Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33813, for Joseph Tombs, Massachusetts
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Mass. Tombs, Joseph.  S.33813
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33813
Revy Invalid.
File No. 33813
Joseph Tombs
Priv Rev War
Act: 18th March 18"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 421

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Massachusetts District, ss.
Boston June 9 A.D. 1818
It appearing to my satisfaction, that Joseph Tombs 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 direction 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 A.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
J M Davis } Judge of the District Court U.S. Massachusetts District.
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Massachusetts District ss.
Boston 18 January 1819.
I am satisfied that the above named, Joseph Toombs by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
JM Davis {District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.

To the Secretary of the Department of War.
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6,494
Massachusetts
Joseph tombs
Capt Ward  Private Mass. Line
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 3rd of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of Any 1819 and sent to John Davis Esq Boston Mass
Arrears to 4th Sept 1818 5 M 8 2/30 - 40.-53
Semi-anl. All.ce ending 4th Mar 1819   48
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$88:53

Esq BL Boule {Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

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Certificate from the rolls of service Sent to Hon W Jackson WR May 28 1834
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13.
Joseph Tombs

6494
Jany '19

Can
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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, Joseph Tombs resident in Framingham in said county Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate N. 6469 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, Joseph Tombs late a Private 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 third day of April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, "
[L.S. in a box]
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,
" Household Furniture .......54.25
S[illegible]                               4.
Watch & Gun..........................7.
Barrels & tubs........................3.
Farming utensils.....................4.50
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$73.75
Joseph Tombs
Declared & sworn to before S Dana Judge - And the said Joseph Tombs being first duly sworn on his oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution three years and five months, the five months was at Ticonderoga, he then enlisted during the war was in the Company of Cap Nathan
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Ward in the company of Wm Watson Cap' Col Wesson's Reg of the Mass' line, he is now sixty nine years old by occupation a Cordwainer and yet labors some in his vocation his family consists of his wife Mary aged sixty a woman of feeble constitution and his daughter Fanny in good health he was at the Siege of Fort Stanwix and the battle of Saratoga.  Joseph Tombs
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following oath, taken
and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana 
a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Joseph Tombs 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 whatever, 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.
Joseph Tombs
Middlesex ss. C.C.C.P. June Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Joseph Tombs
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Saml Dana Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the
foregoing Oath, and Schedule 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 total amount in value of the property exhibited in the
aforesaid Schedule is seventy three dollars & seventy
five 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. Abrm Biglow
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N. 169
Joseph Tombs Private
Wesson's Mass'tts Reg't
Served from 1777 to 1780.

Correct
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(8-1776)

SERVICE

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Mass.      Tombs, Joseph
S.33813


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