Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10850, Isaac Horton, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Horton, Isaac
S. 10850
Boarded.
CONTENTS

31 Sept 1832 N. Hampshire
Isaac Horton
of Grafton in the State of N. Hampshire who was a private in the Company by Captain Welch of the Regt — commanded by Col. McIntire in the New Hamp — line for 5 mo: Capt } 10 " pri- }
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Hamp — at the rate of 31 Dollars 62 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Aug. 1832 and sent to N. P. Rogers Plymouth
Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 $103.20 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 1834 25.87
$129.07
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Col. McIntire, Clerk Book E, Vol. 2, Page 90
died May 17, 1834.

No 23799
Isaac Horton Grafton County New Hampshire
   Policy. Duration of Service. Bank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.      Capital 164  5-1000  Annual 10   15-   
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Nathan P. Rogers, Plymouth New Hampshire
prescribed.
It is hereby certified that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above.
Are the papers defective as to form or authentication, and if so, in what respects?
Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary proof, or by all?
Where did he reside when he entered the service?
In what battles was he engaged?
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BRIEF in the case of Isaac Norton  County of Grafton - in the State of New Hampshire  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 72 years 
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted July In 1776 - 4 - private Gen. Lincoln Col. Belcher, Col. etc. Intoch   Enlisted Nov. 1777 - 5 - Corporal Col. Wild, Col. Proofs,   Enlisted July 1778 - 3 - private Col. Baxter, Col. etc. Intoch   Enlisted July 1780 - 3 - private Col. Newcomb, Col. Thayer  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Rhode Island  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Braintree Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary & Documentary - Witness credible - there is no clergyman acquainted with applicant  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not properly attached 
 Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Reuben H. Wells Examining Clerk.

Haas Horton's app n for Pension
23799

State of New Hampshire Grafton County ss
on this nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appeared
in open court, being the Court of Probate for said County of Grafton before the Hon. Edward Webber Judge of said Court, now holding a let- ter of the same Isaac Horton a resident of Thornton in said County of Grafton aged seventy two years past, who being first duly sworn according to law with an oath make the following declara- tion in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 - that he entered the service of the United States under the following officers and served as herein stated - that he en- listed in the month of July 1776 at Braintree in the Common- wealth of Massachusetts under Capt. Nathaniel Belcher of Braintree for four months in the service of the United States & passed muster under Ebenezer Thayer afterwards Genl. Thayer - that his commanding regimental officer was Col. M c Intosh of Needham in Massachusetts - under the command of Genl. Lin- coln - that he marched to Fairfield in Connecticut - went thence to Valentine's Hill & from there to White Plains where he served until the expiration of the four months, was then regularly discharged - that he does not remember seeing General Lincoln in command until they arrived at Valentine's Hill aforesaid - He states further that he enlisted again at Braintree in the early part of November in the year 1777 under Capt. Silas Wild of S d Braintree in Col. Brooks' regiment for five months - that he went to barracks at Cambridge to Fort N o 4. whence he went to serve on Puffin Hill as a guard to British prisoners taken with Burgoyne & served there on said duty as corporal during said five months, and at the expiration thereof was regularly discharged - that he again enlisted at said Braintree in July as he thinks in 1778 under Capt. Daniel Bacon of Braintree for three months that he marched to Weston Ferry & from there crossed over to the island of Rhode Island - was under Col. M c Intosh Brigadier Genl. Lovell of Hingham Mass- achusetts acting Genl. Sullivan - was in battle on Rhode island - retreated off the island to Liviston - went round to Pawtucket - thence to Providence & from there to Patuxent - to Greenwood

