Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 583, Jeremiah Bartlett, N.H.
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SERVICE  N.H.

Bartlett, Jeremiah

NUMBER  R. 583
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Jenniah Bartlett
28.003
Rejected

See letter to Danl. Gale [?] 23, 1833
only Served 3 mos & 28 ds
New Hampshire
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1889 Nov 1 history by M M Bartlett [Prior?]

No. 583  REJECTED

Jeremiah Bartlett

Service: Revolutionary
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28.033
Jeremiah Bartlett

[BSB?]

 [not?] Authenticated

on roll Capt [Currirs?] comp
Col Drake Reg

3 mos & 8 ds

Daniel Gale
Gilmanton
Stafford Co NH

[along left side] opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and
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DECLARATION IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE OF CONGRESS PASSED JUNE 7, 1832.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
COUNTY OF STRAFFORD SS. --   COURT OF Common Pleas
August TERM, 1833
On this twenty sixth day of August 1833, personally appeared before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas now in session at Gilford within and for said County of Strafford, Jeremiah Bartlett  a resident of Gilford in said County of Strafford and State of New-Hampshire, aged Seventy six 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 7, 1832.  That he enlisted in the army of the United States, in the year [blank]  and served as follows:-- I Jeremiah Bartlett of Gilford aforesaid formerly of Kingston in said State, was drafted as a Militia man I think in in the month of October 1775, in Captain French's Company and marched for Kingston aforesaid to Portsmouth N.H. and helped build a Fort and was in that service two thirds of a month and then was discharged.  I again enlisted in the War of the Revolution the last of July or the first of August 1777, in Captain Ezra  Curnier's Company in Colonel Jacob Gale's regiment of Militia I think, and we marched from said Kingston to number four now Charleston, then to Bennington, and remained there three or four days, then we marched to Stillwater New York and was present at the time of taking Burgoyne's army and after we marched to the Jerseys and there stationed and was employed in repairing forts and Breastworks and was in said service untill the last of January 1778 and was discharged in said Jersey but was very sick at the time of my discharge of what was called the Croup disorder and the nervous fever and Doctor Dearborn the Physician of the Army gave over to die, and I was left to pay my bills, and in about three weeks after I so far recovered as to be on my way home by my father sending one of my brothers with a Horse but could not get on the Horse no other ways then being put on, the first day rode about six miles and was fifteen days in coming to Kingston aforesaid about 320 Miles, and then was under the care of Doctor Amos Gale of said Kingston for several months and was not able to perform any labor of any amount for six or eight months.  I do not know of any one living that was out with me.
Interrogatories Answered [end of page]
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miles and was fifteen days in coming to Kingston aforesaid about 320 miles, and then was under the care of Doctor Amos Gale of said Kingston for several months and was not able to perform any labor of any amount  for six or eight months .  I do not know of any one living that was out with me.

Interrogatories Answered--
I was born in said Kingston 1756,
I have no record of my age
I was living in said Kingston, and then in Deerfield, Northwood and in said Gilford formerly a part of Gilmanton at the latter place I have lived forty four years.  I was drafted.
General Stark, Colonel Drake, and Colonel Evans,
I never had a written discharge to my knowledge
I am well acquainted with persons in my vicinity Barnard Morrell Esqr. Benjamin Jewett Esq John Evans Esqr, William Blasdell Esq & Clergyman Revd Mr. Young and Recd Mayhew Clark, Lyman B. Walker Esq. Daniel Tucker Esq. & Daniel Gale Esq.
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, or if any, only on that of the Agency of the State of New Hampshire.
Jeremiah Bartlett X his mark
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
[signed]  A. Peirce Clerk

We John K. Young a Clergyman residing in Gilford and Isaac Cole Esq residing in said Gilford, a Justice of the Peace hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Bartlett who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 76 years of age; and that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
[signed] John K. Young   Isaac Cole
Sworn to and subscribed the 27th day of August 1833
Attest [signed] A. Peirce, Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and [end of page]
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after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them [that] John K. Young who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Gilford and that Isaac Cole Esq, who has also signed the same is a resident in said Gilford, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Attest [signed] A Peice Clerk

I Andrew Peirce Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Strafford, Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Bartlett for a pension-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court the 27th day of August 1833.
[signed] A. Peirce, Clerk