Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,004, Henry Currier, Continental Mass N.H

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Currier, Henry Abigail
W. 16.004
Mass
N.H.
CONTENTS

New Hampshire
Abigail Currier dec d widow of who who died 12 Decr 1839, widow of Henry Currier  who was a pensioner under the Act of deceased and who died on the 26 th A.D. 1803, of Merrimack in the State of N. Hamp. who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Hase of the reg t commanded by Col. Stark in the N. Hamp. line for 15 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 50 Dollars ————— Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836, & end on the 12 December 1839.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of April 1840, & sent to H. Chase Hopkinton, N. H.
Arrears to the 12 of Decr 1839 $187.44  Pension Payable to Benjamin Currier, Sally Ab- bot and Eleanor Mitchell children of the { Act July 7, } dec d Widow { 1838. }
Recorded by D. M. Gundy, Clerk, Book 9. Vol. 1. Page 48.

Currier, Henry
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New Hampshire, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on December 31, 1794 and printed in the American State Papers Class 9, page 137.
Rank: Private
Regt: Colonel Stark's
Disability: Lost his right eye by the smallpox while in service.
When and where disabled: July, '76, Brown Point.
Residence: Hopkinton
Remarks: Militia
Evidence complete, excepting that the evidence of the examining physicians does not precisely state the degree of his disability. The claimant, not being wounded, is not comprehended by the laws.

War Department
Revolutionary Claims.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the U.S. of the 7 July 1838, Abigail Currier, dec d . late of N. H., who was the widow of Henry Currier, dec d . private in the Revolution, who died in the year 1803, was entitled to receive Fifty Dollars per annum, commencing on the 4 March 1836 and ending on the 12 th Dec r 1839, the day of her death; and that the amount is payable to Benjamin Currier, Sally Abbot and Eleanor Hildreth, the surviving children of said deceased widow.
Given at the War Office of the U.S. this twenty eighth day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty.
Secretary of War
Examined and Counter signed }
Comm ee of Pensions

1 State of New Hampshire Merrimack ss
On this twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me Horace Chase Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Merrimack, Abigail Currier a resident of Hopkinton in said County of Merrimack, aged seventy four 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 Henry Currier who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary Army.
That she has good reason to believe and verily does believe that the said Henry Currier in January or February 1776 enlisted for the term of one year in the Company commanded by Capt. John Hale in the Regiment commanded by Col. John Stark, that he served at Winter Hill, Providence, New York, Albany, St. Johns Montreal and Sorell in Canada and at a place called Chimney Point where he had the small Pox which after which he served at Mount Independence and completed his year's enlistment.
That early in the year 1777 the said Currier enlisted into the Company commanded by Capt. Bowman and went to Portsmouth where he served till the last of June of the same year.
That in the year 1778 the said Currier served at White Plains, New York, in Col. Colton's Regiment and during that year he served for the term of eight months.
From the evidence herewith exhibited she has no doubt the said Henry Currier served at different periods of the Revolution to the amount of two years or more - That she has no documentary evidence of any of the aforesaid service, nor does she declare for the same, from her own personal knowledge, but relies upon the statements under oath of credible witnesses now living who were in the service with him, whose affidavits are hereto annexed, and upon what she has often heard him say of his service.
She further declares that she was married to the said Henry Currier in said Hopkinton by the Rev. Elijah Fletcher on the eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty - that her husband the aforesaid Henry Currier died in said Hopkinton on the eighteenth day of May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and three - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January

seventeen hundred and ninety four. viz at the time above stated.
Witness Horace Chase Thomas Burnham
her Abigail X Currier mark
I sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Before Horace Chase Judge of Probate
I certify that by reason of the bodily infirmity of the aforesaid Abigail Currier she was unable to attend Court and for that reason her aforesaid declaration was taken at her residence in Hopkinton
Horace Chase Judge of Probate

