Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29.611, Joseph Bartlett, Mass. Mess Sea Service. Navy
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Mass          Bartlett, Joseph      S29,611
Mass Sea Service
Navy
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27.308 - 27308
Massachusetts
Joseph Bartlett
of Plymouth in the state of Massachusetts 
who was a private Seaman in the Company commanded by Captain Washburn in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Gerrish in the Massachusetts line for 12 months Private
2 months 15 days Seaman
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 50- dollars__cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

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Died March 3 - 1835
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REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, SS.
On this 20th day of January 1834 personally appeared in open Court, before Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at Plymouth within and for said County of Plymouth, Joseph Bartlett a resident of Plymouth in said county of Plymouth an commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged 72 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.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not the pension roll of the agency of any State.  That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That he believes in May 1777 he enlisted as private a substitute for his brother William Bartlett and served as a soldier at the Gurnet fort at the Entrance of Plymouth harbor in the war of the Revolution untill some time in December following under the command of Captain Andrew Sampson and always answered to the name of William Bartlett. 

Thru January [?] 1778 he enlisted and served as private in the guards for the prisoners taken with Burgungne being in that service five months at Cambridge Massachusetts under Captain Washburn Colonel Gerrish or Brooks.  Both those officers were occasionally there, but as they never paraded in a Regiment he knows not who was his colonel-he remember a ridiculous caricature of Colonel Gerrish drawn upon on of the barracks.
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that early next July he shipped a sailor on board the Brig Defence of 16 guns, Commanded by Captain John Edmonds, taken by the board of War, into the fleet .destined to Penobscot commanded by Commodore Saltonstall in the frigate Warren.  That the fleet rendezvoused at Townend bay and thence proceeded to Bagaduze so called where we lay twenty odd  days blockading the British ships that were lying under the cover of a fort. Finally a British 64 and five frigates came into the harbour  and our whole fleet were run on shore and burnt by our selves. nearly destitute of subsistance and about three thousand soldiers and sailors we took to the woods, and many I saw die of hunger before we reached any settlement.  The commodore's ship being shorthanded I was one of the 18 pressed into her where I continued till she was burnt and it was 75 days from my entering at Salem before I reached there again from this expedition for which I was to receive twelve dollars per month.  I can't remember ever having any discharge from these services nor can I find witnesses for them all. I was born and have always lived in Plymouth but know of no record of my birth.
My name is on no pension roll and I renounce all pensions but the present.
For character I refer to Dr. James Thacker and the honorable M Davis of Plymouth

Joseph Bartless

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforedone 

Attested Jacob H Loud

Register of Probate
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I Samuel Bartlett of Plymouth Massachusetts of lawful age to testify, do testify that I was often at the garrison on the Gurnet in Plymouth in the war of the revolution and sometimes tarried all night there as many of the troops were my  acquaintances and not few above my age and very destinctly [sic] remember seeing Joseph Bartlett applying for a pension a solider in the garrison and as well remember that he took the place of my half brother William Bartlett on account of his health.  I sometimes mounted guard for a short space on the fort in his stead as a boyish Bravado.

These events are now as fresh in my mind as those of any past time..  But I know not the date or his officers of the space of his service.

Samuel Bartlett

Plymouth Ss. February 10 1834 Then said Samuel Bartlett subscribed and made oath to the truth of his deposition before me and I declare him a credible witness.
Zacheus Bartlett Justice of the peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Ss. I, John B. Thomas Clerk of the Judicial Court
within and for the County of Plymouth, hereby certify, that Zacheus 
Bartlett [illegible] before whom the foregoing deposition was
sworn is a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth
and that I believe his name that subscribed to be his
the proper signature
In testimony whereof these
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the  Supreme judicial court on 
 the twelfth day of February
A.D. 1834
M. M. Thomas
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April 24, 1984

Mrs. Nathan Rogers Park
2 Garden Place
East Walnut Hills 
Cincinnati, Ohio         

BA-J/ILL
William Davis
S. 35231
Joseph Bartlett
S. 29611

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Charles and William Davis of Lincoln County, Maine, and Joseph Bartlett, Jr., Of Plymouth, Massachusetts, all soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

WILLIAMS DAVIS - S. 35231.

