Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,854, Lemuel Fish, Navy. Mass. Agency And Residence
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Service -Navy

Fish, Lemuel

Number -S.34.854
               - BL.Wt 26.415-160-55

Mass. Agency and Evidence

Contents.
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17.727
Massachusetts.

Lemuel Fish
Barnstable in the state of Massachusetts
who was a mariner on board of the Ship Warren, Capt Hopkins for the term of ten months 
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts,
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of April, 1818
-
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Sep. 1820
and sent to Abner Davis, ag't, Barnstable, Mass

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1820   $232.53
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 March 48."
29 mo.  2/30 1821.                     $280.53                      


{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
and 1st May, 1820. }

1855. 10. May  To Sylvester Bourne
   "     13 June   Duplicate Issued
and sent to  S  Bourne  East Falmouth Mass.
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140086 Act Mar 9/55
                May 19/55
Lemuel Fish
Mariner

U. S. Ship Warren
Cert
Docs
Rev War
Mass Mar 1818- M20
No 6415 if May 26/56 (Diagonal)

Thos, C. Harlow
South Sandwich, Mass
Civ  F. C. Harlow Feb. 21/56
Vol. F. Page 52
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I Lemuel Fish of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty years, on oath testify 
declare and say, that I served in the revolutionary war for the term of more than nine month as a private on board the United States ship Warren Captain John Hopkins commander, I enlisted in March seventeen hundred and seventy eight and was discharged at the end of the cruise in Boston. I further testify that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I stand in need of assistance from my country for a support.
--Lemuel Fish

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable Ss. On the eighth day of Sept in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen Lemuel Fish above named came before me the subscriber, Judge of the Probate of Wills and granting administrations within
and for the said County, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed, and I hereby certify that it does appear to my satisfaction that the said Lemuel
served in the revolutionary war for the term above declared by him, it does also appear satisfactory to me that the said Samuel Fish by reason of his reduced circumstances in
life stands in need of assistance from his country for a support.-
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Probate Court the day and year above written
John Davis
---

I Noah Fuller of Falmouth in the County of Barnstable, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty one years, testify and say that I, together with the above named Lemuel Fish, inlisted (sic) into the United States service on board the above named ship Warren both on the same day at Boston, as privates, and that both of us served the cruise out, and were both discharged together at the 
end of the cruise and that we served on board the said ship at that time more than nine months, and further saith not.
--Noah Fuller
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Barnstable Ss:  September 8th 1819
Personally appeared the within named
Noah Fuller, and made solemn oath that the
within deposition, by him subscribed is 
true. And I further certify that Noah 
Fuller, above named is a credible witness
Before me
John Davis { Justice of the Peace }

Barnstable ss: Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Abner Davis, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Barnstable, do certify that John Davis, who hath signed the foregoing deposition of Noah Fuller, as further
of the Peace, is a sworn Justice of the
Peace for the County of Barnstable &
full faith and credit and to his
official acts as such; and that the above is the signature of said John Davis
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
the seal of our said Court & subscribed my
name at Barnstable the eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & nineteen.
--Abner Davis { Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Common Pleas for the County of Barnstable}
Barnstable  Ss, I hereby certify that on the 3d day of April 1818 the within named Lemuel Fish personally came before me and made a declaration under oath similar to the one made by him herein and afterwards was informed that I was not a competent officer to take it, and thereupon did not have it forwarded at that time: since which he has been confined by sickness and lameness, which has occasioned the delay untill (sic) now, I also certify that the following is the certificate 
of the oath made by me on the former declaration-
--John Davis J. Prob. for Barnst'le Co.
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140086
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State of Mass.  Barnstable Co. Ss.

