Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30273, Samuel Belcher, Continental Mass.
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Continental
Massachusetts

Belcher, Samuel

S.30273
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Copies of papers sent to Hon J Q. Adams, HR, Jan 31, 1835

Massachusetts

Samuel Belcher

Randolph in the state of Massachusetts

who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Lewis of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Crane in the Massachusetts Line for 2 years

Private of artillery

This certificate is issued in [ ] dated August 10, 1832

{Cancelled}

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of $100 per annum to commence on the 4th day of march 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of June 1833 and sent to Hon J Q Adams, Quincy, MA

Arrears to the 4th of march 1833 - $200.00
Semiannual allowance ending 4 Sept -- $50

Total  $250.00

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by C D Addison, Clerk

Book C, Vol 2nd, Page 39
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To the Hon. Secretary of the War Department in the government of the United States of America

Humbly represents, Samuel Belcher of Randolph in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, That in conformity with the Law of the United States of the eighteenth day March eighteen hundred and eighteen, providing for the relief of the officers and Soldiers in the army of the revolution, he was inscribed on the pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight Dollars per month, as will appear by the record of his certificate bearing date the fifth day of February eighteen hundred nineteen, remaining in the said war department, from which list his name has been since stricken by force of a Law passed in validation to the said law of the eighteenth of March eighteen hundred and eighteen. And his pension thereby stopped, although he had served as a private in the said army of the revolution for a term of more than two years and had been honourably discharged as will appear by his discharge from said army, now remaining in said War Department with his original application for a pension.  Wherefore, in as much as by force of an act of Congress approved by the President of the United States on the seventh day of June eighteen hundred and thirty two, provision is made for all those who served in said army, your petitioner prays that his name may be reinscribed on the pension list, and that he may receive the privilege and benefits of the law last above mentioned: and as in duty bound will ever pray

Samuel Belcher

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk SS, Randolph

11th July 1832 

Then personally appeared the above named Samuel Belcher and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above written

(over)
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petition, and that he is the same person mentioned in the certificate above referred to.

Before me, 

Aaron Prescott
Justice of the Peace
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services. Such of the original muster and pay
rolls of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.

L. W. B.
I. 30273.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,

O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

March 24, 1897.

Sir: --
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Samuel Belcher, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on June 11, 1818, at which time he was residing at Randolph, Mass., (age not stated), and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Seward and Col. Crane. Place of his enlistment not stated

Very respectfully,

Commissioner,

Mr. J. White Belcher,
Randolph, Mass.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

To all whom it may concern.

This is to certify that this day was brought before me and mustered, Samuel Belcher, Aged Twenty Years, Stature Five Feet Ten Inches, Dark Complexion, Grey Eyes, Black Hair, and as he says, did belon to Colonel Thayer's Regiment and Captain Lawen Company of Braintree in the County of Suffolk, by trade a Joyner who appearing to be an effective man was mustered to serve Three Years.

Edward Green,
Muster Master for the County of Suffolk

Boston, March 28, 1788
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I Nathaniel French of Canton in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a Revolutionary Pensioner, of lawful age testify and say that Samuel Belcher of Randolph in the County and State aforesaid was a soldier
of the Revolution on the Continental establishment. He enlisted into a company
of Artillery of which Thomas Seward was Captain and which company belonged to Colonel John Crane's Regiment. The Company to which I belonged, Capt Burbeck's, was in the same Regiment. The said Samuel Belcher enlisted in March A.D. 1781. We were together at New Windsor (N. York) in April the same year and joined the Regment at that place. The said Belcher and myself were also together at the Garrison at West Point. I was discharged from the army in December A.D
1783 and returned home in the beginning of the year A.D. 1784. The said Belcher
and myself belonged to the same town, Randolph, then a part of Braintree, when
we enlisted and when we were discharged from the army. On my return from
service as above stated in the beginning of the year 1784, I found the said Belcher who had returned home from the army a few days before me

Nathaniel French

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Norfolk County
Aug 3d 1832 

Then personally appeared the above named Nathaniel French and made oath to
the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. 

Before me, Thomas Tolman, Justice of the Peace
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30273

INVALID

Revolutionary

File No: 30273

Samuel Belcher
Private, Revolutionary War

Act:  June 7, 1832

Index:  Vol 2, Page 33

Arrangement of 1870

***** 
March 24, 1897 - Hist to Mr J White Belcher, Randolph MA
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BY THE HONOURABLE
MAJOR GENERAL KNOW

Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River

Samual Belcher in the Massachusetts Artillery being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.

Given in the State of New York
the 24th Day of December 1783

By the General's Commany

REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Samuel Cooper
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Suspended January 12, 1833 - see letter to agent

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Massachusetts

Samual Belcher

of Randolph in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Seward of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Crane in the Mass Line for the term of 2 years from March 1781

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eighty (80) dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of August 1832 and sent to Aaron Prescott, Randolph MA

Amount due on 4th of Mar 1832 - $80
Semiannual allowance due 4 Sept -- $40

Total $120

Revolutionary Claim Act June 1832

Recorded Book I, Vol 2, Page 39
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Mailed to Aaron Prescott,
Randolph MA, July 27 1832
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6624
Massachusetts

Samuel Belcher of Randolph in the state of Mass who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cranes of
the Mass line, for the term of 2 years 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of Feb 1819 and sent to John Davis Esquire, Boston MA

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 mo 26/30 - $38.40
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 - $48

