Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,975, Timothy Gerrish, Navy N.H. Mass. Sea Service

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6792
Timothy Gerrish 
April 9th, 1833,
Obj 16. 
6792
p. 324
July 18, 1833
Obj 16
Admit-letter
9 mos 10D Priv.
14 (mos) 20D Seaman
223.75
William Hammond Eliot, York Co Me

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of Act of Congress passed 
June 7th 1832
State of Maine
County of York

[crossed out] On the fourth day of August in the year of the Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two [end of cross out] personally appeared before [crossed out] William A Hayes Judge of Probate for said County of York at [end of cross out] the Court of Probate-- at Alfried within for the County of York, on the third day of Sept A.D. 1832.
Timothy Gerrish a resident of Eliot in the County of York and State of Maine aged sixty eight years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the seventh in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated
I Timothy Gerrish was in Kittery in the County of York in the State of Maine on the sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty four, I know of no record of my age. At the commencement of the War of the revolution I cannot recollect at what time I think it was in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy four I entered in a company of New Hampshire Militia at Durham in the State of New Hampshire a waiter for a Captain I cannot recollect his name in the company I belonged to Colonel Finneys Regiment we matched to Cambridge in Massachusetts where I continued a waiter for said Captain for  nine months. I was then about ten years of age. Sometime after the above service I went to Tivertown and entered the service in a Regiment of

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Letters of Marque of twenty guns each I was in the service three months when we returned to Portsmouth and I was discharged, On the sixth day of June in the year seventeen hundred and eighty. I enlisted at Boston at the Massachusetts state ship Mars commanded by Simeon Sampson we went to France for small arms and warlike stories for the army and returned to Boston about the twelfth day of March seventeen hundred and eighty one making my service on board this ship nine months and six days. On the seventh day of June seventeen hundred and eighty two I enlisted at Boston on board the Massachusetts state ship Tartar- Captain John Cathcart Esq. Commander we sailed on a cruise and returned to Boston about the twenty first day of November following. I was in this service five months and fourteen days. I know of no one now living that was in the above named services with me. I did not receive a written discharge from any of the above named services and have no documentary evidence.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity excepts the presents and declared that his name is not on the Pension roll of the Agency of any state,
Timothy Gerrish
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid?
Wm A Hayes Judge of ? Court 

We Josiah Rennick and John Hammond both residing in the town of Eliot hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Timothy Gerrish who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty eight year old age that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to  have been a soldier in the Revolution and we concur in that  opinion Sept 3 1832

Josiah Rennick
John Hammond 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me William Hammond Justice of the Peace
And the said Court do hereby declare therein opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations presented by the War Department, that the above named applicant  was a revolutionary soldier and services as he states. And the said Court further certifies that it appears to them Josiah Rennick is a respectable citizen resident in said Eliot and that John Hammond is a magistrate for the County of York also

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State of Maine
York Ss

I certify that the within named  Deponents Josiah Remick and John Hammond are to my knowledge credible & reputable men
Eliot April 20 1833.
William Hammond Justice of the Peace 

State of Maine
Wm Cutter Alan, Register of the Court of Probate for said county hereby certify William Hammond is a justice of the peace, for said county and that the forgoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal official this
sixth day of Aug AD 1833?
Mr. Alan Register of Probate

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office July 18, 1832
I hereby certify, that on an examination of the military papers of the War of the Revolution which remain in this Department, I find the name of Timothy Gerrish borne on the following Rolls, vis

On a "Pay Roll of the Officers & men belonging to
the State Ship Tartar, John Cathcart Esq Commander
and that he is therein stated to have served as a
Seaman, with wages at £ 2 per month, from June
7 to Nov. 21, 1782.-
Also on a "Roll of the officers of men belonging to
the State Ship Mars", commanded by Simeon
Samson of that he is therein held to have served
as a Seaman from June 6. 1780 to March 12. 1781
Edward D Bangs Secy of Comwth

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