Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,424, Zenas French, Mass.

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SERVICE
Mass.
French Zenas
NUMBER
S.30.424

CONTENTS

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Aug 63
Massachusetts

Zenas French
of Norfolk Co in the State of Mass who was a R+Drumm in the Company commanded by Captain Thayer of the Rye. commanded by Col. Moreland in he Massachusetts [ineligable] for 5 mos + 6 days

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Zenas French
Drummer 7 mo 1 day
Prv 5" 6
_________
12  7

8866

E. S. Leland
Roxbury
Mafs

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BRIEF in the case of Zenas French
County of Norfolk in the State of Mafs
(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?
3. How old is he?  72
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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Period       Duration of Service    Rank  Names of General and Field officer under whom he served.
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March in 1776 about 2 months as a Private  Cap Pennyman forgot the Cols
June 1776 about 7 months 1 day    Drummer  Cap Thayer  Col Moreland
1780     3 months 6 days Prv

5. In what battles was he engaged? None mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Braintree Mafs
7. Is his statement supported by living witnessess, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary one document two living witnefses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers are not attached agreeably to the regulations - neither the witnefses - nor the Magistrate are certified
X Certify the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Payton
Examining Clerk.

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Zenas French
8866
Edwin S. Leland

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolks ss. On this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the honorable judge of the court of probate now sitting at [illegible] in and for said County, Zenas French of Randolph in said County, aged seventy two, who first being sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the beenfit of the act of Congress passed June 7th A.D. 1832.
That he was born in Braintree in said County
on the fifteenth day of April A.D. 1760, and that there is a record of his birth in the town record of Braintree that he was in the United States service from the latter part of January  A.D. 1776, to the latter part of March A.D. 1776 as a drummer in the Mafsachusetts militia residing at said Braintree when he entered the service; that he was a volunteer and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Captain Stephen Penniman of a regisment whose colonel he does not recollect:
that he marched from Braintree to Roxbury, from whence he was discharged: that he served at said Roxbury with none of the regular troops; and no regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle and at the end of his service received no written discharged: that since the Revolutionary war he has residened at said Braintree & Randolph: that he has no documentary evidence of his service nor is there any [illegible] known to him by whom he can prove it -
ALSO that he was in the United States service from the first day of June A.D. 1776 to the first day of January A.D. 1777 as a drummer in the Mafsachusetts militia: that he was residing at said Braintree when he entered the service: that he was a volunteer and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Captain Isaac Thayer of the regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Moreland: that he marched from Braintree to Nantucket from there to different places on the coast south east of Boston: that he served at said [illegible] with none of the regular troops; and no regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle and at the end of his service received no written discharge.

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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
We David Brigham a clergyman, residing in the town of Randolph and Silas Paine Jr
residing in Ralph aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with said Zenas French who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides to have been a soldier in the war
of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
David Brigham
Silas Paine Jr
And the said court do hereby declare their 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 and served as he states. And the court further certify that it
appears to them that David Brigham
a clergyman, resident in the said Randolph
who has signed the preceding certificate, is
and that Silas Paine Jr who has also signed the same is a resident in Randolph and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Sherman Leland Judge of Probate
Samuel Haven, Regr of the Court of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Zenas French for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Samuel Haven

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Barnabas Thayer of Weymouth in the County of [illegible] Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age
do [illegible] and say, that Zenas French of Randolph County Commonwealth aforesaid, served as a drummer in the war
of the Revolution in the State of Massachusetts {illegible] and vicinity seven months in the last part of the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six during all of which time I served with the same French
in the same company commanded by Capt [illegible] 
and further deponant saith not Barnabas
Thayer
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
[illegible] County July 11th 1832. Then personally appeared Barnabas Thayer subscribed the above affidavit
and [illegible] solemn oath to the truth of the same
Before me
Silas Paine Jr, Justice of the
Peace

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I John Thayer of Belchertown in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of
Massachusetts of lawfull age, do testify and that Zenas French of Randolph in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth aforesaid, served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution in the State of Rhode Island in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty - three months from the first of August to the first of November of said year during all of which time I served in the same Regiment & same company with the said Zenas French & further the deponant saith not. John Thayer
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk County for July 5th 1832 there formally
appeared John Thayer subscriber to the [illegible] affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth of the same Before me
Silas Paine Jr
Justice of the Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Aug. 30th 1832.
I hereby certify that from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Zenas French is borne upon upon the pay rolls of Capt Isaac Thayer's Company
in Col Thomas Marshall's Regt for the period of seven months & one day from the first day of June 1776 as a drummer; also that the name of Zenas French is borne upon the pay rolls of Capt Thomas Newcomb's Company in Col. Ebenr Thayer's Regt for the period of three months & six days from the
thirtieth day of October 1780
Edward D Bangs. Secry

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30,424
REVY INVALID
File No. 30,424
Zenas French
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th [illegible]
Index:--Vol 9, Page 144
[Arrangement of 1870.]