being known according to Law to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing application being entitled in the Service under Capt. Benjamin Smith of Edgartown - and in the Regiment commanded by Col. Jeremiah Batsche of Falmouth on the first of March 1775 and continued in the Service until June 1776 when he was discharged. And he further states, that he is a Farmer by Profession, that he is in the Sixty Ninth year of his age. and his bodily strength is failing and he is unable further to contend with the laborious duties of his calling. And now needs that assistance from the Government which its bounty has known him to be entitled to. He states that his wife is now in the 55th fifth year of her age and has been under the care of a Physician for two years last past and is unable to labour. And that pursuant to the acts of Congress in that case made and provided, he now applies for a Pension. that he has constantly resided in the United States from his birth, and has not at any time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of his property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby to lessen or diminish it, so as to bring himself within the provision 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 & that he has not nor hath any person in trust for him any property or securities, contracts or obligations for him. Or any real estate income or property whatever, except what is contained in the schedule herunto annexed and by him subscribed.
Richard Bunker
Sworn in Court June 1. 1824 and the Property appraised at $7.67. J. M. Williams Jus. C. C. Pleas.

Cornelius Marchant Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Dukes County. do hereby certify that the foregoing List and Schedule then to 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 Sixty Seven dollars and Sixty Seven Cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this first day of June 1824.
Cornelius Marchant Clerk of the Court Of Common Pleas for Dukes County

The Schedule of all the Property owned and possessed by Richard Dunklee of Edgartown in the County of Dukes County taken this day by Appraisement, vizt    One Bed and Bedding worth  25.00    one Maple Desk  7.00    Two Maple Tables  5.00    one Looking Glass  10.00    One Small Trunk  1.00    Iron Ware  10.00    Cookery Ware  5.00    Chest Ware  1.00    Eight chairs  2.50    Tin Ware  1.00    Edgartown June 1. 1824.  67.50    Richard Dunklee
To the Honble John Calhoun Secretary of War
We the subscribers subscribers of the town of Edgartown here by certify, that we are well acquainted with Richard Dunklee of said Edgartown, and have known him for many years, that he is now sixty eight years of age and nearly past Labor, is almost entirely destitute of Property - he has brought up a large family has now a wife fifty four years of age - and that he stands in need of the Provisions made by the several Acts of Congress for the relief of the soldiers of the Revolution - We have examined the schedule of Property - by him this day exhibited - and we believe it correct - We most cordially recommend him, for a Pension, and believe he ought in justice to himself long since to have applied for the same
Edgartown June 1. 1824.
William Dunean Elisha Stewart Ichabod Norton  { Christman of Edgartown

Madam,
In reply to your request of _____, received 5 ult for a statement of the military history of Richard Dyer  8/29/99 a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan 18, 1776 7 mos 14 days Pvt. Benjamin Smith _____ Mass   Skipped in 1777; Sgt of Marines on brig "Resistance," William Burke, commander; captured by English Squadron and held prisoner 18 mos; 2 yrs   
Battles engaged in, None stated Residence of soldier at enlistment, Falmouth or Eagarstown Mass Date of application for pension, Sept 26, 1832. His claim was allowed Residence at date of application, Eagarstown, Dukes Co. Mass. Age at date of application, 75 yrs; born in Eagarstown, Mass.
Remarks: No data as to family.
Very respectfully,
Miss Annie S. Head # 11 Naples Road Brookline Mass.
Commissioner.

29 677 Rev y INVALID.
Hist sent to Miss Annie S. Brookline Mass. April 18, 1910.
1910 Apr. 23 - Above referred to and for last payment of plan & to whom pd. R
File No. 29 677
Richard Bunker
Di Rev War
Act: June 1 st 1862
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 98
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Richard Barker
Revo. Mass.
Rejected. See letter to R. Whitman 19 July 1824.
1431

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1863.
1431.
RECEIVED
Richard Bunker
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Wages: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____

19.3/30
Richard Burkes, Duke's 6 o Map.
H. Whitman, Pembroke, Mass.
Recd. 28 June 1824.
John C. Calhoun Secretary of War
Washington.
John C. Calhoun Secy of War
Mr. Calhoun

Hon. Secretary of War
The enclosed is the application of Richard Bunker of Edgerton for a pension the Documents enclosed state the story of his case if any informality should be found in the papers the Secretary of War, will have the goodness to notify him —
Edgerton June 1 1854.
Richard Bunker by his friend H. Whitman
not in time
not to time all papers July 1854
not in time
not in time July 1854

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Sept. 8 th 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 Richard Bunker of Engalans in the said Commonwealth, on the eighteenth day of January in the year Sixteen Hundred and Seventy Six enlisted into the Company of Continental Troops commanded by Captain Benjamin Smith and served in said Company in the capacity of private for a period of fourteen days from the date of his said enlistment. During the expiration of said term he received his discharge and remained in the said Company as a private for a period of fourteen days from the last day of December of the said year to the first day of January of the succeeding year. That the said Richard for the next succeeding three

months, viz: from the first day of June to the first day of September, continued to serve his country in the same company as private under the said Captain Smith.
That the whole period of said Burnkin's service was seven months and fourteen days. That the said Company of Infantry was always commanded by said Smith and was stationed at Newtha's vineyard for the defense of the sea coast in said Massachusetts and that it does not appear from the records that said Company was attached to any Regiment or Brigade.
Edward D Bangs, Secy
Dukes County ss
July 1st 1863
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Thomas Dunham Attorney for Richard Burnkin do say that Richard Burnkin being now absent in the state of Maine I do in his behalf relinquish every claim to a pension except except the present and I very believe that the name of Richard Burnkin is not on the pension roll of any agency in the state of Massachusetts and that there was no evidence of a claim by him at the time that could be made. I have been sworn to before me this day. Thomas Dunham

