Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33262, Andrew Garrett, Mass.
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SERVICE      NUMBER
Mass.
Garrett, Andrew
S. 33262
(B.L.WA. 797, 200. Lieut.
Issued Apr. 16, 1790.
No papers
CONTENTS
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[envelope superimposed on a printed form.]

[Envelope:]
Notification sent to Abner Davis Oct [October] 12, 1820. Barnstable, Mts [Massachusetts]
[still on envelope, but in different hand:]
Stricken off under act May 15, 1828
13 Augt. [August] 1828

[this is all that's exposed of the printed document, filled in in cursive:]
7077.
Massachusetts
-----
Andrew Garrett
Barnstable in the state of Massts [Massachusetts]
was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Alden of the Massts [Massachusetts]
for the term of 1 year
---
cried on the Roll of Massts [Massachusetts]
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 22d of April 1818
----
certificate of Pension issued the 5th of March 1819
and sent to 
Hon [Honorable] Mr. Fuller
H [House] of Reps [Representatives]
---
arrears to the 4th of Mar [March] 1819 10 mo. 9/30/31 = 188.38
I-anl. all's ending 6 [?] Sep [September] 1819                    120       
                                                                                                    ------
                                                                                                    $308.38
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

continued
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Andres Garrett
Two Commissions
1 Ensign
1 Lieut [Lieutenant]

Andrew Garrett Lieut [Lieutenant]
4th Massachusetts Regt [Regiment]
1782 to 1783
22nd April 1818

[the rest sideways :]
Massachusetts
Lieutenant Andrew Garrett
 
[3 lines scratched out and illegible]

Adm.
Hon. [Honorable] Timo [Timothy] Fuller
H.R.
date cert: [certified] 5 March
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I Andrew Garrett of Barnstable in the County
of Barnstable Mass a resident Citizen of the United States aged sixty two years set forth and declare that I was an officer in the war of the Revolution. That I am reversed in my circumstances and need
the assistance of my country for support. That
I entered the service in 1775 as a private soldier, and continued till the 29th [crossed out: June 1782] Sept 1779,
when I received a Commission of Ensign in the
7th Regiment in the Massachusetts line and continued to serve in that Capacity till the 10th day of June 1782 when I received another Commission of Lieutenant in the 4th Massachusetts Regiment and served
in this capacity to the end of the war and was discharged at New Windsor in the State of New York. I was in the savage battle of Cherry Valley when
my Col./ Ichabod Alden was killed by the Indians, and my Lieut. Colonel Stacey, Lieutenant Holden and myself were
taken, but the most of our corps were killed and I remained a Prisoner three years, one year of which was with the Indians.-- My commission I now exhibit, and have no further evidence. I very well recollect of seeing David Blackford, who is now
here present with me before the Judge, in New Jersey at the time of taking the Hessians at Trenton and at other times; and he is well known in our neighbourhood
as an old continental soldier. ---
Andrew Garrett
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Andrew Garrett's
Schedule of
property.
7077
5 Mar 79
Certify Oct 20
CM.
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SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Barnstable ss.

On this ninth
day of August 1820, 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 Andrew Garrett aged 65,
years, resident in Barnstable 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 during the war - - in
Col Alden's & then Col. Jackson's Regiment Mass line, as Ensign &
Lieutenant, and served to the close of the war.
and that he has received a pension certificate dated March 5th 1819 and numbered
7077. in pursuance of his original Declaration made 22d day of April
1818 -- and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
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.
Real Estate, None.
Personal Estate, 12 chairs, tables, 2 cooking glasses 2 iron pots, 3 kettles & teakettle, some articles of crockery ware, a dish, & some other trifling articles of household furniture, a cow & pig. My occupation is that of a Carpenter, & I am infirm. I have a wife who is
fifty nine years old & is a very feeble woman, & unable to do the majority domestic work in my family, her name is Olive.
Andrew Garrett
Sworn to, and declared on the ninth day of August, 1820 before said Court.
Abner Davis, Clerk

I, Abner Davis, Clerk of Barnstable County.
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 three dollars and no cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twelfth
day of August 1820.
Abner Davis, Clerk of the Court for the County of Barnstable
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN Congress 
ASSEMBLED
To Andrew Garrett Gentlemans   - Greeting.
We Reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, do by these presents 
constitute and appoint you to be a Lieutenant in the fourth Massachusetts Regiment
[illegible] in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such __ from the twenty third day of October. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do
strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command to be obedient to your orders, as
Lieutenant. 
And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to
time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States or Committee of Congress for that
purpose appointed, a Committee of the States or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of
the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress.
the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States.

Witness His Excellency John Hanson Esquire President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia
the tenth day of June A.D. [year illegible]
and in the Sixth year of our Independence.
John Hanson -
By Order of Congress
B. Lincoln 
Sectary at War
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[printed form with insertions in cursive; an illegible seal to the left; there is a crease down the middle, obscuring some letters]

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
To Andrew Garret Gentleman Greeting. We, Reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity DO by those presents constitute and appoint you to be an Ensign in the Seventh Massachusetts Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such from the first day of October 1778: You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of an Ensign by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders, as an Ensign. And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States.

Witness his Excellency Samuel Huntington Esq, [Esquire] President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the 29th day of September [year illegible, assume it's 1778] and in the fourth year of our Independence.
Saml ]Samuel] Huntington, President

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest Ben. [Benjamin?] [illegible surname]
Secretary of the Board of War
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33262
Reay INVALID.
ow
File No. 33,262
Andrew Garrett
Lieut Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 8, Page 150
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Barnstable   ss.
On this 22 day of April 1818, before me
the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas,
for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Andrew Garrett of Barnstable aged sixty-two years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me firstly cautioned according to law, on
years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on
his oath made the following 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."
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And I, the said Judge do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction,
that the said Andrew Garrett
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.
Thomas B Adams Ch. Jus
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             REVOLUTIONARY  CLAIMS.
       ___________________________________

Under the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of  certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
___________________________________________________________

           TREASURY DEPARTMENT
                                    12 August 1828
Sir:
     I have the honor to inform you, that Andrew Garret formerly a Lieutenant in Col Jacksons Regiment of the Massachusetts line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension at the Massachusetts agency, had been admitted to the benefits of the abovementioned act.
                                       I have the honor to be,
                                              Very respectfully,
                                                   Your obedient servant,

                                                   Richard rush,
The Hon. the Secretary of War.

No 76.

Feb  1819
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372             525
               No Forig Pay 372.
            REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
___________________________________________________

                                         TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
                                                     August 1, 1828.

Andrew Garrett, _ of Barnstable _ in the County of Barnstable, in the State of Massachusetts, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled " An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he was an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war.
at which period he was a Lieutenant in Col H. Jackson's regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since  the 3d of March, 1826, four hundred and eighty dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of Massachusetts.
    The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statement are corroborated by the records in his office.
            By order of the Secretary,
                            A. Dickers.


                  TREASURY DEPARTMENT
                                   Third Auditor's Office,
                                   7th, August 1828
  Ita ppears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Andrew Garret. Lieutenant in the Massachusetts line, amounting to Sixteen Hundreds dollars. 
  It further appears that Andrew Garrett ___ is now on the pension list of the Massachusetts agency, and has been since the 3d. March 1826. at the rate of Twenty dollars per month.
           Peter (illegible)  Aud
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We the subscribers do on oath depose testify and
declare, that we have long known & been will
acquainted with Andrew Garrett of Barnstable
in the County of Barnstable, formerly an officer
in the revolutionary war, that he has become
reduced in his circumstances, and according to
our best knowledge & belief, now totally in need of the assistance of his country for
support.
Daniel Davis
Samuel Shaw
Suffolk Jr
Boston 19 Feb 1819 Then the above named
Dan Davis & Samuel Shaw, personally appeared & made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate
by them respectively subscribed before me.
Wm Minot Just Peace

Washington Dec 24 Feb. 1819. I certify
that the above signature of Sm Minot 
is genuine & that he is a Justice of the
peace for the County of Suffolk in Massachusetts-
Timothy [illegible]
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[written sidewa.ys aganist the left edge of the paper are the words:] Maj And Garrett]

         Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Suffolk Ss.  Feb 7. 1819. I Nahum Mitchell one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit of Massachusetts, do certify that I was present when Andrew Garrett within named made his declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the late law of Congress, and was then satisfied and am now more so (from the written affidavits of D. Davis, Solicitor Gen; & Leml Shaw, an attorney & Magistrate) that the said Garrett is reduced in his circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. I further certify that Judge Adams, who took the said Garrett's oath and forwarded his claim w, would, I presume, have made the necessary certificate as to his circumstances, provided he had known at the time, that such a certificate would have been required.: 
              Nahum  Mitchell Judge (illegible)
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Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Cous'd with 
Invalid file
# 33,263

[written upside down in the bottom right corner is:]

525
A Garrett.
(illegible) 7 July 1848
(illegible) 1 (illegible)
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I Andrew Garrett of Barnstable in the county of Barnstable & State of Massachusetts do hearby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such to the end of the war at which period, I was a Lieutenant in the----regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson
   And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate (commonly called a commutation certificate) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of congress of the 22d of March 1783 instead of the half pay for life to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October AD 1780.
    And I do further declare that I have received of the United States as a Pensioner since the 3d of March AD 1826 the sum of Four hundred and Eighty dollars __That I have received nothing as a Pension of the United States since the 3d of March AD 1828.                                                    Andrew Garrett

Barnstable S.s. July 7th. 1828
Personally appeared before me this day the above named Andrew Garrett & made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true in all its parts according to the best of his knowledge & belief,
           John Reed {Justice of Peace

Barnstable Ss. July 7th 1828.
   Before me John Reed a Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable in the
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Barnstable ss. July 7th 1828.
Before me John Reed a Justice of the
of the Peace for the County of Barnstable in the State of Massachusetts duly empowered to administer Oaths in the County of Barnstable in the State of Massachusetts. Personally appeared this day
Joseph Blish and Temperance Blish of the said
County who did severally make oath that
Andrew Garrett by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated. Witness my hand this seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred &
twenty eight -
John Reed Justice of Peace
1
-
I Abner Davis Clerk of the Courts of the County
of Barnstable in the State of Massachusetts do
certify that John Recd before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer
oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this
tenth day of July in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred & twenty eight 
Abner Davis, Clerk
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I Andrew Garrett an officer of the Continental Army of the Revolution (and now an applicant under an Act of Congress providing for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, of Barnstable in the county of Barnstable & State of Massachusetts) do testify and declare that I sent to the War Department of the United States, two Commissions which I held as an officer in the Revolutionary Army; the one as an Ensign & the other as a Lieutenant, which latter commission I held at the close of the war & said Commissions have never been returned to me.  I sent them to the War Department in order to obtain a pension and respectfully beg [illegible] to refer the Secretary of the Treasury to the same.
Andrew Garrett
Barnstable {illegible] July 7th 1828
Personally appeared before me this day & signed the above statement Andrew Garrett & made oath that it is true in all its parts according to his knowledge & belief.
John Reid, Justice of the Peace
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I Temperance Blish of Barnstable in the County of Barnstable wife of Joseph Blish Esq. do testify and declare that some years ago I think seven or eight, I saw & [illegible] two Commissions given by the United States to Maj. Andrew Garrett.  The one was a Commission as an Ensign in the Revolutionary War and the other as a lieutenant & I understood said Commissions were sent to Washinhgton in order to obtain a Pension.
Temperance Blish
Barnstable [illegible] July 7th 1828
Personally appeared before me this day the above named Temperance Blish and made oath that the above affidavitby her subscribed is true in all its parts.
John Reid, Justice of the Peace
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Yarmouth July 10th 1828
Sir
I herewith enclose to you the papers
of Andrew Garrett an officer of
the Revolution - He begs that they may
be examined as soon as convenient and
the result communicated to me for
him -
I am Respectfully
Yr. Obt Servant
John Reed
Hon Richard Rush
Secy. of the Treasury
P.S. Please direct to Hon John Reed
Yarmouth Mass.