Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13167, James Gibson, Continental Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                                                 NUMBER
Continental         Gibson, James            S. 13167
Mass.
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contents
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3337
New Hampshire
James Gibson
of Fitzwilliam in the State of N Hamp.
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain ----  of the Reg't commanded by Col. Ward in the N.*Hamp. line for 23 months
Mass.*and Continental
Records corrected Jany 27/[  ]
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 76 dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Jany 1833 and sent Levi Chamberlain Fitzwilliam NH

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832                 $114.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 May 33      38.33
                                                              $153.32

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D.D. Addison, Clerk,
Book D, Vol. 1st  Pate 157
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James Gibson
Private
1 year Col. Ward's 
Regt Mass line
New Hampshire
A [  ]
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I Levi Chamberlain of Fitzwilliam in the County of Cheshire & State of New Hampshire on oath state that I have known James Gibson of said Fitzwilliam for twelve years.  That said Gibson was a pensioner of this United States under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, that in this year 1820 I was one of the appraisers who took an estimate of said Gibsons property, or assisted in that appraisal as a magistrate on the proceedings had in this question of said Gibsons being retained on the Pension Lists under the act of Congress of 1820, and that said Gibsons name was therefrom struck from that roll on account of his property.  That the said Gibsons Pension certificate is now before me and is dated November 1, 1819 and numbered 15,505.  I further state that since the passage of the act of Congress of June 7, 1832, I went to the house of said Gibson to see if he could make any statement of his revolutionary services and that he was incapable of writing any communication on that or any other subjects.
Levi Chamberlain

Cheshire ss. Aug. 21, 1832
This said Levi Chamberlain personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above & subscribed the same before me And I certify that said Chamberlain is a man of truth and [  ].
S. Hale J. Peace
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Cheshire ss. Aug. 21, 1832
I Salma Hale, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in said county certify that Salma Hale is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and that the foregoing official signature is in his (my) own handwriting.  In testimony whereof I herewith affix the seal of our Superior Court of [Induction]
S. Hale clerk
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James Gibson
15,595
Real estate - 
March 1820
Schedule
$1002.50

Not entitled
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STATE OF NEWHAMPSHIRE
CHESHIRE COUNTY ss.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
ON this fourth day of July 1820
personally appeared in open court being a court of record for said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, James Gibson aged sixty nine years, resident in Fitzwilliam in said county, who being first duly sworn, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:  that he enlisted on the first day of January 1776 into Col. Jona. Wards regiment and Capt. James Millens Company of Infantry in the Massachusetts line for the term of one year and served during the time of my enlistment, - and was discharged in the first of Jany 1777 - that I was in the battle of Harlem heights, and was private at the taking of Burgoyne.

The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 14th day of August 1819.  The number of my pension certificate is 15595.  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 an 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 securites, 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 my family [   ] of myself, aged as aforesaid that by reason of bodily infirmity occasioned by a breach, & diseases incident to my advanced age I am unable to do but little towards supporting a family - Phoebe Gibson my wife aged 48 years - of slender health.  Benjamin Bacheller and Anna his wife each of an aged 84 years parents of my said wife, and who have entirely depended on me for some years for a support until the sd Bacheller obtained a pension under the act of March 18, 1818 - which pension is not competent to their support, Samuel Gibson aged 39 years, a person non compes mentis, my son, and who is incapable to support himself - That my debts [&   ] if obtained will about balance each other.
James Gibson
Sworn to and declared at Keene in said County, on the 4th day of July 1820 before RNose {Judge of said Court.
I, Salma Hale, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Cheshire, 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 in the aforesaid schedule, is 1002 dollars and 52 cents. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this eighth day of July A.D. 1820.
S. Hale
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Schedule,
of the whole estate (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) and income of James Gibson of Fitzwilliam in the Coun ty of Cheshire and State of Newhampshire, Applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress of May 1st, 1820.

