Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,396, Samuel Eddy, Mass.
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Eddy, Samuel   S.30.396
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1911 Mar 21 to Hay Geo. T. Davis Duplicate issued Jany 12 /54 & sent to Geo. T. Davis Greenfield Massa (Massachusetts) 1888 March 29 F.M. Eddy history prior Franklin 5 Feb 1819 Date of death not on aB
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Samuel Eddy
Colerain
22295
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Franklin County SS.
On this first day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before Richard E. Newcomb Judge of the Court of Probate for the said County of Franklin,  Samuel Eddy a resident of Colerain in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged sixty nine yers, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain benefit of an Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated I joined the continental army of the revolution at West Point on the first day of January one thousand even hundred and Seventy nine I took the place of a fore years man after he had served two years I service ┃ the time out which was one year his name as Samuel Eddy and was a Corporal I served as a private my father was in the same regiment with me he ┃ we the same name of my Self. he was a sargaith ┃ Mayor or Colonel Mann was Bradford Stant Col Name was at the Commander of our Company was such Bales I was informed that Capt Joshua Eddy Commanded the company previous to my Joining but was smith this week in the Massachusetts in my time was out the first day of January 1780 I got my discharge the day before. in age is Sixty nine in February 5th 1819 I made apperation through the Hon Jonathan Sewell Judge of the Court of Common pleas to the war department under the Law of the States for revolutionary pensioners of North 18th 1818 and received a certificate dated May 29th 1819 No 11265 that states that I was inscribed on the Pension List role of the Massachusetts again I declare myself to be the identical Samuel Daly named in the original pention setificate I drawed a pention from February 5th 1819 to March 4th 1820 and have drawn no service under the Law of May 1st 1820 I considered my sel droped and have made no allowed to draw sun by reason of property I had in coring when I made the application under the Low 1818 I now live in the Town of Colin in the County ┃ of Frankle & Commonwealth aforesaid and previous thereto I lived in Middle Cove and was born in old Plymouth and I lived in said ┃ Chame when I made the fort Aplication Feby 5th 1819
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State. sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. W. E. Newcomb Judge of Probate. We, Samuel Eddy, residing in  . . . Hereby certify that we are well acquainted with  . . . believe him to be ___  years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary, and that we concur with this opinion. sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. And the Judge doth hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, that the above applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. The said Judge further certifies that the said Samuel Eddy by reason of bodily infirmity is not able to attend court, and that he therefore proceeded to Colerain the place of his residence and there took the declaration and examination aforesaid and the said Samuel Eddy under oath. R. E. Newcomb Judge of Probate. I, Elijah Alford, Clerk of the Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of  a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the Court, this __ day of __ in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and thirty__
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin SS. I, Elijah Alvord Register for the Court of Probate for said County of Franklin do hereby certify that Richard E. Newcomb, Esq., before whom the within proceedings were had is the Judge of the Probate for said County, that he personally delivered the said proceedings to me, and in my presence attested the same by his own proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Probate at Greenfield on the first day of September A.D. 1832 E. Alvord Reg. Prob
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Samuel Eddy 22295 
3 Saml Eddy's on Roll of Bradford's Regt 1 & 2 corporals -  each enlisted & served 3 years 

claim 1 yr in Bradford's regt as a pri- 

E. Alvord Esq Greenfeld mass
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BRIEF in the case of Samuel Eddy of Colerain in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? before a Judge 
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? Yes 
3. How old is he? 69 years 
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
[table headings]Period | Duration of Service | Rank | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served 
[row 1]January 1799 | 1 year | Private and substitute | Colonel Bradford & Lt Bates. 

5. In what battles was he engaged? None Named 
6. Where did he reside when he entered service? Joined the Army at West Point 
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence , by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Refer to his Pension certificate herewith annexed. 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correctly authenticated 

I Certify the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case  above mentioned. D. d. Addison Examining Clerk
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Rev and 1812 War Section. 
February 13, 1926
Roger F. Williams 
501  Van Buren St
Syracuse, N.Y.

