Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37088, Richard Haley, Mass.
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Mass___________Haley, Richard___________S37088

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5919
Maine
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Richard Haley

of Alfred in the Dr, Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Massachusetts line for the term of 3 years
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Inscribed on the Rolls of Maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of Janry 1819
and sent to Benjamin Greene Esqr.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 27/30_____$39.20
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 March 819______48.00
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-------------------------------------------$87.20

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March 1818}


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Notification sent to Daniel Sewall  Esq 
12 Oct 1820 Kennebunk Maine
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SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz.

Real estate: Ten acres of land in said Alfred—a house, one story very much out of repair, and a small barn thereon.
Also 15 acres of waste land, unfit for tillage or pasturage

Personal estate 2 Cows - 5 sheep - 1 hog - a few articles of household furniture in value not exceeding eight dollars -

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Richard Haley who by occupation am a farmer which I am unable to pursue by reasons of old age.

Names -------Ages---Capacity of each to --------------------------------contribute to their support
Mary Haley wife|---75--|not of a capacity by reason of old age to contribute any towards her support.

Rachael Avery granddaughter| ---12----|of a capacity to support herself

Richard Haley 


STATE OF MAINE
York ss

I Daniel Sewall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within the county of York do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 one hundred & forty dollars -- Cents  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF , I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty second day of July A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

Daniel Sewell } Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of York

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Richard Haley

Con

(ineligible)
5919
Jan 19
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STATE OF MAINE
York ss.......At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at York within and for the County of York and by adjournment of Alfred from day to day on the eighteenth day of July in the of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty before the Honorable Benjamin Greene Chief Justice of said Court.

ON this eighteenth day of July in the year 1820 personally appeared in open Court the same  proceedings and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said County Richard Haley aged seventy nine years,  a resident in Alfred 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, viz, as a private in the company commanded by Capt Nathan Goodale in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sewall  in the line of the State of Massachusetts, on the Continental Establishment as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration made on the eight day of April A.D. 1818 and which said declaration his Certificate of Pension numbered 5919 was granted. 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 with 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 hereunto annexed and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same together with the number and other particulars of my family are in fact and truth as is herein particularly described, also subscribed by me.
Richard Haley (signature)

Sworn to and declared on the 18th day of July A.D. 1820}

Before  Benjamin Greene, chief Justice { of this said Court
A.W.Daniel Sewall, Clerk
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Richard Haley
Private

April 82 to 31 Dec 83
5th Mass  regt


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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
YORK SS

On this eight day of April 1818 before me, the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Eastern District in said Commonwealth personally appears Richard Haley resident of Alfred in said county of York and state aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration--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." 

That he the said Richard Haley being seventy six years of age, enlisted as a private soldier in the army of the United States for the term of three years in the month of April 1782 under Capt Nathan Goodale in the fifth Massachusetts regiment -- That he joined said company and regiment in June following at West Point and served therein until November 1783 when he was transferred to the company commanded by Capt John Hobby in the first Massachusetts regiment commanded by Col Joseph Vose in which he continued until the 31 of December 1783 when he was honorably discharged from the army and that the discharge which is hereunto he then received and that he is the same person to who it was originally given.
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BY THE HONOURABLE
MAJOR - GENERAL KNOX
Commanding the American Forces on Hudson River 
Richard Haley private in the First Massachusetts Regiment, being enlisted for Three Years is hereby honorably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States

Given in the State of New York
the thirty first Day of December 

1783

H Knox Major General (signature) 

By the General's Command,

REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment
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37088
Revy INVALID

File No: 37088

Richard Haley
Pri Rev War

Act 18th March 18


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