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ANDREW WHITTIER of Guilford, N. H .; farmer; aged 59; wife Anna aged 58; children Elizabeth Whitcher 33, invalid, Timothy Whitcher 25, infirm, Jacob Whitcher, 18, Moses Whitcher 16, Andrew Whitcher, 13. Declaration July 18, 1820. He then held pension certificate 17002 under original declaration September 9, 1819. Service: "As a private in the Company commanded by Capt. John Calef, Col. Pearce Long's Regiment, New Hampshire Line, Continental Establishment from about August 7th 1776 till August 8th 1777 & was discharged at Stillwater-was in the battle of Fort Ann."
He filed an additional declaration September 6, 1823, and stated that his name had been placed on the pension list, and dropt therefrom on account of his property.
BENJAMIN WIGGIN, Tuftonborough, N. H. (Declar- ation missing.)
AFFIDAVIT. We the subscribers depose and say, that we have been acquainted with Benjamin Wiggin formerly of Stratham in the County of Rockingham, now of Tuftonborough this County of Strafford for many years last past and believe him to be a man of strict truth and veracity, and whose character is unimpeachable; and have no doubt he served in the army of the United States in the New Hampshire Militia, New Hamp- shire line in the manner he has stated in the declaration he has made in order to entitle himself to a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
JOHN BROWN
GRAFTON ABBOT
JOHN LUCAS.
Strafford s. s.
Aug't 23 1832 Sworn to before me: JOSEPH FARRER, Justice of Peace.
LT. COL. MARK WIGGIN of Wolfeborough, N. H .; husbandman; aged 74, no family living with him. Declar- ation July 1I, 1820. He then held pension certificate
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16309 under original declaration May 2, 1818. Service: He was commissioned a Captain of the first company of the Few Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col. Pierce Long, in August 1776 & served therein for one year and was honorably discharged the 8th of August, 1777-He was a Major in the militia and assisted as such at the tak- ing of Burgoyne's Army, was a Lieut. Col. in Col. Kelly's Reg't with Gen'l Sullivan at Rhode Island
CHARLES WILLEY of Lee, N. H .; aged 65; wife Deb- orah aged 62, children Lydia aged 22, Mark aged 12, John- son aged 6. Declaration July 5, 1820. Service: "He entered as a Soldier in Capt. Amos Morrill's Company (as near as he can recollect in the month of March, 1777) and was attached to the Second New Hampshire Regiment in the New Hampshire line of Continental troops commanded by Col. Reid-that he continued to serve in said corps in the service of the United States until about the first of January 1778 when he was discharged from service in the State of New York."
JOSIAH WILLEY of Wolfborough, N. H .; farmer; aged 70; wife 69; granddaughter 13. Declarations (August 17, 1831 and) January 19, 1832. (He had a son Josiah Willey to whom he had deeded his homestead.) Service: Enlisted for one year in March, 1779, in the company commanded by Capt. Chase of Dover, Col. Reed's Regiment, continued until June, 1780, when he was discharged from the service at West Point in the State of New York.
JAMES WILKINSON of Alton, N. H .; aged 69; wife Lydia aged 45. Declaration July 11, 1820. He then held pension certificate 9618 under original declaration of April 18, 1818. Service: "He entered Capt. Wier's Comp'y, Col. Scammel's Regiment, New Hampshire line, in April. 1777 for three years which time he served and was honour- ably discharged-he was at the taking of Burguoyne & was wounded in the head-was with Gen'l Sullivan in the Indian Country-in 1779 &c."
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ENOCH WINGATE of Milton, N. H .; aged 67; no family residing with him. Declaration July 4, 1820. He then held pension certificate 1194 under original declaration of April 7, 1818. Service: "that he served in Capt. Nowell's Company, Second Regiment New Hampshire line-that he enlisted in said service about the month of April 1777 and Continued in s'd service untill the year 1780 when he was honourably discharged from the army." (Enoch Wingate engaged May I, 1777, for three years. Discharged May I, 1780. Died August 4, 1828, according to McDuffee's His- tory of Rochester, N. H.)
