Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1926-100, for Isaac Swift, Massachusetts
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Mass.

*
Swift, Isaac
Crook, Patience
(Former Widow)

NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 1926.100

CONTENTS
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable County, Ss. 

At a Court of Probate holden at Barnstable within said County on the second Tuesday of January (being the tenth day of said month) Anno Domini 1832.

The subscribed Register of the Court of Probate for the County aforesaid, hereby certifies that satisfactory evidence has this day been adduced to this Court, to prove that Hannah Cowett, widow of John Cowett, is a daughter, and Stephen Capey otherwise called Stephen L. Lawrence and Hannah Boston are the children of Polly Capey, deceased and grandchildren of Isaac Swift, late of the Plantation of Marshpee in the County of Barnstable, deceased, and only heirs at Law of said Isaac Swift deceased, who was a soldier in the Massachusetts line in the army of the Revolution. Given under my hand and seal of said Court this tenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty-two.

Abram Davis, Register of Probate for the County of Barnstable.
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Probate Certificate
in the claim by the 
heirs of Isaac Swift.

No. 6.
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Application
for Bounty Land
by the heirs of
Isaac Swift.

No. 6.

name [ indecipherable ]
H. Jackson [ indecipherable ]
examined the evidence
of Heir's life.
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State of Massachusetts
Bristol County, Ss.

I Hannah Cowet, a Daughter, and one of the heirs at Law in fee to Isaac Swift deceased, do upon Oath testify and declare, that to the best of my knowledge and belief; Isaac Swift aforesaid about or in the year 1777, enlisted into the service of the United States for the term of "During the War", and that he continued in the service aforesaid, untill the close of the same, when he was honourably Discharged from the fourth Regiment of the Massachusetts line under the Command of Colonel Henry Jackson. I further testify and declare, that my father the aforesaid Isaac Swift was a man of Colour, and that he departed this life more than thirty years ago. I further declare that I have never received a Warrant for the quantity of Bounty Land promised to Isaac Swift aforesaid on the part of the United States, nor do I believe he ever received it or transferred his right to it in any manner whatsoever. Therefore Know all Men by these Presents; that I the aforesaid Hannah Cowet, do hereby constitute and appoint Reuben Baldwin of Greene County in the State of New York, my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name, to Demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a Warrant for the quantity of Bounty Land due me and the other heirs of the aforesaid Isaac Swift, deceased. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Mark and seal at Dartmouth this 26th day of February in the year 1832. Signed Sealed and delivered in Presents of
Joseph Gifford          Hannah Cowet, her Mark

State of Massachusetts
Bristol County

Be it known that on the Twentieth Day of February in the year 1832 Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the
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Peace, in and for said County; Hannah Cowet subscriber to the foregoing power of Attorney, who acknowledged the same to be her free Act and Deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Dartmouth in the County of Bristol and State aforesaid, this twentieth Day of February in the year 1832.
Joseph Gifford Justice of Peace

State of Massachusetts
Bristol County Ss

I James Sproat, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that Joseph Gifford [ indecipherable  ], whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Bristol and duly qualified to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty second day of February. A.D. 1832. Jas. Sproat
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Isaac Swift
No. 1926.
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I Patience Crook of Marshpee in the County of Barnstable in Massachusetts, a woman of colour and widow of Samuel Crook, do certify and declare on oath, that previous to my marriage with said Crook I was the widow and relict of Isaac Swift of Sandwich in said County, who was a coloured man and was a soldier in the army of the Revolution, that I was married to said Isaac Swift soon after the end of the Revolutionary War, and that he died previous to the year eighteen hundred -- and this deponent further saith that said Isaac at his death left four children, which were all the children he ever had, and that three of those have since died, two of them without issue, and the other leaving issue two children, named Hannah Capy and Stephen Capy and that said Hannah is now married to a man at Nantucket whose name is to this deponent unknown, and this deponent further saith that the other child of Isaac is still alive and her name is
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Hannah Cowet -- this deponent further saith that she is about seventy years of age.

Patience Crook, her mark

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable Ss. The above and
foregoing, sworn to by said 
Patience Crook and subscribed
by her with her 
mark this 26th day of 
December A.D. 1831
Before me
Nymphas Marston
Justice of the Peace
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Affidavit of Patience Crook, late Widow of Isaac Swift, decd. 
No. 6.

Proof of service, and identity of person will be found in the Deposition of Isaac Wickham and Nathan Pocknet.
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Isaac Swift    B.S.M. 1926 - 100

For further description of soldier see claim of Job Tobias, B.S.M. 1927 -- letter of Gideon Hawley.