Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,642, John Bourn, Mass.
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Service
Mass.

Bourn, John or Bourne

Number 
S. 29,642
B.L. Wt. 9426-160-55
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Massachusetts 35,777
John Bourn of Masrhfield in the state of Mass, who was a Capt. & Sert. in the [blank] commanded by Captain Stetson of the [blank] by Col. Bradford in the Mass. line for Corpl. 5 months 18.34
Srgt. 19 " 95.00
$113.34

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 113 dollars 34 cents per annumb to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of pension issued the 28th day of July 1836 and send to Reuben Baldwin Boston

Arrears to the 4th of March '36. 566.70
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 56.67
$723.31

{Revolutionary claim act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E. Vol. 2 Page 43

Letters 28 July 1836 to Reuben
Baldwin & Pen. Agust Boston
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77560 Act Mar 3
Ape 18

John Bourn
Priv

Sergeant Bradford 
Ent
Mass Line

Rev Pensions
May '32- No 30777

Boynton
Ad. 160 ac's Nov 6/55

E.L. & Col. Dyer
South Abrington Mass
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State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth

On this twntieth day of March AD eighteen hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peach within and for the county and state of aforesaid John Bourn aged ninety five years a resident of Mashfield in the state of Mass who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical John Bourne who was a soldier of the revolution in the company commanded by Capt. Isaiah Stetson in the [blank] regiment of [lines are crossed out]...and continued in actual service in said war for the term of more than fourteen days and was honorably discharged [crossed out lines]...as will appear by the roll of said company. He received pension of one hundread & thirteen dollars & thirty four cent since the 4th of May 1831 under the law of te United States act the 7th of June 1832 and for proof of his service the commission is referred to his application therefore. 

He also declares that he has not applied for nor has he received any bounty land under any act of congress except a [blank] acre land warrant, No. [blank] which was issued under the act of Sept. 28th, 1850.

He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the additional bounty land to which he may be entitled under the Act of Congress passed March 3d, A.D. 1855, and he prays that a certificate thereof may be sent for him to E.D. & C. A. Dyer, South Abington, Mass.

John Bourn

Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above mentioned.
Justice of the peace.
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State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth

Personally appeared Harriet Bourn and Elizabeth Bourn residents of Marshfield in the state of Mass. persons whom I certify are respectable and entitled to credit and who being sworn according to law, say tha they were present and saw John Bourn sign his name to the within declartion and they further swear that they have every reason to believe from appearance of applicant that he is the identical person he represents himself to be and that the deponents do reside int he aforesaid town and state. 
Harriet Bourn
Elizabeth Bourn

Sworn to and subscribed before me this twentieth day of March AD 1853 and I certify that the claimant is the person to represent presetn to be and I certify that I have no interest in this claim. 
Wm. L. Gorthale 
Justice of the peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Boston April 13th 1855

I hereby certify that at the date of the attestations hereunto annexed, Wm. P. Corthell was a justice of the peace for the county of Plymouth.

in the said commonwealth duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the commonwealth the date above written. 
E. M. Wright
Secretary of Commonwealth

[written along the side] 77560
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John Bourne

10400 Sept. 19
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SCHEDULE.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.

On this Seventeenth day of July1820, before the Circuit
Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and
imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County John Bourne aged Sixty one years, resident in Marshfield 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, viz. for the term of three years in the Company of Capt Isaiah Stetson, Col. Gamaliel Bradfords Regr Massachusetts line and that he has received a pension certificate dated 14th May 1819 and numbered 10.600 in pursuance of his original Declaration made 9th April 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz. And I do solemnly swear [blank] that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 28th 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. I have Baires woodland yoke exe- 3 cows, young cattle horses chaise 16 Sheep & lambs, two swine poultry- farming utensils, chairs, 30 tables - 1 desk 
looking glass Iron, crockery, glass, tin, wooden ware
I have due me 613 dollars see 11 dollars-
My occupation is that of a husbandman but by reason of infirmity am unable to contribute much to my support my family consists of myself & my wife Martha 56 years of age & Mother Lucy Little 80
years of age both of them unable to support themselves. & 3 daughters viz Olive aged 26 years Harriet age 17th Eliza age 11 years all them able to support themselves but little more.
John Bounce
Sworn to, and declared, on the 17th day of July all before Nahum Mitchell C. Justice of Court


