Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33418, for Charles Paine, Massachusetts
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Service  Mass.
Paine, Charles
Number S.33418
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4,045
Massachusetts Rolls
Charles Paine
Capt Goodall
4
Private
Massachusetts [?]Cmd - 1777 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rates of eight Dollars per month, to commence the 8th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of October 1818 and forwarded to Jonathan Leavitte Franklin CO [?] Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818  39.20
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 MAR 1819 48.00
$87.20
4 Nov 27/30
Revolutionary claim Act 18th March 1818
V
[illegible handwritten]
Deerfield, Franklin C
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33418
Revy INVALID.
File No. 33, 418
Charles Paine
Priv Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 8, Page 316
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Charles Paine
Deerfield
Con
4045
Oct 1818
Com 20 [?]
1820
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, began and holden at Greenfield, within and for the County of Franklin, on Monday the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, et de dis in diem to the fifteenth day of the same month,

PERSONALLY appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Franklin, established as such by the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth, Charles Paine aged sixty eight years, resident in Deerfield 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:

In April 1777 I enlisted for the term of three years in Capt. Nathan Goodale's company & Col. Rufus Putnam's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, I continued in the same company & regiment until the expiration of said term, when I was regularly discharged. A short time after I again enlisted into the same company and regiment for the term of six months, and was regularly discharged at the expiration of said term. When in the service I was struck with lightning at West Point, and from that cause have been infirm ever since, and am now so infirm as to be unable to support myself by labour
My wife is dead and I have no children living with me. I have five children living but none of them have any property to my knowledge
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and I do solemnly swear, tht 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. 
Charles Paine [signature]

Sworn to and declared, on the twelfth day of July A. D. 1820, before the said Court. 
Attest, E. Alvord Clerk.

I ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the aforesaid Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 nine dollars and twenty five cents

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of July, 1820.
E. Alvord Clerk.
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Schedule of the estate of Charles Paine of Deerfield, County of Franklin & State of Massachusetts, applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of May 1, 1820

Real Estate
Personal
1 Old Chest of Drawers -------0.75
1 Old Table .25 - 1 Old Candle Stand .25--.50
3 Old Chairs .50 - 1 Pr. Andirons 1.00 - 1.50
1 Crane & Hooks .75 - Old Crockery .75 - 1.50
Old Casks, Wheels & Various other articles 3.00
1 Pail Kettle 1.00 - 1 Old Pot .25 ---- 1.25
1 Axe --------------- .75
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$9.25

Charles Paine
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Charles Paine
(or Payne)
private;
(a Black man.)
Massachusetts line -
com. 8th. April, 1818,.
[double underline]
admitted.
found on the rolls.
[double underline]
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I Charles Paine, a black man, ^[insert] or coloured man citizen of the United States, resident in the Town of Dearfield in the County of Franklin in the State of Massachusetts, on Oath declare that I belonged to the Army of the United States in the revolutionary War. I entered the service in the year 1777, for three years I served as a soldier during that time in the Company commanded by Capt Nathan Goodale in the regiment commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam of the Massachusetts Line. At the expiration of sd. [said] three years I was honorably discharged, at West point, I think in the year 1780. I received a discharge under the name of Col Putnam, but it is lost & I do not know what has become of it. I am almost wholly destitute of property & by reason of my reduced circumstances in life & time in great need of assistance from my Country for support. Dated this 8th day of April AD 1818 - Charles Paine [signature]

State of Massachusetts -
Franklin ss. - April 8th AD 1818. 
The above named Charles Paine made Oath that the foregoing Declaration by him submitted is true 
Before me
Jona Leavitt, Judge of the County Court of Common Pleas

We Elijah Annis & Eliakim Annis both of Dearfield aforesaid do testify & say that the above named Charles Paine is a man of very little or no property & for [?]
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assistance past has been poorly supported by the Town aforesaid. He is truly in great need of assistance from his Country & support. Dated this 8th day of April AD 1818 -
Elijah Annis [signature]
Eliakim Annis [signature]

Sworn to the day & year last aforesaid -
Before me
Jona Leavitt Judge 

To the Secretary of the Department of War
I the [?] Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in the State of Massachusetts, which including the County of Franklin aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the before named Charles Paine served in the revolutionary War as in his Declaration aforesaid. he has set forth against the common enemy & that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of the Court aforesaid this eighth day of April AD 1818
Jonathan Leavitt
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Washington D. C.
Feb. 23rd 1838
Hon. Geo. C Whiting
Comm. of Pensions
Sir
Will you do me the favor to inform me [?] the name of Charles Paine, of Capt. Goodales Company. Masstts. appears upon the Revolutionary Records, now in the Pension Office? and oblige 
Your Obt Servt
C. C. Chaffie