Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32982, for Cuff Leonard, Massachusetts
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[typed] (8-1776)
[typed] SERVICE
Mass.
Leonard, Cuff
[typed] Number
S32982
B. L. Wt. 1044-100
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6500 
Massachusetts Roll
Cuff Leonard
Private
Mass [ILLEGIBLE]
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence the 1st of April 1818-
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th of Jan 1810
and sent to John Davis Prs. Judge
Boston-
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1818 5mos. & 4/30- 41:
Semi-Anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819-48
$89.60
{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March, 1818.}


Left page:
Notification sent Sept 15,1820
[ILLEGIBLE]
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No. 53
Cuff Leonard Privt.
Bradford, Mass. 5 Regt.
Served 5 years

Correct
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I Cuff Leonard of Raynham in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say that sometime in the month of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven I was enlisted as a soldier to serve in the armies of the United States of America, in the Massachusetts line by Zebulon King then a Lieutenant in the service of the United States, who has since been killed and I further testify and say that I served in a company commanded by Captain Joseph Bates in the Seventh Regiment, which Regiment was commanded by Colonel John Brooks now the governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that I was afterwards transferred to a company commanded by Capt. John Hastings in the same Regiment, and that I received by discharge as near as I can recollect on the eleventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand and seven hundred and eighty three under the hand of Colonel Brooks which discharge has been accidentally lost. I served as near as I can recollect six years and two months during the revolutionary war, against the
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common enemy and was honorably discharged.
And I further say that in consequence of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support.
Cuff Leonard (His Mark)
[SIGNATURE]
J. Homer
Massachusetts District Jd.
Boston, 1 April AD 1818

Sworn to before me,
M Davis
(2 further illegible signatures)
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Massachusetts District, ss.
Boston, June 9 A.D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Cuff Leonard subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testi-mony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying document marked A, together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
[SIGNED]
M. Davis Judge of the District Court U.S. Massachusetts District

Massachusetts District, ss.
Boston 18 January 1819,
I am satisfied that the above named, Cuff Leonard- by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his company for support.
[SIGNED]
M. Davis {District Judge U.S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR
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Massachusetts District, ss.
Boston, June 9 A.D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Cuff Leonard subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testi-mony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying document marked A, together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
[SIGNED]
M. Davis Judge of the District Court U.S. Massachusetts District

Massachusetts District, ss.
Boston 18 January 1819,
I am satisfied that the above named, Cuff Leonard- by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his company for support.
[SIGNED]
M. Davis {District Judge U.S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR
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Cuff Leonard
No. 6500
January 1819
Cent. 2 15 Sept.
1820
[ILLEGIBLE]

Bran 'i9
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Taunton July 17th, 1820

A schedule of the property of Cuff Leonard of Raynham, in the County of Bristol
[ILLEGIBLE]
One small house (alt: Horse?) 14 leg, 18 feed, valued at.....15.00
3 kettle and 2 iron pots......2.00
6 Teacups & saucers.......0.17
1 wheelbarrow 5.00- 2 hoes & shovel 1.80 4 chair 07(alt: 67?).- 5.17
2 [ILLEGIBLE] (old) 25c. [ILLEGIBLE] 20 c 2 water pails 50..- .95
1 [ILLEGIBLE] 10C 1 blanket 40 2 tables 60.......1.10
1 [ILLEGIBLE] 25 Shovel [ILLEGIBLE] 24.59+ .52 }24.97

My family consists of these, myself aged sixty one years, common labourer; able & [ILLEGIBLE] more than half a day's work in a day, & [ILLEGIBLE] half support myself; my wife, Hagar (?), aged fifty one years, being weakly, able & freefrom not more than a quarter of a day's work in a day, and [ILLEGIBLE] a quarter support herself; and Elizabeth Leonard, aged eight years able to do about nothing, being weakly.
[SIGNED]
Cuff Leonard (His mark)

(upper portion of paragraph cut off)
ser-vice 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.
[SIGNED]
Cuff Leonard (His mark)
Sworn to, and declared, on the Seventeenth day of July 1820. before James Sproat, Clerk of the Court of Bristol Co.
I, James Sproat, clerk of the DistrictBoard of the Commonwealth for the County of Bristol 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 exhibited in the aforesaid sched-ule is twenty nine dollars and 0 cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Second day of August 1820.

Clerk of the Court for the County of Bristol.
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SCHEDULE.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Bristol ss, Circuit court of common pleas [ILLEGIBLE]
On this seventeenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, being a court of record for said county, Cuff Leonard; a private;
aged sixty one years, resident in Raynham 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 the company commanded by Capt. James Cooper, in the regiment commanded by Col Camaliel Brandford and in the Massachusetts line, my original declaration was made before Judge Davis of Bristol on the first day of August 1818, and my pension [ILLEGIBLE] is no 6500. I also served in the company commanded by Capt. John Hastings in the regiment commanded by Col. John brooks of the Massachusetts line. 
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident 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 ser-vice 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 prop-erty, or securities, contracts, or debt, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
[SIGNED] Cuff Leonard (His marl)
{property valued at $29.00}

Sworn to, and declared, on the seventeenth day of July 1820 before James Sproat, Clerk of the County [ILLEGIBLE]
I, James Sproat clerk of the District Court of Com-mon Pleas for the County of Bristol do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and 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 exhibited in the aforesaid sched-ule is twenty nine dollars and 0 cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, of this first day of August 1820.
Clerk of the Court for the County of Bristol.
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-1044-
Cuff Leonard
Private
7th Regt; [ILLEGIBLE] Line

[ILLEGIBLE] May 1st 1822

Hon. Francis Baylies
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Cuff Leonard of the 7th Regt. Massa. Line
[ILLEGIBLE] ifab No. 1044
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Fe 11473.
State of Massachusetts
County of Bristol}
I, Cuff Leonard
aged fifty-four years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven I enlisted in the army of the Revolution, against the common enemy of my country, for the term of "during the war," and served in the company commanded by Captain James Cooper who has deceased and in the regiment No. 14 under the command of Colonel Gamaliel Bradford of the Massachusetts line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of war, in seventeen hundred and eighty-three, when I was regularly discharged from the seventh regiment, commanded by Colonel John Brooks now governor of Massachusetts
My dishcarge is not lost of mislaid, so that I cannot produce it to corroborate the above statement. I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assign-ed or transferred my claim to that gratuitu in any manner whatsoever; therefore, Know all men by these presents, that I, Cuff Leonard aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appint Francis Baylies of the county of Bristol and state of Massachusetts Esquire to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, or of such other person as is duly authorized to issue and deliver the same, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid, and to sign a receipt or acquittance therefor; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes, above expressed.
Attest, D. G. W. Cobb & Cuff Leonard (His mark)

I Charles Frazier, aged sixty-three years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, declare, that I have been long acquainted with Cuff Leonard who has subscribed to the above declaration in my presence and well know that he is the identical person he herein repre
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[printed with handwriting]

32982
Revy INVALID.
File No. 32, 982
Cuff Leonard
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 241
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[handwritten]

A.
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[handwritten]

This is to certify that Cuff Leonard was a soldier inlisted [sic] for the war in the late 7th Massachusetts Regt. - that he inlisted [sic] in March 1777, & served faithfully till the 10th of June 1783 at which time he was regularly discharged. 
Medford April 2nd 1818.
J. Brooks Lt. Col. Comdr. of 2nd regt.