Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,878, Lemuel Haywood, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Haywood, Lemuel
S. 29,878
CONTENTS

1375
Massachusetts
Lemuel Hayward
of Wickford in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Green — of the Regt. commanded by Col Wood in the Massachusetts line for 17 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 10 Dollars 62 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Nov: 1832 and sent to G. Holm
Arrear to 4th of Apr. 1832 $84.91 Semestral allowance ending 4 Mar '33 28.30 $113.21
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. C. Miles Clerk, Book D Vol. 2 Page 50
338 17 2331 333 2664 56.61 20.30 84.91

29878 Reg  INVALID.
File No. 29,878
Lemuel Hayward Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1824
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 180
[Arrangement of 1870.]

We Eber L Clarke a clergyman of Winchendon and Simeon Stearns of said Winchendon both in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lemuel Higuead of said Winchendon that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, & have been a soldier of the Revolution and are concur in that opinion
September 8-1832
Eber L Clarke
Simeon Stearns
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester September 8-1832 then personally appeared the above named Eber L Clarke & Simeon Stearns and subscribed the above statement and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
Before me,
Jacob Wales Justice Peace

Samuel Heywood of Holden in the county of Worcester in the state of Massachusetts Seventy five years of age, do testify and say that Samuel Heywood of Winchendon in the county of Worcester who is now about to make an application for a Pension under the Act of Congress of June last past went from home in the fore part of the summer of the year 1778 to serve in the Army of the Revolution eight months That he did not return home until after the eight months were out and that in the year 1779 he again went into the army of the Revolution for three months and did not return until he had completed the term of service and that again in the year 1780 he entered into the service of United States as a soldier in the Continental Army for six months That he did not return home until the end of the term — That he told me as well my Father that he served the full term in the Army each of the three times for which he entered and was honorably discharged therefrom at the completion of the 8 th — Eight — Three & six months when he returned home — That the 8 th Samuel started for the state of New York the eight months service and also the second service was rendered in the state of New York and after the revolt that he the 8 th Samuel started for the Continental Army the last six months which then was staying in the state New York — That the said Samuel is a Brother of mine and that we both resided with our Father during the Revolutionary War except the time that we were in the service of United States — Samuel Heywood Holden Sept 5. 1832.
Worcester S.S. Holden September 5, 1832. Then personally appeared the above named Sam l Heywood and made Oath to the truth of the Release Affidavit by him subscribed in my pres

ence and further say  testify that I have long been acquainted with the S d Samuel Heywood and say that he is a man of Truth and creditable Witness —
Samuel Danson { Justice of the Peace

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two — — — personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Nathl Paine, Judge of the Court of Probate , now sitting, Samuel Heywood a resident of Winchendon in the County of Worcester , and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy 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 act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he was born March 10, 1762, in Holden, County of Worcester Commonwealth aforesaid, where he resided until 1782, when he removed to Winchendon & has resided there ever since.
That in June, 1778, eleven men were called for from Holden, where he voluntarily enlisted for eight months, under Capt. Joel Green, Lieut. Whitcomb, Col. Ezra Wood. Several companies were raised at that time in this quarter. We repaired to Peekskill, where the Regt was formed, & was encamped for about six weeks. Thence we marched to White Plains, in the Brigade of Gen. Nixon, and were stationed thereabout through the Summer. In the autumn we returned back to Peekskill, and as the cold weather approached, we built huts on the heights west of the village of Peekskill. That he was discharged at that place towards the end of January, 1779, & returned home, having faithfully served out the term of eight months. His discharge was a written one, but is now lost. He knows of no one now living who served with him, and relies on the testimony of his brother, Samuel Heywood, who was acquainted with his having served at that time. That about the first of September, 1779, he again volunteered his services for three months, and proceeded to Greenbush, N.Y. and there received orders to cross to Albany, & was stationed several weeks at a fort in Albany. We went on under Lieut. Sprague, of Spencer, and were not joined by Capt. Wiltor , of Holden, until we left Albany & reached Mohawk Falls near Schenectady, where the whole company was first formed under said Capt. Wiltor, Lieuts. Belknap & Sprague — Regt of Col. Saml Deane, Maj. John Butrick, of Cones. The Regt was called together near Half Moon Point, there verbally dismissed at the expiration of three months from the time of enlistment. That in June, 1780, he enlisted at Holden for six months, with ten others from the same town, and went to Fishkill, where he was placed in the company of Capt. Benj. Heywood, Lieut. Holden, Ens. Balcomb — Regt of Col. Nixon in the Continental Line (Gen. Nixon's Brigade.) That he marched with them across Kings Ferry to Orangetown, New Jersey, and was thereabout engaged until he went into winter quarters on West Point, where he was discharged in January by Gen. McDougal. This discharge is now lost.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Nathl Paine Probate For the County of Worcester.
Samuel Heywood

We the undersigned a Clergyman residing in the City of  and residing in  hereby certify that we are well acquainted with  who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be  years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Rev. Eber L. Clarke , who signed the proceeding  annexed certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Winchendon , and that Simeon Stearns Esq. who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town , and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. Nathl. Farnes Judge of Res
Wm Faine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester -
Joseph Wheeler Reg d or, Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel  for a pension  of the estate of the late  Samuel Daman , before whom the affidavits were made, an inventory of the estate in the County of Worcester in IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court the 14 th day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two
Joseph Wheeler Rags of the County of Dorchester for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts