Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18698, Jared Battels, Mass.
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Service Mass.
Battels, Jared or Battles
S. 18698
carded
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21330 2[illegible numbers]

Massachusetts
Jared Battles
of Plymouth in the State of mass who was a private in the Cont commanded by Captain Guching of the Reg commanded by Col. Crighton  in the Mass line for 10 Mas.

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Aug. 1822 and Sent to J. H. Sorel plymouth

Arrears to the 4th of Ma'[?]                  $66.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. [?]  16.66
                                                             $83.33
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Po. C. Stiles Clerk, Book E. Vol 2. Page 9

See letter Oct 15, 1833 to Ebenezer T. Fogg -

[faint notation at bottom of page] 81 Paym
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[blank page]
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Cohasset August 7th, 1832
I hereby Certify that Jared Battles was Born September 21st, 1752 as appears by the Records of the Town of Cohasset.
[signed] Thomas Bowen Town Clerk
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Jared Battles

Statement
25.955
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State of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth       } fs.

On this twenty second day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Hon Wilkes Wood, Judge of the Court of Probate for the said County of Plymouth now sitting at Hanover in said County. 
Jared Battles, a resident of Scituate in the said County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts aged eighty years nearly 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 June 7th A.D. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, to wit:
1st In May he thinks A. D. 1775, he entered said service as a private in the Company commanded by Job Cushing, 1st Lieut. Nath Nichols, 2 Lieut. Josiah Oakes, Orderly Sergeant Peter Nichols. attached to Col Creighton's Regiment Lieut. Col Vose. Major Loring, his Company was stationed the first four months at Cohasset and Nantuskett [sp?] to guard the shore and harbours, [sic] then ordered to Cambridge and joined said Regiment and was stationed at Fort No. 2, as he then understood served his term out. he assisted in building Cobble hill fort and while so employed the Brittish [sic] fired upon them from their ship [illegible] Genl Ward he thinks was first commander afterwards Genl Washington.
After having served eight months the time for he had enlisted. he received a written discharge from his Captain which he has lost. He can prove this service by Joseph Neal who served with him a principal part of the time. his deposition is annexed. He thinks this service was in the continental line.
2 In the Autumn of 1776 about the time the American troops were defeated by the Brittish [sic] at White Plains. he entered said service in the Company commanded by Peter Cushing. Loud & Bates were the other officers marched to Providence and to Fairfield and remained some time and barracked in the Courthouse, then marched horse [?} neck in New York as he thinks, continued and served his term out and during the time his company was engaged in a slight skirmish with the Brittish [sic]. After having served two months was discharged and returned home to Cohasset, but did not receive a written discharge. he can prove this service by Jerome Cushing. his deposition is annexed.
He served as aforesaid Ten months in all. he has no documentary evidence of his service.
He was born in Cohasset, in the state of Massachusetts the 21 of September A. D. 1752 his birth is recorded in the town records of Cohasset. He lived in Cohasset when he entered said service and lived there the first 56 years of his life and since then has lived in Scituate. He volunteered or enlisted into said service, he was not drafted, nor a substitute. He has named all the officers under whom he served, that he now remembers, also all the important occurrences of his service.
He is known in his present neighborhood to Samuel Deane Samuel A Turner and others who can testify as to his character from veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
[signed] Jared Battels
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Attest [signed] Jacob H. Low Register

We Samuel Deane a clergyman residing in the town of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, and Samuel A Turner residing in the same town, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jared Battles who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty years of age, nearly that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood when he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
[signed] Samuel Deane  
              Samuel A Turner
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest [signed] Jacob H. Loud Register

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Samuel Deane who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the same town of Scituate and that Samuel A Turner who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. By the Court, Attest [signed] Jacob H. Loud Register
I Jacob H. Loud Register of the Court of Probate for the said County of Plymouth do hereby certify that the foregoing contained the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jared Battles for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this twenty second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
[signed] Jacob H. Loud
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No. 25955
Jared Battles Plymouth County
Massachusetts.
Jared Battles
Private 10 M[illegible]

J. H. Loud Plymouth Massachusetts
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War Department, Pension Office.
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabula form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations shew [show] what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling [sic] with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, shewing the Service of Jared Battels Plymouth County Massachusetts
[below are the headings of each column]

Period when the service is rendered.
Duration of the claimant's service. Years. Months. Days.
Rank of the claimant.
Name and rank of the Field officer under whom he served.
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
Proof by which the declaration is supported.