State of New Hampshire- ss. Hopkinton June 15. 1839. I Moses Kimball Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Hopkinton aforesaid hereby certify that the following is a copy from the Church records in my possession in the handwriting of the Rev. Elijah Fletcher who was Pastor of said Church at the time the following record purports to have been made
"Marriages"
Henry Currier & Abigail Burbank both of Hop- kinton were married by the Rev. Elijah Fletcher,
I certify that it is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "seventeen hundred and eighty, December eighteenth - thus "1780 Decm r 18."
Moses Kimball } Pastor of the First } Congregational Church } in Hopkinton.
I Moses Kimball above named depose and say that I am now the Pastor of the first con- gregational Church in the County Town & State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church with the ex- ception above named as certified by me
Moses Kimball } Pastor of the First } Congregational Church } in Hopkinton
Sworn before me
Thomas Burnham Justice of the Peace

I Benjamin Currier of Hopkinton in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire aged fifty five years, son of Henry Currier late of said Hopkinton deceased and Abigail his wife, do hereby depose and say that my Father the said Henry Currier died on the eighteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and three, this I can substantiate by records and memorandums in my possession.
Benjamin Currier
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss July 19. 1839 Then personally appearing the above named Benjamin Currier and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me
Thomas Burnham Justice of the Peace.
I Thomas Burnham of Hopkinton in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that I have been acquainted with Abigail Currier widow of Henry Currier deceased ever since the death of her husband the said Henry Currier and that she has always resided in this town, that she has never been since married but does now remain the widow of the said Henry Currier.
Thomas Burnham
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss
July 20. 1839 Then personally appearing the above named Thomas Burnham and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true, Bispum Horace Chase Justice Thomas Burnham Judge of Probate

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16004
Abigail Currier Widow of Henry Currier Priv. Rev. War
Act July 7 th 1838
Index: Vol. A , Page 161
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N.H. Abigail Currier widow of Henry Seolet. to Horace Chase Oct. 30. 1839 & 28 Jan'y 40
Act 7. July. 1838

Henry Burnie M. 1780 d 1803
74 12. Capt Hale int
77 3— Bousman int
78 8. Col Bolton 66. P c
Wid died 12 Dec. 1839 { M c P c }
May allan 15 m d P c for $50. p ann

39 11 12 36 3 4
3. 8. 8
150
25
8.33
28
83
184.16
33.33
1.11
$184.44
Abigail Sumner
Wid of Henry dec
NH
Ad July 71 1838
Marnied 1780 1803
Hy dec 1803
Abigail dec 12 Dec 1839
Altho f 50 per ann pms
4 March 1831 to Dec 12
1839. cont. to
Perig Burner,
Sally Abbot L
Eleanor Hildreth, childre of said Abigail.
15 m per post Hale
to H. line.
H. Chase Esq.
Hopkinton
NH

Jan 25. 1845 Joseph Milton W.H. Jan 18 45
Free
Dear J. W. Edwards
W.H.
A. Currie
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

Hopkinton N.H. Jan'y. 18. 1840
Hon J. C. Edwards.
Dear Sir, Further attempts have been made to ascertain the names of the officers under whom Henry Currier served in the Massachusetts line 8 months in 1778 according to Abigail Currier's declaration, but they have hitherto been unavailing. Not having taken the testimony myself I have but a faint recollection what were the facts shown by her, but I have the impression that the 8 months service referred to was proved by Eniah Hoag who now resides in Sun-bridge Vt. Since receiving your note upon the subject of her application Esq Burnham of this town, who collected the testimony in the case of Mrs Currier, has written to Mr Hoag & received the enclosed answer. It seems that it is not in his power to name the officers under whom he and Currier served, but has a distinct recollection of the service, the time when they served and the different places of service. I have enclosed his letter to you hoping that by possibility it might furnish some means to ascertain the facts from some records in the War department. If you are not able to ascertain under whom said Currier served and deem the evidence already furnished insufficient to sustain her claim for that period of service we will be must be satisfied to have her claim settled after the the evidence rejecting the 8 months service, for we know not from what source to get further testimony. It is the impression that she proved other service to the amount of about 16 months & if so would be glad to have a certificate based upon that term or whatever term is proved.
There is now another difficulty, of which I feel it my duty to apprise you and respectfully ask for some instruction to enable  how to proceed . Since your note was received Abigail Currier has deceased and the right now to a pension, if she had a right, descends to the heirs. Now Sir I wish to be informed whether a certificate will issue to the heirs of Abigail upon her declaration by furnishing evidence who the heirs are, or whether a new declaration must be made by one of the heirs. And if a new declaration

