Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20534, for John Look, Massachusetts
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Service
Mass

Look, John
Jane

Number
W. 20534
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Schedule

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Plymouth ss.

On this 19th day of July 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern CIrcuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a cour of record for the said County John Look aged 61 years, resident in Rochester in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that her served in the Revolutionary was as follows, viz. for the term of 9 months in Capt. Isaac Popes Col Shepard, and that he has received a pension certificate dated 17 April 1819 - and numbered 9102 in pursuance of his original Declaration made 17th April 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 88th 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.

Verifiied at $30 
Real estate [illegible] 1 cow 1 pig house furniture farming tools 1 bible
Myself & wife who is 63 years of age feeble 
one son named Alden Look 26 years of age such an invalid as to be supported by me or the town [illegible]
profession is labouring by the day four more than one hundred fifty dollars

John Look
Sworn to, and declared, on the 19th day of July, A.D.  1820 before Nahum Mitchell, C. Justice of Court

I, John B. Thomas clerk of said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the 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 and [no] cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty second day of July AD 1820.

John B. Thomas
Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth
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John Look
Rochester
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I John Look of Rochester in the County of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and a citizen of the United State and now resident therein set forth and declare on oath that I was a soldier in the war of the Revolution against the common enemy for more than nine months in the Continental establishment; that from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support, and am therefore desirous of obtaining a pension under the late Act of Congress of the 18th March last: that I entered the service in August 1778 for nine months service under Capt. Isaac Pope & in Col. Shepard's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, & served out the time faithfully and had a discharge, and gave it to Abraham Adams Esq - to draw my wages at Boston and I have never it seen it since. He says has lost it or left it at Boston. I served two months in 1776 in Col Cory's regiment and Capt Stephen Wings company. = and in the same year I served five months under Col. Cory in Capt. Wood's company. - and in 1777 I served three months in Capt. [[illegible] company and Col. Hathaway's Regi- all in the Massachusetts line. I was honorable discharged in every instance - 

John Look
Sworn to & subscribed April 17 - 1818

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3582
Jane Look
Wid of John
Mass.
Act July 7 182
Allow $63.33
19 [illegible] per month
[illegible]War [illegible]
Military
Col. Shepard

JH Loud
Plymouth -
[word is cut off, Massachusetts]
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Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for Said County, do hereby certify that Hon. Willas Wood is Judge of Porbate for Said County & that the [word is illegible due to ink smear] is his true & genuine signature.

In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand & the Seal of the Court of Probate for Said County this first day of December 1838.

Jacob H. Loud
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Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for Said County do hereby certify that Seth Miller Jr. & Charles J. Holmes Esquire are Justices of the Peace in & for said County & that the signatures to the several annexed affidavits purporting to be signed by them respectively are their true & proper signatures.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of the Court of Probate for Said County this first day of December 1838.

Jacob H. Loud