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Horton Family - Barnabas Horton - Headstones

These headstones were found at Findagrave.com at:https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26957051/barnabas-horton

The inscription on the right/original headstone reads:

In

memory of

Barnabas Horton

[who] departed this

life October 16th 1742

Died 1819

In the78th year of

his life

Right white stone:

BARNABAS

HORTON

CAPT

MASS MIL

REV WAR

1742

1819

{I believe that the stone in front of both memorials is the broken stone from the "aged" stone on the left.

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 [?][?] Allen personally  [?] - 

Nathan M Davis Jus Peace

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                                                        Commonwealth of Massachusetts

    The aforenamed Nathaniel Morton Davis before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken is a respectable Magistrate and Counsellor at law in this County of Plymouth and is authorized to take [?], and the forgoing is his genuine handwriting and signature

Nahum Mitchell, Judge

March 27. 1819.                                                                            [Gen]

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I Silvanus Larell do testify and Say  that Barnabas Horton was one of the last three years men in the Revolutionary war from the Town of Bridgewater [?] and that after the close of the war [?] [?] of him his final settlements, so called, and received his wages. I am a native and inhabitant of Bridgewater with him and have always known him and there can be no doubt of his having served as a soldier during the last 3 years in said war. - Silvanus Larell

    Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth. ss March 29 1819. Personally appeared the above named get. Silvanus Larell & mad oath to the truth of the above [??]position by him subscribed in my presence - and I do certify that he is a credible and disinterested witness.-

                                Nahum Mitchell Judge of the 

                CCC Pleas [?]{?] Ms.           

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July 3. 1840

[Mr]                                 

[?]                         

Barnabas                  

Molly Horton  

L. Edwards Esq

Com. of Pensions

Washington       

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Buckfield Mas June 27.1840

J.L Edwards

            Com. of Pensions

                        Sir

                I have in[terviewed] widow of the marriage of Barnabas Horton with Molly Muse, in support of the application of Mrs Horton for a pension [?] [finding] in your office [before] & believe that you will consider it sufficient, the original [?] [case] having been brought and the clergyman probably dead.                                                                         Your respectfully

                                     Saml. F. Brown

            

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Payment to be mad at Portland
by
William Woodbuy Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the 
Agency of Maine

Payable on the 4th September 4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office on Me Roll of Pensioners under art February 2d, 1848, Page 13, Vol. 1.

[unreadable name]

                            Clerk.

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WAR DEPARTMENT.

WIDOW'S PENSION

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I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848. Mary Horton Widow of Barnabas Horton who was a private ~~~ in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars and     cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in  which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. Given at the War Office of the United States this 26th day of {Seal}August one thousand eight hundred and Forty Eight.

 W.L. Marcy

Secretary of War. 

Examined and Counter signed

            J.S. Edwards

Comissioner of Pension

            Bg F.S. Evans

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6322 

Mary Horton 

Wid of Barnabas 

ME 

Act febry 1838 

Married 1786 

died 1825 

Allow $80/per anm

2nd Mass line

Saw T Brown en

Buckfild

    Me

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State of Rhode Island

County of Providence

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Providence Me        Clerks office Court of Common Pleases
Providence September 19 1851

I certify that Lewis B [?] is a Justice of the Peace in and for the town of Cumberland in the County of Providence [?] commissioned and qualified to act, and that the fore goings is his signature.    

    In witness whereof I do hereunto set fix and [?] affix the Seal of said  Court the day & year above written

