Notes for Sylvanus Brimhall: Sylvanus Brimhall, Hardwick, Mass. applied for benefit act of 1818; served as pvt. between Jan 1776 and 1780 under Capts. Thos. Mayhew, James Pratt, Oliver Packard, John F. Williams and Adj. Trotter Cols. Bond, Burbank and Rufus Putnam, Mass. service, resided at Abington and Barre, Mass. at enlistment; was born Abington, Mass. 15 Mar 1758, information from town records. Sylvanus Brimhall applied for pension under Act 1 May 1820, gave list of his effects, including 25 acres of shrub oak land, horse, cow, 2 heifers, wagon, sleigh, cooper's tools, silver, bowls, spinning wheel, chests, kettles, looking glass, tup, pitcher, 3 old casks, candlesticks etc. valued at $420.94. stated his family consisted of: wife Lucy aged 32 years and children: Lucy C. Brimhall aged 9 yrs; Elbridge G. Brimhall aged 6 yrs and Susan Ann Brimhall aged 3 months. His occupation was cooper, Benj. Warren, Lt. Plymouth Co., Mass and Josiah Cotton of the same place testified they marched and served in same company as Silvanus Brimhall 20 Feb. 1819. Silvanus Brimhall applied for a pension under act ot June 1832 he gave his age as 75 yrs. b: 15 Mar. 1758 at Abington Mass; lived at Hardwick and Barre all the time since the Revolution; gave as references Rev. Martyn Tupper and Jason Mixter of Hardwick, Mass. Selectman Ebenr Perry and Scotto Perry Worcester Co., Mass appraised the property of Silvanus Brimhall Hardwick, Mass. on 24 Feb 1829 and ages of his family were given as: Lucy, wife 40 yrs; children, Lucy 17 yrs; Elbridge 15 yrs; Susannah 8yrs; Mary 6 yrs. Abijah Bigelow, clerk of the court Worcester Co. Mass certified. Samuel Bacon, Templeton, Worcester Co. Mass deposed he knew Silvanus Brimhall now 60 yrs in 1776 and he was sgt. in Brimhall's Co. Sylvanus Brimhall S29658 mass. Service and Agency cert. 11720 issued June 1819, from 4 Sep 1818 at $8 per month, act 18 March 1818; cert. 14061 for $40p.a. iss. 9 May 1833 from 4 Mar 1831 (Revolutionary War) Ancestral Notes From Chedwater page 115
!Massachusetts Marriages Silvanus of Barre married Triphena Johnson 14 Sep 1783 Hardwick, Worcester Co. MA
!Massachusetts census 1810 Sylvanus Brimhall Hardwick, Worcester Co., MA 1820 Sylvanus Brimhall Hardwick, Worcester Co., MA 1830 Sylvanus Brimhall Hardwick, Worcester Co., MA page 562
!Abington Vital Records Sylvanus Brimhall b: 4 Apr 1758 s/o Samuell and Keziah baptized Sylvanus Brimhall 25 Jan 1761 First Church of Abington
!Lookup Harwich books Brimhall, Sylvanus, md: Triphena Johnson 14 Sep 1783, and (2d) Lucy Lincoln 3 Jul 1810; he res. in Barre at the time of his first marriage, and perhaps had children there; by his second wife he had Lucy Lincoln, Elbridge Farr, Susan Ann, all bap. 8 Oct 1820. Mary King Bap 29 Sep 1822. Besides these he names in his will, dated 10 Sep 1839, Nathaniel, Joel Johnson, and "in distant parts of the United States", Sylvanus, Joseph, and Triphena, wife of Elijah Hartwell, also sons Aaron and Caleb, deceased. Sylvanus the f. resided on the turnpike at the place marked "S. Brimhall" on the R. Map. The "R" Map or "Ruggles Map" is sometimes mentioned in the History of Hardwick, and much more frequently in the Genealogical Register, is a map of the town drawn by Gardner Ruggles, Esq., and lithographed later, indicating the position of the several houses and their distance from the Common. (History of Hardwick, by Lucius Paige, 1883, page vii) Sylvanus d: 18 Sep 1839, at 82; his w. Lucy d: 27 Feb 1847, age 59.
