Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 24380, Abel Hayden, Mass. Sea Service

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass. Sea Service
Hayden, Abel Lydia
W 24380
CONTENTS

8024.
Massachusetts Abel Hayden
of Braintree in the State of Mass who was a Marine in the Ship commanded by Captain Bathsheba of the commanded by in the time for 6 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of March 1833 and sent to 92 Adams St. of Reps
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $40 — Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " 10 —
$50 —
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H C/6 Blair Clerk, Book D — Vol. 2 — Page 100.

827 Massachusetts
Lydia Hayden widow of Abel Hayden decd.
He was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 8th June 1834 of Boston in the State of Me. who was a lieutenant in the Company commander by Captain _____ of the Ship commander by Capt Calhoun in the Me. Navy line for 10 mos
Inscribed on the Roll of Massa at the rate of 20 Dollars ~ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Feb. 1838 and Act  Feb J. Adams L. M. Stone, Boston
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $ 57.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 1839 10.00
$ 67.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded, by W. H. Fison Clerk Book 4 Vol. 1st Page 94

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Suffolk ss.
On this sixth  seventh day of August in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judge of the Municipal Court now sitting at Boston in and for said County, Abel Hoiden a resident of Boston in said County, aged 67 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 A. D. 1832.
THAT he was born at Braintree North Parish (now Quincy) in the County of Suffolk now Norfolk on the sixth day of August A. D. 1765, and that there is a record of his birth in the records of Braintree that he was in the United States service from about the fifteenth day of June A. D. 1782, to the fifteenth day of Dec r A. D. 1782 as a marine in the Navy of the State of Massachusetts that he was residing at Braintree
when he entered the service; that he entered on or about 15 th of June on board the Ship Sable of 22 guns and 147 men for six months and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt John Cathcart and the other officers on board said ship were Lieut. Pillsbury 2 nd Lieut. Munford Sailing Master Surgeon Cheever & Capt. Wales that he marched from Boston to Casco Bay , from thence to Bermudas and continued to cruise round Bermudas . that he served at  with of the regular troops , and
regular officers were known to him : that he was in no battle
and at the end of his service received no written discharge: that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at said Quincy and at said Boston and left the service on or about the said 15 th of December
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the day of A. D. 17 , to the day of A. D. 17 , as a in the : that he was residing at
when he entered the service; that he and served for the period aforesaid under the command of
: that he marched from to , from to from to : that he served at with of the regular troops; and
regular officers were known to him: that he was in battle
and at the end of his service received written discharge.
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the day of A. D. 17 , to the day of A. D. 17 , in the : that he was residing at
when he entered the service; that he and served for the period aforesaid under the command of
: that he marched from to , from to from to : that he served at with of the regular troops; and
regular officers were known to him: that he was in battle
and at the end of his service received written discharge.

The General Circumstances of his service were as follows viz. We went to Casco Bay to take in a considerable number of volunteers, who joined our ships company. We captured for prizes three brigs, one was the Star, and another the Star, & the other I do not recollect, one brig was laden with salt and bound to Nantucket. She was taken by the English and we recaptured her. The other brig was laden with strong beer & cordage. I am known to President Adams and have been since my boyhood and I believe that he would testify as to my character for veracity.
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 first aforesaid.
Before Peter O. Tracher, Judge &c.
We Edward C. Turrell
Abel Hayden cordwainer, residing in the
City of Boston
and Eli Keasie trader residing in said
Boston hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abel Hayden who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
Before Peter O. Tracher Judge &c.
Eli Keasie
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier name and served as he states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that Edward Turrell, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the City of Boston; and that Eli Keasie, who has also signed the same is a resident in Boston and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Peter O. Tracher Judge of the Municipal Court
I of the do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.

Application of No 1456 Abel Hayden
25 Marine 6 Mark
D. L. Chula Brook

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk ss
I, Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, a Court of Record legally established in said Commonwealth, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mel Hayden, for a pension, also that the Honorable Peter C. Thacker is sole Judge of said Court and that his name affixed to these papers are his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at said Boston this seventh day of August A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk.

Memoranda
1180 Lydia Hayden of Abel
admitted P. 6 - #20
L. M. Stone. Boston

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,"
State of Massachusetts, } County of Suffolk. } ss
On this twenty seventh day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight personally appeared before the Hon. Wm Simmons one of the Judges of the Police Court within & for the city of Boston personally appeared before the being a court of record of the Lydia Hayden a resident of South Boston in the county of Suffolk aged sixty five 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 Abel Hayden who was a * Seaman or Marine in the Navy of the Revolution, for which service he received a Pension from the United States of Twenty Dollars per annum under the Act of 6th June 1832. during his life & after his decease she applied for and received, as his Widow, the annuity due. She further declares that her maiden name was Lydia Miles and that she is the widow of the identical Abel Hayden a pensioner as above stated.
She further declares that she was married to the said Abel Hayden on the twenty sixth day of February in the year seventeen hundred and ninety two; that her husband, the aforesaid Abel Hayden died on the eighth day of June eighteen hundred & thirty four; 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, viz.: at the time above stated.
Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me,
Lydia her Hayden mark.
Wm Simmons, Judge as aforesaid
* Here insert the rank the husband held in the army, navy, or militia, as the case may be, and specify the service performed, as directed in rule numbered one of these regulations.

Suffolk ss.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
I, Thomas Pomeroy, Clerk of the Police Court within and for the City of Boston, do hereby certify that William Simmons, Esquire, whose name is hereinaffixed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the said Court, that the with signature of his name is in his proper handwriting, and that the said Court is a Court of Record within said Commonwealth.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, at Boston, this first day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
Thomas Pomeroy, Clerk.

