Morrison's Pensions

Pension Application for Ichabod Alden

W.21903 (Widow: Mary Partridge, former widow)
B.L. Wt 24_500 Col. Issued Dec 12, 1797 to Calvin & Mary Partridge guardians in trust for John Alden and Rebecca Partridge Alden only children and heirs.
            This woman’s last husband, Calvin Partridge was a Rev. War Solider.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth SS.
             On this twenty fifth day of March 1837 personally appeared before the Hon. Wilke Wood Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts aged Eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 & the act explanatory of said act passed March 3, 1837.  That she was married to Ichabod Alden who was a Colonel in the Army of the Revolution in the year 1774 he was Captain of a company of minutemen & in the spring of 1775 he was appointed a Lieutenant Colonel & served at Roxbury about one year under Gen’l Thomas in Col. Cottons Regiment after the British left Boston he served in the Northern Army in the Massachusetts line & was at the taking of General Burgoyne having been promoted Colonel he continued in the Army until he was killed in battle & scalped at Cherry Valley November 11 1778 having served from the commencement of the war a period of three& a half years.  She further declares that she was married to the said Ichabod Alden on the eighth day of January 1774 by Rev. Chancy at the house of Capt. Samuel Partridge—Boston, That her husband the aforesaid Ichabod Alden died on the Eleventh day of November 1778; That she was afterward married to Capt. Calvin Partridge who also served in the War of the Revolution, & who died on the twenty third day of November 1815.  That she was a widow on the 4th July 1836 & still remains a widow as will more fully appear by references to the proof annexed hereto. (Signed with her mark)  Mary Partridge.
            Plymouth SS.  March 25, 1837, Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above written & I hereby certify that said Mary Partridge is a credible person & that by reason of bodily infirmity she is unable to travel to attend court to make her declaration  Wilkes Wood, J. Clk.
            I Josiah Moore Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Duxbury hereby certify that I find recorded in the Church book in my possession that Ichabod Alden & his wife Mary Alden were admitted as member of the church August 2, 1777 & that their son John was baptized the same day & further I find recorded of the persons married October 24, 1779 Capt. Calvin Partridge & Mary Alden & further certify that Mary Partridge an applicant for a pension is the same person that was admitted to the church as the wife of Ichabod Alden & that she was a widow on the 4th of July 1836 & still remains a widow given under my hand at Duxbury this eighth day of April 1837.  Josiah Moore

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