Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42354, for John Snow, Massachusetts
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
CONTENTS  NUMBER
Mass. [Massachusetts] Snow, John  S. 42354
CONTENTS
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Stephen Cook 9 [illegible] 1835

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19,418.
New York.
John Snow,
of Genesee Co. [County] in the State of New York,
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain E. Smith of the regiment command
by Colonel C. Smith in the Massachusetts
line, for the term of nine months & 16 days
from 6 July 1779 to 20 April 1780

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 1st of February 1825.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of April 182
and sent to Hon. [Honorable] Parmonio Adams
Attica, N.Y.

Arrears to 4th of Mar. [March] 1825.  $9.03
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. [September]  1825  48.00
$57.03
{Revolutionary claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.}
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John Snow
Declaration
for a Pension
Hon. [Honorable] P. Adams
H. R. recd. Feb. [February] 17. 1825
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Original Claim
Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension List under the act
of the 18th March 1818.

County of Genesee
State of New York} ss:

On this first day of February 1825 
personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the said
County John Snow Resident in said County aged seventy two
years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make
Declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress
of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said John
Snow enlisted for the term of nine months on or about the fifteenth
day of July in the year 1779 in the town of Montague, County of Hampshire
and State of Massachusetts in the Company Commanded by Capt [Captain] 
Ebenezer Smith, in the Regiment commanded by Col. [Colonel] Smith in the line of the
State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, that he the
said John Snow continued to serve in the said Corps untill the
20 day of April in the year 1780 when he was discharged from the
service at the Highlands in the State of New York that he hereby 
relinquishes all every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present that
his name is not on the roll of any state except Massachusetts, and that 
the following are the reasons for his making this application for
a pension that in the year 1818 Soon after the passage of the
act of Congress of the 18th March 1818, he the said John Snow
did make an application for a pension which was forwarded
to the war Department of the United States that this application 
was returned from the war Department with a memorandum endorsed thereon that it did not contain sufficient
Evidence of the Enlistment and service of the said John
Snow and that his name was not found in the roll of
the Regiment wherein the service was stated to have been rendered
that as he supposes this must have arisen from some mistake
in the statement of his services or in consequence of the
rolls of the several Regiments in which he served having been
destroyed or mislaid that he the said John Snow served in different Corps during the Revolutionary War, with the
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exception of some short intervals from the 20th April in the year 1779
till the 20th of April in the year 1780 and these different services 
were stated in his application in 1818 without particular specification 
of the day of Enlistment and discharge in each respectively, that he can not now state the particular days of the several 
Enlistments and discharges except the one stated above
that when the application made in 1818 was returned to him
from the war Department he supposed he would not be able
to obtain a pension unless he could find some one or more
who would testify as to his services that he has frequently since the
application in 1818 made enquiries for some of the persons who
served with him in some of his services in the Revolutionary war, 
that he could never hear of any such person until some
time in the fore part of last summer; that he then heard of
two men who were in the service in the Revolutionary war and
acquainted with the said John Snow. One residing in the County of
Onondaga and the other in the County of Cayuga in the State of
New York that he the said John Snow went and procured the affidavit of the said persons, to wit, David Holbrook, and Silas Holbrook, which affidavits are hereunto annexed that upon obtaining this evidence he supposed he might be able to obtain the
pension for which he now applies, that the Declaration made
by the said John Snow in 1818 is not now in his possession nor 
where he can obtain of possession of the same, nor can he recollect 
precisely the day of its date.  And in pursuance of the act
of the first of May 1820 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 written 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.
Inventory or Schedule
Real Estate, I have none
Personally Property
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1 Bed and Bedding worth- $15.00
1 Table 1.50
6 Kitchen Chairs 4.00
3 9c Bowls Earthen .37
6 Plates Earthen .50
6 knives and forks .50
2 pails wooden .75
1 Wash Tub 1.00
1 Pickle Barrel 1.00 
1 Soak Tub .50
2 Pine Chests 2.00
2 Iron Pots 2.25
1 Spider 1.50
1 Tea Kettle 1.00
1 Fire Shovel .25
1 Iron Candlestick .12
1 Looking Glass .50
1 Glass Tumbler .9
3 Earthen Jugs .60
1 Spinning Wheel 1.00
6 Teacups and saucers .62
5 Drawing knives 2.50
1 Hand saw 1.75
1 Fine dark saw .75
1 Adz 1.00
1 Cooper ax 1.50
1 Bit stock .50
5 Bits .30
3 Chisels .37
2 files .10
1 Jointer plain .50
1 Smoothing plain .50
1 [illegible] .50
2 Swine 4.00
3 Sheep 3.00
$52.34
I have no debts due to me nor any demands against my person whatever whereby I ever expect to be benefited
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unless there may be some small balance due to me
on some unsettled accounts with my neighbors, not as
much in all by considerable as I owe to others
I am indebted to Sanford Longworth $20.00
To Preserved Richmond 5.00
"Isaac Marsh 3.00
"John Parmele .60
"Miles P. Lampson .75
"Harland Lay .75
Physicians Bill, to [crossed out Henry] Chauncey Smith about 10.00
To Timothy Bachelor 2.00
making in all the sum of $42.10
which is now due and which I am unable to pay except
by means above enumerated and my own daily labor
That since the 18 day of March 1818 the following
are all the changes that have been made in my property,
on the said 18th day of March 1818 I was in possession of
four acres of land by permission of the owner without any
contract for the sale of said Land that I never paid any
thing towards the said Land, or for the use and occupation
thereof that since the said 18th day of March 1818 I have been
disposed by the owner or his agent and I am not now in
possessession [possession] of that or any other real Estate whatever, that
there has been no material changes with regard to my personal
Property nothing more than what it may have been diminished 
to procure the necessary means of subsistence.
And the said John Snow further states that
he is by occupation a cooper, that he is able to Labor but very
Little by reason of bodily infirmity, that he has a wife named
Relief aged seventy two years, that he has four children
none of whom reside with him the Eldest is named Abigail
about forty years of age and is married and in indigent
circumstances, the second daughter is named Clarissa about
thirty five years old, she is married and in indigent 
circumstances, the Eldest son named Datus about thirty Eight
years old he has not heard from him in a considerable
time and does not know where he is or what his 
circumstance are, the Youngest is named Samuel, about thirty
years old, he is gone from home he does not know where he is
or what his circumstances are.  That he the said
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John Snow has no house or place of Residence or any other means
of subsistence for himself and wife except what is stated
above and what is afforded him by the charity of his neighbors
John Snow