I Frank Stratton of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and Commonwealth, Massachusetts in the sixty first year of my age, do testify and say, that I well knew Abel Hayden formerly a marine in the navy of the Revolutionary War. Said Hayden was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of 7 th June 1832. at $20.00 per annum and died on the 8 th day of June 1834. leaving Mrs. Lydia Hayden the aforesaid applicant, his widow. —
I further testify and say, that I have been well acquainted with the said Lydia Hayden, for more than thirty years last past & know that she was the wife of said Abel & has not intermarried since his decease. — Frank Stratton
Commonwealth of Mass a . Suffolk County. } ss.
Be it known that on this 27 th day of August A.D. 1838. personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Frank Stratton above named, who is personally known to me to be a credible witness & entitled to belief, and made oath that the Affidavit by him subscribed is true.
John D. Sleeper Justice of the Peace and Judge of a Police Court

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secy's Office. Aug. 27. 1838.
Sir, I certify that the within William Linnun is a justice of the Peace of the Superior Court for the County of Suffolk. Witness my hand & the Seal of the State
John P. Brigham
Secy of the Commonwealth

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk County Town of Braintree ss. Married by the Rev. Jonathan Strong, Feby twenty six seventeen hundred and ninety two. Abel Hayden and Lydia Niles
The above is a true copy from the records of Marriages in the Town of Braintree in the county & state aforesaid with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legable figures as follows Feby. 26. 1792
Attest Judson Stoddard, Town Clerk
I Judson Stoddard above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Braintree aforesaid in the county and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town of Braintree with the exception above named as certified by me.
Judson Stoddard Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk County ss. August 20th 1838
Then the above named Judson Stoddard, Subscribed and made Oath to the truth of the above declaration or certificate of the deposition by him made as above
Before Me.
Benjamin Richards justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office } August 20. 1838 }
I hereby certify that the within named Benjamin Richards is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Norfolk.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Name and the Seal of the State
John P. Bigelow } Secretary of the Commonwealth }

Widow WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24380
Lydia Hayden Wid of Abel Hayden Brn Mass. Lin
Act July 7 th 1838
Index: Vol A , Page 318
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Boston. 8 th September 1838.
Sir
I have the honor to forward herewith the applications of Mrs. Sarah Gray & Mrs. Lydia Hayden for Pensions under the act of 7 th July 1838.
I am very respectfully Your obed Servt R. M. Stone
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions Washington D.C.

Abel Noagden Mays Act of June 1839 to what time 167? (Rev Offer Oct 29, 1838)
Decl 24th June 1834. Raisin 3' 6" 34. 1834.

I Abijah Cheever of Saugus in the County of Essex and Com- monwealth of Massachusetts, physician aged seventy three years testify and say that I was principal surgeon on board the State Ship Tartar of twenty long Mines & six six pounders, belonging to the State of Massachusetts, that I was commissioned by John Hancock Governor of said State to serve on board said ship in the ca- pacity aforesaid, and did so serve in the Revolutionary war from the first day of May A seventeen hundred and eighty two to the last day of November of the same year; that I had not seen Abel Hayden of Boston since the time of said service until the present day at the making

of this affidavit; but from the answers which he has given to questions which I have proposed to him respecting facts and circumstances which occurred on board said ship during the said period, and from various anecdotes and details which he has of himself related, I have no doubt whatever that said Hayden was on board said ship and served as he states.
I further say that said vessel sailed from Boston, made the Bermudas and cruised to the Southward eastward of those islands, and that Capt John Batheast was commander of said ship during said period.
Elijah Reems formerly Principal Surgeon of the Ship-Fastar, and Junior Surgeon in the Military Hospital of the U.S. Continental Line

Supporting City of Boston January 2 d . 1833. The aforesaid Cheever personally ap- peared and made oath that the foregoing state- ment by him subscrib- ed is true.
Before me
David Lee Child Jus: Peace
I further certify that said Cheever is in a credible person and his statement entitled to credit.
D Lee Child Jus. P.

To James L Edward Esq
Sir,
In regard to the Claim of Abel Hayden, I apprehend there must be some error. He served in the same Cruise of the State Ship Tartar that his brother Nathl Hay- den did whose paper herewith return. If there was not some error in making the certificate

of Edward Baigs Esq. Secre- tary of the State of Massachu- setts, that certificate will show that a final bal- ance for services on board the Tartar was due & paid to Abel Hayden on the 18 th Dec 1782. which is incompatible with his service having commeu- ced three days before that time. I think Pennock have made some mistake in preparing the declaration in the case

I should be sorry to have the old man suffer by it. One of the officers Dr Cheever, who was surgeon in I have lately found still living and knowing Abel Hayden.
I am Respectfully Yr Obt Servt D L Lins
P.S. I will send the testimony of Dr Cheever in regard to both Haydens.
D L L

I Nathaniel Hayden of Boston aged sixty years testify and say that I was a seaman on board the Massachu- setts State Ship Tartar, Captain John Cathcart, that I served in a cruise round the Bermudas Islands from the month of June 1782 to the month of December of the same year, and that Abel Hayden my brother was a mariner on board said ship and served during the period aforesaid, Nathl Hayden
Suffolk ss Municipal Court of the City of Boston August 7 th 1832 Sworn to, in open Court by Nathaniel Hayden, aforesaid Attest Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk said Court.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Aug. 6 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
the name of Abel Hayden is borne on a roll of the Massachusetts State Ship Tartar Captain John Cattleart, showing certain unpaid balances due on the 10 Dec r 1702. to the officers seamen & marines of sd Ship but not showing the times, for which they enlisted or served
Edward D. Bangs. Secy