Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33837, John Tucker, Continental Mass. Privateer

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Tucker, John
S. 33837
Mass.
Privateer
CONTENTS
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John Eueker 11.672 R Massachusetts
11.672 R Massachusetts
John Eueker
of Gloucester in the state of Mass ts who was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded by Colonel R. Butman of the Mass ts :
line, for the term of 2 yrs. Mass ts Continental & Privateer
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence the 9 th of March, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of June, 1818 and sent to W m Wetmore, Esq. Boston, Ma.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $228.38
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept. 1819 120.
10 mo 13/30
$348 38
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not intitled decision confirmed by Secy of War, 19 th Feb y 1821.

We certify that Col. John Tucker of Gloucester in the county of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, formerly an officer in the revolutionary army, has, for many years, been afflicted with a severe & distressing complaint in the nerves of the head, called Tic douloureux: - that this agonizing malady deprives him of all comfort and all power of employing himself in business, and it is the opinion of distinguished Physicians that his disorder will continue thro' life. Said Tucker is sixty eight years of age, - has no income from his property, and but little estate, of any kind. He was an active, industrious and enterprising citizen, while his health permitted him to labour, and we believe him strictly entitled to the benefit of the late act of Congress, making provision for the surviving officers, sailors, and soldiers, of the revolutionary army and navy in indigent circumstances. - Given at Gloucester the 12 th March 1812,
Israel Tufts } Selectmen William Pearce Jr. } Gloucester

John Tucker Esq.
Ms. A. 9. 2. 10

State of Massachusetts
I John Tucker in the County of Essex a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gloucester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy five
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 eighth day of July A.D. 1779 in the Massachusetts line of the Army
as an Ensign & Lieutenant against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence that I belonged to the regiment of Col. Israel Hutchinson & Capt. Putnam's company, in which I was an Ensign first & on the first day of January A.D. 1777 was appointed a Lieutenant in the regiment of Col. Rufus Putnam, as will appear by my Commission herewith presented and that I left the service on the said eighth day of July A.D. 1779 being honourably discharged.
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and means I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty eight years, & grievously afflicted with an uncommon disease as will appear by the certificates herewith exhibited which disqualifies me from all labour, & application to business
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
John Tucker
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the Subscriber one of the judges of the Circuit Court of Common pleas for the middle Circuit within the sd. state, presiding pro hac vice the abovenamed John Tucker
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 duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of the said Court ye day & year aforesaid
Wm. Webmore
I also

I also certify that from a further examination by me had on sufficient evidence to me produced by depositions & otherwise, it appears to my satisfaction that the s d John Tucker the Declarant is in such reduced circumstances in life & so poor as that he stands in need of the assist- ance of his country for his support. Witness my hand & the seal of the Court aforesaid as within affixed, this 4 May 1884. —
W m Wetmore

11672
John Tucker
June 1819 Cont d Apr 25. 1820
not entitled

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 according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Tucker resident in Gloucester in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 11. 672 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, John Tucker late a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the twenty third day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  ***** "Given at the War Office of the United States, this eighth day of June one thousand eight hundred and nineteen L. S. "of J. L. Edwards in the absence & on behalf of the  John 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,
Real estate
Dwellinghouse barn shoemakers shop 475.00 small lot of land adjoining principally a garden 100.00 $575.00 1/4 acre of tillage - - - - - 125.00  Personal - Stock in Boston Bank 300.00 Note on interest 500.00 1 pew in first Parish meeting house 30.00 - - - 830.00 1 cow 15.00 1 desk 6.00 1 old do maple 2.50 1 clock 14.00 1 looking glass 2.00 1 chamber 20.00 4 tables 8.00 - - 48.50 19 chairs some quite old 8.00 Andirons, shovel tongs 3.00 small parcel of crockery & glassware 5.00 - - 16.00 small parcel of tin ware some much worn 1.50 1 doz knives forks spoons, &c. 1.20 1 rag carpet 3.00 - - - 5.70 some iron cooking utensils 3.00 1 pair brass candlesticks broken 30 3 flat irons 30 Bullage bottle cases 1.20 4.80 empty bbl, washing tubs, &c. 50 old spinning wheel 25 1 trunk of old books & papers, pamphlets &c. 3.00 3.75 1 family bible, small size 50 1 maple light stand & small bureau 4.00 - - - - - 4.50 1 axe 1 shovel, spade, hoe, hatchet and hammer 1.25 brushes & brooms 30 Old brass & pewter 1.50 - - 3.05 1 sword a faithful friend from Bunker's Hill to the capture of Burgoyne - - - - -
$1516.00
Debts due from said Tucker -
viz t E. Dana Note 181.80 Peter Gillet do 327.24 Henderson Inches 12.24 - - $521.28 Proprietors of Muniots T. in Boston 10.50 Israel Frank on acc t 67.50 - - - 78.00 Jemima Hodgkins do 30.00 Wm Dabson jr 12.50 Oliver Ydinger 7.00 - - 49.50 J. Low 26.00 Sam l Dane medicine attend d 20.00 Mrs Calder 6.00 Wm Coffin 15.00 - - 77.00 Eliakin Prindell 3.15 Jno Swift 125.78 - - - - - 128.93 854.71 and a number of small debts am t not known -
And the said Declarant says that about the twentieth of May A. D. 1775