On this First day of May 1855 before me S. C.
Howland a Justice of the Peace personally appeared Lemuel Fish, aged ninety six years a resident of Sandwich in the State of Mass, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Samuel Fish who was a Mariner on board of the United States ship Warren commanded by (the name and dates he cannot now remember) in the Revolutionary War, that he is now a Pensioner of the U.S. as may appear by records in the war office and he now holds a certificate issued from said office by J.C Calhoun, Secretary of war and bears date Sept 7th 1820. that he has never before made application for Bounty Land.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of
obtaining the Bounty land to which he is entitled under the act of March 3d 1855, and
prays that the certificate thereof may be sent for him to Thomas C. Harlow, South Sandwich
Barnstable Co. MS.
his
Lemuel 
X
Fish
mark
We Allen Fisher and Susan Fisher residents
Sandwich in the State of Mass upon our oaths
(over-
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declare that the foregoing declaration was
signed and acknowledged by Lemuel Fish
in our presence and that we believe from the
appearance and statements of the applicant,
that he is the identical person he represents
himself to be.
Allen Fisher
Susan Fisher
The foregoing declaration and affidavit
were sworn to before me on the day and year
above written and I certify that I know the
affiants to be creditable persons, that the
claimant is the person he represents himself
to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
J. C. Howland  { Justice of the Peace }
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable ss
I, Frederick W. Crocker Clerk of the Court for the County of Barnstable hereby certify that Solomon C. Howland Esquire of Sandwich in said County has been duly appointed, qualified and sworn to act as a Justice of the Peace for said County, and that the signature to the annexed instrument purporting to be his, is his genuine Signature,
In witness whereof I have here unto at my hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on this eighth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty five,
Fred'k W. Crocker   Clerk
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Lemuel Fish
Schedule of
Property
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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 Lemuel Fish
aged sixty one years, resident in Sandwich 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 ten months
in the Revolutionary war, on board the United States Ship Warren agreeable to his original declaration were stated herewith
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. I have no real estate of any description & of personal estate, the
following, one old house not worth wintering, an old cart, one Cow and one swine, I am by occupation a day labourer & by reason of age & infirmity, am not very able to pursue it. My
family consists of my wife Lettuca about three months younger than myself troubled with the astma and a partial deafness. I have two sons Henry aged twenty & Alton aged seventeen, who are both seamen, now on a voyage
round Cape Horn in the capacity of private seamen, and they contribute nothing to my support. I am moreover in debt two hundred dollars, which I am unable to pay, and must loose the little pittance, I have unless my sons return in safety, and are able to prevent.
Lemuel Fish
Sworn to & 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
 cents. In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal
of the said Court, on this tenth day of August 1820.
Abner Davis  } Clerk of the Court for the County of Barnstable
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INVALID
Navy
File No.  34854
Lemuel Fish
Mariner
U.S. Ship Warren
Rev War

Act  March 18, 
Index:  Vol...........,  Page  ...........

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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26,415

Meo Asst
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(Envelope Postmarked South Sandwich MS, Mar. 29)

J Minot Esq
Coms. of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Lemuel Fish's Declaration

The discharge of enlistment
should be furnished on the date
of his discharge & should be
inserted showing the time
he served & there should be
2 witnesses proving the
service in corroboration
of the declaration
May 15. 1820.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable Ss. On the third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Lemuel Fish above named and
in the County of Barnstable personally came before me the subscriber Judge of the Probate of Wills and for granting Administrations within the said County, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed. It does therefore appear to my satisfaction, that he the said Lemuel Fish served as a private in he revolutionary War, the term specified in the above declaration by him made. It does also appear satisfactory to me that the said Lemuel Fish the reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of assistance from his country for a support-
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Probate Court the day and year above written-
John Davis
{ Judge of the Court of Probate }
{ Barnstable County }
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I Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions, the name of Lemuel Fish not being on the Pension Roll of the Army or Navy on file in this Office.
A. Greenleaf
Pension Ag't
May 7/55
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East Falmouth April 29th 1855
D" Sir
Mr. Lemuel Fish, of Sandwich County of Barnstable State of Massachusetts a Revolutionary Pensioner in the Navy. Now
about a hundred years old entirely blind and deaf and stand in much need of his pension at this time, and an account of his Original Certificate being mislaid or lost, he cannot obtain it, John Robinson formally (sic) a Justice of the peace and Postmaster of the place, now deceased, generally did his business and perhaps it is mislaid among his papers. Consequently Mr. Fish Wishes me to ask you,
for him, for a new Certificate- the following I believe is a true copy of the original ______
War Department Revolutionary Claims.
I certify, That in conformity with the law of
the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, and st May 1820. Lemuel Fish, Barnstable County Mass, late a mariner on board the Ship Warren in the Navy of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars per month to commence on the Third day
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of April one Thousand eight hundred
and Eighteen

