Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,293, John Broadrick, Mass.
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Mass.   Broadrick, John   S. 30,293
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15562
Massachusetts
John Broadrick
of Franklin in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Cary of the Regt commanded
by Col. Wesson in the Mass
line for 14 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 40 Dollars [illegible] Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of June 
1833 and sent Elijah Alvord Greenfield Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  $93.34
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept  23.33
$116.67
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book E   Vol. 2nd   Page 7
Dead
Paid [illegible] the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March to 24 July 1839. Agt notified 15 Jany 1841
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 26.th 1841.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Four of six child.n of John Broadrick a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Forty six Dollars and 67 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 have been paid 4/6 of said pension at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 24th July 1839.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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W 827
Jn Broadrick
Massachusetts

Private 14 Ms

40
  6.67
_________
46 67

Elijah Alvord
Greenfield Mass.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office,

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your

A STATEMENT showing the Service of John Broadrick, Franklin Co, Mass

Vol 1775 | 1 year, 2 months | private | Capt Cary, Co Wesson | Brooklin Mass | Proof by Living witness

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Page 2 of standard govt objection form - not transcribed - as has no info on pensioner
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Page 2 of standard govt objection form - not transcribed - as has no info on pensioner
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin County ss.
On this nineteenth Day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three.  Personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas of the said Commonwealth, now sitting at Greenfield within and for said County of Franklin on the third Monday of March, 1888 John Broadrick a resident of Conway in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1888.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here in stated. On the nineteenth Day of April in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & seventy five at Brookline in the County of Norfolk, in Massachusetts he enlisted or voluntere into the United States service for the term of eight months, belonged to the Company commanded by Capt. Cory [illegible] Col James Hefsons Regiment and to the Brigade commanded by Genl Prescott my Lieutenant was Thomas White served out the term of his enlistments, and remained in the service at the request of Col. Hefson for six months longer, was in the service during the whole time fourteen months, on the twentieth Day of June A.D. seventeen hundred and seventy six his term of service expired, he then left the army - Soon after his enlistment he marched from Brooklin aforesaid with others of  his company to Sewalls Pointe in the vicinity of Boston, there assisted in building a Fort was stationed at said Point; continued there untill the opening of the Spring of the year - While at the Point the Brittish with two floating Batterys commenced firing upon the Fort which they continued, for about two hours without any essential injury, their balls passed over us. Was present when Genl. Washington and other officers with him, marched out the Ground for a Fort on Dorchestor hill assisted in building said Fort. In the month of March or April
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he went with the Troops to Norwick Lansing to carry the officers baggage, soon after returned to Sowells Point and was imployed by the Council of War and assisted for two months in clearing out the Docks in Boston of spiked canon, bags of wheat and other articles thrown into them by the British - and removing from Boston neck the fortifications there placed and left by the Enemy when they Capt Boston - He does not recollect the names of the officers, other than those above named
Answers of the applicant to interrogatories propounded by the Court agreeable to the negotiations of the War department --

I was born in the month of August AD 1748 in the Town of Bazemore in the County of Galway in Ireland --

I have no record of my age

At eighteen years of age I left my native Ireland and sailed for Newfoundland where I landed in the month of June continued there six months, thence sailed for Boston, landed at Cape town --transported on foot to Boston - and hired out to Cap. Aspenwall of Brooklinein Massachusetts with whom I lived about eight years and was living in his family in said Brooklin when called into the service

Aftor my town of service expired in the army I came to a convoy and have resided in said Town from that period to the present time

I never received any written discharge from the service and I have no documentary evidence of my servie nor do I know of any living witness except George Dunlap whose affidavit is produced in court by whom I can provide the same.
I am known to same Warren Austin Rice & Hon Billings in my present neighborhood & Daniel Crosby

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the presents and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
[signed] John Broadrick
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John Broadrick
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signed] E. Alvord Clerk

We Daniel Crosby a clergyman residing in the Town of Conway aforesaid Wm Billings & Samule Warren residing in the same Town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Broadrick who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty four years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we can [illegible] in that opinion

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
Att. E. Alvord Clerk
[signed on right] Nora Billings  Samuel Warren

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogators prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that is appears to them that William Billings Esq and Samuel Warren who have signed the preceding certificate as residents in said Conway and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to the fullest credit. and that the Rev.d Daniel Crosby the clergyman of said town is unable to [illegible] this by reason of being absent from this state on a journey.  Attest [signed] E. Alvord Clerk

I Daniel Crosby a clergyman residing in the Town of Conway aforesaid hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Broadrick who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be eighty four years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and that I concur in that opinion --
[signed on right] Daniel Crosby
Town of [illegible] ss [illegible] April 10th 1833
Sworn to and subscribed before me
[signed] Wm Billings Justice of the peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Franklin ss
I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the county of Franklin do hereby certify that the within contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of John Broadrick for a pension.  and I further certify that William Billings Esq before whom the within statement of the rev.d Daniel Crosby was signed and sworn to is a Justice of the Peace for said county, and that his name thereto subscibed appears to me to be his true and proper signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said court at
Greenfield this twenty second of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
[signed on right] E. Alvord Clerk
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30293
Recy  INVALID.
File No. 30.293
John Broadrick
In Rev War

Act: June 7 32n
Index: --Vol. 2, Page 54
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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John Broadrick
AH

[vertically on left side of page] George Dunlap
Affidavit
5/30
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I George Dunlap of Chesterfield in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify and say that I was a soldier in the revolutionary war and that I am now a pensioner under the general government. that during the war I was stationed, for about a year, a Brookline fort in Mass: and was a waiter to Capt Corey, under Col: Nessan [?].  I have a recollection of any John Broadrick, now of Conway in the County of Franklin.  He was one of Capt Coreys soldiers and served in said company under Capt Corey as near as I remember as long as we were stationed there. The length of time the said Broadrick was in the service as near as I an recollect, while I knew him, must be about a year.
[signed on right] George Dunlap

Hampshire ss: Dec. 26. 1832  The George Dunlap aforesaid personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed Before me Dyar Bancroft Justice of the Peace
I certify that the aforesaid George Dunlap is a man of veracity and that his affidavit is written to full credit - [signed on right] D. Bancroft Jus. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire Ss.  I Soloman Stoddard Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwelath for the County of Hampshire do certify that Dyer Bancroft Esq whose signature is affixed to the above certificate was at the state thereof one of the Justices of the peach: within and for said County duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity -  and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said D Bancroft and believe his signature above to be genuine
[seal affixed on left hand side]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth this fourteenth day of February in the year of our LORD. One thousand eight hundred and thirty three
[signed on right] L Haddard Clerk