Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27414, James Gibbs, Continental Mass N.H.

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(S-1776)       
Number W. 27414

Service                      
Continental
Mass
NH  

Gibbs, James  
Abigail

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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 Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and 
STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires} 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 to fine and imprisonment, James Gibbs resident at Charlestown in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 7786 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, James Gibbs late a Sergeant 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 thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen "Given at the War Office of the United States, this seventeenth "day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
[typed in a box] L.S.
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 " as presented by Moses Hale guardian of said Gibbs to wit A schedule of James Gibbs real & personal estate - I have a piece of Land which I gave forty dollars with an old shed on it which myself and wife made out to live for a number of years, and as it stood partly on land belonging to said town if was ordered to be taken away of course I was obliged to pull it down and build a small ten foot building and mortgage my land for the amount
I therefore do not consider my real estate of any great value not more than $50
My personal estate consists of 
5 old chairs one old desk one small looking

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James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

[written on left side in other direction] Mrs Gibbs Ms
4 July 1836
3r Sec.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
To all whom it may concern:
Know Ye, That Abner Bartlett Esqr. is a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum for the County of Middlesex; 
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this second day of December, A.D. 1836, and in the sixty first Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
[signed] John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

[written in left margin] Edward Everett

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 

NAME- Gibbs, James   GRADE - Private  LINE - Massachusetts

WARRANT NUMBER - 4202.  ACREAGE - 100 ISSUED - Jan. 26, 1790 to James Smith ------

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.