Total $86.40
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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I Zeba Hayden of Canton in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a Revolutionary Pensioner, of lawful age do testify and say, that I am and have been acquainted with Samuel Belcher of Randolph, formerly a part of the Town of Braintree, in said County of Norfolk and have personal knowledge that said Belcher served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary Army in the Artillery line in a company commanded by Captain Thomas Seward, which company was attached to the Regiment of Artillery commanded by Colonel John Crane. said Regiment was stationed at West Point in the State of New York in which service the said Belcher remained according to the best of my recollection from two to three years. That said Belcher was in said service at the time your deponent left the service, your deponent having procured a substitute which was in July AD 1783. The time when said Belcher enlisted in said service your deponent does not positively recollect, as your deponent served in a company belonging to the same Regiment commanded in the same part of the said service, by Captain Benjamin Frothingham

Zeba Hayden

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk SS Randolph 
4th August AD 1832 

Then personally appeared the above named Zeba Hayden and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above written deposition before me Aaron Prescott, Justice of the Peace, within & for said County of Norfolk
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Randolph, MA   7th Augt 1832

Dear Sir
In compliance to the directions contained in a letter addressed to me from your department, Pension Office I herewith transmit the Declaration of Samuel Belcher with the certificate of the Executive of this Commonwealth that the magistrate before whom said Belcher made said Declaration is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified to act as such also said Belcher's old Pension certificate.

By the letter from your department above referred to, I have been led to infer that there was some deficiency in the evidence in your Department as to the length of time said Belcher had in his Declaration stated he served by presuming that his discharge in your Department stated the length of time he had served, supported the allegation that he had served more than two years would be fully made out and he be entitled to a full pension of $96, instead of $80 per annum.  In order therefore to enable you to correct any mistake, if one there was in computing the period of his service, as well as to supply the deficiency, if any there were, of the evidence thereof in your Department, I herewith transmit the Depositions, duly certified, of Nathaniel French and Zeba Hayden, both of whom served in the same Regiment with said Belcher and went into service from the same
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neighbourhood if not from the same Town, whose characters for truth and veracity stand perfectly fair so far as I have ever heard or known.

Should the evidence already in your Department and that now addressed be deemed insufficient to prove service of more than two years, Mr Belcher would prefer to have his claim deferred untill he can procure evidence satisfactory to establish that fact, and would take it as a favour that information of the result in your depart ment should be communicated to me as soon as convenient

I am Respectfully yours

Aaron Prescott

The Hon. Secty at War
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

By his Excellency LEVI LINCOLN, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over
said Commonwealth.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

KNOW YE, That Aaron Prescott, of Randolph, Esquire, is a Justice of the
Peace for the County of Norfolk

in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his
Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.

In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this Second day of August A.D. 1832, and in the fifty Seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By His Excellency the Governor,
Edward D Bangs Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

By his Excellency LEVI LINCOLN, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over
said Commonwealth.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

KNOW YE, That Thomas Tolman, of Randolph, Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum for the County of Norfolk

in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.

In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this 6th day of August A.D. 1832, and in the fifty Seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By His Excellency the Governor,
Edward D Bangs Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Payable semi-annually.  The first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of march next at the Branch Bank, Boston
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April 19, 1826, gave a pension to S Crema  to reissue the pension for 6 months up to 4 March 1820

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

ICERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,

Samuel Belcher 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 11th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and nineteen

J C Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Payments to be made at Boston, MA by the National Brank Bank, Agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of Massachusetts

Private of Artillery
2 years
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim-

I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832.

Samuel Belcher of the State of Massachusetts

who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution

is entitled to receive Eighty dollars, and no cent per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of
March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty two

John Robb
Acting Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned. 
J. L. Edwards
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No 293

Samuel Belcher
(Private)

Crane's Regiment - Massachusetts Line

March 28, 1781 till 22 Dec 1783

2 years 9 months

Application 11th April 1818
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United States
Massachusetts District

Samuel Belcher of Randolph in the County of Norfolk and District of Massachusetts, a resident citizen of the United States and applicant for a pension from the United States under 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 maketh oath that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution for upwards of two years is manner following viz:  enlisted in March 1781 in the company commanded by Captain Seward in the Massachusetts Regiment  commanded by Col Crane and served in said corps until December 1783 when he was honorably discharged and is in such reduced circumstances as to require aid from his country.

Samuel Belcher

Massachusetts District
Boston - 11 April 1818
Sworn to before me

M Davis
Dist Judge Mass Dist.
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, SS.
Boston
June 11 A.D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Samuel Belcher subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary "war;"" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A B together with this certificate.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.

M Davis
Judge of the District Court U.S.
Massachusetts District.
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MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss

30 January 1819

I AM satisfied that the above named, Samuel Belcher, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his County for support.

M Davis
District Judge, US 
Massachusetts Dist

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR
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J. WHITE BELCHER, PRESIDENT.
HERBERT W. PRATT, CLERK AND TREASURER.

Incorporated 1851.

RANDOLPH SAVINGS BANK.
RANDOLPH, MASS.,

Hon commissioner of Pensions, Washington DC

Dear Sir
Being desirous of obtaining information as to the enlistment and service of my grandfather in the war of the Revolution, I have been directed to write to you for said information which if possible I could obtain, or was it the War of 1812, I am not sure.

Name of Soldier, Samuel Belcher
Born August 3, 1761 at Braintree, Massachusetts
Died May 11, 1840 at Randolph. Massachusetts

He received a pension from the United States up to the time of his death. The Company or  Regiment or the nature of the service I have no knowledge. If you can from the rolls at Washington give me the desired information I shall be greatly obliged to you-

Yours truly,

J White Belcher 
Randolph, Mass