Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33416, for Joseph Page, Massachusetts
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(8-1776)

SERVICE                                NUMBER

Mass.       Page, Joseph         S33416
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33416
Revy INVALID

File No. 33,416
     Joseph Page
Noncommissioned Officer Rev War

Act: 18"    March 18"
Index: Vol. 2, Page 315

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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No 17

Joseph Page

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United States
Massachusetts District
Joseph Page of Boston in the County of Suffolk in
sd district, and a resident citizen therein, applicant for
a pension from the United States under 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 revolution war marketh oath that he served
as a non commissioned officer in the war of the revolution for

a term of nine months
from April 1775 when he entered the service in the
company whereof Henry Farwell was captain and the
regiment whereof Wm Prest was Colonel; that he was
honorably discharged at the end of sd nine months, the term
that he again entered the
his enlistment having
service for another term of nine months some time before
the year 1777 in the company whereof
Jeweth waite
in the State of Mount
was colonel, at
that he reenlisted for another term of nine months before the
late of Monmouth & served to the end of such terment
under what Captain or entered or in what he is unable
that he is in the 76th year of his age & by reason
stances in life is in need of assistance
from his country for a support
his
Witness
A. Funtend
Joseph
Page
mark
Massachusetts District ss
March 28. 18
Sworn to before me
Davis
Sis Judge
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Massachusetts District, ss.
Boston June 5 A.D. 1815

IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Joseph Page
subscriber to the annexed declaration, I now transmit the testimoney
in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of 
war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain pers"sons 
engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary
"war;: the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid,
together with this certificate.

     In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the District Court of the United States for there District
to be hereunto affixed.

[?J Mc David] Judge of the District Court U.S.
Massachusetts District
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Joseph Page
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MIDDLESEX, ss.
Groton-
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun
and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on
the second Monday of June
A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and Associate Justices
STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires,} of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according
to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in
point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power
of fine and imprisonment, of Page late of Boston now resident in
in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 6484
now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the
18th March, 1818 Joseph Page
late a
on commissioned officer in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the
"Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight
dollars per month, to commence on the twenty eighth day of
Marchone
thousand eight hundred and eighteen
┃ L. S.
" Given at the War Office of the United States, this 28th
day of March
one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as
follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding
excepted, to wit,
" Real Estate none
Personal Estate none
And the said Joseph Page being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath declare that he
served as a private and non commissioned officer
in the Revolutionary war nearly the whole of the time
was in the battle of Bunker hill, Still water, Benning
ton and Monmouth a part of the time in Col. Jack
sons Regiment Massachusetts line all of which
services are particularly set forth in his original de
laration on file in the war office dated March 28th
1818 - that he is seventy nine years of age & through
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infirmity of age unable to labour being a 
husbandman by occupation and that he has no family.
            Joseph Page's mark   X

In presence of
Samuel Dana Jr}

Sworn & declared to before me
 [? Saml Dana Judge."]
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken 
and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana
a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit, -

I, Joseph Page do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the
United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and
that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property,
or any part thereof, with intent threreby 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 eighteenth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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.
So help me GOD.   Joseph Page's mark X

In presence of
Samuel Dana jr }

Middlesex ss. C.C.C.P. June Term, A.D. 1820
Then the above named Joseph Page
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Saml Dana, Judge of said Court

I, Abraham Biglow, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule 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
                nothing

     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed 
the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of
Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820.

     Attr. Abraham Biglow
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NAME: Page, Joss    GRADE Sergeant   LINE Massachusetts

WARRANT NUMBER 4660  ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Jan. 26, 1790
to John May ---

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned offers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. 
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.