Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 39,691, Bartlett Hinds, Mass.
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(3 - 1776) 
SERVICE Mass 
Hinds, Bartlett of Bartlet 
NUMBER S. 39691
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Pennsylvania
Bartlett Hinds. 
of Bridgwater in the State of Penna who was a Captain in the Regiment command commanded by Colonel Marshall of the Mass line, for the term of 4 years 

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20. Dollars per month, to come the 12 of April, 1818. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 of March and sent to Hon George Dennison Wilke Barre, Luzerne March Arrears to 4th of March 1821- 432.60 
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept " 34 120.00
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Doled 552.60
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695.25 arr to 4 Mar 1821
262.64 amt of Ivalid Penson c 7.55 5/9 on N. York
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432.60 amt of diff between Invalid and Revy pension

Transf'd (& increased to Rev} from the roll of N York on 20 March 1821 Seet letter 6 April

4 March 1821
[re]corded Val 7/1 105
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States was hurt in cont'l Army in Rev war -  in pension
refer to Secy of War

Petition of Bartlet Hinds a wounded Officer
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Nov. 24 1818 ref'd to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions 
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Jany 14, 1819 Bill reported No 274 
Apl 22 - 1820 
Refd to Pensions & Revy Claims 

Dec 15-1820 
Refd to the Committee on Pension 

Dec 20 1820 
Refd to Secretary of War
Decks N.26  Bloomfield
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To the Honourable the Congress of the United States 

The Petition of Bartlet Hinds a wonded Officer in the revolutionary War Humbly sheweth that He ingaged in the service of the American States in April 1775 at the commencement of hostilities at Boston and continued in the service of the United States untill the end of the Campaign of 80 four of which campaigns were on the Continental establishment & received nothing more for his servises then his monthly pay- except a small depreciation on part of the time-- When being worn out by fatigue in the burden & heat of the day and being afflicted at times by reason of a gun shot wound from the enemies fire ^while fighting from Ticonderoga, on the memorable 19th September 77 which has at times caused painful & Sleepless knights to the present day-- Your Petitioner applyed to General Washington & obtained permission to retire from service - in consequence of retiring your Petitioner was deprived of that just provision made by Congress & was received by all those officers that were shortly after discharged - to wit five years pay - It being recommended by Congress that each state make provision for those disabled in service & had never been put on the Pention list -  the State of Massachusetts appointed an Individual with full power to determine what each one should receive for his debility & adjudging your Petitioner to be fit for Gard or Garrison duty
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allowed him only forty Shillings per month commencing Six years after his resignation as will appear by Certificates lodged in the pention Office. Because he had remaining strength to perform Garison duty at the same time allowed, that he was not able to obtain a livelyhood by manual labour, and the State neglecting to employ him in the services your Petitioner has been deprived of a right to which those unfortunate men were entitled that are doomed to bleed for their fellow Citizens & were returned fit for garrison duty-- Notwithstanding Congress has pointed out a different made whereby an increase of Pention may obtained  . Should Congress be convinced of the above statement & believe your Petitioner is one of those men that never would have troubled the Public unless in periods necessity called-  you will not think Strange of an application in this way at this late Period - it being a fact that his reduced circumstances in Health, age & property renders it morally impossible that he should any longer support himself decently from the means he is not possessed with, & that which he receives from the State.- Pray Congress to take his singular situation into consideration & give such relief as their wisdom shall direct - & as your Petitioner in duty bound will ever pray. 
Bartlet Hinds
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Sworn to & declared in open Court on the fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty before me 
Jabez Hyde Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Susquehanna 
Jabez Hyde Jr 

