Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 1,363, Amasa Bemis, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass. Bemis, Amasa W1363
Nacy B.L.W.t.36511-169-55
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15.086
Massachusetts
Amasa Bemis
of Spencer in the State of Mass who was a [illegible handwriting] in the company commanded by 
Captain Earle of the Regt. commanded by Col Keyes in the Mass. line for 6 mos private &
6 mos Seargent 
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Certicare of Pension issued the 25 Day of May 1833 and Searg James [illegible] Spencer Mass.
Arrears to the 4th day of March 1833 $100.00
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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 sixth day of September in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Nath. Paine Judge of Probate for the county of Worcester now sitting Amasa Bemis a resident of Spencer in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged nearly seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United State under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  On or about the first day of August A. D. 1775, the said Amasa Bemis enlisted as a private soldier into a company of Massachusetts Militia commanded by Capt. Cole in the regiment commanded by Col. Ruggles Woodbridge, marched to Cambridge near Boston, Mass. where we were put under the command of General Washington, was stationed at said Cambridge the remainder of the term being four months, and was discharged on or about the first day of December the same year.  Also, on the 30th of July A. D. he received a sergeant's warrant (which is hereunto annexed) and enlisted as a sergeant into a company of foot, commanded by Capt. Ralf Earl in the regiment commanded by Col. Danforth Keyes, marched to Providence Rhode Island, and was stationed at Providence and other places in the vicinity the remainder of the term being six months.  Also, the said Amasa Bemis sometime the month of September 1776 enlisted into a company of Massachusetts militia as a private soldier, said company was commanded by Capt. Josiah White in regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Denny, that he marched from said Spencer to Hartford then to New Haven, Connecticut then to Jerry Town [illegible] on the river Hudson N. York and was stationed there two months.  All the above towns of duty were [illegible] in the war of the revolution.  He was born at Spencer aforesaid October 10, 1757, and a record thereof is in the Town records of Spencer, have lived in said Spencer since he was born and lives there still.  Has never received a written discharge, the whole time of service as above specified is twelve months.  Refers to William Rope Esq., Joseph Mason, Walton Livermore and William Summer, who are my neighbors and who can state my character for truth.  N. B. the second term of enlistment when he received a sergeant's warrant was by [illegible] inserted in the place where it stands, it ought to be placed after the second term of enlistment.
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.  Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Amasa Bemis
Before Nath Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
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Worcester ss
We [illegible] a Clergyman residing in the [illegible] and [illegible] residing in [illegible] herby certify that we are well acquainted with [illegible] who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be [illegible] years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me James Draper Just. Peace
And the said court do herby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Levi Packard who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Spencer and that Wm. Pope Esquire who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Spencer and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nath Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester

I Theophilus Wheeler register as Clerk of the Court of Probate for Worcester ["County" inserted] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Amasa Bemis for a pension & that James Draper before whom the annexed affidavits were made is a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County of Worcester in full credit & that he signed the same.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Theophe Wheeler Regt. of Probate Court for said County in Massachusetts
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I Samuel Guilford of Ashfield in the County of Franklin and State of Massachusetts being now nearly seventy six years of age, do testify and say, that Amasa Bemis of Spencer in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts was a soldier who served in the war of the revolution as follows, viz, that the said Amasa Bemis on or about the first day of August A. D. 1775, enlisted into a company of Foot commanded by Captain Cole in the regiment commanded by Col. Ruggles Woodbridge ["Danforth Keyes" crossed out] the said troops were raised by the State of Massachusetts for the common defense of the Country, that he served as a private soldier in said company four months, was stationed in the Town of Cambridge in said State & was discharged on the first day of December of the same year.  Also, the said Amasa Bemis further served six months in another tour of duty in the revolutionary war as follows, viz, he enlisted as a sergeant in the regiment of foot commanded by Colonel Danforth Keyes in the company commanded by Captain Ralph Earl that he enlisted the thirtieth day of July 1777, was stationed in the Town of Providence and its vicinity in the State of Rhode Island, that he served in said company as a sergeant for the term of six months and was honorably discharged.  The reason that I know that the said Amasa Bemis served as aforesaid is that I was with ["him" inserted] during both terms, being in the whole ten months, that I was a soldier and served in the same companies during both terms.  And I further testify that the last tour of six months which the Amasa Bemis served was in troops raised by the State of Massachusetts, as aforesaid.
Samuel Guilford
Worcester ss
[illegible] 29, 1832  [illegible] the above named Samuel Guilford
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personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Worcester and made oath to the truth of the within depositions by him subscribed.  James Draper Jus. Peace
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I Jesse Bemis of Spencer in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, being now eighty one years of age do testify and say that about the first day of September A. D. 1776 Amasa Bemis of Spencer aforesaid, enlisted as a private soldier into a company of infantry in the service of the United States and was of the revolution, said company was commanded by Capt. Josiah White, in the regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Denny, that said Amasa Bemis with others belonging to said company was in the service aforesaid the full term of two months, was stationed at Jerry Town as called, in the State of New York on the river Hudson and other places in the vicinity and was then honorably discharged.  The reason that I know that the said Amasa Bemis served as aforesaid is that I was a soldier in the same company with him during the same time.
Jesse Bemis