Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,627, Kemar Blackman, Mass.
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(8--1776)
SERVICE 
Mass.   
Blackman, Kemar or Kemer
Widow -- Dinah
NUMBER 
W. 23627
CONTENTS
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Massachusetts

Kemar Blackman of Woburn in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Mick[?] Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 9 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 or March 1821 and sent to Abraham [illegible] Cambridge, MA

Arrears to 4th of March 1821 -         268.38
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1821    48.00
                                                        $316.38
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March,1818}
[illegible 1820]
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Massachusetts 853 See letter to J.C. Stickney Oct. 8, 1839

Dinah Blackman, widow of Kamer Blackman decd. Mass
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 25th May 1835 of Essex Co. i the State of MA who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the regt. commanded by Col. M. Jackson in the Ms line for 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 31 Dollars ----- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of Nov. 1838 and sent [illegible]Summers Lynn Mass.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838      $75.00
Semi-annual allowance ending
     4 Mar. 39                                    $15.00
                                                        $90.00
                                        {Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by DD Addison Clerk, 
Book A, Vol. 1st, Page 71
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United States Mass'ts [Massachusetts]  District

Kamer Blackman of Linfield , Mass'ts a resident citizen of the United States maketh oath that he served in the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment; namely that that he served as a private soldier in Captain Sam'l [Samuel] Tays  company in Gen Gates brigade for five months beginning one year prior to the capture of Gen Burgoine; that soon after this he served in Cap. Wyman's company (he recollects not the Col. or Gen.) for four months, that soon afterwards he served in Capt. Heath's company, Capt. John Brooks Regt [regiment] for nine months, that then he was honorably dismissed from the army but received no discharge in writing. That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support.

Kamar Blackman (by his mark) "H"

Witness to Kamar's signing
[signed] Dai Townsend
[illegible] May 19. 1818
Sworn to before me 
M D[illegible] Dis Judge MD
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I Jacob Brown of The Town of Stoneham in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachuetts, labourer make oath that I served in the Revolutionary army during a part of the time that the within named Kamar Blackman served.  and that to my knowledge he served in the war of the Revolution on the continental establishment for upwards of nine months as a private soldier.  Jacob Brown

Middlesex county May the 11th day -AD 1818.  Then the above named Jacob Brown personally appeared before me Peter Hay 2nd one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county and made Oath to the truth of the aforegoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Peter Hay

Justice of the Peace

Number 574
Kamar Blackman
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Kemar Blackman

Found on rolls of M. Jackson's regiment

Referred  and  Admitted
27 March 1821
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  

MIDDLESEX, ss

At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Gainbridge within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of December A.D. 1820

Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, 

and
WILLIAM WESTMORE,  and
STEPHEN MINOR, Equires

Associate Justices of Said Court.  

In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of or fine and imprisonment, Kemar Blackman formerly of Woburn in said county since resident in Lynnfield and now resident in South Reading said county aged upwards of seventy years personally appeared and being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and this 1st day 1820 as supplementary to his declaration and affidavit made before the Honorable John Davis judge of the District Court for Massachusetts District on the 19th day 1818 and which has been filed in the office of the Secretary of War Number 574 returned and now accompanies this declaration; that he the said Kemar enlisted for the term of nine months sometime in the month of April or May in the year 1778 in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Keith in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson and Colonel
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Brooks in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 
full completion of nine months from the time of his enlistment where he was honourably discharged from the said service at West Point in the State of New York, and that he was in no Battle-that his occupation had been a laborer, but from age and infirmity he is not able to labour much at present.  that his family consists of a wife nearly the age of sixty.  and two daughters the ages of fifteen and twelve years; that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except the affidavits of Job Miller and Jacob Brown, and the certificate of the Secretary of this Commonwealth; all which accompany this declaration. 

Schedule:
containing the whole estate and income of said Kemar, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted to wit. 

 Real Estate, None.
Personal Estate: A few old chains and other small articles of household furniture, and a hoe and one or two other working utensils, valued in the gross at not more than $15.00.

KemarBlackman
X - his mark

Suscribed, sworn to and declared before

WilliamWestmore
Judge, within named.
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm. Wetmore - a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit, 

I, Kemar Blackman do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand, eight hundred and eighteen, 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.  So help me God.  

Kemar  X (his mark) Blackman

Middlesex ss.  C. C. C. P. December Term, A.D. 1820
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Dinah Blackman

Admitted
for [illegible] $30

not found on rolls
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."  

