Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32814, Benjamin Hadley, Mass.
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Mass
Hadley, Benjamin
S. 32814
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Benjn Hadley
Col Nepons Regiment 
Massachusetts Line 3 years Service admitted Admitted
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State of Massachusetts 
I Benjamin Hadley a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Lexington in the County of Middlesex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, sometime in the month of December Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred & seventy six I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of January in the year Seventeen hundred & eighty.
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence; that I belonged to Capt. John Woods company & Col Baldwin regiment for the first year, & to Capt Nathan Dix's company & Col. Wilson's regiment for the last three years and that I left the service on the expiration of said term, & was honourably discharged and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty years & upwards, & have no other evidence now in my power to offer the Certificate of my discharge as aforesaid, being long since lost or destroyed 
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States , if any may be or hath been so allowed. Benjamin [his X mark]Hadley. 
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirteenth 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 the subscribed one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common pleas within State & presiding law has viz the abovenamed Benjamin Hadley 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.
 In testimony seal of Court. affix my name & the Wm Wetmore
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7787 
Massachusetts Benjamin Hadley of Lexington in the state of Massachusetts who was private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baldwin of the Massachusetts Line, for the term of the three 
years scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of March 1819 and sent to William Wetmore Esq Salem Mass 
Arrears to 4th March 1819 $85.83 Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48. of $133.83 {Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} Continued 6 Notification sent to Abraham Bigelow Esqr 22d September, 1820. Cambridge, Massachusetts
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File No. 32814 INVALID. 
File No. 32,814
Benjamin Hadley
In Rev War
Act:  March 1818
Index:-- Vol. -2, Page 174
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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201 Benjamin Hadley Bedford 
7727
to March 1819 Cont 22 Sept 1820 D. 183
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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, WILLIAM WETMORE, and STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires,} Associate Justices 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, Benjamin Hadley resident at Bedford in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 7787 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit, "WAR DEPARTMENT REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. "I Certify that, in the United State of 18th March 1818, Benjamin Hadley Private late a private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the " Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Given at the War Office of the United States this seventeenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War," 
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appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as A . D. 1820 follows, to wit, SCHEDULE, containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, 
Nothing he having neither real nor personal estate of any land except his necessary clothing, boarding in a private family supported entirely by the pension not having the use of his hands on account of contraction of his finger joints aged sixty four years unable to laborer by profession a husband.  In  the revolutionary war he served in the Massachusetts in Col Baldwin, Regt in 1775 eight months in Cap Childs company, 1776 twelve months in Woods company afterward three years in a company he has neither wife nor child Benjamin Hadley in all W Witness Sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore Judge &c"
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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 Wetmon a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit, " I Benjamin Haley 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 proper erty, 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. 
Benjamin Hadley Mark All W. Wetmore Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term A.D. 1820
 Then the abovenamed Benjamin Hadley took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me, Wm Wetmore Term, 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 aid Schedule is nothing 
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 Abe Biglow