Given at the War Office of the United States, this Seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War

To the Navy Pension Officer
Sylvester Bourne
Justice of the Peace
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Lemuel Fish,
Barnstable Co: Mass'tts.
Original declaration,
3d April, 1818
Ship Warren, Capt.
Hopkins, Commenced from
March to Dec'r 1778.
Served 10 months,
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Service proved by
several persons
Certified to be credible
witnesses.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Admitted
Worth $30 -
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Abner Davis, agent
Barnstable, Mass
Rec'd 21. Aug. 1820.
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State of Vermont
County of Washington } ss
I Estes Hatch of Middlesex in the County
Washington, State of Vermont, of the age of
Sixty six years being first duly sworn according to Law, do depose & say that I am personally acquainted with Lemuel Fish, who has applied for a pension under the act of Congress
of the 18th March 1818, and the said Fish about the first day of March 1778 enlisted as a marine on board the Ship Warren, Capt John Hopkins commander for the cruise of that year, & that he the said Fish served on
board said ship, in the service of the United States for the term of ten months & was honorably discharged at the expiration of said term.
I  say that I was a mariner on board of the said Ship at the same time, & during the same
period-.
Estes Hatch

Sworn & Subscribed before me on this 22d day of July A.D. 1820. And I further certify that the said deponent is considered as a credible witness, and disinterested.-
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my official seal the day & year aforesaid.-
George Rich Notary Public &
Justice of the Peace
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South Sandwich Ma.
May 7.

L.P.Waldo Esq"
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City-  D.
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Sandwich Ma.
Sir
May 7 55--
Enclosed Please find
application for bounty
land from Lemuel
Fish of Sandwich
Resp Yours
S.C. Howland,
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T.C. Harlow
South Sandwich Mass
26415
160
No 140.086
Samuel Fish 
26.415 deceased
160
leaving no widow or minor children
Enquired if heirs are entitled
Chg'd to Boynton
Feby 9/56
R
Ref'd to Boynton
May 22/56
R
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South Sandwich   March 29, 1886

Dear Sir
Yours of Feby 21 stating that the claim of Lemuel Fish for bounty land No. 140.086. had been examined and suspended has been received-
You ask the question "Did serve on the land" 
I suppose he did but have not had time to make an examination and as he is now deceased I write you to know if- that is a bar to the claim he leaving no widow or minor children - I have been informed that his heirs are entitled to it he having made application in his life time.  Please to let me know and if his death is no bar to the claim. I will look up the necessary evidence-
Respecfully
T. C. Harlow-
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Brief in the case of Lemuel Fish, Revolutionary pensioner
Act 18 March 1818 &c
County and State of Massachusetts
Act 18 March 1818 & 1. May 1820

-Claim, (original " or " for increase.)
-Proof exhibited, (if original.)
-Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported   by rolls? If either state the substance.

For Duplicate

Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Loss of original proved by pensioners. affidavit
supported by that of other respectable witnesses proving his identity &c
Duplicate to be issued & sent to

Name and residence of Agent.
Sylvester Bourne Esq
East Falmouth Mass.

R. Mc Rae Examining Clerk
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Lemuel Fish's Declaration & Schedule of property.

Lemuel Fish's Declaration.
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Original Claim
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, providing according to the Court of the
Common Law, with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount; having also the power of fine & imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record for the said County. Lemuel Fish, aged sixty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the act
of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, and the first of May 1820. That he the said Lemuel Fish, enlisted on said the United States Ship Warren, John Hopkins Commander about the first day of March in the year1778 as a mariner on board said ship, for the cruise of that year, and that he served on board said ship for the term of ten months, and was discharged in Boston at the end of the year. He does not
recollect that he ever had a written discharge, that he was in no battles or engagements, and that he has no other evidence now in his power, except the depositions of Noah Fuller
& Estes Hatch, which are herewith transmitted. And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day March one thousand eight hundred & eighteen, 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,  "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred & 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 & by me subscribed.

