Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,527, Isaac Collins, Continental. (Mass.) Navy.
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Service: Continental (Mass.)
Navy

Collins, Isaac

Number S 12.527
carded
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21.826
Massachusetts
Isaac Collins
of Gloucester in the State of Mass.
who was a Mass. mate in the Comp., commanded
by Captain (blank) of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Webb in the (star) Mass.
line for 13 months Mass. mate-
3 months Midshipmen
8 months Sargeant
$97.50
  19.26
   40.00 on board Brig. Gen. Gates

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass.
at the rate of 156 Dollars 76 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Nov.
1833 and sent to Wm. Terson, Gloucester

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33  $391.91
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4M.34   $78.38
$470.29 (total)

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Go. C Stiles Clerk
Book E, Vol. 2., Page 14

Continental and Navy
Records completed and corrected
Oct. 16/05. &
---
Died July 9, 1834 (AB)
Essex
$96 for Cong. 3 Apl 1818
(illegible)
$155.50
(math not transcribed)

d. July 9, 1834
Agency book
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Isaac Collins of
Gloucester, Ma. surrendered Pen & Certifi.
claims pay of Boston rate in Navy 2
years at $15/no months, except 3 mid. $12

Master Mate    13 months
Midshipman       3 months
Sergt.                  8 month
(total)                26 months

JO
7.50
18.00
40.00
155.50 (total)
313.5
  78.38
391.91 (total)

$180 full pension
Master Male
$166   Midship
(division?)

William Ferson Esq.
Gloucester, Mass.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss
On this seventeenth day of October, Eighteen hundred and
thirty two, before me William Ferson, Notary Public, by legal authority
admitted and sworn and dwelling in Gloucester, personally came
Isaac Collins, a resident of Gloucester in the County and State
aforesaid, aged 76 years, who being first duly sworn according to
law doth, on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed
on the 7th day of June, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States,
under the following named officers, and served as
herein stated.
That he entered on board the Continental Brig. General
Gates of 16 guns, John Skinner, commander in the capacity
of Midshipman on 12th March, 1778; that he continued to serve
on board s'd. Brig until we captured a prize vessel on which
he was put as prixe. master and arrived at Boston on
or about the middle of June 1778, having served three months.
That he again entered on board the Continental Brig
Resistance of 16 guns, William Burke, commander in the
capacity of Masters Mate on 20th June, 1778 and was taken
by the British fleet in the South channel, when they were in
pursuit of the French fleet from Rhode Island bound to
Boston, and said Brig was burnt. He with others of the
crew were carried to Rhode Island and put in prison
where they were detained till about 6th April 1779, when
he was liberated, having been on board said Brig and in
prison Nine and half months.
That he again entered on board the Continental Frigate
Boston of 30 guns, Samuel Tucker, commander in the
capacity of Masters Mate on 11th April 1779 and served
on board said Frigate untill May 12th 1780 when said
vessel was captured at Charleston, South Carolina
having served thirteen months.
That he was born in Gloucester aforesaid on the
9th August, 1756; and his birth is recorded in the Town
books; that he resided in Boston when called into
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the service; that he moved to said Gloucester in 1804
where he has resided since.
That he entered the service ^voluntarily at the several times
herein mentioned; and that he received no written
discharge.
That Jacob Hiler will testify positively to his
knowledge of the applicant's service on board the 
Gates in1778; that he knows of no one living who was
in the resistance, with him nor can he hear of any.
That he enclose a copy of Samuel Tucker's certificate:
who commanded the Boston; the original is in
the War Department with his application for a
pension under the Act of Congress passed March 18th 1818.
That the Rev. Sam'el Adams & Jacob Hiter will certify
their belief of the applicant's revolutionary services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present; and that
his name is only on the Pension Roll of the Agency
of the State of Massachusetts, the certificate of
which is hereunto annexed, No 10, 147, dated May 1, 1819
Isaac Collins

