Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33766, for Daniel Symonds, Massachusetts
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Service-Mass.
Symonds, Daniel
or Simonds
Number S 33766
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V  573
Massachusetts Roll
Daniel Symonds, Lieutenant 4
Capt. Bliss
Massachusetts line '76 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 6th od April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Samuel Putnam, Salem Mass.
Arrearages to 4th Sept. 1818 
4 months 29/30  $99.33

{Revolutionary Claims}
{Act 18th March, 1818,}

Seventy six (check mark)
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Notification sent July 26th 1820 to
Ichabod Tucker Salem, Massachusetts
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I Daniel Symonds of Beverly in the county of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a resident citizen of the United States, and having served more than nine month as a commissioned officer in the land service of the United States in the war of the revolution, on the continental establishment and being by reason of reduced circumstances in life, and the loss of a leg in consequence of hardships endured while in the service, in need of assistance from my county for support; to substantiate my claim thereto under an act of Congress passed the 18th day of March A.D. 1818 entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" on oath declare and say that in May of 1775 I enlisted in the revolutionary army as a private soldier in Captain Theodore Bliss company in the sixteenth Regiment commanded by Colonel Patterson. on the first day of January 1776 I was appointed a sergeant in the same company and continued there untill 1777 when I inlisted as a Sergeant under Capt. Monroe in the fifteenth Regiment in the Massachusetts line, commanded by Colonel Timothy Bigelow, inn 1779 I was appointed and commissioned as an Ensign in the same Regiment and on the thirteenth day of April 1780 was promoted to a Lieutenancy and continued in said Regiment untill it was reduced. I was then transfered to the fifth Regiment in the Massachusetts ^line commanded by Coloney Rufus Putnam and continued in said Regiment as a Lieutenant until the eighth day of May 1892 when I was honorably discharged from the service. I having sent most of the documents to  the City of Washington in support of my petition to Congress for relief it is not in my power to furnish any other evidence of my services than is herewith produced from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support and that I release all claim to any other pension whatever from the united States And I further declare that my Lieutenants Commission and discharge have been lost for many years and that my Ensigns Commission, with other papers  was delivered to Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee to carry to Washington in support of my petition to the present Congress.
Daniel Simond
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I Daniel Symonds within named do on oath declare that the annexed paper is a commission & the original-which was granted to me on 20 Dec 1780-to be a Lieutenant
And also an original muster roll is by me annexed. My discharge was upon another commission of Lieut. which was granted to me pursuant to a resolution of Congress referred to in the commission annexed but the second commission & discharge are lost.
Daniel Simonds

Apr 6 1818 Then the said Daniel Symonds made oath to the truth of the above declaration before me S. Putnam Just. S J. Court of Mass.
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(copy)
I Sylvanus Smith of lawful age do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Lieut. Daniel Simonds in the American Revolutionary was, having served with him four or five years first in Colonel Timothy Bigelows Regiment and afterwards in Colonel Rufus Putnam's the fore being the 15th the latter the 5th Regiment. That the said Simonds when he entered into the service was a well round man, but while in the serve he has a sore on his leg which was very troublesome & continued so til the time of this discharge, and that said Simonds was a Lieutenant and myself a Captain at the time of his discharge
Sylvanus Smith
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex February 12th 1817 
Then the above named Sylvanus smith personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me Caleb Butler Justice of the Peace
Essex ss February 17th 1817 the foregoing is a true copy of an original affidavit produced by and recorded at the request of Daniel Symonds
Attest Robert Rantoul  (illegible)
(copy)
I William Bancroft of lawful age do depose and say that I was well acquainted with Lieutenant Daniel Simonds, in the American Revolutionary war, having served with him four or five years first in Colonel Timothy Bigelows Regiment, being the 15th, and afterwards in Colonel Ruus Putnam's being the 5th Regiment, that the said
Daniel was when he entered the service a round well man but while in the service he had a sore on his leg which troubled him very much & continued so to do until he was discharged and that both the said Simonds & myself held Lieutenants Commissions in said service at the time of our discharge "William Bancroft"
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex February 12th 1817
Then the above named William Bancroft personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me Caleb Butler Justice of the Peace
Essex ss.
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Essex ss. February 17th 1817 The foregoing is a true copy of an original affidavit produced by & recorded at the request of Daniel Symonds.
Attest Robert Rantoul Notary Pub.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss.
Beverly   I Robert Rantoul Esquire Notary Public duly constituted and sworn residing in Beverly in the county and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing copies of the affidavits of Silvanus Sith and William Bancroft and the certificates of Caleb Butler Esq. amended thereto and y own certificate thereon are truly and faithfully copied from my Notarial Records and I further certify that the originals of said affidavitts were by me transmitted to the City of Washington to be used in support of said Symonds petition for releif then pending in Congress
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal this twenty eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Robt. Rantoul Notary Pub.

Beverly march 31th A.D. 1818 We the subscribers overseers of the Poor of the Town of Beverly do certify that the within named Lieutenant Daniel Symonds ever since the twenty fifth of June last past when his leg was amputated, has been considered being as in such indigent circumstances as to require assistance towards his support and has received releif from us at the charge of this town until this time and that he still continues in need thereof.
Robert Rantoul}
Thomas Davis}
Nathaniel Goodman }  overseers
 of the Poor of Beverly
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex Ss. On this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen personally appeared and came before me Samuel Putnam Esquire one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth the said Lieutenant Deaniel Symonds and subscribed and made oath to the afore written declarations by him made.
And it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Lieutenant Danniel Symonds served more than nine months at one period of the revolutionary war on the Continental establishment against the common enemy I hereby certify the testimony in the case to the Secretary of the War Department.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Salem this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
S. Putnam Just. S. J. Court of Mass.tts.

Copies of Affidavits
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Essex Ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth aforesaid in and for the County aforesaid hereby certify to all whom these presents may concern, that the aforenamed Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court as aforesaid, that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said Court and the signature aforesaid is his proper hand writing.
Attest  Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

6th April.
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Nov. 5, 1906
T.
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Simonds, Daniel
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the 
District Court for the District of Vermont, submitted to the House of Representatives
by the Secretary of War on Jeby 21, 1795 and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 155.
Rank: Lieutenant
Regt. 5th Massachusetts
Disability: Has a scorbatic humor in his left leg occasioned by an accidental contusion while in service
Residence: Marlborough
To what pension entitled: one third
Evidence incomplete, viz. 1st, no credence of his disability proceeding from a known wound, 2d, No evidence of three freeholders to prove the fourth requisite of the law
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573
Daniel Symonds
May 15 '18
Beverly
Con

Sept 1818
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Daniel Symonds residence in Beverly in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No 573 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM
" I certify, that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Daniel Symonds late a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the 6th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Given at the War of Office of the United States, this 18 day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C.. CALHOUN, Secretary of "War"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE, contain his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
Rest Estate none, Income nothing
Personal estate as follows viz.
1 case drawers $2.00-2 clothes chests $2.00-$4.00
13 chairs $8.75 1 pine table 1.25 light stand ?.
$10.25
iron ware #1.80, tine ware 31ct. pewter platter 38cts  $2.46
wooden ware $1.70-glass ware $1.14 Crockery ware $1.55    $4.49
potters ware 28cs looking glass 35c-towels &table cloths .75ct   $1.38
shovel & tongs 50ct 1 pair dog irons 50 ct  $1.00
2 candlesticks 10ct knive & fork 55 ct spoons 24ct    $ .89
Brushes .35ct tools of different5 kinds $5.13--$6.49----30.95
Owes debts to sundry persons to the amount of $200.00 none of which have been of long standing and the creditors receive what ever I can spare (in small sums) from my pension money
am 68 years of age, have a wife, a daughter & grand daughter
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who are not of ability at present to support themselves. I have had my left leg amputated above my knee in consequence of wounds received in the service of my country, served seven years in the Revolutionary war-the first of my service was in Capt. Theodore Bliss Company in Co. Patterson's Regiment of the Massachusetts line, afterwards served in the 15th Regt. 5th Regiment as stated in my original declaration, which is now in the hands of the war department.
My occupation was in my active life a farmer
Daniel Symonds
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I Daniel Symonds do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of march one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred ad eighteen, 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. So help me GOD 
Daniel Symonds
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Daniel Symonds took and subscribed the aforewritten  Oath before me Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court.
I, Ichabod Tucker Clerk of the said Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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 nothing
In testimony whereof I gave hereunto set my hand, and affixed the feal of said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17th day of July A. D. 1820.
Attr. Ichabod Tucker Clerk
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Lt. Symonds
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Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts
To Daniel Symonds Getleman Greeting

