Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15652, Nicholas Cottrell, Continental (Mass.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass.)
Cottrell Nicholas
W. 15652.
Lydia
CONTENTS

Motion filed July 28th 1820 by Sarah Dugdale (widow of Nicholas Bottrell)
15-469 B  Massachusetts  Nicholas Bottrell
Wartburg tow in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baldwin of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 10 months.
scribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 th of November 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of October 19 and sent to Samuel (Hinckley) Esq. Judge - Northampton Massachusetts
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819:  $76. 00    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4/Mar: 1820:  $48 —     $124. 00  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

4521.
Massachusetts
Pension
Sydia Cottrell widow of Nicholas Cottrell who was a Private in the Revolution War
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 56 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of Decr 1844 and sent to Wm Lloyd Washington Mass
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 4 Vol. 1. Page 38.

I Nicholas Cottrell of Worthington in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being sixty four years of age testify & say, that I enlisted into the Company commanded by Capt. Samuel Boutelle in the Regt. commanded by Col. Ward on or about the first day of December 1775, for one year, and I marched with the Army early in the Spring following from Boston to the State of New York and I continued to serve in said Corps as a private soldier until the end of the year when my Enlistment had expired, and was honorably discharged at Peks-kiln in the State of New York - I was in the Massachusetts line - And in the Spring of the year 1777 I again enlisted as an Artificer under Capt. Eaton in the Regt. of Corps under Col. Baldwin for ten months & I continued in said Corps during the time I served faithfully in said business partly at Ticonderoga & partly at Stillwater & was at the end of said ten months honorably discharged - I am in reduced circumstances and in absolute need of assistance from my Country for support - I have never been on any pension list whatever - Nov. 20. 1810.
Nicholas Cottrell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire County ss. Nov. 20. 1810 personally appeared Nicholas Cottrell and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth before me the subscriber - and I hereby certify that he the sd. Nicholas Cottrell is in reduced circumstances and in absolute need of assistance from his Country for support - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, the day & year aforesaid.
Samuel Hinckley Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills & being a Court of Record in for said County.
I further testify that I have no doubt from the declaration of said Cottrell, and from the evidence in the case, that he sd. Cottrell performed the service in the Regt. of Col. Ward as he has above stated.
S. Hinckley Judge as aforesaid

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss May 31. 1819. I Samuel Wainwright Judge as within mentioned do certify that it appears to my satisfaction the said Nicholas Collett did serve in the Revo- lutionary war as stated in the within ap- plication of said Nicholas for a pension against the common enemy for the term of one year, at one time, on the Continental establishment -
Samuel Wainwright

No 25
Nicholas Cottrell
Oct 19.
15. 1869. Oct 1879
Washington
Con
May 1880

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, begun and holden at Northampton, within and for the County of Hampshire, on Wednesday, the fifth day of July, and de die in diem to the sixth day of said month A. D. 1820:
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County, created such by the Laws of the Commonwealth, Nicholas Cottrell aged sixty seven years, resident in Northampton in said County, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:
One year and eight months. One year (1776) in Capt. Butts Company in Genl Monds Regt and was discharged at Peter's Hill in the State of New York and that he is a pensioner under the Act of Congress of March 18 1818 having applied therefor Nov 20. 1818 his Certificate is not numbered last known date Oct 1819.
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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 following schedule by me subscribed.
One cow 15.00 One yearling cow half 11.00 Six sheep 10.00 One hog 2.00 Pig 5.50. part set of Blacksmith tools 15.00 One loom 5.00 One Case of drawers 15.00 Two Chests 2.00 Parcel of old furniture 5.00 Parcel of Clothing Ware 2.00 Milk Pan, 50 One loom Shroud & tongs 3.00 One Looking Glass 75. two pails 75. parcel of Iron Ware 8.00 Two tables 3.00 six chain 2.00 = $105. 50
I have a Wife aged sixty six years and only trade a Blacksmith and have brought up a large family from which we have received considerable pecuniary assistance but the advance of years renders us unable to support ourselves. And my debts at this time amount to considerable more than the amount of the schedule of my property.
Nicholas Cottrell
Sworn to, and declared, on the fifth day of July 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, Josiah Dwight Clerk.
I, JOSIAH DWIGHT, Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule which follows it, 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 is One hundred and five dollars and 50 cents.