Sir:
I have to advise you from the papers I. The Revolutionary War pension Claim, S. 30396, it appears that Samuel Eddy was born in Old Plymouth, date not stated. 
He enlisted January 1, 1799 and served one year as a private in Captain Joshua Eddy’s Company, Colonel Gamaliel Bradford’s Massachusetts Regiment. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 5, 1819 while a resident of Colerain, Franklin County, Massachusetts, aged fifty-five years. 
He stated that his father, Samuel Eddy, was Sergeant-Major (handwritten note: this Sgt Maj was bro ___ Joshua Eddy __ of the Sgt. Major’s widow Sally W. 19221in the same regiment with him.)  it is not stated that soldier was married. 
Respectfully, E. W. Morgan Acting Commissioner
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[sidebar]See correspondence with D. Brewer Eddy in Samuel Eddy N. 19221

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SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE. All 1-681 PHONE Branch 476 
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 39259
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON 
CHIEF, Division of Publications, 
Room G 139.
Please furnish work specified below. January 22, 1930 / 
Bureau ordering Pension Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.) 
Title and description of job photostatic copies of 7 pages from Revolutionary War pension claim of Samuel Eddy, Massachusetts Tp., S.30396. 
No. of copies 1 of each Shall form be kept standing? ---- days 
For further information see Mrs. M. M. H. Finch 5033 541 Room No. Phone No. Approved: A.D Whitson 
Chief Clerk of Bureau. [illegible signature]Chief of Division. 

NOTE: No order made ""SPECIAL"" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering 

CHECK WORK DESIRED 
Duplicate 
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Assembling Stapling once or twice? - Once? Twice? Side? End? 
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Envelopes, size Cards, size 
Proof list Pay rolls 
Labels (submit sample) Tabulation sheets 

Photostat x Size actual Official use? Repay? Yes $1.05
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Remarks
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501 Van Buren Syracuse, N.Y. January 6, 1926 

Department of Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C. 

Gentlemen:
If the revolutionary Pension Records give such data like the war record and all family data given about the following 
Samuel Eddy Born 1763 
Past 77 years of age at death In 1840 a resident of Colerain, Mass 
Sincerely, Roger F. Williams 
[stamp U.S. PENSION OFFICE JAN 8 1926]
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30396 Revy INVALID 
File No. 30396 
Samuel Eddy
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 7" 32"
Index: -- Vol. 2 Page 120 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 

1926 Feb 13 Hist to Roger Willians 
1930 Feb 4 Photos to D. Brewer Eddy Bernice Eddy N. 19221
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11. 265 
Massachusetts 
Samuel Eddy of Colrain in the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bedford of the Massts line, for the term of one year 

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5th of February 1819 

Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of May 1819 and sent to Jonathan Leavitt Esq Greenfield Massachusett 

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 7.88
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sep 1819 48.00
24/30 4/31
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$55.88 
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{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Massachusetts 
Saml Eddy 
Sendduplicate to of Geo. T. Davis Greenfield Mass
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Greenfield, Ms. Jan. 8 1884 
Sir, I herewith enclose an affidant of Samuel Eddy are required by your letter of Nov. 21 1819 duly authenticated   I having the particulars of the in of his pension certificate 

The new catificate may be sent either to me or to him or to Mr. Goodrich, the present number for this district. The post office address is Coleraine Mas. 

I am very respectfully . G. Davis 

Hon. L. P. Walch Commis of Pensions
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Greenfield, Aug 161863 - 
Sir
A revolutionary pensioner named Samuel Eddy residing in Coleraine in this county, has lost his certificate. He had left it with a neighbour he was in the habit of getting the [illegible] for him. that neighbor is dead, and the certificate cannot be found among his papers. The old man is in great trouble about it. Will you do me the favor to let me know on what evidence is his certificate can be immed? 
I am very respectfully yr
Geo. T. Davis
To the commissioner of Pensions
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Samuel Eddy
Private
Bradford's Mass reft
79 - 1 year
Dec 5 Feby 1819

