Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 8127, James Burbeck, Continental (Mass.)

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SERVICE
Continental (Mass)

Burbeck, James

NUMBER
S8127

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10.808
New Hampshire

James Burbeck
of Grafton in the State of N Hamp
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Burbeck of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Gerdley in the New Hamp
line for 8 months Private of Artillery.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of April
1833 and sent N. P.
Rodgers Plymouth N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833     $66.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.    16.67
                                                               ______
                                                               $83.33
                                                              _______
                                                    { Revolutionary Claim,}
                                                    { Act June 7, 1832.      }
Recorded by D. D. Addison, Clerk
Book E     Vol. 1st     Page 73

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Decn. of James Burbeck

20724

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State of New Hampshire }
Grafton SS                         }   On this seventh day of November in 
                                                 the year of our Lord eighteen hundred + thirtytwo personally appeared in open Court being the Superior Court of Judication for the said State now in session at Plymouth in said county James Burbeck a resident of Campton in said county aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to Law did on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - that he entered the service of the United States under the following officers + served as herein stated that he enlisted at Cambridge in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the month of May in the year 1775 into a company of artillery in the revolutionary service stationed at Cambridge + commanded by his father Captain Edward Burbeck - that he enlisted with him for eight months - passed muster at said Cambridge although then very young + was employed chiefly in the publick Laboratory in preparing cartridge + port fire for the army + was engaged also as a waiter to his father - that he served said period of eight months without interruption + at the end of it was dismissed - that the regiment to which his company belonged was commanded by Colonel Gridley - that the Lieut Colonel was declarants grandfather William Burbeck that his uncle Henry Burbeck, now General Burbeck of New London in Connecticut, with Lilly + Eustis were Lieutenants in his company + that his uncle Thomas Burbeck + he thinks his uncle John Burbeck were members of the same company - that he was stationed during the whole of his said service at Cambridge and was not in any battle - received no written discharge from service that his father was paymaster of his company + he thinks paymaster the year following of the same [?] company - that his father removed from Boston about the time of commencement of hostilities + returned thither [previous two words were crossed out] with his family returned thither shortly after the town was evacuated by the British - that he remembers his fathers pay-

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-ing off his soldiers for the service of 1776 at the close of that year or the beginning of 1777 at Boston having returned from the service somewhere in the State of New York he thinks Peekskill - that he remembers General Washingtons arrival at Cambridge to take command of the army + seeing him on the field there with General Gates that he knew General Putnam during said service + that he or General Ward he believes had command when General Washington arrived - that he remembers, while stationed at the Laboratory, the arrival there, from some port, of the cannon, mortars, shells + shots taken from the enemy on the sea by Captain Manly + thinks he remembers a mortar of brass among them - that the troops to which he himself belonged were as he understood state troops - that he has no documentary evidence of his service - that he knows of no persons living whose testimony to his service he can procur beside the persons whose affidavits are hereto annexed - that he is the identical James Burbeck spoken of in annexed affidavit of General Burbeck, that he was born, as he supposes, in Boston January 15th 1763 - has no record of his birth + does not know of the existence of any but has no doubt of the accuracy of the said day - that his fathers family resided in Boston until 1775 from his birth as he supposes + he with them - that then he removed into Cambridge - resided there when he enlisted - that sometime as he believes in the fall of 1776 after the British evacuated Boston he returned there with his mother + family - his father being off in the service - resided there until the winter of 1778 - removed then to Newburyport - where lived ten years - removed then to Plymouth aforesaid + resided there ill March 1791 when he removed to Campton where he has ever since resided + now lives - that he hereby relinquishes every claim

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whatever to a pension or annuity except the present + declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state
                                                                James Burbeck

sworn to + subscribed the day and year aforesaid
                                                               S. P. Webster, Clerk

We John Rogers + Stevens Merrill both residing in the town of Plymouth aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Deacon James Burbeck who has subscribed + sworn to the above + foregoing declaration - that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution + that we concur in that opinion + that said Deacon Burbeck is a gentleman of the highest respectability of character We further certify that this [previous five words were crossed out] We further certify that he is as well known in this town in our belief as in his [illegible] + more immediate neighborhood.
                                                               John Rogers
                                                               Stevens Merrill
                    Sworn to and subscribed this 7th day of November
                    Anno Domini 1832.
                                           Attest S. P. Webster Clerk

