Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34129, John Burrell, Mass.
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Mass.   Burrell, John   S. 34129
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5584 - 

Massachusetts John Burrell 
Capt Gould 
private Massachusetts line 76 One year 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 3 of April 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 Jany 1819 and sent to Nahum Mitchell Judge East Bridgewater Mass 

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 - 4mos 32/20 40.53 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819. 48 
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$88.53 
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{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} Bridgewater Continued
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Notification sent to John B. Thomas Esq 13th
January 1821.  Plymouth Mass
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We Elijah Shaw a Lieutenant and William Ripley Private Soldier in Capt Jacob and Col. John Greaton's Regiments ^which was the twenty seventh do depose testify and declare that John Burrell was a Private Soldier in said company in the Revolutionary war and served there in said capacity during the term of twenty months 
Elijah Shaw Lt 
Wm Ripley 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. --- May 12th 1818 

then the above named Elijah Shaw and William Ripley personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above deposition by them Subscribed is just and true in all its parts 
Before me Nathan Gurney Jn Just of Peace

the above named Nathan Gurney is a Magistrate authorized to take Depositions  and the said Elijah Shaw & 
William Ripley are credible Witnesses - Nahum Mitchell Judge
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I John Burrell of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts now in my sixty third year depose set forth and declare that I was a soldier in the war of the revolution against Great Britain on the Continental establishment- that I entered into the service in the beginning of 1775 in Capt Jacob Goulds company and Col. Greaton's Regiment in the Massachusetts line and served eight months at Roxbury the term for which I engaged- that I then enlisted again for one year under the same officers and served at Cambridge and Norwich in Connecticut and then I went to New York, and then went to Albany, and then to Ticonderoga, and then to Crown point, and then to St John's, and then further down towards Quebeck, and then to the fort near Quebeck to bring back our defeated Soldiers, and then returned to our Regiment, and went to Mr Real, and then across to St John's again, and there had the small pox - and then to Ticonderoga again, and then to gallows Hill opposite Ticonderoga in the east side of the River, and there staid till fall (19 days before our terms expired) and then returned to Albany, and from there to Morristown in New Jersey and staid there till my term expired; and received a pass and a written discharge and arrived home in January 1777. My discharge I have not been careful to preserve. I was afterward, three months at West Point
John Burrell 
Sworn to Mitchell Judge
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I John Burrell aforesaid do further testify that Elijah Shaw of Abington and William Plummer, served with me in both campaigns 
John Burrell --- 
Sworn to before me hum Mitchell Judge &
John Burrell
Bridgewater 
(A)
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John Burrell Bridgewater - Ms
3 Apl 1818 private 
Greaton regt Mass 
76 One year Admitted
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
On this third day of April AD. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared John Burrell of Bridgewater aged sixty two years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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, viz. See his declaration at large marked (A)
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And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Burrell -- did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, and he needs the assistance of his country for support.- 
Nahum Mitchell 

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. SS. 1818, 
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That [blank] is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth - that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court, Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of
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John Burrell 
Bridgewater 5584 Mar 19 
6m
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District of Massachusetts - On this Eighteenth day of July AD 1820 personally appeared, in open Court being a court of Record Viz the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Plymouth, Southern District, John Burrell aged sixty three years, resident in Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth in sd District of Massachusetts, who being first duly sworn according to  law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: 

Entered the service of the United States 1775 for eight months at the expiration of that term enlisted for one year in Col Greatons Regt and that he has received a pension certificate dated Jan 21st 1819 & numbered 5584 date of declaration not recollected and also takes & subscribes the following oath, Viz: 

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. 

have the improvement of ten acres of land & a small house & barn old & out of repair in my wife's right which will only keep a Cow summer & winter & produce corn only for one half of my family use no personal estate except a Cow. I owe about $100

my family consists of my wife Experience aged 62 years 2 daughters Polly aged 37 & Rhoda 19 years wife & daughters infirm & able to do but little towards myself & family's support by rea on of Fits- 
John Burrell 

Sworn to & declared on the 18th day of July AD. 1820 - Before Nahum Mitchell a Justice of sd County 

John B Thomas Clerk of the said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto 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 Fifty five dollars- and--  cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on the Seventy Sixth day of December 1832 
Jn B Thomas Clk Court for County of Plymouth
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34129 
Revy INVALID. - 
File No. 34,129 
John Burrell 
Pri Rev War 
Act: 18 March 18

index:--Vol.2, Page 99 

[Arrangement of 1870.}