Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29081, Josiah Colcord, Mass. N.H.

SERVICE
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Mass N.H.
Colcord, Josiah
S29081
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Maine ✓
Josiah Colcord
of Carsonfield the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hill of the Regt commanded by Col. D. D. D. in the N Hampshire line for 10 Mo
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of November 1832 and sent to Hon. N H. Intire Mansfield Me
Bears to 4th of Sept - 1832 $ 48.99 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 - 16.66 $ 66.65
{ Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by E.D. Bullock Clerk Book D Vol. 15 Page 52
Aug 31. 1836 J. L. Arthur Me Arthurs

3625
Joseph Coland

State of Maine
York ss On this twentieth day of August A D 1832 personally appeared before the Probate Court in and for said County held at Saco in said County of York by the Honorable William A. Hayes Judge of said Court at a Special Session of said Court Josiah Colcord a resident of Parsonsfield in said County of York & State of Maine aged seventy seven 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 - That he enlisted into the Army of the United States in the Militia Service of the State of New Hampshire in the year 1775 in August with Capt. James Hill at Nashua not far from the mouth of the Concord in said State & there he again enlisted with Captain Joseph Parsons of Rye N.H. and served there till the last of December of that year & then marched to Cambridge in Massachusetts & remained & served there till discharged in February 1776 - That the whole of the service which was continental was six months for which term he was paid - Col. Burnham commanded the Regiment - That in August 1777 he again enlisted under Captain Jenkins in Col. Johnson's Regiment of Massachusetts Militia and marched to Stillwater where said Regiment was in an engagement with the enemy under Genl.

General Bragg on the seventh day of October 1862 in which engagement he was & in which about thirty of said Regiment & was killed - Three of said company were wounded - that after the capture of Bragg he was marched to White Plains in New York & was there discharged the last of December 1862 & was paid for five months service the term he served. That the Major of said Regiment's name was Cross - the Lieutenant of said company name was Parker & the Ensign's name was...
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the interest & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.
He further states in answer to interrogatories that he was born in Newmarket in the State of New Hampshire in the year 1755 & there is a record of his age in Parsonsfield aforesaid where he has lived ever since 1778 & still lives - and that he was living at said Newmarket when called into said service and that he voluntarily entered into said service. That he had no written evidence of his discharge when discharged nor documentary evidence of his service but can prove it by Walter Seal who served with him.
Josiah Colcord
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
I Walter Seal of Parsonsfield in the County of York & State of Maine do hereby say that I lived in Newmarket in the State of New Hampshire in 1775, 1776 & 1777 & was well acquainted with Josiah Colcord then of Newmarket aforesaid & now of said Parsonsfield - that I know he served many months in the Militia of the service of the United States from August 1775 to Feb. 1776 and most of which was in Capt. James Hills company at Portsmouth N.H. & vicinity & the residue in Capt. Parsons company which & was discharged in Cambridge Massachusetts - I served at the same time with him in Capt. Hills company & in another company in the same Regiment under Col. Parsons the residue of the time in the company of Capt. Baker - I further depose that I know said Colcord served five months in the Militia - the service etc.

I Walter Seal of Parsonsfield in the County of York & State of Maine do hereby certify that I lived in Northfield in the State of New Hampshire in 1775, 1776 & 1777 & was well acquainted with Josiah Colcord then of Parsonsfield - that I know he served six months in the Militia in the service of the United States from August 1775 to Feb. 1776 one month of which was in Capt. James Hills company at Portsmouth N.H. & vicinity & the residue in Capt. Parsons company which was discharged in Cambridge Massachusetts - I served the same time with him in Capt. Hills company & in another company in the same Regiment under Col. Poorham the residue of the time in the company of Capt. Baker - I further do hereby certify that I know said Colcord served five months in the Militia in the service of the United States from August 1775 to the close of 77, December of that year in the company of Capt. Jenkins in Johnson's Regiment of Massachusetts Militia & was at Stillwater when that Regiment had an engagement with the enemy & was discharged at White Plains N.Y. - This I know as I served the same time with him in the same company
I Rufus Walter Seal do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Josiah Colcord who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that I believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion - I have been acquainted with him for fifteen years last past in the town of of street for several years charge of the records of the Town of Parsonsfield for said I am well acquainted with them & hereby certify said Colcord appears in them among

veracity & entitled to full credit - Having for several years had charge of the records of the Town of Parsonsfield found I am well acquainted with them & hereby certify said Colbroad appears in them among the early settlers in said Town - Aug. 20 - 1832 - Rufus W. Dithier
Subscribed to of subscribed the day & year aforesaid
And the said do hereby declare their opinion, after inves- tigating 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 Walter Neal & Rufus McIntire who have signed the preceding certificates are both resident in Parsonsfield in the county of York & state of Maine - The said Rufus McIntire being the Member of Congress from this District - That they are both credible persons and their several statements are entitled to credit
Wm. A. Hayes judge of said court
I William Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Colbroad for a pension
inasmuch as I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twentieth day of August, AD. 1832.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate.

And the said do hereby declare their opinion, after investigating 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 Walter Neal & Rufus McIntire who have signed the preceding certificates are both resident in Parsonsfield in the County of York & state of Maine - the said Rufus McIntire being the Member of Congress from this District - that they are both credible persons and their several statements are entitled to credit.
Wm. A. Hays Judge of said Court.
I William Walter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Josiah Colcord for a pension.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twentieth day of August, A.D. 1832.
Wm. Walter Allen, Register of Probate.

