Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,025, Stephen Bennet, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Mass
Bennet, Stephen
NUMBER S. 34,025
CONTENTS
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8935
Massachusetts
Stephen Bennet
of MIddleborough in the state of Massachusetts
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sprout of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three years War

Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of April 1819 and sent to Nahum Mitchell  East Bridgewater  Massachusetts

Arrears to 4th of March 1819  10 10/30 4/31
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819  6 -  48.
$133.88
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

Sept, 19. Continued

(right side)
See letter to E. Ward, June 20, 1839.  Same Sept. 12, 1839

[Written perpendicular to above transcription, in lighter hand]
Notification sent October 18. 1820 to John B. Thomas, Plymouth, Masstts.
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Stephen Bennet
Middleboro'
(last 3 years)
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I Stephen Bennett of Middleburogh in the County of Plymouth
Mass'ts. and a citizen of the United States and now resident therein
set forth and declare that I was a soldier in the war of the Revolution for more than nine months on the Continental Establishment that from my reduced circumstances need the assistance of my country for support, and therefore am desirous of obtaining a pension agreeably to the late law of Congress of the 18th March last - that I entered the service 
in 1780 in the last three years service under Capt. Judah Alden of Duxbury and Capt. Sproat's Regiment being the 2d. in the Massachusetts' line, and continued to serve till
the end of the war and was discharged the 19th day of December1783. at West Point, and now present my discharge. Ephraim Pratt was a Sergeant and served with me during
the three years aforesaid. Arnold Briggs of Rochester served during the three years aforesaid in the same Regiment with me. -

Stephen Bennet

Sworn to April 13th. 1818.

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Stephen Bennett

8935

April 1819
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SCHEDULE.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth  ss.

On this seventeenth day of July 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 Stephen Bennet aged Fifty six 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 two years & more in Capt. Judah Aldens Company in Colo. Ebenr. Sproats Regt & Genl. Pattersons Brigade in the Massachusetts line 
and that he has received a pension certificate dated 3d. April 1819 and numbered 8935 in pursuance of his original Declaration made April 13 - 1818-
and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz. And I do solemnly swear    that I was a resident citizen ofthe 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.  viz

(left margin)
(illegible $16.33 

Real estate  none
Crockery ware & old chairs, other house furniture
1 pig   1 plough
my family consists of my self & wife aged fifty four & child named Rhoda Bennet aged 18 years my
occupation that of a common labourer but
am infirm & able to do but little labour
Stephen Bennet

Sworn to, and declared, on the 17th day of July A D  1820
before Nahum Mitchell C Justice of sd. 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 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 sixteen dollars and 33 cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty first day of July  1820.
Jno B Thomas
Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth
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Joshua Dantforth of 
Williams Town County
of Berkshire
______________________
Ebenezer Storer of
Falmouth CasCobay

Stephen Bennet
S. 34,025.
Mass.

Stephen Bennet
Discharged
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Stephen Bennet soldier in the 2d. Massachusetts
Regiment having enlisted for three years
only is hereby Honorably Discharged the
service of the United States.

Given at West Point this 19th day of December 1783.
[illegible] B: Generl.

[stamped] The National Archives of the United States

Register'd in the books of the Regt
A. Tupper  Adjutant
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Stephen Bennet
Middleborough

(lower right written upside down)
Stephen Bennett private
Sprouts Mass. Regt 80 three years
13 April 1818.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
 ss.
On this 13th day of April A.D. 1818, before me
the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas,
for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Stephen Bennet
of Middleborough aged     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," viz  that he served in
said war as a private soldier for
the last three years of the service
agreeably to his said declaration
at length, which see, enclosed --
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And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction,
that the said  Stephen Bennet  did serve in the
revolutionary war, as stated in the preceeding 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, & that he needs the
assistance of his country for support -
Nahum Mitchell

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
ss.  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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34025
Revy INVALID
File No. 34,035
Stephen Bennet
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 34
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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18 Mch 1818
Sept. 19
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War Department
Pension Office 
April 23rd, 1839

Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 12th inst. I have to inform you that a certificate as to the service of a revolutionary soldier for the purpose of obtaining bounty land from Massachusetts can in no case be given without a compliance with the following rules
1.  The person applying must show the relationship which he bore to the soldier, and this must be done by his or her own affidavit.
2. The regiment and company must be designated; i.e. the names and rank of the commanding officers of the regiment and company in which the soldier served must be given.
I am very respectfully
your obt servant
JL Edwards

Mr. Eliab Ward
Middleborough
Vermont
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(circular stamp)
WASHINGTON CITY D.C.
(illegible) 20

a 
J L Edwards 
Comr. of Pensions
(stamp)
FREE
 
Eliab Ward Esqr.
Middleborough
Vermont
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War Department
Pension Office
June 20, 1839

Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 13th inst. I have to inform you that Stephen Bennet, a soldier of the 2d regiment of the Massachusetts line of the continental army, enlisted for three years and was discharged on the 19th of December 1783.
Benjamin Pratt, of the same regiment, also enlisted for three years, and was discharged on the 22d of December 1783.
There is no satisfactory proof in this Office to show precisely when they entered the service. The Department was satisfied that they served at least nine months, and pensions were of course granted. No further information can be given in relation this subject.
Jedediah Caswell served one year only.
I am respectfully
Your Obet. Servt.
J L Edwards

Eliab Ward, Esqr.
Middleborough
Vermont
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Stamped: Middleborough Ms. June 15
Free


Hon. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington DC

Com
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Middleborough June 13 1839

Dear Sir,
I wish for the evidence of the services of Bemjamin Pratt, Jedadiah Caswell and Stephen Bennett, in the Revolutionary War.  Pratt has deceased and Caswell and Bennett now living, and all of them pensioners from the county of  Plymouth, state of Massachusetts.  Caswell was transferred from Vermont to Massachusetts in 1837.
All that I wish for is the length of time that they served in the Revolutionary War.
The State of Massachusetts has granted a stipend to certain soldiers of the revolution who served a certain length of time.  Two years and half, and as the evidence of this service is at Washington, we have no means of obtaining of it and only from you. And the treasurer of the state requires a certificate from you.
I should like if you would send the length of time that the above individuals declared that they served and for which they now [illegible] a pension.
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I suppose that this searching and certificate will be an expense of ours, which must pay, and which expect to pay.
If you would send the certificates of the service of the individuals mentioned within as soon as convenient, I shall feel under many obligations.  And at the same time the Bill of Expense.
Yours with much respect,
Eliab Ward

To Hon James L Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
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J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions


Mr. Eliab Ward
Middleborough, Vermont
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The National Archives, Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Name: Bennet, Terrence
Grade: Private
Line: Massachusetts
Warrant Number: 3788
Acreage: 100
Issued: July 28, 1791
to ___________ not shown ________

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants card on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applicants for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives