Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,754, Thomas Doliber, Mass.

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(8-1776)
Service: Mass
Doliber, Thomas
File Number: S. 34,754

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1488
Massachusetts Roll
Thomas Doliber
Capt Merritt
Private
Maps Line- 9 months
Scribed on the roll of Massachusetts
At the rate of $8 per month ,to commence on the 18th of April 1818
Certificate of pension issued the 30th of June 1818 and last to Saw. Putnam
Labor-maps
rrears to 4th of September 1818
4 months 17/30
$30.53
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18 March 1818
Continued
Marblehead Esper Co

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Thos. Doliber

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Be it remembered, That Thomas Doliber aged 62 Mariner of Marblehead in the County of Essex in the Commonwealth aforesaid, doth make upon oath the following DECLARATION, to wit,
That he enlisted into the service of the United States in the month of May Anno Domini 1775 in Captain Merrets Company Col John Glover's Regiment of Infantry in the Massachusetts Line marched from Marblehead to Cambridge where he served about four months, was then ordered by General Washington on board the Continental ship Lee John Manly commander to cruise against the enemy, that he continued the same service untill his enlistment expired about the last of December 1775 that he never had any written discharge - A few days after he again enlisted in the service of the United states in Captain Enoch Putnam's Company Col Hutchinsons Regiment of Infantry in the Massachusetts Line. he marched from Marblehead to Winter Hill in Charlestown Massachusetts, continued in the vicinity of Boston untill the next July following when he was ordered on board the Continental Schooner Warren, William Burk Captain to cruise against the enemy and continued on board untill she blew up in an action with a British ship. That he was badly wounded and unfit for service about the first of November 1776 he was honorably discharged by General Ward and by some accident his discharge has been lost 

That the Declarant is infirm; that from his reduced circumstances in life he is now in need of assistance from his country for support; and that he hereby relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States.

[signed] Thomas Doliber

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AFFIDAVIT.
I Jacob Waitt of Marblehead in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, Mariner do on oath depose and testify,
That I am well acquainted with the within named Thomas Doliber and served in the Regiment of Col Hutchinson and on board the Continental Schooner Warren Captain Burk with the within named Doliber and believe the within declaration by him made to be true & correct
[signed] Jacob Waitt

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ADDITIONAL PROOF.
I, Thomas Homan of Marblehead in the County of ESSEX, in the COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, Fisherman do on solemn oath testify and depose, as follows: -
That I well know Thomas Doliber who subscribed the annexed declaration. I know that he served as a Soldier in the American Revolutionary war first for the Term of eight months in Col. Glovers Regt, four of which he servd the [illegible] and was then ordered on board the Continental vessel, Schooner Lee, John Manley commander, that he continued said service untill the last of December when his term expired. I also know that he again enlisted in January 1776 in Capt Enoch Putnams company, Col Hutchinsons Regt Massts. Line for the space or term of one year, that he continued in the service at Cambridge & vicinity untill the month of July follwoing when he was drafted to go on board the Schooner Warren, William Burk Commander and I know that he was in the service untill the month of November 1776, that he was badly [illegible] by [illegible] blowing up in an action with a British ship the last term of his enlistment was on continental service and was upon the Continental establishment
[signed] Thomas Homan

Essex Ss. June 23, 1818. Then Thomas Homan personally subscribed and made solemn oath to the above written affidavit.
Before me
[signed] Ralph H French J. Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss.
I Samuel Putnam a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid hereby certify the the aforenamed Deponents, Jacob Levitt and Thomas Norman are credible and disinterested witnesses and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said declarant served in the revolutionary army on the continental establishment against the common enemy more than nine months at one period of continued service and I further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said declarant is in reduced circumstances in life and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. Given under my hand and the seal of said court the 30th day of June AD 1818 [signed] S. Putnam Just S.J. Court of Massachusetts.