State of New York
Cayuga County ss}
Personally came before me Isaac
Morse one of Justices of the Peace for said County Silas
Holbrook well known to me, who being duly sworn on the
Holy Evangelist deposeth and saith that he the said Silas
was a Surgeons mate in the thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment
in the Revolutionary war in the years one thousand seven
hundred and seventy nine and Eighty and that he knew
John Snow a Soldier in Captain Ebenezer Smith's Company
in said Regiment and the bearer hereof is the John Snow John
Snow according to the best of his knowledge and belief
Silas Holbrook
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 7th day of August 1824
Isaac Morse J. P.

State of New York
Cayuga County
Clerks Office ss}
I certify that Isaac Morse Esquire was
on the Seventh day of August in the year
[hand drawn seal includes the letter] L
of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred
and twenty four a Justice of the Peace
in and for the County of Cayuga duly 
commissioned and sworn as such Justice and that full faith
and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity.  I
further certify that I am acquainted with the handwriting of
the said Justice and verily believe the signature to the annexed
Affidavit "Isaac Morse", to be his.--In testimony whereof
I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas
of said County and subscribed my name this seventh day
of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred
and twenty four
M. S. Myers Dep. Clk
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State of New York
Onondaga County ss}
Personally came before me David
Holbrook well known to me and being
duly sworn, saith that he the said David was a Soldier in
Capt [Captain] Smalls Company in the thirteenth Massachusetts 
Regiment in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy
nine and Eighty and that he personally knew John a 
soldier in Captain Ebenezer Smith's company in said Regiment
and that the said John Snow the bearer hereof is the same John
Snow, and he the said David knew him to have served
as a soldier in said Regiment, nine months and was honorably discharged from the service having served out his
time 
David Holbrook
Sworn and subscribed before
me this 9th day of Oct 1824
James Sisson Junr Judge of
Onondaga Com Pleas-

State of New York
Onondaga County
Clerk's office ss:
I do certify that the within named James
Sisson Junior was a Judge of the Court
[hand drawn seal with the letter] L
of Common Pleas in and for the County
of Onondaga on the 9th day of October
Eighteen hundred and twenty four duly commissioned and
sworn as such and that I am acquainted with his writing 
and verily believe the written signature "James Sisson Junior" 
to be in his own proper hand writing. Witness my hand
and seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this
9 day of October 1824.
R. S. Hess Dep. Clk
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Sworn to and [crossed out Subscribed]  declared on the first day of
February 1825 before C. L. Sheldon Clk

State of New York
Genesee County
Clerks Office ss}
I Chauncey L. Sheldon Clerk of said
County and of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for said County do hereby certify that
it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the
said John Snow did serve in the 
Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding Declaration
against the common Enemy for the term of Nine months
under one engagement on the Continental Establishment.
I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule
thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records 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 fifty two dollars and thirty four
cents.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the said Court on this first day
of February 1825
C. L. Sheldon Clk
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42354
INVALID.
Revy [Revolutionary]
No. 42,354
John Show
Pri. [Private] Rev [Revolutionary] War
Act: 18th March 18
Index:--Vol. 3 , Page 480
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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War Department,
Pension Office,
Decr [December] 20. 1824
Sir,
I herewith return the papers in support
of John Snow's claim to a pension, and
have to state that before a decision can 
be had on his claim, he must make a
Declaration agreeably to the blank form 
herewith enclosed, and the instructions
thereto attached.
I am respectfully
yr. [your] obt. [obedient] sert [servant]
J. L. Edwards
Honorable
P. Adams
House of Reps
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Register
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John Snow
Genesee County
New York
On Roll
Hon Parmenio Adams
H. Reps Decr [December] 20
1821,}
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State of New York
Genesee County 

