Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12045, Benjamin Bates, Mass. Navy.
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Service - Mass. Navy

Bates, Benjamin

S.12045


carded
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21758

Massachusetts

Benjamin Bates
of Plymouth in the state of Mass.
who was a Priv to Mariner in the Company commanded by Capt........ of the ship commanded by Capt. Nicholas in the ship Dean
line for 16 mos and 24 days 
Pr Mariner

12045

Navy and Mass.
July 21/05

Records completed

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 56 Dollars  - cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of Oct. 1833 and sent to Jacob H. Loud
Plymouth Mass.


Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833   $140.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1834  $28.00

$168.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832}


Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
Book C, Vol. 2, Page 42
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270

Benjamin Bates

27299

Mariner and Private of Infantry

16 mos. 24 days

Frigate Dean 
Capt. Nicholas U.S.

Jacob H. Loud 
Plymouth, Mass.
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REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS


Commonwealth of Massachusetts

County of Plymouth, ss.

ON this first day of October 1833, personally appeared in open court, before Hon. Wilkes Wood, Judge of the Court of Probate being a Court of Record now sitting at East Bridgewater within and for said County of Plymouth, Benjamin Bates a resident of Hanover in said County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy two 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 7, 1832.  He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.  That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

That according to the best of his remembrance he enlisted on board the Dean Frigate as a Marine at Boston, Samuel Nicholson Commander - Delaware Page, Lieutenant Samuel Bright, Sailing Master in August 1778.  The Frigate was rated for 32 guns but carried 34 guns.  He was enlisted by Tilden Crooker of Hanover, who was Lieutenant of Marines and immediately entered the service on board the Frigate, but owing to the difficulty of enlisting bonds and other issues, the Frigate did not sail till about the first of January 1779; then sailed from Boston for the West Indies and cruised off there, then off France, and in the Bay of Biscay and elsewhere, took five prizes, and then sailed for Boston, and arrived there the last of July of first of August that he remained attached to the Frigate sometime after her arrival, but was at length
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discharged at his own request.  He received a discharge from Capt. Nicholson, which he has lost. That he belonged to the Frigate, from the time he enlisted to the time of his discharge, not less than 12 months.
That he entered the service again in May 1780 and enlisted in Capt. Amos Turner's Company of Militia, Benjamin Stetson Lieutenant in Col. Jacob's Regiment, and served on Rhode Island at Butt's Hill and past of the time near Newport, and served the time of his enlistment, which was four months, he was discharge and returned home to Hanover, but received no discharge.
That he again enlisted in Capt. Joseph John's Company of Militia in Col. Jacob's Regiment and marched to Rhode Island in the last of the fall of 1780 and was stationed near Butt's Hill and stayed there there twenty four days, we were enlisted for forty days, but were discharged and returned home at the time above mentioned, but received no discharge. That he was born in Hanover, Mass, April 17, 1761, has no record of his age, he has lived in Pembroke, about seven years and the rest of the time in Hanover, where he now lives.  That he is known to David Stockbridge, Robert Eels, Melzar Curtis, Esquires, who can testify to his character and to their belief of his service in the Revolutionary War. 

Benjamin Bates

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Attest.

Jacob H. Loud
Register of Probate
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We, Calvin Wolcott, a clergyman, residing in the town of Hanover, and Robert Eells, Post Master of  Hanover residing in the town of Hanover, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Bates who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy two years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.

Calvin Wolcott
Robert Eells

Sworn to, and subscribed, the 15th day of October 1833

Before me Alexander Wood Justice of the Peace


And the said Court, do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Rev.  Calvin Wolcott who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Hanover and that Robert Eells Esq. who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

By the Court, Attest Jacob H. Loud
Register of Probate


I Jacob H. Loud Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Bates for a pension. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office, this sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

Jacob H. Loud
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Plymouth ss.  I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate of said County hereby certify that Alexander Wood Esq. before whom the within Certificate was sworn to is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that his name thereto subscribed is his true and genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this sixteenth day of May A.D. 1833

J. H. Loud



Benjamin Bates
27299

Marine and Private of Infantry
16 months and 24 days
Frigate Dean Capt. Nicholson U.S.

Jacob H. Loud
Plymouth
Mass.
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Left side

Oct. 10-1901
Louise Holmes, Handy
Fall River, Mass.



Right side

Rev. War.