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
County of Essex                                    ss:

On this eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the Honourable David Cummins, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Dinah Blackman, a resident of Lynn, in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged seventy nine years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of Kemer Blackman, late of South Reading, in the County
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of Middlesex, and Commonwealth aforesaid, deceased; who, according to her best knowledge and belief, ws a private soldier in the Massacchusetts Line of the Continental Establishment in the war of the Revolution, that 
at the times of his enlisting in the service he resided in the town of Woburn, in the County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth aforesaid-that he served on three different enlistments, viz, one of four months, one of five months, and one of nine months. that he served under General Gates, and under Captain Heath, but at what time or place she does not recollect, though she often heard him relate the particulars-that she frequently heard her husband, the said Kemer Blackman, say he was in the army at Ticonderoga, on Rhode Island, and at West Point.  that she often saw his 
discharge, signed as she thinks by a general, whose name she has forgotten, and that her husband, the said Kemer Blackman, burnt said discharge about twenty years ago, supposing it  would never be of any use to him. that she thinks General Gates was the last General under whom he served_that he received a pension of eight dollars per month from the War Department of the United States, for about ten years of the latter part of his life_ that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim,  She further declares that she was married to the said
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Kemer Blackman, by Rev. Mr. Prentice, on the twenty first day of October, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven; that her husband, the aforesaid Kemer Blackman, died on the twenty fourth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty five; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above states.  

Dinah X (her mark) Blackman

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me, the said Dinah Blackman by reason of her advanced age and bodily infirmity being unable to attend court.

[signed] David Cummins
[Illegible]
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I, Daniel Pratt Junior, Clerk of the Town of Reading, in the County of Middlesex, and State of  Massachusetts, being duly chosen and sworn, hereby certify that I have the custody of the Records of said Town, and the following is a transcript of said Records in relation to the marriage of Kemer Blackman and Dinah Pool by Reverend Caleb Prentice.  "Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Seven, October Twenty First-Kemer Blackman an Dinah Pool-were marred by Caleb Prentice Clerk."  

The above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the Date which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows: "1787. Oct. 21."

I Daniel Pratt Junior, above named, depose and say: that I hold the office of Town Clerk, in the County, Town, and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.  

Daniel Pratt, Jr Clerk of the Town of Reading aforesaid.  

Middlesex ss. August 16 A.D. 1838.  Then personally appeared the above named Daniel Pratt Junior, and subscribed and made oath to the above Affidavit, before me  - and I certify that he is a credible witness.  

John Waston, Justice of the Peace.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex Co.
I, Elias Phinney, Clerk of the Supreme Judici alCourt of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the county of Middlesex, do certify that John Weston,Esquire, is a justice of the peace within and for said county of Middlesex, and that his name subscribed to the within signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court the 31st day of August 1838.
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I True Moody, of Lynn, in the County of 
Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath Depose and say-that I have been acquainted with the family of Kemer Blackman, late of South Reading, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth aforesaid, deceased, for fifteen years last past; that he was commonly reported and believed to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary Army; that for several of the last years of his life he was a pensioner at the rate of eight dollars per month; that said pension was obtained for him by Daniel Gould Esquire; that said Kemer Blackman died at said South Reading, in the month of May 1835; that Dinah Blackman, the widow of said Kemer, has not been married since the death of said Kemer, but has remained and is now his widow; that the said Dinah now resides in Lynn aforesaid. 

 True Moody

Essex ss. August 11th. A.D. 1838,   Then personally appeared the above named True Moody, and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true, before me: and I certify that he is a credible witness.  

Aaron Lummus,
Justice of the Peace
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I, Silvay Moody, of Lynn, in the County of Essex, 
and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged thirty nine years, daughter of Kemer Blackman, late of South Reading, in the County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth above. said, deceased, on oath depose and say;  that my father, the said Kemer Blackman, lived in Woburn, in the said County of Middlesex, from my earliest recollection until the year 1812; that he moved to Reading, in said county of Essex in 1815- and in 1819 to South Reading, said County of Middlesex, where he lived until May, 1835, at which last mentioned time and place he died; that my mother, Dinah Blackman, now resides in Lynn aforesaid, and has not been married since the death of her husband, the said Kemer Blackman, but has remained, and is how, his widow; that I often heard my father say he was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, that he served four months at one time, five months at another time, and nine months at another time; that at one time he served under General Gates;  that my father received a Pension for his revolutionary services, at the rate of eight dollars per month, for several, I think about ten, of the last years of his life.  

  Silvay X (her mark) Moody

Essex ss. August 11th. 1838, Then personally appeared the above named Silvay Moody, and made oath that the above affidavit, by her subscribed, is true:  and I certify that she is a credible witness.  

Aaron Lummus, Justice of the Peace.
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The erasure of the words "Lynnfield in" in the written Deposition of Silvay Moody was made prior to the execution of the same.  

