Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,889, Zechariah Hicks, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Hicks, Zechariah or Zachariah
S. 29,889
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Massachusetts 31.6
Zachariah Nichols of Boston in the State of Mass o who was a R te Sgt t in the Company commanded by Captain Leonard of the Reg t commanded by Col l Webster in the Mass ts line for 9 days private 1 month 5 days Sgt. 4 months 20 " Lieut.
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass o at the rate of 100 Dollars 05 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 d day of Apr l 1837 and Sept r Alden Bradford Boston Ma s Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1837 $444.30 Semi-ann l . allowance ending 4 Sept r " 34.52 $448.82
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N.H. Oldison Clerk, Book Vol. 2 a Page 36

United States of America, Massachusetts District ss.
State of Massachusetts . On this fifteenth day of February, A.D. 1837, personally appeared in open Court before Hon. John Davis Judge of the District Court of the United States for the sitting in Boston within the said District sitting in Boston within the said District of Massachusetts in Boston Nathaniel Fletcher, a resident of Boston, County of Suffolk & State of Massachusetts aforesaid, aged eighty one, who being first duly sworn according to law, on his oath doth make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. — That he was born in Cambridge, County of Middlesex & State aforesaid, Feb'y. 28 th 1755. That he resided in Watertown, adjoining Cambridge in 1775, & was a private soldier in Capt. Barnard's Company of S th Watertown, & marched to Lexington with S th Company on 19 th of April, 1775, & continued there in a with S th Company through that day, the night following, & the day following, at Lexington & Cambridge, the company having pursued the British from Lexington to Cambridge, & retained in Cambridge most of the day after, viz. the 20 th . That during the summer of 1776, he resided in Boston, & during the season, but cannot now say what month, only that it was warm weather, he worked with other citizens, in repairing the fortifications on Castle Island in Boston Harbour. It was a volunteer service, though urged & recommended by the authority of the State — That he so worked & labored, he fully believes a full week or more, but has no record of it & cannot say definitely. That in 1777, being still a resident in Boston, he served five weeks, as a sergeant in Capt. Howland's company in the regiment under command of Col. Webb, in April & May, according to his best recollection; it was however, in spring, & he has no doubt it was part of April & part of May. The said service was guarding the town & wharves, & going the rounds especially during the nights, as there were reports of the British intending to attack Boston & shipping at that time, & some feared they would land — That in August the same year, 1777, he was appointed & commissioned as a Lieutenant in an independent volunteer company in S th Boston, commanded by Capt. Hinckley, & continued therein in S th capacity for two years. The S th Company was a very large one, & had a captain, besides the Capt. & two other lieutenants, & S th applicant was the 2 nd Lieut t — That in the fall of
x and adjutant,

same year, in Sept. or Oct. he had command of a guard of several persons, (three of the names he recollects, viz. Peck, Capen, Leach) for several days, & he believes not less than eight or ten days: for after guarding them several days in Boston, he was ordered to convey them to Providence, or vicinity, where American troops were collected & collecting to go on to R. Island against the British; & after conveying them great part of the distance was ordered to discharge them, as the expedition on to the Island was given up - The persons aforesaid had been drafted to go on the said expedition (with many others) & refused to go, or to hire men to go in their room or for them. They were first put under guard, & then ordered to be conveyed to our army at or near Providence - That in 1778, latter part of winter & spring, he had command of part of S d Hinckley's company, as a guard to the Head Quarters of Genl. Heath, in Boston, who was then Commander in Chief of all the troops in Boston & vicinity - & this term of service was three full months.
That in the summer of same year 1778, he went with said company, & as a lieut. of same, Capt. Hinckley commanding, to R. Island, in the expedition there, at that time under Genl. Sullivan - That he was five weeks on the Island, besides several days going & returning; making in all six weeks absent from home in this service. For some time, a week or ten days, the company was stationed near Col o Henry Jackson's Mass. Continental Regiment; when Capt. Hinckley's company with to which he belonged, was ordered down near the lines, where it continued with with it, till the retreat of the American troops: That while at or near the lines nearest the enemy's out- British posts, a company of artillery came out from Newport, & that Capt. Hinckley's company, & Col. Hichborin's company of Boston Independent Cadets, were ordered to oppose them & did so, & the British were driven back. - He also further states, that during the two years he was lieut. of said company, he was

often call out for short service of a day, or a night, in time of alarm - but has no record, nor distinct recollection of the particular month or day. That Hinkley's & the Cadet Company were a sort of elite Corps, & expected always to turn out & do duty in case of alarm, before, or rather than the common Militia companies.
The Declarant or applicant further saith that he is not on any pension roll of the United States, nor of this State, or any other - that he now resides in Boston aforesaid, & has been an inhabitant thereof for sixty years now last past - The said applicant also further states on his oath, that the reason he did not make application for a pension at an earlier day, is that he had no record of his said services, that he was unable distinctly to recollect the precise number of days, in all cases, & did not know till lately that any one was living who was in Hinkley's Company with him, nor that there was any record in the Secretary's office of this Commonwealth relating to his appointment, as an officer, or to his services.
Leah N. Hinks
Sworn to and subscribed on this day and year above written
J. B. Davis Judge U.S. Dist. Court Massachusetts Dist.