I Jabez Hyde Jr Clerk of the said Court do certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court; I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is $17. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court on this fifth day of December Anno Domini 1820. 
Jabez Hyde 
Clerk of the Court for the County of Susquehanna
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District of Pennsylvania 
On this fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas now holden of Montrose in the County of Susquehanna & State of Pennsylvania before the hon. Davis Dimock & William Thomson Judges thereof. Bartlet Hinds aged sixty five years last April living in the township of Bridgewater in the County, State of District aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, viz. That he enlisted in April 1775 & served in Col. Cottons regiment Capt Isaac Woods company in Massachusetts line and in the year 1776 enlisted into a company of artillery commanded by Capt Robert Elieff & continued in the service that year & in 1777 received a Lieutenants commission in Amasa Ropers company & Col Thomas Martials regiment in the continental service & continued in the service until the end of the campaign in 1780 when he resigned in consequence of disability occasioned by a wound received the 19th of September 1777 of the battle of Beamans hights-- that he commanded a detachment of the storming of Stoney Point (called forlorn hope) to cut away the alloties & remove obstructions on that he has received forty shillings per month commencing 17th March 1776 agreeably to the resolution of Congress of that of June 1785. & to an act of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts & the 17th March 1786 to September 1820. 

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so 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 & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war". passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person in have for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, otherwise than is set forth in the schedule hereto annexed, and that I have no income other than is contained in said Schedule & by me subscribed
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Schedule Real Estate - none
Household furniture viz

[left column]
One Iron kettle --- $1.50
" " Pot --- .75
" Tea Kettle cracked --- .18
" Spider --- .50
12 plates --- 1.00
3 pewter plates --- .38
1 " platter --- .25
4 earthen bowls --- .25
8 cups & saucers --- .20
1 Sugar bowl --- .12
1 Tea Pot --- .17
1 Tin pail --- .25
2 wooden pails --- .60
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Carried up - 6.15

[right column]
and brought up - $6.15
1 Wash tub- $.50
1 Set Silver Tea spoons --- 3.00
2 Iron table spoons --- .14
1 Set knives & forks --- .75
Shovel, tongs & andirons --- 1.25
3 old chairs --- .25
1 old writing table --- .50
1 Table --- 1.50
1 Large old bible --- 2.00
1 Baileys Dictionary --- .50
1 Morses Geography Attd --- .25
1 Cate's letters --- .37
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$17.66

My occupation by professing is framing but unable to obtain a livelihood in consequence of a wound received of the battle of Beamon hights with a musket ball through my lungs - my wife Agnes 57 years  old totally unable to get a livelihood

Signed Bartly Hinds Lymanual livelihood by
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Susquehanna County SS

Bartlet Hinds Personally came before me one of the associate Judges of the County afforesaid and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Maid Oath that he is the same Bartlet Hinds to whome the original Certificate in his possession was given of which the following is a copy; 
This certifies that Lieut. Bartlet, Hinds an Inhabitant of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who belonged to the 10th Regt Commanded by Col Thomas Marshal and Amasa Sopers Company in the service of the United States of America aged thirty one as appears by certificate Lodged in the Pension Office having been Examined by me is found to be disabled in said service by a musket Ball through his lungs, and I do hereby certify that he is entitled to receive Forty Shillings per month commencing the 17th March 1786 agreably to the Resolution of Congress of the 7th of June 1785 and to an act of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of the 17th of March 1786 and that said Hinds is now fit for Guard or Garrison Duty

Given under my hand at Boston this tenth day of July in the year of our Lord 1786 and in the Eleventh year of the Independance of the United of America.- 
John Lucas Commissary Pensioner 

That he engaged in the service in the year 75 & served till the close of the Campaign of 80 four of which campaigns was on the Continental establishment, when by reason of disability occasioned by a Gunshot and resigned his command in conseque-
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ence of which was deprived of any Commutation either of Land or money which was allowed to all those Officers that were shortly after discharge and further the deponant saith not as witness my hand and seal 2d day of Novm A.D. 1818
Davis Dimock Esq
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Pennsylvania Susquehanna County SS 

