Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 193-100, Job Hathaway, Mass.
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(3-1776)
Hathaway, Job  (colored)
SERVICE  Mass
NUMBER    B.L. Wt. 1931-100

CONTENTS..................
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Sandwich Mass  April 15th 1833
Sir
Your letter of the 8th Instant has been received; enclosing Land Warrant No 1931 for 100 acres. Issued to the Heirs of Job Hathaway Dec'd, late a soldier in the Massachusetts line of the Revolutionary Army; the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged
Very Respectfully
Sir I am your Obedient Servant
 -Reuben Baldwin
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Taunton, Bristol County, Mass
March 28th 1833.
Sir
I herewith transmit the papers in relation to
the claim for Bounty Land by the Heirs of Job Hathaway a coloured man, late of Dighton in said County, Deceased said Job was a private in Colonel Henry Jacksons Regiment of the Mass line, in the Army of the Revolutionary War.
An authenticated Certificate of heirship, also the Deposition of Luther Lincoln as to the identity of person and service of said Job, is herewith enclosed. I would here remark that the ignorance of the Deponent has led him into an error as to the No of the heirs of said Job he supposing the surviving children, to be the only heirs at Law. But on conferring with his Hon. the Judge of Probate of Bristol
County (himself a Revolutionary Officer) I found there were others, the grand children of said Job, two living in the family of his Honor
who was perfectly well acquainted with most of sd heirs, and they have each and every one, been enumerated in the probate Certificate
    If this claim should be considered admissible, you will please to issue a Warrant in satisfaction thereof, and forward
the same directed to me at Sandwich, Mass whither on my return I anticipate the reception of your answer to the
application for Bounty Land by the heirs of the "Six Coloured Men" enclosed in my communication of 3 of May last past-

Verry respectfully Sir, I am
your Obedient servant
Reuben Baldwin

Hon Secretary of War
Washington
P. S.
I suggest it for the consideration of the Dept whether it would not be proper to omit to insert in the Warrant the Name of the absentee Viz) Henry Williams whose place of residence, has not to his kin folks, been
known for twelve years last past: yours respectfully-
Reuben Baldwin
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Bristol Ss.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, Luther Lincoln of Taunton in said County,
Laborer, aged seventy years, do testify and say
That I was well acquainted with Job Hathaway
a colored person, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, that I was acquainted with said Hathaway before he entered the army
I knew when he enlisted in said army in the Massachusetts line, and served till the close of the Revolutionary war, and I further testify
that I often understood from said Hathaway
that he enlisted during the war and received an honorable discharge from the service. I further certify that I am well acquainted with one of the children & heirs of said Job Hathaway viz. Jane Fisher now residing in said Taunton, and Amy Clark of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island, I have heard reputed to be the daughter their of said Hathaway
though I have no personal acquainted with
said Amy, but have always understood & believe that said Jane & Amy are the only heirs
of said John Hathaway -
I further testify that said Job Hathaway, deceased in Dighton in said County about twenty years ago. And further your
deponent saith not.
Luther  X  Lincoln 
Bristol ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Then the above named Luther Lincoln personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true in all its parts.
Before me Horatio Pratt  Justice of the Peace
March 15, 1833 -
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Reuben Baldwin
April 8th 1833
Job Hathaway
1931  100 Acres
Revy  

