Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,975, Timothy Gerrish, Navy N.H. Mass. Sea Service
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Service
Navy
N. 76 ?
Mass. sea service

Gerrish, Timothy

S. 17975
carded
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18.605
Maine
Timothy Gerrish
of Eliot in the State of Maine
who was a private [illegible] in the Company commanded
by Captain Smith of the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Mooney in the -
line for 9 months 10 days Private
14  months 20 days Seaman 

New Hampshire and Navy and Massachusetts sea service

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 89 Dollars 50 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of September
1833 and sent to
Mr Hammond Eliot

Arrears to the 4th of September 1833      $223.75
Semi-anual. allowance ending 4 March 34 $44.75
$268.50
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7 1832}

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk 
Book E Volume 1 Page [smudge] 18
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6772
Brief in the case of Timothy Gerrish
of Eliot in the State of Maine
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
(in the margin it says 10 yrs old when he commented for service)
3. How old is he? 68 years- born 16 June 1764
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed .
[Table of four columns with headings:]
Period || Duration of service || Rank || Names of general and field officers under whom he served.
Thinks-no service- || 9 months || waiter || Colonel Finney’s regiment of New Hampshire militia. Captain not recollected. 
Not stated || 6 months || waiter | to Lieutenant Colonel Mooney || New Hampshire militia.
Not stated || 6 months || private || Lieutenant Colonel Mooney || New Hampshire militia.
Not stated || 6 months || private || Lieutenant Colonel Mooney || New Hampshire militia.
Not stated || 3 months || seaman || Captain Simpson Commander || U.S. Ship Ranger.
6 June 1780 || 9 months || seaman || Captain Simpson Commander || U. State Ship Mars.
7 June 1782 || 5 months 14 days || seaman || Captain John Cathcart Commander U. State ship Tartar

5. In what battles was he engaged? -none stated-
6. Where did he reside when he wanted the service? None stated-
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence , by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? - by documentary proof from the Secretary of State Massachusetts- as to part of his naval services  and  traditionary evidence of two witnesses certified to be credible. 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect ? Not attached according to the regulations.
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence  mentioned,
E. Stephens
Examining Clerk
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New Hampshire Militia a waiter for my grandfather Lieutennant Colonel Archelaus Mooney we were stationed at Rhode Island.
I continued in this service as a waiter for Colonel Mooney for six months General Sullivan commanded at Rhode Island during the time I was there. I know of no one that was in the above service while I was there. After the above service I returned to Durham and enlisted in a company of New Hampshire Militia under command of Captain Samuel Runnels belonging to a Regiments of which Archelaus Mooney was Lieutennant Colonel we marched to Rhode Island. I was in the service in this company six months, I served as a private soldier. General Sullivan commanded at Rhode Island during this time. Soon after I was discharged from the above service I enlisted as a private soldier at Durham in a company of New Hampshire Militia under command of Captain Drown we were marched to Rhode Island were stationed in Providence we barracked in the Colledge. Archelaus Mooney was Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment to which Captain Runnels company belonged. General Sullivan commanded at this place- I was in this service six months - I then enlisted as a seaman on board of the United States ship Ranger at Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire. Captain Thomas Simpson was the Commander. Elijah Hall and --Collard Frigate and a Vessel called the Queen of France we captured seven sail ladened with Provisions and Warlike stories for the British army at New York among which were ships Jason and Maria. Letters of Marque of twenty guns each I was on this service three months when we returned to Portsmouth and I was discharged, On the sixth day of June in the year seventeen hundred and eighty. I enlisted at Boston at the Massachusetts state ship Mars commanded by Simeon Sampson we went to France for small arms and warlike stories for the army and returned to Boston about the twelfth day of March seventeen hundred and eighty one making my service on board this ship nine months and six days. On the seventh day of June seventeen hundred and eighty two I enlisted at Boston on board the Massachusetts state ship Tartar- Captain John Cathcart Esquire Commander we sailed on a cruise and returned to Boston about the twenty first day of November following. I was in this service five months and
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Before me William Hammond} Justice of the Peace

And the said Court do hereby declare therein opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. 

And the said Court further certifies that it appears to them Josiah Remick is a respectable citizen resident in said Eliot and that John Hammond is a magistrate for the County of York also resident in said Eliot, that they are both credible persons & their statement entitled to full credit and that there is no clergyman resident in the vicinity of the Applicant

Wm. A. Hayes Judge of said County

I William Cutter Allen, Registrar of the Court of Probate aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of Said Court in the matter of the application of Timothy Gerrish for a Pension.  And I also hereby further certify that William Hammond is a Justice of the Peace as above stated and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this third day of September A.D. 1832.

[signature] Wm. Cutter Allen
Register of Probate.
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April 25, 1931.

Hon. E. Hart Fenn,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Fenn: 
In response to the enclosed letter of Mr. L.F. Middlebrook, Drawer 1336, Hartford, Conn. which was received in this Bureau on the ?2" instant, I have the honor to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, Survivor File No. 17975, it appears that Timothy Gerrish was born at Kittery, Maine, June 16 1764.

He enlisted in Durham, N.H. at the commencement of the Revolution and serves nine months as waiter for a Captain, name not recollected, in Col Finney's N.H. Regiment, after which he served as waiter for his grandfather Lieut-Col. Archelaus Mooney, for six months.

In 1779 he enlisted and served as a private, six months, in Capt. Samuel Runnels Co., Lieut-Col. Archelaus Mooney's Regt. After which he served six months in Capt. Drown's Co. of the same Regiment. 
He next served three months as seaman on the U.S.S. Ranger.
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He served as seaman from June 6, 1780 to March 18, 1781, on the Massachusetts State ship Mars, and from June 7, 1782, to Nov. 21, 1782, on the Massachusetts State ship Tartar. 
There are no dates of service, other than those given above and it is not stated that he went to sea after the Revolution, nor is there any other data on file as to his family. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed Sept. 3, 1832, while living at Eliot, Maine.
Very truly yours,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner
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Left side-
17975
INVALID.
File No. 17975
Timothy Gerrish
Pri Rev War
Capt Runnels
Col Finney - NH Mil
Act: June 7" 32
Index:-Vol. /, Page 140
{Arrangement of 1870.}

Right side-
1921 Apr 25. Hist? to Hon E Hart Fenn for Mt. Middlebrook who wanted data to give to Mr. Henry E Gerrish of Hartford, Conn
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I David Davis of Durham New Hampshire, aged seventy three years, depose and say that I have been acquainted with Timothy Gerrish of Elliot in the in the State of Maine more than fifty years, and that in the year 1779 he belonged to the same company which was raised in Durham New Hamp. and to which I belonged, Commanded by Capt. Samuel Runnels then of said Durham; and in the Regt, commanded by Col. Hercules Mooney. I further depose that said Gerrish marched with and belonged to same company to Providence Rhode Island and there joined the Regt. commanded by the Col Mooney and Maj Daniel Reynolds of Londonderry N. Hamp, and that said Gerrish continued with me in said company doing duty for the term of six months at Providence, Tiverton and Rhode Island in the year aforesaid- after which term I left said company and knew nothing further of said Gerrish; Revolutionary services.
Jno A Richardson
David Davis 
State of New Hamp.
Stratford Js April 19 1833. Then the above named David Davis personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing before me
Valentine Smith Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford, Ss
I Andrew Peirce Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County of Strafford do hereby certify that Valentine Smith Esquire, before whom the within affidavit was executed, is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Strafford and that I believe his name thereto subscribed, to be his true and proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this 22 day of April A.D. 1833,
A Peirce, Clerk