Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,664, David Bradley, Mass. N.H. Vt.
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(8-1778)
SERVICE | NUMBER
Mass. | Bradley, David | S.44,664
N.H.
Vt.
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CONTENTS
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[left fold]
T.S. [Slingbet] acct.
Sept. 19, 1846.

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Notification sent Nov 5th1820 to John Palmer 
Plattsburg  nyk

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10959
New York
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David Bradley
of Plattsburg in the state of N. York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vose of the Ma [illegible]
line, for the term of - [stricken] War 1777.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of May 1819
and sent John Palmer 
Plattsburg
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Arrears to 4th of [stricken] 1819 | 87.46
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep. 1819 | 48. -
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                                                        $135.46
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{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}.
4  32
2o8/30  7.46
6.  48
87.46
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44.664
David Bradley
Ther is hardly a doubt that the rejected widow Bathshebe Bradley File No1130 is the real widow, as he had left her in Vt prior to or about the time he applied for a pension under act [stricken]
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David Bradley
Rev Pension Claim
7 April 1818


 Vose asjs. regt.
Correct by roll.
Adm C


Hon J. Palmer Esq
Plattsburg, N. Y
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State of New York  )
County of Clinton  ) ss

I, David Bradley of Plattsburg County of Clinton State of New York do solemnly and sincerely swear and declare that I was a private in Captain Hunt's Company in the regiment of Col. Voss of the Massachusetts line in the service of the United States of America on the Continental establishment, in the war of the revolution, that I enlisted at Penobscot in the province of Maine for the term of three years in the Company and Regiment aforesaid in June 1777, and that at the expiration of two years and nine months, I enlisted again into the same regiment for the war and continued in the service until the peace with Great Britain was declared.  That my discharge has long since been destroyed or lost, that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support.

David Bradley

I, Caleb Nichols a Judge of the Court of Common Please for the County of Clinton and State of New York do certify that on the seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the above named David Bradley made oath before me to the foregoing statement and declaration

Caleb Nichols
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State of New York Clinton County SS:  I Caleb Nichols a Judge of the Court of Common Please of the County and State aforesaid do certify that It appears to my satisfaction that David Bradley named and described in the foregoing declaration did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the Preceeding declaration against the Common Enemy and that the said David is in educed circumstances and in actual need of assistance from his country for support and I now transcribing the testimony and proceedings had before me to the Hon. the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the act in such case made and provided.
Plattsburg November 20th, 1818
Caleb Nichols
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Supplemental Declaration
In order to obtain an Increase of Pension under the Act of June 7, 1832.

State of New York     )
St. Lawrence County  ) ss.

On this sixteenth day of May A.D. 1846, personally appeared before me, David Bradley, a resident of the Town of Pierrepont in said County of St. Lawrence aged 87 years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Supplemental Declaration in order to obtain a pension under the act of June 7, 1832.

That he this Declarant is now a pensioner under the Act of March 18, 1818 at the rate of Ninety six dollars per annum, but as Declarant served some time as a Corporal, and for a period of one year or more as a Sergeant in the Company of Captain Samuel Hunt in the Regiment of Colonel Joseph Vose in the Brigade of General Glover in the Massachusetts Line of Troops and for three successive Campaigns of six months each near the close of the War under Captain Samuel Payne and Major James Lucas, in the Troops of New Hampshire, as a Lieutenant, he thinks himself entitled to more Pension, and therefore makes this application for Increase, He believes that the particulars of his said service have already been set forth in his original declaration made by him in the matter of his application for a pension under the act of March 18, 1818.
David Bradley

Subscribed and Sworn the day and year )
aforesaid before me, and I certify           )
that said David Bradley is a                     )
credible person.                                      )
J. Nead
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
St Lawrence County
Clerks Office
I Martin Thatcher clerk of said County do hereby  certify that Isaac Read before whom the foregoing declaration purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County of St Lawrence duly commissioned & qualified, & authorized to take the same as such Justice & further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice verily believe his signature to said Declaration to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my official seal this nineteenth of May A.D. 184[?]6
M Thatcher  Clerk
to J R Tupper  Depy
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David Bradly
Rev. Pensioner
Certified copy of
oath & [illegible]
10959
Sept 1819
$44.74 [penciled in]
Con [penciled in]
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At a Court of Common Pleas holden at the Court-House in Plattsburgh, in and for the County of Clinton, and State of New-York, on the fourth day of October 1820 Present: Elisha Arnold Nathan Carver Caleb Nichols and Allen R. Moore Judges of the said Court.

COUNTY OF CLINTON ss: On this fourth day of October 1820 personally appeared in open Court, it being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the common law, and having the power of fine and imprisonment and keeping a record of their proceedings in and for the County of Clinton, David Bradley aged fifty eight years resident in the town of Plattsburgh in the said County of Clinton, who being first duly sworn according to law; doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: that in 1777 he enlisted in the summer for three years in Captain S. Hunts Company in Col Voorst first Mafsachusetts Regiment and continued to serve out his term he enlisted in the New Hampshire State Troops and continue to serve therein and in the Vermont State Troops to the end of the war that he was in the Battles of Stilwater Monmouth and Newport that his original declaration to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 was made the seventh day of April 1818 that he he has received a pension certificate Numbered 10959 and dated the twenty second day of May 1819 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 of debts, due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule, hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

Real Estate none Personal estate excepting necefsary bedding and cloathing - one male cow five sheep two hogs 26
one old musket one old watch + 700 steel balls - 14
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set of knives + forks six spoons set cups and saucers 1.62
6 Plates one teapot sugar bowl + milk cup 1.12
Pot frying pan + tea Kettle 2.00
$44"74
I am by occupation a farmer but am unable to labor from age infirmity and having had an apoplectic fit My family consist of my wife Diana aged forty five years and two children belonging to my wife towit Waitshell Stanton aged thirteen years and Lewis Stanton aged eleven neither of whom are able to support themselves and the property above enumerated except the traps and musket have been purch and with the proceeds of the pension which has been granted to me
David Bradley
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Sworn to and declared on the fourth day of October 1820 before the above named Judges in open court 
Chas Platt Clerk

I Charles Platt, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Clinton; do 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 four dollars and seventy four Cents and I further certify that the last term of this court closed on 11th of May last and before the promulgation in this county of the act of congrefs of the 1st of May 1820 and that there has been no court in said county before this present term at which the aforesaid schedule and oath could be received

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this fourth day of October 1820 one line in the [illegible] of his service in [illegible]
Chas. Platt
Clerk of the Court for the County of Clinton
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44664
INVALID.
Recy
File No. 44664
David Bradley
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 1818
Index: ---Vol. 3   ,   Page   61
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Cobleskill Sept 5 1846
Dear Sir:
At the request of David Bradley a pensioner of March 18, 1818, I enclose you a supplemental Declaration for an increase to which the old gentleman deems himself entitled in as much as he served as an officer during a part of the War of the Revolution, the particulars of which he thinks were set forth in his original Declaration for the pension under the act of March 18, 1818.
Very truly yours
T S Slingerland
Cobleskill
Schoharie Co.
N.Y.
Hon. J L Edwards
Com, Pensions
Wash