Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,747, Peleg Tupper, Mass. Privateer
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3-1776

SERVICE
Mass. Tupper, Peleg
Privateer

NUMBER 
R.10.747
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Peleg Tupper 5646
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REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, SS
ON this twenty first day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Wilkes Wood, Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at Kingston within and for said County of Plymouth, Peleg Tuppper a resident of Kingston in said COunty of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty eight 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 act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the folllowing named officers, and served as herein stated.

Inthe year 1782 about the first of February he shiped [sic] on board a large sloop, her name he cannot recollect, owned by Ebenezer Parsons of Boston & chartered to the state of Massachusetts as a cartel. Samuel Foster Capt. Nicholas Davis first officer, both of whom belonged to Kingston in s[aid] state and a Mr. Hopkins being at that time Commisanry of Prisners [sic]. That he sailed in said sloop from Boston up the Bay of Fundy landed [junk] of the prisnors [sic]. Took in more prisnors [sic] and returned to Boston, lay there sometime to refit. Took in more prisners [sic[ and wen to New York. There received about 80 prisnors [sic] from the
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Old Jersey prison Ship one of whom died on the passage to Boston (unreadable) took in about 100 prisoners went out into Boston Bay the wind being ahead & being very sick the Captain returned to the road where he was buried.  His sickness proved to be the smallpox was carried to a place called Sunderland on Jane River in P. Kingston, reconvened in about 4 weeks which he supposes was about (unreadable) of July 1782 making a term of six months the vessel resumed her voyage the Prisoners being mostly (unreadable) now took the vessel and went to (unreadable) then returned to New York – then to Boston I think about the first of September 1782at the close of the war Capt. Foster went to Congress & received the wages due himself and Crew.  In 1780 he Enlisted as a soldier for three months was ordered to Rhode Island when he joined the Company commanded by Capt. Jesse Sturtevant of Halifax  Col. Turners Regiment & a (unreadable) Col. Turners Regiment was stationed most of the time at Bristol Ferry & (unreadable) at Butts Hill.
Richard Johnson belonged to the same company whose deposition he has obtained he was in no battle nor has he any written discharge.
He knows of no person ever living who served with him in the above-mentioned Cartel.  He was born in Kingston in 1764 & has always had his house in ~town.  His birth is recorded in town records
Peleg Tupper
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Attest Jacob H. Loud Register
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We, Zephariah Willis a clergyman, residing in the town of Kingston and John Thomas Esquire residing in the same town hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Peleg Tupper who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age; that he is a reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. 
Zephh Willis
Jno Thomas
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Jacob H. Loud Register

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Zephariah Willis who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Kingston and that John Thomas who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Attnt. Jacob H. Loud Register

I, Jacob H. Loud Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Peleg Tupper for a pension.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of        office, this twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Jacob H. Loud
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Peleg Tupper
107217
Dejected 19 Jany
1833. (unreadable) letter


Jacob H. Loud E
Plymouth
Mass
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BRIEF in the case of Peleg Tupper
Of Plymouth Co. in the State of Mass.
(Act 7th June, 1832)
1.	 Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Open Court
2.	If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3.	How old is he?  68 years
4.	State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period:  In 1782 Feb.   80
Duration of Service:  Years ---     Months   6   Days ----
Rank:  As a (unreadable) private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served:  Capt. L Foster, (unreadable)  Capt. Stuyvesant, Col Turner
5.	In what battles was he engaged?  None
6.	Where did he reside when he entered the service:  Plymouth Cty.
7.	Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary evidence, Living witness
8.	Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  And if so, in what respect?  Correct

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
County of Plymouth  August 18, 1832
This day personally appeared before me the subscribed Richard Johnson and made oath to the truth of the within deposition by him subscribed.  And I certify that I am well acquainted with Richard Johnson and that I verily believe him to be a man of truth and that he is considered a man of truth and veracity in the town where he dwelleth.
Eli Cook – Justice of the Peace
Plymouth    Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Jacob H. Loud Registrar of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Eli Cook before whom the foregoing affidavit was made in a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth and that his name thereby subscribed is his true and proper signature.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said Court this twenty first day of August A.D. 1832
Jacob H. Loud
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I Richard F. Johnson of Kingston in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged 68 years Testify and say that I will know Peleg Tupper of Kingston in P. County who is now an applicant for a pension.  That I served three months in the Revolutionary War in the year 1700 I the state of Rhode Island with said Peleg Tupper.  That both of us belonged to Capt. Jesse Stuyvesant’s Company in Col. Turner's Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, we were stationed at Bristol Ferry about six weeks of the time, the remainder we (unreadable) on the fort at Butts Hill.
Richard Johnson
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873
(the above printed line was crossed out)

REJECTED
10.747
P. O. Peleg Tupper
Service: _________
Enlisted: _________, 18
Discharged: ________, 18
Alleges: ____________
Re-enlisted: __________
Attorney: ___________
P. O. ____________
________ Recognized, __________ Contrac (rest of word is cut off)
_____ Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ___________. 18
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Peleg Tupper Plymouth Cty. Mass. which require further proof or explanation.
I.	Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  Yes
II.	Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  Yes
III.	If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?  ---
IV.	Has the declarant mentioned the period of periods of the war when he served?  Yes
V.	*Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  Yes
VI.	Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  Yes
VII.	Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  Yes
VIII.	Has the Court given their opinion?  Yes
IX.	Has the Clerk given his certificate?  Yes
X.	Is the Clerk’s seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  Yes
XII. If the clergyman’s affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  ----
XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  ----
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?  Yes
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?  Yes
XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant’s service?  Yes
XVI.  Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  Yes
XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  Yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE  V. In case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For _____ year months____ and _____ days, I served as a ____.  For ____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”