Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35334, Elijah Gardner, Mass.
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Service      [star]                    Number
Mass          Gardner, Elijah     S.35334
                    or Gardener

CONTENTS
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                 35334
      Re[ ]y  INVALID.
File No. _ _ _35334_ _ _
             Elijah Gardener
            Bombardier  Rev War
            _________________
        Act: 18th March 18 
Index:---Vol. 2_ _ _, Page 150
     [Arrangement of 1870.]
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 12 462
Maine  (R)
Elijah Gardener
Of Dennysville in the district of Maine
who was a Bombardier in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Massachusetts line, for the term of near Three Years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine---
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of May 1818-
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th of June 1819 and sent to James Campbell Pap-e
Narraguagus   Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 
                                           9 mt +24/31 -- 79:48 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th. Sept. 1819 --48. -
                                                                    $127.48
             {Revolutionary claim,}
             {Act 18th March 1818.}

(note below was written in pencil) 
Continued 
Notification sent to Josiah Harris, Esq. 
23 Oct 1820
Machias  Me
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Elijah Gardner
[note: written in pencil is a carrot that inserts the missing 'e' to correct to Gardener]
26
12462
Dennyscotta
[followed by two illegible pencil markings]


Seal [illegible]
Josiah Harris
 {Clerk of the Circuit Court aforesaid 
 {for said county of Washington
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STATE OF MAINE.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Machias within and for the county of Washington on the fourth Tuesday of June 1820 and from adjournment of the same on the [fourth] Tuesday of June A.D. 1820 before the Honorable James Campbell of the Judge of said Court.

On this Twenty fifth day of July
in the year above written, personally appeared
in open Court, the same having the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said county of Washington
Elijah Gardiner aged Sixty eight
years, resident in Dennysville
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. as a Bombadier in the company commanded by Capt. Thomas Howard Bryan in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Crane in the line of the State of Massachusetts
on the Continental Establishment,
as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the Seventh day of May
A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 12462
was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on
the 18th 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
an Act of Congress, entitled ""An Act 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 by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to
pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly
described below, also subscribed by me.
Elijah Gardner


Sworn and declared on the 25th day of July
A.D. 1820.

Before James Campbell one of the Judges of said Court

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:--
One Sixteen feet, fishing boat

Elijah Gardner
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SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Elijah Gardner  who by occupation am a carpenter ([illegible] fisherman) which I am not able to pursue by reason of age and bodily infirmity 

Names      Ages         Capacity of each to  
                                   contribute to their support.
Wife  
  *Hannah   Forty-six   In health able to work  
Children
  *Cynthia   Eleven       Hands burnt (crippled)
                                      subject to fits +
                                      wholly unable to work
   *Elijah       Nine          A healthy boy
   *Ward       Six             Healthy
                                           Elijah Gardner

Washington ss.
I  Josiah Harris  Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common pleas for the Eastern Circuit for said county of Washington do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion  of the said Court that the amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is fifteen dollars and __________cents.

In the TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 25th  day of July A.D. on thousand eight hundred and twenty
     Josiah Harris {Clerk of the Circuit Court 
                             {aforesaid for said county of
                              {Washington
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WASHINGTON, SS.
                May 7-  A.D. 1818-
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Elijah Gardener subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;"  the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid. with the accompanying document marked together with this certificate.

                           Secretary  Bradford, Certifient 
                                    A  June 16 1816

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Circuit Court 
of Common Pleas for the third Eastern
Circuit of Massachusetts to be hereunto affixed.
 
James Campbell  {Judge of the Circuit Court
                               {of Common Pleas for the
                               { third Eastern Circuit of 
                               {Massachusetts.
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Washington, ss.  A. D. 1819
Josiah Harris 
I am satisfied that the above named (Elijah Gardner) by reason of his reduced cir-[cum]stances in life, is in need of assistance from his country for support. 

signed James Campbell } Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the third Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts. 

Secretary of Department of War
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889

Elijah Gardner

Private(crossed out) Bombardier Crane's Regiment, Artillery March 11th, 1777 to January 1st, 1780

found on the rolls as Bombardier --- service 
admitted --- Judge's certificate under the seal of the Court, that he is satisfied the applicant is in (underlined)reduced circumstances, and needs the support of his country wanted.
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I Elijah Gardner of [Dennysville?] in the County of Washington state of Massachusetts do testify and declare that some time in the month of April or May in the year anno domini seven hundred seventy seven at Boston in the state of Massachusetts, I enlisted into the army of the United States as a private in Captain O'Brien's Company in General John Crane's Regiment of artillery, in the Massachusetts line, on the Continental for the three years service, and from after marched into Connecticut and arrived at [Danbury?] soon after that place was [unintelligible] by the enemy and I was at the action at [Brandyville?] when Captain O'Brien was killed --- Captain Henry Burbeck succeeded to the command of captain O'Brien's company, which was the youngest company --- I continued to serve in said company and regiment, during all the time of my enlistment I received an Honorable discharge at West Point, some time about the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty --- my discharge, which was signed by Colonel John Crane, has been lost or mislaid by time or accident --- I am now sixty three years old, I am in very necessitous circumstances and need the assistance of my county for support, I have never received any previous whatsoever. 

---Elijah Gardner

Washington St May 7th, 1818 when the above named Elijah Gardner made oath to the truth of the truth of the above declaration by [unintelligible] before one James Campbell judge of the current court common [unintelligible]