I, John B Thomas Clerk of said court 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 thirty eight dollars and Twenty five cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the
Twenty sixth day of December 1820
Mo Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth,
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John Bourn
Marshfield
f.3.y
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I John Bourn of Marshfield in the county of Plymouth commonwealth of Massachusetts and citizen of the United States. Believing my set entitled to the benefits of the act of congress of March 18th 1818 to provide for certain person engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war do testify and say that I entered into the army service of the United States in the war of the revolution on the 19th of February in teh year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven and served the term of three years in the company commanded by Isaiah Stetson in the 14th Mass. Regiment commanded by Col. Gamaliel Bradford. I left the service in the month of February in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty being regularly discharged. I am now reduced in my circumstances in life as to need the assistance of my country for support and I do relinquish all claim to any pension herefore allowed me by any act of congress, if there were any such granted.
John Bourn
Declared on oath & sworn to April 7, 1818
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WASHINGTON
October 14, 1931 

Mr. William A. Bourne
North Olmsted
Ohio

BA-J/AWF

Dear Sir:

The data herein are obtained from the papers
on file in the pension claim, S.29642, based upon the military service of John Bourn (Bourne) in the War of the Revolution.
John Bourn enlisted February 19, 1777 and
served as corporal and sergeant in Captain Stetson's company in Colonel Gamaliel Bradford's Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged February 19, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed , April 7, 1818, at which time he was living in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
He was sixty-one years of age in 1820, and at
this time referred to his mother, Lucy Little, as
aged eighty years, to his wife, Martha, as aged fifty six years, and to the following daughter Olive aged twenty-six years, Harriet aged seventeen years, and Eliza aged eleven years.
His son, Proctor, was postmaster at Marshfield,
Massachusetts in 1836.
In 1855 the soldier was still living in Marshfield, Massachusetts, and in this year, Harriet, who
signed "Bourn, and Elizabeth, who signed "Bourne", were both residents of said Marshfield.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

[handwritten along the side] Heitman give Josiah Stetson as capt. of 14th Mass. Reg. in year 1776 - so I did not use first [illegible] soldier said Isaiah Stetson
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29642
Revy Invalid

File No. 29642
John Bourn
Sergt Rev. War

Act: June 7 39

Index: - Vo. 2, page 45
[arrangement of 1870]

1931 - Oct 14 - Hist to William R. Bourne
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Since the within schedule was made out all the property threin mentioned has been taken for the payment of my debts except what follows - 
one hog 10.00 poultry - 1.00 -- 11.00
1 shovel - 2 hoes - 3 axes --- 3.50
1 pitch fork  rakes 2 @ ---2.00
12 chairs - 3 table s-- 8.50
Iron crockery glass tin & wooden war - 15.00
library - 10.00
1 loom - & 2 spinning wheels  -  7.00
There is due from em$37.07 - 57.00
There is due to me - 4.83 - 
John Bourne

Plymouth ss April 10th 1821
Personally appeared before the CCC Pleas in open court John Bourne & made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed
Attest. John B. Thomas Clk

True copy of the original on file

Attest Jno B. thomas clerk
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10600

Massachusetts

John Bourn of Marshfield in the state of Mass who was a sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradford of the Mass line for the term of three years.

Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th May 18[..] and sent to Nahum Mitchell Esq. East Bridgewater, Mass. 

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 [ill.] 24/10/31 87.43
Semi-anl. all cc ending 4th Sept. 1519 48.00
$135.43

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

continued

Let BR Baldwin June 21, 1836
" " to same July 16, 1836
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John Bourn
Marshfield Ms
Private
Col Bradford Mass.tts regiment
3 years
John Bourn
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
On this 7th day of April AD. 1818, before me
the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared John Bourn of Marshfield aged [blank] years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the enclosed declaration, by him signed, 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." see his said declaration enclosed
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and I am satisfied the said Bourn needs the assistance of his county as he has sworn - 

And I the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Bourn did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.

Nahum Mitchell

COMMONWEALTH
SS. 1818

THEREBY CERTIFY, That [blank] is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth - that the same Circuit Court
of Common Pleas is a Court of record that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.

[no signature] Clerk of the Judicial
Court for the County
of [blank]
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John Bowen, late a Sergeant of the 14th Massachusetts Regiment; having faithfully served
the term of three years for which he enlisted, is herby discharged the service of the United States
and hath liberty to pass unmolested from his
present Quarters on West Point, to his usual place of residence in Massachusetts State.