I Francis Basset, Clerk of The District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts hereby certify that John Davis is Judge of said Court, and that his signature three times severally severally written in the annexed papers is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and annexed the Seal of said Court this fifteenth day of February A.D. 1837. and in the sixty first year of the Independence of the United States of America Francis Basset, Clerk

29889 INVALID.
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File No. 29,889
Zachariah Hicks
Lieut Reo War
Act: June 7 th 1829
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 187
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mem o He is not now able to procure certificates here The of his service as Sargent in Howard mentio Comp y 1777, may. nor of his service as Abstr as Lieut. in Hinckley's comp y - as the includ papers have been transferred to the Pension office, Washington, from which he before had certificates. L 509.19
State - Pension Office Boston -
See also Hinckley's comp y - from Aug t 1777 or papers all transferred to Pension office at Washington -

Memo for Mr. Hicks
The roll of Capt Howard Co. Col. Webb's Reg't mentions your name with the others, as Sergeant, in Abstract on Pay Roll, of the same with Capt Webb's Co. Y, including the whole number of the Detachment, without the names, rec'd the pay for five weeks, amount to $ 509.19.00 - Return dated 12 May 1877. 2
Ebenezer D. Dyer Clerk
State - Pension Office
See also Hinckley's copy - Boston - from Augt. 1877 or papers all transferred to Pension office at Washington -

33441 33441
Massachusetts
Rev. —
Zachariah Hicks
Suspended
Substitute Clerk of the Home Reps. U.S. Aug 26 '36. do to Hon. A. Laurence, Dec 6. 1836. — do. to A. Bradford. Jan. 26. 1837

75 19 apr 2 days Barnard
76 June
77 Howard Symmes left 35 days
78 13 Feb Hinckley Hatch Lt 90
3.4005
78 July " 35
Commision Aug 11. 79

33.441
Zachariah Hicks of last.
Zachariah Hicks
Mar. 21. 1836
Ref d to Com ee Rev. Pension
Apr. 20 1836 - Report vs. to lie
Susp d Set to Applicant 18 Feby 1836
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Feb y 3. 1836.
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 "Dechariah" Hicks is borne on "A Muster roll of the Company under the Command of Capt m Samuel Barnard in the late Col o Thomas Gardner's Regiment of Militia, which marched on the Alarm of April 19 th 1775." where he served as a private and was allowed two days.
The name of "Leah" Hicks is borne on "A return of the Detachment ordered by the Hon ble Council of the 12 th instant from the Boston Regiment, to do duty under Major Gen l Heath." State of Massachusetts Bay May 16 1777. Viz t , where he served as a Sergeant under Capt s Joseph Webb & Eben Howard; Major Andrew Symmes & Col o Jabez Hatch of the Boston Reg t five weeks.
The name of "Isaac" Hicks is borne in a Book of Naval & Militia Officers Commissionated from Dec r 16, 1776.

to 1780, where he was Commissioned as 2 nd Lieutenant in the Boston Light Infantry Company under Captain John Hinckley. August 11. 1777.
Zachariah Hicks claims for services as a 2 nd Lieut. in Capt a John Hinckley's Company of Guards at Boston in 1778.
A Pay Abstract of Capt a John Hinckley's Company in Lt Col o Symmes' Detachment of Guards doing duty in Boston from Feb. 13 th to May 13 th 1778, for the Non Commissioned Officers & Privates, is found in this Office the names of the Commissioned are not mentioned, except that of the Captain which is only in the heading of the roll.
The name of William Pierce as a private is borne on the aforesaid roll of Capt a Hinckley's Company.
John P. Bigelow Secretary.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
SUFFOLK ss.
I Charles A. Parker , a Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, for the County of Suffolk, do hereby certify that Adams Bradford Esquire is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk that his commission bears date the _____ day of _____ A. D. 18_____ and expires on the _____ day of _____ A. D. 18_____ and that his signature above written, is his true and proper signature. duly commissioned & qualified
In witness whereof, I have set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this Second day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty Six .
Chas. A. Parker
, CLERK.