be required whether they must begin denovo and take all the evidence over again, or whether they may simply refer to the evidence on file accompanying the declaration of the said Abigail Currier.
If it would not be inconsistent with the duties of your office to give me some information how we must proceed I should deem it a great favor to have some directions, and it would save the heirs great trouble & expense, which they are not able to defray being all poor.
Please Sir, on the receipt of this, to give me such direction as will not be inconsistent or improper under the circumstances.
I am with great respect your say
Obed t & Humble Servant
Horace Chase

Hopkinton N.H. March 11.
Free
(Mar. 17. 1840)
Hon. J. V. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

Hopkinton, N.H. March 11, 1840
Hon. J. N. Edwards
Dear Sir
I enclose to you a Certificate of the heirs of Abigail Currier deceased whose declaration for a pension is on file in your Office.
When it is convenient to examine the same, if satisfactory (of which I have no doubt as am well acquainted with the family & know those named in said certificate to be the only surviving children of said Abigail) you will have the goodness to remit to me the certificate when it is convenient to issue the same.
I am Sir with great respect your Obedient & Humble Servant Horace Chase

6043
W.H.
July 7. 1838
[Faint, mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the paper] My Dear Cousin I have just received your letter of the 14th inst.
Horace Chase, Hopkinton
W.H.
Sept 9. 39

State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss
I James Clarke Register of the court of Probate of the State and county aforesaid do hereby certify, that Horace Chase is an acting Judge of the court of Probate in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified. That his commission was dated on eight day of June 1833 and will expire on the 14 th day of December 1858 and that his signature within written is genuine. I further certify that Thomas Burnham is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the 15 th day of June 1835 and will expire on the 15 th day of June 1840 and that his signature within written is genuine. I further certify that Hamilton E Perkins is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the 27 th day of June 1835 and will expire on the 27 th day of June 1840, and that his signature within written is genuine.

Given under my hand and the seal of said court this twenty third day of July 1839
James Clarke Register of Probate
6043
MS. July 7. 1838
James Clarke Register of Probate New Bedford
Horace Chase, Hopkinton MS.
Sept 9. 39

I Jonathan Fowler of Hopkinton in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire aged seventy five years, do hereby certify that I have always resided in the town of Hopkinton aforesaid and that I was well acquainted with Henry Carrier deceased who resided in this town in the time of the Revolutionary war, that he enlisted in the service of the Revolution as a Soldier and I should think served two or three years, I recollect of his leaving the town to join the army and of his returning home. The said Henry Carrier married Abigail Burnham of this town soon after he returned from the army, and they lived together about twenty years and had a family of children, the widow of the said Henry Carrier has always and does now reside in this town, I further depose and say that Abigail Carrier is a person of trust and veracity and the credibility of her declaration may be fully relied upon.
Jonathan Fowler - Deacon of the Free Will Baptist Church in Hopkinton
State of New Hampshire - shire Merrimack ss - Hopkinton June 26. 1839 Then personally appeared the above named Jonathan Fowler, known to me as a person of undoubted veracity and credibility and made solemn affirmation that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me
Thomas Duncum Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire shire Merrimack ss. Town Clerk's Office Hopkinton June 18. 1839.
I Thomas Burnham Town Clerk of Hopkinton hereby certify that I have examined the town records in my possession and it does not ap- pear that the marriage of Henry Currier and Abigail Burbank of said Hopkinton was ever recorded in the records of said town.
Thomas Burnham } Town Clerk of Hopkinton
State of New Hampshire shire Merrimack ss. Hopkinton June 18. 1839 Then personally appeared Thomas Burn- ham known to me as the Town Clerk of said Hopkinton and made oath that the certificate by him subscribed is true
Before me H. E. Perkins Justice of the Peace

