Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45094, for John Raynes, New Hampshire
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(S-1776)
Service: Navy
Raynes, John
Number: S. 45094
N.H. residence and Agency in 1818
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New Hampshire
John Raynes,
Ship Ranger
Captain Clerk, 11
In the Navy of the Rangers, U. States
At $8. per mo to comd 26th March, 1818.
Cert: issued 3d April, 1818, and sent
to T Upham, Esq, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Arrd to 11th Sept. 1818. 5 mos 6 d & 4/30...
$42.60/100
Revd Claim
Act 18th March 1818

One year:
5 mo  (illegible)
Continued -
(illegible)

(vertical writing on the right):

Continued (law, 1 May 1820
(notification sent to Nath G. Adams
Portsmouth, New Hampre
8 July 1820
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No 53
John Raynes
Apl 18
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District of New Hampshire ss -
At a District Court holden at Portsmouth within and for the District of New hampshire [sic] before the Honorable John S. Sherburne Esquire Judge of said Court ~ 

On this 30th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings and having power of fine and imprisonment for said District, John Raynes aged sixty nine years resident in Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham in said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows namely as captains clerk on board this ship Ranger Thomas Simpson Esquire commander in the U.S. navy that he has received a pension the Certificate of which is numbered 53 & commencing March 26, 1818 _

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United Staes on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred & eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or any manner dsiposed of my property or any part thereof with intent so to diminish it as
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passed on the 18th day of March one thousand and eight hundred eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in truth for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed by me subscribed -
John Raynes

Schedule of the real & personal estate of John Raynes necessary clothing & bedding excepted-

                                                   $. c
13 old chairs                             4 50
1 Maple Table                            3 00
1 birch do                                   2 50
2 pine do                                    1 00
crockery & ironware.                 6 50
knives & forks.                           1  25
tin ware                                       3 00
1 wareing pans.                          2 00
1 pr iron dogst pr Asidisory.      1 50
2 shovls & tongs & 1 axe 75.     2 75
1 small old carpet.                      2 00
1 old bellows.                               - 25
1 broken looking glass.               0 50
1 clothes hors & 3 flat irons.       1 00
1 chafin dish & gridiron.                 75
1 toaster.                                          50
sundry old casks & tubs.             1 50
1 Bible & sundry old books.         3 00
1 cow loaned used by my
         brother

I once kept a small shop & no stock left; and have now no constant employment and am unable to procure a subsistence without the aid & assistance of others - I have a wife named Elizabeth aged sixty five years who is lame in both hands & otherwise
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1820 before said Court at a special time of the District Court of the United States held at said Portsmouth in & for said District - 

Attest Peyton R. Freeman Clerk ~

I Peyton R Freeman Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of New Hampshire do certify that the foregoing oath & declaration and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court: and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in said schedule is thirty seven dollars and fifty cents.

In testimony whereof i have set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this first day of July A.D. 1820.

Peyton R. Freeman Clerk
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Application of John Raynes of Portsmouth N.H. for a Pension under the Act of Congress approved March 18, 1818.
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I John Raynes of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that on or about the 20th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine I was entered and enlisted for the period of one year in the Continental service on board the public arned ship called the Ranger commanded by Thomas Simpson Esquire, in the capacity of Captains Clerk, and that I continued in service and attached to the said ship until the 12th day of May 1780 when she was surrendered to the enemy in the harbour of Charleston; and was also under certain articles of capitulation surrendered as a prisoner of war. And I further declared that I remained a prisoner of war and was not exchanged until after the expiration of the period for which I enlisted. And I further solemnly swear that I was in the public service on the Continental establishment for more than nine months in the war of the Revolution commencing from or about the 20th day of October 1779 and that I receive no pension from the United States; and that I am destitute of the means of support~
John Raynes
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I Elijah Hall of Portsmouth in the State of Newhampshire [sic] do hereby certify and make known, that I was the first lieutenant of the public armed vessel called the Ranger commanded by Thomas Simpson Esquire from the first of October 1779 to the 12th day of May 1780 when she was surrendered to the enemy in the Harbour of Charleston in the State of South Caroline. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with John Raynes who served on board said ship in the capacity of Captains Clerk, and that the facts and circumstances stated in the within affidavit signed by the said John Raynes are true and I further declare according to the best of my knowledge and belief that the said John Raynes was in the public service in the Continental Establishment for more than nine months in the war of the Revolution and that the said Raynes stands in need of assistance from the Country

Elijah Hall

I Nathaniel Adams testify and say that I have for many years been acquainted with John Raynes, whose affidavit is on the other side hereof That I was knowing to his being, in Public service on board the Ship Ranger Thomas Simpson commander in the years seventen hundred seventy
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State of State of New Hampshire

I William M Richardson, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature of said State do certify that on this twenty sixth day of March A.D. 1818 John Raynes, Elijah Hall & Nathaniel Adams personally appeared before me & severally made oath that the foregoing deposition by them respectively subscribed are true, & that upon due examination thereof I am well satisfied that the said Raynes was in the public service in the war of the revolution more than nine months in the manner stated in the evid depositions & that the said Raynes now stands in need of assistance from his country for his support.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & have caused the seal of said court to be affixed the day & year above mentioned

Wm M. Richardson

By order of the Chief Justice
Nathl. Adams Clerk
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Invalid
Navy
File No. 45094
John, Raynes
Captains Clerk
Ship "Ranger"
Revolutionary
Act March 18, 1818
Index: Vol. ____, Page ________.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Portsmouth NH. March 27th, 1818

By request of John Raynes, a respectable gentleman who served in the Revolutionary War, and who is now reduced to extreme poverty, I have the honor to enclose you certain depositions when before the Chief Justice of this State; and in behalf of the said Raynes, do  respectfully request, that his name may be inscribed in the pension Roll of the United States, for the New Hampshire agency; in conformity to a (and perforce the perfect expression of Congress, for the relief of those who served in the War of the Revolution, and other use now in indigent circumstances. 

With the Most perfect Respect
I have the Honor to be
Sir,
Your Most Obdt  Servant
Tim  Upshand

Hon J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War