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss
On this seventeenth day of October, Eighteen
hundred & thirty two, before me William Ferron, Notary Public
by legal authority admitted & sworn and dwelling in
Gloucester, personally came Isaac Collins, above named
who subscribed and made oath to the truth of the
foregoing declaration: that he has been known to
me for 25 years past as a respectable person, whose
statement is entitled to full faith & credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and Notarial Seal the
day and year above written
William Ferson, Not'y Public
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16. 747

Isaac Collins  May (illegible)

Gloucester Ma

age 64
Marine
disabled
worth $62?--

(illegible 1819)
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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, Isaac Collins
resident in Gloucester in said Circuit, who is named in
Pension Certificate No. 10, 147 -- 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,
Isaac Collins late a private
in the Army 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 of April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
L. S.  "Given at the War of Office of the United States, this first day
of May-one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as
follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding
excepted, to wit,
(no real estate)
An old unfinished shop built of
wood 14 by 16 feet standing on land
of Elizabeth Parsons in Gloucester used
by me as a wood house, and worth - $50.00
and no other property but few articles
of old and mean house furniture in
family use, desk, two tables, dozen
chairs, andirons, shovel tongs, knives
forks, spoons, bellows and Crockery.--12.00
$62.00 (total)
He owes a Doctor's bill.
He is almost sixty four years old, always
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was a Mariner, but has been disabled many
years by his infirmities, he has a leg broken,
bent and crippled and has a very troublesome
Hernia on both sides, so that he can do no work.
His family are his wife aged 64 and her
sister who has been an invalid from her birth.
He has no income.
He served as a year's man all 1776 in Capt.
Parrott's Company in Col. Webb's Regiment in
Connecticut line.
Isaac Collins

Sworn to and declared by the said Isaac
Collins on the 20th day of June 1820 before
Wm. Wetmore, Judge of the said Court.
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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 Isaac Collins 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 and 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.
Isaac Collins

Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Isaac Collins
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the 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 Sixty two dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed
the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex,
on this 17 day of July A. D. 1820
Attr. Ichabod Tucker Clerk
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March 11, 1939

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Miss Sylvia Schlafer
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts

ISAAC COLLINS
S. 12527
RE-J/MLB

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you requested the
Revolutionary War record of Isaac Collins who, you state, was a
naval officer during that war.

You are furnished herein the record of the only Isaac Collins
found in the Revolutionary War pension records of this office. The
date therein were obtained from pension claim, S. 12527, based upon
his service in the Revolutionary War.
Isaac Collins was born August 9, 1756, in Gloucester, Essex
County, Massachusetts, where his birth was recorded in the Town Clerk's Office.
While residing in Boston, Massachusetts, Isaac Collins volunteered in January, 1776, served as sergeant in Captain Peter Perritt's
company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut regiment, and was discharged
in January, 1777. He entered the naval service at Boston
March 12, 1778, as midshipman on board the brig, General Gates, Captain
John Skimmer, assisted in capturing a prize, and was made prize master
and arrived at Boston about the middle of June, 1778, having served
three months. June 20, 1778, he entered as master's mate on board
the brig, "Resistance", Captain William Burke, the vessel was burned
and he, with others, was carried as prisoner to Rhode Island where
he was detained until April 6, 1779. Again, April 11, 1779, he
entered as master's mate on board the frigate, Boston, Captain
Samuel Tucker, and served until May 12, 1780, when his vessel was
captured at Charleston, South Carolina, having served thirteen months.
Issac Collins moved to Gloucester, Massachusetts
, in 1804, and
while residing there he was allowed pension on his application
executed April 8, 1818.
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In 1820, Isaac Collins was still a resident of Gloucester,
Essex County, Massachusetts, and stated that his family consisted
of his wife then aged sixty-four years, and her sister, but he did
not state their names and no reference was made to children. He
died July 9, 1834.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension and name and
address of the person paid in the case of Isaac Collins, you should
write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
Division, this city, and cite the following data: Isaac Collins,
certificate #21888, issued November 4, 1833, rate $156, 76 per annum,
commenced March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, Massachusetts Agency.
Your self-addressed penalty envelope is returned herewith.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
2
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Hon. William Wetmore Esq.
Salem
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Medford June 15th. 1818
This is to certify that
Isaac Collins was a Sergeant in
the 19th Regt. of Continent Troops commanded by Col Charles Webb, Capt
Peter Parrot's company, that he
enlisted in the month of January
1776, & served until the close of
that year faithfully at which time
he was discharged, his
term of service having expired.
J. Brooks, Major
of s'd Reg't
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James L. Edwards, Esq'r.
Pension Office
Washington
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Gloucester, Ms. Novr 17, 1832
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of the Navy,
Sir,
Enclosed is the Pension Certificate of Isaac
Collins who surrenders it and claims, under the
Act of 7 June, 1832, his pay in Navy 3 months as
Midshipman at $12 per month: and 21 months
pay as Master mate @ $15 per months, which
amounts, as he calculates to $175.50 per annum.
I am, Sir, with respect
your obedt servant
William Ferson
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1939 Mar. 11 - Hist to Sophia Schafer
-
Invalid
Revy Navy

