Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19,349, Royal Humphreys, Mass.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE   [stamp of star]        NUMBER
Mass.       Humphreys, Royal   S. 19. 349
 
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CONTENTS
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19  349
INVALID
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[illegible initial]
File No.  19, 349
Royal Humphreys
Pri Rev War
Act:  June 7" 32"
Index: -- Vol.  2, Page 195
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1871.
Massachusetts
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Royal Humphreys
of Athol in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Morgan of the [illegible] commanded
by Col [blank line] in the Mass
line for 6 mos
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Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
at the rate of 20 Dollars [line] Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Nov
1832 and delivered to G
Folsom of Worcester Mass [illegible]
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1862  $ 30.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 [illegible] "33  10.00
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$40.00
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{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
Book D  Vol. 2  Page 58
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I John Humphreys of Athol county of Worcester Commonwealth of Massachusetts being seventy six years of age testify & say, that I will remember, the inlistment  of my brother - Royal Humphreys - in the army of the Revolution for the defense of the public [illegible] at Springfield he was enlisted for six months; I went with him to Springfield for the purpose of bringing back the horse he rode and I left him there and have good reason to believe he served out his term of six months.
John Humphrey
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester Ss Athol Sept. 10th 1832 Personally appeared the above named John Humphreys & made solemn oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true and I also certify that the said Humphreys the deponent is a creditable person and that his statement is entitled to full credit.
Before me Theodore Jones, Justice of the Peace.
We Isaac Briggs - a clergyman residing in Athol and James Young and Eliphalet Thorp Esquire residing in the same town - hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Royal Humphreys an applicant for the benefit of the Pension Act of A. D. 1832 - that we believe him to be seventy years of age - that he is believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion.
Isaac Briggs
James Young
Eliphalet Thorp
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester SS September 8th 1832 - Personally appeared the above named Isaac Briggs, James Young & Eliphalet Thorp Esq & made solemn oath that the foregoing statement by them subscribed is true and I also testify that the above deponents are creditable persons & that their statement is entitled to full credit.
Before me Wm. H. Williams Jus. Peace
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I James Humphreys of Athol in the County of Worchester of Commonwealth of Massachusetts do herby certify that I will remember the said Royal Humphreys, in the time of the revolutionary war: that he enlisted for six months, and went to Springfield to guard the continental stores; but I believe he was removed to Brookfield, in the same time of duty: and as for as my recollection serves me he stayed his full time of six months.

James Humphreys

Worchester [illegible] August 29th 1832
Personally appeared the above named James Humphreys and made oath that to the best of his recollection, the above declaration is true, before me. 

Wm H Williams Justice of the Peace
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I Asa Lord of [Orange?] in the county of Franklin State of Mass- do testify & say that Royal Humphreys, an applicant for the benefit of the Pention Act of 1832, that I believe him to be 70 years of age that I know him the said Royal to be a Soldier of the Revolution in the beginning of the year 1778 I lived in the same town and belonged to the same company of the said Royal enlisted with myself for six months to guard publick stores in Springfield in Mass- then we went according to orders and was under the command of Capt. Morgan, we was then but a few days before orders came for part of our company to go to Brookfield 30 miles distant in the same state.  He the said Royal was drafted to go and I saw him no more untill my time was out and I have no doubt but he stayed the six months for we got home within a few days of each other some time in the month of July following.
Asa Lord
 Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester Ss Athol September 12, 1832 personally appeared the above named Asa Lord and made solemn oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true and I also certify that the said Asa Lord, the deponent is a creditable person.  And that his statement is entitled to full credit.
Before me James Humphreys Justice of the Peace
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DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Worcester, ss.
ON this fourth day of September in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Hon Nathl Paine, Judge of the  Court of Probate, now sitting, Royal Humphreys, a resident of Athol in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy 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 act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he was born Sept. 22, 1761, in said Athol, as it appears by the records of that town, where he has resided ever since except two years of apprenticeship at Winchendon in said Co.
That towards the close of December, 1777, orders came to Athol for two men to serve at Springfield, Massachusetts in defence of the stores there deposited, when he and Asa Lord volunteered their services, for a term of six months.  His brother Humphreys, now living went with him to Springfield as as said Lord, and he then joined the Company of Captain Morgan.  After a few days he was drafted to go to Brookfield, to perform a similar duty at that place; the only person drafted for service at the same time, was Solomon Gates, of Peterham, who has since been a pauper in Orange, Franklin County, Mass. is not sure whether Gates is now living or not.  Lord remained at Springfield.  At Brookfield he was under the command of Lieut. Davis, and faithfully served out the term of six mo. for which he had enlisted.  He performed guard duty, & no during that term, at the expiration of which he was dismissed namely, on the second day of July.  He is enabled to the last date, as it was the day on  which a public ex for murder took place at Worcester.  The precise date of his leaving Athol, he does not recollect, only that it near the end of December, or the beginning of January.  While at Brookfield, a soldier was  fired upon by the sentry  the man was busy in taking flints from a cask, and was  found by the sentry to be pillaging the public stores.  The man was severely wounded, & discharged from the service.
He knows of no person now living who served with him at Brookfield, unless Gates is an exception.  But both Jo & James Humphreys were well acquainted with the fact of enlistment & absence from home for six months.  The Rev. Briggs, and James Young & Eliphalet Thorp, selectmen of are well acquainted with him & will certify to his claim.
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.
Royal Humphreys
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before Nath. Paine, Judge
of Probate for the County 
of Worcester
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And the said court do hereby declare theit opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Rev. Isaac Briggs, who signed the annexed certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Athol, and that James Young and Eliaph. Thorp, who have also signed the same are residents in the same town, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl Paine judge of
Probate for the County of Worcester
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby dertify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of   for a pension.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand day of in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty ___
I Theophilus Wheeler Register or Clerk of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of  the said Court in the matter of the application of Royal Humphrey, for a pension.  I further certify that James Humphreys, Theodore Jones  and William H. Williams, before whom the annexed affidavits were made, are Justices of the Peace in & for said County of Worcester in Whose Acts credited to to be had and that the signature of said affidavits, appear to be in their own hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Probate this  29th day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty two
Theophl. Wheeler Register of 
said Probate Court

Royal Humphrey
6 mo
$20