Real estate 100 acres & buildings 23 acres of which is subject to a life lease to Benjamin Batcheller $ - 750.00
4 cows - 52-
2 two years old - 25
1 yearling - 5.50
2 calves - 7.50
8 sheep & 7 lambs - 12.00
1 horse - 27.50
1 yearling colt - 18-
2 [  ] - 15-
1 ox cart - 11-
4 ploughs - 9.50
3 hoes - .25
3 rakes - .25
4 pitchforks - .50
2 shovels - .50
2 iron chains - 1-
1 Dung fork - .42
1 iron bar - 1.25
3 axes - 1.50
7 chairs - .42
2 tables - 1.75
3 chests - 1-
2 spinning wheels - 1.50
crockery & glass ware - 1-
Hollow ware - 2.50
Cooper ware - 2.50
Earthen ware - .75
Brass kettle - 3.33
1 cheese press - .75
1 swarm bees - 6-
1 pair oxen - 40-
1 pair bellows - .25
shovel & tongs - .40
                        __________
                        815.02
                        185.50
                       ___________
                       1002.52
James Gibson
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State of New Hampshire}
Cheshire County ss-        On this sixteenth day of August 1832- before me Levi Chamberlain Esquire a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Cheshire, personally appeared Silas Cummings of Fitzwilliam in said County Physician and made solemn oath. that he the said Cummings is the attending Physician of James Gibson of the same Fitzwilliam who is now more than eighty years old.  that about eight months since the said Gibson was attacked by a paralytic affection which for some time rendered him incapable of bodily exertion, and from that time of his first attack to this time he has been so depressed of the use of speech as to render him incapable of communicating any idea. and that from the present appearance of said Gibson it is not probable that he will ever recover the use of his faculties so as to render him capable of communicating any corrected statement of just transactions.  He further states that he was knowing the said Gibson having been a Revolutionary Pensioner under the act of March 18, 1818.
Silas Cummings, M.D.
Sworn to and subscribed this 16th day of August 1832 before me Levi Chamberlain Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that Silas Cummings who subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit is a physician in regular practice resident in Fitzwilliam N.H. and is a credible and disinterested witness.
Levi Chamberlain Justice of the Peace
Fitzwilliam NH. August 16, 1832
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County ss}         In this sixteenth day of August 1832. before me Levi Chamberlain, a Justice of the peace within and for the Court of Cheshire personally appeared John Fay of Fitzwilliam in said County aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law, made solemn oath, that he has been well acquainted with James Gibson now of Fitzwilliam aforesaid since the commencement of the revolutionary war.  The said Fay was a [   ] into [  ] previous to the war.  He then belonged to Southborough Massachusetts and enlisted into [  ] eight months service in Capt. Josiah Fay's Company in Col. Jona. Ward's Regiment of Massachusetts troops - said Gibson then belonged to Hopkinton Massachusetts and was a private in there eight months [  ] in Capt. Mellen's Company in the same Regiment with said Fay and the said Fay soon became acquainted with, and was very intimate with him through the said service.  was frequently ...
and they served together ...  Said Gibson told this said Fay that ... of the war.
The said Gibson was in the ... service in Capt. Mellens Company in the year 1776 in Col. Ward's Regiment.  Said Fay was in the same service in Capt. Barnes Company in the same Regiment, and knew said Gibson to be there and his recollection is [  ] that said Gibson was in his countrys service in the eight months
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service, and afterwards in the years service in the years 1775 and 1776 said Fay is now a pensioner of the United States by virtue of proof made of the last meritorious service
John Fay
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid before me
Levi Chamberlain Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that John Fay above named is known to me as a credible witness -
Levi Chamberlain Jus. Peace

State of New Hampshire
County of Cheshire ss. } On this eighteenth day of August 1832 before me Levi Chamberlain Esquire a Justice of Peace within and for the County of Cheshire,
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Cheshire ss.   Any 21, 1832
I Salma Hale clerk of the Judicial
Courts in said county certify that Levi
Chamberlain is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and that the six foregoing official signatures are in his own handwriting.
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the
seal of our Superior Court of Judication
S. Hale clerk
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I 13,162
L. W. B.

February 12, 1897.
Sir:
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of James Gibson, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you are advised that he made an application
for bounty land on August 14, 1829, at which time he was 68 years of age and residing in Cheshire county, New Hampshire, and his pension was allowed for twenty-three months' actual service as a private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary War; a part of the time he served under Capt. Barnes and Col. Ward. He enlisted at Dorchester, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Davies Wilson,
1729 Fourteenth Street N. W.
City.
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Items for history to W. Gibson
12.1897. History to Davies Wilson
1719-14th st. N.W..
Washington, D.C.

13,167
INVALID
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File No. 13,167
James Gibson
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: June 7th, 1832
Index:-Vol.  1, Page 142
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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see letter to
N. Parker May 19. 1829.

15,595.
New Hampshire
James Gibson of Fitzwilliam in the state of . N. Hampshire who was a private in the regiment
commanded by Colonel Ward of the Massachusetts* line, for the term of 1 year
*Mass. and Continental Records completed, Jany 27, 66

[in]scribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on 14 of August 1819. --
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of Nov 1819
and sent to Nahum Parker Esqr Judge Fitzwilliam N Hampshire
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819 :                       $5.70
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 mar:1820:           $48
                                                                   $53 70
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Not entitled

[in cursive on left side]: Notification sent July 17th, 1820 to Salma Hale, Keene, New Hampshire
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3337
New Hampshire
James Gibson of Fitzwilliam in the State of New Hamp who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain --- of the Reg't commanded by Col. Ward in the N*.H. line for 1 year

23 months

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hamp at the rate of 40 Dollars --- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Dec 1832 and sent to Hale, Keene, New Hamp

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832                   $60.00
Semi+anl. allowance ending [  ]               20.00
                                                                $80.00
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
Book D    Vol. 1st    Page 157
Mass. *and Continental Records corrected Jany 27, 66
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5337 [written in pencil]

[date stamp]
O.W. & N.
FEB 6 1897
RECORDS.
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O.W. & N. Div.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D.C.    189....

