Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15745, Jabez Bates, Mass. Navy. Privateer
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SERVICE: Mass. Navy Privateer
Bates, Jabez
NUMBER: S. 15745
Carded
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18.103 
Maine   Navy
Jabez Bates
of Kennebec in the State of Maine 
who was a pvt & seaman in the Company commanded 
by Captain Lord of the Regt commanded 
by Col. Baily in the Mass line 
line for 6 mo 17ds pvt} 
8 mo seaman }  Privateers & Navy 

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine 
at the rate of 53 Dollars 87 Cents per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of July 1833 
and Sent to R. C. Vose Present 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $107.74 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept -- 26.93 
[=] $134.67 

{Revolutionary Claim,} 
{June 7, 1832.}
 Recorded by W.L. Williams Clerk 
Book E Vol. Page 4
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Jabez Bates 25,815
Private - Masst. troops 
Lords Co. }
Bailey's regt } 6 months 
Mariner 
Dean Frigate- 8 " 
6 months 17 days as private 
8 months as mariner 
[=] 14 months 17 days.

Proof. E.D. Bangs certificate of 1st service 
Applicant cannot furnish evidence of 2d 

admd
6 mo. 17 as pri 
8 Mo. Seaman 

24 
20 
1.87
32
[=] 53 

R.C. Vose 
Augusta Me
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 

STATE OF MAINE, }
KENNEBEC COUNTY, } ss.

On this seventeenth day of July A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Jabez Bates a resident of Greene in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1780 with Captain Lord and served in Col. Bailey's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: viz. Lord Capt & Bailey Col. That he enlisted in said Company & regiment in July 1780 for six months. That this period he fully served out & was honorably discharged at West point in January 1781. That his discharge was lost & not in existence to his knowledge. That he afterwards entered at Boston on board a[?] Privateer Brig, the name of which he does not now recollect, commanded by Capt Samuel Smith for a cruise, that he entered on board in April 1781, & on said privateers return from the cruise during which he served on board her he was discharged at Boston the first of September of the same year, having served on board said privateer which mounted fourteen guns a period of five months. That in November 1781 he entered at Boston for the cruise on board the Privateer sloop Genl. Greene of six guns, commanded by Capt. Dunn & after serving on board during one cruise was discharged at Salem Mass in  Jany. 1782, having served two months. That afterwards in May 1782 he entered for a cruise on board A Privateer Schooner, the name of which he does not now recollect, commanded by Capt. Dunn sailed in said Schooner which mounted six guns from Salem & on her return was discharged at Salem having served about three months. That in November 1782 he shipped as a Mariner for a cruise of six months on board the Dean Frigate of thirty two guns a continental ship in the Naval service of the United States, in the War of the Revolution, commanded by Capt. Samuel Nicholson. That said Frigate remained in Boston harbour until the fourth of March 1783,when she sailed for the West India Islands & cruised among the Islands, took five prizes, & after remarkable quick passages, returned to Boston, where he was honorably discharged in July 1783, having served on board said Frigate a period of eight months. And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers: That he was born in 1760 at Hanover, Massachusetts, where he believes his age to be of record, that that place was his home during the Revolutionary war & that he afterwards removed to Hallowell. He resided there a few years, then moved to said Greene where he has ever since resided. That he enlisted into the service was not drafted or received as a substitute. That his discharge from his first service is lost as he has stated & he does not recollect by whom it was signed. That his discharge from the Dean Frigate was signed by Capt Nicholson & is now lost. That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his revolutionary services, & he names the Rev Mr Pierce & Moses Sprague Esq 

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State. 
[Signed] Jabez Bates 

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before 
[Signed] Nathan Weston Junr  Just. S.J.C.

And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. 
[Signed] Nathan Weston Junr
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State of Maine. 
KENNEBEC, ss. - I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Jabez Butesfor a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this 18th day of October A. D. 1832
[Signed] J.A. Chandler
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Sept. 25-1902 
Arminda D. Davis 
Exeter N H. 

Invalid
Navy
File No. 15745 
Jabez Bates
Pr. and Seaman 
Rev War 
Act: June 7, 1832 
Index:- Vol. 1, Page 4 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1 Enc
U. S. PENSION AGENCY, 
Augusta, Me., Sept 1 1902 
Respectfully enclosing letter 
of Arminda D. Davis 
relative to pension of 
Jabez Rose Bates.
The name of 
Jabez Bates, under 
Act 7 June 1832 
appears on roll 
paid to Sept 4 1849.  

[Signed] Selden Connor 
Pension Agent.

[Receipt marks:]
OLD WAR & NAVY FILES. SEP 3 1902
U.S. Pension Office SEP 3 1902
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State of Maine. 
We Daniel Pierce a Clergyman, residing in the town of Greene in the County of Kennebec and Moses Sprague Esq. residing in the same town, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jabez Bates who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
[Signed] Daniel Peirce 
[Signed] Moses Sprague 

State of Maine. 
Kennebec, ss. Sworn and subscribed this Nineteenth day of July A. D. 1832 
Before me, 
[Signed] Elijah Barrell Justice of the Peace. 
Elijah Barrell Esq. is a Justice of the Peace, And the Rev. Daniel Pierce is a Clergyman residing in Greene, And Moses Sprague Esq residing in the same town is a credible person & their statement is entitled to be believed. 
[Signed] Nathan Weston Junr
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STATE OF MAINE. 
Kennebec County, ss. 
AT the Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, A. D. 1832, and thence by Adjournment on the 26th day of March A.D. 1833. 
PERSONALLY appears in open Court Jabez Bates by whom the annexed declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th, 1832, was made before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, JR. on the 17th day of July A.D. 1832 and makes oath in due form of law, that the annexed declaration, by him made and signed, is true. 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. [Signed] Nathan Weston Just. SJC

I, JOHN ALPHONSO CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jabez Bates for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court, and subscribe my name this 26th day of March A. D. 1833. 
[Signed] J.A. Chandler
[Ribboned seal]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Secretary's Office May 15th 1833.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Jabez Bates is borne on "a pay roll for the service of the six months men belonging to or raised for the Town of Hanover who were employed in the continental service in the year 1780," as having served from July 5th 1780 to Jany 10th 1781 & was paid for six months & seventeen days Service.
[Signed] Edward D Barys Secy

Encl

6.17
8 -
[=] 14.17
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Exeter N.H. June 2 1902 

To the Pension Agent of Augusta 
Dear Sir 
Will you please look on the records of revolutionary Soldier who drew Pensions in Augusta Maine and Send me the record of my grandfarther [sic] Jabez Rose Bates he lived in Green Maine 
and oblige 
[Signed] Arminda D Davis # 26 Wattes St
Exeter N.H.