Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4881, John Bancroft, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
Mass.
Bancroft, John or
Bancraft
Anna

NUMBER
W. 1881

CONTENTS
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2670
Ohio 
John Bancraft
Bancroft
of Clark in the State of Ohio
who was a Sgt & Lt. in the Compy commanded
by Captain Balster of the Regt commanded by Col. Kies in the Mass line for 
8 months Sergant [sic]
5 months Lieutenant
from 1775.-

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio 
at the rate of 106 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of Decr. 32
and sent to S. Mason
Springfield, O.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832- 159.99
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar: '33 53.33
[total]               $213.32

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by
Nathan Rice - Clerk
Book D Vol. 10 Page 29
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2027
Bancroft
from 1775.
Sergt 8 mon Lt 5 m.
$106.66
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State of Ohio Clark County ss
On this twenty third day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before George B Holt and his associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Clark and State of Ohio aforesaid
now sitting John Bancroft residing in the County and State aforesaid aged Eighty four years in September next - 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 7 1832 That he entered the service of the United States or rather what was then the County of Massachusetts Bay under the following named officers and served as herein stated one Isaac Balster was the Captain and John Hazleton was Lieut of the company to which this deponent belonged he says he does not remember the name of his ensign one Jeremiah Larnard was Colonel and --- Kies was Lieut Colonel and Jonathan Holman was Major of the regiment to which this deponant [sic] was attached that he entered the service on the twentieth day of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five at the Town of Sutton in the County of Worcester in the then Colony of
Massachusetts Bay where he then resided that he belonged to the minute men so called and was a volunteer if he correctly apprehend the manner in which he entered
the service he and his companions had been prepared for some thing like three months before to take the field at any moment their services might be called for-
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The occasion of their being called out at the time specified was the above in consequence of the battle of Lexington fought the day before that he was marched to Cambridge  hence after carrying then a few day he marched to Roxbury when he saw General Washington for the first time and where he remained performing duty as a second sergeant untill [sic] about the last of December of the same year namely 1775 when he was discharged having served eight months the time required by the regulations under which he entered the service he further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service or discharge except as hereinafter mentioned that he kept a Private Journal but has lost it and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services this deponent further declares that he entered the service of the United States for a second time between the first and fifteenth day of July Seventeen hundred and seventy six under the
following named officers and served as hereinafter Stated namely one Bartholomew Woodbury was Captain this deponent was first Lieutenant and- There was Second Lieutenant of the company and the said Company was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Jonathan Holman this deponent entered the service as last specified at the same Town and County in the State of Massachusetts first mentioned at which place
he then resided this deponent was commissioned by the council of the Massachusetts Bay which com-
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mission bearing date July fifteenth 1776 is now in his possession He states he entered the service as a Volunteer and marched with the company to which he belonged the day next after the date of his commission and he accompanied the troops on their march through Connecticut to the City of New York where he remained for a few days only and untill [sic] the army retreated to White plains
at which place a battle was fought a few days after (as near as this deponent can reccollect [sic]) the troops [illegible] there this deponant [sic] was engaged in that battle General Putnam was there This deponent saw and conversed with him on the morning of the day
of the battle This deponent continued in the service in the capacity of first Lieutenant in the company aforesaid untill [sic] sometime in the month of December 1776 and untill [sic] the expiration of five months which was the term for which he had volunteered when he was discharged at Harlem Heights in the State of New York. 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
The following statement is made by the applicant in answer to interrogatories propounded to him by the court namely