M rs H. Colwell 10,012
Lydia Colwell Mass. act 7. July 38
M rs Colwell
for 75 cts

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire County ss.
On the 15 th day of May 1843
Personally appeared before me Ithamar Conkey Asg. Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Hampshire Lydia Cottrell a resident of the Town of Worthington in said County aged eighty seven 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 July 7, 1838 entitled "an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
That she is the widow of Nicholas Cottrell late of Farmington deceased who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and who was a pensioner under the Law of the United States of March 18, 1818. That his pension certificate was surrendered to the pension agency at Boston on the payment to her of the balance due him at the time of his decease.
She further declares that she was married to the said Nicholas Cottrell on the 1 st day of June 1780 at Worthington by the Rev. Jonathan Huntington who was then the Minister of that Town that she lived with the said Nicholas Cottrell from that time till the 19 th day of June 1842 the time of his decease. an official certificate of which from the Probate Court for the County of Hampshire was attached to his pension certificate when surrendered at the pension agency at Boston. And that she is still the widow of the said Nicholas Cottrell
Lydia Cottrell
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day & year above written Before me Ithamar Conkey Judge of Probate
I hereby certify that the said Lydia Cottrell the above applicant is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to attend Court -
Ithamar Conkey Judge of Probate

I, Samuel T. Lyman Register of the Court of Probate in for said County of Kennebec where do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before said Judge of Probate in the matter of the application of said Lydia Cottrell for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this sixteenth day of May A.D. 1843.
Samuel T. Lyman Regt Prob.

Some account of the family
Hampshire County ss.
I Rufus Cottrell of Worthington in said County son of the late Nicholas Cottrell deceased and Lydia Cottrell who is his Widow. Depose and say that the sheet annexed to this deposition is the family record of the births and deaths of the children of the said Nicholas and Lydia Cottrell and was this day taken from the family Bible which is now in the possession of the said Lydia who is now a member of my family, and the deponent further says, that the record of the births are in the hand writing of John Cottrell one of the children who is deceased, and that the record of the deaths of John Cottrell and Lydia Cottrell is in the same hand writing. That the record of the death of Nicholas Cottrell is in the hand writing of Isabella Cottrell the widow of the said Nicholas Cottrell and the record of the deaths of the remainder are in the hand writing of his father the late Nicholas Cottrell.
And the deponent further says that his Mother name before marriage was Lydia Kimball and was the daughter of John Kimball. The record of whose family is inscribed on the opposite side of said sheet, and that she was the only wife of his father, and the Mother of all the children contained in the record aforesaid.
Sworn and subscribed this 22 nd day of August A.D. 1843 and I certify that the deponent is a man of veracity.
Rufus Cottrell
Before me William Ward Justice of the peace

A Record of the births and deaths of John Kinnear's family
Births
Deaths
Isabella Kinnear was born 18 th July 1749 Judith Kinnear " " 15 th April 1751 Elisha Kinnear " " 21 st October 1753 Lydia Kinnear " " 3 rd August 1755 Anna Kinnear " " 12 th June 1758 Sabra Kinnear " " 20 th Sept. 1760 John Kinnear Jr. " " 22 nd Dec r 1762 Roger Kinnear " " 31 st May 1765 Desiah Kinnear " " 10 th April 1767 Rufus Kinnear " " 14 th Nov r 1769 Sarah Kinnear " " 7 th June 1773
Judith Randall aged 80
John Kinnear Jr. died 27 th Aug 1782
Rufus Kinnear " 11 th Feb y 1778
Anna the wife of John Kinnear departed this life 13 th June 1805 In the 77 th year of her age
John Kinnear the parent of the above children died 3 rd April 1811 In the 82 nd year of his age