Esqr Burnham Esq Nov 28 1839
I have received your letter of the 15 of Nov. which informs me that there is more evidence wanted for the widow Currier to draw the pension I can't give you any further evidence than I have you say the Capt name is wanted I have know Recollection of his name I told you my opinion the Col name was Bolton If I mistook not I may be mistaken in that we had one Regt from New York and one from Mass in our Brigade that Summer one of the Col name was Bolton the other I have forgot the York Col name mite be Bolton or it may be perhaps I seem strange to you or some one that I cannot recollect the names of his Officers as well as Currier in that I will explain the matter his Officers were entirely stranger to me while Henry Currier was a Townsman & a neighbour we had lived together in one neighbour hood from boys I have summons up all my recollection possible follow the army from the taking of Burgoyne to Saratoga where our Regt wintered from there to Monmouth to Red Bank to White Plains and if I have not lost any movement of the army it must be in the year 1778 when Washington army lay on White Plains and when we lay there I know Henry Currier was there in our Brigade it is now about 61 years ago and it is impossible for me to remember every particular in 1779 we went with Sullivan army to the west against the Indians in 1780 we lay at Red Bank & there I took my Discharge from your Obt. Servant Enoch Hloyt Esqr Burnham

WB
in further recollection I am induced to believe that Col Bolton commanded the New York Regiment and I have been pondering on the other Col name but cannot get hold on it to be certain but it sounds more to me like
Johnson
Jackson than any other name the Capt name I cannot recollect any thing on it
E. Hoyt

I James Tyler of Thetford in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged seventy nine years do hereby say that during the war of the Revolution I resided in Hopkinton then in the County of Hillsborough & State of New Hampshire and that in the months of January or February in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six I enlisted as a regular soldier, and about the same time Henry Carrier of the same Hopkinton enlisted as a regular soldier in the same Company for one year, the Company in which we enlisted was commanded by Capt John Hale of said Hopkinton, our Lieutenants names were Coon & Hardy our Regiment was commanded by Col. John Stark and our Lieutenants Col. name was Thomas Poor, the last of February or the first of March in the year aforesaid Henry Carrier and myself joined the army at Winter Hill in Massachusetts we staid at Winter Hill three or four weeks and then went to Providence and New York at the last place we staid a few weeks and then went to Albany, from Albany we went to St Johns in Canada and from thence to Montreal and thence to Sorell and from Sorell we went to a place called Chimney Point at which last place Henry Carrier had the Small Pox and partially lost the sight of one of his eyes, we then went to Mount Independence, I further depose and say that the said Carrier enlisted for one year aforesaid and performed one years service in the Company in which I enlisted, as a private soldier.
James Tyler
State of Vermont
County of Orange ss Thetford June 21. 1839 Then personally appearing the above named James Tyler and made solemn Affirmation that the above Affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me
Darius Moore Justice of the Peace

I Jeremiah Tyler of Thetford in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged seventy three years, do pose and say that then during the Revolutionary my residence was in Hopkinton then in the County of Hillsborough now in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire and was well acquainted with Henry Currier and was knowing to his enlisting in the Revolutionary army in the beginning of the year seventeen hundred and seventy six for one years service as a private in the company commanded by Capt. John Hale, that he left the said Hopkinton and joined the army was gone about a year and returned to said Hopkinton, I have no doubt but that he was in the service of the Revolution during the year for which he enlisted. Jeremiah Tyler
State of Vermont } County of Orange ss. Thetford June 21. 1839 Then personally appearing the above named Jeremiah Tyler and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me
Darius Bruce Justice of the Peace