12045
INVALID

File No. 12045

Benjamin Bates
Priv. Rev. War

Act: June 7, 1832

Index:-Vol. A, Page 21

[Arrangement of 1870]
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I John Osbourne of Pembroke in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts aged 65 years do testify and say that I am enrolled on the Pension List Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, for services rendered the United States in the War of the Revolution as a Marine  on board the Dean Frigate, Capt. Samuel Nicholson, Commander Delaware and Page, Lieutenant Samuel Bright, Sailing Master, that according to the best of my remembrance I enlisted on board the Frigate at the last of October 1778 and sailed from Boston about the first of January 1779. That I was well acquainted with Benjamin Bates of Hanover in said County and that he enlisted and was aboard of the Frigate at the time I enlisted , that we served on board together, we sailed from Boston to the West Indies and cruised off there, and then off France, and in the Bay of Biscay, and elsewhere, and took four prizes, in one of the last prizes, called the Swallow's Tail, I was sent as a hand to man and bring in the prize, while Bates remained on board the Frigate; that I sailed for Boston in the prize, that after we made land, we were discovered by the Chatham, Man of War then lying off Cape Ann and finding it impossible to escape, as she chased us immediately, we ran the prize ashore in the cove, near the Brant Rock in Marshfield, County of Plymouth, and took to our boats and landed, that the British then sent their boats, and took what articles they could and then set her on fire; I should think this was the last of May, and the Frigate did not come into Boston till the last of July or first of August
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1779, when I went to Boston, and rejoined the Frigate and knew in a short time that said Benjamin Bates was on board, that I belonged to the Frigate about three months after her arrival, before I got my discharge, which was the last of October, having belonged to the Frigate about 12 months; that I believe the said Bates enlisted before I did, and I believe was discharged a short time before I received my discharge and further this deponent saith not.

John Osbourne (his mark)

Signed in presence of 
Anthony Collamore
Caroline Collamore

State of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth ss.

Subscribed and sworn to this twenty ninth day of August AD 1832 before me 
Anthony Collamore
Justice of the Peace


I certify that it was made to appear to said Court John Osbourne is a credible person

Attest J.H.Loud  Register


Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Co. I Jacob H. Loud Register of the Court of Probate for said County, do hereby certify that Anthony Collamore Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the foregoing certificate purporting to be signed by him is in his genuine handwriting.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this eighteenth day of February AD 1833

Jacob H. Loud
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Thomas Bates of Hanover, in the County of Plymouth, aged 78 years testify and say that I served in Capt. Joseph John's Company of Militia according to the best of my recollection in the last part of the summer of the or the first part of the fall of 1780, and that Benjamin Bates of Hanover in said County, enlisted at the same time I did and marched to Rhode Island and were stationed at a Hessian Fort near Butt's Hill, that we enlisted for forty days but did not service but about twenty four days when we were discharged and returned home to Hanover.

Thomas Bates

State of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth

Subscribed and sworn to this twenty sixth day of April AD 1833 
Before me Anthony Collamore
Justice of the Peace

I further certify that John Osbourne and Clement Bates who have signed the foregoing affidavits are credible persons.

Anthony Collamore 
Justice of the Peace


I Charles Cole of Scituate in the County of Plymouth, aged 73, testify and say that I enlisted in Capt. Amos Turner's Company of Militia, Benjamin Stetson Lieut. Nathaniel Brooks Ensign, in Col. Jacob's Regiment, and marched to Rhode Island in the summer of 1780, I believe, and was stationed at Middleton near Butt's Hill and worked on the Fort there, that Benjamin Bates, of Hanover in said County enlisted and  served in said Company the same time I did, which was four months, at the expiration of which time we were dismissed and
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returned home, Bates to Hanover and I to Scituate, but received no discharge. 

Charles Cole

Plymouth ss.  August 27, 1833
Then the above named Charles Cole, whom I certify to be a person of credibility, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.

Before me
Anthony Collamore 
Justice of the Peace

Plymouth ss.  I Jacob H. Loud Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Anthony Collamore Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and that his signature to the several foregoing affidavits is true and genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fifteenth day of October AD 1833.

Jacob H. Loud


Benjamin Bates Dep.
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Probate Office
Plymouth Oct. 16, 1833

Sir

I enclose the papers of Benjamin Bates for a Pension, the Certificate of Rev. War. Wolcott and Robert Eells Esq. was sworn to before Alexander Wood Esq. as the Court was some distance from Hanover the place of their residence.  They are well known to me as highly respectable citizens of that town, Mr. Wolcott being the Rector of St. Andrew's  Church and Mr. Eells Postmaster.  Mr. Bates the applicant is also well known to me as an honest but poor man. An early attention to his claim will furnish him with the means of a comfortable subsistence through the coming winter and relieve him from dependance on his family.

Yours,

J.L. Loud
Register
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Pension Office

Dear Sir

Will you please tell me if Benjamin Bates - born Feb. 17 - 1700 of Waymouth, Mass. and moved to Abington, Mass served in the Revolutionary War and had a pension?

Lieut. Benjamin Bates - Born Feb. 9, 1782?

Benjamin Bates - Born Jan. 4, 1756?

Did any have pension?  They lived and died in Abington, Mass?

Also is there a record of
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Ichabod Nye of Rochester, Mass?
wife name Bethiah Blacker

Richard Gray of Yarmouth; wife name Mary Brown.  or Gideon Gray his father?

And oblige

Louise Holmes Handy
139 Rock Street
Fall River, Mass.