Record of the births and deaths of Nicholas Cottrell's family
   Births Deaths     Nicholas Cottrell Jr born 21 st June 1782 Nicholas Cottrell in June 10 th 1818.   Lydia Cottrell " 15 th Novr 1783 Lydia Cottrell " 26 th May 1793   Eunice Cottrell " 5 th Novr 1785 Nicholas Dyde at Montreal Lower Canada   Francis Cottrell " 10 th May 1787 John Cottrell " 10 th May 1790   John Cottrell " 15 th Octr 1789 John Cottrell in Sept 1822   John M Cottrell " 15 th March 1791 Dyde at St Luis May 21 st   Alex d Cottrell " 26 th May 1793 Alexander Cottrell added 23 rd   Rufus Cottrell " 1 st Decr 1795 1823 at Alarada Manaco   Charlotte Cottrell " 24 th Sept 1797  
Nicholas Cottrell the parent of the above children died the 19 th of June 1841 in the 89 th year of his age.

enlistment as condition in his (or her) case of application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. Nicholas Collett mrs File 10622
   DATE OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Feb 1772 1 yr. Pvt. James Bailliff Jonathan Ward Continental   Spring of 1774 12 mos. Officer Colon Belmont  
Battles engaged in, White Plains Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓ Date of application for pension, Dec. 1881 Residence at date of application, Waltham, Mass. Age at date of application, 64 yrs.
Remarked Nov 11 1912
Remarks: Soldier married at Northampton Mass. June 1, 1780 Lydia daughter of John Kimball. She was allowed pension on an application expected May 15, 1842 while a resident of Northampton Mass. Children: Abigail b. June 21, 1782, d. Jan 12, 1818; Lydia b. Nov. 25, 1783, d. May 15, 1793; Eunice b. Oct. 25, 1785, d. Francis b. May 10, 1787, John b. Oct. 11, 1789, d. May 10, 1790; John b. Nov. 1791, d. Sept. 3, 1822; Abigail b. May 26, 1793, d. Oct. 22, 1823; Rufus b. Dec. 1, 1795, d. Charlotte b. Sept. 24, 1797.
Very respectfully,
Isabella
Commissioner.
317836m10-07
the service is given as stated by soldier and

Watertown S. D.
Sept 26-1920.
U. S. Com. Pensions Dear Sir
Will you examine your Pension records for the record of Nicholas Cottrell - of Worthington Minn - a Revolutionary Soldier!
Thank you for your trouble. His wife was Lydia Kinney He died in 1842.
Very Sincerely
Mrs. F. P. Snyder 617-1st St. N. 20-

Guthrie Centre Ia Jan 24 1908
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Can you give me a certified statement that Nicholas Cottrell of Worthington, Mass, who was or served as a Private in Capt. Webber's Co., Col. Fellows Regt. of 8 months men with the army at the siege of Boston in 1775 was a pensioner. I seek this record for D.A.R. purposes.
He also served as a private in Capt. Joel Stever's Co., Col. Rosecrans Regt., for 13 da in Oct. 1781.
He may have drawn his pension in Pittsfield or Plainfield or Worthington. All these places being near his home after the war. Yours Truly
Mrs. Edith Cottrell Washburn.

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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
No. 15652
Sydia Cottrell Widow of Nicholas Cottrell Rev. Rev. War
Act: Mar 3 rd 1848
Index: Vol. A , Page 148
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Jonathan Gayler of Ashfield in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do. depose and say, in addition to my former deposition concerning the enlistment and service of Nicholas Bothell in the army of the Revolution, that the said Bothell did enlist as before deposed as a private soldier (not as an artificer) and as such did serve in Capt Bartlett's company, 1st Ward Regiment the whole year that after he occasionally worked as an artificer, he being by trade a blacksmith. that service was performed in consequence of temporary drafts as the majority of the army required that he was uniformly considered as belonging to the said company and mustered with it as a soldier and further saith not.
the
Jonathan Gayler
Power 7

Wampshire ss June 21. 1819 Personally appeared Jonathan Taylor the signer of the within deposition & said that the facts contained in it are true & that the words "not as an artist," were inserted before signed
Hampshire Is. Sept. 22 nd 1893. I hereby certify that Joseph Smith, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate and who is a justice of the Peace within my said County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original now on file in my office - J. W. Mansel-Jones, Registrar of Probate.

