Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37265, for Mathias Murch, Massachusetts
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( 8 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass
CONTENTS
Murch, Mathias

Matthias
NUMBER
S. 37265
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5705,
Maine
Matthias Murch
Capt William
Mass
Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of the district of Maine
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence
the 14th of April 1818-

Certificate of Pension issued the 283h of Jan 1819 and
sent to George Thacher Judge
Saco, Maine

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.4.20 37.60
Semi-anl. all'ce ending March 1819
48:-
11.85.60
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued on the roll
under the law of the
of May 1890
Gorham Cumbd C
Notification into
to John Massey
in June 18th
Portland
Maine
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N148
Mathias Murch

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No.5705

23 Jany 1819
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
DISTRICT OF MAINESS.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at
Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the
just Tuesday, being the sixth day of June
and by adjournment from day to day, on the thirteenth
day of June in the bar of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS,
Judge of said Court.
On this thirteenth day of June in the year above written, personally
appeared in open Court, the same having the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a
Court of Record for said Maine District, Mathias Murch aged
sixty one years, resident in or in said District,
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary
War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt.
Daniel Merrill in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Brewer
in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is
more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the fourteenth
day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension
, numbered 5705. was granted. And I do solemnly 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 for 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; that
income other than what is contain
my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my
family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Mathias Murch
Sworn to and declared, on the thirteenth
day of June, A.D. 1820.
BEFORE M. Made for the
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SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging
to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate, eighteen acres of land for which I
gave ninety dollars
Personal estate - two cows, five sheep and one
half of a swine - and a small number of articles
of furniture
Mathias Murch
Sworn to before
Albion K Parris
U.S. Dist: Judge


SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Mathias Murch one
by occupation am a Bricklayer, which I am not able to pursue by reason of
infirmities.

[Chart]

NAMES.
Polly Murch (wife)
Charlotte Murch daughter
Daniel Murch -
Dorcas Murch--
 
AGES.
58
19
15
11

Capacity of each to contribute to their support.
an invalid & not able to do
much for her support
is an invalid
is able to work
is able to do as well as children
of this age

Mathias March
Sworn to before Albion H. Parris
U.S. Dist:
Judge
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MAINE DISTRICT, SS.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do
hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 one hundred thirteen.
dollars and ten
cents, and no more
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said Court, on this thirteenth day of June.
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Jun
Clerk of the U. States District
Court for Maine District.

$113.10
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Revy
37265
INVALID.
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File No. 37. 265
Matthias Church
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: -- Vol. 2
Page 291
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I Mathias Murch of Gorham in the County of Cumberland and State of Massachusetts, aged fifty nine years, do declare that I entered into the American army on the Continental establishment, the fourteenth day of March 1776 under Capt Hart Williams, in Col Edmond Phinneys Regiment, and served to the first day of January 1777 being more than nine months, at which time I was duly discharged, that during said time I marched from Gorham to Cambridge and Boston, and from thence in July or August to Ticonderoga, and from thence to Fort George where I was discharged. 
And afterwards in January 1777 I again enlisted at Fort George for three years, under Capt Daniel Merrill, Col Brewer's Regiment, Pattersons Brigade & after having served three years, was regularly discharged at Fish Kill in January 1780, as will appear by my discharge hereto annexed.
I have no  [pension] and from my indigent and reduced cir-[  ] 

[  ] Hill Jany. 17 do
Mathias Murch Soldier in the 12th Massachusetts Regt. having served three years in the Service of the United States  [  ]  discharged  .. [ ]  and permitted to return to the State of Massachusetts Bay..
Silas Burbank Cor [  ] 
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..
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in January 1780, as will appear by my discharge hereto annexed. I have no pension, and from my indigent and reduced circumstances in life, stand in need of assistance from my Country for support. I am a native citizen of the State of Massachusetts & of the United States
April 14. 1818

Mathias Murch
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it known that on the 14th day of April 1818 before me
Subscriber one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts personally appeared
the within named Mathias Murch I being duly sworn
made oath to the within declaration by him, in my presence
subscribed, in order to obtain the [illegible] made by the
late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land & navel service of the United States
in the revolutionary war, which declaration being
signed & unto as aforesaid I George Thacher One of the
Justices & do certify that it appears to my satisfaction
that the said Mathias Murch did serve in the revolutionary
war against the common enemy as stated in his declaration
  & that he is in reduced circumstances & stands
in need of the assistance of his country for support, I
now transmit the proceedings & testimony before me to
the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the
directions of the aforesaid act of Congress
In Testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand & have
caused the seal of said Court to
be hereunto affixed this thirtieth day of May in the year of our lord eighteen hundred & eighteen

[signature] George Thacker