Is Justly entitled to all privileges or
gratuities given by said State for such service
He having always behav'd as becometh a
brave Soldier - Given under my hand in Gavison at West Point this Ninteenth day of February, One thousand & eighty
Gam.l Bradford Col
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office July 19th 1836
I hereby certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that John Boyen a Sergeant in Colonel
Bradford's Regiment and belonging to
Marshfield is credited on the Army Books
in this office, as follows By his service from
Jany. 1777 to 31st Decemr 1779 is 36 months days at - per month, for which the nominal
sum has been paid him by the continent. $97.16/
17 mo: at 48/-- $40.16/-
19. at 60/- 57 -497.16
"ex.d S.G. Certified 24 May 1780"
P.S. The name of John " Bourn" does not appear in the list of this Regiment.
John P. Bigelow
Secretary
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I John Bourne of Marshfield in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do on oath testify and declare that I served as a Noncommissioned Officer in the Revolutionary War with Great Britian three years I enlisted the 19th of February 1777 and served untill the 19th of February 1780. all of which time I served faithfully in the fourteenth Regiment Massachusetts line commanded by Colonel Gamaliel Bradford in the Company of Capt. Isaiah Stetson. I further testify and declare that according to the best of my [illegible] I served two years from February 1777. To February 1777 as a Corporal and one year from February 1779 to February 1780 as a Sergeant when I received an honourable discharge from the United States which discharge is now in the Pension office in Washington D.C. I am now & have been an inhabitant of the said town of Marshfield for the space of fifty six years and am in the rect. of a Pension from the United States of Eight dollars per month under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 John Bourn
Plymouth Ss Be it known that on the fourth day of July 1836 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Plymouth Personally appeared John Bourne Subscriber to the above deposition and made oath to the truth of the same. I also hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above John Bourne & that he is a Pensioner of the United states. John Ford Jr. Jus. Pacis
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth SS. I MBMorrill Clerk of the District Court for the County aforesaid hereby certify that John Ford Jr. Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was sworn is a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth duly commissioned & qualified & acting under the authority of the said Commonwealth and that the signature thereto purporting to be the signature of the said John Ford Jr. is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on this 10th day of July 1834 MBMorrill