he enlisted as a sargent in the Company of Capt. Enoch Putnam in the Regiment of foot commanded by Col. Mansfield, afterwards by Col. Israel Hutchinson and served to the end of the year 1775 as a sargent in the Army of the Revolution, when the Declarant received an Ensigns Commission, dated January 1st. 1776 and continued to serve as aforesaid in said Company and Regiment until the close of that year, when he received a Lieutenants commission and served in the companies of Captains Whipple & Gates in the Regiment commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam in the Massachusetts line, until the tenth of August A.D. 1779, at which time the said Tucker was discharged at his own request for the express purpose of entering into the Naval service of the United States (see documents in the war office) and did then enter into the navy where he served during the remainder of the war in different ships in several of the most respectable of which the said Tucker commanded, but depends on his services by land for a pension —
The Declarant says that he is seventy years of age, by occupation a mariner, but has been unable to pursue his avocation for many years past owing to that distressing malady, the Tic douleureux (see Doctor's certificate in the war office) said complaint continues to increase in severity, so that medical aid, including nursing and expenses occasioned thereby, often amount annually to more than an officers pension — His wife Elizabeth is seventy years of age, is infirm, and is not able to contribute to the support of his family — His sister Dorcas is sixty seven years old, and his sister Susan sixty five years of age, both non compos , and are both supported by him — And the Declarant further saith that a nurse is constantly employed about his person, and in addition to all this his daughter Betsey aged thirty seven years, with her four children viz: John aged thirteen, Lucy Elizabeth eleven, Abigail aged eight, and an infant child have constituted a part of his family for four years last past, except the infant; and this in consequence of her husbands losing two thumbs & one eye, and being otherwise injured in defending himself against an algerine cruiser in the late war with that power — that his said daughter & her children have no assistance but from him, and that, while a dollar remains, his feelings revolt at their becoming tenants of a Poor house —
Sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore Judge within named
John Tucker

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, John Tucker 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 revolutionary 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.
John Tucker
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed John Tucker took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me
Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Six hundred & sixty one dollars twenty nine 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 17 th day of July , A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

33837 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33,837
John Lucker Lient Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 224
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Tucker Mar 5 23827 mutilated
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

Constitution Island July 8 th 1879
This Certifies that Lieutenant John Tucker, of the Regiment under my command is not indebted to the Regiment or Continent to the best of my knowledge — And whereas Lieut. Tucker is Desirous of a Discharge from the army, and of serving his country in the Naval Department, being bred to the sea from his youth, I can recommend him as a worthy active Officer, and have no doubt of his doing himself honor in the sea as he has done in the land.
To whom Concerned

Massachusetts.
John Tucker, Lieutenant, served 2 1/2 years - 1777, 78 & 79 age - 70 years - labouring under a severe nervous complaint termed by the Physicians "Tic douloureux" which he states, greatly afflicts him. Occupation - a mariner - unable to pursue it.
Family - A wife 70 years of age a sister 67 & one 65 yrs. old both non compos. A daughter aged 37 with her four children aged 13 - 11 - 8 and an infant. And a nurse constantly employed about his person
Property - { Real estate - Dwelling $ 600. { House - barn - shoema- ker's shop $475 - a lot $100 - 1/4 acre of tillage $25 - Personal estate - stock in Boston Bank $200 - Note on interest $500 - Pew in church $30 - & furniture etc amounting to $86. - $ 1,516 - carried over

$1,516 { Total value of Real and { personal property. . . . . }  Debts due by J. Tucker  $521.28 - Notes to several persons  $333.43 Debts on acct. due  854.71
$664.29 balance
In his letter dated 3 rd Jan y 1821, he states that he has been obliged to pay several of his largest debts, which leaves him with but little less than a small house & furniture. —
In a letter dated 13 th Dec r 1822, he states that he committed an error in the schedule in stating the bank stock $300, to be his own property - he says it was only in his possession for safe keeping, and that he omitted to state that the note of $500 was good for nothing - but independent of these two items his property amounted to $716: - and he must have had other resources since he has paid nearly all his debts amounting to $854.71 and has now in his possession according to his own acknowledgment a house, furniture &c. (probably amounting to 6, 7, or 800 $). — January 3 rd 1823
Hon: Jas. Lloyd, Senate U.S.
See letter to Mr. Lloyd
5 March 1823
Sept. 1824

Massachusetts John Tucker, Lieut; Dressed 2 nd from 1799.
1 st Sched: dated June 1820. Real Estate $800. - Personal 910 - Total $1510. -
Sched: under Act fellar: 1. 8823 [made 15 th April 1823]
Personal Property - $66.58. accounts for the decrease of property etc. Rec d May 26. 1823 On the 14 th Feb. '23 sold & conveyed his Real Estate to Wm Beach to satisfy a debt due S th B. for $550 + a bal. still due B. of $23. In Feb '23 sold a Pew for $30 which sum has been expended on family. The stock mentioned in 1 st Sched of $500 never was his but merely lent to trust & put down thro' mistake - States that the notes - interest for $500 was wholly mislaid & accounts over a
follows. - That he was confined to his bed when the appraisers came to his house to ascertain the amt. of his property - that his wife who looked over his papers enumerated several notes of hand (which were worth nothing & had been due for a number of years) most of the parties dead & the rest insolvent) and stated to the appraisers that the notes bon fide were worth $600 they put in down so, when in fact it was not worth any thing - he owed his nurse $56. 00 - D r 45. - he is 73 yrs old - a Mariner but unable to pursue it from a violent sickness - which he has had for years called "his Dolorem" - wife 73 y rs infirm - Sisters 70 & 68. both non Compos - 1 Daughter with her 4 children - helpless husb d & wife Ichabod Tucker Sept r 1819, Salem, Mass.