I Jabez Hyde Jr Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Susquehanna do Certify that Davis Dimock Esquire is and was at the time of taking and signing the within Certificate one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid and that full faith and Credit ought to be given to all his official acts and deed as such and that [crossed out: full faith and] his signature is of his own proper hand writing In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Moncton the second day of November AD 1818 Jabez Hyde Jr Just
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Montrose Dec 13th 1819 
Sir 
The presure of national business that necessarily engrosses the attention of Congress Makes it painful for me to add to the burden, the Duty however which I owe to myself compell me to solicit your particular notice to the Petition which was laid before Congress the last Session which was in favour of My Self. It would be weekness for me to attempt to recount to youth & in what way the Soldiers in the American revolution ware compensated for their servises & should you believe with me, that the Petition States facts - I cannot but little doubt but that. you will believe that I am entitled to receive six years pension with the Interest -  I have been deprived of in the face of that just provin maid by Congress for all those that were disabled in the revolutionary war. Since a Coppy of that certificate from the Commisary of Pentioners at Boston has undoubtedly been examined by the Commission who reported in my favour - I shall only observe as it was my misfortune and not my fault that I left the service at the time I did.  I can see my self entitled to receive in proportion to those Officers that ware deranged shortly after my resignation by five years pay- Concious as I am of the justness my claim can appeal to that Magnaminity which has on your honour superior to any private or partial consideration that your influence may be known in such a
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as may be thought best for the purpose of affecting an object verry important to your most Obedient Servant 
Bartlet Hinds 

General. Bloomfield by Wood J. Bloemfeld 18 bus Denson a Member from structwill hand this letter to you

Bartlet Hinds 
S Bloomfield
1819 - by W. Has Bently
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District of Pennsylvania Susquehanna County SS

I do Certify that on the seeth day 1818 Bartlet Hinds of said County before me and after being by me duly sworn according to law in order to obtain the provision made by the late law or act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war, the said Bartlett swear that he enlisted in April 1775, the Company commanded by Capt. Isaac Wade in the Regt. com'd by Carl Cotton's Mass line for eight months and there he serv'd his time out and then engaged in 1777 and record a Lieutenants Commission in the Company by Capt Amasa Soper in the Regt com'd by Col. Thomas Marshal of the Massachusetts line and served untill the end of the campaign of 1780 and that he received a wound on the 17 of Sept. 1777 in the Battle of Saratoga for which he had recd a pension which pension Certificate he presented and left with me with other papers in order to obtain provisions as above stated- Requesting me at the same is time not to send on his application untill he should get councell whether he should first make a station to Congress or not to obtain certain claims he said he had on the United States, and he afterwards came and took
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away his papers in order as he said to send them to Congress for the purpose aforesaid and therefore I cannot make out his certificate in due form but I have no doubt his right to obtain according to his first aplication --- as Witness my hand and seal this 30th day of January 1821
Davis Dimock Asso Judge in and for said County
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Pennsylvania Susquehanna County SS

I Jabez Hyde Jr. Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County aforesaid Do certify that Davis Dimock Esquire is and was at the time of taking and signing the within Deposition in operate Judge of the Court  of Common pleas for the County of Susquehanna and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts and deeds as such In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Montrose the thirty first day of January AD 1821 
Jabez Hyde Jr. 
Prothotry
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I Josiah Smith of the town of Wareham County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do certify that I was a Lieutenant in the army of the United States in their revolutionary war with Great Britain and was well acquainted with Bartlett Hinds and many of the important services he at that time rendered his country-- The first services performed the said Hinds and this Deponent were in company together as minute men the first eight months campaign at Roxbury in the year 1775, and afterwards eight months in 1776 in a train of Artillery in the State of Rhode Island - In the beginning of the year 1777 said Hinds received commission of Lieutenant in the continental service and this deponent joined the same company when we soon after for discharge when we soon afters head for Ticonderoga where we arrived the 6th day of March of the same year and continued at that place until compelled to retreat before the forces under Gen Burgoyne which was on the sixth of the following July 

