Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16562, Matthew Dickey, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N 26
Dickey, Matthew Mary
W 16562
CONTENTS

State of Hampshire. 1775
Mary Pickney
& Matthew Pickney
was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 20 th November 1816 at Hillsborough in the State of N. H. who was a Pay in the County command by Captain 2 nd of the Reg t command at the in the N. H. time for 6 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Cause 2 at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Estimate of Pension issued the 7 th day of March 1839, to be paid to the Pensions, Hillsborough, N. H.
Due to the 4 th of March - $ 60.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 10.00 $ 70.00
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk Book A Vol. 1 - Page 38
(Mirrored text from the reverse page) Paid at the rate of $ 20 per annum the Act of the 18 th March 1838 from 4 th March 1839 to 4 th Oct 1839. age 70. to be paid $ 70.00

Paid at the Treasury under the Acts of the 5 th April 1837 from 4 March 1839 to 4 Sep 1839. Age notified 7 th Sep 1840.
Dead

Declaration of 3732 Mary Bichey Act July 7. 1835 via of Matthew (M) Mar 1791 decd 1836 Allan 6 and for $20 per ann
Hon. F. Pierce Senate US
I believe that many are poor At opinion Mother Bichey died on the

State of New Hampshire County of Hillsborough ss.
On this third day of October in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the judge of the court of Probate held at Franconia within and for said county of Hillsborough, Mary Dickey a resident of Deering in said county of Hillsborough, 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 Matthew Dickey, who was a private in the army of the Revolution. Previous to his service, he resided at Deering New Hampshire. His first town of service, was in the army while it lay at Cambridge Massachusetts in the year 1775 - cannot say how long. He was out again in September, October and November, 1776, four months, in Capt. Reynolds company in Col. Nichols Regiment in the state of N. York. He was again out in 1780 three months in Capt. Aiken's company in Col. Bartlett's Regt. at West Point. He was always a volunteer. I have no record or documentary evidence.
She further declares that she was married to the said Matthew Dickey on the seventeenth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and ninety one; that her husband the aforesaid Matthew Dickey died on the

twentieth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen; 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, or: at the time above stated.
Mary Dickey
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me in open Court.
Luther Woodbury Judge as aforesaid.
Stephen Putnam 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 Mary Dickey for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty Eight
Stephen Putnam Register of Probate for said county of Hillsborough

Appendix of John, 1874-88.

I John Grimes of Hillsborough in the county of Dickson & State of Tennessee do hereby say, that I was acquainted with Matthew Dickey, late of Deering in said State & county, from 1788, till his decease. In the year 1789, he worked at my father's, as a hired man. The next year, he boarded at my father's, & bought a farm adjoining ours. In the year seventeen hundred and ninety-one, on the seventeenth day of February, he was married to Mary Morrison. The marriage was solemnized at Germantown, St. Hampshire, by the Rev. Jacob Rice. I was present, and witnessed the solemnization. He moved his wife to my father's house, then being now on his own farm. Matthew Dickey deceased on the 20th day of November A.D. 1818, at his own house in Deering. He left a widow, Mary Dickey, who still lives in the house where her husband died, and has never been married since his death. I resided in Deering, a neighbor to Mrs. Dickey, till within two years. I am now about two miles distant from Mrs. Mary Dickey's residence. I was always intimate in the family. I was sixteen years of age when my acquaintance commenced with him, and was in the habit of conversing with him, frequently upon the events of the revolution.

He told me was at Bunkerhill Battle, & was stationed in Benjamin Hall Still-House in Medford. He told me about being at Providence R.I. & at West-Paint N.Y. He was a sergeant. There, and was always "Sergeant Dickey" while he lived. He was a man that might be depended upon, in any thing he said or did.
John Ginnell
Stat. of New Hampshire Billsborough S.S. I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office this 5th day of December A.D. 1885.
Before me, Albert Baker Justice of Peace.
I Albert Baker, Justice of the Peace aforesaid, certify & say that the above named John Ginnell, from personal acquaintance, is a man upon whose word implicit reliance may be placed.
Albert Baker Justice of Peace.
I certify that Albert Baker is a Justice of the Peace and that his signature above is genuine Frank H. Pierce

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 3 d , 1840.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The child n . of Mary Dickey a Pensioner on the Roll of the General Mt. Pagenoy, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of March, 1839, to the 1 st Sept. 1839.
Respectfully yours,
Alvin N. Parsons Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Ames Ia
Professor J. William Lichney
Grady Russell Co A.H. 18th Feb 1. Multico

I William Dickey, aged eighty four years, depose & say, that Matthew Dickey joined the American army in the year 1775, while it lay at Cambridge, and vicinity. He served as a private soldier, how long I cannot say. I joined the army sometime afterwards, & went with the American troops to New York. I do not recollect the name of his commander. Afterwards, I think in the year 1778 he enlisted and went somewhere into the State of N. York, in Capt. Runnels' company, and Col. Nichols' Regt. I cannot say for certainty how long he was out, but recollect that he left about hay- ing time, and returned in the course of the winter. Matthew was my brother. During his service at this time I remained at my father's in Grandison, N. H.
William Dickey
State of New Hampshire. Hillsborough S.S. Nov. 15, 1826. Then the above named William Dickey made oath that the above officers by him subscribed is true. Before me
Abner Batchelder Justice of Peace.
I certify that Abner Batchelder is a Justice of the Peace and that his signature above is genuine
Franklin Pierce - Clerk
3 19 2 11

Rev WIDOW, & Co
File No. 165-62
Mary Dickey Widow of Matthew Dickey Brig Rev War
Act: July 7 th 1838
Index: Vol. 2 Page 184
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I certify that I am personally acquainted with John Grimes who swears to the marriage of the applicants He is a respectable Magistrate in the County of Hillsboro N.H. and a gentleman of undoubted probity -
J. French - P. D. - Senate July 20, 1809 -

Town Clerks Office — Remitted February 17 th 1839
This certifies that having examined the records belonging to the Town of Henniker, I find no record of the marriage of Matthew Dickey to Mary _____ and there is found no record of marriages in the town's or society's records previous to the year 1791
Attest Daniel C. Gould Town Clerk

Affidavit of James Stephens

I James Hopkins, aged twenty seven years, do hereby say, that in the year seventeen hundred & eighty, in the month of July, I think, I enlisted as a private in the company of Militia commanded by James Hiken in Col Bartlett Regt for the term of three months, in the service of the United States. I then served at Linderburg & Hampshire. Me then Dickey a resident of the same place enlisted at the same time in the same company & Regt. for the same term of service. We were immediately upon our enlistment, appointed sergeants, myself first sergeant & Dickey second. We served several weeks in addition to the term of our enlistment, upon we were discharged. We were at West Point at the time of the capture of Maj. Sallee. James Hopkins
State of New Hampshire Belknap Co. Dec. 13 th 1886. Sworn & subscribed before me Albert Baker Justice of Peace. I certify that above B. M. is a true copy of the original and that his signature above is genuine Frank Pierce

Claims to 1775.
1778 4 mo. S. Reynolds 1780 3 " J. P. Aiken
The rolls of W.H. show
3 mo. 19 days in St. Asaph Co, @ 100 per head. matured 26 Sept. 1776 Hank to N York in Col. Rumbold Co. How long does not appear.
2. 11 May allow sept. 6. 0. pr. A. H. L.

N. 46.
3732
Act 7 July 1838
chary Leitchey susp?
See let. to Hon F. Pierce
18 Jan'y '39.