Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32791, Gamaliel Handy, Mass.
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(8-1776)
Service:                                                                     Number:
Mass.                     Handy, Gamaliel                         S. 32791

Contents
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14.736
Massachusetts 
Gamaliel Handy of fairhaven in the state of Mass who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson of Mass Line, for the term of three years  War

Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence [illegible] the 7 of April 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of Sep 1819 and Sent to Nahum Mitchell Esq East Bridgewater Massachusetts

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 $39.46
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820 48.
4 mo 28/30   $87.46

Continued

Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.

Amount due as a Reg. Pen. to 4 Sep 1819 $39.4[torn]
Amt paid as an [illegible] Pen.
at $5.33 1/3 per mo: from the 7 Apl 19. to the 4 Sep 1819 $26.30
$[illegible, torn]
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[Continentel], notification sent Sept. 15th, 1820 to Gam[iel-[llegible] at Clk of Ct. of Bristol Co Taunton, Ma
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Gamaliel Handy
Fairhaven
Ms.
Micht. Private
Col Jacksons Regiment
Massachusetts Line
1780-3 years

Former pension certificate must be returned.
Admitted
The said Handy having delivd. me the only certificate he holds - I enclose it & forward his papers again -
N. Mitchell
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Plymouth ss.
On this 7th day of April 1819, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Gamaliel Handy aged sixty five years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision 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."
I Gamaliel Handy of Fairhaven in the County of Bristol Ms do set forth & declare on oath that I was a private soldier in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment and enlisted and served during the first three years service so called in Capt. Amara Soper's company and Col. Marshall's Regiment & Massachusetts line and then enlisted during the war and served to the close of it in Col. Jackson's Regiment being the 8th Mass. Regt. and was discharged at Stony point in the State of New York. I was wounded at the battle of Rhode Island under Genl. Sullivan 1778 and have had a pension of three
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dollars & a third for month in pursuance of "an Act of Congress passed the 20th day of April 1796 authorizing the Secretary of War to place certain persons therein named on the pension list" which he now relinquishes
Gamaliel Handy his X mark

And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Gamaliel Handy did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. and that the said Handy is poor and needs the assistance of his country for support. -
[signed] Nahum Mitchell

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS:
ss. 1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFTY, That    is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth - that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record - that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court of the County of
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Gamaliel Handy
No. 14.736
Sep 1819
Cont'd 15 Sep
1820


Con Mar '20
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The following
bedding ex
is a List or Schedule of the property and value, (necessary clothing and bedding 
excepted) of Gamaliel Handy of Fairhaven in the County of Bristol, viz
Real Estate
One small House, standing in the public highway
16.50.
Personal Estate
one child and one Table
1.50
Iron ware
1.25.
Crockery ware
1.10.
Pewter ware
0.75
-
$4.60.
Gamaliel Handy
mark
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Property valued
at $2.10
SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BRISTOL S. Circuit Court of Common Pleas July Adj. A. D. 1840
On this seventeenth
day of July
1820, personally
appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, having the power
of fine and imprisonment,
Gamaliel Handy
aged
sixty six years, resident in Fairhaven
in said county, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath,
declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
I enlisted at the beginning of the Revolutionary war, in Capt. Crane's Company, which
then belonged to no Regiment, the army not being properly organized: But I afterwards
enlisted in Capt. Amasa Soper's Company, and after my discharge from his Company,
I enlisted into the eighth Regiment, and so from time, as I was discharged from one enlistment, enlisted again, and continued in the service during the whole of the war. My Pension Certificate is numbered 14,736.
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, 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Gamaliel Handy
mark.
Sworn to, and declared, on the seventeenth
day of July A.D. 1820
James Sproat Clerk of the Circuit Court of Bristol County
I James Sproat clerk of the Circuit Court of common Pleas for the County of Bristol do
hereby certify, that the foregoing oath
and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said
court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule
is
twenty one dollars and ten cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said
court, on this
eighth day of August 1820.
Jas Sproat
Clerk of the Court for the County of Bristol.
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Handy, Gamaliel
His name appears on a list of applicants for
invalid pension returned by the District Court for 
the District of Massachusetts, submitted to the House
of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Feby 21.
1795 and printed in the American State Papers, Class 9,
Page 150.
Rank: Private
Regt. Colonel Jacob's, J. Haskin's company.
Disability: Wounded in his breast and back with
a bayonet.
When and where disabled; August, 1778, Rhode Island
To what pension entitled: Two thirds.
Remarks: Militia
Evidence incomplete, viz: 1st No evidence of three 
freeholders to ascertain his mode of life, labor, means 
of support, &. and of the existence of his disability for
the first two years immediately after leaving the
service. 2d, The evidence of witnesses produced
does not clearly prove the continuance of his disability
from the expiration of the first two years after leaving
the service to the time of his application.
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32791 
Revy INVALID
File No. 32,791
Gamaliel Handy
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 174
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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I Gamaliel Handy of Fairhaven in the County
of Bristol in consideration that I have applied for
a pension under the late act of Congress, and in consideration
that I shall receive the same, do hereby
relinquish and forever quit claim unto the United States
a pension of twenty shillings a month Massachusetts currency, which I now receive annually in pursuance of an act of Congress passed the 20th day of April
1798 entitled "an act authorizing and directing the
Secretary of War to place certain persons therein named
on the pension list." In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh
day of April Dom. 1819.
Gamaliel Handy his mark 

Signed sealed & delivered
in presence of us
Jno. M. Goodwin
John Marston

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. April 7th 1819. Personally appeared the above named
Gamaliel Handy and acknowledged the above instrument
to be his free act and Deed before me
Nahum Mitchell Justice of the
Peace through the Commonweath
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Gamael Handy came before me, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, and made Oath that he is the same Gamael Handy expressed and named in an Act of Congress passed the 20th Day of April, 1796, entitled,  "An Act Authorising and directing the Secretary of War to place certain Persons, therein named, on the Pension List" and that he thereby is entitled to Three Dollars and 33 1/3 Cents per Month; that he now resides in the Town of Rochester and County of Plymouth, previous to which he resided in the Town of New Bedford and County of Bristol.
Boston Dec 8, 1790  Saml Cooper Justice Peace