Pierce's Deposition in case of Hicks

County of Suffolk
I William Peirce of Boston State of Massachusetts, aged ninety one years, on oath do declare as say, that I have known Zachariah Hicks of Boston about as far as of sixty years, & that he has lived in Boston from that time to this, & that he has worked at the trade of saddler & trunk maker in this city - that in the year 1777, he was a private in a volunteer light Infantry company which did duty as a guard & patrol in different parts of the town of Boston, & at times he was one of the guard to Major General Heath, who was command- er in Chief on that Station, & for the whole coast of the State, as he believes; that Mr. Zachariah Hicks aforesaid was the Lieutenant of said company, & was the principal officer in raising & forming

said Company, & acted part of the time as Adjutant, & often had command of a large part of the company, acting & patrolling as a guard, to General Heath & also in other parts of the town - he also further says, that said company continued formed for about three years, & did military duty most of said time, & was liable to be called into service at any time; but he cannot say precisely how long he was actually in service; & that said Hicks was Lieutenant of said Company the whole time & Hinkley was Captain. Mr Hicks acting & being called adjutant, as well as Lieute- nant - That when said Company went to R. Island the year following, 1778, he was excused from going then Captain Hinkley, but that he is knowing to

the marching of said Company from Boston for R. Island in the summer of 1878. & that Lieutenant Hicks then belonged to said company & marched with the company at that time; & I believe he went on to R. Island & was there with the company so long as it was there -
State of Massachusetts
William Pierce
Suffolk ss. Boston, Feb 2 d . 1896
Then personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County of Suffolk. He appeared William Pierce, known to me to be a citizen of said Boston, & fully entitled to belief, being reputed a worthy character man of veracity, & made solemn to the truth of the deposition above by him subscribed Alden Bradford Just. Peace

United States of America State of Massachusetts. Suffolk ss. City of Boston, Feby. 1 st 1836
The application & statement of Lachariah Hicks of Boston aforesaid in the County & State aforesaid, aged eighty years on the 28 th of February last, in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress of 7 th of June A.D. 1832, on oath makes the following declaration state- ment, viz. That he was born in Cambridge County of Middlesex & State aforesaid, on the 28 th of Feby 1755. That in 1771, at the age of 16, he went to live in Watertown, an adjoining town with a saddler - that on the 19 th of April 1775 he was marched to Lexington, about six or seven miles, & ar- rived at the latter place just after the British retreated from Concord for Boston - & was in a company commanded by Capt Barnard of Watertown, Col. Bond's Regt & then was marched down to Cambridge the evening following - & that he served two days, viz. 19 th & 20 th  of April in said company - & that his father was killed by the British the evening or afternoon of 19 th in the north

part of Cambridge, where the retreating British troops passed - that he was a private on the said occasion. — That in the early part of year of 1777, he served five weeks as a sergeant under Capt. Howard of Boston, & in Boston, as a guard to go the round - that a part of that time he was on Fort-hill in Boston & he marched round the common & to south end & north end, to keep guard - there being then a regiment of Boston troops, & in a Regt. commanded by Col. Hatch - That in the the latter part of same year, he was a 2 d Lieutenant in Capt. Hinkley's Comp. & served therein that year three weeks in Boston, & most of the time belonged to Major Genl. Heath's guard, who was then continental Commander of all the troops on this Station - That in 1778, from Feb y to May 3 months , he served as Lieutenant in Boston, performing similar duty of guarding, watching & & that he was then under command of Col. Symmes. And that in 1778, last of July or first August, he served at on N. Island, being there & on

the way going & returning five weeks, as a Lieutenant under P. Capt. Hinkley - that he was stationed near the middle of the Island - while he was there a great storm occurred, & the Royal Fleet left the harbor - that it was an independent company though stationed just near the Major continental regiment under Col. Henry Jackson - that the company was early ordered by Genl. Sullivan to be attached to Col. Livingston's Regt. or Battalion, who was there from N. York, or some southern State, & commander of a Continental Regt. & then & there was ordered by Col. Livingston to advance toward the enemy then in & near Newport, a company of artillery of which was advancing toward our lines - our company did so. But the British company retired; & afterward our company also returned to Col. Livingston's post. And the following day our company left the Island by leave of the Commander in Chief, as

it was supposed the enemy would make no more attack - That he said Hick, is now & always since 1778 has lived in Boston aforesaid - and that his name is not borne on any pension roll of State or United States - & that he hereby relinquishes all & every claim to a pension from United States, except the present
Said Hick further says on oath, as the reason he has not before applied for a pension, is that he was entirely ignorant of there being any record of his said service particularly as it was in State corps, till within ten days last past, & all the officers & his intimate friends were deceased.
Leah H. Hills
Suffolk ss. Boston
Feb. 7. 1836 Sworn to as true before me Alden Bradford Just. Peace

