Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,715, Daniel Bunce, Mass.

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Service
Mass.
Bunce, Daniel
NUMBER
S. 44,715
Contents
[blank]

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44715
INVALID [typed]
Revy [handwritten] ---

File No. [typed] 44715 [handwritten]
Daniel Bunce
Priv. Rev. War
Act: [typed] 18" March 1818 [handwritten]
Index :--Vol. [typed] 3, Page 70 [handwritten]

(Arrangement of 1870.) [typed]

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9287
R
New York   
Daniel Bunce
Jully
in the state of New York
[illegible] o was a private
in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Vose
of the Massachusetts
[illegible] for the term of 6 years
[De]scribed on the Roll of New York
[illegible] the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 15 of April 1818

[Cer]tificate of Pension issued the 15 of April 1819
and sent to J.B. Phelps, Prebley N.Y.
[illegible] rears 4th of March 1819 11 16/30 4/31 
[illegible]ni-anl, all ending 4 September

$85.29
48
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$133.29

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued
10 Dec 23

[Right Margin]
Notification sent Oct. 30th 1820 to Truman Adams Onondaga C.H. N. Yk

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I Daniel >Bunce of Tully in the County of 
Buncey State of NewYork being sworn[?]
upon the holy Evangelist of Almighty God
depose and say that I enlisted in the Continental Army during the war at Canaan
then County of Albany and State of New York
in the year 1777 I think in the month of
March under Capt Jeremiah Miller of the
Genen of Richmond County of Berkshin
State of Massachusetts Afterwards transfered
into into Capt Francis Greens Company in the first Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Vose and was discharged at New Burgh County of Orange and State of New York about the 23 of July 1783
by Col Vose and the said Discharge
is now lost and by a number of unforeseen
Misfortunes I am 
reduced > I [illegible] in my circumstances that I stand in need of assistance of my County for support
Daniel Bunce

Sworn and Subscribed before me this
15 day of April 1818
Jabez B Phelps am
of the Judges of Berthand [?]
Common Pleas

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State of New York
Cortland County  I, Jabez B. Phelps one of the judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for the County of Cortland do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Daniel Bunce did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common Enemy and also that I am acquainted with the said Daniel Bunce and know him to be in indigent circumstances and
draws a considerable part of his support from 
the Town in which he lives All which I know
and with the proceedings & testimony before me taken & have to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the act of Congress in such case made & provided
Dated at Preble
this 15 day of
April 1818

Jabez B. Phelps

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Daniel Bunce
X
9287
Sept 1819
Con

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State of New-York,
Onondaga County } ss:

On the first [handwritten] day of September handwritten] 1820, personally appeared in open court in the court of common pleas in and for the county of Onondaga, being a court of record proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of their proceedings, Daniel Bunce [handwritten] aged Seventy one [handwritten]
years, resident in Pompey [handwritten] in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath [handwritten] declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows- [handwritten] Viz. in the year 1777 he enlisted in Captain Millers Company in the first regiment of the Massachusetts line that he continued a Soldier in said Regiment until the year 1783 when he was discharged at Newburgh in the State of New York, and now holds a pension certificate No 9.287 that he
made his original declaration for a pension 15 April 1818 

and I do solemnly swear [handwritten] that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 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, and by me subscribed. [handwritten] Viz.
Two small hogs $1.25 
One Cow ----15.00
One Table ---- 2.00
five chairs ---- 2.25
Two small chests  2.00
Two pails -- .75
one small tin pail  .25
one meat barrel -  75
one small tub -- 25
one 4 pail Kettle -- 3.00
one small Kettle - 1.00
one tea Kettle -- 1.00
One spider[?] --- 75
One flat iron  37
three earthen milkpans  50
4 old pewter plates  50
2 old pewter basins  36
2 earthen platters -- 25
one earthen teapot  18
5 tea cups + saucers  50
7 spoons  ------50

5 knives 4 forks " 50
2 spining wheels  2.00
one reel[?]  ----- 18 1/2
three carthew lugs[?] -  36 0/0
One tin cup ----- 06
One earthen cup   12 1/2
   Brought up 36.56
One old bak pan $ 0.25
One fire shovel -- .75
one old axe ---- .50
one old hoe ---- 25
two candlesticks -- 50
one chopping knife - 25
one [illegible] --- 36
one nail hammer  25
one kneading trough  25
one earthen jugg -- 06
one half pint bottle  06
one small [illegible] -- 06
one glass tumbler -- 06
one pepper box  -- 06
one [illegible] skimmer -- 06
one butter box -- 25
one razor and box --- 75

Brought up  -  $41.36
My debts amount to 50.00
Balance ------8.64

I have a family consisting of a wife and three children.  One child is twelve years old all dependent upon me for support, my wife is
forty five years of age of age of a delicate constitution unable to work but a part of the time.  I am seventy one years of age  I have been unable to work at all for four or five years being severely afflicted with the with the asthma and several other complaints.  
Daniel Bunce Sworn in open court this 1 September 1820

J.O. Wattles Judge of Onon Com. Pleas

I, Truman Adams, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Onondaga, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath [handwritten] and the 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty one [handwritten] -----dollars and thirty six [handwritten] cents owes fifty dollars [handwritten margins]  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 22nd [handwritten] day of September [handwritten] 1820.  

Truman Adams [signature]
Clerk of the court for the County of Onondage.

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Daniel Bruce [underlined, scratched out] Bunce
Testimony
Pension Claimant [underlined]

Private
Col Vose's Regiment
Massachusetts Line
1777- 6 years [underlined]
Miller's 13 Mar 77 was
Admitted

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Clerks Office
Cortland County, to wit
I hereby certify that Jabez B Phelps Esq. whose signature appears to the [illegible] afft was at the date of the off aforesaid duly authorised
to take the same and was agin of the Court of Com. Pleas for sd County his acts therefore in that capacity unto be regarded as such & also that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verity believe the signature to the said afft to be his own proper hand writing  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Court of Com. Pleas for said County to be hereunto affixed this 16th July 1818

Saml Hotchkiss L. Dep. Clerk [underlined]