Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 45062, for Pomp Peters, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)

               SERVICE                                                               NUMBER
  Mass.                                     Peters, Pomp  (Colored)   S 45062
                                                                                         B.L. Wt. 110-100

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               CONTENTS
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11,710 R
New Hampshire
Pomp Peters                                                        
of New Boston in the state of N Hampshire             
who was a private in the regiment commanded by         
Colonel Marshall of the Massachusett                    
ine, for the term of Three years & 9 mos                       
nscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
on the 6 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of June 1819 and Sent to J R Smith
Amherst -- New Hampshire

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 259/303    87.69
semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819                  48.

$135:69

Nos "fr' sent to Peter Chuomick, Exeter NH, 17 July 1820  
Date of death not on AB.
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Pom Peters
of
Massachusetts Line
10th Reg. & Col Tupper
Given to 6 April 1818
one witness
Pomp Peters, Private
Colonel Marshall Regt
Massachusetts line
1778 war 
on Roll
Admitted
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I Pomp Peters of New Boston in the county of Hillsborough in the state of New Hampshire a man of colour a resident citizen of the United States now in the fifty eighth year of my age do solemnly swear that some time in June to the best of me memory in the year of our Lord 1779 I inlisted a private soldier for the term of nine month in Capt Smith Company in the tenth Regiment in the Massachusetts Line commeded by Col Typper and passed muster at a place called Leicester MA from thence I was marched to Fish Kills from thence to West Point New York  I continued in that service till the spring of the year 1779 when time of inlistement was about out. My Col Marshall persuaded me to inlist for the term of during the war which term of inlistment I entered in the same Company Regiment and faithfully served till after then wat when I honourably discharged in a place called Newburgh oposite West Point and to the best of my recollection in the month of June 1783 which discharge I have [illegible] I knownot what became of it. I was in the battle of Monmouth and the taking of Corn Wallace and in a scirmish near Kings bridge and fought the enemy on our retreat nearly the whole of the fore noon. I have never been placed on the pension list of invalids and I am in reduced circumstances. I stand in
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need of assistance from my Country for my support and have no further evidence now in my power to substantiate my claim than what is herewith exhibited.
Text to the mark signature of Pomp Peters by his X Mark.
Saml Morrison
Sworn this ninth day of April 1818
before me JK SMith [illegible] Justice of the Court of Common Pleas

State of New Hampshire HIllsborough. On the ninth day of April 1818 Before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pease for the county of Hillsborough aforesaid personal by appears Pomp Peters resident in New Boston in said county in the fifty eighth year of his age and being duly cautioned made solemn oath agreeably to law in order to obtain a pension under the late act of congress entited "an Act to provide for certain persons engage in the Land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" that he inlisted a private soldier to the best of his memory sometime in the month of June 1778 for nine month which he served out in Capt Smith's Company in the tenth Regt in the Massachusetts Line Commanded by Col Tupper & at the end of that service he inlisted again in
the same company of Regt for the term of During the War and [illegible] and to serve in a Corps or the service of these United States untill the month of June AD 1783 when he was honourably discharged in Newburgh oposite West Post which discharge he has since lost that he was in the battles of Monmouth and at the taking of Corn Wallace and a skirmish near Kings Bridge that has has now been placed on the pension list of [illegible]
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and is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support from all which I vertify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Pomp Peters did serve in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy in the continental establishment more than nine months and I further certify from my own knowledge that he is in reduced circumstances & needs the assistance of his country for his support and I now transmit the proceedings & the testimony taken I had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress.
JK Smith Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas

This certifies that the signature of the KJ Smith on this paper is in his own handwriting & that he is one of the judges of the Court of Common please for the county of HIllsborough aforementioned. In testimony whereof I have here affixed the seal of said court.
Mour Eastman Clerk
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Pomp Peters 
9th June 1819
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham SS
On this first Tuesday of July 1820 appeared in open court before the [blank] Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for said County (hand written: [illegible[ at Portmouth in and for the first District) being a Court of Record for the said County of Rockingham, having the power of fine and imprinsonment, Pomp Peter aged seventy years, resident in Newmarket in said county, who being first fuly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:
I inlisted I think in 1777 Jun and during the war in Capt Smith company in the 10 Massachusetts Regt commanded by Col Tupper (I think) as a soldier and so continued until peace took place in 1783 when I was regularly discharged. The date of my original decliration in order to obtain a pension is the 6th day of April 1818. the number of my pension certificate is 11.710 I I have [illegible] a pension

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 to thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the providion of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaed 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 there schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. My occupation is a labourer I have not sufficient ability to pursue it.