ELIJAH WITHAM of Rochester, N. H .; age 65; wife Hitty aged 68; son John. Declaration July 5, 1820. He then held pension certificate 16120 under original declar- ation April 4, 1818. Service: "He entered November 1775 in the Company of Capt. Silas Wild, in the Regiment com- manded by Col. Edmund Phinney in the Massachusetts line & served therein for the term of about one year & two months & was discharged at Fort W'm Henry or Lake George about the first of Jan'y 1777."
NATHAN WITHAM of Meredith, N. H. (Declaration missing.)
AFFIDAVIT. We Rhoda Bagley and Sally G. Bagley both of Mere- dith in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, depose and say, that we were acquainted with Nathan Witham a Pensioner of the United States and was on the Pension Roll in the State of Maine, and that the said Nathan Witham departed this life on the sixth day of November 1824-And further depose and say that Rhoda Witham the Widow of said Nathan Witham deceased, was living a few days since, and have not any doubts they were lawfully married as they lived together many years and were the parents of seven children, and I the said Rhoda Bagley being one of their children.
RHODA BAGLEY. SALLY G. BAGLEY.
State of New Hampshire - Strafford County S. s.
Aug. 31st 1832
Sworn and subscribed to on the day and year last above written, Before me
DANIEL GALE, Jus. Peace.
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DANIEL WOODMAN of Durham, N. H .; aged 70; wife Nancy aged 64. Declaration July 4, 1820. He then held pension certificate 9617 under origiual declaration of April 19, 1818. Service: "He entered on the 24th June 1777 in Capt. Rowell's company in Col. Geo. Reid's Reg't New Hampshire line as a private Soldier & continued in said Regiment three years next ensuing said enlistment, when he was regularly discharged."
JEREMIAH WOODMAN of Alton, N. H .; aged 59; wife Mary, 59; daughter Hannah aged 19. Declaration July 18, 1820. He then held pension certificate 13885 under origi- nal declaration April 21, 1818. Service: "He entered Capt. Brown's Company in Col. Long's Regiment in the New Hampshire line, August 1776 for one year and was dis- charged after serving his time out in August 1777."
JAMES WORCESTER of Alton, N. H .; aged 69; wife aged 69; Betsey Dorr aged 67 infirm. Declaration July II, 1820. He then held pension certificate 13550 under original declaration April 21, 1818. Service: "In 1776 I en- listed into the Company commanded by Capt. Beal, attached to Col. Scammell's Reg't, New Hampshire line and in ser- vice during the war. I was in the battle at Bemis heights, and with Gen'l Sullivan at the battle at Jamestown and at the surrender of Cornwallis."
SAMUEL YEATON of Durham, N. H .; Cooper; aged 73; wife Margaret aged 72. Declaration July 4, 1820, by his guardian John Yeaton (Samuel Yeaton being insane). He held a pension certificate 9621 under original declaration of April 1, 1818. Service: "He said Samuel Yeaton being now insane and under the care of a Guardian this blank cannot be filled."
SAMUEL YORK of Guilford, N. H .; farmer; aged 69; wife Molly aged 61. Declaration July 18, 1820. He then held pension certificate 7720 under original declaration April 4, 1818. Service: "As a private in the Company
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commanded by Captain Isaac Frye-Col. Dearborn's Regi- ment, New Hampshire line, from the spring of 1780, untill the close of the War in 1783, in July when the Army was disbanded."
JONATHAN YOUNG of Milton, N. H .; Cooper;aged 68; wife in 79th year; daughter Anny Garlin, widow, aged 33; grandson aged 3 named Ebenezer Garland .. Declaration July 4, 1820. He then held pension certificate 14328 under original declaration April 14, 1818. Service: "That he enlisted in the town of Manchester in the State of Massa- chusetts in May 1775 under Capt. Kimball in Col. Mans- field's Regiment for 8 months and marched to Cambridge, and continued there untill fall following when he enlisted for one year in said Kimballs company in Col. Hutchin- son's Regiment and marched to New York & continued there untill fall following-then went to fourt lee & had a skirmish with the enemy & was obliged to retreat; thence went to Pennsylvania and crossed the river at Clintown & had a battle with the enemy and took about nine hundred of them and was there discharged in December one thou- sand seven hundred and seventy six."