Respectfully returned to the writer, who is requested to furnish, for purposes of identification, as much as possible of the information called for below.
    Wm Lockorn, Commissioner

Full name of soldier:
James Gibson
Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)

Place of residence after service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Hillsborough, N.H.

Date of death (as near as possible):

Christian name of widow:  Married a Miss McLaughlin of New Boston, N.H.
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
Remarks:
Did he or his widow ever get a pension?  If so what was his record?
Your name and address;
Davies Wilson - 
1719 - 14th St., UW
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James Gibson
Payable semi-annually. The first
payment on this Certificate will
be made on the 4th of March
next, in Portsmouth. N.H. at
the Branch Bank
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WarDepartment.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
James Gibson late a private
in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed
on the Pension List, Roll of the New Hamphine
Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of August - one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.-
GIVEN at the War Office of the United
States, this first day of November one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. -
J C Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Mr. James Gibson
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War Department,   No. 15.595
PENSION OFFICE, 17 July 1820
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the
Secretary of War does not, on account of the amount of your property, consider you entitled to a Pension under the Acts of the 18th March, 1818, and 1st May, 1820; and has, therefore,
directed your name to be stricken from the Pension List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards


To
Mr. James Gibson
care of Salma Hale,  Agt.
Keene, N.H.
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James Gibson
Payments to be made
at Portsmouth, N.H.
by the Pres. of M.S.B. Bank
Agent for paying Pensionors, in the Agency of New Hamp...

Recorded by D. D. Addison
Clerk, in Book D  Vol. 1st
page 157
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, James Gibson of the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive forty dollars and --
cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.
the
Given at the War Office of the United States,
this nineteenth day of December
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
Lew Cass
Secretary of War
Examined and
Countersigned.
[overwritten across the document diagonally] Cancelled
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Fitzwm NH
Jany 11                                 free
Department of War
Pension Office
Washington City

[sideways] Jany. 15.
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Fitzwilliam January 10, 1832

Dear Sir:
I forwarded to this department with the old certificate of James Gibson evidence of his inability to make the declaration request by un regulations of the Pension office, agreeably to the directions contained in the instructions of Mr. Edwards in his letter of August 9th.
I also forwarded evidence of Mr. Gibson's Revolutionary services for one year and eleven months to wit:
Eight months in 1775 in Capt. Mellens Company & Wards Regiment.
Twelve months continental in 1776 in Capt. Mellens Company & Wards Regiment.
Three months in 1777 in Capt. Winchs Company & Bullards Regiment.
The two first services were proved by the affidavit of John Fay, and the last by that of Samuel Stone, which were duly forwarded.
Mr. Gibson still continues paralytic - I hope however, if this department is satisfied of the part of his services, that the certificate will be amended so as to allow him compensation for all the services proved.
I return the certificate in the
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hope that the department on revision
will see fit to amend it so that
he will receive a pension commensurate with his services proved.
I perceive that the certificate is
not countersigned.
The Department will confer a particular favour by am early attention to this case as Mr. Gibson will not probably long survive. I am Sir, most respectfully your Obedient Servant
To the Secretary of War.
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Declaration
James Gibson

Return to Hon. Nahum Parker
Fitzwilliam, NH

1 March 1823
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Declaration
In order to be restored to the pension list under the act of the 1st of March 1823
State of NewHampshire
County of Cheshire ss.

On this nineteenth day of March 1829 personally appeared in open court being a court of record held within and for said county proceeding according to the course of the common law having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of their procedings.
James Gibson resident in said county aged 78 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions ^of the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and of the 1st of May 1820 that he the said James Gibson enlisted for the term of one year on the 1st day of January 1776 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company Commanded by Capt. J. Mellen in the Reg't commanded by Col. J. Ward in the line of Massachusetts on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 1st day of Jany. 1777 in Peekskill in the State of New York that his name has been place on the pension list and draft therefore an account of his property.
And in pursuance? of the act 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 an intention thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision 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 no have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
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Schedule of the real and personal estate necessary clothing and bedding excepted and by me subscribed vvg
Real Estate 116 acres of ordinary land lying in a remote part of the town 23 acres is leant out during the natural life of Ben.n Bachelor & wife to secure to them their maintenance the wife is still living 700.00
one home -  $10.00 
two cows -  39.00
two three years old - 48.00
eight sheep -  16.00
two shoats -  12.00
ox cart -  3.00
two plows -  3.50
3 old hoes -  0.33
two old rakes -  0.25
4 pitchforks -  0.33
a shovel - 0.10
Ir. chains -  1.00
Drug fork -  0.50
Iron bar -  1.25
3 old axes -  1.00
seven chairs -  0.08
cooper ware - .50
carried up $136.84
brought up $136.84
two tables - 0.75
3 chests - 0.75
2 spinning wheels - 0.75
crockery & glass ware - 0.75
tin ware - .40
hollow ware - 1.00
earthen ware - 0.33
old brass kettle - 0.75
cheese press - 0.12
3 swarms of bees - 1.50
bellows - 1.20
shovel & tongues - 0.30
one pair of oxen - 60.00
whole amount - $851.69
James Gibson

