Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44836, Gershom Foster, Mass
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Service                                               Number
Mass.               Foster, Gershorn        S 44836
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Transferred to New York, 20 Sept. 1830, from 4 Sept. 1830 Received to
W. Ovington, Esq. New York
 
Determined and Notification Sent to John B. Esq. Thomas Plymouth Mass, 22 Jan. 1821





9532

To New York
from
Massachusetts

Gershom Foster
of Middleboro in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Knox of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 4th day of April, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th of April 1819 and sent to Nahum MItchell, Esq. East Bridgewater, Mass.

Arrears to 4th of May 1819 = 88.26
Semi-annual, all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1819 = 48. 00

Total - $136.26

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act 18th March, 1818}
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Gershom Foster
Middleborugh


Adm. 


one year - 1776 - Knox's regt.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

On this fourth 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 Gershom Foster of Middleborough, aged sixty four year, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me duly cautioned according to law, on his oath, made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain teh 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" vir.  That he served as a soldier in said War under Capt. Thomas W. Foster, and Colonel Henry Knox's Regt. of Artillery in the Massachusetts Line for the term of one year, being the year 1776 - See his said Declaration at large enclosed - and also Andrew Cole's deposition. 
The claimant also exhibited to me the orderly books of the company, which I now hold, and which seemed to me too voluminous to forward, in which his name is enrolled as one of
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the company' and all the orders and proceedings of the company are regularly contained in them from the beginning to the end of the year.  He is beside of man of strict veracity and is poor and needs the assistance of this county for support. 

And I , the said Judge, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Gershom Foster 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 direction of the aforementioned act of Congress.

Nahum Mitchell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1818
I hereby certify , that - 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. 

}Clerk of the Judicial 
}Court for the County 
}of
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Gershom Foster

Schedule 
$80.00

Middleborough 9532
April 1819

Cm
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Schedule

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth

On this twenty first day of November 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 Gershom Foster, aged sixty seven years, resident in Middleborough, 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 twelve months, in 1776 in Capt. T. W. Foster's company, Col. Knox's Regt, Massachusetts line and that he has received a pension certificate dated 20th April 1819 and numbered 9532 in pursuance of his original Declaration made 4th April 1818
and also takes and subscribes the following oath, 

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 vir. A small piece of land about 50 square rods and a right to improve about 17 acres, of other land personal Estate , 1 horse (old), 2 pigs, (100th each), 6 chairs, 1 desk, iron crockery ware, tubs, casks, etc.
My family consists of my self and one child dependant, on me for support, names Andrew Richie, 16 years of age.  I am very infirm and able to do but very little, for my support being very much afflicted with the ?  
Gershom Forster

Sworn to, and declared on the 21st day fo November 1820 before 
Nahum Mitchell C. Justice

I, John B. Thomas, clerk of said court, 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 Eighty dollars and - cents.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty fifth day of November, 1820.

John B. Thomas

Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth
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Application for a Transer

County of New York, ss

On this sixteenth day of September 1831, before me, the subscriber, a notary public, for the said County of New York, personally appeared Gershom Foster, who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Wait Foster in the Regiment commanded by Col. Knox in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Massachusetts, from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of New York at Brooklyn, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future; and that his reasons for removing to the state of New York were that his son resided there, and the residence of his family were about removing to Brooklyn

Gershom Foster

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.

M. Ovington, N.P.
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44836

Rev. Invalid

File No. 44836
Gershom Foster
Priv. Rev. War

Act:  18th March 1818

Index: - Vol. 3, Page 175

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Transfer







Recd. Sept. 21, 1831
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New York, September 19th, 1831

Sir,

On behalf of Gershom Foster a Revolutionary residing at Brooklyn, I take the liberty of forwarding his application for a transfer from the Massachusetts to the New York agency, and, at his particular request to mention that he has not received payment at Boston since the 4th of March last, and would take it a favour if the transfer could take effect from that period, to save him the expense of obtaining the amount due the 4th instant from the Agent in Massachusetts.  Please to return the enclosed pension certificate to my care.

I am very respectfully,
Sir your obedient servant,
W. Ovington

Lewis Cass Esq.
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Gershom Foster
Middleboro
(1776)
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I Gershom Foster of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and a citizen of the United States and now resident therein set forth and declare under oath that I was a soldier in the war of the revolution in the land service on the continental establishment more than nine month and from my reduced circumstances need the assistance of my country for support and am therefore desirous of obtaining a pension from the United States agreeably to a late law of Congress of the 18th March last - that I entered the service as a private soldier, and served eight months at Roxbuy in 1775 under Capt. Isaac Wood and Col. Cotton's regiment in the Massachusetts Line, and then in the first of December 1775, I enlisted in the continental establishment for one year, ending on the last day of December 1776, under Capt. Thomas W. Foster, who commanded an artillery company in Col H. Knox's Regiment, and Massachusetts line, and I faithfully served out the year at Cambridge and around Boston, serving the first part of the time, and the remainder at New York City, and quartered up in Red Hook, til the retreat from the city to Harlem's heights, and thence to Peekskill where I was discharged.  During this year I was orderly sergeant and have now the orderly books with the lists and rolls of the company which I now exhibit.  I performed service afterwards on the provinicial establishment as an officer, but do not claim or that.
I had no written @ in charge, and have nothing further to offer.  I hereby relinquish all claims to any pension heretofore granted me by any act of Congress (if any).

Gershom Foster

Sworn to April 4th , 1818
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Middleboro, July 18th, 1818

This may certify to all whom it may concern that  I , Andrew Cole, was in the Service of the United States in Seventeen hundred, and seventy five for Capt. Thomas W. Foster Company, Col. Henry Knox' Regt.  of Artillery and  served as a Gunner in Said Company and Gershom Foster of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth was the Orderly Sergeant of the above said company and I  served the whole year out in the following station (viz)
First at Cambridge on prospect hill from thence to Dorchester  hill, from Dorchester  in March to New York, quartered in the city awhile and from there on Long Island at Red Hook after the battle removed back to the city of new york, march to Fort Washington, from Fort Washington to the white plains from thence to the Peekskill where we ended our campaign which was January  the first 1777.

Andrew Cole

Plymouth ss. July 18th, 1818

Personally appeared the above named Andrew Cole, subscriber to the above Instrument and made solemn oath that the same was a just and true statement in all its parts.

before me

Samuel Pickens 
Justice of the Peace