I Jonathan Taylor of Ashfield in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify and say that I enlisted in the month of December in the year 1775 for one year into the company commanded by Captain Samuel Bartlett in the Regiment commanded by Col: Jonathan Ward in the service of the United States and that I joined said company about the first of January 1776 at Dorchester and moved with the Regiment in the spring of that year to New York was in the Battle of Long Island and in the retreat from thence to the evacuation of New York I moved with the Army to Peekskill where I was discharged having served the whole year. That when I joined my company in January as aforesaid Nicholas Cottrell now of Worthington was serving in the company as a soldier and continued to serve as such and occasionally as an artificer during the year that he was considered as belonging to the company and his name was borne on the company roll when he was serving on detachments as an artificer dated at Ashfield the 16 th day of Nov r A.D. 1818 Jonathan Taylor
Send record of Nicholas Cottrell to Mass. W. 18612
W. S. BELDEN
NOV 2 - 1912
LOCAL FORECASTER U. S. WEATHER BUREAU
ST. JOSEPH, MO.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin Co
Nov. 11. 1818. Personally appeared Jonathan Taylor the bearer of the within Instrument who is to me personally known to be a man of truth and exactness and made solemn oath that the facts therein set forth are true
Before me Ephraim Williams / justice of the peace
for J Taylor Deposition -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin, ss.
I Rodolphus Dickinson, Clerk of the Circuit in said County do hereby certify that Ephraim Williams, whose name in his own hand-writing is subscribed to the Certificate hereto annexed, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified according to the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given to all his acts and attestations as such.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Western Circuit Court of Common Pleas in said Com- monwealth, of which Circuit the said County is a part, this twenty fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and in the forty third year of American Independence.
Rodolphus Dickinson
Fees $0.50

L. Cottrell
$56.66 per am
J. L. Edwards Wm Wardlaw Washington as Mgr
room of Parsons
Washington City

Worthington MS Dec. 11. 1843.
J. L. Edwards Esq Sir
I enclose the application of Lydia Cottrell for a pension under the Law of March 3 d 1843 -
And am Respectfully
Your Ob t Servant
William Ward

10.012
Lydia Cottrell Mass's
Act 7 th July '38
Adm p
17 mo prior
$ 56.00 per an
Wm Ward Esq r Worthington Mass s

I Eliab Perkins of Hudson in the County of Columbia and State of New York of lawful age do hereby certify and say that I was a Private soldier in the Company commanded by Capt. Samuel Badlett in Colonel Ward's Regiment in the Service of the United States of America in the year 1776 as called in the year 1776 that I served in said Company a full year and was Honorably discharged therefrom at the Esopus then and I do further testify that I knew Nicholas Cottrell of Worthington in the County of Hampshire and Communion with of Massachusetts and that said Cottrell enlisted into said Company as a Private soldier for the year in the month of December 1775 or early in January 1776 and joined said Company and marched with it to New York and continued to serve in it the whole year being Honorably discharged therefrom at Peekskill at the close of the year 1776 or in the beginning of the year 1777 and further this Deponent saith not Eliab Perkins
State of New York Columbia County on the fourth day of September 1819 Eliab Perkins the Signer of this Deposition came before me and made oath that the facts therein contained and set forth are true Philip Spencer
and I do certify that the said Eliab Perkins is a man of Truth & Veracity
Philip Spencer Justice of the Peace

State of New York County of Columbia
I certify that Eliz Spencer whose name appears within her hand writing is a true copy of the pen in the Columbia County Museum, my name at the County line the 16 Sept 1819 Compt Miller
Elizabeth Spencer Dorcas

Washington Nov. October 23 rd 1843.
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt under your hand of a pension certificate in favor of Lydia Cottrell the widow of the late Mr. Nicholas Cottrell dated the 16 th instant numbered 7813 granting her a pension of Fifty Six Dollars per Annum for five years from the fourth day of March 1836.
I hope you will pardon me the trouble I make you on this subject, and believe me that nothing would induce me to urge her claim to an increase of amount of pension but a sense of justice to her under the existing Law. And I do so under the conviction that there has been an error in computing the time of his service as admitted by you.
In your letter to me under date of 19 th July you state that satisfactory evidence exists of twelve Months service in 1776. but the service claimed in 1775 must be authenticated by the records of Massachusetts and the service in 1777. by the Comptroller of Connecticut.
I reply to my letter of 3 rd of August. you write me under date of 8 th of that month, that the call for the Certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut is waived respecting the ten Months service under Col. Baldwin, as the partial proof filed under the Act of March 18. 1818 is deemed satisfactory upon a further examination.
These two terms of 1776 & 1777. make twenty two Months service.
On the 28 th of August I transmitted to you the Certificate of John H. Petti Secretary of the Commonwealth attesting that the name of Mr. Cottrell was borne on the 8 Month Rolls of this State as a private of Capt. Webber's Company & Col. Fellows Regiment as enlisted May 4 th 1775. and returned in August & Oct 7 th of that year and not rolls of that Company afterwards. That Certificate shows clearly five Months, making in all twenty seven Months service proved & admitted.