File No. 12524 
Isaac Collins
Master Mate No
Brig Genl Gates.
Rev. War
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Act June 7 1832
Index: Vol. 2 Page 14
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Continental and Navy
Record completed. Oct. 16/05
corrected
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10. 147 R
Massachusetts
Isaac Collins
in the state of
who was a Private the regiment commanded by
Colonel Webb of the Massachusetts
line, for the term of 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 3 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 of May 19
and sent to Wm. Witmore
Boston Mass

Arrears to 4th of Mar 19                  88.49
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept 14     48
(total)                                              136.49

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
-
Continued
See letter 10 Oct. 1833
to Pension Agent

Notification sent July 26th 1820 to
Ichabod Tucker, Salem, Mass.
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Copy:

These are to certify whom it may concern that Mr
Isaac Collins, of the Town of Gloucester, in the County of
& Commonwealth of Massachusetts Mariner, served as first
Masters mate in under my command on board the
Boston Frigate, in the Revolutionary war from
April 11th 1779 until May 12th 1780: then taken at
Charlestown South Carolina, during which term of time
he behaved in his station, becoming a faithful
office meriting the esteem of his Commanded and
all superior officers to himself, who served with
him on board the ship: for the time above mentioned
in every respect he was as good as may
bespoke of- being always ready at all times, be
the duty what it may.
Given under my hand this
first day of April at Bristol, in the County of London?
& Commonwealth aforesaid anno Domini 1818-
Samuel Tucker Commander
of the Boston in the Revolutionary War
(upside down math not transcribed)
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Medford June 15th, 1818
This is to Certify, that Isaac Collins was a Sergeant
in the 19th Regt of Continental Troops commanded
by Col Charles West, Capt Peter Parrot's company,
That he enlisted in the month of January 1776 and
served until the close of that year faithfully at
which time he was discharged, his term of service
having expired.
J. Brooks Major of said Regiment
A true copy of Record.
Attest John Rogers.  N.Y. Pullin
Gloucester May 22 AD 1819
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Isaac Collins
Payable semi-annually. The first
payment of this Certificate be
made on the 4th of September
next in Boston at the
Branch Bank of
the U of Lakes.

Captain Peter Parrotts Company
Col. Charles Wable's Regiment
At 19. Connecticut line-

Recorded
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I Jacob Hiler of Boston in the County of Suffolk and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged 77 years, on oath testify
that during the war of the Revolution I was intimately acquainted
with Isaac Collins, then a resident of Boston and now of
Gloucester; that to my knowledge said Collins entered as
Midshipman on board the Continental Brig General Gates
of 16 guns; John Skimmer, commander in the early part of
the month of March 1778, served on board of s'd Brig until
a prize was captured in the month June, in which said ^Collins was
sent prize Master, which arrived safe in Boston, and that
said Brig  arrived from her cruise in September 1778; and that
the deponent served as a seaman on board said General Gates.

We Samuel Adam Clergyman, residing in Gloucester, and
Jacob Weiler of Boston hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with Isaac Collins, an applicant for a pension; that we
believe him to b 76 years of age; that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood where he resides
to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we
concur in that opinion.
Jacob C Hiler
Samuel Adlam
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, SS.