the retreat was continued until our army was joined by such reinforcement that it was thought advisable to return upon the enemy, and in the first engagement army afterwards had with the forces under Burgoyne Lieut, Hinds received a shot through his body - He soon recovered from his wound and was again to do duty -  which duty he continued to perform until some him in the year 1780 . without for the particulars giving the services which Lieut Hinds and this Deponent performed while together he would mention that of the successful assault made upon the fort at Stoney Point in which the said Hyde had a conspicuous situation in
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He was in the advanced detachment commanded by Major Henry where this deponent also had the honor of serving and that in the same platoon with him suffice it to say that during the time Lieut Hinds continued in the service of his country he was considered an intelligent and valuable officer, and that he and the deponent were together in the continental army from the commencement of the year 1777 until some time in the year 1780 as before mentioned. 
September 1th 1819 
Josiah Smith Lieut 

Plymouth SS  Wareham September 11th 1819 
then Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace this 7th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen Josiah Smith the Deponent aforesaid and made oath to the truth the foregoing statement before me 
Ward'th Crocker Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Lieutenant Josiah Smith the aforementioned Deponent and that he is a man of veracity and ought to be believed Ward'th Crocker Just of Peace 
Wareham Sept. 7th 1819
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The subscriber, Physician and Surgeon residing in the town of Montrose in the State of Pennsylvania, having been acquainted with Lieut. Bartlett Hinds for more than ten years personally, hereby certifies that the said Lieut  Bartlett Hinds is afflicted with diseased lungs, the apparent consequence of a gun shot wound received in the revolutionary war, and that the State of his health is such as under him incapable to attend to military duty, or any laborious occupation. 
Montrose 1st Nov. 1818- Charles Fraser

I do certify that the facts stated in the above Certificate are true to my own personal knowledge by an intimate acquaintance with the said Bartlet Hinds for more than ten years
Davis Dimock
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In the House of Representatives of the United States December 20 1821 

Ordered that the petition of Bartlet Hinds, be referred to the Secretary of War 
Attest Tho. Dougherty
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H R. Jan. 1821 
Sir
Enclosed you will receive the application of Barlet Hinds for a pension to which I would request your attention. Should any additional evidence of his services he required. I can probably furnish it 
respectfully 
your obt. servt
Geo Denison


J.L. Edwards Esq
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H. R. Feb. 13. 1821 

Sir
I herewith send you the certificate of Judge Dimock relating to the application of Bartlet Hinds for a pension whose papers I sent you a short time since. If this Certificate is sufficient to authorize the granting of his pension from the date of his former application, you will please to transmit to me his certificate 
Respectfully your obt servt 
Geo Denison

J.L. Edwards Esq. . Pension Office
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H. R. Feb. 13. 1821 

Sir
I herewith send you the certificate of Judge Dimock relating to the application of Bartlet Hinds for a pension whose papers I sent you a short time since. If this Certificate is sufficient to authorize the granting of his pension from the date of his former application, you will please to transmit to me his certificate 
Respectfully Your obt svt 
Geo Denison

J.L.Edwards Esq. Pension Office
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Montrose Decr 6th 1820 
Sir
Bartlet Hinds applied to me for the benefit of the pension law of 1818, the time of his aplication was April 12th 1818 but the reason he did not take a certificate was his hope of an allowance from Congress of which harness you are acquainted - perhaps the Secretary of war will think he ought to be benefitted by the aplication since  he has not received what he believed was his due from Congress his need you are made acquainted with 

I am yours respectfully
Geo Denison Esq Davis Dimock
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the within named Davis Dimock was at the date of the within certified and for more than five years  before an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Susquehanna County in Penn 
Geo Denison
Jan 8 1821
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Jan 31 1852. Please send me a copy of the enclose letter of Brother Genl Provert . Also the letter of Ford Hines with the
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Bartlet Hines filed papers some time about 1818 & was pensioned under act of 1818 
Is his discharge on file in the Pension office 

If so please furnish me a copy in full 
Truly Yours G.A. Crow
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F. 39691
REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE
O.W.&N.DIV 
MEMORANDA. 