To the Senate & House of Representa- tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. The representation & petition of the undersigned, Zachariah Hlick, of Boston County of Suffolk & State of Massachusetts, aged eighty and the 28 th of this present month of February 1836 - respectfully states that he was born in Cam- bridge County of Middlesex State of Massachusetts, & lived in Watertown in said County & State in 1773. & on the 19 th of April of that year was in a company commanded by Capt. Barnard Col. B and Regiment & marched with said Company to Lexington on said 19 th of April & saw there just as the British returned from Concord for Boston & followed them & continued there thru' the night following up at least I was there also charged with a That in 1776 he went into Boston, after British troops left the place - & in 1777 was as a sergeant in

in a company commanded by Capt. Howard, & did actual military duty for five weeks, in keeping guard in different parts of the town of Boston, his wage being $2.80 a month. — That in Augt. 1777, he was commissioned as a Lieu- tenant in a uniform light infan- try Company in said Boston under Capt. Hinckley, & for several times a day was called into actual ser- vice, in the fall of that year, but cannot now recollect how long. Boston Feby. 1778, about the 13 th he was on military duty as lieute- nant in said Company till the 13 th of May constantly, chiefly as a guard at the Head Quarters of Major General Heath in Boston — the he acted as adjutant also part of the time, the company being large & there being two lieutenants besides himself — that, during the fall of 1777, he was ordered to guard three persons, citizens of Boston, who refused to pay their assessments to hire a man to go to R. Island, on a call for men to that place — or to carry them to Genl. Spencer, at Providence,

to see themselves in a position against the British then on R. Island. That he was engaged in that service several days, but can not say how many, is better than four or five
That in July 1778, Capt. Hinckley Company went as volunteers from Boston to R. Island where Genl. Sullivan was in command, in which service that he was a lieutenant of the company at that time. That he went with said company and was absent about 5 weeks in all, going & on the Island & returning That the company was first stationed near Col. Henry Jacob's Regiment on the Island & then advanced to be at the advanced corps or regi- ment, near the line under Col. Liv- ingston - who he thinks was a contemptible officer - that the company of Capt. Hinckley, after being about 5 weeks, as near as he can remember, on the Island, was discharged, or permitted to go home. That he held a commission as 2 d Lieut. in said company from August 1777 to the beginning of 1780 - but his commission is lost - That he has since been

resided in Boston aforesaid, that he has no pension from the United States nor from any individual State. That his last officer being deceased, he did not know till lately any one was living belonging to either Howard or Hinkley company. He therefore prays that for relief in the premises in such way as Congress, in its wisdom shall direct & order; & that he may be placed on the pension list of June 7 th 1832, for he is fully satisfied that he served on public military duty, at the period & time aforesaid, full six months, or more
Boston, Feby. 23 rd 1836
Zechariah HILLS
Michael HILLS March 24 1836 Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions Mr. Lawrence
Petition of Zechariah HILLS of Boston Pr. a pension of
Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions

Supplemental Statement & additional evidence

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Feb ry 18 th 1836.
* 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 Zach a Hicks is borne in a Book entitled, "Naval & Militia Officers, Commissioned, from December 16 th 1776, to Oct r 1 st 1780," where he is Commissioned as a second Lieut. t in Capt. John Hinckley's Company of Boston Light Infantry August, 11, 1777. The name of Zach a Hicks is also borne in the same book, as second Lieutenant under Captain John Hinckley in 1778, where he Claims services.
John P. Bigelow, Secretary.

I believe do  did go. Geo. Burroughs.
State of Massachusetts,
Suffolk ss. City of Boston Feb. 18 th 1836
Then personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for said County of Suffolk, the above named George Burroughs, who is well known to me, who has been twenty years, as a man of entire credibility, (a Justice of the Peace for said County) though somewhat infirm in body, & on a solemn oath, that the foregoing statement or deposition by him subscribed is true -
Helen Burroughs Just. Peace

J. George Burroughs of Boston, in the County of Suffolk, State of Massachu- setts, of the age of twenty seven eight in Feby. last, testify say that I belonged to a uniform company commanded by Capt. Hinckley in the winter & Spring of 1778, of Boston, & served therein several months, but cannot now say how many I was on duty - Zachariah Hicks was second Lieutenant in said company, & a very active offi- cer in drilling the men & John Rice was also a Lieutenant in said company, ( afterwards Deputy Collector of the port of Boston under Genl. Lincoln ) I was then an apprentice, & do not rec- lect particulars - that I did not go with said company to R. Island in the summer of that year, being excused by request of my then Master  the man whose apprentice I was. but the company

1. Sebastian Stetter, of Boston, County of Suffolk, a State of Massachu- setts, aged fifty three testify & say, that I have been the regular pastor or minister of a religious Society in said Boston, that I have long known Lacharish Hicks of said Boston who is now about eighty or more as I believe, - that he is a very credible & worthy character that I have always understood he was for some time in the military service in & about Boston, in the course of the war of the revolution, but as to the year or the term of his service, I know not. I know of no other Lacharish Hicks man in Boston.

