Archive:War of 1812 Pension File, Leonard Whitney
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War of 1812 Pension File, Stephen M. Whitney
S.O. 1516
S.C. 572
National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.
He is identified as Leonard7 Whitney (Ezekiel6, Ezekiel5, John4, Benjamin3, John2, John1)
Private, Captain Ebenezer Dyer's Massachusetts Militia
On 14 March 1871 from Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Leonard Whitney signed a War of 1812 Declaration for Pension. He is seventy-eight years old and a resident of Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He declares that his is not married. However he had filled in the information concerning his marriage, and then crossed it out because the question concerned his present marital state. He wrote that his wife's name was Ruthy A. Larrabee, deceased. They had been married at Watertown on 30 September 1817. He had been drafted into Captain Ebenezer Dyer's Artillery Company, Massachusetts Drafted Militia, Major L. Kendall's Battalion on 20 September 1814. He was honorably discharged at Fort Warren, Boston on 30 November 1814. The declaration is witnesses by Edward J. Porter of Lexington, Mass., and Nathan B. Johnson of Wayland, Mass.
A certificate from the Pension Office, Department of Interior corroborates the service testimony.
On 31 January 1882, the U.S. Pension Agency reported to Honorable William W. Dudley, Commissioner of Pensions, that Leonard Whitney, who was last paid at eight dollars to 4 September 1878, has been dropped from the rolls because of his failure to claim his pension for three years.
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