Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 689, Samuel Gibbs, Continental (Conn.)

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District of Massachusetts.
Berkshire County, SS.
 On this Twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord 1818 before the subscriber John Hooker, personally appeared [something crossed out] Samuel Gibbs aged Sixty years, resident in the Town of Becket in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, in the said District - who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on  his oath, make the following declaration, order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to proved for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war: That he the said [Elijah crossed out] Samuel Gibbs enlisted in December 1775 - in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Jewett of the Col. Jedidiah Huntingtons Regiment.

That he continued to serve in the said corps, in the service of the United States, until the First day of January 1777 when he was discharged from service in the Town of Peekskill State of New York.

That he was in the battle on Long Island so called; - and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support;
And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
John Hooker. Saml Gibbs


I John Hooker Chief Justice in the Circuit Court in [illegible]do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Gibbs did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, Pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
John Hooker

I Joseph Woodbridge, Clerk of the Court for [illegible] do certify and attest, that the abovenamed John Hooker is Chief Justice of [illegible] and that the foregoing is his signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, the day and year first above written.

Jos. Woodbridge Clk

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State of Massachusetts }
County of Hampden     } ss.

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Henry W. Bishop Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the common wealth of Massachusetts that Samuel Gibbs was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $96 per annum and that he died on the fourteenth day of July eighteen hundred and twenty nine leaving surviving Caty Gibbs now residing in Tolland in said County, his widow

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["the only surviving child of the aforesaid" crossed out]



                             IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this twenty ninth day of April on thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
Henry W Bishop - Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the state of Massachusetts

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Rev Army

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Gibbs

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State of Massachusetts
Berkshire County Ss.

Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for sd County of Berkshire duly authorised [sic] by Law to Administer oaths Fanny Hall a resident of the town of Lee in said County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts aged Fifty Five years who being first duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith she is personally acquainted with Caty Gibbs whose application for a pension as the widow of Samuel Gibbs late a pensioner of the United States hath been forwarded to the Department that Deponent was personally acquainted with Samuel Gibbs late her husband from the year 1813 and knows they lived together as man and wife and was so reputed and believed to be, when they resided that she knows the sd Samuel Gibbs died on the fourteenth day of July AD. 1829 and that he left Caty Gibbs the applicant for a pension his widow who has not intermarried since his death but still remains his widow

Sworn & subscribed Before me this sixth day of July AD. 1853 F. Sturgis Just Peace

Fanny Hall

I certify that Fanny Hall who executed the above affidavit is a credible witness, and that I am not and agent in this  claim and have no interest therein
Franklin Sturgis

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Ezra Mark of Barkhamsted in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut of lawful age Deposeth and saith that Samuel Gibbs of Becket in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts enlisted in the month of December A.D. 1775 in the town of Lyme in the County of New London & State of Connecticut aforesaid into a company commanded by Capt. Joseph Jewett, in Col. Jedediah Huntingtons Regiment, for the term of one year from the 1st day of January 1776 in the month of December aforesaid He then said Gibbs marched to Roxbury near Boston & continued there until the spring following.  was then marched to New York where he continued until the term for which he enlisted expired. he was discharged from service the first day of January 1777. in the town of  Peekskill State of New York and further the deponant saith not

Ezra Mack