Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33443, for James Penniman, Massachusetts
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(3--1776) [STAR STAMPED]
SERVICE
Mass.
NUMBER
S.33443
Penniman, James
or
Pennyman
Contents
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Notification sent Oct. 20th 1820 to Yarius Ware
Wrentham, Mass.

James Pennyman 
of Braintree in the state of Massachusetts
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Bailey of the Massachusetts
line, for the term of One Year
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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 4th of April 1818 --
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25th of June 1819
and sent to Thomas B Adams of
Quincey, Massachusetts
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 hr. 27/30 + 4/31 - [illegible]8:23
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1819 48:~
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$136.23
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{Revolutionary claim, }
[Act 18th March, 1818.}

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33 443
[illegible] INVALID.
File No. 33,443
James Pennyman
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18[illegible]
Index: -- Vol: 2, Page 319
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[return address]
James Pennyman
76 to 77
Bayley Massachusetts
Rept

The Secretary of the defense
[illegible]
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United States of America.
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State of Massachusetts Norfolk  ss Quincy April 4th 1818

I, James Penniman a citizen of the United States, 
now resident at Braintree in the County of Norfolk
in the State aforesaid, do on oath, declare, that I served, in the 
War of the Revolution, the full term of time required by a Law of the United States, made and 
passed in the month of March, A.D. 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States,
in the Revolutionary War," as one 
requisite to entitle me to be placed on the pension list of the said United States, having entered
the Land service of the said United States, on the Continental Establishment, and served as
a private soldier against the common enemy; from about the first of January 
1776 and was one full year + longer in the continental Army, having inlisted [sic] at Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts
That I belonged to a Company commanded by Captain Jacob Allen, in the
Regiment of which John Jacobs of Scituate was Lieut Col. and John Bailey of Hanover, was Colonel, being the 9th Regiment of Infantry in the Massachusetts line
and that I left the service by a verbal discharge from my Captain, after delivering up my Gun and accoutrements on the 31st of December 1776, having served
the full term of one year, three months at Roxbury and afterwards I 
served in New York City, on Long Island and at Haerlem [sic] nine 
months in succession before I was discharged as above stated.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the
said United States, if any may be, or hath been, so allowed. By reason of my reduced circumstances
in life, I stand in need of assistance from my Country for support
James Penniman

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this Fourth 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 of March,
A.D. 1818, personally appeareth before me Thomas B Adams Chief Justice of the 
Circuit Court of Common, Pleas for the Southern Circuit
the above named James Penniman,
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.
Thomas B Adams
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
ON this fourth day of April 1818, before me 
the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas,
for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared James Penniman,
aged Sixty years, resident in
the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on
his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the 
provision made by the late 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."
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And further it is my belief that the said James Penniman
is in need of relief from his Country for support, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life.

And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction,
the the said James Penniman, did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common
enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; 
and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me,
to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of 
the aforementioned act of Congress.
Thomas B Adams Ch. Jus.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk, ss. Quincy April 4th, 1818
We the undersigned being the major part of the Selectmen
and Overseers of the poor, in the Town of Braintree + County aforesaid, hereby
Certify whom it may concern, that we are and for a long time past have
been well acquainted with James Penniman the within named deponent,
a native Citizen of said Town of Braintree. That we have always under
stood and believe that the said James Penniman served as a private Soldier 
in the revolutionary war, on the Continental establishment against the common
enemy, the full term of time to intitle [sic] him to a pension from the United 
States, agreeable to an Act of Congress of the said United States, made and passed
on the 18th day of March A.D. 1818 entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary 
war." And we further certify, that we believe and have no doubt 
that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he stands in need of
assistance from his Country for support.
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Jonathan Wild Junr } Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor in Braintree

Received and Sworn to the day and year above written
Before me Thomas B Adams Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common 
Pleas for the Southern Circuit.

I Daniel Loring of Braintree in the County of Norfolk (Mass) of lawful age 
to testify do on Oath declare, that I am acquainted with James Penniman 
the within deponent, and know that he served in the Revolutionary Army
and that he was in the year's service and was in Captain Jacob Allen's Company in Col. Bailey's Regiment, and that I have no doubt of his
having served nine months and longer on the Continental establishment,
but do not know the precise time of his discharge and further saith not.
Dan'l Loring

Received & Sworn to the 7th day of September 1818
Before me Thomas B, Adams.
Norfolk SS 25th May 1819. I Certify that the above witness viz Caleb French, 
Jonathan Wild Junr and Daniel Loring, are credible, and that full faith and 
credit ought to be given to their testimony.
Thomas B. Adams. J.P.
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I Asaph Faxon of Braintree in the County of Norfolk (Mass) of lawful age to testify 
do on Oath depose & say that I am acquainted with James Penniman the within-
deponent, and I know of his having inlisted in the Revolutionary Army. I saw 
him at New York and our brigade marched together in the year 1776 during which year I saw him almost every day. He was 
at Harlem and at the battle of White Plains, and was discharged at Peakes Kill on the first day of January 1777 at the same place where I was, and I do
believe that said Penniman did serve nine months or longer on the Continental 
establishment. and further saith not. 
Asaph Faxon 

Then on this 7th day of September 1818 the above named Asaph Faxon personally appeared
and made Oath to the truth of the above deposition before me 
Thomas B Adams

Norfolk SS. May 25, 1819. I certify that Asaph Faxon the Witness is credible and 
that his testimony is intitled to full faith and credit.
Thomas B Adams JP

The Secretary of the department of war
City of Washington
James Penniman
76 to 77
Boston Mass
Rept
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Copy of
James Pennyman's
Schedule etc
13052
June 1819
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
NORFOLK, ss. CIRCUIT COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, SPECIAL
SESSION, JULY 17, 1820.
On this Nineteenth day of 1820
personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record for said County,
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, James Penniman aged sixty-two years, resident in Braintree in said County,
yeoman who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath
declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: I inlisted into the 
years service about the first of the year 1776 in the company 
commanded by Capt Jacob Allen in Col John Bailey's Regiment
and faithfully served my country for the whole of that 
year and was honorably discharged as fully set forth in my 
former declaration -- A pension has been granted me
and a certificate duly issued dated June 25th 1819
and number'd 13052

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
thereby 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.
James Penniman

Sworn to and declared, on the 19th day of July
A.D. 1820 before Jairus Ware Judge of CC Com Pleas
for S.o Circuit

I, Horatio Townsend, Clerk of the said Court
do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of 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 Twenty eight dollars and no cents.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my had, and affixed the seal of the said
Court, on this nineteenth day of July 1820
Horatio Townsend Clerk.
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I James Penniman of Braintree in the County of
Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in application
for a pension under the act of Congress of May 1st 1820
testify and say that I have no property either real or  personal
accept necessary clothing bed's and bedding, and a small
house ten feet wide and about sixteen long and seven feet high
standing by sufferance on another man's land, and [illegible] [illegible]
cost me six dollars and some few articles of household furniture
necessary to cook etc. My occupation has been common labor
but have had a fit of the numb-palsy which disables
me to labor - My family consists of a wife aged fifty seven years and a son eighteen years old -

James Penniman