Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7033, for Joseph Mathewson, Rhode Island
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SERVICE 
RI

[star stamped]
Mathewson, Joseph

NUMBER 
R. 7033
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[crossed out typing] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1878,

[stamped] REJECTED 

7033

P.O. Joseph Mathewson
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19,479 
Joseph Mathewson

Hartford County Court

Hon G Tomlinson
House of Reps

Rejected see letter

28 Dec 1824

7033
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Washington Dec 20th, 1824

Dear Sir,

In uniformity with the request of the Hon. John [illegible], I herewith transmit the application of Joseph Mathewson to be placed upon the pension list.

With great regard,
I am,  Dr Sir,
Your obdt. Sert.
Gideon Tomlinson
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations

Kent County Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas
I John Brown Clerk of the Court of Common Please for the aforesaid Countyof Kent in the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations do certify that Nathan Wilcox Esquire is a Justice of the Peace for the Town of West Greenwich within said Count of Kent, and that full faith and bred ought to be given to his acts, & attestations as such
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand to affix to the seal of this Court at East Greenwichthis 29th Oct AD 1824
John Brown Clerk
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I do hereby Certify that I was an enlisted soldier in the Revolutionary war in the Continental Army and was personally acquainted with the Joseph Mathewson of West Greenwich in the County of Kent State of Rhode Island who was then in the year AD 1776 an enlisted soldier in Capt Thomas Gorton Company in Colonel Christopher Tippets Regiment in said Continental Army we marched from Rhode Island to harlem [illegible] on York Island from thence to White Plains from thence crossed the North River and was in General Lee's Division when he was taken prisoner and from thence crossed the Delaware River and went down the Delaware River to Newtown from thence to Trenton from thence to Princetown and was in the Princetown Battle January 2, 1777 and from thence to Morristown and there continued in General Sulivan Division til the 18th of February and then Lawfully Discharged 
Samuel X Watson
his mark

[illegible] at West Greenwich in said county of Kent Octtober 26 AD 1824 then personally came before me Samuel Watson Subscriber to the aforegoing Deposition and made Solemn oath to the truth of the same before me
---- Nathan Wilcox Justice of the Peace

I hereby Certify that Samuel Watson is a man of truth and full faith and credit ought to be given tohis testimony as such Nathan Wilcox J. Peace
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Joseph Mathewson 
  declaration _ copy
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of HARTFORD, ss. County Court, or Court of Common Pleas, holden at Hartford in said
County, on the second Tuesday of November
1824

On this 18th day of November 1824 personally appeared in open Court, the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment, Joseph Mathewson aged 67 years, resident in
Hartford in the County of Hartford, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, declare [scribbled out begins] that he served in the event tionary War, as follows: [scribbled out ends]

In order to avail himself of the provisions of the Act of Congress Joseph Mathewson enlisted on the 21st day of January 1776 at West Green Capt Thomas Gorton in the regiment commanded by Colonel Tippets [cut off] year & was afterwards transferred to General Sullar's division in [cut off] 1777
when he was discharged at Morristown in the state of and in conformity with said Acts of Congress

"And I do solemnly swear, [blank] that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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."

That he is entirely destitute of any property either real or personal that he is by occupation a day laborer at farming but is so infirm as to be unable to do any thing for his Support - He has a wife named Edna aged 54 who is able to
perform the ordinary labor of a woman of that age and a son named Grailus aged eleven years & not able to do more than barely enough to support himself that he the
said applicant is entirely dependent & is supported, partly by public & partly by private charity & stands in need of his country's and for his support

Joseph X Mathewson

In presence of
Joseph & Mathewson
Nathan Johnson-
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of the 18th of March 1818 & the 1st of May 1820 that he the said enlist in the State of Rhode Island into the company commanded by which regiment was in the continental establishment for the term of one [cut off]
which division he continued to serve until the 18th day of February New Jersey that he was in the battle at Princeton in January 1777. 


Sworn to and declared by said Joseph Mathewson on the 18th day of November 1824 before said court, [the balance of the page is crossed out text] and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
dollars and cents

To
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hartford aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court of this day of 192 

Cleark of the County Court of Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hartford.
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I Thomas Chester Clerk of the County Court in
the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that it appears to
the satisfaction of the land that the said
Joseph Mathewson did serve in the revolutionary war as a soldier in the preceding declaration
against the common[illegible] for the term of
nine months under one engagement on the
Continental establishment I also certify that the
foregoing oath is duly copied from the records
of said Court & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that said Joseph Mathewson is entirely destitute of property. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said bond on this 25th day of November 1824

Thomas Chester Clerk of said County Court-