I Ichabod Tucker Clerk of the supreme judicial court aforesaid do certify that the Honorable Samuel Putnam is a judge of said court that the above is his signature that the seal affixed is the seal of said court, that the within named Ralph H. French Esquire who has certified the aforewritten depositions is a justice of the peace in and for the county of essex duly empowered and qualified to administer oaths. [signed] Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

printed by TC Cushing, Salem

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

ESSEX, ss.

On this eighteenth day of April,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen, personally appeared before me Samuel Putnam
one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court
of said Commonwealth

the aforenamed Thomas Doliber & Jacob Waitt and in
my presences severally subscribed and made solemn oath to the aforewritten
Declaration and AFFIDAVIT, by them respectively made as aforesaid:—And
it appearing to my satisfaction, that the aforenamed Thomas Doliber
served more than NINE MONTHS, to wit, from the [blank] day
of January A.D. 1776 to the [blank] day of
November A.D. 1776 at one period of the Revolutionary War,
on the Continental Establishment, against the common enemy, I do hereby certify the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary
of the Department of War.

Given under my hand, and the seal of the Court a-
foresaid, at Marblehead, this eighteenth day
of April, in the year o[f our] Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen.

S. Putnam Just
S. J. Court of Massts.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss I Ichabod Tucker clerk of all the
Judicial courts of said state in & for the
county of Essex do certify that the [illegible]
Samuel Putnam is a judge of said
Supreme Judicial Court that the
within signature is his proper hand-
writing & that the seal hereto affixed is
the seal of said court
Salem April 1818
AWr. Ichabod Tucker, Cler

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1488

Thomas Doliber

June 1818
Concd 5 Oct
1820

Cn

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

ESSEX, ss.

At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun
and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third
Monday of June, A. D. 1820.

Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.

In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding ac.
cording to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in
point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the pow-
er of fine and imprisonment, Thomas Doliber
resident in [blank] in said Circuit, who is named in
Pension Certificate No. 1488 now in his possession, of which the
following is a true copy, to wit,

"WAR DEPARTMENT.........REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
Thomas Doliber late a private
"in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate
"of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 18th
"day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
[typed seal reads: L. S.]
"Given at the War of Office of the United States this thirtieth day
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"

appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as
follows, to wit,

SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding
excepted, to wit,

one small room in an old house much out of repair, with a spot of land about
twelve yards square in the lower part of the town of Marblehead, valued at $40.00
1 old case of drawers 5.00 7 old chairs, half without bottoms 1.25, 1 broken table 20c - 6.45
1 Looking glass 4.00 2 broken pots 40c 1 cracked Frye kettle 50c 1 tea kettle 1.50 - - 6.40
6 knives & forks 33.c plates, cups & his crockery ware 1.50 1 pr tongs 33c - - - 2.15
1 pair andiorons 50c 1 axe 50c beetle and wages 1.00 - - - - 2.00
$57.01

He is 65 years old, his family is only a wife who has for a long time
been under the charge of a Physician and confined to her bed, has the liver complaing -  he can only go out a fishing in a small boat occasionally in the
summer and in winter can do nothiong - was by occupation a mariner; ser-
ved in Capt. Merrill's Company Col. John Glovers Regiment in the Massachu-
setts line -

Thomas Doliber

Sworn to & declared before
Wm Wetmore Judge
above named

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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath,
taken and subscribed by him, before Hon. Wm Wetmore
a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,

I, Thomas Doliber do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United
States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not,
since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 revo-
lutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 and by me
subscribed. So help me GOD.

Thomas Doliber


Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820

Then the abovenamed Thomas Doliber
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me

Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court.

I, ICHABOD TUCKER, [illegible]
that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied
from the record 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 prop-
erty exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is fifty seven
dollars twenty [crossed out: dollars] one cents

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court at Salem, in said County of Essex,
on this 17th day of July A. D.
1820

Attr. Ichabod Tucker Cler

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64 754
Revy INVALID [illegible]

File No. 64 754
Thomas Doliber
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18--
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 112
[Arrangement of 1870.]