Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33209, Elisha Vining, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wining, Elisha
S. 33209
CONTENTS

9544
Massachusetts
Elisha Vining
of Abington in the state of Mass - who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey of the Mass line, for the term of one year.
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of Sept. 1819 and sent to Raham Mitchell Esq. East Bridgewater.
  Arrears to 4th of Nov. 1819. 11 mos. 1/30  88. 26    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sep. 1819  48. 00     $136:26  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued " "
Application sent May 4 th 1821 by John B. Thomas Esq. Plymouth, Massachusetts

33 209 Ray INVALID.
File No. 33 209
Elisha Pining
Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9, Page 49 1/2
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Elisha Vining es
9544, Sept 1819
Court of COMMONS OF THE PARLIAMENT
SCHEDULE
(Small handwritten mark or signature)

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this nineteenth day of July 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Elisha Vining aged twenty eight years, resident in Abington in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of one year in Capt Reed's company of Col John Bailey's Regiment Massachusetts Line and that he has received a pension certificate dated twentieth April 1819 and numbered 9,544 in pursuance of his original Declaration made eighth April 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of 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 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 18th 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 to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
4 chairs, 1 chest, crockery ware, iron ware - $2.38
I have a wife seventy eight years old, and unable to perform any labour, I am unable to perform any labour myself and have no means of support. I am a labourer by occupation. Elisha Vining mark
Sworn to, and declared, on the 19th day of July A.D. 1820 before
Nahum Mitchell C. Justice of Court
I, John B. Thomas clerk of said court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the 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 two dollars and thirty eight cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty ninth day of December 1820 $2.38
John B. Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth

Luke Nash &
Caleb Gardner:
Deposition

We Caleb Gardner and Luke Nash do depose testify and declare that Elisha Vining was a private soldier in Capt. Williams Reed's Company and Col. John Bailey Regiment in the Massachusetts line in the Revolutionary War And that said Vining did actually serve as a private soldier in said Company in a campaign of twelve months which commenced in the month of January 1776 and that he continued in said Company during the whole term of said Campaign.
Luke Nash his Caleb X Gardner mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss - July 9, 1818
Then the above named Luke Nash and Caleb Gardner personally appeared and made oath that the above deposition by them subscribed is just and true in all its parts
Before me
Nathan Gurney Jr. Just. Peace "
The abovenamed Luke Nash and Caleb Gardner are credible witnesses and Nathan Gurney Jr. is a respectable Magistrate & legally authorized to take depositions, and the above is his true handwriting & signature.
Nahum Mitchell } Judge

Elisha Vining Abington
Adm
A citizen of the United States in the County of do hereby certify that I served in the Revolutionary War in the United States, and that the following is a list of the services rendered by me during said war, to wit: that I was honorably discharged from the service of the United States on the _____ day of _____ 18____
And I hereby certify that all claims to any pension or other benefit from the United States on account of said services have been paid in full.
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ss. I, Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office and of the whole thereof. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at _____ this _____ day of _____ 18____
W. H. [unclear] Clerk

United States of America.
State of Massachusetts
I, Elisha Vining a citizen of the United States, now resident at Almington in the County of Plymouth in the State aforesaid, do on oath, as here and declare, that I served, in the War of the Revolution, the full term of time required by a Law of the United States, made and passed in the month of March, A. D. 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons en- gaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," as one requisite to entitle me to be placed on the pension list of the said United States, having entered the land service of the said United States, on the Continental Establishment, and served as a private soldier against the common enemy; from  I enlisted in April A D 1775 in Capt William Reed's Company & Col John Bailey's Regt for eight months, went to Roxbury near Boston & there served said term out and was honorably discharged - Again in January 1776 I enlisted into Capt William That I belonged to  Reed's company & Col John Bailey's Regt for one year - Went to New York State & there and at New- and that I left the service Jersey completed said term of service and was honorably discharged - altho, in no instance had any discharge in writing - I further say that I was in the Massachusetts line - & further that I am reduced in my circumstances & stand in need of my country's assistance for support -
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the said United States, if any may be, or hath been, so allowed.
Elisha Vining
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this fourth day of April 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 ser- vice of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, one of the Judges of the circuit court of common pleas for the Southern circuit My consisting of Plymouth Bristol Barnstable Dukes' Nantucket and Norfolk counties the abovenamed Elisha Vining 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 I do certify that the said Vining is poor and needs the assistance of his country for support.
Nahum Mitchell