Attest  Aaron Lummus, Justice of the Peace.
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I, Abraham Gould, of Lynn, in the County of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, physician, on oath depose and say; that I have known the family of Kemer Blackman, late of South Reading, in the County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth aforesaid, for fifteen years last past; that it was understood and believed in said South Reading that the said Kemer was a solder in the Army of the Revolution; that my father, Daniel Gould Esquire. of Stoneham, in the County of Middlesex aforesaid, obtained a pension from the War Department of the United States for the said Kemer; that said Kemer Blackman died at said South Reading, some years ago and Dinah Blackman, his widow, hath not since been married, but has remained and is now the widow of said Kemer Blackman; that said Dinah Blackman now resides in Lynn aforesaid.  

Abraham Gould

Essex ss. August 10th. A.D. 1838. There personally appeared the above named Abraham Gould and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true, before me; and I certify that he is a disinterested and credible witness.  

Aaron Lummus
Justice of the Peace.
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I certify that the words "Kemer Blackman" were erased in the written deposition of Abraham Gould prior to the execution of the (illegible).

Aaron Lummus
Justice of the Peace.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASACHUSETTS

ESSEX, ss.  

I, JOHN PRINCE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Essex, do certify, that Hon. David Cummins is Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County.  That

Aaron Lummus Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, and that their signatures hereon are genuine.  

WITNESS MY HAND, and Seal of said Court of Common Pleas, 

September 1. A.D. 1838.

John Prince Clerk.
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Kemer Blackman Massachusetts Act March 18, 1818
to what time paid?
Pension office
October 31. 1838

Died 25 May 1835 paid to this period.
J.T.
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Revolutionary WIDOW, etc.

File Number 23627

Dinah Blackman
widow of
Kemar Blackman
Private Massachusetts line
Act July 7th 1838

Index: Volume A, Page 64

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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[This appears to be an addressed item, probably an envelope]

Com[mmissioner?] October 8
[Stamp] Lynn Massachusetts October 3
David Blackman
Massachusetts roll
38
853

Free
Honorable J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of pensions
War department
Washington DC
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Lynn 3 October 1839

Honorable J L Edwards

Dinah Blackman of this town, a colored woman, widow of Kemer Blackman, is a pensioner under Act U S July 7, 1838, and has a certificate entitling her to receive $30 per annum for 5 years.
She has applied to me to obtain an increase of her pension and says her husband, who died in  1835 was a pensioner and received $8 per month and that there must be some mistake in her case.
Will you do me the favor to turn to the papers and documents filed in her case and inform me whether any such error has been made and upon what evidence the claim was allowed. And  very much obliged,
Yours etc.
J C Stickney, Attorney.
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1112
Mrs. Blackman
Massachusetts
Deceased Massachusetts rolls
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Hon. J L Edwards
Pension Office
War Department of U.S.
Washington City DC
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Lynn, Massachusetts  September 1, 1838

Mr. Edwards, Sir.
The result of the enclosed claim and also that of Hannah Bruce, forwarded to you on the 21st ultimo may be directed to me.
Yours very respectfully,
Aaron Lummus

Honorable J L Edwards
Washington City
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Kemar Blackman
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, January 1st 1821

By this I certify that it appears by records and documents now remaining in this office, that Kemer Blackman was one of the nine months' men raised in the county of Middlesex "to reinforce the Continental army, equally to a resolve of the General Court of Massachusetts April 1778 and that he was also one of those who marched to and was [illegible] at Fish Kill.  But whether he actually served that term of time does not appear, nor is there in this office any document to show the actual service of any of those men.
Alden Bradford. Secretary of Commonwealth
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Declaration of 
Job Miller and
Jacob Brown
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I, Job Miller, of the Town of Woburn in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts,  labourer, do hereby certify and say that in the year 1778, I enlisted as a soldier into the Army of the United States on the Continental establishment for the term of nine months, and that Hemer Blackman of said Woburn, labourer, did enlist at the same time into the Army of the United States, on the continental establishment, for the term of nine months, and served as a common soldier in said army during that term.
Job (his mark) Miller
Middlesex ss.  March the 29th AD 1819
Then the above named Job Miller who in my opinion is a credible, disinterested, witness personally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said county, and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed.
Peter Hay 2nd, Justice of the Peace

I, Jacob Brown of the town of Stoneham in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, labourer, do hereby certify and say that in the year 1778, I enlisted as a soldier into the Army of the united States, on the Continental establishment for the term of nine months. And that Kemer Blackman, of the town of Woburn in the county aforesaid, labourer, did enlist at the same time into the Army of the United States, on the Continental establishment for the term of nine months and served as a common soldier in said Army during that term.
Jacob Brown
Middlesex, ss.  March the 30th AD 1819
Then the abovenamed Jacob Brown, who, in my opinion is a credible, disinterested witness, personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said county and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed.
Peter Hay 2nd
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss.

I, Abraham Bigrone, Clerk of the Judicial Court it in the county of Middlesex, do certify that Peter Hay 2nd is a Justice of the Peace acting under the authority of this Commonwealth and his name set to the written certificate is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 20th day of July 1819.
Abraham Bylow