S   FREE
Hon. Secretary of War U.S.
War Dept.
Bounty Land Office
Washington

Rec'd April 1, 1833
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Dept of War, Bounty Land Office
April 8th 1833
Sir
Yours of the 28th ulto enclosing the requisite evidence in support of the claim for bounty land by the heirs of Job Hathaway is recd & referred to this office. I therefore herewith send you Land Warrant No 1931, for 100 acres issued in their names the Receipt whereof you will please acknowledge
Your letter of the 2d inst. is also received, and in reply thereto, I have to state that the consideration will be given to such further evidence as you may think proper to address
in order to identify Simon Las Peanery, deceas'd, as the soldier returned on the records in this office, under the name of
Simon Penny; particularly, to attested copies of the evidence upon which land was recently granted to his heirs by the Commonwealth of Mass-
In reply to your inquiry relative to George Reed I have to inform you that his name is not returned either on the records of the Mass line, or on those of the Sappers and Miners, as being entitled to land bounty from the
U. States-
Reference has been had to his Declaration
made 7th Apl 1818. Now on file in the Pension Office, wherein he states that he first enlisted in 1775 for one year, and at the expiration of that term, reenlisted under Capt Ball in Col. Shepherds Regt Mass line for 3 years or during the war, and served out his 3 years- This statement, taken in connection with our records, clearly show that Geo. Reed did not serve to the close of the war in 1783 under an
enlistment for "during the war" consequently that he is not entitled to land bounty from the U. States. Reuben Baldwin
Yours &c
-Wm Gordon
Mr. Reuben Baldwin
Sandwich
Mass
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts-
Bristol ss-    Probate Office-
This certifies that it has been satisfactorily proved to me that June Fisher of Taunton in said County of Bristol, and Amy Clarke of Bristol in the State of Rhode Iland, are children of Job Hathaway late of Dighton in said County of Bristol, colored man, deceased, and that Eleanor Hyde and Polly Williams both of Dighton aforesaid, Isaac Hyde and Nancy Munroe both of Bristol in the of State of Rhode Island, and and Cloe Babbitt with
Phebe Brown of Providence in said State of
Rhode Island and Joseph Hyde and Mary
Dean alias Williams, where place of residence or whether living or dead, is to me unknown, are the grand children of said Job Hathaway, deceased and that it is reputed that said Job Hathaway was a soldier in the war of the Revolution in the Massachusetts line, and that by the laws of said Commonwealth said June Fisher, Amy Clarke, Eleanor Hyde, Polly Williams, Isaac Hyde, Nancy Munroe, Phebe Brown, Joseph Hyde & Nancy Dean alias Williams are entitled to all the Estate, rights & credits, belonging to the said Job Hathaway at
the time of his decease---
Given under my hand this twenty sixth day of March Eighteen hundred & thirty three- 
- H. Baylies
{Judge of the Court of Probate
in for said County of
Bristol---}
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol SS.

I, Anselm Bassett, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that the Hon.  Hodijah Baylies, is
the Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Bristol and that the signature within
purporting to be his is his genuine signature-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court
this twenty sixth day of March Eighteen
hundred and thirty three---
 -Anselm Barrett
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Heirs of Job Hathaway
Job Hathaway
No. 1931
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
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State of Massachusetts }
Bristol County. } Ss.
I Jane Fisher a daughter and one of heirs at law to Job Hathaway deceased, do upon oath
testify and declare, that to the best of my knowledge and belief, John Hathaway aforesaid, about, or in the year 1777 entered, or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of ""During the War:"" and that he continued in the service aforesaid, until the close of the same, when he received an honorable discharge at the termination
thereof, from the Fourth Regiment of the Massachusetts, line commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson and when he was a Private
I further declare that my father said Job Hathaway departed this life about twenty years since, at the Town of Dighton in said County-
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to 
Job Hathaway aforesaid, on the part of the United States, nor do I believe he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever:
Therefore, KNOW All Men By these Presents, that I Jane Fisher aforesaid, do hereby
constitute and appoint Reuben Baldwin of Greenville in the State of New York my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a Warrant for the quantity of aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my mark and seal this 15th day of March in the year 1833.
her
-Jane Fisher  X
mark
Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in presence of
Horatio Pratt

Bristol County, Ss. 
Be it known that on this Fifteenth day of March
in the year 1833 Before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said
County, personally appeared Jane Fisher
subscriber to the above declaration, who made solemn oath to the truth of the same; and likewise acknowledged the power of attorney thereunto subjoined, to be her free act and deed; dated at Taunton in said County the day and year above mentioned.
Horatio Pratt Justice of the Peace

State of  Massachusetts }
Bristol County. }  ss.
I, James Sproat Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do hereby certify, that Horatio Pratt, Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn (illegible)
had power of attorney purports to have been acknowledged, is and was at the date above a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Bristol duly commissioned sworn and qualified
by law to take affidavits, &c. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing
of said Justice, and verily believe the signature puporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court and subscribed my signature at Taunton this fifteenth day of March in the year 1833.
Jas Sproat
Amay Clarke