Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,994, Nathan Barnes, Mass.
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(3 - 1776
SERVICE Massachusetts
Barnes, Nathan -
 NUMBER S. 33994
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33994
Revolutionary INVALID. -
File number 33994 Nathan Barne
Private Revolutionary War 
Act: 18 March 18 
Index: - Volume 2, Page 27 (Arrangement of 1870.)
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(737)
Massachusetts Roll 
Nathan Barnes 
Captain Brewer
Massachusetts Line-9 months Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 20th of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th of May 1818 and sent to Honorable Edward Bangs Worcester, Massachusetts-
Arrearages to 4th September 181
4 months 15 /30 
$36.00
{Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818,}
North Brookfield
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State of Massachusetts
Nathan Barnes
a Citizen of the United States, now resident at
North Brookfield in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath
testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the seventh of June
A.D. Seventeen hundred and seventy eight
I entered and was engaged in the land
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service of the United States on the
continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to march the seventh
A.D. Seventeen hundred and seventy nine as a
private soldier against
the common enemy, without any interruption
or absence: that I belonged to Captain Gates' Company Colonel Murphy Fitzsimmons Regiment and General Nixons Brigade-- was afterwards
transferred to Captain Moses Brewers Company, Colonel Samuel Brewers Regiment and Gen. Pattersons Brigade in Massachusetts line
and that I left the service on or about the seventh of March A.D. Seventeen hundred and seventy nine and
that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and
poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of
seventy seven
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the
United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Attorney Edward Bangs
witness being [illegible]
Nathan Barns-his mark
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 20th day of April in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 18
pursuant to a law of
the United States, entitled, ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and
naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of
March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Edward Bangs Esquire one of the Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the
Western district of the State of Massachusetts the
above named Nathan Barnes
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath
to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly
made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
with the seal of said Court
Edward Bangs
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I William Barnes of North Brookfield in the County of
Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful 
age do testify and say, that I was present at the time when
the within named Nathan Barnes enlisted and was knowing
to his enlisting at the time within mentioned and that
He served the third of nine months and that he received
His discharge at the time as within mentioned in the same service
his vision, as within mentioned 
William Barnes
Worcester ss. April 17th 1818 Then the above named
William Barnes personally made oath that the above declaration, by him subscribed, contained the truth and
nothing but the truth
Before me Daniel Gilbert Justice of the Peace
Affidavit of
Nathan Barnes
Correct DM
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Barnes, Nehemiah Private
Hazen's Regiment
WARRANT
NUMBER 12804
ISSUED January 17, 1791
to William Lane assignee
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.