nor at any former time: I believe his statements correct and entitled to full credit.
State of Mass to Suffolk ss. July 1836. Then the above named Sebastian Boston sheeted etc. is well known to me a Society in Boston in Suffolk Suffolk against a man who gave that the name deposition by him signed at time
Heard and read - decided Alden Bradford just. Request in most every way was in every particular very much in the nature of the of the conversation of the upon the terms of the with the world in which he found

State of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, City of Boston ss. On this twenty fourth day of February A.D. 1836, personally appeared in open court before the Hon. Justices of Common Pleas, now sitting, Jeremiah Hicks, a resident inhabitant of Boston aforesaid, in the county of State aforesaid, aged forty one years, the 20th day of February 1836 who being duly sworn according to law, both on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 — That he entered the service of the United States (on of his country) April 29th 1775, being then an inhabitant or resident of Watertown in the County of Middlesex a State of Massachusetts, a being twenty years of age, & served two days, viz the 19th & 20th of said April, in a company under command of Captain Barnard, which service was performed by going to Lexington about eight miles, (when the British passed through on their retreat from Concord to Boston, & pursuing the British troops as far as Cambridge, where doing military duty on the different lines until discharged. That in the month of June 1776, after after the British troops left Boston, he removed into Boston, where he has ever since. That in the year 1777, he was a sergeant in a company commanded by Capt. Howard, Symmes Major of the detachment, made by me

order of the Supreme Executive Council of Massachusetts, May 12 th 1777, to do duty under Major General Heath, said detach- ment had a major, 2 captains, 3 lieutenants & an adjutant, & that he served therein as Sergeant five weeks there were 8 Sergeants in the detachment at 22. & a month service  there that said service was performed in Boston in different parts, & some of the time at & near the Head Quarters of Genl. Heath. but that the whole of said time of five weeks was constantly under command of said Capt. Howard & Major Sprague, & on military duty.
That in 1778 he was a Lieutenant of a company commanded by Capt. Hinckley, (one of the Lieutenants of which was John Rice) Col. Hatch commanding the Regiment, & served in said capacity in Boston from 13 th or 14 th of Feb y to May 13 th or 14 th in that year (1778) being three months that his Commission was signed by a majority of the Executive Council, & that the said company, tho' subject to the command of Col. Hatch, of the Suffolk County, was considered in some sense an in- dependent company - that part of said three months he acted as adjutant of said corps - a part of this time, he was state

oned at Genl Heath's Quarters in Boston, & recd with Genl. Phillips & some British officers (of the army of Burgoyne then prisoners of war at Cambridge) visit- ing Genl. Heath. That he understood at the time, his company was called out according to an order of the Genl Court, who had authorized the Governor to raise a regiment to defend against Boston & vicinity, that his said commission is lost. That in July 1778, he went with said company, Capt. Stickney still commanding it & being kept the 2nd Lieutenant thereat on to Rhode Island; that said company was not a common Militia Company, but an independent or light Infantry company, uniform one & that it went as a volun- teer company, & was first stationed near to Col. Henry Jackson's Regt. a Mass Continental Regiment, but was soon thereafter ordered to be attached to Col. Livingston's Regiment or Battalion which he thinks was also a Continen- tal Regiment, & then an advanced detachment down near the line from the main American troops, towards the where the enemy were at that time continued there with said company for better than four or five weeks;

have being from on said expedition for all six weeks  weeks  that  in the said expedition had then leave to return home, which it did accordingly.
That he was commissioned a Lieute- nant in Capt. Hinkley's new Form Light Infantry Company in August 1878, & continued upwards of two years, was several times called out to do military duty, besides that above & before herein stated - but that he distinctly & clearly recollects, on one occasion going down to East Island in Boston harbor & to other parts of the bay on military duty with a part of said company, at least the time he was thus in service he cannot determine, & has no evidence to offer, except that it was a few days, whether three or five, he is not able to say - & that on another occasion, in the fall of 1877, he thinks Sept. or Oct. he was ordered to take charge of three persons, to guard them or carry them to Providence, to do duty under Genl. Spencer, because when ordered to line a soldier to go there, they refused, & there was an order to take them into custody & carry them to Prov- idence - but how many days he was engaged in this duty, he is also unable to say - He also says that on several other occa- sions, a part of the said company was ordered on duty as a guard or patrol, & that he was so engaged & so did duty, as an officer in said company for a longer or shorter time.

