Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 45732, John Dutton, N.H.

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(3–1776)

SERVICE                                      NUMBER

N. H.       Dutton, John               S45732   

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CONTENTS

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Notification sent to J. K. Smith
19 July 1850
Amherst N H

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10,828

NEW HAMPSHIRE
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John Dutton
of Amherst, in the state of N. Hampshire
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Reid of the N. Hampshire
line, for the term of Three years - 1777-
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 31 of March 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19 of May 1819
and Sent to J. K. Smith Esq
Amherst New Hampshire
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819            $89.28
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819   48
1 mo 5 dys arrears
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                                                             $137.28
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                        {Revolutionary Claim, }
                        {Act 18th March, 1818}

                        [handwritten] Continued

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John Dutton
private
Col Hale's Regiment
afterwards Col Read's
New Hampshire Line
1777 -   3 years
______
31st March, 1818.

Not [last word crossed out] found on rolls

Admitted

J. K. Smith, judge
Amherst, N. H. 

[left side of page written faintly]
Jn^o Dutton 
signed 31st March
New Hampshire
[illegible]

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I John Dutton of the Town of Amherst in the County
of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire aged fifty nine
years declare and say that in the beginning of the year
one thousand seven hundred and seventy six I think in
January, at said Amherst I inlisted as a private soldier
in Capt. _____Spaldings Company in Col Reads Regiment
in the American Army, to serve one year - I served
the whole of said year in said Spaldings Company, at
the end of which I inlisted as a private soldier in Capt.
James Carr's company, in the Second Regiment of the New
Hampshire Line, commanded by Col. Adams , to serve
during the war, but in about three months afterwards
[illegible] was given to alter said inlistment  to three
years, instead of the war - I therefore inlisted for three years
and served that time in said Carr's company - during
all said time of service I served at Winter Hill, Providence
New London, New York, Albany, Lake George, Lake Champlain,
Canada, Crownpoint, Ticonderoga [illegible] and was
in the battles of Trenton, Princetown, Saratoga, &, Monmouth.
I [also - crossed out] was also in the Indian Country under General
Sullivan, and at the battle of Newtown with the Indians.
At the end of said three years I was discharged at a
place called Pompton [?] Plains, and my discharge was
signed by General Poor but I have since lost it.

I further declare that I am in reduced circumstances,
have no property, and am in need of relief
and support, having no way to support myself
but by my Labour, and my health being bad

                                                              His
                                                      John X Dutton
Witness & Signature                         mark
Wm Read 
E. Parker     Sworn to this thirty first day of March
1818 Before me JK Smith} Associate Justice of the
                                                    Court of Common Pleas

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I William Brown of Amherst in the County of Hillsborough
and State of New Hampshire aged Seventy three years depose
and say that I enlisted in the American Army before 
the battle of Bunker Hill, and served to the end of the war
five years of this time I served in the first New Hampshire
Regiment. I further say that previous to my
enlistment I was acquainted with John Dutton who
then resided in the town of Amherst – said Dutton
enlisted in the Army, and served in the second New
hampshire Regiment – I was well acquainted with
said Dutton while in the service, and am well knowing
that he [served in what - crossed out] was what was called a three years man, and I well recollect his serving
two or three years – he is the same John Dutton who
has now signed the affidavit on the other side of this
paper.-
                                                               his
                                                   William + Brown
                                                              mark

Witness to signature
Wm Read          Sworn to this 31st day of March 1818
E. Parker           Before me JK Smith} Associate Justice of
                                                                the Court of Common Pleas 

This certifies that William Brown & William Read whose affidavits
I have taken on this sheet are creditable witnesses in
Court of Law      JK Smith} Associate Justice of the
                                              Court of Comm Pleas

I William Read of Amherst depose and say that I have
been acquainted with John Dutton of said Amherst
for more than thirty years. I further say that said
Dutton is poor and apparently much in need of
relief being old and infirm and having no way
to support himself and family, to my knowledge, but
by his Labour. __      Wm Read 

Sworn to this 31st day of March 1818
Before me JK Smith} Associate Justice of the
                                     Court of Common Pleas

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State of New Hampshire Hillsborough Ss.} On the 31st day of
March 1818 was before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of
the Court of Common Pleas for said County personally appeared
John Dutton Resident of the Town of Amherst aged fifty nine
years and being duly cautioned made solemn oath agreeably
to Law in order to obtain a pension under the late Act of Congress
entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary
war" that he inlisted as private soldier for during the war but
afterwards returned for three years in the beginning of the year 1777
in the Company commanded by Capt. James Carr in the second Regiment
in the New Hampshire Line commanded by Col. N. Hale & continued
to serve in said Corps, or the service of the United States untill
the year 1780 when he was discharged at [illegible] that
he is in reduced circumstances and in assistance
of his Country for his support from all which & other
testimony to me given I certify that it appears to my satisfaction
that the said John Denton did serve in the Revolutionary
against the Common Enemy for more than nine months on the Continental
establishment & I further certify from my own knowledge that
he is in reduced circumstances [illegible] in need of assistance from his country
for his support and I now transmit the morning & testimony
taken & had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of war


JK Smith} Associate Justice of the court
                  of Common Pleas

This certifies that the signature of JK Smith on this sheet is in
his own hand writing & that he is one of the Judges of the County
Common Pleas of said County of Hillsborough. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set the seal of said Court.

