Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 45067, for James Pearson, Rhode Island
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Service
R.I.

*Pearson, James

Number
S.45067
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13888
R
New Hampshire
James Pearson
of Oxford in the state of N. Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hitchcock of the R. Island line for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 6 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of June 1818 and sent to Ezra Bartlett Esqr Haverhill, N. Hampshire

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 $87.69
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 $48.00
$135.69
10 mo 25/30 4/31

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March 1818}

Continued
Notification sent to S.P. Webster Esq 17 [illegible} 1820
Haverhill
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45067
INVALID
Revy

File No 45067
James Pearson
Priv. Rev. War

Act: 18th March 1818

Index Vol 3 Page 391

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Copy
James Pearson

Cont'd
13888

28 June 1819

The county in which the applicant resides must be set forth (scratched out)

S P Webster - Clerk
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District of New Hampshire
County of Grafton

At the Superior Court of Judicature of the state of New Hampshire holden at Haverhill within & for said county of Grafton being a court of record for said county by law established on this twenty-sixth day of May in the year of our Lord 1820 personally appeared in open court James Pearson aged sixty-one years resident in Oxford in said county of Grafton & district of New Hampshire who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows viz: a private soldier in Capt. Stephen Kimball's company & Col Daniel Hitchcock's Regiment in the Rhode Island line that his original declaration was made & dated sixth day of April 1818, that he has received a pension & that his pension certificate is numbered thirteen thousand eight hundred & eighty-eight. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property 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 18th day of March 1818 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
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schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed. I further declare that I am by occupation a miller. I have a cancer on my face a wife aged fifty-six and very inferior. I have eight children, three children at home, one of the last is under the Physicians care continually & has been for one year at least & at times for seven years past. One of the last-named children by laboring at days' work principally supports my family. I also further state that none of my children are able to support me I have been obliged an accident of the ill health of my family & their poverty for fourteen days past to call on the selectmen of the town of Oxford for assistance.

James Pearson

A schedule of the property of James Pearson viz articles of Kitchen furniture, valued at the most twenty dollars - $20.00

James Pearson
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Sworn to & declared before the justices of the Superior Court of Judicature for the state of New Hampshire in open court on this twenty-sixth day of May AD 1820.

Attest: S.P. Webster - Clerk

SEAL

I Stephen Peabody Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the county of Grafton & state of New Hampshire do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of 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 aforesaid schedule is twenty dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court on this 26th day of May AD 1820.

S P Webster - Clerk

Copy
James Pearson

Certi'd 
13888

28 June 1819

The county in which the applicant resides must be set forth (scratched out)
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James Pearson
Private
Col Hitchcock's Regt
Rhode Island Line

1776 - 11 months

There was no Col Hitchcock in the Massachusetts line - Rejected

Admitted

6 Apr 1818 Oxford
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

I William Blanchard of Wilmington in the county of Middlesex & commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire do testify & say that I served as a Lieutenant in the United States service in a regiment of Infantry commanded by Col Daniel Hitchcock in the Rhode Island line the whole of the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy-six. And that James Pearson of Oxford in the county of Grafton and state of New Hampshire served the whole of that year as a private soldier in said regiment in a company commanded by Capt. Stephen Kimball.

William Blanchard

Middlesex - Mary 26, 1819

Then personally appeared William Blanchard and made oath that the above statement of facts by him subscribed were true before me.

Joshua Prescott - Justice

And I hereby certify that the said William Blanchard is a man of undoubted veracity.

Joshua Prescott - Justice of Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Middlesex

I Abraham Biglow clerk of the judicial courts in the county of Middlesex do certify that Joshua Prescott a Justice of the Peace acting under the authority of this commonwealth and his name set to the within certificates is his own proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 28th day of May 1819.

Abra'm Biglow

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State of New Hampshire
Grafton

On this sixth day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said county personally appears James Pearson aged 59 years resident in Oxford in the said state 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 last 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". That he the said James Pearson enlisted in January 1776 in the state of Rhode Island in a company commanded by Captain Stephen Kimball of the regiment commanded by Col Daniel Hitchcock in the Rhode Island line as he thinks; that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the last of December 1776 when he was discharged from service in or near Trenton state of New Jersey; that he was in the battles of Long Island & White Plains and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his county for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.

Ezra Bartlett

I Ezra Bartlett Judge of the Court of Common Pleas as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said James Pearson  is indigent & stands in need of assistance for his support & did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress.

June 20th, 1818

Ezra Bartlett

The word "Rhode Island" interlined by me - Ezra Bartlett

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