Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1239, Samuel Bromley, Mass.
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Mass

Bromley, Samuel

R.1239
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1239

Samuel Bromley
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19.675

Samuel Bromley
Rutland Co VT

R Temple
Buttane VT

Recd 23 June 1825

Rejected June 23 1825 per letter to agent

1239
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State of Vermont
Rutland Counth

On the 16th day of June 1825 personally came James Banker, a credible witness who
being duly sworn, doth depose & say, that he is acquainted with Samuel Bromley who
has recently applied for a pension, and was acquainted with him during the revolutionary war.  And that he knows the said Samuel served in Capt Coleman's Company, in Col Alden's Regiment of the Mass line from December 1778 to February 1780 - and further says not.

Sworn before me the day & year aforesaid
R. Temple
Justice of Peace

State of Vermont
Rutland Co

On the 17th day of June 1825 personally came William Winnie a credible witness who being duly sworn doth depose & say, that he is acquainted with Samuel Bromley aforesaid and was acquainted with him during the revolutionary war; and
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that he knows the said Samuel served in Capt. Collburn'sCompany & Col Alden's REgiment from March 1779 to February 1780 and further says not.

Sworn before me the day and year aforesaid,

B Temple,
Jus. Peace

State of Vermont
Rutland -

I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify that Robert Temple before whom
the foregoing affidavits were taken is a Justice of the peace for said County, commissioned and
that his signatures thereto are in his own proper hand writing.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Rutland this 17th day of June 1825

R. Pierpoint
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Rutland
17 June 1825

Sirs;

Enclosed is an original application of S Bromley for a pension

Respectfully yours

B Temple
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STATE OF VERMONT,
County of Rutland, ss.

On this 16th day of June 1825 personally appeared before the County court for said county of Rutland in open court, (said court being a court of record, agreeably to the laws of this state, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c),  Samuel Bromley resident in said county, aged 60 years, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st May, 1820, that he, the said Samuel Bromley, enlisted for the term of three years on the ___ day of April in the year 1777 in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Colburn in the regiment commanded by Colonel Alden in the line of the state of Mass on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until the spring of 1780 when he was discharged from the said service at West Point in the state of New York.  That he was at the battle of Stillwater and taken at Burgoyne.  He has no evidence  of his said services.  That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present.  That his name is not on the roll of any State and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension, to wit: 

I and my wife have for the last ten years resided with our son in law Nathan Page, who has supported us except what little we earned by our labor, and I did not wish to ask for a pension so long as he was able and willing to support us. But he has an increasing family and does not get along very well in the world, and I now feel it my duty to ask the aid of goverment.

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May, 1820, 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.

1 Cow, 1 pig,  4 Chairs, 1 table, 1 chest, 6 knives and forks, 6 plates, 5 pewter spoons, 1 pot, 1 kettle, 1 pair of Shovel & tongs, [illegible], 1 shovel, 1 axe, 1 pitch fork, 1 Scythe, 1 sickle. 

My occupation is that of a laborer but my health is bad and I am llame.  I have a wife named Sally aged 60, in tolerable health.  We reside with our son in law Nathan Page, who principally suppoers us.   That since the 18 March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property, to wit.  in the spring of 1821 my cow died, and my son in law gave me five dollars & with this & my labor I bought another. No other changes have been made except I have fattened 4 pigs in the time and killed them to eat.

Samuel Bromley (his mark)

Sworn to and declared on the 16th day of June 1825 before said court.

I, Robert Pierpoint, clerk of Rutland County Court do hereby certify, that it appears to the satisfaction of the court, that the said Samuel Bromley did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 thirty dollars 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court on this 16th day of June 1825

R. Pierpoint