Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 40629, Nathan Ward, Conn. Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Ward, Nathan
S 40629
Mass.
CONTENTS

40629 Buy INVALID.
File No. 30, 629
Atkins Ward
Pr. Ser. War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 584
[Arrangement of 1870.]

18.784
Ohio
Nathan Ward
of Ross County in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Shepherd of the Militia line, for the term of 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 of June 1822
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of October 1822, for the Humphrey Fullerton Esq. Chillicothe
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1822. 20.
Semi ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1823. 218
2 mo 15 8 16 11 25
$69
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
May 1. 1820

18564 Nathan Ward Ohio.
Humphrey Fullerton, Chillicothe, Ohio -
Recd. 15 Aug: 1822.
996
M. Linae Coll. Comp. MS 2 pap 206

State of Ohio Ross County ss
On this 20 th day of June 1822 personally appeared in open Court being a court of Records in and for said County and State aforesaid usually termed the Court of Common Pleas Nathan Ward aged Sixty six 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 18 March 1818 and the 1 st May 1820, that he the said Nathan Ward enlisted for the term of eight months in the Spring of 1775 in the State of Connecticut in the County of Windham in the company commanded by Capt Thomas Knowlton in the regiment commanded by Col Israel Putnam in the line of the State of Connecticut on Continental establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps nine months from the time of his enlistment when he was discharged from the service in Cambridge Massachusetts and returned to Connecticut that in the Spring of 1779 or 1780 he again enlisted in the company commanded by William Moore in the Regiment commanded by Col William Shepherd in the line of the State of Massachusetts on continental establishment at a town called Uxbridge in the State of Massachusetts for the term of three years and served in said Corps to the end of the war when he was discharged from said service at Newburgh on the North river in the State of New York by Major Price of Shepherd's Regiment that his discharge has long since been lost or destroyed, that he was in the Battle of Bunker Hill that he was in the battle of Long Island, that he was in the battle of Warrenton

heights - in the battle of Monmouth that he received one wound by a cut from a dragoon on the right arm and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except the rolls in the war office.
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 eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 18 th 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 me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed One title bond for a small lot in the town of Richmond on which sixty dollars was paid that said lot when paid for might be worth one hundred dollars
Three hogs one year old worth about one dollar each
His deponent Nathan Ward further states that he is a native of the town of Ashford in the county of Windham and State of Connecticut that about twenty years since he moved into the State of New York and that about five years since he moved into the county of Ross in said State of Ohio and now resides at a place in said county called Richmond that at the time of his

enlistment he was a house carpenter and about five feet seven inches high light complexion light coloured hair and blue eyes - that he has no family but lives as a boarder - & has neither wife or children to support or who will support him that for better than a year past he has for most of the time been confined by sickness and is still unable to do labour
Nathan Ward Sworn to and subscribed in open Court June 20 th AD 1852 attest Wm. Wm. Fullerton Clk.
State of Ohio Ross County Set.
I Wm. Wm. Fullerton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration with the schedule thereto 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 fifty eight dollars one hundred and three dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said Court at Chillicothe this 7 th day of August AD 1852 and of this state the 20 th
Wm. Wm. Fullerton

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Ward, Nehemiah GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 5300 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Oct. 16, 1789 to Theodosius Fowler
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.