Please supply as much as possible of the data called for below.
Full name of soldier. Bartlett Hinds 
Place of residence before service: Town, county, and State, if possible. Mass 

Place of residence after service. (Town, county, and State, if possible.) Date of death (as near as possible) Christian name of widow: either he or his widow receive a pension 

Remarks: Lient 10th Mass 6 Nov 76 Capt of 10th resigned 12 Sep 1789 

Your name and address: 
W. Hinds
1443 W NW
Wash D.C.
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to Bartlet Hines in lieu of the pension, to which he is now entitled by law, a pension of twenty dollars per month to commence from the twentieth March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
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Place Bartlett Hine's name on the revo-Pens Role & strike it off the Invalid List - commence the pension April 1818. Send cert to Hon G. Dennison & direct the agent to deduct the amt of the Invalid Pension from the Revo: Pension 

Hon: Geo: Dennison, Wilkes barres Luzerne Co Pa
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39691 
INVALID. Revy
File no. 39691 
Bartlett Hinds Capt Rev War
 
Act: 18 March 18 Vol. 8, Page 227 Arrangement of 1870. 
1895 Apr 18 hist fo Worthen City
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Bartlett Hinds 
in the W l 
Ret Brown
1811
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Wilkes Barre Feb. 8. 1841. 
Dear Sir
The enclosed commission I transmit you, to be used by you if it should be thought necessary as collateral evidence in support of my claims now before the honourable committee of which you are a member - I should sent them with you while at Washington and found you at your lodging when I took  leave of that place. I have given you documents to be forwarded to the Secretary of War,  to remedy an allegedd defect in the documents I have before furnished. 

I rely sir, on your exertions in my favour as you have felt with those who suffered for the liberties of our Common Country, I have confidence that, as my claims are well forwarded my business will result favourably 
I am Sir, with much respect your obt sert  Genl Robt Brown 
Bartlett Hinds
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IN CONGRESSS
The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES OF New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay,  Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and George, TO
Bartlett Hinds for Greeting

We, Reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valor, Conduct, and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be 
first Lieutenantif the fourth Company whereof Amasa Soper is Captain in the Battalion whereof Thomas Marshall Esq is Colonel in the Army of the United States, filed for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every [illegible words] carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a first Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Offices and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as their first Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow such orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time of being in the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according  to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commit to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress

Dated at  Boston November 6. 1777

By order of the Congress
John Hancock PRESIDENT
ATTEST Chas Thomson
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State of Mass Bay Bartlett Hinds Genl Greeting

Reposing special trust & confidence in your ability, Courage & good Conduct by these presents constitute & appoint you the said Bartlett Hinds, to be Captain Lieutenant in  the Tenth Regiment of Foot, one of the Fifteen Battalions raised by this State to serve in the Continental Army where of Thomas Marshall Esq is Colonel

You are therefore carefully & diligently to discharge the duty of Captain Lieutenant in the said Regiment in all things appertaining thereto observing such orders & Instructions as you shall receive from the Colonel of said Regiment or any other your Superior Officers for which this shall be your suffice to Warrant till you shall give a Commission in manner & form point by the Resolves of Congress of March the 8th of June 1879 --- --- - - --- Dated at Boston this thirteenth day of July A.D. 1780 

And in the Fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America
By Order of Council 
James Bowdoin President
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMRICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
For  and To Bartlet Hynde gentleman 
Greeting We Reposing special trust confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, condected Fidelity, Do by these presents constitute and appoint Lieutenant in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment in the Army of the
United States taken rank as from the first day of  January 1777. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duly of Lieutenant by doing an performing all manner of things thereunto belonging And  any charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command to be obedient to your orders as Lieutenant [lots of illegible smeared words] from time to time as your [smeared words] for the [smeared words] the United States, or any of the trust reposed in you. This [smeared words] in force until revoked by this of a future, the committed of Congress before mention -
Withness his Excellencey Samuel Huntington President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the 29th day of September 1779 and in the fourth year of our Independence. 

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board 
Secretary of War
Samuel Huntington

Attest Ben Stoddart