Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33221, Zaccheus Watkins, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Watkins, Jacobus
S. 33221
CONTENTS

33 2 21 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33, 221
Jacchens Watkins Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 538
[Arrangement of 1870.]

745
Massachusetts Roll
Zaccheus Watkins, Capt. Day Private Mass.
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 12. of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Edward Bangs Worcester, Mass.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r . 1818 3 months 20/31 & 4/30 $30.22
{Revolutionary claims, {Act 18th March, 1818,}
Massachusetts line 77-3 year,
Douglas Worcester Co.

Miss Buffinton -
Certificate -
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page]

I Samuel Buffinton of Worthington in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify & declare that in the course of the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty seven, I as a recruiting officer in the American Service, duly commissioned for that purpose, did enlist Zachariah Watkins to serve as a soldier in the Continental Army, from the term of said enlistment until the close of the war, in the Massachusetts line of said Army. - I do further cer- tify & declare that said Watkins did serve during the term of said enlistment Saml. Buffinton Worthington Ap. 29. 1818.
Then personally appeared before me the above named Samuel & made oath to the truth of the above cer- tificate
Josiah Mills Justice of peace

This may certify that the within Sam d Lehnus Wathens served three years in Capt. Luke Days Company in the 7 th Mass ts Reg t . First Company by Jacob Alden & lastly by John Brooks Lt. Col o Com d W m Tayer Orderly Ser t 1 st Company
Thursday May 2 d 1818

Zachary Watkins
12 May
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension hereafter allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or have been so allowed.
Correct JH
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this day personally appeared Zachary Watkins, known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed.
Given under my hand and the seal of this my Commission this 12th day of May, 1842.

State of Massachusetts I Zaccheus Watkins a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Douglas , in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on in the year A.D. 1777
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the end of three years
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Luke Day in the Reg t first commanded by Ichabod Alden & after by John Brooks Lt Col Commandant in the Massachusetts line and that I left the service on  the year 1780
and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of seventy four years
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Zaccheus Watkins
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 12 th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 18 pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18 th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, John H Bangs
Judge C. C. Com Pleas Western Circuit,
the abovenamed Zaccheus Watkins and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination du- ly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid,
Colw d Bangs