Hampshire County MA Archives Military Records.....Gould, Asa November 30, 1839 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ma/mafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com November 11, 2009, 2:30 pm Pension Application Of Asa Gould, Nat’l Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1101, Application #S13177 “Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832: State of New York, County of Erie} On the 30th day of November in the year of our Lord, 1839, personally appeared before Jonathan Hoyt, a Judge of Erie County Courts, Asa Gould, a resident of the town of Colden in the county of Erie and state of New York, aged 87 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth make the following declaration…” “He entered the service as a volunteer in April 1775 at the town of Murrysfield [was located in Hampshire Co, MA]in the state of Massachusetts. He left the army in October 1783. That he served part of the time in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment, and the remainder of the time in the 2nd Massachusetts regiment. That he was in the service under four enlistments. The first enlistment was in the spring of the year 1775, under Captain Abijah Child in Colonel Richard Gardner’s regiment for a period of eight months as a private soldier. The second enlistment was under Captain Abijah Child in Colonel Bond’s regiment for one year. The third enlistment was under Capt. John Spurr [?] in Col. Thomas Nixon’s regiment for three years. The fourth enlistment was under Capt. Adam Bailey under Col. Ebenezer Sproat’s [?] regiment for three years. That he was in the war under enlistments seven years and eight months.” “He was engaged in the Battle at Lechmere Point, Massachusetts, in the Battle of Sandy Hill in the state of New York, in the Battle of Fairfield on Crompo Hill, and he was in the battle at the taking of Burgoyne. That he marched through the country from Winter Hill in the state of Massachusetts through Connecticut to New York in the state of New York. And from thence to Philadelphia and from Philadelphia to Little York, and from Little York back to New York, and from thence to Albany, to Glen’s Falls, from thence to Ticonderoga, and from Ticonderoga to Crown Point, and from thence back to Ticonderoga, from thence to Mount Independence, and from thence back to Albany, and from Albany to Kings Ferry, and from thence to Morristown, New Jersey, and from thence to Massachusetts. That he went through the states of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and part of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.” “He knows Col. Rufus Putnam, Col. Ethan Allen, Gen. Horatio Gates, Gen. John Nixon, Gen. Patterson, Gen. Glover, and Gen. Howe. That he was wounded in the Battle of Crompo Hill by having a ball shot into his head, and also by having a bayonet stabbed into his back and through his right arm and right thigh. That he received, on the first day of March 1782, a sergeant’s commission [? garbled writing] in the 2nd Mass. Regiment and has the same now in his possession, signed by Ebenezer Sproat, Lt. Col. ?Comet? He served under said [garbled] until in the month of Oct. 1783 and that he did the duties of a sergeant previous thereto, making in all he acted in said capacity, three years, according to his knowledge and belief; and the remainder of the time he was in the army, he was engaged as a private.’ “That he received a discharge from the army given by Capt. Bailey, and he gave it to a Mr. Holbrook in the year 1784 for the purpose of receiving his pay or back arrearage for service in the army, and that Mr. Holbrook never returned the same to him to his knowledge, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. He is known in the present neighborhood by William Lewis, Zebania Holt, Richard Sweet [?], William Ruff[???], Richard Buffam, John A. Abbott”..etc. “State of New York, Erie County} On this 21st day of February, 1853, personally appeared in open court before the Erie County Court of Erie County now siting, Sylvanus O. Gould, a resident of the county aforesaid, aged 40 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832.” “That his father Asa Gould entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated: That his father, as he is informed and believes, entered the service sometime in the year 1777 and served more than two years in Capt. John Spurr’s company, Col. Thomas Nixon’s regiment, in the Massachusetts Continental line, and in consequence of injuries received while in said service, he received an Invalid Pension from the United States from ___ to the 4th day of Sept. 1849, on the 11th day of which September he died in Erie County, all of which he presumes will appear by his father’s papers on file in the Pension Office. That his father did not leave a widow surviving, as his mother died previous to the said 11th day of September, 1849, the day of the decease of his father; and that the following are the names of his children: John D [or O] Gould, Asa Gould, Cornelius P. Gould, Sylvanus O. Gould, Emily Gould, Polly M. Clark, Philena H. [Rice, Price or Pace], Matilda C. J. French, and Hannah Ellis. That he requests that the pension may be made payable at Washington, DC and that J. H. McCutcheon may be recognized as the attorney to prosecute the claim. S. O. Gould.” On a separate note paper: Asa Gould His name appears on a list of applicants for Invalid Pension retrieved by the District Court for the District of Vermont submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on March 2, 1795, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 166. Rank: Private Regiment: 6th Mass Disability: wounded in his head by a musket ball, and in several parts of his body with a bayonet When and where disabled; May 1777, Green Farm Residence: Bethel [Vermont?] To what pension entitled: one half Remarks: Enlisted March 1, 1777, discharged March 1, 1780. Evidence complete File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ma/hampshire/military/revwar/pensions/gould975gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mafiles/ File size: 6.5 Kb