!Massachusetts Town Birth Records Sylvanus Brimhall male birth date: 4 Apr 1758 birth place: Abington father: Sam(ue)ll mother: Keziah
!Massachusetts Vital Records Silvanus Brimhall of Barre md Triphena Johnson of Hardwick 14 Sep 1783 Hardwick, Worchester County, Massachusets
!Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions In a letter dated 1 Nov 1895, (Appendix 1, Annex A) Sylvanus enlisted at Plymouth in the Massachusetts militia in December, 1775, or January, 1776. The !Bureau of Pensions showed his initial date of enlistment as January. The Declaration made by Sylvanus on April 9, 1833, (Appendix 2, Annex A) showed his date of enlistment as December, 1775. The difference in time is minimal, and Sylvanus was seventy-five at the time the declaration was made. In all, records reveal that Sylvanus served five enlistments of varying perionds between December, 1775, (January, 1776) and June. 1780. Sylvanus had to make several court appearances in order to collect a pension for his Revolutionary War service. Sylvanus Brimhall stated that he lived "mostly" in Barre and Hardwick after the Revolutionary War. Per Gordon Brimhall
! In 1814, Sylvanus purchased 25 acres of land in Kardwick from David Whipple. Sylvanus lived for the remainder of his life on that land. He died 18 Sep 1839 at age 81. His will was filed on 23 Sep 1839 by Joseph Stone,Executor. It was entered into Probate Court on 18 Oct 1839. In his will, it is to be noted that Sylvanus was very careful with respect to his wife and children, especially his two youngest daughters. He also provided for his children living in the Commonwealth.
!Appendix 1 to ANNEX A 0. W. & N. Division DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Pensions Washington, D. C. F.S. M.R.C. S. 29658 Madam: November 1, 1895
!In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of--Sylvanus Brimhall-a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contain- ed in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Date of Enlistment Appointmer or it Length of Service Rank OFFICER SERVICE Captain S C UNDER WAS REF olonel WHOM WERED State
Jan 1776 May 1777 April 1778 May 1779 June 1780 12 months 6 months 9 months 6 months 6 months Pvt Pvt Pvt Pvt Pvt Thomas Bond Mass Mayhew (Mayo) James Pratt Oliver Packard John F. Williams Adj utanfc Trotter Burbank Mass Not Mass Stated Not Mass Stated Rufus Mass Putnam
Battles engaged in: None stated Residence of soldier at enlistment: Abington and Barre, Mass Date of application for pension:_____September 4, 1818 Residence at date of application:_Hardwick, Massachusetts Age at date of application:Born Abington, Mass. Mar 15, 1758 Remarks: Very Respectfully, Commissioner Mrs. C. D. Bartlett East Whately, Mass.
(The reader will note some discrepancies between this account and that given by Sylvanus in Probate Court, April 9, 1833.) Appendix 4 to ANNEX A
The following is a transcript of Sylvanus Brimhall's statement in Probate Court with respect to his Revolutionary War enlistments in order to receive his pension (Appendix 3 to this Annex). (The file received from the National Archives was very difficult to read with having been written in long- hand, with faded ink and with ink blots on words. The pages were enlarged at copy-mat which helped in the transcription. Where a word is totally indecipherable, a blank is inserted or the word is surrounded by question marks.)