on Roll
Admitted
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I Samuel Eddy a Citizen of the United States now resident in the Town of Colrain in the County Franklin in the State of Massachusetts being in the fifty eighth year of my age, on Oath declare that I belonged to the Army Rof the United States in the Revolutionary War In the forepart of Jany 1779. I entered the service & joined the Army at Westport. I took the place of and Samuel Eddy, a corporal a man of the same name with myself, in a Company then commanded by Lieut. Bates of the Regiment of Col Bradford of the Massachusetts line which Company under had before that time been commanded by Capt Joshua Eddy. And I continued to serve as a private soldier in that company, or in the service of the United States untill the of Decr in the same year, when I was honorably discharged at Westpoint in the State of New York. I had a regular Discharge but have not seen or have any thing of it for my years. My Father, Samuel Eddy, was Sergeant Major in the same Regiment before, being the time that I served as I have no other evidence now in my power of my services 
I am in a poor state of health and by by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in needs of assistance from my Country for support
Samuel Eddy 

State of Massachusetts - Franklin Febry 5th 1819. The above named Samuel Eddy made Oath that the foregoing declaration by him subscribed is true Before me Jos Leavitt Judge De
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To the Secretary of the Department of War 
I the subscriber, Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in the State of Massachusetts dohereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Samuel Eddy did serve in the revolutionary War against the common useing, as he has set forth in his Declaration within, & that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance of his country for support. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court for this fifth day of July AD 1819
Jona Leavitt Judge te
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[sideways, crossed out]
Suffolk SS September 14 1832 formerly came Samuel Eddy and made oath to the pensions was not given him

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Sam'l Eddy
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of Sept next, in Boston Mass at the U. S. Branch Bank 
Recorded
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War Department REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. 

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States , of the 18th of March, 1818, Samuel Eddy 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 fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen 

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States , this Twenty ninth day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. 
J. L. Edwards, in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. FRANKLIN, SS. 
I, GEORGE GRENNELL, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Franklin, do certify, that William Lanfair Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the Certificate on the paper hereunto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said William Lanfair Esqr and believe his signature to said Certificate is genuine. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this fifth day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, Geo Grennell Clerk.
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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE. 
County of Franklin SS. 
On this fifth day of January 1854, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Franklin personally appeared Samuel Eddy of Colraine in said County who on his oath, declares that he  is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Joshua Eddy, but while this subsciber served in it by Lieut Barnabas Bates, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gamaliel Bradford in the service of the United States; that his in name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Massachusetts; that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the [crossed out: Secretary of the Interior] person whom he supposed to be the proper certifying officer, he thinks in for made was 1831 or 1832; which certificate soon after receiving it, he put into the possession of Charles Thompson Esquire of said Colrain, who always afterward kept it for him, bringing in and handing it to him whenever the pension was to be drawn, and then taking it back again for safe keeping, the last saw it same day last March; he then redelivered it to Mr. Thompson; said Thompson has since deceased, and on the last minute search among his papers said certificate cannot be found
Wm. Lanfair, Justice of the Peace. 
Samuel Eddy

NOTES. The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must the properly authenticated. If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few and now wishes to obtain one." years ago, he should leave out the above words in this and insert, in lieu thereof, the The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper office, under his seal of officer, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be must be authenticated as above When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a pensioner, lose the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which in every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of officer, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should be sent with the papers. entrevistance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape tached to the certificate. small ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly No attention will be given to applications from persons who act as agents, unless they are known at the War Department or are ched for as respectable persons by some one who is known to the Department.
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Franklin ss
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
I Joseph Smith of Colerain in County afd and say that I well know Samuel Eddy whose signature is appended to the foregoing affidavit, the I know him to be the same person described in said affidavit, and that I believe his statement to be entirely true. 

Joseph Smith 

Hampton January 5th 1834 then personally appeared Joseph Smith who subscribed the above affidant, and whom I certify to be a person of veracity, and made oath that the above affidavit by him described is to the best of his belief and knowledge true
Before me Wm Lanfair Just. Peace