Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,051, for Miller Paine, Massachusetts
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[printed form with handwritten answers]

(3 - 1776 ) SERVICE  | NUMBER 
Mass. | Paine, Miller  | S. 41,051
CONTENTS
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20173
Vermont
Miller Paine of Windham Co in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the Company command by Captain Nye of the Regiment command by Colonel Bassett in the Massachusetts line, for the term of nine months from April 1776 to 1777
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Inscribed on the roll of Vermont at the rate of Eight Dollars per month commence on the 25th day of June 1830.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of June 1830 and sent to the Hon Jonathan Hunt Brattleboro  Vt
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Arrears to 4th of Sep 1830 - $18.66 
Semi-anu'l all'ce ending  
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$18.66 
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Revolutionary Claim Acts March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820. Recorded Book D Vol 4 page 18 
[illegible]
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21.254 Miller Paine - Application for Pension - Windham County Vermont. February 1830.
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[printed form with handwritten information]
STATE OF VERMONT
COUNTY OF WINDHAM, SS. -- At the Supreme Court begun and held at New-Fane, within and for the County of Windham on the third Tuesday next following the fourth Tuesday of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty Present-- Hon. Samuel Prentiss, Esq. Chief Judge Hon. Titus Hutchinson Hon. Charles K. Williams Hon. Stephen Royce Esq'rs, Assistant Judges- 
On this seventeenth day of February A. D. 1830 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record within and for the County of Windham, and State of Vermont-- proceeding according to the course of the common law;--with a civil jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings; and having the power of fine and imprisonment:--Miller Paine, resident in Westminster in said County of Windham, aged 75 years; who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress, of 18th of March 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820,-- That he the said Miller Paine enlisted for the term of six months on or about the first day of February in the year 1776 in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Benja. Godfrey in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Gary in the line of the  State of Massachusetts, not on the Continental establishment: that he continued to sere in the said Corps until 1st day of April same year, when he was discharged from the said service, in Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts, and on the said first day of April enlisted again for the term of nine months in the company commanded by Capt. Elisha Nye under the command of Lieut. Ed Bassett of the Massachusetts line and supposed to be on the continental establishment and continued to serve in said corps said term of nine months, when he was discharged from said service at Elizabeth Island in State of Massachusetts 1st Feb 1777 [illegible] months and went to Ticonderoga and served out said term and was discharged at Ticonderoga.
And, in pursuance of the act of the 1st May,  1830, I do hereby 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 to 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. [signature] Miller Paine  
Schedule of real and personal Estate --- necessary clothing and bedding excepted. One Cow worth (old) $12,00
A few articles of old household Furniture - worth 15.--   $27--
And the reason why the applicant has not made application before, is, that he did not till recently know where witnesses could be conveniently obtained to prove his service-
[writing on the left side of the form]
1775 in the company commanded by Capt. Thos. the Colonels name not recollected; Zenas Winslow was Major, in the Massachusetts Line and served out said term and was regularly discharged at a place called Falmouth enlisted again
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One Cow worth (old) - - $12.00
A few articles of old household Furniture - worth -  15
 [total] $27

And the reason why the applicant has not made application before, is, that he did not till recently know where witnesses could be conveniently obtained to prove his service -

[four lines of printed form crossed out]

