Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,642, for Francis Putnam, Massachusetts
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Service  Mass.
Putnam, Francis
Number  S. 17,642
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Massachusetts
Francis Putnam
of Worcester in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Woodbury of the Rgt commanded by Col. Brown in the Mass. line for 12 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 40 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Sept 1833 and sent J. E. Sibley Boston Mass

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833  $100.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending [illegible] - $20.00
[total] $120.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D D Addison, Clerk
Book E Vol. 2 Page 66
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Francis Putnam.
26.933
Private 12 Months
Capt Woodbury Col Brown

J. L. Sibley, Esq
Boston Mass
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DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

COUNTY OF WORCESTER, SS.
ON this sixth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open Court, before Hon Nathaniel Paine Judge of Probate in and for the County of Worcester now sitting at Worcester Francis Putnam, a resident of Sutton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy four 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 7th 1832.

THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

In the months of December and January of the years 1775 & 1776, I volunteered with the Company of Massachusetts Militia belonging to Sutton aforesaid and then commanded by Capt Bartholomew Woodbury and marched to Roxbury near Boston where we remained and performed duty for the term of two months; our Lieut was Asa Waters of Sutton. We returned to Sutton about the first of February 1776.
Also sometime about the first day of July 1776 I volunteered with the Company of Militia raised in said Sutton and Commanded by said Bartholomew Woodbury and marched to New York to reinforce the Army stationed in that city. We marched to New Haven where we embarked on board of a Sloop Commanded by Capt Townsend bound to New York, where we arrived just after the battle on Long Island we were in the retreat off of York Island, when I was taken sick with the distemper and did not rejoin my company untill a few days after the battle at White Plains when I joined the company again and remained with it until the expiration of my term of enlistment which was five months when I returned to Sutton with the Company.
Also in the year 1777 sometime about the last week of July I was a private in the company of Militia commanded by said Woodbury when we left Sutton and marched to the army at Bennington - we immediately after joined the expedition under Col. Brown to attack a garrison or detachment of British troops amounting to about six hundred which we captured. In this Expedition I volunteered in a volunteer company commanded by Capt Abijah Lamb of Charlton in said County - we returned Swhere about the first of January 1778 spending five month from the time of enlistment In the expedition to New York we were under the command of Col Holman there belonging to said Sutton I was born in Sutton in the County of Worcester September 24th 1758 in the records of Births in said town a record of my birth may be found. I have always lived in said Sutton Also sometime in the month of August 1779 I was a private in the Company of Militia belonging to Sutton aforesaid then Commanded by Capt Jonathan Woodbury and marched to Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island upon an alarm that the British were about to land at NewPort from New York where we remained one month when we were discharged and returned home making in all thirteen months. If I have ever had a written discharge it is lost.

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.
Francis Putnam [signature]
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before Nath Paine Judge of Probate
for the County of Worcester
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We Nehemiah Chase residing in the town of Sutton and Samuel Taylor residing in said Sutton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Francis Putnam who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Nehemiah Chase [signature]
Samuel Taylor [signature]
Before me Jonas S. Sibley Jus. Peace

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Nehemiah Chase Esqr who signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the Town of Sutton and that Samuel Taylor Esqr who has also signed the same is a resident in the same Town and are a credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester

Worcester SS.  Commonwealth of Massachusetts

I Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Francis Putnam for a Pension. I further certify that Jonas Sibley and Jonas L. Sibley are each of them Justices of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature of the said Justices, before whom the annexed affidavits appear & have been made, is in each & every case germaine & to have full credit - 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this Sixth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three - 

Theophs. Wheeler Reg of said Court
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I Joshua Carter of Millbury in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say that I am seventy three years of age - that in the months of December and January 1775 & 1776 I was a volunteer in the Company of Massachusetts Militia raised in Sutton in said County and Commanded by Capt. Bartholomew Woodbury of said Sutton I marched with said Company to Roxbury about the first of December where we remained two months Mr Francis Putnam of said Sutton belonged to the same company volunteered and marched to Roxbury at the same time and performed duty there as a soldier in said Company during the whole term of two months - And returned to Sutton with me some time about the last of January or the first of February 1776 Our Lieutenant was Asa Waters of said Sutton

I do further testify and say that sometime about the first day of July following I volunteered as a soldier in the Company raised in said Sutton under the Command of said Bartholomew Woodbury for the purpose of reinforcing the army in New York. We left Sutton and marched to New York sometime in the for part of July 1776 by the way of Hartford and New Haven at New Haven we went on board of a Sloop command by Capt Townsend and arrived in New York just previous to the battle on Long Island I was in the retreat from the Island my term of enlistment was five months which time I served out Mr Francis Putnam of said Sutton volunteered at the same time with me in the same company Marched to New York with me remained with me until our retreat off of the Island when he was taken sick with the camp distemper and did not join the Company until after the battle at White Plains when he rejoined the Company and remained with it until it returned to Sutton which was the time our term of enlistment expired being five months
Joshua Carter [signature]

Worcester ss. September 13 - 1832

Then personally appeared the said Joshua Carter before me and made oath to the Deposition aforesaid and I certify he is a man of truth and veracity & that full confidence can be placed in his statement

Jonas Sibley [signature]
Jus Peace
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I, Jonathan F. Putnam of Sutton in the County of Worcester aged seventy years, testify and say: that some time in the month of August, 1769, I was drafted in a Company of Militia belonging to the town of Sutton Commanded by Capt Jonathan Woodbury to go to Tinnton in the State of Rhode Island, as it was expected the British were coming from New York to land at Newport again - their ships were in sight but they did not land their troops - Francis Putnam was in the same Company with me and remained with the Company until they returned home to Sutton - I came home before he did. He remained the whole time which, I think, was a month or more - and further the Deponent saith not - 

Jona F. Putnam [signature]

Worcester SS. February 6 - 1833
Then personally appeared the man named Jona. F. Putnam and made oath to the truth of the said Deposition by him [illegible] - And I certify that the said deponent is personally known to me and that full credit is to be given to his statement

Jonas L. Sibley
Jus Peace
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I Nathaniel Burdon of Charlton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify and say, that at the Taking of Burgoyne and his enemy in the war of the Revolution I was a private in the Company commanded by Capt Bartholomew Woodbury raised in the town of [illegible] Sutton and that Francis Putnam was also a private in said company, who then and now lives in Sutton in the said county of Worcester and served with me during the whole campaign - we both left Sutton the last week in July 1777 and marched to the enemy at Bennington and immediately joined the expedition under Col Brown to attack a garrison or detachment of the British troops and captured them about six hundred in number. Mr. Putnam and myself served the whole time during the campaign and came home together to Sutton the last week in December following we were gone five months from home and were stationed with the main army four months - Mr. Putnam was a volunteer.
Nathaniel Burdon [signature]

Worcester Ss. July 11 - 1832. Then the above named Nathaniel Burdon personally came and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed & I hereby certify that the said Nathaniel Burdon is personally known to me and that he is a man of truth and veracity. 

Jonas L. Sibley [signature]
Jus Peace
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17642
INVALID. Rev. War
File No. 17642
Francis Putnam
Pri  Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 354
Arrangement of 1870. [in brackets]
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Pension Office,
January 27th 1855.
Sir.
I herewith submit the papers on which Francis Putnam was inscribed on the Massachusetts Roll under the Act of June 7th 1832, at the rate of $40 per annum, and will be obliged if you will state to what time his pension has been paid.

I am, respectfully,
Your Obt. Svt,
S P Waters
Commissioner.
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Francis Putnam paid to 4 Sept 1840.

Rob J S [illegible]errison
Auditor