DURHAM, N. H., June 18, 1907.
STRAFFORD, SS.
I, Lucien Thompson, a notary public in and for the county of Straf- ford and state of New Hampshire, hereby certify that I carefully copied the foregoing Revolutionary Pension Declarations from originals on file at the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Strafford County, New Hampshire, in the court house at Dover, N. H.
I certify further that those declarations of Revolutionary service enclosed in quotation marks are true copies of said Revolutionary service and that those not enclosed with quotations are abstracts of said service, which include all essential information.
LUCIEN THOMPSON,
[SEAL.]
Notary Public.
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SPECIMEN OF PENSION DECLARATION UNDER ACT OF 1818
Statement of Military Record of Joseph Richardson
Joseph Richardson doth here in Court further declare on oath, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows. viz: In the spring of 1775 I enlisted in Capt. Benj'n Titcomb's company in the 2d N. H. Regiment commanded by Col. Poor for the term of 8 months during which I was present at an affair with the enemy at Charlestown neck, immediately after the expiration of this term I reenlisted in the same Company and regiment for the term of twelve months during which I was present at the retreat of the American army from Canada and was severely wounded in the arm by a party of Indians in consequence of which disability I was after the lapse of thirty years placed upon the Invalid pension list ;- about the expiration of my term of service I was present at the capture of the Hessians at Trenton in Dec. 1776, having volunteered the additional term of six weeks after the expiration of my enlistment. I was likewise present at the affair at Princeton about the same time in which my cartridge box containing my pittance of savings was shot from my side and destroyed by a cannon ball: -- Afterwards enlisted in the same company and regiment (then com- manded by Col. Hale.) for a term of three years-was present at the retreat from Ticonderoga in 1777 and was in the engagement at Hubbardston where I was wounded in the shoulder-I afterwards assisted at the capture of Burgoyne in the autumn of the same year and then marched into winter quarters at Valley Forge .- In the year 1778 was at Monmouth and spent the season with the main army at White Plains &c .- In the year 1779 marched with Maj. Gen. Sullivan into the Indian Country and was present at the engagement with the Indians at Newtown.
After the return of the army I was in the month of January 1780 honorably discharged at Danbury in the State of Connecticut my term of service having expired and after having spent nearly five years of the flower of my life and lost the service of my limbs in the cause of my country nor was it until the year 1809 that my duty to my family required me to apply for the same renumeration for these sacrifices when the pitiful allowance of Two dollars and fifty cents upon the pension list was made me which was regarded not as a favor, but as an inadequate compensation for a debt earned with the greatest exertion & suffering.
JOSEPH RICHARDSON*
A resident citizen of the United States, March 18, 1818.
*Joseph Richardson, Esquire, was appointed Captain of the Company of Artillery in the Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Thompson in the State of New Hampshire, by John Sullivan, Esq., President of our State, at Dnrham the fifteenth day of March, A. D. 1787, Joseph Pearson, Secretary.
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Captain Joseph Richardson was born in Boston, Mass., December 25, 1756, and died in Durham, N. H., November 22, 1824, and was buried in the village cemetery. He mar- ried Sarah (Burnham) Hanson of Dover, who was born December 22, 1762, and died December 19, 1831. They were married by Rev. Jeremy Belknap, December 14, 1783. They had eight children.
DURHAM, N. H., June 18, 1907.
STRAFFORD, SS.
I, Lucien Thompson, a notary public in and for the county of Straf- ford and state of New Hampshire, hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a paper in the possession of Hon. Joshua B. Smith of Dur- ham, N. H., said copy being carefully made by myself within three months from date.
LUCIEN THOMPSON, Notary Public.
[SEAL.]
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