The present Certificate provides for Seventeen Months, only, and I am led to the conclusion that in computing the term of service the ten Months in 1777 was overlooked and your letter to me of the 8 th of August forgotten.
To relieve you of much trouble as possible in the review of the case I enclose you copies of your letter of July 19 and August 8 th that you may have the whole subject at once before you.
I shall retain the present Certificate unacted upon until I have the honor of a reply from you.
And am Most Respectfully Your Ob t Servant
William Ward
J. L. Edwards Esq. Room 2 of Penins. Washington City

V 10012
Sylvia Colville
Map with index
let to Mr Ward Jan 19 1885 " " " " Aug 8 1902 Act 7 July 1838

Worthington Wis Aug. 26. 1843
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
I enclose the Certificate of the Secretary of the honourable the relating to the services of the late Nicholas Cottrell in the year 1775. required by your letter of the 19 th ultimo. This may possibly require some explanation. you note him as belonging to Capt. Bartlett's (Comp y ) and Col. Ward's Reg t . The Certificate places him in Capt. Webber's, Co. 1 Col. Fitch's Reg t . The explanation is this. Previous to the opening of the campaign of 1775. Companies of Minute Men had been formed in all the Settlements in the region ready for service at once. Those from this town under the command of Capt. Webber with whom I was afterwards acquainted. And those from Ashfield a town 10 miles North of this. under the command of Capt. Bartlett. And I learn from my intercourse with the old soldiers that when these two Companies reached Boston. they were organized into one company. with Webber as Captain and Bartlett serving as his Lieutenant. and were attached to Fitch's Regiment but in the Autumn of that year. a new organization took place. Webber retired from service. and Bartlett raised a new company and was attached to Ward's Reg t . and continued in the Army until obliged to retire from ill health as I learn Cottrell (I understand) re-engaged with Bartlett and I believe went in 1776 to New York. I think his original decla- -ration will set it all right. I recollect that I forwarded to you. in support of the original claim of the Nicholas Cottrell. the affidavit of a Mr. Taylor (I believe Jonathan) of Ashfield who served with him. and beg leave to refer you to that affidavit if necessary. (Mr. Taylor is dead)
I also enclose to you the record of the birth and death in Cottrell's family. which I cut myself from the family Bible with the affidavit of Rufus Cottrell who is entitled to take credit

which I trust will with the affidavit of Deborah Randall which I forwarded with Mr. Pollack's application will satisfy of her marriage at the time she states.
I may be permitted to say that I have personally known Mr. & Mrs. Pollack as man and wife for only eight years. and that I have intimately known every one of the children whose names are contained on the record except Lydia & John who died before I became a resident of this Town.
I am Respectfully Your Ob. Serv.
William Ward
P.S. The family are desirous that the record sheet should be returned to take its place in the family Bible.

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Pension Office July 19. 1843
Sir
In the case of Lydia Footscott, the evidence filed under the Act of 18 March 1818. Satisfactorily proves Thomas Moats, Service in 1776. but the alleged service of Light Moats under Capt. Durbett of Col. Ward's Regiment in 1775 should be established by the Rolls in the Secretary's Office at Boston. And the term of ten months in Baldwin's Regiment in 1777 which is not confirmed by the Regimental Roll in this Office by the Certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut. The alleged date of the marriage should be supported by that grade of evidence which the records of Towns and Churches, and the registers of most families afford.
I am very Respectfully, Your Ob. Serv. J. S. Edwards
William Ward Esq. Washington Massachusetts

copy N o 2
Prosser office
August 8, 1843
Sir
In reply to your letter of 3 rd instant in the case of Lydia Southwick, the fulfilment of your request for a copy of her husband's declaration is not necessary in order to obtain the Certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts in relation to his alleged service in 1775 under Capt Basset Col Ward. And the call for the Certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut respecting the ten months service in 1776 under Col Baldwin is received, as the proof filed under the Act of 18 March 1818 is deemed satisfactory upon a further examination.
I am very Respectfully
Your Ob t Servant
J. L. Edwards
William Ward Esq Worthington Massachusetts