I have three in family residing with me viz a wife aged forty years a son aged 19 years & a daughter aged 15 years.
Their capacity to contribute to their support is such that they have no property and are unable to support themselves.

Pomp Peters, his mark (X)
Sworn to and declared at Portsmouth on the fourth day of July AD.1820
US John Harvey 
Hall Burdin (Judges of the Said Court)
I, Peter Chadwick, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Rockingham do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereto annexed are truely 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 fo the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is [blank] dollars and [blank] cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court on this fourth day of July 1820
P Chadwick, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham.
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SCHEDULE
Containing the whole estate and income of Pomp Peters (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted) by him subscribed, exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas on the first Tuesday of July 1820 and annexed to his oath, viz.

I have no estate of insome excepting my wearing apparel

in presence of Wm Claggett 

Pomp Peters by his Mark X
The opinion of the court the above is correct
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August 22, 1933
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Mr. Albert S. Bryant
North Leeds
Maine

Pomp Peters, S. 45062
Oliver Randall, S. 19439
William Turner, W. 22469
BA-J / MLB

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of August 8, in which you request the records of Joseph Freeman, Jr., Pompey Peters (Colored), Oliver Randall and William Turner, soldiers of the Revolutionary War from Massachusetts.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States based upon military service of soldiers in that war. 
A careful search of the records fails to show a claim for pension or bounty land on file on account of the Revolutionary War service of Joseph Freeman as described by you.
You are furnished herewith on separate sheets the records of Pomp Peters (the only soldier of that name or similar spelling found in the records of this office), Oliver Randall and William Turner as found in claims for pension based upon their service in the War of the Revolution. 
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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POMP PETERS, S. 45062

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S 45062, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Pomp Peters (his name does not appear as Pompey Peters) .

Pomp Peters, a man of color, enlisted, place not stated, in June, 1778, served as a private in Captain Smith's company , Colonels Marshall and Tupper's Massachusetts regiment, was in the battle of Monmouth, at the taking of Cornwallis and in a skirmish at King's Bridge, and was discharged in June, 1783.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818, at which time time he was in the fifty-eighth year of his age and resided in New Boston, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

In 1796, he resided in Meredith, Strafford County, New Hamp-shire and in 1820, in New Market, Rookingham County, New Hampshire, and at that time stated he was seventy years of age, with no explanation of the discrepancy in age, also that he had a wife aged forty years, her name and the date of their marriage not given, and two children living with him, a son, aged nineteen years, and a daughter, aged fifteen years, but he did not give their names.

For date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid, and possibly the date of soldier's death, you should write to the comptroller General, General Account-ing Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data: Pomp Peters, Certificate # 11710, issued June 9, 1819, rate $8 per month, commenced April 6, 1818, Act March 18, 1818, New Hampshire Agency.
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[printed with handwriting]

