Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8252, for Aaron Pike, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)
Service
Mass. [Massachusetts]

[Star symbol]
Pike, Aaron

Number
R 8252
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Aaron Pike

Revo. Mafs [Massachusetts]

[underlined]

Rejected. See letter to
E. Alvord, Septr. [September] 1. 1829.

8252
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[Crossed Out]
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.

8252

P.O. 

Aaron Pike

Service: ____

Enlisted: ____ REJECTED  ____, 18

Discharged:  ____,18

Alleges: ____

Re-enlisted: ____

Attorney: ____

P.O. ____

Recognized. ____ Contract ____
___ Cert. of Dis.   Searched for ____, 18
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David Steurns

Deposition
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I hereby dyfose [illegible, depose?] and say that Aaron Pike
served as a soldier in the Regimental war
under the Continental Establishment nine
months and more in the years seventeen
hundred and seventy eight and nine[1778-9] in the
company of Captain Staples Chamberlain
and the Regiment of Col. [Colonel] Abner Perry

David Steurns

Middlesex, Fs [illegible, likely abbreviation for Massachusetts], July 17, 1829. Signed and
sworn to by David Steurns this day before me

Eph [abbreviation of Ephraim] Buttrick Justice of the Peace

[Sealed stamp on left side]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex, Fs. [illegible] I Abraham Biglow [illegible, clerk?]
of Auburn [illegible] of Common Pleas for
the county of Middlesex do certify
that Ephraim Buttrick is a justice
of the peace [illegible] for said County, &
his name as written above writing [illegible, certifies?]
match [illegible] in his own proper Signature.

In writings wrong [illegible] I have known to set [illegible]
my hand & affixed the seal of said Court

Aug [August] 17th day of July, 1829.
Abraham Biglow
[underlined]
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David Wiswell [illegible]

Deposition

[Vertical text cut off/illegible]
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I hereby depose and declare that Aaron
Pike served as a soldier in the Revolutionary
War in the Continental Establishment, nine
months and more in the years 1778-9 in the
company of Captain Staples Chamberlain, in
Colonel Abner Perry's Regiment

David Wiswell

Franklin F [illegible] Charlemont May 14. 1829 ~
Then David Wiswell personally appeared
and made oath that the above certifies by
him described is true before me

George Winston
Justice of the Peace
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31052

Aaron Pike

Declaration and schedule for a pension. Accompanied
by two depositions.


E. Alvord Esq. [Esquire]

Greenfield, Mafs [Massachusetts]

[Upside Down]

Pension Office

81 d.b. [illegible] July ? 25 [illegible, 5 or 3]
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Original application for a pension
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

County of Franklin SS.

ON this fifteenth day of April 1829, personally appeared in open court before the (Supreme Judicial Court, being a court of record for the county of Franklin, established as such by the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth. Aaron Pike of Gill [Gill Franklin County, Massachusetts]
resident in said county, aged sixty five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth,
on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the
18th March, 1818, and the 1st May, 1820, that he, the said Aaron enlisted for
the term of nine months on the month of July day of [crossed out] or August
in the year 1778 in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded
by captain Staples  Chamberlain in the regiment commanded by colonel Abner Perry
in the line of the state of Massachusetts on the continental
establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until the expiration of said term
when he was discharged from the said service, in Butts Hill Fort in the state of Rhode Island
that his name has (not) been placed on the pension list, [crossed out] and dropt therefrom on account of his property.

And, in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May, 1820, 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. That, (on the) [crossed out] since the exhibition of my first schedule, the following changes have been made in my property viz. 

(eighteenth day of March 1818,  I was not nor have I at any time
since been the owner of any property to the value of one hundred
dollars; that since the Revolutionary war I have supported my-
self [myself] by my labor; but have, at no time, been able to accumulate
any thing beyond immediate necessities. I now work at mak
ing [making] baskets; but am unable to earn, in that way, a comfortable
living, being infirm by reason of an accident, by which my thigh
was broken; and by age. I have a wife and four children. The
children are between ten and twenty years old; neither of whom
are able to earn more than) [crossed out] a living (their own support. The reason
I have not before made application for a pension, is that until
from on five years past, I did not know that Congress had made
any provision for pension in my situation; and, since I have been
informed that pensions were allowed, I have not known what
measures were necessary to be taken to obtain the benefit of the
law. I need the bounty of the government and feel that I deserve
it)

Aaron Pike

Sworn to, and declared on the fifteenth day April 1824 before the
Court aforesaid.

-E. Alvord - Clerk

I, Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court
do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Aaron Pike
did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the
term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also 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 afore-said [aforesaid] schedule is twenty dollars and fifty cents.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fifteenth
day of April 1829

E. Alvord

Clerk of the Court of the Supreme Judicial
Court for the County of Franklin.