State of Maine York County ss; On this seventeenth day of July A D 1846 personally appeared before me Arthur McKittrick Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the county of York aforesaid Gideon Colcord a resident of Parsonsfield in said county aged fifty seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order for himself and in behalf of Rachael Swett, Comfort Colcord Nancy Colcord, John S. Colcord and Abigail Lord to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832; that He the said declarant and the said Rachael Swett, Comfort Colcord, Nancy Colcord, John S. Colcord and Abigail Lord are the children and only surviving children of Josiah Colcord late of said Parsonsfield who was a revolutionary soldier & pensioner of the United States & of Mercy Colcord his late widow; that it is the belief of the declarant his said father the said Josiah Colcord served as a private in the army of the Revolution in the New Hampshire Continental line ten months for which service he was pensioned under the afore- said act of June 7 1832 & that it is the belief of the declarant that the said Josiah served as a private one other term of three months and twenty seven days in the Massachusetts Continental line & this belief is derived from

150155-00571 Certificate of the Secretary of State of Commonwealth of Massachusetts herewith annexed bearing date June 19 1846 although in his application to said Secretary he expressed a belief that the whole services of his said father was seven teen months; that the belief expressed in his application to said Secretary was derived from declarations made him said declarant by his said father in his lifetime, in which he said he had been unable to procure evidence of all his services when he made his application and he had been allowed for only ten months when he had served much more & the declarant according to his best recollection believes that the said Jeremiah declared the amount of time seventeen months. He further declares upon his oath aforesaid that the said Jeremiah Colcord died at said Painesfield on the fifth day of April eighteen hundred and thirty seven leaving a widow named Mercy Colcord and that the said Mercy Colcord died at said Painesfield on the first day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight and that the intention of this declaration is to obtain an increase of his his late fathers pension to the amount of so much of his revolutionary services as were performed in the Massachusetts line being

thru months and twenty seven days, which would amount to thirteen dollars per annum from March 4, 1831 to April 5 1837, the time of his death.
Witness Roxana HP Hensworth Gideon Colborne
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written
Arthur M c Arthur Justin of the Pearl

29087 Rev INVALID.
File No. 29,081
Josiah Colcord Rev War
Act: June 7 th 39 th
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 81
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3625 Josiah Colcord
Application for a pension
Dec 1, 1842
Maine
admit
private 10 m o
33.33
Providence R.I.
Hon Rufus Putnam
Secretary
Washington Feb

Sir,
Limington July 27 th 1846
Enclosed are the documents in the case of Gideon Leek and application for increase of pension due his petition -
James S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions.
I am very respectfully Your Obed. Servt.
William M c Arthur

STATE OF MAINE.
York, ss.
I, William Trapton ,
Clerk of all the Judicial
Courts in said County, do hereby certify that,
Arthur Mc Arthur is an acting Justice of the Peace.
in and for said county
as appears by the paper hereto annexed ; that he is
duly commissioned and qualified to act as such ; that his commission is dated February third 1842 (and will expire on the third day of February 1849
and that the
following his are genuine.
signature purporting to be
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the
Seal of the Supreme Judicial
Court for said State, this twenty second day of July
Anno Domino 1846
William Trapton,
Clerk.

139 Dec y of M rs Certif June 19 1846 Rec d June 25 1846

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
June 19. 1846.
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 Josiah Colcord, is borne upon a Pay Roll of Capt Stephen Jenkins's Company, in Col Samuel Johnson's regt, for Service at the North - As a private from August 18 to November 30, 1777. - including allowance of 280 miles travel. 3 Months and 27 days. Not upon Rolls of Officers Leland and Hill - The above is all the evidence of Service of any one of the Name, shown by the Military Records in this Office
Large decorative flourish or signature at the bottom of the document.

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.
John G. Patten,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Application of Gideon Colcord one of the children of Josiah Colcord late of Parnachenee in the County of York & State of Maine for evidence of his service in the War of the Revolution
The Secretary of State of Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the service of Josiah Colcord my father in the War of the Revolution.
He was a native of Newmarket in the County of Bedford Hampshire & State of New Hampshire.
He enlisted for several terms as a private in the army of Revolution & served in the whole seven months as I believe.
I think he once served in Capt Hill's company & once in a company of which Joseph Colcord was an officer.
I believe he was at the Battle of Stillwater & was at Saratoga as I have heard him say. I hereby affirm Arthur McArthur my attorney in the premises. Witness my hand at Kingston this eighth day of May A.D. 1846
Signed by the said Gideon Colcord in my presence
Gideon Colcord
Arthur McArthur Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine. COUNTY OF YORK, ss.
Court of Probate, Term, A. D 184
July
BE IT KNOWN, That on this sixth day of July A. D. 184 it has been satisfactorily proved, in open Court, being a Court of Record, that Josiah Colcord  late of Parsonsfield in said County, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, that he died at said Parsonsfield on the fifth day of April A. D. 1837 and that he left a widow by the name of Mercy Colcord who remained unmarried until the time of her decease that the said Mercy died at said Parsonsfield on the first day of August A. D 1838 and that Gideon Colcord  Rachel Swett  Comfort Colcord  Nancy Colcord  John S Colcord  Abigail Lord are the children and the only surviving children of said Josiah Colcord and Mercy Colcord deceased
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF , I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this sixth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty six
Wm Hammond
} Register of the Court of Probate, York County.