Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,567, Jarib Bacon, Mass.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Massachusetts

Bacon, Jarib

NUMBER
S. 44.567

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13830
New York
Jarib Bacon
of Ontario in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Spurr of the regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon in the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years from the year 1777 to 1780.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 17th day of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of July 1819 and sent to R. Babbit, Rochester, N.Y.
Continued on the Roll on the 16th day of October 1829 and notification sent to Barnard & Hills at Rochester, New York. Pension commencing on the 5th of October 1829.
Amount due on 4th of March 1830} $39.75
Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820.

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See letters 18 March 1830 to B. Wakeman & Co. & Pension agent.

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4296
Jarib Bacon
application
Roswell Babbitt, agent
Rochester, New York
Received July 9, 1819

Rejected
Not on Roll.
Admitted.

Josiah Bacon on Roll
Submitted to Wm. Co.

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State of New York
Genesee County, ss}

On the 17th day of April in the year of our Lord 1818 before me the subscriber are of the Judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Genesee in the State of New York, personally appeared Jarib Bacon aged sixty nine years, resident in the County of Ontario in the State aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according the Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late 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. That he the said carib Bacon enlisted on the tenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1777 as a private in the town of Brookfield in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Spurr in a Regiment under command of Colonel Nixon in the Massachusetts line. That he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the eleventh day of March in the year 1780 when he was discharged from service at or near West Point in the State of New York. That he was in no regular battles during his said service and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support, and that he has no other evidence [illegible] in his power of his said service.
Jarib Bacon

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Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.

Ralph Parker, Judge

I Ralph Parker one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Genesee in the State of New York as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jarib Bacon did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the precedings 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.
Ralph Parker, Judge

And I do hereby further certify that I am satisfied by the oath of Jeremiah Day that the above named Jarib Bacon is in reduced circumstances and absolutely stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Ralph Parker

Genese County ss
I hereby certify that the Court of Common Pleas of Genesee County is a court of record in the state of New York and that Ralph Parker Esquire was on the 17th day of April in the year 1818 one of the judges of the said court and that the

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official signatures to the declaration and certificates hereunto annexed are his signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said court this 8th day of June A.D. 1818.
S. Cummings, Clerk

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Declaration in order to be restored to the Pension List under the Act of First March 1823.
County of Monroe ss:
On this twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty nine, personally appeared in open court, being the County Court in & for the county of Monroe in the State of New York, Jarib Bacon resident of the town of Henrietta in said county of Monroe, aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 & the first of May 1820. That he the said Jarib Bacon enlisted on the ninth day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven in the state of Massachusetts for three years in the company commanded by Captain John Spurr in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Nixon in the Line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment. That he continued to serve in the said corps until the tenth day of March in the year seventeen hundred & eight, when he was discharged from the service near the city of New York in the state of New York; that his name has been placed upon the pension list & dropped therefrom on account of his property.
And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820, I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time begirt, sale or many manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby, so to diminish it as to bring myself with the provisions of any 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" passed on the 18th day of March 1818. 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, & by my subscribed. That since the exhibition of my first schedule, the following changes have been made in my property. That at the time of the exhibition of my first schedule (whether mentioned in said schedule or not, the said Jarib does not remember)

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One Joseph Bowman owed to the said Jarib the sum of two hundred & fifteen dollars, which debt after a course of litigation [cross out] was paid [end cross out] on the subject was paid to the said Jarib about seven years since, And the said Jarib says that the said sum of money has been a long time since expended by him in the payment of honest debts, & for the support of himself & his wife (since dead) & his family. And the said Jarib says he is & always has been a farmer. That he is not able to work for an hour for a time. that he has no family. That he resides in the family of his son-in-law, who is a man of small property. That he has one sone in the State of New York who is poor; he has five daughters married & none of them in affluent circumstances. And the said Jarib says further, that he is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country.
(Signed)
Jareb Bacon

Monroe Common Pleas
of March Term 1829
On the twenty third day of March 1829, personally appeared in open court, before the judges of the Court aforesaid, Jareb Bacon who name is subscribed to the above declaration & to the inventory hereto attached, who being duly sworn deposes & says, that the above declaration to which his name is subscribed is true & that the inventory hereto attached, to which his name is also subscribed, is also true.
(Signed)
William Groves, Clerk

A true & correct inventory of all the property of Jareb Bacon of the town of Henrietta in the county of Monroe - to wit -
One Large Bible, worth $6.00
One warming Pan - $3.00
Seven dollars & twenty cents in money - $7.20
Exclusive of waring apparel = $16.20
(Signed)
Jarib Bacon
Rochester Monroe County
March 23, 1829

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44567
Revolutionary INVALID.

File No. 44567
Jarib Bacon
Private, Revolutionary War

Act: 18th March 1818 1st May 1820
Index: Vol 3, Page 24
(Arrangement of 1870.)

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S3.830
New York

Jarib Bacon
of Ontario in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon of the Massachusetts line for the term of three years.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of July 1819 and sent to Roswell Babbitt, Esquire, Rochester, New York.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - $84.76
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 September 1819 - $48.
10 mo, 18 days, amount
$132.76
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

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In the matter of Jareb Bacon
on his application to be restored to the Pension List.

Copy
Declaration & Schedule

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I William Groves Clerk of the County of Monroe, do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Jareb Bacon did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of three years under one engagement on the continental establishment.
I also certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 sixteen dollars & twenty cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred & twenty nine.
William Groves
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Monroe in the State of New York.

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Supplemental Affidavit
State of New York
Monroe County ss}
Jarib Bacon whose name appears upon and who made the affidavit to which this is annexed as a supplement, being sworn says that the reason why did not petition to be restored to the pension list till his present application is that hi lives in an obscure place and that he has had but little intercourse with the world around him and after his name was struck from the pension list the thought of being again restored to it never occurs to him until the subject was mentioned to him in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
And this deponent further says that at the time he was struck from the Pension Roll, he had due from Joseph Bowman of State of Vermont, ^ two hundred and fifty dollars and that he received the money some time in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty two and that he expended the same, in the payment of a number of small debts which he then owed, which had been contracted for the services of physicians and for the necessaries of living; that he and his wife had been a long time sick; that they were earning nothing and their living was expensive; and that when he did receive the money he paid the whole immediately out and for the purpose aforesaid.
Jarib Bacon
Sworn in the court of Common Pleas for the Monroe County this 5th day of October 1829
William Groves, Clerk

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Honorable John H. Eaton
Secretary of War
Washington City,
D.C.

Pension Office
3rd April 1829

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Rochester Monroe County New York
March 25th 1829

Sir,
Enclosed are the papers of Jarib Bacon and Thomas Adams on their application to be restored to the pension list. If the papers are not sufficient for the object designed, they would wish to be informed from your Department in what they are deficient that they may amend. Their object is to be restored to the pension list and to receive their back pay, and to receive from your department a certificate of whatever may be done for them.
Please write on the subject and direct to Daniel D. Barnard, Esquire, who is my partner in business.
Very respectfully your servant, 
Isaac Hills

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[stamp] [illegible] New York
[stamp] FREE
Hon. John H. Eaton
Secretary of War
Washington City
[handwritten vertically at left side] Pension Office 16th Oct 1829

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Rochester, New York
October 11th 1829

To the Honorable: the Secretary of War
Sir,
We again inclose to you the application of Jarib Bacon to be restored to the pension list. We have supplied the deficiencies you named by a supplementary affidavit of his, and we now indulge the hope that the Department will grant the old man his petition. You would confirm a favor on the old man by letting him hear from you on the subject.
Very respectfully your servant,
Barnard Hills