William Davis enlisted May 1, 1775 and served eight months as a private in Captain Philip Hubbard's company, Colonel Scammon's Massachusetts regiment; he then enlisted and served the entire year 1776 as private in Captain Moses Whiting's company, Colonel Greaton's regiment; he enlisted June 1, 1777, served as private and corporal in Captain Derby's company, Colonel Bailey's Massachusetts regiment, was in both the battles of Stillwater, was in the battle of the Monmouth, acted as sergeant in command of a platoon at the storming of Stony Point, and was discharged Jun 1, 1780.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 9, 1818, at which time he resided in Whitefield, Lincoln County, Maine.

In 1820, the soldier was sixty-five years of age; his family then
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consisted of his wife, aged sixty-two years, her name not shown, his son, Benjamin, aged eighteen years, and his daughter, Louisa, aged sixteen years.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of William Davis, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following:

William Davis, 2d (as he was pensioned)
Certificate #11372
Issued June 5, 1819
Rate $8 per month
Commenced April 9, 1818
Act of March 18, 1818
District of Maine Agency

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JOSEPH BARTLETT -S. 29611.

Joseph Bartlett was born in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; the date of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.

He enlisted in May 1777, and served eight months as private in Captain Andrew Sampson's Massachusetts company, stationed at the garrison on the Gurnet at the entrance of Plymouth Harbor, this service rendered as substitute for his brother, William Bartlett; he enlisted in January 1778, and served five months as private in Captain Washburn's company, under Colonel Gerrish or Brooks.  Early in July 1779, he entered as a sailor on board the armed brig "Defence", Captain John Edmunds, Commodore Salstonstall's fleet, was on the Penobscot Expedition, suffered great hardships, was one of eighteen pressed into service on the Commodore's ship, "Warren", before it was burned, length of his sea service seventy-five days.

He was allowed pension on his application executed January 20, 1834,
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at which time he resided in Plymouth, Massachusetts; he was then seventy-two years of age, and stated that he had always lived in his native town.

In 1834, it was stated that Joseph Bartlett, the soldier, has been for many years one of the selectmen of Plymouth, had been a County magistrate, and a Member of the State Legislature.

The soldier died March 3, 1835.  There is no reference to wife or children of Joseph Bartlett in this claim.

In 1834, Samuel Bartlett, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, stated that he went often to the Gurnet in Plymouth and saw Joseph Bartlett serving there during the war, and that he (joseph) was then a substitute for his (Samuel's) half-brother, Willim Bartlett.  Zacheus Bartlett, also a resident of Plymouth, in 1834, was a Justice of the Peace for Plymouth, no relationship stated.

The above record is that of the only soldier of Plymouth, Massachusetts, with name Joseph Bartlett fo9und on the Revolutionary Was record of this office.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller,
Assistant to Administrator.
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29611

Revy INVALID
File No. 29,611
Joseph Bartlett

Piv Rev War

Act:  June 7" 32"

index: - Vol. 2, Page 25

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1934- April 24 - Hist. to Mrs. Nathan Rogers Park. ILL
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29475

Joseph Bartlett's
Declaration

Private 12 mos
Seaman 2 months and 15 days
Admitted

William. Baylies
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We, James Kendall a clergyman, residing in the town of Plymouth and John B Thomas residing in the Town hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Joseph Bartlett who has subscribed and sown to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy-two years of age; that he is reputed and believe, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid James Kendall [illegible] and J. H Loud Rev.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the court further certifies, that is appears to them that the Rev. D Kendall
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Plymouth and that Colo John B Thomas who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

By the Court, Attest J. H Loud Register

I Jacob H Loud Register of the Court of Probate do he3reby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Bartlett for as pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office, tis twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.

