Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33704, for David Spooner, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Mass. Spooner, David S 33704
CONTENTS
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Massachusetts
David Spooner of Fairhaven, Bristol in the state of Mass. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vose of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of June 1819 and sent to Nahum Mitchell Esq E Bridgewater, Plymouth Cy Massts
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 9 mo 27/31 $78.96
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept.1819 48.
$126.90
[Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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Notification sent Sept.15.1820, to J L Sproat 
clk of ct of Bristol Ct Taunton Mass
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David Spooner
No 11,875
June 1819
Contd 15 Sep 1820
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Subjoined is the Schedule and Statement of David Spooner, a pensioner of the United States, made in conformity to the Law of the 1st of May 1820...
Real Estate...None
Income..Nothing, but as derived from his manual labour
15 Dunghill Tools...3.00
1 axe...31
5 old chairs...50
2 Tables 1.00
1 Teapot...16 1/2
1/2 doz. Tea cups & saucers..1/2 doz. Plates...50
4 Bowls...57
1 Broad Hoe...33
1 Narrow Ho...16 1/2
3/4 of a Swine...12.50
200 of fresh hay..1.00
3/4 of an acre of potatoes planted upon Shares}
one half of the crop, when gathered will belong to me...8.00
1 3/4 ditto of corn planted ditto...7.00
1/4 ditto of flax av do...1.00 
1 cupboard...0.75
1 Pot. 1 old wheel 50c 2 pail 75 c 50 tts old Pot metal 50 cts...2.25
1 Broken Tea kettle 20 c 1 pr old loom 2.00 1 shovel & tongs and bellows & pichforks}...3.32
1 Spider...20
1/2 doz. Spoons 20 c 1 chest 1.50 1 Looking glass 10 c 1 old flat 25 c...2.05
3 Large milk bowls....38
$45.01
The said David Spooner is a labourer. His Constitution is much impaired and he is afflicted with the Rheumatism. He is not able to work more than one half of the time. He has a wife that lives with him, in his family, who is 58 years of age. She is afflicted with the King's evil and the dropsy. She is not under the care of a Physician at this time, but he is obliged, owing to her indisposition to apply for medical aid frequently. She is however  able with the assistance of her husband, to cook victuals for the family, which consists only of herself and her husband, and do the washing of the family the greater part of the time.
David Spooner
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SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BRISTOL SS. Circuit Court of Common Pleas June 1820 & thence continued to the 3d Monday of July in the same year
On this seventeenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, being a court of record for the said county, David Spooner aged sixty two years, resident in Fairhaven in said county, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: as a private soldier in the company commanded by Capt. John Williams, and in Col. Joseph Vose's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, and in the continental establishment. That he enlisted for 3 years on or about the twelfth of August 1779, and remained with the Army until it was disbanded. And that he was also a soldier in the army of Revolution and on the Continental Establishment in the company commanded by Capt. Amasa Soper & Col. French's Regiment and that he enlisted for the term of 9 months and continued therein until the expiration of his time. This last service was prior to the former, but the time of my enlistment therein and discharge are not recollected. That the date of my original declaration is the 9th of May 1818, and that I have obtained a pension Certificate number 11,875
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 schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
David Spooner
Sworn to and declared on the seventeenth day of July A.D. 1820 before James Sproat Clerk of the Court Bristol County
I, James Sproat clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the 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 forty five dollars and one cents. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fifth day of August 1820
Jos. Sproat Clerk of the  Court for the County of Bristol.
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David Spooner
Fairhaven
Private
Vose's Mass Regt.
1782 to the spring of 1784
[crossed out-Not found on the rolls. further evidence of service, wanted.]
Adm.
The claimant having produced the deposition of Deliverance Bennet & Jeremiah Jones. The Documents are returnd to the war office.
NM
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Plymouth ss.
