Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34200, John Child, Mass.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE: Massachusetts

Child, John

NUMBER: S.34200

CONTENTS:
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LEFT MARGIN: Notification sent October 25th 1820 to Samuel Blagge, Boston, Massachusetts

RIGHT MARGIN: 8 day of Oct 1853

6,175
Massachusetts
John Child
of Roxbury in the state of Massachusetts who was a lieutenant in the regiment commanded by Colonel H. Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 1 year service.

Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20 dollars per month, to commence on the 31st of March 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of January 1819 and sent to Honorable John Davis, Boston, Massachusetts.

Arrears to 4th of September 1818. 5 no. 1/31-4/10 103.30
Semi-annual allowance ending 1st March 1819 120.-
[Continues] $223.30

[Signature: Ex. Wright] 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Duplicate Certificate issued Oct 8, 1819 & forwarded to Stephen Cadman.
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No 92
John Child Lieutenant
Jacksons Massachussetts Regiment
1777 to 1778

[Service adm]
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I John Child of Roxbury in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts schoolmaster of the age of sixty two years do depose & on oath declare that on the twelfth day of May in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy Seven, I engaged in the United States army as a Lieutenant in the company commanded by Thomas Cartwright Esquire in the regiment of Colonel Henry Jackson of the Massachusetts Line, in which company I served as a Lieutenant for the space of seventeen months & five days, when I required my commission after having been engaged in the Battle of Rhode Island. I had been previously engaged in the service in the year Seventeen Hundred & Seventy Five for the period of six months as an Ensign. Being reduced in circumstances by extreme poverty I am reduced to apply to my country for pecuniary assistance & I further testify further that my commission is L or 0.  John Child
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Massachusetts District SS}
Boston 31 March 1818}
The written declaration was sworn to before me John Davis 
District Judge 
Massachusetts District
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Massachusetts District, SS.
Bostown June A.D. 1818
It appearing to my satisfaction, that John Child, subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A together with this certificate.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.

Massachusetts District , SS.
Boston 18 January 1819.
I am satisfied that the above named, John Child by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
John Davis 
{District Judge U.S. 
{Massachusetts District
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
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A
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office March 30 1818
By this I certify, that John Child, late a Lieutenant in Henry Jackson's Regiment being one of the Regiments of the Massachusetts Line of the Revolutionary Army, & a part of the Continental Establishment, is borne on the list or Muster rolls of said Regiment, now in this office, as a Lieutenant and that by said roll it appears that he was in the said Regiment from 19th of May 1777 to Oct 17 1778 -
When & honorably discharged chose not of him -
Alden Bradford
Secretary of Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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No 92
John Child Lieutenant
Jackson's Massachusetts Regiment
1777 to 1778

[Service adm]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk, SS. - Circuit Court of Common Pleas, Special Session, July 17, 1820.

On this Tuesday on the 18th day of July 1820 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record for said County, proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a Record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Child aged sixty four years, resident in Braintree in said County, Schoolmaster who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: as a Lieutenant in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson in the Massachusetts Line. His decommission was dated 31 March 1818 - His Pension Certificate Oct 8 1819 & Numbering 6175.

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 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. 

John Child

Sworn to and declared, on the 18th day of July A.D. 1820 before Jarius Ware Judge of Circuit Court of Common Pleas Massachusetts for 8th Circuit.

I, Horatio Townsend Clerk of the said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of 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 ___ dollars and _____ cents. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty first day of July 1820.
Horatio Townsend, Clerk.

MARGIN: 00.00
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Schedule of property belonging to the schoolmaster a Lieutenant in the army of the United States, during the Revolutionary War.
Real Estate: None
Personal Estate: None
Occupation - School Master but made to follow my people in the conveyance of being deaf, I have no other employment.
Family, I have none.
John Child
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Copy
Schedule Service of
John Child

6175
January 1819

COW
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34200
Revy Invalid.

File No. 34,200
John Child
Lieutenant Rev War

Act: 18th March 1818
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 481
[Arrangement to 1870]
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duplicate issue

Oct 8 1819

Honorable J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington

Recorded Sep 24th 1819
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I John Child of Roxbury in the County of Norfolk State of Massachusetts, late a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution in Colonel Henry Jackson Regiment. Do Solemnly swear that about fourteen days since my pocket was picked by some person to me unknown, in which was contained a pension certificate which was granted to me by the Secretary of War the date of which I do not recall, & placing me on the pension Roll of Massachusetts at the Rate of twenty Dollars a month. Commencing on the 31 March 1818 - and is on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency which Roll is dated the 24 Feb 1819 - and I have received my pension by virtue thereof up to the 1st day of March 1819.

John Child

Suffolk, SS. Sept. 20. 1819. Honorably came John Child above named, and made oath to the truth of the forgoing affidavit by him subscribed. And I do certify that he is a man of good character and worthy of full credit.
Attest Stephen Goodman 
Justice of peace.
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Boston September 20 1819
Sir,
Having lost my pension Certificate as you will see by the Annexed Affidavit, I have to request you will be so good as to direct that a new one may be issued, and forwarded as soon as convenient to Stephen Goodman Esquire of Boston for my roll.
I am very Respectfully your obedient servant,
John Child

To the Honorable
J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington