Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33842, Henry Turner, R.I.
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Service
   R.I.

Turner, Henry

Number
   833842
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Massachusetts Roll
1,609 [circled]
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Henry Turner,
Col° Olvey Drummer
Rhode Island  '78 - 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 of March 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30. oof June 1818, and sent to Stephen Minot, Esq. Haverhill, Mass.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
[one line crossed out]
5 months 7/31
4/30

$42.86 [border above and below]

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}


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Notification sent to Abraham Biglow Esq
Oct. 13 - 1820
Cambridge Mass.
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Henry Turner
March 25, 1818


Correct


Found on the Rhode Island Rolls for 3 years
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I Henry Turner of Concord in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of the age of sixty five years, declare or say that I am a resident Citizen of the United States, that I reside in & belong to said Concord, in the Middle Circuit in said Commonwealth; That about May 1776 I inlisted as a drummer at Kennebeck, for one year in the army of the United States on the continental establishment & was there marched to Cambridge in this State, & there attached to a company under the command of a Captain whose name was something like Coxel Ony of Rhode Island, who was afterward promoted. It was in the Rhode Island Regiment under Col. Hitchcock: - That I served as drummer that year & ten inlisted for fifteen months more in the same Company, same Capt. same Regiment then under Col,. Anger: I served till about June 1778 when I inlisted in the same company under the same Capt. for three years more, which time I likewise served, & then inlisted in the same company, then under Capt. Thomas Huse, for during the war: Col. Ony was then the Col of that Reg't. I served in said company till the peace, & was then honorably discharged by Col. Ony, at Saratoga about the first of July 1783. I have since lost my certificate of discharge.

I also say that I am, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from my Country for support, & I never had any pension allowed me by the Laws of the United States.

Henry Turner [signature]



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex Co. March 25th 1818. Then the above named Henry Turner made solemn   oath that the aforesaid declaration by him subscribed is true.

Stephen Minot [signature] {Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit}



Whereupon it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Henry Turner did swerve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in his declaration aforesaid, against the common enemy. I now certify & transmit the evidence in this case & the proceedings had thereon to the Secretary of the department of war. 

Stephen Minot [signature] {Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit}


[Stamp] Seal
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Henry Turner

1609
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts [bold, centered]

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 June - A.D. 1820

Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice ["chief justice" italics]
and 
WILLIAM WETMORE, and.   } Associate Justices ["associate justices of said court" italics]
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, Henry Turner resident in Concord - in said County Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1. 609 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,

"WAR DEPARTMENT ....... REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. ["revolutionary claim" crossed out]

"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the
"18th March, 1818, Henry Turner - late a drummer 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 fifth - day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirteenth
"day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

[L.S. typed in a double bordered text box]

J.C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War," ["secretary of war" italics]
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,

SCHEDULE [centered]
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, no property of any kind.
Henry Turner

"And the said Henry Turner being first sworn does on oath declare that he served in the war of the revolution six years and m0ore, that he enlisted in the years service in 1776 in Capt Coxwell Oney's Company in Col. Hitchcock's regiment in the Rhode Island Regiment and continued in said Regiment until the close of the war - that he is sixty seven years of age, that he has a wife and no other family. that he is wholly unable to do any kind of work by reason of bodily infirmity and depends on public charity for support.
Henry Turner

Sworn to & declared
Before Wm. Wetmore Judge Kc."
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

September 25, 1924.

Mrs. Adelaide A. Dalton,

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.33842, it appears that Henry (or Henery) Turner enlisted at Kennebec in May 1776 and served as a Drummer in Captains Coggeshall Olney and Thomas Hughes' Companies, Colonels Hitchcock, Angell and Olney's Rhode Island Regiments and was discharged July 1, 1783. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 25, 1818, while a resident of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, aged 65 years.

In 1820 soldier referred to his wife but did not give her name. There is no further data on file as to his family.

Respectfully,

Acting Commissioner
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Concord Ms.  March 25 - 1818
To the Secretary of the Department of War\\Sir,

I request you to transmit a Certificate of the allowance of my Pension, under the late Law, to Stephen Minot Esq. of Haverhill Ms. who will forward the same to me.

Henery Turner [signature]
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1924, Sept 25 - Hist. to Mrs. Adelaide A Dalton. NM [initials]



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33842

Rev INVALID ["Rev" handwritten]
["invalid" bold, centered]

File No. 33842
Henry Turner
Drummer Rev War

Act: 18th March 1800 [? last 2 numbers]
Index: Vol. 2,    Page 424

[Arrangement of 1870.] 
[note, the above brackets were on the original document]
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99 HIGHLAND AVENUE
SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS [centered]

The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C.

Can you give me the date of Henry Turner's pension - He was drum major in army of the Revolution - was born in Boston in 1754 -

Mrs.Adelaide A. Dalton
99 Highland Ave.
Somerville Mass.

[Postal Stamp]
U.S. Pension Office
8 22 1924