Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,314, Archelaus Dale, Mass.
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Archelaus Date of Danvers in the County of
Essex in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
yeoman upon Oath makes the following Declaration
That the said Archelaus Dale served
eight months in the year 1775
That the Declarant enlisted in
December 1775 for the term of one year as a Sergeant in Captain John Lows company in Col. Isreal Hutchinsons regiment in the Massachusetts line
That the Declarant served faithfully the whole of said term and was honorably discharged on the first of January 1778 at Bucks County in Pennsylvania 
That the Declarant in the June 1777
received the annexed commissions and served
nine months under the said Commission and
that he never received any written certificate of
discharge
That the declarant is old and infirm
and from his reduced circumstances in life stands in need of assistance from his country for support and that he hereby relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore granted him by the laws of the United States
Archelaus Dale