    {seal}                    Levi Salisbury Clerk

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6322

Mary Horton
Wid of Barnabas
Me 

Act July 1838

Married 1786

decd 1825

Allow $80 per anum

2 yr Mas Line

~~~

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Payment to be made at Portland

by

William Woodbuy Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the 
Agency of Maine

Payable on the 4th September and 4th March Recorded in the Pension office. Roll of Pensioners under act February 2 d, 1848, Page 13. Vol.1.

[Can't read the name.]

ClerkClerk

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State of New Hampshire }

Cheshire County [?]  --  }

I Henry Coolidge

Clerk of the Superior Court [?] of the County and State aforsaid do hereby certify that David Baley is an active justice of the Peace in aforesaid County duly certified and qualified: that his commission was dated on the 21: day of June 1839. and will expire on the 20 day of June 1844 and that his signature within written is genuine - 

                Given under my hand and the Seal of [circuit] Court at [?] this [seventeenth]  day if September A,D, 1839 ~

H. Coolidge Clerk

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR SECTION.    3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

BUREAU OF OPENSIONS.

Washington, D. C.,  19

    In reply to your request of, received, for a statement of the military history of Barnabas Horton, a soldier in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W.23,296

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT

Early in 1781

LENGTH OF SERVICE.

Jan 1784

RANK

Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM  SERVICE WAS RENDERED,

CAPTAIN William Watson

COLONEL Henry Jackson

STATE Mass

Battles engaged in, None stated

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co Mass

Date of application for pension, Apr. 1, 1818. His claim was allowed.

Residence at date of application, Bridgewater, Mass.

Age at date of application, 55 years. Died Feb 4, 18[2]5

Remarks: Soldier Married in 1784 at Winchester, Chester Co N.H. Mary (Molly) Morre and she was allowed pension on her application executed Oct 15. 1839 While a resident of Buckfield, Oxford Co. Me.. aged 77 years. In 1818 daughter Hannah aged 17 years is referred to: in 1839 a daughter name not stated, married to Daniel Thompson, is referred to. No further family

Respectfully,

5-[5274]                                                                                  Commissioner.                   

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Rev

WIDOW, &c.

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File No. 23296

Mary Horton

[wif] of

Barnabas Horton

Pri Rev War

Act Feb 2d 48

Index: Vol A, Page 320

[Arraingments] of Lists

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Maine 5615

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Mary Horton ---

widow of Barnabas Horton, dec.

who was a pensioier under the Act of 1818---

and who died on the 4 February 1825---

of OxfordCo in the State of Maine who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain Watson of the right command by Col Jackson in the Mass. line for 2 years.

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Inscribed on the Roll of Maine

of the rate of 80 Dollars ----------Cents per annum

to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

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Certificate of Pensionissued the 10 day of July 1840, & [?] and to Saml F. Brown Buckfield, Maine

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[?] to the 4th of Mar. 1840                 $320.00

Semiannual allowance ending 4 Sep          40.00

                                        =====

                                                     $360.00

                                        =====

                                { Act July 7,}

                                {     1838.  }

Recorded by D.McCurdy,                     Clerk,

Book A,        Vol. 1,                Page 12.

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And I, the said Judge, do certify, that It appears to my satisfaction, that the said Barnabas Horton did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, and that he is poor & needs the assistance of his country for [such] Just, as he has sworn.        

                                                                    Nahum Mitchell

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,

                SS.                                    1818,

        I HEREBY CERTIFY,     That

is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth-that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record-that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court,  

                                                                              Clerk of the Judicial

  Court for the County 

of

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I barnabas Horton of Bridgwater M aged fifty six year  set forth and declare on oath that I was a private soldier on oath that I was a private soldier in the war of the Revolution of r the last three years of it - that I enlisted into Capt. Waltons Company vol. Henry Jackson Regiment and Massachusetts line in the beginning of 1781 and continued [?] [?] the close of war in 1783 and was honorably discharged in January 1784 in the state of New York Barnabas Horton                                                                                Subscribed and worn to before me 

                                            Nahum Mitchell: Judge

            The original Declaration not appearing with his papers returned from the war office - I have required him to make his Declaration as above for fears [he] then would not be found.

N. Mitchell: Judge

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Decreed to & [?] [?] & 80. com[?] 1 July 1848.

B. Cowell

Providence 

RI

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                                                            Providence Sept 19 1851

Sir

    I herewith enclose the application of Mary Horton widow of Barnabas Horton for an increase of her pension under the Joint Resolv of Congress of July 1, 1848. Her husband was a pensioner under the act of March 18 1818  & May 1, 1820 at the rate of $96 per annum& his widow is entitled to the sum, she is now on a visit to one of her daughters in this state - Enclosed also is her Pension Certificate I have to request that another may be granted - 

I am very Respectfully

Your obt den

Benja Cowell

J. T. Heath Esq

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Barnabas Horton

9477

Sept 1819

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,

County of Plymouth ss.

    

    On this 18th day of July 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in print of amount, having a power also fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Barnabas Horton age 58 --- years, resident in Bridgewater - in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of the  three years service in Capt William Watson's Company Col. Henry Jackson's Reg Massachusetts line and that he has received a pension certificate dated 17th April 1819 and numbered 9477 in pursuance of his original Declaration made 1st April A.D. 1818--- and also takes and subscribes the following oath, vis. And I do solemnly swear --- that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 8th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of act of Congress, entitled "An set to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any Income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and be me subscribed.

I served my time at the business of [?] but have not worked at the trade for many years. I have for many years been aday laboruer for other persons when I could get 

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All of the records listed here were found on Fold3, 17 May 2023. I have tried to read through each of the 55 pages and transcribe them as accurately as possible.

This page reads as:
    Service - Continental        Horton, Barnabas W. 23296.
    Mass.                                        Mary

                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

                                9477

        Masachusetts

Of Bridgewater in the state of Mas. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson of the Mas [?] for the term of [?years] War

                   

                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Inscribed on the Roll of masachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per mont, to commence on the 1st of April, 1818

                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th of April 1819 and sent to Nanum Mitchell East Bridgeater Mas-

                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819.11 mo. 4/19     89.03

Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819        48.00 

                                          ====

                                         137.03

{Revolutionary claim,}

{Act 18th March, 1818}

[Right page]

Letter to Hon Wm Baylis H.R.

Jany. 15. 1821

Notication sent May 4th to Jno: B. Thomas, Esq. Plymouth Maschusetts.

                                               Continued    

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                                        Maine ==============================================

 Mary Horton

Widow of Barnabas

[May]

who served in the Revolutionary

War, as a private [Incom] $80 

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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per anum, to commence on the 4th day of March, July 11 1848.

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Certifficate of Pension issued the 19- day of Nov. 1851 and sent to

B. Lowell

Providence 

RI.

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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 

February 2, 1848, Page 14 Vol. [2]

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Barnabas Horton

Bridgewater M,

1 apl 1818  Private

[?] HJackson - May 5 .81 - to -83 - Wanted Good evidence of the service of the applicant

Adm.

The Judge at

E. Bridgewater [?]

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

SS.

        On this first day of April AD. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Please, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Barnabas Horton of Bridgewater Me aged fifty five years, resident is his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to proved for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," [ver]. (see his Declaration enclosed).

        

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