45062
Revy INVALID.
File No. 45062
Pomp Peters
Priv, Rev. War
Act: 18th March 1818
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 391
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1930 - May 13 - Hist. to Adjutant General - Letter in misc file under C H. Bridges (carbon copy) Ect
1933, Aug. 22 - Hist. to Albert D. Bryant (Ree ltr. in dm. No. 22469 of Wm. Turner) MLB
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To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Know ye, That I Pomp Peters of Merdith in the County of Stafford and State of New hampshire late a solier in the Massechussets line in Colnel Tuppers Regiment in the Service of the United States of American, for and in Confideration of the Sum of twenty dollars to me in Hand paid, at and before the Enfealing and Deliver of these Presents, by William Smith Thorn of the City of Philadelphia merchent have fold, remifed, releafed, quit-claimed, transferred, and affigned, and by these Presents do fell remife, releafe, quit-claim, transfer and affign to the faid William S Thorn his Heirs and Affigns forever, all the Right, Title, Intereft, Claim and Demand, wich I now have, and all Right Title, Intereft, Claim, and Demand, which I , my Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, at any Time hereafter may have to all the Land which I am entitled to, and to all the Land which I, or either of them, may at any Time hereafter be entitled to, from the Congress of the United States of America, for my Services as a soldier in the Army of the United STates of American, for and during the War with Great-Britain, and to every Part and Parcel thereof: And I the said Pomp Peters do, for my self, my Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and assigns, hereby covenant and agree to and with teh said William S Thorn his Heirs and Assigns, that I the said Pomp Peters my Heirs, Executors Administrators, or Assigns, shall and will, at any Time or Times hereafter, at the Request, Cost and Charges of the said William S Thorn his Heirs or Assigns, do, make seal and execute, or cause to procure to be done, made, sealed and executed, all and every such reasonable Act and Acts, Thing and Things, Conveyance and Conveyances, Assurance and Assurances in the Law whatsoever, for the perfect granting, conveying, remising, releasing, transferring and assigning all and sigualr the Right, Title, Claim and Demand, which I the said PompPeters have, or which I the said Pomp Peters my Heirs, Executors, or administrators, may, at any Time hereafter, have, of, in, and to the Land aforesaid; and of, in , and every Part and Parcel thereof; unto the said William S Thorn his Heirs and Assigns, to the only proper Use and Behoos of the said William S. Thorn his Heirs and Assigns forever, as by his or their Councek, learned in the Law, shall be resonable advised or devised or required. And I the said Pomp Peters do hereby appoint the said William S Thorn my true and lawful Attorney irrevocably, to ask, demand, solicity, and obtain in my Name, or otherwise, but for the sole Use and Behoos of the said William S Thorn his Heirs, and Assigns, forever, from the United States, a Grant or Grans, Patent or Patents for the Land aforesaid ; here by ratifying and confirming all and whatsoever my said Attorney may do respectiving the same. And I the said Pomp Peters for myself, my heirs, Executors and Administrators, do convenant, promise and grant to and with the said William S Thorn his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, that I will not revoke or annul the Power of Authority herein contained, or do any Act which shall impede the said William S Thorn in soliciting or obtaining a Grant or Grants, Patent or Patents, for the Land aforsaid.
IN WITNESS whereof, I have here unto set my Hand and Seal this twenty eighth Day of October in the Year of our LORD One thousand seven hundred and ninety six
Pomp Peters X his mark [fingerprint]
Signed, sealed and delivered in teh Presence of us, Ebenr Smith Noah Robinson
Strafford meredithff. STATE OF New hampshire October 28th 1796
Personally appeared the oavove-mentioned Pomp Peters and made Oath, that he had never before sold, or otherwise despsed of his Military Bounty Lands ; an dfurther, that he acknowledged the above to be his free Act and Deed, and desired that it might be received as such, Before me And I do [illegible] certify that the said Pomp Peters amking their ackowledgement has been for two years known to me and have swoarn to [illegible] he is the [illegibel] he represents himself to be Before  me Ebenr Smith Justice Peace
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Washington, June 1st 1883. I hereby transfer and assign to J Cass all my right, title claim demand to the within mentioned bounty land
William S Thorn
Atest
Jno Smith
B Smith [illegible]
from Pomp Peters to W. S. Toms

Dec 24th 1799 I certify that Ebenezer Smith Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in that county of the aforsaid in the State of New Hampshire that I have [illegible] him write and am of opinion that aforegoing signature is his hand
Arthur Livermore a Justice of the [illegible] in court of New Hapshire

Peters; Pomp
Mass 545062
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[handwritten]

I Benjamin Gould of New. Boston in the County of Hillsborough and State of New hampshire [sic] of 57 years of age depose and say that Pomp Peters served in the Revolutionary War in the tenth Regiment commanded by - Col. Tupper of the Massachusetts line from April 1781 to June 1783 as a private soldier and that I served at the same time in the same Regiment. 
Benjamin his X mark Gould ['x' between first and last name]

State of New hampshire [sic]
Hillsborough ss.} On the 5th day of May 1818. Then the above named Benjamin Gould personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just and true
Before me Joseph Cochran Jus. of the Peace

This certifies that the signatures of J. K. Smith on this Paper is in his own hand writing and that he is one of the Judges of the Court of common Pleas for the county of Hillsborough aforesaid in Testimony whereof I have here affixed the seal of said Court. 
Mour Eastman Clerk

This certifies that Benjamin Gould is a credtable witness in Courts of Law & that Joseph Cochran Jr. is an acting Justice of the Peace in said County of Hillsborough whose official acts in that capacity are entitled to credit by the laws of the State of New Hampshire
JK Smith} Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas