Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,404, Joseph Everson, Mass.
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(3 - 1776) 
SERVICE Massachusetts 
Everson, Joseph 
NUMBER S.30.404
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Massachusetts
Joseph Everson
Plymouth in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Washburn of the regiment commanded
Colonel Gray in the Massachusetts
line for 10 months 5 days
Militia
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
At the rate of 33 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
To commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of May
1833 and sent J H Loud Plymouth Massachusetts
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $67.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 September 1833 "
16.83
$84.15
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by JHP Blair, clerk
Book E Volume 2 page 21

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Plymouth
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REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, SS.
On this twenty first day of August 1832, personally appeared
in open Court, before
Honorable Wilkes Wood Judge now sitting at Kingston
the Court of Probate
and for said County of Plymouth, Joseph Everson
resident of Kingston
within
in said County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, aged twenty three years, who being first duly
sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquishes
every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that
his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. That is to say, that
he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and
served as herein stated.
In the year 1777 or 1778 He cannot now recollect
which he volunteered in the United States service
and did duty in the Revolutionary War three months at
Rhode Island as a private in the Company of
Captain Ebenezer Washburn, Ezekiel Loring was our 
Ensign Elkanah Cook served the same and
belonged to the Same Company. his Deposition he
has obtained. In the year 1777 or 1778 he
cannot state with certainty when there was an
Alarm when he with others, of which said
Elkanah Cook was one, were marched to said
Rhode Island and served three weeks in Captain Ebenezer Washburns Company. said Cooks Deposition
touching that Campaign is annexed
in the year 1778 he thinks but is not positive
He enlisted and did duty at Rhode Island
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in the Company commanded by Captain Jesse
Sturtevant. Benjamin Waterman of said Kingston
in said County was with him in said Company and
both served out their term of Enlistment which
was for two months, he does not recollect the
Colonel but remembers, Seth Cushing was Major of his
Regiment, he also served six weeks in what
was called the private expedition to said Rhode
Island the year he cannot recollect said
Benjamin Waterman was with him in said campaign whose deposition he has obtained and is annexed.
In the 1778 He thinks but is not positive
he served three months on an Island in
Boston Harbour Commonly Called "Castle
Island" He does not recollect the name of
his Captain but thinks he belonged to the
Town of Pembroke in said County of Plymouth
Colonel John Gray of said Kington was our Colonel
Peleg Sampson of Plympton in said County was
in the same service
He was born in said Town of Kingston in the
year 1759 has always lived in Kingston
his birth is Recorded in the Records of said
Town of Kingston
Joseph Everson
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Attest Jacob H. Lord
Register
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7676
Joseph Everson
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We, Zephaniah Willis a clergyman residing in the 
town of Kingston
Colonel John Thomas
residing in the same town
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted
with Joseph Everson, who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy three years of age; that he is
reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of
the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Zephaniah Willis
John Thomas

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Attest Jacob C. Loud Register
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the
matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the
above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And
the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Zephaniah Willis
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of
Kingston
and that John Thomas Esquire who has
also signed the same, is a resident in the same town
and is a credible
person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By order of the Court, Attest
Jacob H. Loud Register
of the Court of Probate
Jacob H Loud Register
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court
in the matter of the application of Joseph Everson
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of
office, this
twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty two

Jacob H. Loud
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9676 
Joseph Everson 
Private 10 Months and 3 days 
$33.66. 
JH Loud Esquire
Plymouth Massachusetts
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Brief in the case of Joseph Everson
County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 73 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[Table of four columns, headings:]
Period || Duration of Service.|| Rank. || Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Volunteered in 1777 or 1778 || 3 months || as a private ||Captain Washburne.
in 1777 or 1778 || 3 weeks || as a private || Captain Washburne.
enlisted he thinks 1778 on a private expedition || 6 weeks || as a private || Captain Sturtevant, Major Cushing.
1778 he thinks || 3 weeks || as a private || Colonel Gray.
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Kingston Massachusetts
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witnesses and traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct
mentioned.
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
John Watson
Examining Clerk.
20th February 1833
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O. W. & N. [Old War and Navy] Division.
P. S.
M. E. C.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
October 7, 1895.
S30404
Sir;
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history
a soldier of the Revolutionary war,
you will please find below the desired information as contained in his
(or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
{table of five columns, headed:]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. || LENGTH OF SERVICE. || OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED ||n State
1777 or 1778 || 3 months. || Private || Ebenezer Washburn || Not stated || Massachusetts
1777 or 78 || 3 weeks || private || Ebenezer Washburn || Not stated || Massachusetts
1777 or 78 ||2 weeks || Private || Captain Jesse Sturtevant , Major Seth Cushing || Massachusetts.
1778 ||3 weeks || private || not remembered || John Gray || Massachusetts
Battles engaged in his declaration that he also served three weeks in a private expedition to Rhode Island but particulars of this service are not given.
Residence of soldier at enlistment,___
Date of application for pension, None mentioned,
Residence at date of application, Kingston, Massachusetts
Age at date of application, August 21, 1832.
Remarks: Kingston, Massachusetts
Born in Kingston, in 1759.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
B. L. Boomer, Esquire,
Campello, Massachusetts

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30404
Revolutionary INVALID
File Number 30,404
Joseph Everson
Private Revolutionary War
Act: June 7th 32
Index:--Volume 2, Page 127
[Arrangement of 1870.}

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Oct. 7/[18]95 History  to B.L. [Boomer]
Campello, Massachusetts
Oct. 7/[18]95 History to Honorable-Eliza
Morse, Canton Massachusetts
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I, Elkanah Cook of Kingston in County of Plymouth
and State of Massachusetts aged seventy three years
Testify and say that I well know Joseph Everson
who is now an applicant for a Pension. that I served
in the Revolutionary War in the year 1777 or 1778
I cannot well recollect which on Rhode Island in
the State of Rhode island, and will remember
that said Joseph Everson was in the Company to
which I belonged which was commanded by Captain
Ebenezer Washburn, Ezekiel Loring being Ensign,
said Everson and myself were both volunteers from
said Town of Kingston and both served three months
as private and were discharged and returned home in
company with each other and both of us still
live in said town of Kingston
further certify that I was with said Everson under Captain Washburne and was from home for a few weeks can not certainly tell which.
Elkanah Cook
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth ss. August 10th 1832 This day
Elkanah Cook personally appeared before me
and made Solemn Oath to the truth of within
Deposition by him subscribed. And I certify
that said Cook is considered a man of truth
and veracity
Eli Cook Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss. I, Jacob H. Loud Register of the Court of Probate
for the County of Plymouth being a Court of Record hereby certify
that Eli Cook Esquire before whom the two Deponsions by me was annexed together were taken is a Justice of the Peace for the County
of Plymouth and that his name subscribed to the certificate thereon
is his true and genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty
first day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Jacob H. Loud
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I, Benjamin Waterman of Kingston in the
County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts aged
Seventy two years, Testify and say that I well
know Joseph Everson who is now an applicant
for a Pension. In the year 1777 or 1778 said
Joseph Everson with myself enlisted in the
service of a United States in the Revolutionary War
And did duty at Rhode Island in Captain Jesse
Sturtevants Company for two months, our company was stationed at Bristol in Rhode Island, Seth
Cushing of Plympton in said County was our Major.
I also served with said Joseph Everson, I
cannot now recollect the year with certainly
in what was called the Private Expedition
and did duty at said R. Island six weeks cannot
now recollect any of our officer except the Captain
who belonged I think to Hanover in said County
Benjamin Waterman
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth ss. August 21. 1832
This day Benjamin Waterman personally
appeared before me and made oath to the
truth of the within Deposition by him
Subscribed
and I certify that said
Benjamin Waterman is considered and
reputed a man of truth and veracity in the
town where we both dwell
Eli Cook Justice of the Peace