Reposing especial trust and Confidence in your Ability, Courage & good Conduct I Do by these Presents Constitute & appoint you the said Daniel Symonds to be a Lieutenant in the Regiment (illegible) one of the Battalions raised by this Commonwealth to serve in the Continental Army whereof Timothy Bigelow Esqr is Colonel. You are therefore carefully & diligently to discharge the duty of a Lieutenant in the said Regiment in all things appertaining thereto, observing such orders and Instruction as you shall receive from the Colonel of said Regiment or any other your Superior Officers for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant 'till you shall receive a Commission in manner and form pointed out by the Resolves of Congress of March the eighth & June twenty eighth one thousand seven hundred & seventy nine.
Dated at Boston the Twentieth of December
by his Excellency
John Avery Secy.
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This paper was found in this mutilated condition when the claim was opened to be placed in the flat files.  aw.   Rev. War Section
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Muster Roll of Capt. Haffield Whites Compy.
In the 5 Masstts.  Regt.
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Proof of the Effectives
 - Capt- Lt  -Engr- Serj-Corp- D&F -Privates
Present - 1 - 1 -0 -4-1-0-13
Absent - 0   -0  -1-1-0-1-17
Total     - 1  -1   -1 -5-1-1-33
I do swear that the within hall is a true state of the Company without
fraud to the United States or any individal According
to my best knowledg
{signature:] Daniel Simonds Lieut
Sworn before me at My Quarters
this Day of June 1781

Fourteen  Months
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Muster Roll of Capt. Haffield White's Company in the 5th Mass. Regt in the Service of the Unites States Commanded by Rufus Putnam Esq.-taken for May 1781
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Commissioned  } Jany 1st-1777 Haffield White  Capt.
                          } April 13-1780 Daniel Simonds Lieut
                          } July 10 -1779 Moses Carlton Engr          on Duty
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Apointed   | Serjt.             |what term|       Remarks
                  |Benjn. Water  |                | Returned deserter through mistake Sept 8th 82
                  |Henry Bragg   |               |
                  |John Kimball
                  |Thomas Lakeman|          |????rnting
                  |Elijah Hammond
July 15th 78 - Drum Will Mastick - 2 years - transfered to Capt. Groton's Company May 30th
Inlisted - Privates
 - John Airs
 -John Abbes
 - John Balley - -on command in the infantry
 -John Fairbanks - -on Duty
 - Joseph Gibson
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 - Jesse Garfield - - on command at Horseneck
 - Bravety Gray
 -Seth Harvey - - on Duty
 - Troy Lee - - Confined
 - John Walker - - on command in the Infantry
 - Joshua Whitting _ -On Duty
 - Caleb Williston
March 27th 81 - John Caswell - 3 years
Jany 22nd  Do - John Crumbee - 3 years
March 28 Do - Jesse Carlton - 3 years - on Duty
 Apointed - Corporal 
 -Seth Harvey
 - Samuel Ayers- - Reduced June 9th  on Duty
 - Fife
July 3 81 - John Brown -3 years -on Duty
inlisted - Privates
April 24th 81 - Peter Clark - 3 years
May 2nd Do - John Carroll - 3 years - on Pass
March 15th Do -  Nathaniel Grind - 3 years 
Feby 16th Do - Ebenezer Fisk - 3 years - on command at Stony Point
March 23 Do - Jeremiah How -3 years - on Duty
June 2nd Do - Elikam Hamlton - 3 years
 - Humphrey Hubard - - on Duty
March 10th DO- Lurias Holt - 3 years
Feby 19 Do - William Holt - 3 years - promoted to Fife June the 2nd 81
June 2nd Do - Justus St John - 3 years
June 15 Do - Nehemiah Morse - 3 years - on command at Stony Point
 - William Marsh - - on command at Stony Point
March 27 Do - William Perrey - 3 years
March 27 Do - George Frickes - 3 years 
 - Haffield White - 3 years - on Duty
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June 3rd all mustered then by Haffield White's Company as is specified in the Above Book
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33 766
Revy INVALID.
File No. 33,766
Daniel Symonds
Lieut. Rev War
Act: 18th March '18
Index: Vol 2, page 411
{Arrangement of 1870}