Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,683, John Bryant, Mass.
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State of Maine
Washington Ss:

On this 28 day of August, 1832, personally appeared in open Court of Probate now held at Machias in & for the County of Washington before Hon. John Dickinson Judge of Probate
of said County, 
John Bryant resident of Cutler in said County aged sixty seven years, who being first duly
sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served or therein stated: 
in the company of artillery commanded by Lieutenant William Albee in a regiment or corps commanded by John Allen raised by the State of Massachusetts & taken into pay of the United States by [[order]] of Congress; 
that he enlisted for the term of during the war some time in the winter of 1778 + 9 (being a  native of & then a resident at Machias), as
a private, and continued to serve in said
company under said enlistment until the same was discharged in June 1783, during which time he was stationed at a small fort in Machias, except in occasional detachment under Col. Allen to observe the movements of the indians: 
that he resided in Machias when he enlisted, at which time he was a [[minor]] & engaged with the consent of his father who also joined the said of the same time:
that he has no documentary evidence of his service or of his discharge, and does not recollect that any written discharge was given to him or any of his company: 
his monthly pay was eight dollars a month.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on any pension roll.
John Bryant

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Dickinson 
Judge