to Warwick, & there remained & served guarding the shores, until the expiration of said three months, at that place & was then regularly discharged. That he afterwards, in the latter part of July 1780, joined Braintree enlisted under Capt. Thomas Newcomb in Col. Thayers regiment, for four months, went to Springfield in Massachusetts from there to Great Barrington - thence to Paskack where he went on board a vessel & went down to Fishkill & from there to West Point & with the exception of occasional absences on detachments, remained at West Point until the end of his said term of enlistment, after having served out his said period was regularly discharged. That he was in the service in all sixteen months - That he never to his recollection received any written discharge. That he never was in any engagement excepting in the affair battle on Rhode Island - That he has no documentary evidence of his service excepting the annexed paper from the Secretary's office of Massachusetts in which there is an error of the year of his service beginning Nov. 24 th 1777 which the certificate has given as 1778 - it was guarding the prisoners taken in 1777 with Burgoyne - & the period of the service under Capt. Newcomb was certified three months instead of four probably on account of some portion of the time for which he enlisted being paid, being spent in moving from place to place. That he knows no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service - That he was born at Attleboro in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts August 19 th 1760 where there is a record in the books of the town of his birth - That after becoming of age he went from Braintree to his native town & established himself in business & lived there a few years when he removed to Bridgewater in Massachusetts & lived there near thirty years, removed to Oxford in Middlesex & lived there at Lynn in N. H. a few years returned to Bridgewater - removed from there to Salem in

New Hampshire lived there until about a year ago when he moved to Thornton N. Hampshire about a year ago has resided there until now & still lives there - that Adin Packard & Eleanor Foss of said Thornton living in his present neighborhood are acquainted with him & can testify as to their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution as to his character for veracity - He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any Agency of any State - Isaac Horton
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year first above written
Before Me Edward Webber Judge of Probate
We Adin Packard & Eleanor Foss both residing in Thornton in said county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Horton who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be twenty two years of age or over - that he is a man of good character for veracity & that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Adin Packard
Eleanor Foss
Sworn to & subscribed the 20 th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
Before Me Edward Webber Judge of Probate
And the said Judge of Probate does hereby declare his finding after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier of service in the States - And the said Judge further certifies that it appears to him that Adin Packard & Eleanor Foss who have signed the preceding certificate are both residents in Thornton aforesaid and are credible persons and their statements entitled to credit - & that it has been made to appear that the reason why a discharge certificate has not been produced to the facts above stated is that the claimant residing in Thornton when Horton went there had removed out of the State & there is now none in said town or in the

immediate vicinity who knew S. Norton
I, Edward Hopper Judge of Probate Moses Dow Clerk & Register of the said court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court of Probate in the matter of the application of Isaac Norton for a new year. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20th day of February anno Domini 1833 - Moses Dow.

Rev. War
10850 INVALID.
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File No. 10,850
Isaac Horton
Dis. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. a , Page 178
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Isaac Norton which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? Yes
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. † Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? No
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

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N.P.
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Pay to Mr. [unclear] 3
free
J. L. [unclear] [unclear]
War Department
Signal Office
Washington

Plymouth N. H. July 20. 1833
J. Edwards Esq.
Enclosed application of Grace Weston for a pension. Result when found to be directed home - I had the case of several applications made as early as the middle of September from which I have never heard - I sent several letters of inquiry to yourself & recently one to the Secy of War - but can get no answer since - Some of these I had case of answered & the certificates requested to be sent to my care were sent to the Clerk of the Court and when they reach me had gone a good deal out of the way - I hope I shall be able to hear directly from them & from the others whose names I have mentioned in my several letters to you
Respectfully
Y. S. Jewett
W. H. Rogers
Yours sincerely in doubt amendment of the case improved by fund by a hundred or two miles

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Sept. 17 th 1832.
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
Isaac Horton served as a private under Capt. Thos. Newcomb in Col. Thayers Regiment for three months from the 22 nd of July 1780— And that he was a Corporal for two terms of service under Capt. Silas Wild in Col. Brooks' Regiment, the first of which lasted for two months & thirty days from the 4 th of November 1778 & the latter for two months commencing on the 3 rd day of February 1779.
Edward D. Bangs, Secy