We the said Court do hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after [?] the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court certifies that it appears to them that James Burbeck who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the town of Campton + that John Rogers and Stevens Merrill both residents in the town of Plymouth are credible persons and that their statement is [illegible] to belief -

I, Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judication within and for said County of Grafton do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of James Burbeck for a pension. -

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 7th day of November Anno Domini 1832
                                                       S. P. Webster, Clerk

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                                          James Burbeck
                                            N Hampshire




         Private of Arty 8 Mos





                      20724





          N. P Rogers.
               Plymouth
                     N.H.

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BRIEF in the case of James Burbeck 
Co of Grafton in the State of
                        (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?    Open Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?    69

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period    |    Duration of Service    |    Rank    |    Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served

May In 1775 enlisted    |    8 (Months)    |    As a waiter to Cap Burbeck but chiefly in the Laboratory    |    Col Gerdly

5.  In what battles was he engaged?    None

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?    Cambridge, Mass

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?    Traditionary two Living Witnesses

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

George Taylor  [name underlined]
Examining Clerk

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I Jane Little of Campton in the county of Grafton +state of New Hampshire aged seventy one years depose + say that James Burbeck of said Campton applicant for a pension is my brother, that in the spring of 1775 my father Edward Burbeck of Boston removed out of said Boston into Cambridge + my said brother removed with him + the rest of his family - that my father was appointed to command a company of artillery stationd at Cambridge in the service of the armies (?) + and that my said brother James went into said company + served in it eight months as a private - I well remember the last (?) of his service - After the British left Boston my mother + and the family removed into Boston again - my father was absent somewhere in the service - my brother returnd, to Boston with us. This was in the fall I think of 1776 - my brothers said service was performd while the company was stationd at Cambridge. I had several other relatives in the same company + my grandfather William Burbeck was Lieut Colo. of the regiment to which the company belonged.
Jane Little

State of New Hampshire}
Grafton SS}
November 15th 1832 Then personally appearing said Jane Little with whom I have long been personally acquainted and who is a person of fair + good standing for truth - made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit before me.
Ebenezer LIttle Jnr Justice of the Peace

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State of New Hampshire }
Grafton SS - }
Superior Court of Judication November 1832

I certify that Ebenezer Little Junior the magistrate within certifying is a Justice of the Peace with the said county + duly authorized to administer oaths + to certify the same + that I believe the within signature purporting to be his, is in his genuine hand writing + that it was subscribed there by him - 

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand _ affixed this seal of said Court this 17th day of November Anno Domini 1832.
                     S. P. Webster Clerk

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Revlnary [written at a slant on the top right]

8127
INVALID

File No. 8127
James Burbeck
Priv Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. 1st, Page 50
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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State of Connecticut SS
County of New London

Be it known + remembered that on this seventeenth day of October A One thousand Eight hundred and ThirtyTwo before me the subscriber Thos. S. Perkins a Justice of the Peace within + for the County of New London aforesaid personally appeared and came General Henry Burbeck of the town of New London personally known to me who by me being duly cautioned examined + sworn made the following affidavit as in the words + figures follow viz

I Henry Burbeck a resident of the town of New London in New London County of lawful age do depose testify and say that I was born in Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that I was a Lieutenant in Captain Edward Burbecks Company of Artillery in Colonel Richard Gridleys Regiment of Massachusetts troops - in the year Seventeen hund seventy five - That I well remember James Burbeck then of Boston, that in the month of May in that year he the said James enlisted into the said Captain Edward Burbecks company to serve as a private for the term of Eight Months - that he the same James Burbeck did serve in said Company with the deponent for the said
turn

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term of Eight months + that at the end of said term the said James was honorably discharged - And the said deponent further deposes + says that he has received a letter purporting to be from the said James + from circumstances he verily believes the said James now lives in the State of New Hampshire - and further the deponent says not

H Burbeck

And I the said Justice do further certify that the said Henry Burbeck who has signed the above affidavit is a gentleman of the highest character for [next three words illegible and crossed out] truth -

In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my name on this day + year first aforementioned
Attest
Thos S. Perkins Justice of Peace

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State of Connecticut }
New London County } SS

I John DeWitt Clerk of the County Court in and for said New London County do hereby certify that Thomas S. Perkins Esqr before whom the annexed deposition of H Burbeck was taken - is a Justice of the Peace in and for said New London County and that his signature affixed to the same is in his own proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this 18th day of October AD 1832

John DeWitt Clerk