We the subscribers testify and say that we have viewed the property contained in the above declaration shewn to us by James Gibson above named as his property and are of the opinion that the [  ] set against the inspection [  ] or items are their true value   Timothy Blodget, Caleb Sweetser

Cheshire ss:
March 16, 1829 personally appeared Timothy Blodget & Caleb Sweetser above named and made oath to the truth of the above statement by them subscribed
Before me Nahum Parker Justice peace
I certify that Timothy Blodget & Caleb Sweetser above named are disentered [disinterested] & creditable witnesses
Nahum Parker Justice peace
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An account of property exhibited in my first schedule and not owned by me the applicant

The oxen that were in my first schedule sold, received the pay, which went to pay for labor.  Two of the cows I sold to Abijah Richardson for thirty dollars which I received which went to pay Doctors and Labor. Some other cattle I killed for meat and raised others in their shed. a part of the Sheep I have killed for meat, but as I am almost deaf keep no account and my memory has failed me, it is totaly out of my power to render a particular account about it.  the other articles in my schedule and not in this, are worn out and now useless.
My family consists of myself aged 78 years that by reason of a breack and other infirmities I am unable to labor.  Phebe my wife aged 57 years, her health generally good.  Anna Batcheler my wife's mother aged 94, helpless almost, but in good health who I long since undertook to support during her natural life.  my son aged about 47 years a person non compés mentis unable to take care of himself. that I now owe about seventy dollars.  what little provision I have on hand are hay that my cattle will eat this winter is not put down.  James Gibson
Sworn to and declared on the 19th day of March 1829 before Timothy Farrer & Josiah Butler Justices
S. Hale, Clerk
I Salma Hale Clerk of the court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said James Gibson did serve in the Revolutionary war as Stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of twelve months under one engagement on the Continental Establishment  I also 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 nine hundred five dollars sixty nine cents   In testimony I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on the 23d day of March 1829.   S. Hale
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James Gibson - Priv:
Col: Ward's Mass.tts Reg't
1776 - 1 year
14 Aug't 1818

[sideways] James Gibson's Declaration
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STATE OF NEWHAMPSHIRE
I John Fay of Fitzwilliam in the County of Cheshire and State of Newhampshire aged sixty three years testify and say that in the War of the Revolution in the year Anno Domini 1776 in the month of February I enlisted into Captain Daniel Barns Company in the Regiment of Infantry on the Continental establishment Commanded by Col. Jonathan Ward in the Massachusetts line that when I enlisted as aforesaid James Gibson now of said Fitzwilliam was a soldier in said Regiment in Captain James Millens Company or the company commanded by Captain James Millen and that said Gibson continued to serve in said company and Regiment and did his duty like a good and faithful soldier until the first day of January Anno Domini 1777 when we were both discharged together at Pikeskill in the state of New York and that I am not interested in the said Gibsons application for a Pension and further saith
John Fay
State of Newhampshire Cheshire ss.
On this ninth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen personally appeared the above named John Fay and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed
Before me Nahum Parker, Jus. Peace
I hereby certify the above named John Fay is well known to me and that he is a man of good character for truth and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his testimony in & out of court.   Nahum Parker, Justice Peace
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I Timothy Walker of Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, certify and say: that the Deponent was a soldier in the Revolutionay War in Captain James Millens Company in the 21st Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Col. Jonathan Ward the Deponent joined said Regiment in the Town of Dorchester on the first day of January AD 1776 = and served in said Regiment as a Soldier untill the first day of January AD 1777. - and was there discharged at a place called Pickskill, near Hudson River in the State of New = York, and that James Gibson then of Hopkinton now of Fitzwilliam, in the County of Cheshire, and State of New Hampshire
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex: ss.
I Abraham Biglow Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County of Middlesex, do certify that Elisha Fairbanks Esquire is a Justice of the peace acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, & that his name set to the foregoing certificates is his own proper signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 19th day of November  1818.
Abra'm Biglow
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To the Honorable Justices of the Supreme
Court, or the Justices of the Court of Common
Pleas in the County of Cheshire and State
of New = Hampshire. -