He further saith that his name is not borne on any pension list or roll of the United States, or of this State & that he receives, & never has received any pen- sion from the United States; & that he hereby relinquishes all claims to a pension, except the present. That The reason he has not sooner made this application for a pension, is that he was not aware till lately of any record of his said service, or that any of his fellow soldiers were living, or if living could remember any thing of his said service; that his commission was lost, & his Captain & the other officers were dead. He also further saith, that he was born in Cambridge, County of Mid- dlessex aforesaid, in Feby. 1755 —
Zechariah Hicks
Suffolk ss.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts At the Court of Common Pleas held at Boston in & for the County of Suffolk on the first Tuesday of January A.D. 1836, to wit, on the Twenty fourth day of February A.D. 1836, appeared the above named Zechar- iah Hicks, and made Oath to the Truths of this statement by him made. I also certify that the said Court is a Court of Record In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Boston this Twenty Fourth day of October A.D. 1836.
Chas. A. Parker. Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
To all whom it may concern:
Edward Everett
Know Ye, That Alden Bradford Esq. is a Justice of the Peace, for the County of Suffolk.
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in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission- ed, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this sixteenth day of February, A. D. 1837, and in the sixty first Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
John P. Bigelow Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Boston, Augh 15 th 1836
Sir, I am favored with your note of the 9 th Mr Lawrence says the papers relating to Lechiah Hicks are among the papers of the House of Representatives, in the case of a Mr Burch, Clk, or assistant clk - & must be with other documents of revolutionay claims, for the committee did not act upon them - Mr L. says they were tied together with a string or tape
I thought a new application would be proper, as after long & repeated conversation with Mr Hicks, he is rather more distinct or full about his service in summer of '76 in the harbor of Boston, in repairing the forts, & his guarding the men in 1777, who refused to go to R. Island or to send a man -
Mr Hicks is a very credible & respectable man; & appears very cautious in his statement, not to give

more service than he really per- formed. I am satisfied, that his statement is within the limits of truth - respectfully as Alden Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commis n of Pensions

Hon ble Abbott Laurence Member of Congress Washington
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2 - 4-7 - 3 - 1.5 2 - 1.5 on account J. H. M.

2 days previous 1. 5 " Margaret 3. - " as advertised 4-7-
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Wm Lloyd Jenkin Member of Congress Washington

Boston, March 10.
Dear Sir,
I have recd your letter about Mr Hicks, & send some explanatory. I have no doubt of his having served more than 6 months, but the officers saw me dead, & the files in Reg. H. saw me, desertion & imprisonment.
Yours with respect H. Brownson

Boston March 15. 1836
There is no direct or full or positive evidence from any one who was with Mr Hicks the 5 weeks on R. Island, July & August 1778. But his solemn declaration, it is presumed, will be received, as there is sufficient testimony of his character for truth & veracity. Such evidence has been admitted in similar cases. There is no one living who was with the company on the Island; but Geo. Burroughs, whom you probably know, says, in his affidavit, that the company did not go at that time, & he believes, or does not doubt that Hicks went. & Hicks states several events which show fully that he was there. As to the 3 months in fall of 1777, a Lieut. there is no other proof, than that he was commissioned in Augt. 1777 in the company, & that the company was several times called into actual service, of which he is uncertain as to precise time, except that he was on the Castle & other parts of the harbor of Boston several days, he carefully & honestly states 5 or 6 days. — So also he states a few days, 3 or 4, in 1777 Sept. to guard the citizens to Providence, who had refused to supply a man as required by law, to go on the expedition at that time to R. Island, when drafts were made for men to go there.

There is a law of the summer of 1777, authorizing the Executive Council to call out men to act as guards, as Genl. Heath might require, or to guard the harbor under direction of the Council. Hinckley's Com- pany was a volunteer, or independent, & not of the regular militia; so that they went to R. Island as volunteers in July & August 1778; they went as such, & had no pay from the State as the militia had who went at the time. This is seen by Mr. Burrough's deposition, who did not go, tho' he belonged to the company, being excused by desire of the man whose apprenticeship he then was - I do fully believe Hicks was at R. Island & going & returning in 1778 full six weeks - & that in the fall of 1777 he was often called out & did mili- tary service, as a Lieut. but being a volunteer company, there was no de- mand for pay of the Council & no pay roll on file - Hon. A. Lawrence                      Alden Bradford

I wish to add to the annexed, that I have been many years personally acquainted with Mr Zachariah Hicks, & can truly say, that he is a very worthy man - He is now a member of our State Legislature for Boston - And the reason he has not before applied for a pension is 1 st that he is not absolutely poor or destitute, being in comfortable circumstances as a reputable mechanic - & that 2 d he was not aware till lately of any record or document to prove his service & that time (a war) - forgotten by him as one of the company till late inquiry & information possessed him of the fact - I have no doubt of his doing duty in s d company at different times, more than double the period he states & declares, but he

has not the evidence in his power to produce —
Mr Hicks is also known to Hon. Mr. Webster of the U. S. Senate, & to Mr. Lawrence Member of Congress from this City & County
respecty.
Alden Bradford
Feb. 2 d . 1836 —
Pierce the Deponent, was one of the Tea party —
Statement of A. Bradford care of T. Hicks

