Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,910, Thomas Wheeler, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Wheeler, Thomas
S 33,910
CONTENTS

582
Massachusetts Roll
Thomas Wheeler Capt Lane Private 4
Massachusetts line 77 War 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 4 th of April 1818,
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of May 1818 and sent to Hon Samuel Putnam, Salem, Mass.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818 5 months /30 $40.26
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
Continued
Salem 6/10 69

Verification sent July 26 th 1920 to Isaac Tucker Salem, Mass

33910 Reg INVALID.
File No. 33,910
Thomas Wheeler
His Rev. Rev.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 50
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Thomas Wheeler
4 Apr -
Correct JH

I Thomas Wheeler of Salem, in the county of Essex Commonwealth of Massachusetts on solemn oath declare. That in the year of 1776 I enlisted in Capt. Gouger Company Col. Parnums Regiment, I served in said Company & Regiment one year. At the expiration of said term I enlisted in the Company commanded by Capt. Lane in Col. Nixon's Regiment, I Genl. Nixon's Brigade and serv- ed in the Massachusetts line, during the remain- der of the War of the Revolution upon the Continental establishment, and was discharged at Newburg. And I further declare that by reason of my reduced circumstances, I need the assistance of my country for my support. And I hereby relin- quish every claim to a pension heretofore allowed by the laws of the United States.
Thomas his X Wheeler mark
Signed in presence of S. Putnam J.S.J. Court of Mass.

I Thomas Barnes of Salem in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby declare that in the year 1777 Thomas Wheeler belonged to Capt. Dane's Company of Col Nixon's Regiment - that the said Wheeler was de- tached from said Company and served in the Company of Light Infantry under my command one year in the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment Thomas Barnes

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Esq. On the fourth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred & eighteen personally appe- ared before me Samuel Putnam one of the judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of this Common- wealth Thomas of Thomas Barr Wheeler and subscribed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration. And it appears to my satisfaction that the said Thomas Wheeler served more than nine months in the War of the Revolution, upon the Continental establishment against the common enemy; & I do hereby certify & transmit the testimony in the case to the honorable Secretary of War.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto to set my hand & cause the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed, the day & year first above writ- ten.
S. Putnam Just. S. J. Court of Mass.

Essex ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I, Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth aforesaid in and for the County aforesaid, hereby certify to all whom these presents may concern, that, the aforesaid Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court as aforesaid, that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of the said Court, and the signature aforesaid is his proper hand.
Attest. Ichabod Tucker, Clerk.

582
Thos Wheeler
May 1878
Salem
60m
582
age 62 marin? disav? $15.
Sept 1878
on this day of the said Court at Salem in said County of Essex in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court.
any certified in the above is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in the office of the said Court and the same is hereby attested by me the undersigned Clerk of said Court.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 10th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight.

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, Thomas Wheeler resident in Salem — — — — in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 582 — — — 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, Thomas Wheeler — — — — late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight — — — dollars per month, to commence on the south — — — day of April — — — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ,
***** * L. S. * *****
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this eighteenth day of May — — — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
J. 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,
(No Real Estate)
  A wooden hut built 50 or 60 years ago, 12 feet by 18, containing two rooms, and standing not on his own land. . . . . $12.00   Six old chairs, pot, kettle, crockery . . . . . 3.00   15.00 
He is sixty two years old, and his wife is his only family: he was formerly a mariner, but has been many years disabled from labour by the asthma, which he is afflicted with to such degree that he has not been able to sleep in a bed for last five years.

He served from Jan. 1776 to the end of the war; during all 1776 in Capt. Gouge's Company in Col. Varnum's Regiment in Rhode Island Line, and after 1776 in Capt. Lane's Company in Col. Nixon's Regiment in Massachusetts Line
Thos. his X Wheeler mark.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. W m Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Thomas Wheeler 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.
Thos s Wheeler mark
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Thomas Wheeler took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
W m 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
fifteen dollars
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, Clk