On this seventeenth day of October, Eighteen
hundred and thirty two before me William Ferson
Notary Public by legal authority admitted and sworn
and dwelling in said County, personally came the
within named Samuel Adlam and Jacob Hills who
made oath to the truth of the statements by them
signed.  And I further certify that Samuel Adlam
within named is a Clergyman resident in S. Gloucester
and that Jacob Hiler is a resident of Boston
and is a credible person and that their statement,
is entitled to credit.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my Notarial Seal the day and
year last above written.
William Ferson Not'y Public
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War Department
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United
States, of the 18th of March 1818,
Isaac Collins, late a Private
in the Army 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 3rd day of April one thousand
eight hundred and Eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States,
this 1st day of 
May one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen.
J C Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Isaac Collins
Isaac Collins
Private
Charles Webbs Regt
Jany 1776 one year

Not found on the rolls.
Service admitted--
certificate of Major
Brooks
allowed to be genuine.
Judge's certificate of
reduced circumstances
wanted.
Apr 13. 1819. proved & certified
Admr
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State of Massachusetts
I Isaac Collins a Citizen of the United States, now resident at
Gloucester in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and
declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in the month of January
In the year of Our Lord Seventeen hundred & seventy six
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of January
in the year Seventeen hundred & seventy seven when being regularly discharged
from the Army I entered & was engaged in the Naval service of the United
State of Continental establishment & served accordingly
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption
or absence; that I belonged to Captain Parrot's company in Colonel Charles
Webb's Regiment for sd term of Twelve months & to the continental brig
General Gates, John Skimmer Esq Commander for & during one cruise as a
midshipman; & to the Continental Brig. Resistance, Wm. Burke Commander during
one cruise, & to the Continental frigate Boston Samuel Tucker Esq commander
for the term of two years as first masters mate
and that I left the service on the surrender of Charleston in the year Seventeen
hundred & eighty
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty,
I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty one years. I have no other evidence in my power to offer than
what is herewith exhibited.
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Isaac Collins

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third day of April in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States,
entitled, ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818,
personally appeareth before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of
the Circuit Court of Common pleas for the middle Circuit
within the State aforesd & presiding pro hac vice--
the abovenamed Isaac Collins.
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of sd Court
I also certify that the within named Deponents are
credible witnesses & have been duly sworn and disinterested.
Govr Brooks, not sworn
Wm Witmore
June 18. 1815,  Boston
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Boston April 13 1819. I also do now certify that after examination
by me the sd Judge duly made it appears to my satisfaction
that the sd Isaac Collins is in such reduced circumstances
in life as to require the said & assistance of his country
for his support. Witness my hand & the seal of the said
Court as within affixed
Wm Wetmore
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I the subscriber late Colonel of a Regiment of
Militia in the State of Massachusetts & a Lieutenant in the
Regiment of Colonel Hutchinson & Rufus Putnam & in the Companies of Captains Putnam, Whipple & Gates,-- during the Revolutionary
war, now residing at Gloucester in the State aforesd do testify
that the within named declarant served on the Continental
Establishment in sd war & as I verily believe for the term of
time stated by him; that he is in reduced circumstances
in life, being poor & indigent & needs assistance from his
country for support.-
John Tucker
Sworn to 3 Apl 1818
Wm. Witmore Judge
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JOHN J. McDONOUGH
ADMINISTRATOR
WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION
FOR MASSACHUSETTS
Historical Records Survey
to Mass. Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, Mass.
January 17, 1939
United States Pension Office
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir:
only one
Will you be so kind as to let me know the life dates of Capt.
Isaac Collins, a naval officer during the Revolution.
His portrait which was painted c. 1790, is being recorded in a
Catalogue of Early American Portraits to be published very
soon by the Historical Records Survey.
Thank you very much.
Refer to Navy Dept if not here
Sincerely,
Sylvia Schlafer
Sylvia Schlafer, Supervisor
Portrait Survey
Historical Records Survey
Penalty envelope attchd B

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RECEIVED JAN 18 1939