Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,717, John Gassett, Mass.
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[printed form; only state, name, and number filled in]

(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass

*Gassett, John
Gazette.

number
S. 32.717

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CONTENTS
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32717
R[illegible]y INVALID
File No. 32,717
John Gassett
Psi Rev War
Act: 18th March 1870
Index:-Vol.2, Page 150
[ Arrangement of 1870 ]
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[in circle] 1949
Massachusetts,
John Gassett, (or Gazette)
Capt Maxwell Private
Massachusetts line
1777 [illegible] year + 6 mo
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the  14th. of April, 1818. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 27. of July, 1818, and sent to the care of Edward Bangs, Esq; Westminster, Mass. 
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1818. $37.00, [crossed out] ami apl all'ce ending
4 months, 21/30 $: 37.60
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

Notification Sent to Abv Biglow
Egt Oct 13. 1820 Cambridge Mass.
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176. John Gassett or Gazette
[crossed out] Residence
1949
lim
July 18
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
MIDDLESEX, ss. 
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A.D. 1820.
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, 
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, Associate Justices of Said Court. 
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Gassett resident in Marlborough in said committy & Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1949 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit, 
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. 
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 
"18th March, 1818, John Gassett late a in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the 
"Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight 
"dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
[in a stamped black-rimmed box] L.S. "Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty seventh 
"day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J.C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit, 
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, 
"10 kitchen chairs of the value of $2 00
4 piece deeds to 4 00
1 waste tub 0 25
3 pain 0 40
1 brass kettle 4 00
2 in[illegible] do 0 75
1 tea kettle 0 40
1 pair landrivers 0 75
Fire shovel & tongs 1 00
3 trowels 0 15
1 pair bellows 0 25
2 tables 1 75
1 candlestick 0 17
2 table cloths & 2 towel 1 30
1 set of knives & forks 0 66
2 pewter platters & [illegible] & plates 2 75
And carried forward $20 58
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Account brought forward $20 58
1 set of tea cups & saucers 0 20
1 tea pot 0 20
3 pewter qt Basons 0 75
2 mugs & 2 glass tumblers 0 30
3 meat barrels & 2 cider do 1 50
1 hoe 1 axe & 1 shovel 2 00
1 chest of mechanic's tools for a carpenter 17 00
1 Cow 20
1 swine 10
2 meal bags & 2 seives 1 00
1 meal chest 0 75
John Gassett 14 78

And the said John Gassett being first duly sworn doth declare that he served in the war of the Revolution three years in Cap' Hugh Maxwell's company in Col. Bailey's Regt of the Mass a [illegible], that he is more seventy three years of age by occupation a carpenter but by cea son of his great age and infirmity unable to labour but little, that his family consists of his wife Sarah aged sixty six years and one Lydia Hore a woman aged fifty years, who is hired at seventy five each a week and supported to take care of the said Sarah who is weakly and unable to take care of herself
John Gassett
Declared and sworn to before Sam Dana As jus"
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken adn subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of the Court as aforesaid, to wit, 
"I, John Gassett do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatsoever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD. 
John Gassett
Middesex ss. C.C.C.P. June Term, A.D. 1820
Then the abovenamed John Gassett took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me, 
Same Dana Judge of said Court" 
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule hereto 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 total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is seventy four dollars and twenty eight cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July, 1820. 
Attr. [Signature of Abraham Bigelow]
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Edward Bangs, Esq;
Judger
Westminster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. 
John Gassett (or Gazette)
Massachusetts line, 
Revolutionary Claim.
found on the rolls, 
Correct.

John Gassett 
Marlborough
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State of Massachusetts, County of Worcester J John Gassett a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Marlborough in the County of Middlesex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in the months of June in the year 1777. 
I entered and engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of December in the year 1788.
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Captain Hugh Maxwells Company in the Second Massachusetts Regiment under Colonel John Bailey on the Massachusetts line and that I left the service in the month of December 1778. and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Seventy one years. 
My discharge is not in existence. 
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed. 
John Gassett
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 12th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a Law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 19th of March, A.D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Edwd Bangs a Judge of the C.C. of form Islees for the Western Circuit of that Company [illegible] County of Worcester the abovenamed John Gassett and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh out to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true & have affixed the [illegible]
Edwd Bangs
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I certify unto all whom it doth or may concern, that John Gassett of Marlboro in the County of Middlesex, was in service in the Revolutionary War, a private Soldier & a three years man, in Capt.  Hugh Maxwell's company, in the (illegible) Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Col:  John Bailey, of which Regiment I was then Major. _ Dated at Westborough in the County of Worcester April 10th 1818.
                                           Andrew Peters.
I certify that I know Andrew Peters Esq and his handwriting and that in conjuntion with