Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33832, Plato Turner, Mass.
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Service: Mass

Turner, Plato

Number: S. 33832

Contents:
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Plato Turner
Capt Hunt private
Massachusetts line
nine months
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of [illegible] Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of  [illegible] 1819 and sent to Nahum Mitchell [illegible] East Bridgwater Mass 

Arrears to the 4th of [illegible] 1818 - 4 22/30. 37.86
Semi-anl. all'ee ending 4 March 1819 48 

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818} 
Plymouth
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Plato Turner 
Plymouth
[illegible]
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COMMONWEALTH O [crease in paper obscures “F”] MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
On this [handwritten] 13th [/handwritten] day of April AD. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of [crease in paper obscures “th”] e Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally a [crease in paper obscures “pp”] eared [handwritten] Plato Turner of Plymouth [/handwritten] aged [handwritten] sity [crease in paper obscures “x”] seven [/handwritten] years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me firstduly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaratio [crease in paper obscures “n”] by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congss [crease in paper obscures “re”], entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land a [crease in paper obscures “nd”] naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war [handwritten] , [/handwritten]”

[handwritten] /See his said Declration enclosed/ [/handwritten]
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And I, the said Judge, d [fold in page cuts off word] certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Plato Turner did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com-mon enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, [handwritten "and" symbol] that he is poor and needs the assistance of his country for sup port. 

Nahum Mitchell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ss.  1818.
I hereby Certify, That
is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southeru Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth - that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record - that the signature to the above cer - tificate is the true signature of the said Judge and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court. 

}Clerk of the Judicial
}Court for the County 
}of
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[handwritten] Plato Turner
Plymouth
13 ap/l 1818 private
Greaton Nixon’s regt Massachusetts
76 - war
Greaton’s [illegible] 79 [struck-through text]
[/handwritten]
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[handwritten] I Plato Turner of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a citisen of the United States & resident therein set forth & declare on oath that I was a soldier in the war of the revolution for more than nine months on the Continental establishment that from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my Country for support and am therefore desirous to obtain a pension from the United States [illegible] to the late law of Congress of the 18th March last and do relinquish all claims to my former pension ‘ if any ‘ by any law of Congress - That I entered the Army in the Spring of 1776 & served to the end of the war - in 1778 I belonged to Captain [illegible] Company & in Colonel Greatons Regiment & was at that time a waiter to Major Hull. In April 1781 I enlisted again with Captain Patrick Phelan for during the war & served most of the time in Colonel Nixons Regiment was honorably discharged at West Point State of New York in 1783. I was in the Massachusetts line & have no written discharge - I had one but have lost it

Sworn to April 13th 1818. Plato his X mark Turner [/handwritten/]
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[handwritten] 33832 [/handwritten]
[illegible] INVALID.

File No. [handwritten] 33,832
Plato Turner
Pri Rev War [/handwritten]
Act: [handwritten] 18" March 18” [/handwritten]
Index:-Vol. [handwritten] 2 [/handwritten], Page [handwritten] 424 [/handwritten]

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]