I have no Real estate of any description and of personal estate only the following, one old house not worth wintering, one old Cart, one cow & one swine. I am by occupation- a day Labourer and by reason of age & infirmity, and
not very able to pursue it. My Family consists of my wife Lettuci about three months younger than myself troubled with the asthma & partial deafness. I have two sons Henry aged twenty & Allen aged seventeen who==
who are both Seamen now on a voyage  round Cape Horn in the Capacity of private seamen & they contribute nothing to my support. I am 
however in debt two hundred dollars, which I am unable to pay; unless my sons assist me 
me upon the return from whaling.
Lemuel Fish
Sworn to & subscribed on on the 9th day of August 1820 before me 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 thirty dollars and no cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this tenth day of August 1820.

Abner Davis    Clerk of the Courts for the County of Barnstable
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Lemuel Fish  Mass.
Revolutionary
Pensioner Act 1818

Mc Rae
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Application for a New Certificate
State of Massachusetts }
County of Barnstable ss }

On this Twenty Eighth day of May A.D. 1855, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Barnstable personally appeared Lemuel Fish who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the ship Warren, commanded by Capt. John Hopkins in the service of the United States - that his name was placed on the pension Rolls of the
State of Massachusetts -  that he received & had a certificate of that fact under the signature & seal of the Secretary of War or the Navy, & he can not recollect which which certificate was entrusted to the case & keeping of John Robinson Esq. late a Magistrate of said County, who aided him from time to time to procure his pension, by authenticating  the proper papers - that on or about the
second day of January A.D. 1855, said Robinson died quite suddenly at Falmouth in said County - that diligent search has been made among the papers of said deceased & said certificate cannot be found, and he prays that a new certificate may be issued in place
of the one so lost or mislaid
Witness. Eleazer Fisher
his
Samuel Fish   X
Mark
Barnstable ss:- Subscribed & sworn to the day and year first aforesaid and I certify that said
Fish is the identical person he represents
himself to be & that John Robinson Esq. who was my neighbor died at the time aforesaid
Sylvester Bourne ⎬ Justice of the Peace
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I Eleazer Fisher of Falmouth in the County of
Barnstable, of lawful age to testify on oath say
that I well know Lemuel Fish, who is and has been a pensioner of the United States- that I was present when he signed the within affidavit or declaration with his mark- that I know him to be the identical person he represents himself to be and that I am
disinterested
Eleazer Fisher

Barnstable: May 28th  1855. Personally appeared the above named Eleazer Fisher, & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed in my presence and I certify that said Fisher is a credible person & that I am disinterested-
Before me Sylvester Bourne}  Jus of the Peace

I, John H. Robinson, of Falmouth in the County
Barnstable, of lawful age to testify on oath depose & say that I am the administrator of the Estate of John Robinson Esq. late of said Falmouth deceased & have the custody of all his papers & other Effects, that said Robinson died on the second day of January A.D. 1855 at said said Falmouth-  that he was in his lifetime,  for many years, a Justice of the Peace for said
County, in active business as such that I have
made diligent search among the papers & in
the house of said deceased for the pensioner
certificate of Lemuel Fish, and have not been
able to find the same, or any part or trace
thereof. And that I am disinterested
John H. Robinson
Barnstable ss:  May 28th 1855. Personally appeared the above named John H. Robinson, & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed in my presence -and I certify that said Robinson is a credible witness & that I and disinterested
Before me  Sylvester Bourne } Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable ss
I, Fred'k W. Crocker Clerk of the Courts in and for the County of Barnstable hereby certify that Sylvester Bourne Esquire of Falmouth in said County has been duly commissioned by the Governor & Council of said
Commonwealth as a Justice of the Peace for said County, that he has been duly qualified and sworn to act in that capacity, and that the signatures on the annexed Instrument,
purporting to be made by him, in his genuine signatures.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this thirtieth day of May in the year 1855
Fred'k W. Crocker  Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable ss.
Rufus S. Pope, Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County hereby certify that at a Court of Probate held at Barnstable in said County on the sixth day of February A.D. 1855, John H. Robinson was duly appointed Administrator of the Estate of John Robinson late of Falmouth in said County, Esquire, deceased, & accepted said trust & gave bond for the faithful performance of the duties thereof - and said appointment is still in full force & virtue
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand & the seal of said Court this thirtieth day of
May A.D. eighteen hundred fifty five.
Rufus S. Pope   Register