Entered May 1775 8 months
private 
Cap Cushing Col Creighton
80 years 

Entered 1776 2 months
private
Cap Cushing
Cohasset Massachusetts
Traditionary evidence & four witness certified credible, papers correct

I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
The las has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerk to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c, Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of }
    County of                          } ss.
On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A. B. a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory, or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank], with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank]
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B.., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] 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.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. and that C. D. who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [blank] day of [blank] &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in this investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. {To a Soldier.} Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
    {To an Officer.} Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and that they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
  "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: - For ___ year ___ months, and ___ day, I served as a ____. For ___ months and ___ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
   It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has not public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenicating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of the office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of teh Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from (a) to (i) are equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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18698
INVALID
File No. 18698.
Jared Battles
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: - Vol. [blank] , Page [blank]

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

FREE [stamped instead of postage]
PLYMOUTH MASS. JUL 3 [round cancellation stamp]
Mass. 25,955 [written along left edge]
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Probate Office
Plymouth Mass.
July 3. 1833
J. L. Edwards Esq
hi
I send the Claim of Jared Battles for a Pension. A Deposition of a person in Cohasset was taken before James C. Doane Esq a Magistrate for Norfolk County & the official character of Mr Doane was not certified. I retained the papers & sent the Depositions to Battles to get a Certificate that Doane was a Justice of the Peace. Mr. Doane obtained the necessary certificate & instead of sending the Deposition directly to me that the same might accompany the claim sent it immediately to Washington. Supposing in the multiplicity of papers in your office that the Deposition might never be found I advised to take the Deposition anew but before my advise [sic] was adopted the Deponent died.
If you have such a Deposition on file you can add it to the papers. It is Jerome Cushing Deposition to prove the second period in Battles Declaration.
In haste yours with respect
[signed] J. H. Loud
Regr
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Cohasset Ma                                 93
Apr 25

addl proof
Jared Battles
Mass.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, Dist Columbia
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I herewith enclose the deposition of Jerome Lincoln taken by me in behalf of Jared Battles with a certificate. It is now about eleven months since the act granting pensions under which Battles claims passed.
In September last Eleven individuals belonging here applied under that act, all of whose claims were substantiated by certificates from the secty [secretary] of this Commonwealth stating that the evidence of their service was found in the documents in his department. Five of the applicants have died since September, one only has received his money, one other received a certificate. James Hoddard's but his name was not transmitted to the pension office in Boston. The others falter upon the brink of the grave, with hopes defered [sic] and for them, unless soon relieved, the late returning justice of their country mas as well have been withdrawn.
Respectfully yours
[signed] James E. Doane
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I Joseph Neal of Cohasset in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, aged seventy nine, on oath do testify and say that in the month of April or May A. D. 1775 Jared Battles of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and state aforesaid entered with me the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution for eight months in the Company commanded by Job Cushing in Col Creighton's Regiment stationed at Cohasset & Cambridge the said Jared Battles served the whole time I belonged to said Company which was about seven months. I was then discharged and said Battles remained and further saith not.
[signed] Joseph Neal
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth js Aug. 11,1832 Then the above named Joseph Neal made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true before me. [signed] Ebenezer T. Fogg - Just peace

Aug. 11. 1832 I Paul Marritt of said Scituate certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Joseph Neal for many years and that he is a credible person
Attest [signed] Paul Marritt
Sworn and subscribed to by said Paul Marritt the day and year aforesaid - before me -
[signed] Ebenezer T. Fogg - Just peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth jp. I Jacob H. Loud Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Ebenezer T. Fogg esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for said county and that I believe his name within subscribed is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this second day of October in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two. [signed] Jacob H. Loud

Joseph Neal Dep -
Jared Battles
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South Scituate                                    Free.
Mass Septr 30
    J. L. Edwards Eqr
      Commissioner of Pensions
          Washington D. C.
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Scituate Sep 27. 1833
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Sir,
Jared Battles, of this town, a Revolutionary Pensioner, has requested me to inform you that he received his Certificate about two weeks since, and has applyed [sic] to the Agent at Boston for his pay but heh not having received Battles' name from the Department, declines paying him, which I presume in this hurry of business has been overlooked. If you will have the goodness to send the agent the necessary order as soon as may be you will confer a favour [sic] on the poor old Pensioner.
Yours Respectfully
[signed] Ebenezer T. Fogg
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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 James C. Doane Esquire is a justice of the peace within and 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. and that his signature hereunto annexed is genuine
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this twenty fourth day of April A. D. 1833, and in the Fifty seventh Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor
[signed]] Edward D. Bangs Secretary of the Commonwealth.

[seal in upper left corner with signature] Levi Lincoln
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I Jerome Lincoln of Cohasset in the County of Norfolk & State of Massachusetts on oath do testify & say that Jared Battles of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State aforesaid, entered with me the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution in Captain Peter Cushing's Company, marched to Fairfield and New York and served two months, the year of the said service I do not now distinctly recollect and further saith not.
[signed] X "his mark" Jerome Lincoln

Norfolk js. Aug -21st 1832 Then the above named Jerome Lincoln made oath that the above affidavit by his subscribed is here - before me- [signed James C. Doane Justice of the peace}

I further certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Jerome Lincoln many years and that he is a credible person, is seventy nine years of age, and is generally reputed to have served as a soldier in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution.
Cohasset August 21 1832 [signed] James C. Doane