Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,739, Russell Dewey, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass
CONTENTS
Dewey, Russell
R .

NUMBER
S. 34739
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Certification sent July 31st 1820 to
3201
Massachusetts Roll-
full sum of
Russell Dewey "
Colo Shepard
Quarter Master Serjeant
Mass Line Ware
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
the
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
6th of May 1818-
certificate of Pension issued the 1st of October 1818
and sent to John Hooker or Judge
Springfield Mass 
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 31:77
semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 March 1819. 48.
Sm
3 26/31 + 4/30
2 years
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
Continued
Westfield, Hampden C

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Russell Dewey
5 may
Correct
This having been returned for amended in the  as to the circumstances
of the applicant, I can do
more then repeat, that I
and satisfied that the applicant is in reduced 
instances in life [illegible]and in
need of assistance from
his country for support
John Hooker
springfield Mass
pass
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District of Massachusetts Hampden ss
On this sixth
day of May Domini 1818 before
me the Subscriber John Hooker Esqr Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in
said Commonwealth including the said County of Hampden
personally appeared Russell Dewey aged Sixty four years
resident in Westfield in said County of Hampden who being by
me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision
made by the late 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- That the said Russell Dewey upon hearing of the battle at Lexington on the nineteenth
of April 1775. he then belonging to the minute Company in
Chester in said County of Hampden marched immediately and
joined the Troops in Cambridge near Boston and on or about
the tenth day of May then next following enlisted as in
in Capt Childs Company in Col. Gardner Regiment for Eight
months and was discharged in the month of January 1776 and
returned to said Chesteron
On or about the first day of February
1776 said Russell again inlisted as fifer under Capt Grooner
in May Cady Detachment and marched immediately for
Quebec and was again discharged on or about the sixth day of
May then next following and returned to said Chester. On
or about the first day of June 1776 said Russell again enlisted
under Capt Gray in Col Ruggles Woodbridge Regiment for six
months and marched immediately for Ticonderoga and soon
after his arrival was appointed
Fife Major of Genl Pickets
Brigade and was discharged on or about the first of December
then next following and returned to said Westfield - In the
month of February or March 1777 said Russell again enlisted
during the war under Lieut. Martin Smith in Capt Libeus Ball
Company in Col. William Shepards Regiment in General
Glovers Brigade in Massachusetts line as Quarter Master
Senicant and on the twenty first day of August 1777 was appointed
Waggon Conductor to General Glover Brigade and was a
turned promoted and left off the Rolls of the Regiment &
made out his own pay rolls drew the money and paid his own
men and continued in said Brigade untill some time
in the month of June 1780 when I resigned and was
honorably discharged by Col. William Shepard and Genl
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Glover and left the service and returned to said
Westfield where I now reside
said Russell Dewey
was discharged from service at West Point in the State of
New York and was in the Battle of Bunker hill and
also at the Battle in taking Burgoyne at Stillwater
and they that he is in reduced circumstances and stands
in need of the assistance of his Country for support &
that he has no other evidence now in his power of his
said services except the papers annexed which
he recieve while in said service
Ray, Dewey
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampden
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixth day of
May A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said
State, and including the said county of
Hampden the above named 
Russell Dewey
made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, and hereto annexed
I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Russell dewey the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, 
against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the
continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident
citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of
assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampden
to be affixed hereto, this Sixth day of May 1818
[illegible] for hereby certify the above & annexed as the testimony [illegible]
had before me on the application aforesaid & transmit [illegible]
to the Secretary of the department of war of the United States
John Hooker
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Livey
32 [illegible]
1 Oct 1818
Mar 1819
Wishfield
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY of Hampden SS
On this [illegible]
day of [illegible]
1820, personally appeared in open court, before [illegible] Court [illegible]
the same being a Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at [illegible]
within and for said county of [illegible]
[illegible] aged [illegible]
years, resident in that [illegible]
who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
[illegible]
the
1779, when he rented
with me by the help
the inform or and she by her - daughter of
daughter and twenty his
all that
failure of thy on right prevent my passing it - My original dederate
to date of certificate is humble &
or any part
thereon
Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United Star
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 cher
dule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
SCHEDULE.
1 {illegible] dining table
1 {illegible} table [illegible]
[illegible]
2 candle [illegible]
20 old [illegible]
3 [illegible]
3 [illegible]
2 meat [illegible]
2 [illegible]
2 [illegible]
1 [illegible] Ketle [illegible]
5 [illegible]
6 [illegible]
1 [illegible]
2 [illegible]
2 [illegible]
2 [illegible]
1 old [illegible]
1 [illegible]
[illegible]
1 [illegible]
6 [illegible]
table [illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible]
1 dozen wine [illegible]
4 [illegible]
6 [illegible]
2 [illegible]
2 pair shovel [illegible]
3 [illegible]
[illegible]
1 large [illegible]
1 [illegible]
10 [illegible]
5 Tea Kettle
2 [illegible]
2 Wheels
1 axe [illegible]
1 hoe [illegible]
one shot
1 wooden thence
1 wooden bottle
Russ Dewey

tarry in the
Stable
May by
all Funds
old chain
I then with drawers
and either
that they
of onions
this
in the limits
be
the
Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of July before the Circuit Court of Common Please Attest John Ingersoll Clerk

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commonton
table hours.
part of during lett of
Crockerydenies
temples
battle
the
day of July
pair
all water
wife
the
some books
tantattles
all
have the low
that he
Buss Dewey
day of
of]

I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid  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 One Hundred + three Dollars [illegible]
Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this nineteenth day of July 1820
Clerk of the Courts for County of Hampden
John Ingersoll
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sion on file in this Bureau.
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau 
Russell Dewey S. 34709

DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
1775
May 10, 1775 - Jany 1776
Feby 1, 1776 - May 6, 1776
June 1, 1776 - Dec 1, 1776
Feby [illegible] - Sept 14, 1778
Sept 14, 1778 - Aug 21, 1779
Aug 21, 1779 - June 1780
RANK.
Minute
Fifer
"
Fife Major
L M Sgt
Wagon

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Man in Chester Mass
Child
Gardner
Gray
Libbius Ball
Conductor in in Glovers Brigade

COLONEL.
Gardner
Major Cody dischmer
Ruggles Woodbudge
William Shepard
William Shepard
Staff
Mass
*Christian names of the officers are not stated
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Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill Taking of Burgoyne
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of application for pension, May 6, 1818 [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Westfield Hampden Co Mass
Age at date of application, 64 years
Remarks: Soldiers wife  Sephin was 69 yrs old, daughters Sophia 28 and Laura 25 in 1820

Very respectfully,
317936510 - 07
Commissioner,
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Russell Dewey
Mass
34739
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William
Shepard Esquire,
Commandant of the 3 May Battalion in the Army of the United States of AMERICA,
To Russell Dewey Greeting
I Reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and
Fidelity, DO, by virtue of the Powers vested in me, constitute; and appoint you to be 
 Quarter Master Sergeant in the Regiment
under my command. You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge
the Duty of Easter martinets, by doing and performing all Manner
of things thereunto belonging. And I do strictly charge and require all under
your command to be obedient to your Orders, as Quarter Master [illegible]
And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, from time to
Time, as you shall receive from me, or any other your superior Officers, according to
the Rules and Discipline of War. And this is your sufficient WARRANT
GIVEN under my hand this 14th Day of
September 1776
William Shepard Colo
Esquire,
45
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Apointment
as
Wayland
be a com
to my
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This certifies that Mr Russell Dewey Waggon Marti
of Genl Glovers Brigade has been regularly appoint
and has been approved of as such
Hon 
Abra Tuckerman &
Camp Lower Salem
August 18. 1779
Col. Thompson W. M.
By the recommendation of Mr
Ara Tuckerman 2 BWm Russel Dewey is appointed W Condr to Brig Genl
Glovers Brigade for which prove he is to receive Eighty Dollars p month, and two [illegible] of day, one of which he is to receive
in Provision the other to be allowed ten Dollars month for
New Windsor Aug 21 1779
James Thompson
Winger
1711
45
[seal affixed]
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Sir
I return the following applications for
Pensions which were returned to be amend
in the certificates as to the circumstances - In several of them, the former
certificate, is as full as I can make it
I have endeavored to ascertain the fact
in the best manner I could, before making
one in that form. In some instances
I may have been decieved- one I have
been informed of & I wish that part of
my certificate if so made, in the application
of William Roberts may be stricken out
more now returned
all
Russell Dewey
Apollos Answert
Ezra Caswell
Benjn Higgins
Agrippa Hull
Taber keep
James Peck
Bartholomew Parsons
Spen Leonard
Madden Root
Luther White
Habod West
Levi Woolworthk
The last papers enclosed, were added to
me as of Worcester
Mass. It should have
been Springfield
Mass
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I am respectfully by
John Hooker
Jas L Edwards Esqr
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AW
Rev. War Section.
April 14, 1917.
C. E. Allen,
350 Chesnut Hill Ave.
Brookline, Mass.

copy of
To D.A.
The pap
this by
Lieut R
was he
Will
and
as the
Please
the
and
April Eight


Madam:
In reply to your letter of the 8" instant, you
are advised that it does not appear that this Bureau has
had any correspondence with you or Mrs. O. E. D. Allen in
regard to the Revolutionary War pensioner, Russell Dewey, Mass. Troops, S. 34,739,
If you desire to communicate with the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolution, you should address that organization at the Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.
Very respectfully,

Commissioner.
S Metzgaber

Copy of this letter
D. A. R. Pension Bureau
"The paper you sent from
the buerau  in regard to
Leut Russell Dewey's pension
was returned by mistake
Will you kindly return the same
to Mrs Olive Ely Dewey Allen
as she is the next heir
Please send papers and
she will make them out
and oblige " C. E. Allen
358 Chestnut Hill ave
Brookline (no state)
April Eighth 
I returned it as it
was so vague I wished
her to see her mistake 
in sending it here
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{seal affixed]
[illegible]
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P. O. BOX No. 1611
TELEPHONE NO. 3157
WRIGHT & DEFOREST
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
July 6, 1911.
United States Pension Bureau,
Washing ton, D. C.
Gentlemen:-

In 1776, Russell Dewey, of what was then
Murrayfield, and is now the town of Chester, Mass., went
to Quebec on the expedition to reinforce Arnold, and I understand that he enlisted for three months in Captain
Grosvenor's Company, and Major Cady's detachment.
I am very desirous of obtaining what
facts I can in reference to the continental service of
Russell Dewey, aside from his service with the Massachusetts colony troops.

Jan you give me the christian name of
Captain Grosvenor, and advise me if this was Major Jeremiah
Cady, who commanded the expedition, and under what
authority the troops were raised.

I would appreciate if you would give me,
in as full detail as possible whatever your records may
show in regard to Russell Dewey's service, as well as some
light in regard to this Quebec expedition in particular.
---
Very truly,
Harry Andrew Wright.
S
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34. 739
Revy INVALID
File No.
84739
Russell Dewey
Serg Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index: Vol. 2, Page 108
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1911 July 11 Hist. to Harry
A Wright & L.M.
1917 Ap. 14. Mrs C. E. Allen
infd no correspondence
(relay to this claim), with her, and