Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34891, Sharper Freeman, Mass.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE   [stamp of a star]   NUMBER
[handwritten]Mass.  Freeman, Sharper S.34891 [/handwritten]

CONTENTS

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Revy 34891 (Invalid).
File No. 34891
Sharper Freeman
Ri    Rev War

Act: 18~ March 18~
Index:_ Vol: 2, Page 145

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Massachusetts Roll
Sharper Freeman 
of Reading in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brooks of the Massachusetts line, for the term of seventeen months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 4th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of Feb 1819 and sent to John Davis Esr. Judge 
Boston-
Arrears to the 4th of Sept1818 5M &1/30  40:26
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819    48:
                                                                   _____________
                                                                       88:26
                                                                   _____________

        {Revolutionary claim, Act 18thMarch, 1818.}

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[This statement is handwritten]
                     Medford April 4th, 1818.
      This is to certify that Sharper Freeman was a soldier in the late 7th Masst Regt. - that he enlisted on the first day of April 1782, & served in siad regiment until the first of June 1783, having served fourteen months at which time he was transferred to Col. Jackson's Regt.
                               J. Brookes  Lt Col Comd 
                                Mass Regt.

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[This statement is handwritten]

                            No 315

             Sharper Freeman
                      (Private)
       Masst Line -  Brook's Regt

From 1782, in April till 1783 in June 1783
            [illegible]:  Brooks Certf

        17 months

      Asst  4th April 1818

Wanted, the Judge's Certificate of his belief, that the applicant is in "reduced circumstances in life & [illegible]"

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[This is a handwritten statement]

Mass Dist      United States
I Sharper Freeman of Reading in the County of 
Middlesix in Commonwealth of Massachusetts a resident citizen of the U.S.A.(?) - do testify and {illegible] that I enlisted into Capt Kings Company and seventh Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Col John Brooks and first Brigade Commanded by Genl Patterson in the  U.S. Service for the term of three years and served the said time for which I [a line is redacted which reads] enlisted and then was discharged [the line is replaced with the following] and have loss my discharge and I stand in need of support from my country by reason of reduced circumstances in life.              
                                              Sharper
                                          his     X     mark
April 3rd 1818                        Freeman

                 Attest  Daniel Flint}        Selistorer (?)
                            Edmund Parker} of the 
                                                       Town of 
                                                        Reading   

 Massachusetts District [Illegible]}
[Illegible]  4 April 1818}
               Sworn to before me
                       M. Davis
                    Dist Judge
                    Mass Dist

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Massachusetts District, ss.
Boston June 11 A.D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Sharper Freeman 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 testimony 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.
                             M. Davis} Judge of the 
                                             District Court U.S.
                                            Massachusetts
                                             District

      MASSACHUUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
30 January  1819.

I AM satisfied that the above named, Sharper Freeman by reason of his reduced circumstances in life,, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.

                              M.Davis{District Judge U.S.
                                            Massachusetts Dist.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

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[This is a handwritten document]
167
Sharper Freeman
                        6606




                     March 1819

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      Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Middlesex, ss
            At the Circuit Court of Common pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A.D. 1820.
         Before the Honorable Samuel Dana, Esquire, Chief Justice, and William Wetmore, and Stephen Minot, Esquire, Associate Justices of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of the fine and imprisonment, Sharper Freeman resident of Reading in said County Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate 6606. now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,

"War Department.....Revolutionary Claim.

"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, "1818, Sharper Freeman late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the "Pension List, Roll of Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight "dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
 [There is a small box on the left hand side of the page which contains the letters L.S.]  "Given at the War Office of the United States, this fourth "day of February one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

                        J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War"

appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,

                                 SCHEDULE

containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
"Real Estate one acre of land valued at twenty dollars.  Personal Estate none and declares that he is a labourer by occupation is above seventy years of age and unable to do anything of consequence and cannot work more than an hour or two at a time before he gives out has a wife fifty four years old not able to do much has no other family has received private donations to support himself and is now unable to support himself by labour without assistance, that he enlisted into  the United States service as a private

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[This statement is handwritten]
the first day of April year not recollected in Col John Brooks Regt Capt Kings company in the Massachusetts line for a term of three years and served all that time till the close of the war and was then regularly discharged as will appear by his declaration made by him on this fourth day of April in the year A.D. 1818 now in the office of the Secretary of War
                                         his
                             Sharper   X   Freeman"
                                       mark

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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,

I, Sharper Freeman, do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner whatever, disposed of my prop- erty, or any part therof, with intent threreby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March,one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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.

So help me GOD. [handwritten] and that the annexed schedule & statement is true. So help me God 
His
Sharper  X   Freeman
mark [/handwritten]

Middlesex ss. C.C.C.P. June Term, A.D. 1820

Then the abovenamed Sharper Freeman
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,

Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court.

I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, 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 Schedule is [text scratched out and illegible]
twenty dollars

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820.

Attr. [signature of Abraham Biglow]