John Tucker 23 Nov
John Tucker
30 1775 - 4 years
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Maa-nip-shu Adm. #
[Faint, illegible handwriting on lined paper]
John Tucker MSS, S.F. 33837
(Explained in Wetmore's letter.)

Certificate

Glocester March 20 th 1818
This may certify that Mr. John Ducker for a number of years past has been severely afflicted with a nervous complaint, & it is so troublesome & frequent, that he cannot calculate ever to be well, or free from distress.
Wm Coffin
Physician

Boston, January 3 rd 1818. —
This may certify that the bearer Col. John Tucker of Gloucester, in the County of Essex, Massachusetts, is afflicted with a severe and distressing complaint, in the nerves of the head, called Le doublement ; and that this complaint entirely deprives him of all comfort and all power of employing himself in busi- ness. & furthermore that there is danger of his complaint continuing through life. —
John C. Warren, M.D.,

John Tucker Decon for Pension

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss.
At the Supreme Judicial Court held at Ipswich within and for the county of Essex on the third Tuesday of April A.D. 1823.
On this sixteenth day of April 1823 personally appears in open court, the same being a court of Record for said county proceeding according to the course of the common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a Record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment John Tucker, resident in said county aged 73 years, who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of the 18th of March 1818, the 1st of May 1820 & 1st March 1823 that he the said Tucker enlisted as a Sergeant in the company of foot commanded by Capt. Putnam in Col. Mansfield's Regiment about 20th May 1775 and served therein till the end of the year, when he received a commission as Ensign and served in said company & Regiment under Col. Hutchinson until the end of the year - on 1st Jan. 1777 he was appointed a Lieutenant and during that year served in Col. Rufus Putnam's Regiment in the companies of Capt's Whipple & Gates and continued to serve in the Massachusetts Line of the Continental Army till Aug. 10. 1779 - when he was honorably discharged at his request and afterward served during the war in the Naval Service.
And I do solemnly swear that that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 as 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 & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on 18th 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 - That since the exhibition of my first Schedule, the following changes have been made in my property: -
on

On the 14th Feb y . 1823 the declarant sold and conveyed according to law his Dwelling house, barn, Shoemakaker's Shop & Lot of land adjoining, being the Garden, and a quarter of an acre of tillage, which were mentioned in my first Schedule, were all sold by me to William Beach on 14th Feb y 1823 for five hundred and fifty Dollars which I then owed him.
I owed that sum to said Beach for supplies for the subsistence of my family and for cash he had in small sums at sundry times advanced for my use for medicines for me and for family expenses.
One Pew in the First Parish meeting house (mentioned in my first Schedule) I sold in February last to Miss Lucy Beach in Feb y 1823 for thirty Doll s which I have expended for my family. The Stock in the Boston Bank amounting to $300. I hold as a Trustee of John Swift, who now resides at Leghorn - and it came to my hands under the following circumstances, vizt. in 1796 I was Master of the Snow Essex of the Port of Gloucester on a voyage thence to Surinam and Holland; the said Swift is an Englishman and was then a seaman on board the Essex: at Amsterdam he solicited me to discharge him with a view to visit his friends in England; I agreed so to do on condition that I should not pay him his wages then due until his return, and he gave then me an order to receive the same for his use of the owner of the Essex, Col. Wm Pearce, and on settling the voyage with the owner I received the sum of one hundred and twenty five Dollars and 78 cents of the owner for Swift, and he directed me to put the same at interest for his account: I accordingly invested the same in my own name in ten Shares of the Gloucester Marine Insurance Company: that Company having met with losses dissolved and divided its capital, and I then with the proceeds purchased five Shares in the Boston Bank which I now hold for him: these are the same shares of Bank Stock mentioned in my first Schedule, in which I also charged myself with the debt and interest I owed said Swift.
The only benefit I derived from the money I received of Swift was the profits I made on that sum on the voyage home via Surinam in consequence of not paying it to him in Holland: a little more than a year ago I received from him a letter on the subject of which