TRANSCRIPT OF DECLARATION DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS County of Worcester, ss. ON this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred thirty three, personally appeared in open Court, before Nathaniel ________, Judge at Court and Probate now sitting, SYLVANUS BRIMHALL, a resident of Hard- wick in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, aged seventy-five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain benefit of the Act of Con- gress, passed June 7th, 1832. THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. (There follows the dictated account by Sylvanus Brim- hall to the court.) In December 1775, I enlisted into Capt. Thomas Mayo's Company at Plymouth, Mass., where I then lived. I marched through Hanover into ?Roxbury? and from there to Cambridge. In CAmbridge our company joined the regiment under the com- mand of Col. Bond of Waterton. I served as a private in Capt. T. Mayo's Company ____ E. Cambridge, till the follow- ing March. During the time I kept guard on Winter Hill, so called. In March 1776, I marched in the same company and regiment above mentioned. Continued through ?Norvich? to New London where we took on supplies and sailed to the city of New York. Stayed at New York guarding the city and build- ing forts about there with the company when we left the city and sailed up the ____ River to Albany. I marched from Albany by Fort Edward to Ticonderoga and from Ticonderoga Appendix 4 to ANNEX A (Cont'd) to Fort George. At Fort George, I was engaged about three months on guard. From there I marched to Fort Ann. Kept guard at Fort Ann about a month and marched to Montreal. From Montreal I marched back to Ticonderoga which I think was about July 1776. After a stay of two or three months at Ticonderoga, I marched to the lake at Fort Ticonderoga where I remained until the expiration of this term of one year for which I enlisted. At the moment of Independence, I was engaged in keeping guard and building forts. I was discharged the last of December 1776--that discharge I long since lost. In May 1777, I enlisted into Capt. James Pratt's company of the militia ____ Weymouth, Mass. (at this time my resi- dence was at Abington, Mass.) for the term of six months. This company was attached to Col. Burbank's regiment. We marched from Weymouth then to an island then marched from Boston Harbor, ____ called Fort Independence where I did duty as a ____ in said company in building a fort and standing century (sic-probably meant "standing sentry") for two terms of six months where I was discharged, and I received no writ- ten discharge. In April 1778, I again enlisted at Providence, Rhode Island, into a company of militia commanded by Capt. Ibinzer (sic-probably "Oliver") Packard of Bridgewater for the term nine months and that during said nine months I served in said company in Providence, Newport, and Tiverton in General Sullivan's expedition and I do not recollect the names of our regimental officers who had command of our company at that time. My residence was at Abington aforesaid when I made said last ____ enlistment. I served out my term of nine months and ____ again ____. In May 1779, I again enlisted at Boston into a company commanded by Capt. John F. Williams of Boston. I served for six months next following in defending Boston and outer harbor in that vicinity. Most of ?5? or six months I was engaged in small water craft employed near said harbor. My residence in May 1779 was in Barre, Mass. At the end of this six months, I was dispatched in the manner mentioned above. In June 1780, I enlisted again at Barre, Mass., where I then resided, for six months service. Marched to Springfield and joined a company commanded by Adjutant ?L? Trotter in Col. Rufus Putnam's ____ Regiment and marched from Spring- field to West Point and from there to New Jersey near White Plains. I served at that time for the term of six months. I marched to West Point where I received my discharge. I have no written discharge and no documentary evidence of my service. I have received two written discharges. I lost two; both of which have been destroyed and lost. A - 4 - 2 Appendix 4 to ANNEX A (Cont'd)
I was born at Abington, Mass., on the 15th of March 1758, and upon the town records of said Abington, my age, I think, is recorded. I now live at Hardwick and have lived there and at Barre nearly all the time since the Revolution- ary War. My age is seventy-five years. I applied for and received a pension under the Act of March 1818 but had my name stricken off on account of proper- ty. I again applied under the Act of June 7, 1822. I re- ceived a certificate dated November 3, 1834, giving me a pen- sion of forty dollars a year upon which I have drawn the amount given me by that certificate from the 4th of March 1831 to the 4th of March 1833 which certificate I hereby relinquish. I would refer to ?Rev.? Martyn Tupper and Jason PHuxter? Esq. of Hardwick, as persons who are acquainted with my char- acter and persons to testify as to their belief of my ser- vices as a soldier of the Revolution. (This ends the handwritten part)
(Printed) 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, county, as mentioned above. Sworn to and subscribed the date and year aforesaid. (Signed) Nathaniel ____________, Judge Probate for the County of Worcester (Signed) SYLVANUS BRIMHALL
More About Sylvanus Brimhall: Burial: 22 Sep 1839, Hardwick, Barnstable, MA.. Christening: 25 Jan 1761, Abington,Plymouth, MA..
More About Sylvanus Brimhall and Tryphena Johnson: Marriage: 14 Sep 1783, Hardwick, Worcester, MA..
Children of Sylvanus Brimhall and Tryphena Johnson are:
+Sylvanus Brimhall, b. 03 Apr 1786, Hardwich, Barnstable, MA., d. 24 Jul 1856, Glassburg, IL..
Joseph Brimhall, b. 23 Dec 1787, Galesburg, Knox, IL., d. 21 Nov 1829.
Sylvanus Brimhall (b. 04 Apr 1757, d. 18 Sep 1839)
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