Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35320, David Foster, Mass R.I.

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(8 - 1776)

SERVICE
Mass
R.I.

Foster, David

NUMBER
S. 35320

CONTENTS

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6658
4 [very large]

Maine

David Foster,
Caft
M Cobb __ ate
Mafs &
Rhode Island line - ___
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

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David Foster, Winthrop                      David Foster
(ill.) Col. Hitchcock   R.I.
Reg. March 1776 to Feb. 1777

1 year
April 1, 1818

Admitted

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David Foster, Winthrop               David Foster
(ill.) Col. Hitchcock R. I.
Reg. March 1776 to Feb. 1777
1 year
April 1, 1818


Admitted

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I David Foster, aged sixty four years, born in Attleborough in Massachusetts, but now of Winthrop in the District of Maine, a citizen of the United States, (scratched out) solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I entered, as a private soldier, into the continental service of the U. States, against the common enemy, in June 1775 to serve until the first day of the January following, into the company commanded by Capt Samuel McCobb and regiment commanded by Col. John Nixon of the Massachusetts line.  In this company and regiment I served until August or September 1775 when General Washington's orders to send a body of troops through to Quebec by the way of the Kennebec, I volunteered for this service, in which I served accordingly in the company commanded by the same Capt Samuel McCobb with Col. Benedict Arnold, as commander of the body.  I marched upon this service to the river Chaudire, from which place I returned under the command of Col. Enos to the camp at Winter Hill in November 1775, when by order of Gen Washington I rejoined the regiment commanded by Col. Nixon, where I served until I was honorably discharged from the army in January 1776.  If I took any written discharge I have not preserved it.  On the last day of February or first of March 1776 I again enlisted as a private soldier into the continental service of the U. States, against the common enemy, to serve until the first of January 1777 into the company commanded by Capt Cogshall Olney, and regiment commanded by Col Hitchcock, of I think the Rhode Island line in this service I continued until my term expired, after which by the request of General Washington, I continued to serve another month, in which last month I was at the battle of Princeton. I left the army in February 1777 honorably.  If I took any discharge, I have not preserved it.  I am indigent, and in need of the bounty of the government.  And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States, if any, but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever.  I request that I may be put upon the pension list for the District of Maine.  David Foster
From my reduced circumstance I need the assistance from my country (ill.)  David Foster

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Number Ss
On the first day of April AD 1818, David Foster, within named, after having been carefully examined, made affirmation, under the pains and penalties of perjury, to the truth of the within declaration by him saluted, except the last clause by him added, to which he made affirmation May 6. 1818. Before me,
Nathan Weston Jr
Chief Justice C. Court of
Pleas, Second Eastern Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I John Davis of Augusta in the District of Maine, of lawful age, upon oath testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with the within named David Foster, that he is indigent, and in need of the bounty of the government, and that he sustains the character of a man of veracity.
John Davis

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Number Ss
On the first day of April AD 1818 John Davis Esquire above named, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed-
Before me
Nathan Weston Jr
Chief Justice C. Court of 
Pleas, Second Eastern Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Lewis Webber, of Harlem in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare that I am well acquainted with the within named David Foster, having lived in the same company
with him for one year in Col. Hitchcocks regiment in the Rhode Island line in the revolutionary war upon the continental
establishment in the year 1776. I am sixty one years of age, and did serve one year with the said Foster, as I have before stated
Lewis Webber

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Number Ss
On the first day of April. AD 1818, Lewis Webber above named after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, by him subscribed -
Before me,
Nathan Weston Jr
Chief Justice C. Court of
Pleas, Second Eastern Circuit

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
I William Pullen aged sixty four years, of Waterville in the District of Maine upon oath testify and declare that I know that David Foster within named served in both the periods by him within mentioned as a soldier in the war of the
revolution, upon the continental establishment, as during both periods, as  [Illegible] January & February of 1776 I was his mess mate, and served in the same company and assignment.
William Pullen 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Number Ss
On the seventh day of May AD 1818 William Pullen before named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him submitted -
Before me,
Nathan Weston Jr
Chief Justice C Court
C Pleas, Second Eastern Circuit

House of Representatives day 20 1819
I am acquainted with the above name
John Davis, Lewis Webber, & William Pullen, and they are  credible and disinterested witnesses -
Joshua Gage
M. 7.
Jan/ 20. 1819

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Report of service of Daivd Foster
S35320, Mass + R.I.

Mrs Chandler A Mackey
649 E. 19 St. 
Brooklyn N.Y.

Apr 14, 1924

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35320
Revy INVALID.
File No. 35320
David Foster
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March18[illegible]
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 142
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1924 May 13 Hist. to 
Mrs. Chandler A. Mackey
M.C.S.

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Rev. & 1812 War Section             M.C.S.

May 13, 1924

Mrs. Chandler A. Mackey
649 E. 19th St. 
Brookly, N.Y.

Madam: 

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolution-ary War pension claim, S. 35320 [underlined], it appears that David Foster [underlined] was born at Attleborough, Massachusetts, date not given. 

He enlisted in June 1775 and served as private in Captain Samuel McCobb's Company, Colonel John Nixon's Massachusetts Regi-ment, was in Arnold's Expedition to Quebec and was discharged in January 1776. 

He enlisted the last of February or first of March 1776, served in Captain Coggeshall Olney's Company, Colonel Hitchcock's Rhode Island regiment, was in the battle of Princeton and was dis-charged in February 1777. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818, while residing in Winthrop, Kennebec County, Maine, aged 64 years. He died January 2, 1820. 

There is no data on file as to his family. 

Respectfully, 

Commissioner

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States. 

I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec, and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that David Foster, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Winthrop, in the said County of Kennebec, in the District of Maine, on the first day of April, A.D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor ; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A.D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed. 

And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstance, he needs the assistance of his country for support. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 

Nathan Weston [illegible] 
C.C.C. Pleas 2nd E. Circuit.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Kennebec, s.s.

THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec, and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand: Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 

John Davis [signature]