And I do also swear--that my occupation is that of a Shoemaker- very infirm - and destitute of property-have a wife aged 64 - and one daughter aged 27 years - which compose the family-- 
 [signature] Miller Paine.
SWORN to, and declared in open Court, on the seventeenth day of February 1830.  Before and -- By order of Court [signature] James Elliot, Clerk. 
I James Elliot, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the County of Windham, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the files and records 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 twenty seven dollars, and --- cents. 
[seal] IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court on this twentieth day of February, A. D. 1830.  [signature] James Elliot, Clerk of the Court for the County of Windham
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[printed form with handwritten answers]
In reply to your request of ________, received_______ for a statement of the military history of Miller Paine a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. File 41,051 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENTGH OF SERVICE | RANK | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED | STATE
| | | Captain | Colonel|
1775  | 6 mos. | | Thomas Hamilton | [check mark] | Mass.
Feby. 1. 1776  | 2 mos. | | Benjamin Godfrey | Carey |
Apl. 1, 1776  | 9 mos. | Elisha Nye | Lt. Col. Bassett |
Feby. 1, 1777.  | 2mos. | | went to Ticonderoga 
Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl in Mass. Date of application for pension, Feby. 17, 1830. His claim was allowed. 
Residence at date of application, Westminster, Windham Co. Vt. 
Age at date of application, seventy five years Remarks: in 1830 he referred to his wife aged sixty-four years and daughter seventeen years, but did not state their names.
Respectfully, [signature]Barachiah Bassett Lt. Col. 14 Mass. Commissioner.
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[illegible]
Joseph F. Daniels
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The affidavit of Miller Paine of Westminster in the County of Windham and State of Vermont - who testifies and says that on the 18th day of March 1818 he was poor and destitute of property and from that time to the present has been destitute-- no changes have taken place in his property during that period - only that the avails of his daily labor have been appropriated for the support of himself and family-- while he was able to labor - [signature] Miller Paine 
State of Vermont ⎬ Windham County ss Subscribed and sworn to,  this 24th day of May 1830 Before me [signature] Phineas White Justice of Peace 
The affidavit of Otis Haven of Putney in the County Windham and State of Vermont, who testifies and says that for and during the last fifteen years he has been well acquainted with Miller Paine of Westminster in the County of Windham aforesaid and knows that he has always sustained the reputation of an honest poor man -- has never known of his owning any property real or personal excepting one cow - his household furniture and wearing apparel-- [signature] Otis Haven Windham County SS. Subscribed and sworn to this 24th day of May 1830. Before me. [signature] Phineas White Justice of the Peace - The affidavit of Daniel Martin of Putney aforesaid who testifies that for nearly twenty years last past, he has been well acquainted with Miller Paine, of Westminster, and for several year lived within two or three miles of him - and fully coincides with the statement of Otis Haven, in his above affidavit reflecting the said Paine and his circumstances [signature] Daniel Martin Windham County ss. Subscribed and sworn to this 24th day of May 1830 Before me [signature] Phineas White Justice of Peace
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named, Miller Paine, Otis Haven and Daniel Martin who ever nobly sustain a character of undoubted truth and veracity [signature] Phin White Justice of Peace State of Vermont Windham County Court Clerk's Office Brattleborough, June 15th A.D. 1830. [seal] I certify that Phineas White Esquire, is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned as such, and that the preceding and his signatures - In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County Court on the day and year above writtenof  [signature] James Elliot Clerk
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I Lot Bassett of Ashfield in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say, that I was well acquainted with Miller Paine of Westminster in the County of Windham and State of Vermont in the year 1776 and that I am now acquainted with said Miller Paine and I do further testify and say that in January A.D 1776 I enlisted as a soldier for one year in a company commanded by Capt Elisha Nye  and served in said company until some time in the last of September or the first of October in said year. --and that I know that said Miller Paine served as a soldier in the said Nye's company to the satisfaction of the officers of said company from the first of April in said year until sometime in September or October in said year when I left said company. And for anything I have ever heard or known I suppose the said Miller Paine served the whole time for which said company was enlisted. [signature] Lot Basset Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Franklin ss Janr the 27th 1830 then at Ashfield in said county personally appeared Lot Bassett signer to the foregoing deposition and made oath that the same contains the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth before me [signature] Henry Bassett, Justice of the peace And I do hereby certify that the said LotBasset is a man of truth and veracity, whose testimony is deserving of full faith and evidence. [signature] Henry Bassett, Justice of the peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin SS Clerks Office, Greenfield April 7, 1830 I Elijah Alvord, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said Commonwealth for the said County of Franklin do certify that Henry Bassett Esq. before whom the within affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace within & for the said County legally qualified to take depositions and affidavist, and that his signature to the within certificate of caption appears to me to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said the day and year aforesaid. [signature] E. Alvord Clerk
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I Moses Mayo of Ludlow County of Windsor and state Vermont do testify and say that I am and have been well acquainted with Miller Paine of Westminster County of Windham State Vermont  for a considerable time before the commencement of the revolutionary war; that I was well knowing to the said Paines enlisting in the year A.D. 1775 for six months into a company commanded by Capt. Hamilton and that he served said term - that in the winter of A.D. 1776 he again enlisted under Capt. Godfrey and served two months and was discharged on the first day of April at Roxbury. And immediately he on the same day enlisted into a company of for nine months of one year; men commanded by Capt. Nye: at which time I was present: and that he the sd Paine served said term of nine months to the well acceptance of the Officers, when he was discharged. And that he in the winter of 1777 enlisted for two months and served said term in the Northern Army when he was again discharged. [signature] Moses Mayo 
State of Vermont ⎬ Windsor County 
At Ludlow in the County of Windsor on the twenty sixth day of November AD 1829 personally appeared Moses Mayo Subscriber to the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath that the same contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth Before me [signature]  Joshua Warner Justice of the Peace And I do hereby certify that the above named Moses Mayo is a man of truth and veracity, whose testimony is deserving of full faith credence [signature] Joshua Warner Jus Peace
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State of Vermont
Windsor County Ss} Woodstock County Clerk's Office Feby 26th 1830 - I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windsor Do hereby Certify that Joshua Warner is one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said County and that the within is his Signature - 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribe my name the day & year above -
  Benj Swan  Clerk

[Note: Woodstock County is an error. Woodstock is a town in Windsor County, VT]
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Hon. John H. Eaton
Sec. of War
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Hon. John H. Eaton
 Sec'y of War
 sir:
  I enclose for your consideration the papers relating to the case of Miller Paine for a pension, & trust that they are now satisfactory
 With great respect
 Your Obt Servant
  Jonathan Hunt

Brattleboro, Vermont
June 19, 1830
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Rec Sec
533 Lemon Street
Riverside, California
September 25, 1919

Commissioner of Pensions,
Bureau of Pensions
Pension Building,
Washington, D.C.

Dear sir: -
 Will you please find for me, in the records of your department, the enlistment records of two soldiers of the Revolutionary War. The names are:
 S.41,051  Miller Paine, Cape Cod, Mass.
 W. 18145 Benjamin Tower, Scituate, Mass.

I wish to join the "Daughters of the American Revolution and need to know the dates, companies and regiments, etc. to which these men belonged.
  Very truly yours,
  Mrs. Joseph F. Daniels
[postal mark]  U.S. PENSION OFFICE D OCT 4 1919