I am told that there are copies of the Resolves of an Genl. Court, which relate to men & expenses of the war of Revolution. And I therefore refer to a resolve of Sept. 30 1777, which requires Col. Hatch of a Boston Regt. to arrest & keep under guard several persons therein named, & to escort them by a sufficient military guard to the State of R. Island & deliver them to the commanding officer of the troops from Massachusetts; they having been drafted to go to R. Island, or to hire a man to go for them, which they refused.
All this shows there was such ser- vice done as Mr. Hicks states in his application. But there is no pay roll from Capt. Hinckley for this service to be found, nor of the service of 5 weeks on R. Island in July & Augt 1778, nor of the few days ser- vice in Boston harbor in fall of 1777, & yet there is no doubt of the service having been done.
I know not that I can add anything important. — Allen Bradford March 15-1836.

Boston, Jan. 7. 19 th
Dear Sir, my old friend, Zach. Hicks of this City is desirous of knowing the fate of his application for a pension - You kindly stated in a note last summer, after your return from this City, that you would ex- amine the case again, if he you could obtain the papers - I wrote you in reply, that they were in hand of a Comtee of House of Rep s Congres. & gave the name of Chairman depute Mr. Lawrence our mem- ber, writing Mr. Hicks that he cannot find your papers in the archive of H. of Rep s & neither my Clerk nor the Comtee know what has become of them -
I thought that perhaps you had obtained them, after I wrote you what Mr. Lawrence had said, & mentioned the Com tee - But I now understand that the Com tee have mis-laid or lost the papers; or, at least, cannot

find them
What would you advise to do? Mr Hicks is desirous of making an application, but it will be a great trouble, & one of his witnesses has lately died -
Have the good will to say, if you have examined his case a second time, or could not find papers, or think it well for him to try again -
In reply by urgent request of Mr Hicks -
with respect & A. Mansford
J. L. Edmunds Commr. of Pensions

District Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Suffolk  B.  City of Boston William Peirce aged ninety two years, an inhabitant of Boston in said District testify as say, that he was a private in Capt. Hinck- ley's Company of Boston, in the year 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780 - which was a large independent company, & that during the said years, Lacharish Hick, was a lieutenant (a acting adjutant part of the time, but what part or how long cannot say) in said company; that in 1778, as he believes, a party in winter a party in spring, he with a part of said company guarded the Head Quar- ters of Major General Heath, then  after Commander in Chief of troops in & about Boston, when the said Hick served also as lieutenant, & he thinks the whole time that he the deponent did, which he saith was three months. That he belonged to the said company when it was ordered & marched to R Island the summer of the same year, but was excused from that service by Capt. Hinckley, & he remembers one or two others also were excused from that expedition. but he fully believes, as has no doubt, as he so always understood, that said Hick went to R Island at that time as an officer in the said company, at that time - That said Hick, & Capt. Hinckley used to be dressed in his shop (he the said Peirce being then a barber) but were both absent to R Island about six weeks, at that time, for when the company returned, the said Hinckley & Hick came again to be dressed in his shop -
William Peirce
Mass. Dis. Ct. on this fifteenth day of February A.D. 1839. Personally appeared in open Court the said William Peirce to me well known as a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed Wm Peirce Mass Dis Ct

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } Suffolk ss. City of Boston }
George Burroughs of Boston, aforesaid, Esq. aged seventy eight years, on his oath doth testify & say, that he was a member of the Company commanded by Capt. Hinck- ley of Boston, in the year 1778, & was then under age & an apprentice; & that Lacha- riah Hicks was an Officer in said Com- pany, but whether 2 d or 3 d Lieutenant can not now say — that as he the depo- nent stated in a former Deposition, which he understands is lost or mislaid, with other papers relating to the application of said Hicks, the Deponent did not go with said Company to R. Island in the summer of 1778, & cannot therefore say absolutely whether said Hicks went or not.
Geo. Burroughs
Commonwealth of Mass ts Suffolk City of Boston, Feb. 7. 14 1837 — Personally ap- peared the above named Geo. Burroughs, well known to me as a credible person, & highly respect- able, & made oath to the truth of the deposition above by him subscribed. — I further certify that said Burroughs is infirm, & it is not con- venient for him to attend the Court. Alden Bradford, Just. Peace.