a true copy is annexed marked (A.)
The block mentioned in my first Schedule I sold last Oct r to Betsey Tucker for a ton of hay.
As to the "Note on Interest $ 500" mentioned in my first Schedule I do declare that it was so stated wholly by mistake: the truth is that in June 1820 when that Schedule was made by the appraisers who came to my house, where I was confined with sickness that almost deprived me of my faculties, my wife assisted them in enumerating the articles, and I directed her to go and get my notes of hand to shew them: she then made an estimate of the following notes: one Note of hand dated April. 21. 1813 for $115. made by one Joseph Gardner who is totally insolvent and I now hold the note: another dated Dec r . 31. 1817 for $13. 39 made by John Rogers who is dead and insolvent, and I now hold the note; another made by John Marshall dated Jan y 16. 1808 for $22. who is not worth a cent, and is dead: another by Daniel Rogers June dated June 17. 1817 for $140. 40 and he is dead & has left no estate and I now hold both these notes: another note dated Dec r . 20. 1818 for $70.00 made by Eben r . Plummer, who failed and I compounded with and realized only fifteen dollars for the same; and also another Note made by Jonathan Low dated Jan y . 17. 1816 for $119. 50; said Low has been dead several years & has left no estate and I do not expect ever to realize any thing from it: my wife then told the appraisers the notes I owned were worth $ 500. and they put it down so in the Schedule; and I declare the mistake arose wholly in that way: for I had not then and have not since had any note of $ 500.
I annex an account of articles and money I have from time to time received of W m Beach, in payment of which I conveyed to him my said Real estate.
The following Schedule contains all the property I now own, vizt.
A bow, secured to another person for wintering - value - $ 15.00 maple desk - 2.50. - Walnut desk $6. four tables $8. - 16.50 16 old chairs - 7.50 and iron shovel, & tongs $ 3. - 10.50 brockery & glass ware $5.00 tin ware 1.50 knives & spoons 1.10 7.60 cooking utensils of iron $3. candlesticks 0.30 flat-irons 30. - 3.60 village bottle cases .150 - washtubs & wheel 0.75 - 2.25 old books $ 3.50 light stand & bureau 4.50 Garden tools 1.25 - 9.25 brushes & brooms 0.30, old iron 1.50 - Old Rev. Sword - 1.80 66.50

I now owe Temima Hodgkins for nursing fifty six dollars and to Dott r Coffin forty five Doll rs . & 92 cts for attendance & medicine.
I am now Seventy Three years of age, and a Mariner: for many years I have been disabled by a most excruciating dis- order called Tic Dolereaux, which increases in severity, & in- volves me in burthensome expenses for medicine nursing and physicians fees. My wife is 73 years old, and infirm. I have a sister Dorcas aged 70 and a sister Susan aged 68 both non com- petes and living in my family: also my daughter Betsey, with her four children and her helpless husband surviving . all live in my family, and I am constantly obliged to have a nurse to attend on me
John Tucker
Sworn to and declared on the 16 th day of April A.D. 1823 before me
Isaac Parker
{ Ch. Justice of S.J. Court
(A.)
Leghorn Dec r 30 th 1821
Dear capt' it is a great while since I heard from you A letter therefore is quite a treat Especially as it informs us of your health, yours was received the 15 th of this month by capt Gops Stanwood and am very sorry that my money should be any Disadvantage to you as the first intention was that it should be advantageous to you which you informed me it was, my wife is much pleased to see another letter from my father Tucker as she calls you being acquainted with your kindness to me in my sickness in Surinam, and your goodness to me in Holland, Our intention has been to send our Old- est boy to America for schooling and to have put him under your care, but our hopes are disappointed which cannot be avoided - I should have been in America before now but the wooman & child were alive untill lately, and the father a violent man, and of course our meeting would be a very serious one, though I confess my self guilty I could not stand and be fired on like a Doge without standing in my own defence. As the object of my keeping that small sum in your hand is defeated you had better remit it in any way that came di- rect to Leghorn if convenient, Should prefer small mer-
chantable

cheatable fish, or Sugar, boff & pepper, or any way most convenient. to to your Selfe provided this payment is made hear book is gon up the Sewant is expect down soon. — my wife sends a Bonnet to your Lady under the care of Mr. Lane as token of her regards to you On my account
my dear Capt c Except the best wishes of Your old Sailor John Swift.
(copy)
the Original Being in the hands of Capt. Jno. Davis of the Ship William & Henry of this place, On his way to Leghorn, Capt c Davis is authorised to buy & settle with him for the Stock alluded to in my Schedule.
I, Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of the Court aforesaid do certify that the said Schedule and Oath have been admitted to the Record of said Court, and I do fur- ther 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 Sixty six dollars and fifty cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this sixteenth day of April A.D. 1833
Attn s Ichabod Tucker, Clerk,
This certifies that Col. John Tucker of Gloucester in the county of Essex & commonwealth of Massachusetts, has for a long time been subject to complaints of Neuralgia, chronic rheumatism, Dyspepsia, nervous head- ach, &c, with great debility of the limbs, & for twelve years He has not been able to pursue business of any kind, all those disorders named, (with others at times) have been gradually wearing Him down to a state of misery & distress. He has been, & still is at great expence Physicians & medicines, with nursing & other charges occasioned by sickness, there- fore it is my opinion that He must be reduced to the want of as- sistance from some quarter whereby it may be obtained. — W m Coffin attending Physician
Gloucester April 8th 1823.
I further certify that it was impracticable for Col. John Tucker to see the Judge at His own House, therefore He was obliged to appear at court, although unable to ride without much pain — W m Coffin
Essex, ss. April 17. 1823 Then William Coffin Physician within & above named, made oath to the certificates by him subscribed Henry Phelps Jus. Pacis.

