Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33828, Eliakim Tufts, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Tufts Eliakim or Eleakim
L 33828
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Rolls.
1,599
Eleakim Tufts, Capt Killam Private,
Massachusetts line '83 9 months, In the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 d of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818, and sent to the Hon. Sam d Dana, Boston, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
Semi-annual allowance
4 months 32/30. $ 40. 53
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Discontinued
Groton Middlesex Co.
Dec. 20. 1833. Copy of Eleakim Tufts discharge sent to Hon. W. E. Everett this day for Judge Dana
Notification sent to Abraham D. Dyer, Esq. Sept. 22. 1820. Secretary of War, Massachusetts.

143.
Eliakim Tufts
1599
June 1818
not Entd
[Faint, illegible cursive handwriting, possibly a signature or note]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June — A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
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, Eliakim Tufts — resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1.599 — 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, Eliakim Tufts — 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 third day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen — “Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth day of June — 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,
Real Estate
“About 70 acres of land with a dwelling house and barn thereon valued at — — — — $1500.00
Deduct over valued — — — — 300.00
$1200.00
Personal Estate viz.
  1 yoke of oxen 50.00  3 cows 52.50  2 yearlings 16.00  118.50    1 horse 15.00  5 swine 13.00  8 sheep & 8 lambs 14.00  42.00    1 half 3.00  ox waggon 22.00  chaise 12.00  2 ploughs 3.00    3 pitch forks .50  1 muck fork .50  2 shovels .50  4 hoes .50    2 ox yokes 1.00  2 chairs 1.50  1 grind stone 2.00  4.50    1 old sleigh 1.00  2 cow bars 2.50  saddle, collar & traces 3.50  7.00    3 old axes .80  beetle rings & wedges .50  2 scythes 1.25  2.55    8 cider casks & 6 dry casks 3.25  auger & shovel .25   3.50    1 wooden clock 5.00  11 old chairs 2.20  4 old tables 1.00  8.20    Loom & tackle 4.00  corn eye & beam 3.25   7.25    base of drawers & 2 old chests 2.80  crockery & glassware 1.25   3.05    Amount carried over — — — —  $238.55  

  Amount brought over  $238.55    Brown earthen ware .75 iron hollow ware 2.25  3.00    Looking glass & tin ware .60 wooden ware 1.00  1.60    Knives & forks .20 2 wheels & stove .75  .95    Andirons, shovel & tongs 1.00  1.00    Amount of Personal estate —  $245.10  
And the said Eliakim Tufts justly owes to the following persons the sums set to their several names as follows viz.
  To the Trustees of Groton Ministerial Fund by bond secured by mortgage on all his real estate —  $600.00    To William S. Brazer by note —  117.00    To J. K. B. Hemenway —  13.75    To Alphens Richardson 10.50 Abel Prescott 52.00  62.50    To Bulkley Ames 50.00 Jeremiah Whittemore 15.00  65.00    To Dr. Amos Bancroft 32.00 Dr. Paul Kittredge 20.00  52.00    To Calvin Boynton 14.12 Samuel Dana Esq. 42.50  56.62    To Dix & Peabody 10.00 —  10.00     $975.87  
Eliakim Tufts.
And the said Eliakim Tufts having been first duly sworn according to law does on his oath declare that he served as a private in the Revolutionary war from April 1781 to December 1783 in Capt. Kilham's company first in the 5 th Regiment Massachusetts line commanded by Col. Newhall and afterwards transferred to the 1 st Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Vose — that he is fifty five years of age a husbandman by occupation but having been a very hard laboring man and having for the last year suffered much by a lame foot he is so worn down as not to be able to perform common labor that his family consists of the following persons viz. his wife Sarah aged 58 years very weakly his daughter Abey aged 15 years his son Eliakim aged 18 years sickly and unable to labour for three years past — his son Levi aged 16 years twin brother

with Hxy - his daughter Dorinda aged 14 years and his son Ebenezer aged 10 years.
Eliakin Tufts.
Sworn & declared to before me
S. Dana judge.
and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana - a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
“ I, Eliakin Tufts 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 prop- erty, 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. Eliakin Tufts. ”
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Eliakin Tufts took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me,
Samuel Dana,
Judge of said Court. ”
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, 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
four hundred & sixty eight dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Eleazar Tufts
Letter
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
To the Honorable the Speaker of the House of Representatives
was in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
to you the said Eleazar Tufts may be had in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
practice of the United States in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
practice of the United States in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
practice of the United States in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
practice of the United States in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
practice of the United States in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BE it remembered, that on this Third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me, SAMUEL DANA , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid) comes Eliezer Tufts of Groton in said county of Middlesex and on oath declares, that he served in the war of the Revolution for the space of two years and six months - That in the Spring of the year, of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred, and Eighty and as he believes in the month of April he was engaged by a Captain of men in the Town of Billerica in Massachusetts sets to join the Army of the United States for three years, upon his engagement, he returned to Boston, was mustered by Col. B. B. Russell and from thence he proceeded to the Army at West Point, and was there ordered into Capt. Killham's Company , in the 3. Mass. Regiment commanded by Col. Newell , and he remained in this Company, which was afterwards attached to Col. Yates Regiment upon a new arrangement of the Regiments and in this first Massachusetts Regiment, he was doing duty on the thirty first day of December, A.D. 1783 when he received a discharge from the Hon. Henry Knox , and returned to his residence in Billerica. He is now fifty two years of age, has possessed some property since he left service, but by an unfortunate lawsuit into which he was forced, he lost the greatest part of his estate, his ability to labor is greatly lessened, in consequence of the misfortunes and hardships to which, he has been subjected, so that
he stands in need of assistance from his country for his support, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life
Thus, made, subscribed, and sworn to, at Groton in said county of Eliezer Tufts  Middlesex the day and year aforesaid.
Sam: Dana

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the Third day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personally appeared Eliakim Tufts and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed. and at the same time, he exhibited to me, the discharge therein mentioned
from which it appears to me, that the said Eliakim Tufts did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months. upon the Continental establishment
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration and the discharge aforesaid to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the Third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
Sam d Dana
Ms

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Elizim Tuff private _____ in the First Massachusetts - Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York, the thirty first Day of December
1783
By the General's Command,
Richard M c Lean
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment.

33 828 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33 828
Eleakim Lufts
Li Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 324
[Arrangement of 1870.]