Moses Eastman Clerk

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[illegible]      117
John Dutton
10828
Continued

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TO the Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting at Amherst within and for the County
of Hillsborough and State of New-Hampshire.

July 5th 1820
John Dutton aged Sixty six resident in Amherst
in said County, comes into Court, and, in pursuance of an Act of Congress, passed on the 1st day of May,
1820, brings with him, and in his proper person, exhibits to said Court a Schedule by him subscribed, containing his whole
estate, and income, (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted) as follows:
1 old Chest                                        50
2 old Kitchen tables                       1.50
5 old Kitchen Chains                     1.25
1 iron pot 50 to a kettle                  .50
1 small looking glass                        20
2 flat irons                                      1.00
1 pair bellows                                    50
1 can knives & forks -                    1.00
3 old axes                                       1.50
1 scythe & piggin                            1.17
1 sickle                                              .40
1 platter & six plates                         50
1 mug and a small dipper                 25
1 bowl 3 tea dishes & tea pot           25
2 old hoes                                          34
1 pail & mortar                                   24
1 tea spoon                                         12
1 glass bottle & two Jugs                 24
1 Bread tray                                        75
2 candlesticks                                    50
2 iron wages                                       75
1 barking iron                                      17
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                                                          14.13 
                                                                  his
                                                  John         X    Dutton
Witness E. Parker                                    mark


And the said John Dutton in pursuance as aforesaid, produceth to said Court the following
oath, by him duly taken and subscribed, viz:
I John Dutton do solemnly swear           that I was a resident
citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 service
of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has
my 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.

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And the said John Dutton doth here in Court further declare on oath, that
he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows, viz. That on or about the first day of
January 1776 he enlisted as a soldier in Capt Spalding
Company in Col Reads Regiment in the New Hampshire
line on the Continental establishment to serve for one
year - that he faithfully served out said enlistment
that immediately after he enlisted in Capt James
Carr's Company in Col. Reads Regiment in
the above line and service to have during three
years and faithfully served out said term and
was regularly discharged


That the date of his original declaration in order to obtain a pension is March 31, 1818 And the
number of his pension certificate is 10828 That his occupation is a day laborer 
That the number and names of his family residing with him, and their ages
and capacities to contribute to their support are as follows, viz. his wife Rachel aged
seventy who is very infirm and not able to support
herself - Also a daughter Fanny aged twenty nine
who is so much out of health as not to be able to
do any thing towards her support - my own health
is so bad I am unable to support myself -
                                           his
Witness E. Parker    John X Dutton
                                         Mark


Wherefore he prays the opinion of the said Court as to the value of the property contained in the said Schedule and
that the same together with a copy of the premises be duly certified, to the Secretary of War.
Sworn and declared before the Hon. Darling & J. K. Smith Justices of a said Court
5th day of July 1820
M Eastman Clerk

Hillsborough ss.] Court of Common Pleas. July 5
The aforesaid Schedule and oath, and the above declaration, duly subscribed and sworn by the said Dutton
having been by him exhibited in person and presented to the Court, and the same being seen
and considered:
It is the opinion of said Court, that the value of the property, contained in said Schedule is $14.13

Wherefore the Court order that a copy of the premises with the proceedings thereon, be duly certified to the Secretary
of War. 

Attest, M Eastman Clerk.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Hillsborough ss.] I M Eastman Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas within and for the said County of Hillsborough being a Court of record, do certify,
That the foregoing Schedule and oath and the declaration annexed, with the proceedings and opinion of the Court
thereon, are truly copied from the records and files of said Court.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the 5th
day of July 1820
M Eastman Clerk.

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45732 [hand written]
Revy [hand written] INVALID. [am is hand written sideways]

File No. 45732
John Dutton
Priv Rev War 

Act: 18 March 1818
Index: – Vol. 3, Page 144

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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State of N. Hampshire
Rockingham, July 31, 1818_ Then personally
appearing the within named Robert B.
Wilkins I made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed
before Wm Pickering Jus. Peace

State of New Hampshire
Secretary's Office}    July 31. 1818
I hereby certify that William Pickering Esq
whose name is subscribed to the above certificate is a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Rockingham in said State duly appointed and commissioned and that to his official acts & attestation full faith credit are
due & to be given in out of Court within & out of the State_____
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of State on the day
of the date hereof
Saml Sparhawk Sug

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Samuel Sparhawk

This certifies that Robert B. Wilkins is a Creditable
witness in Courts of Law

JK Smith} Associate Justice of
                  the Court of Com Pleas

This certifies that the signature of JK Smith
on this sheet is in his own hand writing & that he is
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County
of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set the seal Court

Moses Eastman Clerk