1 He says he was born at Reding about fifteen
miles from Boston Massachusetts in the
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year one thousand seven hundred and forty eight
2 He says there is a record of his age and it is in his bible
3 He was living when he was called into the service at Sutton Worcester County Massachusetts before stated He moved from Sutton to Montpelier in Vermont where he resided about twenty years when he emigrated to the State of Ohio where he now resides in the Town of Springfield Clark County
4 He states he was called in to the service in the manner he has before described as a minute man the first time and as a volunteer the second time
5 He says that General Israel Putnam was at Cambridge and had the command as deponent understood of the forces at that place when deponent as there He thinks that General Putnam's command was then called the centre
and General Ward had command at Roxbury before the arrival of General Washington and the troops under his command composed what was then called the right wing of the army and Genl Lee commanded the left wing on Breed Hill
6 He says he never received any written discharge from the service he served out his time and was dismissed He received
a commission signed fifteen of the council of the Massachusetts Bay and by
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John Lowell as Deputy Secy which is now in
his possession as he has before stated
7 The following named Gentleman may be referred to for testimony as to the character of
deponent for veracity and as to their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution
namely Saul Henkle Clerk of the Court, the Hon. Joseph Perrin & Ira Paige. Maddox Fisher Post Master Pierson Spining and Charles Cavalier Merchant
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Bancroft
Mr M. M. Henkle a Clergyman and Pierson Spining Merchant residing in the town of Springfield in the County of Clark Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Bancroft who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty four years of age as stated by him in the
above declaration 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 day and year aforesaid
Saul Henkle Clerk
P. Spining
M. M. Henkle
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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 M. M. Henkle who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the town of Springfield and County aforesaid, and that
Spining who has also signed the same is a resident in same town and County, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Saul Henkle Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Bancroft for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 28th day of July A.D. 1832
Saul Henkle Clk
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Ann Bancroft decd.
Ohio
arrears, case
Act 7 July 38
106.67

from 4 March 36 to
26 Sept '37.

To Louis Lawson & John Bancroft her only
surviving children-
Oct 9. 1843

Wm S. Allison
Prest.
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State of Ohio
County of Clark ⎬ SS
On this 19th day of September 1843 personally appeared before the Court for said County  Louis Bancroft a resident of said county who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the amount of pension which he claims from the 4 of March 1836 to the 26th day of September 1837 from which period a pension was allowed his Mother Anna Bancroft to the 4th of March 1841 under act of 7th July 1838 he further declares that his mother the said Anna Bancroft now deceased was the widow of John Bancroft decd that his mother was  allowed a pension of $106.67 per annum which was paid to her at the agency in Cincinnati in the State of Ohio. He further States that his mother the said Anna Bancroft died on the 3rd day of October 1842 leaving three children to wit this declarant John Bancroft and Lawson Bancroft
Louis Bancroft

Sworn & Subscribed in open Court day & year aforesaid
J S Halsey Clk
The State of Ohio, Clark County, Court of Common Pleas, September Term A.D. 1843
On this 19th day of September A.D. 1843, personally appeared in open Court, Joseph Powers, of lawful age, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was living in the same house in which Anna Bancroft named in the foregoing affidavit of
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Louis Bancroft resided at the time of her death; that she died on the third day of October A.D. 1842, that she left three children, and no more, as deponent verily believes, namely John Bancroft, Lewis Bancroft and Lawson Bancroft
Joseph Powers

Sworn and subscribed in open Court Sep. 19,1843 J Staley Clk

The State of Ohio
Clark County 
It is hereby certified that at the September Term of the Court of Common Pleas of said County in the year eighteen hundred and forty three it was made appear to the satisfaction of
the Court that Anna Bancroft named in the foregoing affidavits of Louis Bancroft and Joseph Power, a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, departed this life on the third day of September A.D. 1842, and that she left the following children heirs of her body, namely Louis Bancroft, Lawson Bancroft and John Bancroft
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Springfield this 26th day of September A.D.
1843.
James S Halsey
Clerk of said Court.
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WORCESTER
DEC 11

Louis Bancroft Springfield
Clark County
Ohio
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John Bancroft and Anne Waters both of Sutton
were joined togather [sic] in Marriage December the first seventeen hundred seventy seven by the Revd Mr David Hall Pastor of the 1st [illegible] in Sutton.

A true copy of record with the exception of the
date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows Decr 1st 1777

Attest Danl Genney Clerk of the Town of Sutton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Sutton Decr 1 1839

I Danl Genney above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk in the Town of Sutton County & State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the Record of said town with the exception above named as certified by me Danl Genney Clerk of the Town of Sutton, Worcester Ss. Decr 10th 1839 Sworn to before me
Graham Harrington Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester, Ss.

I, Joseph G Kendall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, do certify, that the above named 
Nahum Harrington is a Justice of the peace in
for said County, and that his signature to the above certificate is in his own proper hand writing.-
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my named, and affix the Seal of said Court, at Worcester, this tenth day of December, in the year 1838.
Jos. G. Kendall Cler.
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