Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32974, for Silvanus Learned, Massachusetts
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Service Mass.
Learned, Silvanus
Number S.32974
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Massachusetts Roll.
1523
Silvanus Learned
Capt Fisher
Sergeant,
Massachusetts line: 1777-whole war
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818
and sent to the Hon, Isaac Parker Worcester, Massa.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
4 months 26 /30.
$38.93
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Oxford, Worcester C.
Continued
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Silvanus Learned
Oxford
9 April
Correct DH
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State of Massachusetts
I Silvanus Learned a veteran of the United States, now resident at Oxford in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid do on oath testify and declare that in the war of the revolution in the month of March
1777 I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time until the end of the war
as a private & Sergeant against the common enemy without any interuption or absence; that I belonged to a company  commanded by Capt Thomas Fish in the 4 Massachusetts
regiment commanded by Col. Shepard; that I left the service at the end of the war in 1783 and was honourably discharged which discharge I have lost; and that by
reason of my reduced circumstances in life & poverty I stand in need of assistance from my country for support being now of the age of fifty eight years and very infirm - and I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States if any may be or hath been so allowed
Silvanus Learned

Be it remembered that on this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, pursuant to a law of the United States entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged
in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war made and passed the 18th of March AD 1818 personally appeareth before me Isaac Parker Chief Justice of the Supreme Indicial Court of said State Silvanus Learned above named and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid and subscribes the same in my presence, and one examination duly made by me the said Judge it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. Given under my hand the seal of said Court on the day & year aforesaid
Isaac Parker C.J.S.C.
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Silvanus Learned
Oxford 1523
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Schedule
of the Estate of Silvanus Learned of Oxford in the County of Worcester and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Applicant for a Pension under the act of
Congress of May 1, 1820.
1st. Real Estate - he has 48 square rods originally purchased for a watering
convenience 121 $200

2d Personal Estate Chiefly old, being in use 36 years. viz.
1 Case of drawers-- $4.50
1 kitchen table -- .90

 1 Spider .20
---
-
20. 1 Sythe saith
" 50
Kitchen table
---
Common Chairs
90. 6 knives & forks - 50 1 old saythe
-
84. Steelyards
---
2 Round kill
---
16
33. 1 Clk Pitcher
.50 1 " Plough - 1.00
O. 1 meal seve
12
July
---
25. 1 ten dipper
1 Churn
O. 1 pr Sheep shears -- 17.
12. 1 hay Clake -
1 light stand
7 for
-
9. 2 Mugs--
---
" 17.
1 Warming pan
2 Pewter platter
10. 1 Crane
1.00
75. 1 Bowl, earther 1 18.
hooks
17. 1 Bread Tray - " 8
17
1 Trammel
16
60
plates
50. 1 Mirror
10.
1 Wool wheel 33
6 old Table Spoons
" 26.
1 Cow
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18.
1 linen do
33
1 Earthern Tea pot
20.
Earthern Plate 17
" Water " 12.
Book
4 Glass Bottles
75
33
2 Wooden Bottles
58
6 Cups & Sanders - 20
2 Tumblers
25.
2 Table cloth
58
1 Sugar Bowl
" 18.
1 pr handing - 33
3 Napkins
22
Cramer
6.
2 flar
-
50
2 Meat Barrels .50
5 tea spoons
67.
2 axy
33
soap
2 Pitchers
12
20.
2 butlering - 16
2 flour Boras, 33
2 Pepper Castor
18.
son widges - 45
2 Candlesticks & 12
1 fire Shood & tongs 1.00 1 " shovel 33
1 dish Kettle
67. 1 hoe
pan "
1
1 Stone Jug -40
16.
1 Tea Cannister " 16
25. 2 Hay forks - " 25.
Coon & Reeds 1.00
ten
20. 1 drawing knife - 13

$44.26
and Real Estate above 2.00
total $46.26

your declarant further saith that his occupation from his youth has been farming, that he is unable to support himself by that calling, by reason of a rupture and the infirmity of old age which essentially disqualifies him for hard
labour: All which he can abundantly demonstrate by a certificate from a
respectable Physician who hath practised in his family for many years
Your declarant further saith that he is now dependent on a son for a place
of Residence and support: that he has no wife living nor any child with him under his care or control
Silvanus Learned
I hereby certify that Col. Silvanus Learned of Oxford is
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I hereby certify that Col. Sylvanus Learned of Oxford is a man with whom I have been well acquainted for 15 years part and during this time, have been his attendant Physician, and do
know that he has been a subject of much sickness and weakness of body
which has very much impaired to state his constitution; add to this he has
a local complaint, incurable in its nature which does, and will in future render him unable to perform labour
Daniel Green, Physician
Ward June 16. 1820
A Copy of certificate annexed to Original schedule
Attest,
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
On this eleventh day of July 1820,
personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being
a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the
laws of said Commonwealth, Silvanus Learned
aged sixty years, resident in Oxford; in said County, who being first duly sworn
according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as
follows: I enlisted in the month of March 1777, a Private Soldier in Capt. Thomas Fisher's Company in the 4th Mass. Regt Commanded by William Shepard Esqr Col. in 1778 I was promoted to a Sergeant, and transferred to the Light Infantry company commanded by Capt Jos. Wright, afterwards by Capt. George Webb, I served during the War, and was
honourably discharged by his Excellency General Washington in 1783. My original declaration bore date April 9th 1818, and the
certificate I recd was No 1523:
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 or debts,
due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto
annexed, and by me subscribed.
Silvanus Learned
Sworn to and declared, on the eleventh
before the said Court.
day of July, 1820
Attest Abijah Bigelow, Clerk

I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court ofCommon Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby 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 xix dollars and twenty six cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of
the said Court, on this eleventh
day of July
Abijah Bigelow
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32974
INVALID
File No 32974
Silvanus Learned
Serg Rev War

Act: 18th March 1818
Index Vol 2, Page 241
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Selections
Certificate to
Silv. Learned
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Offord Ap 2nd 1818
This may certify whom it may concern
that Silvanus Learned a Soldier in the late Revolutionary war for and during said war is a effectable citizen of said Town has by Adverse fortune and exhaustive Sickness become reduced as the to Interest and manual abilities
so as to be unable to support himself & family and we do hereby him the said Learned to the Clemmency of the General Government
for the benefits of their late acts for the  estate of said soldier in that care made and provided 
Judge Kingsley
John Meridian
Rufus Moore
Peter Brother
Stephen Gorton
Selectmen of Oxford
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Learned
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I Andrew Sigourney of lawful age do testify and say that I well know Silvanus Learned of Oxford in the County of Worcester that I was well acquainted with his being in the
service of the United States during a great portion of the revolutionary war and have no doubt that he was in the army from 1777 to the end of the was according to the best of my
recollection
Andrew Sigourney

Worcester Co ss April 9 1818
Then personally appeared Andrew
Sigourney above named
and made oath that the facts
contained in the above deposition by him subscribed and terms
before me Nath Paine Justice of the Peace
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51-
12 - 5 - 41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME: Learned, Sylvanus 
GRADE: Private
LINE: Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER: 4572
ACREAGE: 100
ISSUED: Dec. 9, 1799 to Dwight Foster -

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subse-
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
quent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.