Worthington Mass Aug 2.
Mr.
Aug 7 1823
Miss L. L. Edwards Agassiz L. Boston
Room 1 of Pension
Washington City

Washington Mr. May 3. 1843
Sir
I do not know that the rules of your office will permit you to do me the favor that I am about to ask you to, forward me a copy of the original declaration of Mr. Nicholas Scottell, whose widow Lydia Scottell has recently applied for a pension. I am not certain that I made the declaration, but if I did so, I kept no copy or synopsis of it and have forgotten its details, and the Secretary of State requires, that the services, shall be explicitly set forth in the application to him for examination. I had supposed that the evidence sufficient to support the claim of the original pensioner was sufficient to sustain the claim of the widow without further proof. I recollect that there was originally some difficulty in establishing her claim. I believe her consequence of his being detailed as an artificer (he being a Blacksmith by trade, be that as it may. The declaration will set the thing all right for it was made when he was perfectly sound in mind and body, and he was a man of most undoubted veracity. the Widow is now above Eighty Seven years old and has been a cripple for nearly twenty years and her memory so much impaired as not to recollect distinctly any of the services of her husband
In your letter of the 19 th ult you allude to the services of 1775. in Capt. Bassett, Comp y & Col d Ward's Reg t of 8 Mo s and also of 10 Mo s in Baldwin's Reg t in 1777 as requiring further proof. from the the Records of Massachusetts & Connecticut the declaration will enable her to make the application understanding if the rules of your office will permit a copy. if not I can only regret it and get along with it in the best manner I can
I am Most Respectfully Yours
J. L. Edwards Esq Com r of Pensions
W m (William Ward)
Please turn over.

At the time of Basset's death in his declaration there were several persons living who served in Capt Basset's company both in 1775 and afterwards, but they are all gone to their graves. There is but one pensioner in this neighborhood under the Law of 1818 and he has been Bedridden for more than seven years.
Capt Basset resided in a neighboring town Ashfield and marched with a detachment of Militia there for Boston directly after the Battle of Lexington.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, August 11, 1843
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 Nicholas Cottrell of Wellesley, is found upon the Eighth month, rolls, as a private in the Company of Capt Ebenezer Webber & that he enlisted May 4, 1775, is returned in Aug & Oct 7, 1775 in Col. Saltonstall's after which time there are no rolls of said Company
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 which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Jno A Bollen
William Ward Esq Worthington - Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Nicholas Cottrell's application for a Pension.
Nicholas Cottrell Marine Baldwins Mgr. 75. 1 Year 10/12
The application of Nicholas Cottrell for a pension of the sum of £100 per annum is recommended.
Adm.
The application of Nicholas Cottrell for a pension of the sum of £100 per annum is recommended. —
Northampton, Mgr.
same manner

I Reuben Tupper of Shareham in the county of Adelidan & State of Vermont of Sandwich do testify & say that in the month of January in the year 1776 I enlisted at Dartmouth into the State of Massachusetts into the year's service in the Regiment commanded by Col. Jonathan Ward of Westminster of which Benjamin Tupper then of Chesterfield but since deceased was Lieut. Col. and in the Company commanded by Samuel Bartlett of Ashfield in Massachusetts & Captain Samuel Allen was first Lieutenant William Ash- ley was 2nd Lieut. That after the enlistment we marched to New York & after the battle on Long Island in which I was engaged we retreated & was afterwards in the battle at White Plains & That after the expiration of the year I was dis- charged at Peekskill. That I know Nicolas Cotrell now of Washington in the county of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts. That he had enlisted into the same company before I joined it - That he marched with us to New York was in the battle at White Plains & served regularly through the year & was discharged honorably from the service at

the end of the year at Pehkiill [?] And further the deponent saith not
Reuben Tappan
Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Hampshire S.S. October 22. 1878. Personally ap- peared Reuben Tappan & being duly cautioned Sworn testified & says that the above affidavit sent by him subscribed is true -
Before me Samuel Hume Justice of the Peace & Notary Public for said county of Hampshire in testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my notarial seal -
S. Hume Notary public for the county of Hampshire