[ Account between Tucker and Beach ]
   Capt. John Tucker To William Beach Dr $ c     1821   May 8 for 2 3/8 dimity @ 29 1/4 1 1/2 yds seersucker @ 41 1/2 $1 1. 79   " 26 pr Nankein — 208 — 30th pr Nankein (short) 75 — 2 83   June 16 Umbrella — 1.75 July 2 d . Straw Hat — 66 2 41   July 28. 1/2 qt bad Fish — 275 Sept. 5. 2 1/2 yds Satinett, 2.50 5 25   Sept. 5 buttons & silk .19 8. 1 lb Y H Tea 95 1 14   " 8 1/2 lb H Tea — .56 1 yd cotton — 17 73   1/4 capria 76 rice 48 2 lb candles 40. 1/2 lb fish 87 1/2 1 75 1/2   15 2 lb chocolate 56¢, 20th, 14th Sugar 1.33. 22 d Handkf 50, 3 yds cloth 1.50 7 89   Oct 24 1 1/4 yds flannel 47 1/2 yd linen 25¢ Nov. 8 1/2 lb Capimere 12 1/2 1 72   Nov 8 Sundries — 67 1/2 ga Vest Pattern, 81. Sundries 26 2 yds flannel 92 2 40   " 19 2 3/8 yds Satinett 2.50, 2 yds cotton, 140, 2 boxes Fish 2 1/4, 1.50 7 40   Handkf 28. 18 22 Nov. 15. Yarn 1. 8 30th Handkf 30 April 1. 14th Sugar 1.50 3 16   April 10 2 qts H Gin, 56, 11 th 2 1/2 yds factory 3 1/2 1 yd cotton 25 1 lb Tea 95 2 13 1/2   " 11 th 1 lb Tea, 56 pick beans, 33. 12 th 3 lb Coffee, 90. Sundries 12 1/2 1 91 1/2   " 17 3 lb cheese 9 3 1/2. 19 th gall oil 1. 22 qt N.E. Rum & 76 rice 39. 1 76 1/2   23 37 1/2 lb Soap & box by J. Hayer 220. 24. 7 yds Calico a 35 245 11 65   24 broom, chocolate & Nutmegs 78 27 1/2 bush Meal & 6 3/4 lb Pork 120 1 98   30 th 3 Cotton & Earthern Ware, 64 May 7. 2 qts Gin & qt Rum 84 1 48   May 9. rum 22. gin 12 1/2 13 th 76 W. H. Sugar 1.12 1/2 21 st 5/8 lb Muslin 56 2 03   " 21 Muslin 28 1 3/4 yd calico 45 tow cloth & 2 qts rum 76. 1 1/2 yd calico 31 1 90   " 24 14 lb Sugar 1.67 28 th qt Brandy, 148 June 5. th 2 yds tow cloth 25 2 40   June 6 th 3/4 yd Gingham & tape, 32 3 1/4 yds flannel @ 60 1.95 cotton & linen 25 2 52   3 3/4 yds bombazett 76. 1.36 7 th 2 qts Gin & pr Shoes 1.56. 13 th 2 qts rum 22 3 14   7 th Sundries to Younger pr Order, 70 Muslin, Gingham & thread 28 98   20 th 1 lb Y H Tea 95. 1/2 lb H Tea 56. Yarn 1. 28 pair Shoes 3 1/2 (pr B Hayer) 2 88 1/2   July 4 th 1 3/4 yd Calico 20¢ 35 10 2 qts H Gin 56 rum & chocolate, 53 1 44   " 16 14 lb Sugar 9/ Handkf 76 1.92 25 th rum & gin 47 calico 40 2 79   " 31 st bombazett, 10 Aug. 2 d 2 qts rum, 56 Sundries 63. 1.19 pair shoes 8 1/2 2 72 1/2   17 th check, cambric & calico 1. 6 1 lb H Tea & 1/2 lb Y H Tea 1.51 20 th 76. 6/92 3/4 11 94 1/2   rum & spice 39 27 th pair shoes. 1. 25, 30 th gall rum 44 2 08   Sept 16 2 3/4 yd Casimere 76. 3.34 17 th Handkf 30. 7 yds patch @ 28. 196 5 60   " 17. balance pr pa pr Hat, 52 short pay on Shawl 1.25 2 yds dr 55 2 32   " 24 th Tea & chocolate 1.64 Ots. 14 th 1/2 lb wool, 28. 2 qts N.E. Rum 22 2 14   " 17 7/8 Muslin & Handkf, 1.17 1/2 22 d Gloves & Tea 1. 8 3 3/4 yd flannel 2.10 11 35 1/2   22 2 lb Chocolate, 56 26 th 1/2 yd Casimere, 3/2 31 st 1 1/2 yd flannel, 62 1/2 1 56   31 st buttons, Silk, Cotton & ribbons, 86 Nov. 12 th Blanket & pr shoes 2.25 3 11   Nov. 12 th tape & cambric, 37 28 th flannel, cotton, silk & 1 1/2 yd Cambric 1.29 1 66   " 29 th Cash loaned you. 7 93   $ 110 50  
Gloucester Feby 12 th 1823

