Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,829, Matthew Farrington, Mass.
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Farrington, Matthew S. 34829
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6,290
Massachusetts
Matthew Farrington
Capt. Ward Corporal 4
Massachusetts Line 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll Massachusetts at the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 31st of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of Jan'y 1819 and sent to the Hon. John Davis Esq. Judge Boston Machusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818--41.31
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819 48.00
5 mos 1/20  $89.31
{Revolutionary claim. Act 18th March, 1818
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No 82
Matthew Farrington Corp
Col. Bigelow Mass'tts Regt
serv'd 3 years
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United States Mass District
Matthew of Charlestown Mass is a resident citizen of the United States maketh oath that he served in the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment; that in May AD 1775 he enlisted in as a private [illegible] for eight months in Capt. John Ward's company; Col Garrish Regiment whose line he does not remember; that at the end of that term he enlisted in Capt. Wm Munroe's Company Col. Bigelow's Regiment, Gen. Putnam Brigade^Massachusetts line for three years; that at the close of those years he was honorably discharged that by  reason of reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
[illegible]
Massachusetts Dist. for Boston31 March 1818
John Davis
Dist. Judge 
Mass
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT,ss Boston 6 June A.D. 18
Boston 10 January 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Matthew Farrington by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from Country for support.
Jn Davis {District Judge U.S. Massachusetts Dist.

TO THE SECRETARY OLF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss
Boston 6 June A.D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Matthew Farrington subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary "war;" the testimony and proceeding in the premised being the declaration aforesaid, [crossed out]
together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
Jn Davis } Judge of the District Court U.S. Massachusetts District.
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34829
Rev'y  INVALID.
File No. 34829
Matthew Farrington
Corp. Rev. War
Act: 18th March 18
Index:- Cool. 2, Page 132
[in brackets] [Arrangement of 1870]
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Matthew Farrington
Charlestown
6290
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COMMONWEALTH of MASSCHUSETTS MIDDLESEX, ss. 
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 JuneA. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and WILLIAM WETMORE, and STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } 
Associate Justices 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, Matthew Farrington resident at 
[left margin] Charlestown in
said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 6290
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, Mathew Farrington late a Corporal 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 thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
[box enclosed with L. S. ]
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this 29th "day of January 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,
He has had no real estate for more than seven years
of any kind his personal estate consists of one desk
one bureau, 6 chairs a table 1 looking glass pair
[illegible]
shovel and [illegible]
and a few articles of iron ware and some crockery ware but not
more than what is absolutely necessary to keep house with the whole of his personal property could not be valued at more than twenty five or thirty dollars. He is seventy three years of age his wife
fifty eight has but one child a daughter who lives with and takes care of them he has lived in Charlestown nineteen years his occupation that of a day
laborer but by reason of age and infirmities is
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unable to do but little towards the support of himself or family and has no dependance for a livelihood but on his pension. At the commencement of the Revolutionary war
he enlisted with the  Massachusetts line of the army and served under Capt John Bridge at the battle of Lex
ington after which he enlisted under Capt John Woods
in Col Baldwins Regiment and served nine months
the term for which he enlisted, he then enlisted again & served under Capt Edmond Monroe in Colonel Bigelow
Regiment for three years was with him at the taking of
Burgoyne, he had a regular discharge from service
when his term expired
Mathew Farrington
Sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore 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. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Mathew Harrington 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 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 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.
Mathew Farrington

Middlesex ss. C.C.C.P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Matthew Harrington
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore 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 thirty dollars

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