Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,157, for John Shumway, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
Continental

Shumway, John

NUMBER
S. 41,157
B.L.Wt. 1946-300-Capt.
Issued Dec. 19, 1799 to Israel Harris, assignee no papers.

CONTENTS
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State of Vermont
Bennington County Ss}
On this ninth day of June AD 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the county court within and for the county of Bennington personally appears John Shumway aged eighty years resident in Dorset in said county of Bennington who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration 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 & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war that he the said John Shumway in April AD 1775 marched as a volunteer to Cambridge near Boston to defend the stores deposited at Concord which the British troop were then attempting to destroy that he remained there untill troops were collected for his relief that in July following he was appointed an Ensign in a company commanded by Capt Edward Shipmans and in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb in the Connecticut line and at the close of the campaign January first AD 1776 was appointed first Lieutenant in a company commanded by Capt. William Hull in the aforesaid regiment for one year that on the first of Jany. AD 1777 he was appointed a Captain in the first Connecticut Regiment then commanded by Colonel Jedediah Huntington in which he continued in the service of the United States
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as a Captain untill the close of the year AD 1780 that after the resolve of Congress to reduce and consolidate the army he left the service not to return unless caled for that he was in the Battles of Monmouth Whitemarsh & others of less note that he received two notes of the approbation of his conduct one directed by the commander in chief which is herewith transmitted together with his commission as Captain the other was from Colonel Aaron Burr which he has lost. That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. 
Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid
[signed] Edmund Graves Ast. Judge C Court

I Edmund Graves Judge of the county within and for the county of Bennington as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Shumway did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and that as to his reduced circumstances I know nothing further than what is stated in the affadavits herewith transmitted and I now transmit the procedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the department
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of war agreeable to the before mentioned act of Congress
[signed] Edmund Graves Ast Judge C Court

State of Vermont
I Joel Pratt Clerk of Bennington County Court in in said State do hereby certify that Edmund Graves Esquire was on the 9 day of June AD 1818 an assistant Judge of our said County Court acting under the authority of this state and that the above is his signature
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of our said Court at Manchester this 8 day of June AD 1819
[signed] Joel Pratt

I Edmund Graves Judge as aforesaid do certify that from the declaration of the best inhabitants residing in the vicinity of the applicant mentioned in the preceding declaration that I am well convinced of his poverity and that he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support
June 11th 1819 -
[signed] Edmund Graves