Know, all Men, by these Presents, That John Tucker of Gloucester in The County of Essex and Commonwealth wealth of Massachusetts Esquire
in consideration of Five hundred and fifty Dollars paid to me by William Beach of The Town County and State aforesaid Esquire
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto the said William Beach certain dwelling house with the barn and out house together with the land under and adjoining the same situated in The Harbor so called in said Gloucester and on the Easterly side of Pleasant Street, and is thus bounded, viz, beginning at the Northwest corner of Judith Williams land, thence running easterly by said Williams to the northeast corner of John Stacy's land two hundred and twenty one feet, thence running northerly one hundred & eighty feet to The Great Ledge so called, thence northerly by The Bear hole (so called) over said Ledge Forty one feet to a corner as the wall stands, thence westerly over said Ledge Ninety feet to Elias Davis' land, thence southerly by said Davis to said Stacy's garden one hundred and thirty four feet four inches, then westerly by said Stacy through the middle of the well one hundred and ten feet to the street, thence by said street seventy and a half to the bounds first mentioned.
Also one other piece of land situated as aforesaid beginning at the southeast corner of Isaac Somes' land and running northerly by said Somes one hundred and twenty five feet to the flat Ledge so called, then northerly on said Ledge to a corner wall as it now stands one hundred and thirty one feet, then Easterly over said Ledge eighty three feet to a hole drilled in said Ledge, thence southerly sixty feet, thence southerly as the wall stands one hundred and ninety six feet to The New Lane thence westerly ninety seven feet to the first mentioned bound.
To have and to hold the granted premises with the appurtenances to the said William Beach and his heirs and assigns, to him and their use and benefit forever. And I the said John Tucker for my self my heirs, executors and administrators, do hereby covenant with the said William Beach and his heirs and assigns , That I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises: that they are free of all incumbrances: that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said William Beach and that I will, and my heirs, executors and administrators shall, warrant and defend the same to the said William Beach and his heirs and assigns , forever, against the lawful claims and demands of any persons.
In witness whereof, I the said John Tucker with Elizabeth my wife have hereunto set our hands and seals this Fourteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty Three
John T. Hayes Nathl R. Lane Essex ss. Rec d April 4. 1823. recorded and examined by Mrs Choate Reg d True copy of record, Book 233 Leaf 2. Attest Mrs Choate Reg d
ESSEX ss. February 14. 1823. — I Th e above named John Tucker and Elizabeth Tucker acknowledged the above instrument to be their free act and deed, before me, Henry Shepley Just. Peace.

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Copy John Sucker to William Beach
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Dr Capt John Tucker To William Beach Memorandum of 1820
  Aug 29. for cash loaned you $15, interest to Feby. 1823 2.70 $ 17 70   July 8 4 bag Coffee 284 @ 30 c $40 - do 1.25 9 65   Dec. 14 280 # fresh Pork @ 6 c 16.80 2. 18 80   Feb 3. 1821 cash loaned $150. do 18 168 —   April 9 th 15 cwt Hay @ 80 c 12.00 12 —   June 11. to small Hog (live) 2 50   Nov 13. 10 cords of Wood & Hauling @ $5.50 Interest 3.75 53 75   Dec. 23 1822 30 # coffee @ 28 c 8.40. Interest 58 8 98   March 11 cash loaned $50 do 2.75 52 75   May 28. 10 cwt Hay @ 12 3/4 pr ton 6. 6 —   July 3. cash loaned 5 —   Dec 1823 2 nd to 8 cords of Wood & Hauling @ 5.25 42 —   Jan. 17. to 264 # fresh Pork @ 6 c 15 84   Feby. 12 to bill of sundries from Store from May 8 th 1821 to 29 th November 1822 as pr Aut rendered 110 50   523.47   cash as pr receipt 50 —   573.47 Dollars 
  Contra Cr. By ammount of purchase of your House shop & Land 550. 00   balance due me 23.47 
Gloucester Feby 12 th 1823
E.E. William Beach
A true copy as on file
Atty. Ichabod Tucker, Clerk.

Free
Hon James Lloyd Senator in Congress Washington

Gloucester Dec r 18 - 1822
Dear Sir - yours of the 4 th & 8 th Instant were received in due course of mail, your kind attention to my letter in favour of my friend Beach is gratefully acknowledged - we find the Appointment of Mr Pearce to the post of March if it should be extended it is hoped it will be known that no place is a member of the first commercial houses in the District - does it comport with the true interest of the State, that a man who pays ten times the Duty into the office more than the office is worth, should have the power of filling the office with all his subord- inates from his own family, we think not, the door is too open to fraud - my Dear Sir ever since I was honoured with a seat by your side in our house of representatives I have been aff- licted with that most distressing of all human complaints the Rheumatism, and generally confined to my house at great expense in doctoring &c, in consequence have become miserably poor, believing my self to be as much entitled to pension as as any other man from the length of my revolutionary service by Sea & Land, I applied & obtained it, but under the Amendment of the pension, law in may 1820 was erased from the list in consequence of owning a small house and some other estate as it was said too much to be continued On the list was therefor Section of, being in a distressed state both of body & mind when the schedule was taken and attested too, the court waited on me and administered the Oath, but the schedule contained a gross mistake although I owned to in $300 - Bank Stock which was not one cent of it my property, and $500 State of hand the $300 was money put into my hand for safe keeping and the $500 should have been added to that amount which were gone for clothing