I Gershom Randall of Northampton in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Ninety four do hereby depose and say that I am the brother in law of the late Nicholas Cottrell of Wilmington deceased having married his Wife's Sister that I was present at the Marriage of the said Nicholas Cottrell and Lydia Kimball who is his present Widow at the house of her father John Kimball that the Marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Jonathan Huntington then the settled Minister of Worthington. This deponent does not now remember the precise date of said Marriage, but he does know that it took place soon after the said Cottrell returned from the Army and before the year 1794. And the deponent further says that he resided in Worthington more than fifty years after said Marriage in the neighborhood of said Cottrell and knows that he lived with the said Lydia as his Wife the whole of said time by whom he had a large family of children
Gershom Randall
Hampshire ss.
May 10 th A.D. 1843
Personally appeared Gershom Randall and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is the truth. And I certify that the deponent is a man of veracity
Before me
Samuel F. Lyman Justice of the Peace
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition taken, was, at the date Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this fourth day of May
A. D. 1843
Samuel F. Lyman Register of Probate.

Set to N Ward Oct-28-1843 " " " " July 19, 1843 " " " " Aug. 8, 1843
Capt Oct 16
7813.
Massachusetts
Lydia Cottrell
widow of Nicholas Cottrell
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 19th June 1842 of Hampshire in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. Baldwin in the Mass line for 14 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 56 Dollars & 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of Oct. 1842 and sent to Wadsworth Connington, Mass.
Total amount, $283.30.
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Book
H. S. Kim, Clerk, Vol. 1. Page 55.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire County ss
Be it known that on this twentieth of December 1843 personally appeared before me William Ward a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid. Lydia Cottrell a resident of Worthington in said County aged eighty Eight 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 on the 3 d day of March 1843. granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of Nicholas Cottrell who was a Private in the Revolutionary War. and a pensioner under the Act of March 18 th 1818. and as she verily believes served in the manner set forth in his original declaration. That the said Nicholas Cottrell died on the 19 th day of June 1842 and that his pension Certificate was surrendered to the Pension agent at Boston on the payment of the arrears of pension due him at the time of his decease.
She further declares that she was pensioned as the Widow of the said Nicholas Cottrell under the Act of July 7 th 1838. in the sum of Fifty Six dollars Sixty Six Cents per annum commencing on the 4 th March 1836 and ending the 4 th March 1841. which Certificate is dated October 16. 1843 and numbered 7813. And she further declares that she has not intermarried since the decease of the said Nicholas Cottrell. but is now and ever has been his Widow. Lydia Cottrell
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written. And I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and that the facts therein set forth are true. Before me
William Ward 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 William Ward 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 William Ward and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Courts for said Commonwealth, this eleventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Samuel Wells
Clerk.

Nicholas Cottrell 102
Open Water
paid

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES BY THE WIDOW.
State of Massachusetts County of Hampshire Town of Worthington
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of my late husband Nicholas Cottrell
He enlisted in the year 1775 - I believe in the town of Sturminster in the County of New London , and State of Connecticut , in the Company of Capt. Bartlett or Capt. Webber , in Col. Wards or Col. Tyllows Regiment, and served as a private until the close of the campaign of that year at Boston or Roxbury . We were married in the year 1780 . He died in the year 1842 .
The only other facts which I recollect, are as follows, viz:—
# Whether he enlisted at Sturminster or volunteered to join the army there collecting in the neighborhood of Boston the applicant is not certain.
family Record

STATE OF VERMONT COUNTY OF FRANKLIN ss.
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page, likely bleed-through from the original document.]
I am now 88 years old, and my memory does not enable me to state any thing further material to the search required.
I have empowered William Ward of Worthington to act in the premises as my Attorney.
WITNESS my hand, this third day of August A. D. 184 3 . Lydia Cottrell
Signed in my presence by said William Ward  Eliza Cottrell
William Ward JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.