Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13167, James Gibson, Continental Mass.

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was a soldier in said company and Regiment aforesaid, from the beginning of the year AD. 1776 - untill the end of the year aforesaid. and the said Gibson was honorably discharged at the same time and place with the Deponent and further the Deponent saith out.-
Timothy Walker

Middlesex ss.  September 22. AD. 1818
Then the above named Timothy Walker personally appeared before me Elisha Fairbanks one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace within and for said County and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed,
Elisha Fairbanks Ji..Pea

Middlesex ss. September 22. AD. 1818.
This may certify that the above named Timothy Walker is a person of truth.  Elisha Fairbanks-

[sideways] James Gibson - Priv.

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STATE OF NEWHAMPSHIRE.
CHESHIRE SS.
On this fourteenth day of August
1819, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, for said County, personally appears James Gibson
aged 68 years, resident in Fitzwilliam in the said County, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision 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 James Gibson on the first day of Jan'y 1776 enlisted in Dorchester in the state of
Massachusetts a private in the company commanded by Captain James Mellen
of the Regiment of infantry in the land service of the United States on the Continental establishment Commanded by Co. Jonathan Ward in the War of the Revolution in the Massachusetts line that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the first day of Jan'y 1777, when he was discharged from service in Pikeskill state of  New York, that he was in the battles of Harlem heights in which battle he was wounded in the   thigh 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.
Nahum Parker
I, Nahum Parker, Judge, §c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said James Gibson did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for nine months on the continental establishment ; and is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support 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.
August 14th 1819   Nahum Parker
I, Salma Hale Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cheshire, hereby certify, that the Hon. Nahum Parker, whose proper hand is above subscribed, is one of the Justices of said Court, duly commissioned, and that no particular impression is used as a seal by said Court.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed a seal in usual form as used by said Court, this 14th day of August A. D. 1819
S. Hale