This has been represented to the Pension Department but to no effect in consequence of the Secretary having no power to re-admit applicant, I last winter petitioned Congress - and wrote Mr Otis and the honourable Mr. Mills your colleague, and also Doctor Eustis and Mr. Gosham and Nelson and Mr. Hill of the house all friends of mine who seemed glad if an opportunity should present to give me any assistance, they are acquainted with all my pretensions as also Mr. Read from the District of Columbia, Doctor Bostwick was charged with my petition but did not pre- sent it the reason he gives is that if it had been presented it would not have been reported by the committee it being only from a single person - to gather with the Senate Nonconcurring with the house bill which went to give the Secretary power to re-instate applicants certain provisions named in the bill, so you see Sir I have no place to apply to, why Sir is there partially used in giving pensions, is it difficult to do justice to all - Surely there is no difficulty in determining that of nine months service without any other pre- -tensions other than poverty deserve a pension, thirty months must be enlisted, especially when infirmities & other misfortunes follow - Doctor Otis and the other Gentlemen above named are acquainted with all my pretensions. will you my Dear Sir con- -ver with those Gentlemen on my case and if agreeable fall on some plan by which I may be permitted to partake of that portion of the National Gratitude so generously bestowed on others, or fall on some means by which I can be heard, being in distress with pain hardly know what I write excuse all imperfections and believe me to be with great respect and Esteem your obedient Servant
John Tucker
As my original Documents are in the Pension Office Schedule Doctor Certificate & went on with my petition last Session by Doctor Bostwick

Dear Sir
I hope I shall be pardoned for troubling you again on a Subject which I fear you will think is being State or at least worn thread bare, but Sir having my name erased from the Catalogue of revolutionary Camparians or in other words from the pension list, I am anxious to know by what principal pension are continued or Originally Granted.
Does the man who claims Onley for nine Man the Service stand on the high ground as he who claims for ninety nine man the Service, is there no preference given to the latter over the former although by his schedule he acceds the common boundary line a few dollars, while the former may fall a few dollars short, a debenture on my left hand claims for services performed in the year 1776 Onley, he is ten years younger then my self and continued on the pension list I know not the amount of his schedule, I Onley know that he possesses horses, Oxen, & Cows, cart harrow and Plow, I moreover a house double in value to mine and is a better hard labouring farmer with a small family, On my right side a house half hinder & joyner who claims also for services performed in 1776 Onley he is ten years younger then myself I know not the amount of his schedule, I Onley know that he owns a house and other building of his own make, more than double in value to mine and is continued on the pension list under the new order of things, though with a small family say two daughters & an apprentice, is in high health and constantly at labour, Can't say Sir if you please the situation of the and pretensions of these two men with mine, who served from Burlington heights to manmouth plain in the land Army, and all the residue of the war in the Navy I do not mean in Government ships, but in private ships, I am

of which I had the honour to Command and in respectable Station in Others, this Service I must presume has been thought ill of by government, as they have allowed pension to Invalid even in this Settlement Although their Service was nothing more than entering on Board a Gun Vessel and falling into the hook (perhaps I - it) and breaking a limb, even before she left the wharf - I make no claim for Service performed in priv- -ate as I had not the misfortune to be wounded though often Taken a Prisoner, say once in the Ship Arara of Newbury twenty Guns & 107 Commanded by Tom-Catner Esq d , My Self Sailing master, Captured by the Grayhound & Borion, two frigates, and sent to Philadelphia, Again in the Ship William of Newbury port with twenty Guns & One hundred men, Commanded by W m G. Johnson my Self Sailing master Taken by the Garland frigate & Carried into Antigua and introduced to the Stoon Gate, Again in the Ship Rebecca of Boston 14 Guns and Sixty men My Self Commander, Taken by the Renard frigate Commanded by Lord Granton and sent into Tortola, Again in the Ship Tygar of Gloucester eighteen Guns, & Sixty men, My Self Commander, Captured by the Dana frigate Cap t Robinson and sent into St. Johns Newfoundland, & introduced to the Prot- -our prison Ship, from the above picture you will easily see that the War went hard with me, and in consequence of Resigning before the war ended was deprived of my land on the side years pay that Others received, many of which are now on the pension list, I was also unfortunate in continuing for twelve years in the militia in the different grades from Capt a to the command of a Regiment, which I need not say to you was expensive, and for the above reasons am reduced to the necessity, of applying for a pension, but the greatest difficulty is being afflicted with the worst of all human Complaints, the Rheumatism which never ends but with life, and has depr- -ived me the use of Limbs for many years past and exposed me to Great expense in as much as it would be

advice but bid defiance to medical or surgical aid, that you see I am doomed to wallow thro' the mire of dependance and linger out a life of pain & misery, I have been com- =pelled to pay several of my largest debts, as returned in the schedule of my property, which leaves me with but little else then a small house & furniture, under the above circumstances Sir, may I indulge a hope that you can do any thing for me at the pension office, or before the pension Committee, and  or will you have the goodness to inform me to what grade of poverty I must be reduced before I need make an other attempt; under the circumstances of my age family & infirmities -
I beg you to excuse the length of this letter and any incorrectness it contains being full of pain and hardly know what I am writing -
have the Honor to be with Great Effort your Obedient Servant
John Tucker
Gloucester Jan y . 3-1821