Original Claim

On this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, personally appeared in Open Court (being a Court of Record for the County of Genesee) John Snow
aged Seventy two years, resident in the town of Le Roy in said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts
of Congress of the Eighteenth of March 1818, and the first of May 1820. that he the said John Snow enlisted for the term of Nine months, on or about the fifteenth day of July A.D. 1779 in the town of Montague, County of Hampshire, in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Capt Ebenezer
Smith in Col Smith's Regiment in the line of the State of Massachusetts. On the Continental Establishment
that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the twentieth day of April A.D. One thousand seven hundred and Eighty, when he was honorably discharged from said corps of the Highlands, in the State of New York having served full nine months, that during the time of his enlistment he was in no action with the enemy. But previous to his said enlistment he volunteered his services in behalf of the United States and was in the Battles of Bunker Hill, Long Island, White Plains, West Chester and other Little Skirmishes. and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services excepting an affidavit made by Silas Holbrook a Surgeon's mate in the said Corps, subscribed and sworn before Isaac Morse a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Cayuga in the State of New York and to which affidavit is annexed the certificate of the Clerk
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and seal of the said County Cayuga certifying that the said Isaac Morse at the time of taking said affidavit was a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and in which affidavit is expressed that the said Silas Holbrook, knew the said John Snow and that he was a soldier in said Capt Ebenezer Smiths Company, in said Regiment, and one other affidavit made by David Holbrook a Soldier in Capt Smarts Company in said Regiment.  subscribed and Sworn before James Sisson Jun'r a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Onondaga and on which affidavit is endorsed the Certificate of the Clerk and seal impression of said County certifying that the said James Sisson Jun'r was at the time of taking said affidavit a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and in which affidavit is expressed that the said David Holbrook was a soldier in Capt Smarts Company in the thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine and Eighty, and that he personally knew John Snow to be a Soldier in said Capt Ebenezer Smith company in said Regiment, and that he served as a soldier in said Regiment Nine months and was honorably discharged from the service having served out his time, and that he is the same person described in the affidavit.

And in pursuance of the act of the first of May, One thousand Eight hundred and twenty I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight
hundred and Eighteen 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
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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 Eighteenth 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.

Inventory or Schedule
Real Estate I have None

Personal property:
1 Bed and Bedding worth- $15.00
1 Table 1.50
6 Kitchen Chairs 4.00
3 9c Bowls Earthen .37
6 Plates Earthen .50
6 knives and forks .50
2 pails wooden .75
1 Wash Tub 1.00
1 Pickle Barrel 1.00
1 Soak Tub .50
2 Pine Chests 2.00
2 Iron Pots 2.25
1 Spider 1.50
1 Tea Kettle 1.00
1 Fire Shovel .25
1 Iron Candlestick .12
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1 Looking Glass .50
1 Glass Tumbler .9
3 Earthen Jugs .60
1 Spinning Wheel 1.00
6 Teacups and saucers .62
5 Drawing knives 2.50
1 Hand saw 1.75
1 Fine dark saw .75
1 Adz 1.00
1 Cooper ax 1.50
1 Bit stock .50
5 Bits .30
3 Chisels .37
2 files .10
1 Jointer plain .50
1 Smoothing plain .50
1 [illegible] .50
2 Swine 4.00
3 Sheep 3.00
$52.34

I have no debts due to me, nor any demands against any person whatever, whereby I ever expect to be benefited unless it be a small balance in my favor by the way of Deal among my neighbor.

I am indebted to Sanford Langworthy $20.00
to Preserved Richmond-- 5.00
to Isaac Marsh -- 3.00
to John Parmele -- .60
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to Miles P. Sampson -  .75
to Hart & Lay - .75
to Chauncey Smith Doctor Bill - 10.00
to Timothy Bachelor-- 200
making in all the sum of -- $42.10.

which is now due and which I am unable to pay except by means above enumerated and his own daily labor.

And this Deponent further says that he is by occupation a Cooper; that he is able to do but very little labor. that he has a wife named Relief, aged seventy two years; that he has four children, the Eldest is named Abigail about forty, she is married, and in indigent circumstances. The Second Girl is named Clarissa about thirty-five, married and in indigent circumstances. the Eldest son is named Datus about thirty eight; he has not heard from him this some time. he does not know where he is nor does he know what his circumstances are. The youngest is named Samuel, about thirty years old, gone from home, he does not know any thing about him. that he has no house or place of Residence except what is afforded him by the charity of his neighbors.

John Snow

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 13th day of October 1824 before me

S. Cumings acting Clerk

place of the Clerk
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State of New York
Genesee County ss

I Chauncey L. Sheldon Clerk of the County of Genesee, and of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court. I also certify that the Court were satisfied that the claimant served for the term of Nine months under one engagement, on the Continental Establishment; 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 Fifty two Dollars and thirty four Cents. 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County and Court on this fifteenth day of October A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and twenty four

C. L. Sheldon, Clk