Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,626, David Abbott, Continental (Mass.)
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0 (8-1776)

3 [? lams]
SERVICE
Continental (Mass.)

Abbott, David

NUMBER
S. 32.626

CONTENTS
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BY THE HONOURABLE

MAJOR GENERAL KNOX

Commanding the American Forces on Hudson's River

David Abbott in the Massachusetts Artillery Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.

Given in the State of New-York

the Twenty second Day of December 1783.

By the General's Command,

Knox Major General

Registered in the Books of the Regiment,

Samuel Cooper Adjutant
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5385

Massachusetts

David Abbott

Private, Co, Capt. Lilley

Massachusetts Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of January 1819 and sent to John Hooker Esq.
Springfield, Massachusetts

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818  $33.59
Semi-anl., all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1819  $48.00

$81.59

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

2 years 5 mos.

D. Vol. 2 P. 33 

Crane Mass.


Continued

Transferred to Mass. on 17th
February 1834 - notification, sent to Pensions
Case of Hon. George Grennell of House of Representatives


Notification sent to William H. Averell Esq.
8 November 1820

Cooperstown, N.Y.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

On this 29th day of April 1818

Before me the Subscriber Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in Massachusetts in the said County of Hampshire
Personally appeared David Abbott aged fifty five years resident in Enfield in the County of Hampshire in the Commonwealth aforesaid who being by me first duly  sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions 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"  That he the said David Abbott enlisted in the Army of the United States as a private soldier in July 1781 in the Commonwealth aforesaid in the Company commanded by Capt. Lilley in the Regiment commanded by Col. Crane in the three years service and he served on Hudson's River in the State of New York mostly at West Point untill the twenty second day of December 1783 when he was regularly discharged by Genl. Knox which discharge is hereunto annexed - he was in the Massachusetts Artillery Regiment - That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence in his power to produce except his discharge  aforesaid of his having served in the revolutionary war in the Continental Establishment and that he did not leave the service from the time of his enlistment untill he was discharged

David Abbott

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year first above mentioned. 

John Hooker

I John Hooker Chief Justice of aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said David Abott did serve as a soldier in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the War Department pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.

John Hooker

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire SS.
I Josiah Dwight Clerk of all of the Judicial Court of said Commonwealth for said County of Hampshire do certify that John Hooker Esquire  is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit - that the signature is his proper hand writing and that  the seal hereto affixed is the proper seal of said Court.

Josiah Dwight
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David Abbott


Admitted
Returned for the 
Judge's Certificate
as to Circumstances
service admitted

I John Hooker within do hereby certify that I am satisfied by the evidence produced to me that  the applicant David Abbott is in reduced circumstances stands in need of assistance from his country for support

John Hooker
Springfield Mass
January 5th, 1819
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David Abbott

Middlefield

No. 5385


on Massachusetts Roll

Con.


must make affidavit
of change of Residence
and Send Back
form

Written on side
of the said Court the(cut off)
of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 24th June 1820

G. Morrell Clerk
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District of New York
Otsego County, Ss.


ON this twenty second day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record for the county aforesaid, David Abbott aged fifty three years, resident in Middlefield in the county of Otsego in said District, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war, in Captain John Gallow's Company, Colonel John Crane's regiment, belonging to the Massachusetts line:  And the date of his original declaration was on the twenty ninth day of April 1818 on which he has received a pension certificate, No. 5385.

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 or 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 hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed.

ARTICLES OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE

And that I have no real estate, nor personal property, of any description other than some little wearing apparel
My family was broken up some 4 or 5 years since in consequence of the death of my wife and my incapability to keep it together  - By occupation I am a farmer, infirm in health and for a considerable part of the time unable to labor and am dependant on my pension for a support.

David Abbott

Sworn to and declared on this 24th day of June 1820
Before the Court

George Morrell 
Clerk
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State of New York
Otsego County Clerk's Office

I George Morell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego, and State of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule are truly copied from the Records of the said Court and also further certify that in the opinion of the said Court the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 24th day of June 1820.

G.W. Morell
Clerk
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Hon. George Grenwell
House of Rep.
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Application for a Transfer

County of Hampshire ss.

On this twenty fifth day of December 1838, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Hampshire personally appeared David Abbottt who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company of Artillery commanded by Captain Callender in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Grace in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Massachusetts from which he was transferred to the State of New York from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State (District, or Territory,) of Massachusetts where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.  The following are his reasons for removing from the State of New York to Pelham in Massachusetts.  His friends are in Pelham and they wish him to reside with them and he has no friends in the State of New York.

David Abbott

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, }
the day and year aforesaid.                 }


Edward Dickinson  Justice of the Peace
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I Robert Brown of Belchertown in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty nine years, testify and say, that I am well acquainted with David Abbott, mentioned in the foregoing application, and have known him well for more than twenty years past, and know him to be the same person mentioned in a Pension Certificate, No. 5385 and dated 18 January AD 1819 and have known that he has ? his money under said Certificate many times.  I also know that the person described as David Abbott in the foregoing affidavit is the same person who has subscribed his name and made oath to the same - and the same person as is named in said Pension certificate

Robert Brown

Hampshire ss. December 25, 1833

Then personally appeared Robert Brown who subscribed to the foregoing affidavit, and  well known to me as a respectable and credible witness and made solemn oath on this tenth of this January.

Before me

Edward Dickinson 
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Hampshire ss.

I, Samuel F. Lyman, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Edward Dickinson Esquire, before whom the annexed depositions were taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I  know to be genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty seventh day of December AD 1832.

Samuel F. Lyman 
Register of Probate
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32626

Revy. INVALID


File No.
32626

David Abbott

Pri. Rev. War


Act:  18th March 1818

Index:-Vol. 2, Page 2

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Hon. G. Grenwell
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War Department
Pension Office
Dec. 3, 1833



Sir,


David Abbott, in order to get transferred so as to draw his pension at Boston, must conform to the enclosed printed instructions.  I return herewith his pension certificate.

Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,

J.L. Edwards


Hon. Samuel F. Dickinson
Amherst,
Massachusetts
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David Abbott

Application 
for a 
transfer
2 Sept. 1820

Transferred 8th November
1820 from Massachusetts
to New York


March 19
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER


State of New York
County of Otsego ss.

On this Eighteenth day of September 1820; before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Otsego, personally appeared David Abbott who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Capt. John Callender in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Crane in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Massachusetts from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of New York where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.

David Abbott

Sworn and subscribed to, before me,
the day and year aforesaid.

John Russell
Judge of the Otsego Common Pleas

Note.  The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
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State of New York
Otsego County Clerk's Office

I certify that John Russell before whom the within affidavit appears to have been taken was the time of taking said affidavit a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and  a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Otsego duly qualified as such and that the signature of the said Judge to the within affidavit is the proper hand writing of the said John Russell

In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said County this 10th September 1820.

George Morrell
Clerk
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265

Received 23 September 1820

To be 

Transfer

tomorrow

Otsego 

7.1820

Hon. J.C. Calhaun

Secretary of War

Washington, D.C.
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Free


Hon. J.C. Calhaun

Secretary of War

Washington, D.C.
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Hon. J.C. Calhaun

Sir:

Enclosed I transmit to the War Department the papers in the application of David Abbott for a continuance on the Pension Rolls, and also the transfer of his name from the Massachusetts Agency to the New York Agency.  I shall be happy to learn the result of the application as soon as compatible with the rules of your office.

I am very respectfully your servant,

William H. Averell


Otsego County
Cooperstown
Sept. 1820