Dukes County ss Aug 1 st 1892
Commonwealth of Massachusetts I Thomas Dunham Attorney for Richard Burhan do say
That Richard Burhan is now absent in the State of Maine, and I do in his behalf relinquish every claim to a pension or annuity except the Present and do declare that I verily believe that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State Sworn to before me
Thomas Dunham
George Wheeler Judge of the Court of Probate
and now the said Richard Burhan comes before me and hereby relinquishes every claim which he has to a Pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State
Richard Burhan
Dukes County ss. Dec 6 th 1893
Sworn to before George Wheeler Judge of the Court of Probate

I Joseph Kelley of Esgarstown Dukes County. State of Mass- achusetts of lawful age, testify and say that I have a near kinsman to Richard Bunker, of Said Esgarstown, who has made Applica- tion to the Secretary of War for a Pension which application is made this day and of the date hereof. And I testify that in the year A.D. Seventeen hundred twenty five I enlisted as a Soldier in the Company of Capt. Benjamin Smith of Said Esgarstown and belonged to Regiment of Col. Barabach Ropes of Salem and Essex Counties. That on the last day of February Seventeen hundred Twenty five Richard Bunker was a Soldier in Said Company and did duty in the same for ten Months from my enlistment. When I left Said Company Said Bunker remained in etc. but how long he remained is after. I am unable to state, and that he is the same Richard Bunker mentioned as Applicant in this Application. Joseph Kelley
Dukes County ss.
Esgarstown June 1. 1824.
Personally appeared before me the above named Deponent, and made solemn Oath, that the above Deposition by him subscribed was true.
Elizah Stewart Jus. of Peace
At true Copy
Attest Cornelius Merchant Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Dukes County

I Alegro man of lawful Edgartown in the County of Dukes State of Massachusetts of its true and say and that I am acquainted with & have lived in the same town with Richard Bunker of this town who has made application for a Pension of this date to the Sec. of War, that I lived at the same time with Joseph Bunker in the Revolutionary Army in 1775 in the Company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Smith, Col. Nathaniel Bassetts being Col. of said Regiment, at that time, Richard Bunker was a Soldier in said Company & Regiment, and did duty therein about eleven Months from the time of my enlistment, according to the best of my recollections. And that the present Applicant is the same Richard Bunker that then served as aforesaid.
Abijah Gossman
Dukes County ss: — Edgartown June 1, 1824.
Personally appeared before me the above named Deponent, and de made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed was true.
Elizah Stewart J. Jus. of Peace
True Copy
attest Cornelius Marchant Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Dukes County.

Richard Banker
of Maple Holmes Hole
29.472
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions at Washington Court of Columbia for a Pension for Richard Banker
Admitted on Private 17-18 days Private Capt. Smith
Then I Read Howe's Key

Holmes Hole December 12th 1833
Hon. Sir
N o 10
I send you the papers in support of the claim of Richard Bunker he concludes to waive the claim at present for sea services on board of the vessel called the Resistance as he has not any further proof than has been sent to the Department he claims a pension for his services in the company of Capt Benjamin Smith for the term mentioned in the certificate viz Seven months and fourteen days
The applicant is poor and is not able by the Town of Edgartown and is unable to collect the proofs necessary to obtain a full pension he has relinquished every claim to any other pension except the one under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832
If any information as to the standing and credibility of the witnesses or the hand writing of the parties in the papers reference may be had to the Hon. John Reed now a member of the house of Representatives for the District of Barnstable in Massachusetts
I have the honour to be your humble servant
Thomas Dunham
L. B
Please to direct letters or papers to Thomas Dunham at Holmes Hole Massachusetts
To the Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

2. 29677
11 Naples Road, Brookline.
I wish information concerning Richard Burke "ofukes" Co. Mass. a Pensioner of Revolutionary Wars. What I found today was This Richard Burke Parish Mass. Militia Feb 14 1834 Placed on Pension Roll - Commencement of Pension

March 4 / 1831. Will you be so good as to give me all the information contained at Bureau of Pensions regarding this Man and wife
Very Truly
Miss Annie Sauford Head #11 Maple Road
Brookline Mass.

Send information through Mr. A. S. Perham Section 7, Record Div Bureau of Pensions

Record Division.
April 23, 1910.
Miss Annie S. Head, # 11 Naples Road, Brookline, Mass.
Letter returned - q
Madam:
In reply to your letter dated the 31" instant and received this day, you are advised that in the papers in the claim of Richard Bunker, Sur. File No. 29,677, there is no reference whatever to his family. The records of this Bureau fail to show the date of his death, and in order to ascertain when, and to whom the last payment of his pension was made, application should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, citing the following data: "Richard Bunker, Certificate No. 27,179, issued February 14, 1834, under the Act of June 7, 1832, at the Massachusetts Agency".
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.