Jacob H Loud
Register
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We the undersigned native citizens of the Town of Plymouth and Magistrates of the County of Plymouth hereby certify that Joseph Bartlett Esquire who is who also a native citizen of said Town and now an applicant for a Pension for services in the war of the Revolution has always been well known to many as among the most respectable inhabitants of our place.  He has been for many years one of The Selectmen of the Town and a Magistrate of the County often returned as a member of our legislature and was a member for the convention for revising the State Constitution.  We have full faith in his statements and declarations in regard to his services in the Revolutionary War. 

Mosseter Cotton
Nathaniel M Davis
John B Thomas 

Plymouth February 1834
William Thomas
L. Bartlett
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's office January 29, 1834

I hereby certify that from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military and Naval Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of John Edmunds inborne on a "return of Armed Vessels employed in the Expedition against Penbscot by the Board of War for the State of Massachusetts Bay with the appraised value", as Commander of the [illegible] Brig Defense of 16 Guns & 170 tons.
Joseph Bartlett claims for service on board said Brig; but there is no Roll found in this Office.

Edward D. Bangs Leg
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I Andrew Sampson of Duckberry Massachusetts a pensioner under the law of 1832 and one year the captain of a company in 1777, I believe in State service at garrisons on the Gunnet [?] at the entrance of Plymouth Harbor in said state set forth and declare that one Bartlett of said Plymouth and to the best of recollection his name was William enlisted into said company a private and that Joseph Bartlett of said Plymouth now applying for a pension too the place of said William and I believe served right onwards.

From his relations of certain events that occurred in the garrison which he hardly could have known but by being there I have no doubts in for this matter.

Andrew Sampson

Plymouth November 16 1833 then An [?]
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Andrew Sampson subscribed and made oath to the draft of this declaration.  And I declare him a credible witness.

Zacheus Bartlett 
Justice of peace
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April 7, 1934

Veterans Administration
Washington DC

Private and Seaman
dear Sirs:

Joseph Bartlett Jr. of Plymouth only of Ply Massachusetts is listed as having served in the American Revolution, being recorded in "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, A Compilation from the Archives
Prepared and published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth in Accordance with Chapter 100 Resolves of 1891
Wright & Potter Co. State Printers, 18 Post Office Square, Boston 1896 Volume 1, page 729.
Joseph Bartlett Jr. Plymouth Enlisted January 1777, enlisted during war, Discharged Juna 10, 1783.

Served in Capt. Benjamin Warren's Co. Lieut. Col Brook's regiment; also Capt. William Mills. Co Lieut. Col. Brook's Regiment."

Have you any record of his service?  I am his great-great grand daughter and I would like to have a copy of any record that you may have; also any other information that you may have about him especially the place and date of his death, the name of his wife or his children.  Thank you for your courtesy, I remain
Very truly yours
Anna Hall Park
(Mrs. Nathan Rogers Park)

ADDRESS: MRS NATHAN ROGERS PARK
2 GARDEN [LACE
EAST WALNUT HILLS
CINCINNATI OHIO
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April 7, 1934.
Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:

Charles Davis - not as of Maine of Mass., my great-great grandfather, migrated to Ohio from Main about 1812.  He is listed from Maine in the U.S. Census of 1790.  He is the ONLY Charles Davis enumerated in the Main census of 1790.
"From the U.S. Census of 1790.  Maine, Lincoln County, Great Pond Plantation.
Page 38 Davis, Charles
Davis, William
Charles was the son of William Davis. - only Lincoln Co Me

Is Charles Davis listed as having served in the American Revolution?  If so will you please send me his record.
Is his father, William Davis, listed as having served in the American Revolution?  If so will you please send me his record.

Thank you for this service, I remain

Very Truly Yours
Anna Hall Park
(Mrs Nathan Rogers Park)

ADDRESS: MRS. NATHAN ROGERS PARK
2 GARDEN PLACE
EAST WALNUT HILLS
CINCINNATI OHIO