Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,890, for Edward Jarvis, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)

Jarvis, Edward (star)

Service Mass. Sea Service

Number 32,890

CONTENTS
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122
Massachusetts  4
Edward Jarvis
Navy Seaman
Navy U. S. 

At $8. per mo: com. 1st April, 1818

Cert. issued 10th April, 1818
sent to Honble. W. Folger of
Masstts. House of Reps. U. States

Ars. to 4th Sept. 1818  5 4/31   $41.03

(Revy. claim,
Act 18th March 1818)

Continued
Boston, Suffolk

Continental under act May 1st, 1820 Notification sent 16 Sept. 1820 to j. R. Adams
Boston, Mass.
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State of Massachusetts

I Edward Jarvis, a Citizen of the United States, resident in Boston, in the County of Suffolk, and Commonwealth of Mass. do on oath testify and declare that, during the war of the Revolution I was engaged in the service of the United States on the Continental establishment and that I was in the capacity of a private Seaman on board the public armed Vessel, The schooner "Lee" of which Daniel Waters was commander, and Edward Jarvis, my father was first Lieutenant and that I continued to act in the capacity aforesaid on board said vessel, without any absence therefrom from a longer period than nine months. And I further declare that the circumstances of my situation are such as to require the aid and assistance of my country for my support.
And I further declare as aforesaid that in consequence of the length of time that has elapsed since my discharge from the Continental service I have lost the certificate thereof, and am not able to state with precision the exact time of my service except that I entered on board of said vessel in August Anno Domini 1776 where I continued until (illegible) was discharged, which was after a period of more than nine months from the time I commenced my service on board of her as aforesaid.
And I hereby relinquish all right and title to any and every pension allowed me by the laws of the United States.
Edward Jarvis (signature)

BR IT REMEMBERED, That on this first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th day of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, the subscriber an Associate Judge of the Circuit Common pleas of the State aforesaid residing at Boston, the abovenamed Edward Jarvis and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Wm. Wetmore
(smudge) Washington April 9, 1818. I hereby certify that the above signature is William Wetmore's hand writing.
Jona. Mason
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Boston August 1st 1776
Edward Jarvis is appointed first Lieut. on board the Armed Schooner Lee in Services of the American States. He is to be obayed [obeyed] as such by order of Major General Ward.
Peleg Wadsworth (signature)
Adl.

I Joshua Atkins of Boston in the County of Suffolk do testify and say that I was on board of the within mentioned vessel with the said Edmund Jarvis during the whole period of his service., that I was then and have continued ever since to be well acquainted with him and that the within declaration is in all respects, true.
Joshua Atkins (signature)

Sworn to April 1,1818 before me
Wm. Wetmore, the Judge within named.
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Edwd. Jarvis
No.122
iss'd. Apl. 1818
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District of Massachusetts, ss.

On this fifteenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record, viz. A Special District Court of the United States for the said District, Edward Jarvis aged sixty one years, resident in Boston in the County of Suffolk, in said District, Sailmaker, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: to wit on the first day of august A. D. 1775 I entered on board the Continental Schooner Lee, Daniel Waters Captain, and I served as a common seaman in said schooner without any intermission from said first day of August until July 1776 while I was in said vessel as aforesaid, two prizes were taken by us, one retaken by us, and we navigated the powder ship previously taken by Capt. Muckford into Boston Harbour. I have not received any wages or prize money for the part I took in performing these services. I do not recollect of my petition for a pension but the date of my pension certificate is the 10th of April 1818 and the number 122. I have no family and my occupation is that of a sail maker, but old age, frequent sickness and the loss of one eye prevents my earing any thing of consequence.
And I do solemnly swear, 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 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, securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor do I have any income other that what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
I am obliged to depend partly on my friends charity for support without their aid I should be forced to resort to the charity of the public as my pension alone is insufficient to maintain me.
Edwd. Jarvis
Sworn to and declared, on the fifteenth day of July A. D. 1820 before
Jno. Davis, Judge of the Massachusetts 
District Court

I, John Watson Davis, Clerk of the Massachusetts District Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto 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 five dollars and -----cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of July 1820.
(Seal) 
Jno. W. Davis } Clerk of the U. S. District Court,
for the Massachusetts district
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Schedule

one every day suit of clothes consisting of a short Jacket trowsers [trousers] & vest............15.--
One Sabbath days suit of clothes comsisting of a short Jacket trowsers [trousers] &  vest...........20.--
$35.--

The above is a true inventory
Edwd. Jarvis
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Invalid

File No. 32890
Edwd. Jarvis
Seaman
U. S. Navy
Rev. War

Act March 18,1818
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