I Will trouble you Sir with the substance of my Schedule A, it is now in the files in Mr Calhoun's Office, and I endeavor to explain it that you will be able to judge of my feelings on the subject
  Real Estate $ 600-- Debts, Since Lastly All Paid. 852-41   Bank Stock -- 300 Ditto -- 174-22   State Im. Int. - 500 1028-93   Other Personal E. - 116 Then 174-22   $ 1515 and - 128-70 - a part of - 852-41   300-00 the Bank Stock - 
makes the Bank Stock which is not on cent of it my property the original sum of $3125-70 has accumulated since it came into my hand to the $300 the Note on Interest should have been several Notes to that  amount Being given in Settlement of Accounts where money could not be obtained, - so that you will easily see that the $1028-93 with the 500 Dollars bad Notes make the sum of  500-- 1528-93 - of which has been collected 15 Dollars and that is all that ever can be collected the notes having no other security, if I am asked how I have lived since the answer is by the assistance of a Son in law who justly has large claims upon me - the above are sacred facts, when the court wanted on me I dare in a great measure speak less if in this way I have taken a self oath I hope I shall be forgiven, especially when I consider the Law of may 20 th 1820 subject almost every man who has sen fifty years a housekeeper to the same the giving my name on the list in the

first instance was attended with great trouble & expense to me in my distressed situation in point of interest having my documents returned for proof of poverty, this obtained I was placed on the list but erased under the Act of may have I should be singled out to be rich I know not - though near fifty years a seafaring man I never owned but 30 tons of shipping I never owned horse or cart save one wagon or plow, nor no kind of stock publick , except $700 in the Gloucester Insurance Office which demanded one third part before the Institution was dissolved, neither did I ever pay a tax of thirteen dollars in my life and have been the last ten years generally confined to my chamber at great expense and distress, where then the prospect of my being other than the poor amongst the poor
If health permits I will write my friend Doctor Usher and desire him to call on the Secretary and try if my presentation cannot have a review, and hope Sir, you will have the goodness to assist him and I am sure will be rewarded in an other if not in this world.
excuse the length of my letter and all errors, it is written from a conscientiousness of being as much entitled as any other man
I would copy the above but excuse pain forbid

We the undersigned inhabitants of the Town of Gloucester in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, depose testify and say: That we now live, and for many years past have resided in the neighborhood of Lieut. Col. John Tucker, an officer in the Revolutionary army, who, by his reduced circumstances in life, stands in need of assistance from his country, for support. Said Tucker, for several years past, has been an invalid, having been afflicted with that most distressing disorder, the tic dollereux, which has entirely deprived him of the ability to labour. He has a family of eight persons, who are dependent on him for support. If his disorder does not shortly terminate his life, he must depend on the charity of his friends, or look to the Town of which he is an inhabitant for support, unless his country should grant him relief. —
James Hayes
John Mason
John Johnston
John Somes Jr
Rogers
Essex J. April 22 nd 1819. —
Then James Hayes, John Mason, John Johnston, John Somes Jr & Shubael G. Rogers personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, by them subscribed.
Before me, Lonson Nash, Jus. of Peace

Efex H, April 22. 1819.
I certify that James Hayes, John Mason John Johnston, John Jones Jr. & Shubael G. Rogers, are respectable citizens, and are fully entitled to credit. Lanson Nash, Jus. Pacis.
I hereby certify that Ichabod Tucker the Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County of Efex is now absent on a journey to Philadelphia, not soon to return. That the above named Lanson Nash is well & personally known to me as an acting justice of the peace in s d county of Efex which is within the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas, whereof I am Judge, & the s d Ichabod Tucker is clerk, - and that full faith & credit are & ought to be given to the attestations of the s d Nash - witness my hand this 4 th May 1819 — W m Wetmore

John Tucker do acknowledge the United States of America to be free, independent, and sovereign States, and declare that the People thereof owe no Allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain; and I renounce, refuse, and abjure any Allegiance, or Obedience to him: and I do swear, that I will, to the Utmost of my Power, support, maintain, and defend the said United States, against the said King George the Third, his heirs and Successors, and his and their Abettors, Assistants, and Adherents, and will serve the said United States in the Office of Lieut in Col. H. Pulaski's Regiment which I now hold, with Fidelity, according to the best of my Skill, and Understanding. So help me God.
John Tucker Lieut
Head-Quarters, Fort Arnold N. Point 6 th May 1776 Personally Appeared Lieut John Tucker of S d Regiment. and took the above Oath by him subscribed. Before me:
James Clinton B r Gen

IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO
John Natick Gentleman WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Colonel in the Regiment of Foot which Major General Schuyler is Colonel
in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Colonel by doing and performing all manner of Things thereinunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as aforesaid. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
Dated at Philadelphia this first Day of January 1776
By Order of the Congress,
John Hancock
PRESIDENT.
TEST. William Livingston

Lieutenant John Tucker at his own request has obtained permission from the Commander in chief to resign his Commission -
A. M. McAdams
JHC
Head Quarters New 22 nd Apr 18 th July 1779
Tucker John S-33,837