Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1932, for Simeon Presbrey, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                                                        NUMBER
Mass. Presbrey, Simeon W. 1932.
or
Presbury   B.L.Wt 26.382-160-55
Meredith
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Mass.

Presbrey, Simeon W.
"Presbury"
Meredith

W. 1932

B. L. Wt 26382-16055
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Simeon Presbrey's
Declaration
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10481
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DECLARATION.
Revolutionary claim, under an Act of Congress, Passed
June 7th, A. D. 1832.
STATE OF VERMONT,         } Franklin County Probate Court, October 5th A. D. 1932.
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA, SS.}
Personally appeared in open Court, being the Probate Court for the County of Franklin, and a Court of Record
for said County, and State of Vermont, as will appear by the first section of a Statute Law of said State, entitled "An act,
constituting Probate Courts Courts of Record," -- passed November 15th, A. D. 1821, [see 1st. section of said act,]
Simeon Presbrey aged 74 years, resident in Waterville
in said County, 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 7th, A. D. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States
under the following, named officers +served
as herein stated.
In the year 1775, in the
month of Novmr he enlisted at Norton Mss
under capt Israel Trow for four months
+ served in said Trow company, his Lieut was
[?] Field, (does not recollect his Ensigns
name) march to Roxbury Mss + there stationed
a short time, from thence to Winter Hill near or in
Charlestown Mss there a short time + from
thence to Dorchester Heights, there stationed till
the British evacuated Boston, then dismissed
after serving four months
That again in
the month of July 1776, he enlisted at Taunton
Mss for five months under capt Simeon Cobb
Lieut Sylvester Jones, + Ensign Brosman, and
served under them; marchd direct for New-
Haven, from thence by water to New York
there stationed a short time + from thence to
a place calld Harlem near the city of N,York
there stationed a short time, and the night before
the British took possession of NYork he left
and crossd the Hudson on to the Jersey shore
soon after, marchd up the River to a place calld
Tinny -Fly, there stationd a short time, and
from thence to Croton-Monnes, there stationd
till dismisd after serving five months, thinks
he was dismised in December 76---
He again
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26.382

160 acres