Massachusetts District S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk Co City of Boston
Sebastian Streeter, regular Pastor & Teacher of a Church & Society in Boston in said District  for years , appeared made solemn oath that he was well acquainted with Zachariah Hicks of said Boston, & has been for more than twenty years, & that he is reputed to be over eighty years of age & is also reputed in the neighborhood where he lives, to have been a soldier or officer sometime in the revolutionary war, & that he concurs in that opinion —
Sebastian Streeter
Commonwealth of Massachusetts - } Massachusetts District Suffolk Co City of Boston - } S.
Ebenezer Homer of Boston in said District  for years , aged seventy six years, on oath testifies as says, that I have known Mr. Zachariah Hicks of S d Boston, nearly or quite fifty years, & that he has been all this time a citizen of Boston, & much longer, as I believe, that he is about eighty or eighty one years of age as I believe, that he is reputed by his neighbors to have been in military service in the war of the revolution, & that I believe he was - particularly, I recollect Capt. Howland & Capt. Hinckley's companies in Boston, & saw said turn out & meet with the latter, as an officer, but do not know his rank -
Ebenezer Homer

Massachusetts District Is. On this fifteenth day of February A. D. 1837 - Personally appeared in open Court the within named Sebastian Street of Eleazer Hemen known to be credible witnesses, and respectively made oath to the truth of the within depositions by them respectively subscribed
J. D. Sleeper Judge U.S. District Court Boston
Isaac Hicks
9 dls 1 - 1. 5 - 5.83 4.20 67.22 6. 4869.05
John Bradford Dyer Esq.

Jacob Hickey
Mass
Revolutionary Claim
Mar 27
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Boston, March 21 st
Dr Sir, I sent on a new application for Zachariah Hicks about 20 days ago, & the old Gentleman is desirous to learn its destiny. I am sorry his other application & papers were mislaid, for among them were certificates of his 3 months service, & a ccts & some others - but the originals being removed to Washington last summer he could not get them to go with his new application, but I referred to them, with a request, that any such defect might be supplied, by the papers so transferred to your office from this State -
I have never had any doubt of his service more than 6 months as well as his liability & readiness to turn out at a moments warning.

Will there be any instructions or interpretations on the late law for widows of revolutionary officers ?
If so, pray send me — I have an aged aunt, very poor, whose husband was killed in Novr. 1778, by Indians a Col. of Mass regular regt. Continental army, Col. Jehalod Alden — of VII. Regt.
She married again in 1780, or 1781. but is now a widow, & has been twenty years, very poor — I presume the new explanatory law opens the door for her, — Yours &c Alden Bradford

Boston, March 28 th
Dear Sir,
Mr. L. Hicks' case was made out anew with great care, depositions taken again, & court's certificate re early in Feby. & soon after the receipt of your note of January — and we have long been expecting an answer. I put the letter, directed to you as Comr. of Pensions, & marked revolutionary claims , containing affidavits, extracts from records, certificates, with my own hand into P. office.
I am surprised & sorry to hear they have not reached you. But not possible, the letter has been overlooked in your office, among the very great number you have? I know not what to do or say more. I spent great part of two days with Mr.

Picks in taking depositions & attending the court - & I know they were all enclosed & directed to you, & put into the office respectfully - Yours A. Bradford

Jack Hicks.
75. Barnard. ————— 2 days.
76. Labourer at the fort. vol. 7 as a man
May 77 Capt Howard Co. Serf. 1. 5.
Aug 77 off. Lieut. —————
9 days
Sept. ~ comm d of a guard 8 days
Little part of Winter 78, had comm d part of #
Capt Berkeley Co. ————— 3 mo
1 mo. Det. Serf.
Summer 78. West V.R. L. 5 weeks 1. 12
4 mo 20 Lieut.
6.04 7
Vol. 20 p 3. a roll 56.11 weeks for Howard
# 1 - 1 is a roll 6.4
for the noncomm d off & addn of Capt Berkeley Co. for 3 mo from Feb 13 to May 13 1778

I send back this as you may wish to lay it before the Com tee I also send two other sheets of explanation to be handed to S r Com tee

War Department Pension Office March 11 th 1836
Sir
I have the honor to return you the letter of Mr Bradford respecting the case of Zachariah Hicks and to state that the testimony is satisfactory as to two days as a private under Capt Barnard in 1775- 1 month & 5 days as Sergeant under Capt Howard in 1777 and 3 months as a Lieutenant under Capt Hinkley in 1778; but the aggregate is less than the minimum provisions of the Act of 7 th June 1832. He alleges a term of 3 months as a Lieutenant in the latter part of 1777 in Genl Heath's guard and five weeks from August 1778 as Lieut under Capt Hinkley. The first may not have been a military service under his commission in obedience to the orders of the competent Authority of Massachusetts to which he was alone subject; and the other if rendered could be sustained by the evidence of survivors and by the records in the Office of the Secretary of Massachusetts.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Servant
J L Edwards
Hon Abol Lawrence House of Representatives