Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44244, for Joseph Porter, Massachusetts
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Service.     [A star graphic appears at top center]   
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Mass.               Porter, Joseph         S. 44244

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13,734
New. York
Joseph Porter         4
at Gainsville in the state of Mass
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the mass line, for the term of 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of July 1819
and sent to Elizur Webster Esq. Judge, Gainsville, Gennessee
 ct.  New York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819.             $83.43
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept,              48
                                                            $ 131.43
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present on left side of document]

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
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44244
INVALID.
Revol         [illegible]
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File No. 44244
Joseph Porter
Pri Rev War
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Act:  18 March 18
Index: -- Vol. 3,  Page 399

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Application
of
Joseph Porter
For
Pension under the
law of the 18th March
1818

[Written upside down at bottom of page, from bottom up, is the following:]
Joseph Porter, Privt
Putnam's Mass. Reg.
1781 to 1782.
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State of New York
Genesee Ss. ⎬

Joseph Porter of Gainesville in the County aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth
and saith, that sometime in the month of July
A D 1780. the Deponent was enlisted into the service of the United States at Charlemont County of Hampshire & State of Massachusetts, for the time of six months, from which place the Deponent was marched to West Point in the State of New York, and attached to the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by
Col. Rufus Putnam, to a company in said
Regt. commanded by Capt. White and which time
the Deponent faithfully served, that is until the
6th Day of December in the year after when he was regularly discharged by the said Col. Rufus Putnam.
      That afterwards to wit on the 27th Day of March AD 1781, the Deponent Voluntarily enlisted as private Soldier into the Regiment above mentioned and was attached to a company commanded by Captain_____ Smith in which company he served until the commencement of the year 1783 at which
time, he was transferred into a company of [illegible] from which the Deponent was transfered to the first Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Joseph Vose in the company commanded by Captain _______
Cushing,  in which the Deponent faithfully served
his country against the common Enemy until
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the 23d day of December 1780, when he was honorably discharged from the service at West Point by Major General Knox, the then commanding Officer at that place. 
      The Deponent further declares that the
Discharges which he recd as above related were
destroyed by fire together with the other effects of the Deponent on the 5th February AD 1787,  or 1788.
     The Deponent further declares that he is a citizen of the United States, and that his circumstances in life are such, that he is in need of the assistance of his country for support
And further the Deponent saith not.  Joseph Porter

Sworn & subscribed at Warsaw in the County of Genesee this 2 day of April AD 1818
Before me - Elizur Webster one
the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas for said County.
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State of New York
Genesee County

I Isaac Wilson one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said
County, do Certify, that Joseph Porter the claimant in the annexed application is in need of the assistance of his country for Support. And that I am satisfied that the said Joseph Porter served as a private Soldier, nine months at one period of enlistment during the Revolutionary war in the Continental Army-

Given under my hand at Middlebury
in the said County the 11th Day of
May AD 1819 -

Isaac Wilson Judge as aforesd

State of New York
Genesee County

I Simeon Cumings Clerk of the County
aforesaid do hereby certify that Isaac Wilson is
and was on the 11th day of May A.D. 1819, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in said County, and that the name subscribed to the above certificate is his signature in his own proper hand writing.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at Batavia this 27th day of May AD. 1819

Simeon Cumings
by [illegible] Smead Dep. Clk
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State of New York
Genesee County
April 28. AD. 1818

This day personally appeared before me
Joseph Porter the applicant in the foregoing Deposition and having been carefully examined touching the facts set forth in the same, and having satisfactorily answered such questions as appeared necessary to substantiate his claim to a pension under the law of the U. States of the 18th March 1818. I have thought fit to certify the same, & to permit the proceeding had in the premises to be forwarded for the consideration of the Honble the Secretary of War.-
Clozen Webster
one of the Judges of the Court
of Common pleas for sd County

State of New York
Genesee County   
Simeon Cumings Clerk of the
County aforesaid do hereby certify that Elijah
Webster before whom the preceding affidavits appear to have been made is a Judge of the Court of Common pleas for said County acting under the authority of this State and that the forgoing are his signatures.

In testimony whereof I have herunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 7th day of May AD. 1818
Simeon Cummings