33554 Admitted Sergeant 19 mo - $95 Corporal 5-" 18.34 $113.34
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Boston Massachusetts July 9th 1836. Sir I transmit herewith the declaration of John Bourn of Marshfield in support of his claim to increase of Pension under the Act of 7th June 1832. In the claim for Pension by Primas Hall no answer, transmitting the decision of the Sept has been received altho his Deposition was mailed on the 14th [illegible]. I have therefore to request that his claim may be received, and the result transmitted to me at this place so soon as convenient. Very Respectfully Sir I am Your obedient servant Reuben Baldwin. P.S. I understand that Congress at their late session has made provision for certain Widows and Orphans of Revolutionary Officers and soldiers; granting half pay oc. I have therefore to request that if the regulations relating thereto, are matured by the Sept. that they may be forwarded to me with the answer to this communication. Reuben Baldwin J.L. Edwards Esqr Commisser. of Pensions Washington.
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Boston Massachusetts July 20th 1836. Sir Your letter of the 16th July is received, returning the Pension Certificate of John Bourn of Marshfield. In your letter it is stated that he served 8 months as sergeant & 10 months as Corporal & was promoted from that of Corporal to Sergeant in June 1779. This I am constrained to believe is a mistake, which belief I am strengthened in on refferring to the Secretary of State of this Commonwealth, for information on this subject. His Certificate is herewith forwarded and also a Muster Roll from another source. If said Muster Roll is genuine (and the [illegible] is compelant to determine) said Bourn was mustered 1st of April 1779 and at time was sergeant; and how much longer he had then served, in that capacity does not appear from any documents hitherto found, aside from the Army Books in the secretaries office. The examination of which fully established two points relating to said Bourn, beyond all doubt (viz.) First that John Boyen or John Bourn of Marshfield who served as Corporal & Sergeant in Colonel Bradfords Regiment is one and the same person. This, said Bourn has established to a demonstration, and Land Bounty of 200 acres has been awarded to him by this Commonwealth, in consideration of his Revolutionary Services, under a resolve of the General Court passed 27th March 1833; and his name is recorded in the Book of Issues as John Boyen or Bourne of Marshfield. The second point established is that this Government in setting with said Bourne after the war, allowed him for 17 month service as Corporal & 19 months as sergeant as will more fully appear on refference to the certificate herewith enclosed. It would gratify my personal feelings to
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have the various conflicting testimony in Mr. Bourn's case, satisfactorily explained = His affidavit is no certain guide as his son Proctor Bourn Esq. P.M. of Marshfield informed me by letter that it was almost impossible to obtain from his father, anything like a correct detail of his services, owing to the infirmity of old age and the loss of memory. I have therefore to request that a further examination of the above case may be had, and the result forwarded to me at this place. Very respectfully sir I am your obedient servant Reuben Baldwin J. L. Edwards Esqr Commiss'r of Pensions Washington N.B. Please return the Muster Roll.
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have the various conflicting testimony in Mr. Bourn's case satisfactorily explained = His affidavit is no certain guide as his son Proctor Bourn Esq. P.M. of Marshfield informed me by letter that it was almost impossible to obtain from his father, anything like a correct detail of his services owing to the infirmity of old age, and the loss of memory. I have therefore to request that a further examination of the above case may be had, and the result forwarded to me at this place. Very respectfully sir I am your obedient servant Reuben Baldwin J. L. Edwards Esqr. Commiss'r of Pensions Washington N. B. Please return the muster Roll.
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John Bourn Marshfield Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Boston at the Branch Bank US Recorded
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War Department. REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United states, of the 18th of March 1818 John Bourn late a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fourteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. J. S. Edwards in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War. Cancelled.
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9426 160 and
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No. 77360 ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855. Received Apr. 18" 1856. ohn Brown Priv. Col Bradford Mass Line Rev War. 9436_160_55 E.D. & C.A. Dyer South Abington Mass.
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Cuyahoga County Branch of the Ohio Rural Letter Carriers Association. "Service With a Smile" North Olmsted, Ohio, Sept. 28, 1931. Veterans Administration Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C. Revolutionary War Section E. W. Morgan, Commissioner. Dear Mr. Morgan:--Will you please see if you can give me a more complete record of the following revolutionary war soldiers; SETH BOURN, from Taunton, Private, Captain Joshua Wilbore's Company, Col. George Williams's Regiment. Marched to Warren R.I. via Rehoboth, on the alarm of Dec. 8 1776. Service 25 days. Lemuel Bourn, from Pembroke, Private, Captain John Turner's Company; Col. Theophilus Cotton's Regiment; Marched Sept. 28 1777. Service 1 mo. 3 da. in Rhode Island. Lemuel Bourn, Drummer, Capt. Abner Bourn's Company; Col. Ebenezer White's Regiment; Marched to Rhode Island on alarm of Aug. 1 1780. Discharged Aug. 9 1780; Roll sworn to at Middleborough. Lemuel Bourn, Company H. 2nd Massachusetts heavy artillery son of Samuel and Deborah, died 1843 at Weymouth. JOHN BOURN, Private in Captain Moses Wilmot's Company; Col. John D Daggett's 4th Bristol County Massachusetts Regiment; Mustered out in 1779.
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p. 2 Andrew Bourn, of Attleboro b. 1748 d. 1777 was the father of private John Bourn and Stephen Bourn who have Revolutionary war records; his other sons Andrew, Set, Moses, Zebediah and Reuben also may have served in the Rev. War. His own death in 1777 might have been from service in the army. The Seth Bourn which I have cited from Taunton being 28 at the beginning of the Revolution and unmarried may have enlisted at Taunton and have been discharged at some other place. Private John Bourn's brother Seth was my great grandfather and his son Lemuel, my grandfather, may have been named after these other Lemuel bourns which I have asked you to trace as they lived not far distant from Attleboro. Any information which you may give me will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely yours, W. A. Bourne William Alger Bourne.
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WASHINGTON October 14, 1931 Mr. William Bourne BA-J/AWF OWN North Olmsted Ohio. Dear Sir: Reference is made to your letter relative to Andrew, John, Lemuel, and Set Bourne, soldier of the War of the Revolution. Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war. A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the service of Andrew, Lemuel and Seth Bourne or Bourn. You will find enclosed the record of John Bourn (Bourne) S. 29642 and of John Bourne S. 30879, which are the records of the only John Bourn or Bourne of Massachusetts and Maine, that are found on the Revolutionary War records of this office. Very truly yours A. D. Hiller Assistant to Administrator