Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,775, Timothy Dutton, Mass.
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Dutton, Timothy
S. 34,775
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Massachusetts
2013
Timothy Dutton
Capt
Cloice private
Mass. line 1779 War
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on
the 3rd of April, 1818

Certificate of pension issued the 31st of July 1818
and sent to Stephen Minot Esq, Haverhill, Mass.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818
5 mos 2/30  $40.53
Revolutionary  claim, Act 18th March 1818
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the Secretary of the Department of the War
is please to transmit the [illegible] petition of 
my pension, under the late law to be and Jonathan Hunt 
Esqr of Haverhill . who will [illegible] it to me
Tewksbury April 3 1818
Signature of Timothy (his X mark) Dutton
Attest  Jonathan Hunt
Fulton
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and Associate Justices
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, Timothy Dutton resident Tewksbury in county and 
in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 2013.
now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,

"WAR DEPARTMENT REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I cert  ify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the
18th March, 1818, Timothy Dalton late a
Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Ageency, at the rate of eight
dollars per month, to commence on the third
day of April
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
" Given at the War Office of the United States this thirty first 
" day of July one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen,
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,
Real Estate
four acres and the fourths of Land with
an old building thereon valued at $60.00 

Personal Estate
One Cow $17  sold duck 3.00   $14.00
 3 old [illegible] 
1 (?) plate 25  tin ware 24     59
State " inward part in
Grid  30 one shovel w (?) fork  30
Cooking Knife [illegible]
(?) glassware  17 (?) server
Tall (?)  17  7 old wheels  50  
$78.05

the said Dutton further declares that his family
count of himself and wife, that he pales
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that of a Farmer, his age sixty one, her age sixty
that he has been troubled with the Hernia for fifteen
or sixteen years and is obliged to wear trusses
that his wife has been a woman of a slender constitution from her youth - The said Dutton further states
that he enlisted into the service during the Revolution
in the month of April A D 1779 for nine months was
attached to Capt Clois Company the eighth Regiment
of Massachusetts commanded by Col Tupper and
after having served about four month, then enlisted 
during the war was attached to the said Cap Clois  company of Light Infantry Col Nixon Regiment
served about four years was discharged at the close
of the war, he was present at the sunder of Lord
Cornwallis
Signature of Timothy (his X mark) Dutton
Attest M Preston

Sworn to before Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court
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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, Timothy Dutter 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.
Signature of Timothy (his X mark) Dutton

Attest M Preston

Middlesex ss. C.C.C.P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Timothy Dutton
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 seventy eight dollars &
five cents

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. Abrm Biglow
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Timothy Dutton
April 3 1818
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[NOTE: unable to correctly transcribe text since the original document is black. The extracted text is as is. Only the name has been corrected.]
Timothy Dutton  of the 58 year decieve an my the
a resident that "
ing of the hour of Tisbury in the County of Allen
in the Consider
the earth
to this say that in the or 1779 as a private in in
the term of 9 month into the
the revolution
and accordingly in to the rear line of
Cove in the 6th The ament of the time with the inter
other served accordingly in said line on the
intent
enlisted in the same company
during the war and
untill it
in A

honorably discharged of the service this
my reduced into this deed, and
unkey for us and that now have
to me be the laws of the United Sater
further say that the said discharge is
Foster Stephen Minot.
a
Dalton
the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts in April 3 1818
of
to the above named thro Dutton made on oath that the
above declaration to him on said if one me
Judge of the Circuit Court
both of the
it
Jonathan Hunt whose and say that I was a soldier in the Army
above mentioned and on that the north latter was a soldier
the said nine month of
tioned & afterwards under
stood that he entistion during the war & service in the above
& also say that it is for & in need of assistance for
front
Middlesex ss. April 3. 1818 Then the above named mathen hunt
solemn oath that the said deposition in his subscribed is true
before me,
Stephen Minot
Judge &c
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Whereupon it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Timothy Dalton did serve
in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy as stated in his declaration
aforesaid, I now certify & transmit the Testimony [illegible] the proceedings 
are the proceedings had hereon to the Secretary of the department of war  - I also certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Dutton is in indigent circumstances & i in need of assistance from his country for support. 

Stephen Minot
Judge of the Circuit Court
Common Pleas for the
Middle Circuit
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34775
Revy  INVALID.
File No. 34,665
Timothy Dutton
Pri Rev War

Act:  18" March 18"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 492

[Arrangement of 1879.]