I Melvin N. Russ Town clerk of the Town of Thetford in the County of Orange and State of Vermont hereby certify that James Tyler and Jeremiah Tyler are men of truth and veracity and their testimony may be fully relied upon in any case whatever. Melvin N. Russ Town clerk of Thetford
State of Vermont County of Orange ss } Thetford June 21. 1839 Then per- sonally appeared the above named Melvin N. Russ known to me as the Town Clerk of Thetford and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is true Before me
J. P. Crocker Jus. of the Peace

I Enoch Hoyt of Cambridge in the county of Orange and State of Vermont aged seventy nine years depose and say that I lived in Hopkinton then the county of Hillsborough now the county of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire in the time of the Revolutionary war and lived a near neighbor to Henry Currier, in the beginning of the year seventeen hundred and seventy six the said Henry Currier enlisted as a private in the company commanded by Capt. John Hale of Hopkinton for one year and went to Canada and there had the Small Pox as he told me when he returned and that he had lost the sight of one of his eyes: in the early part of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven myself and the said Henry Currier enlisted as privates in the company commanded by Capt. Bowman of Henniker and went to Portsmouth and there we staid until the last of June 1777 and then we returned to Hopkinton - the third of July, same year I enlisted and joined the Continental Army at Stillwater, the next summer Washington's Army was stationed at White Plains in New York at that time the said Henry Currier was a soldier in Col. Colton's Regiment of Massachusetts and that Regiment joined our Brigade and staid with us until the fall of seventeen hundred and seventy eight, his Regiment went to New York for winter quarters and I went with the Army to Connecticut, I saw no more of the said Currier until I returned home in the year 1780 - I then saw the said Currier at Hopkinton - I was with the said Currier in actual service eight months in the 1778 I was not with him all the time he was out, but to my certain knowledge he was in the service for more than two years
Enoch Hoyt

State of Vermont County of Orange ss. S. Cambridge June 22. 1839 Then personally appearing the aforesaid Enoch Hoagt and made oath that the aforesaid Affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me Charles M. Lamb, Justice of the Peace.

I Charles M. Lamb Town Clerk of the Town of Tunbridge in the County of Orange and State of Vermont hereby certify that Enoch Hoyt is a Gentleman of truth and veracity and the respectability of his testimony may be fully relied upon in all cases
Charles M. Lamb. Town Clerk of Tunbridge Vt. & C. Vermont
State of Vermont
County of Orange ss. 2 Tunbridge June 22. 1839
Then personally appeared the above named Charles M. Lamb known to me as the town Clerk of Tunbridge and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is true
Before me
Samuel Austin
Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont Orange County ss
John M Smith Clerk of Orange County Court here by Certify that Samuel Austin, Charles M c Lean, David Bruns & J D Orban were the Magistrates before whom the foregoing Depositions were taken and justice of the Peace within and from said Orange County duly Commissioned and Qual- ified that their Commissions and oaths in December 1838 and will expire on the last day of December 1839 and that the several Signatures purporting to be theirs are in my opinion genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Chelsea in said Orange County this 22 nd day of June A D 1839
John M c Smith. Clerk

State of New Hampshire Merrimack Ss
At a Court of Probate held at Concord in said county on the fourth Tuesday of February A D 1840
It was proved by satisfactory evidence that Abigail Currier the widow of Henry Currier late of Hopkinton in said county deceased died at said Hopkinton on the twelfth day of December A D 1839 leaving three children to wit Benjamin Currier Sally Abbott and Eleanor Keilsmith who are all now living
And that the said Abigail Currier is the same person who made application for a pension some time the last year and supposed to be on file in the Pension Office
In testimony whereof the seal of said Court is hereunto affixed this twenty fifth day of February A D 1840
James Clark Register