On this ninth day of May ADom. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared David Spooner of Fairhaven Co of Bristol aged fifty seven years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made 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 and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," viz-That he enlisted and entered into the said war in the fall of 1782 in the last three years service in Capt Williams Company & Col. Vose's Regiment /the first/ in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment as a private soldier and continued to serve to the end of the war and was discharged at Newburgh above Westpoint in the spring of 1784-that he served, before this, nine months, in which time he was in several skirmishes on the lines, but was in no battle during his last three years service. That he had a discharge from his Colonel, but it was burnt by accident in his chest many years ago-that there are no soldiers or officers living, who served with him, whose testimony he can now produce-and he has no further evidence of his service now in his power & that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support-
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that he took the place of another man, named Zeba Fuller, who enlisted for one half of the said three years, and he the said Spooner for the remainder, and together made out the three years-that he the said Spooner served the last eighteen months of it-
And I the said Judge do certify that the said Spooner is poor and needs the assistance of his country for support
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said David Spooner did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment, 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.
[seal] Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Plymouth ss. May 22 1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That Hon Nahum Mitchell is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth-that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record-that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
Jno. B. Thomas}Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of Plymouth
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David Spooner
Col. Vose's Regt.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol County, to wit
Deliverance Bennett of New Bedford in said County being sixty one years of age, testifies and says that Ziba Fuller then belonging to the town of Dartmouth in said County, but since Dead, in the year 1781, went to West Point with my self as a solger in the continental service and both joined the regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Vose & Elijah Vose was Lieut. Colo. in Capt. Williams's Company, and in Glovers Brigade and said Fuller after eighteen months left said service, and place was supplied by David Spooner of said Dartmouth now of Fairhaven in the same Company Regiment and Brigade, with myself and said David continued in the service until the conclusion of the war with Grait Britton when said David releaved said Fuller the regiment lay at Newburg in the state of New York, from there he was marcht to Philedelphia in said regiment, and from there to West Point and that said David was in said service twelve months and more and further the Deponent saith not.
Deliverance Bennett
Briston Ss.
Sworn & subscribed before me this seventeenth Day of April A.D 1819. And I further certify that the above deponant is a credible witness.
James Taber Justice of the Peace
Plymouth ss May 13.1819
This is to certify that the above named James Taber is a magistrate in the County of Bristol aforesaid and authorized by law to take depositions and that the foregoing is his genuine hand writing and signature.
Nahum Mitchell: Judge &c
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David Spooner
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I Deliverance Bennett of New Bedford County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being sixty years of age do testify and say, that I served in the Revolutionary war against Great Britton, in the three years service and untill the conclusion of the war, in the Company Commanded by Capt John Williams, Regt Commanded by Joseph Vose Colo and Pattersons Bregade: and that David Spooner was in the same company with me the last twelve months or over as a solger and was legally Discharged.
Deliverance Bennett
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Bristol Ss June 4th 1818. Personally appeared Delleverance Bennett who subscribed to the above declaration and made solomn oath that it is true in all its parts.
before me James Taber Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Ss. June 17th 1818. The above named James Taber is a magistrate and authorized by law to administer oaths. 
Nahum Mitchell Judge Gen
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I Jeremiah Jones of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful testify and say that I was a private soldier in the late Revolutionary war with Great Britain in the service of the United States of America and that I well know that David Spooner of FairHaven in the County of Bristol was also a soldier in the service of the said United states at the same time and I perfectly recollect that said Spooner belonged to Col Elijah Vose# Regiment and he was one of my acquaintances and I daily saw him at Newburg and at West Point-Said Spooner served in the said service to the best of my recollection from twelve to fourteen months, and I have reason to believe he was a faithful soldier and never heard any complaint whatever against him. I have a perfect recollection of said Spooner being discharged at the close of the war
Jeremiah [his X mark] Jones
Witness
Barth Brown
Welcome Young
Plymouth Ss.
May 6.1819} Personally appeared Jeremiah Jones and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed before me
Barth W Brown
Justice of the Peace
#Elijah Vose was Lieut. Col. Joseph Vose was the Colonel of the Regt.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. May 13 1819
This certifies that the within named Jeremiah Jones, the Deponent, is a credible and disinterested witness and the within named Bartholomew Brown is a respectable Magistrate and authorized to take Depositions and that the within is his genuine hand writing and signature.
Nahum Mitchell: Judge &c
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33704
Revy INVALID.
File No. 33,704
David Spooner
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18
Index:-Vol. 8, page 390
[Arrangement of 1870.]