Pension:Edmund Sawyer, 1832 :Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire

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Submitted by: Rick Giirtman rickman@worldpath.net
Date: October 3, 2000
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Edmund Sawyer
Revolutionary War
Pension Application

This abstract is from a book called "New Hampshire Revolutionary Pension
Papers, Vol. 44", abstracted & prepared by Mrs. Amos G. Draper 1917-1922
It is available at the New Hampshire Historical Society.


S11343
New Hampshire Service

August 28, 1832 Edmund Sawyer of Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire,
seventy-one years of age, deposed:

that he enlisted at Hampstead, N. H., where he then resided, January 1778,
for one year, under Capt. Ezekiel Gile, Col. Peabody, New Hampshire Regiment
, marched to Providence, to the Island in Rhode Island, thence to Horse Neck
on the Nanicut River; "the British troops were stationed on the opposite
side of the River;" and was verbally discharged at the expiration of his
term;

that about September 1779 he again enlisted at Hampstead for two months
under Capt. Brown, Col. Dame, New Hampshire troops, marched to Portsmouth,
N. H., from thence to Salter's Island, sometimes called Seavey's Island, 
and after serving one month, he with the rest of the company, was discharged
by the Captain in the absence of the Colonel, and returned home;

    that he was born in "Newbury newtown", Mass., was moved by his father
when very young to Hampstead, where he lived during the Revolutionary war
and for thirty years after the war; lived in Vermont seven years, and has 
lived in Franklin, N. H., for the past four years.
                               Edmund Sawyer


Israel W. Kelly; J. P., of Salisbury, N. H., and George W. Nesmith, J. P.,
of Franklin, certified that it is the general belief in the neighborhood in
which Edmund Sawyer lives, that he has been a soldier in the Revolutionary 
war in which we concur.
                              Israel W. Kelly,
                              George W. Nesmith.

August 31, 1832 Joshua Richardson of Canaan, N. H., testified to service in
the same company with Edmund Sawyer for one year in 1778; that they were
discharged together and returned home at the same time.
                              Joshua Richardson.


Claim allowed and Certificate No. 2353, New Hampshire Agency, for $32.88
per annum, beginning March 4, 1831, was issued November 24, 1832, under Act
of June 7, 1832.


According to the Census of 1840, as published in Volume XXX New Hampshire
State Papers, Edmund Sawyer, aged seventy-nine years, was living in Franklin
, N. H., at that time with Edmund Sawyer (presumably himself.)
(Only Revolutionary Pensioner, named Edmund Sawyer from any state. BMD.)