Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,184, Thomas Wales, Mass.

SERVICE
Wales, Thomas
NUMBER _____
D. 30. 184
CONTENTS

21. 380 Massachusetts Thomas Wale
of Bridgewater in the State of Mass who was a private in the Comp. commanded by Captain Penniman of the Regt. commanded by Col. ... in the Mass line for Omaha
Wale
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Sep. 1833 — and due to H. H. Soud Plymouth
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 33 $ 50 Semi-ant. allowance ending S.M. 34 10 $ 60
Revolutionary Claim; Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by G. C. Stiles Clerk Book E Vol. 2, Page 93
80 Plym

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Thomas Wales
7 Mts 6 Month
1406 Jun 26 1833
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J. H. Lord Plymouth Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Thomas Wales  of Bridgewater  in the State of  Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 78 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 17/5- 76- — 3 — private Capt Pennycuick   — 3 — — " " Belcher  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Stoughton Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? two living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
M. Clapp
Examining Clerk.

Revolutionary Pensions
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Plymouth ss On this second day of October 1832, Personally appeared in open court before Wilkes Wood, Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting in East Bridge water, within and for said County of Plym- -onth the undersigned  Abraham a resident in the Town of North Bridge water in the County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the follow- -ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as he states, I was born in Scituate in the County of Norfolk, on the thirty first day of March 1755. My birth is entered in the family Bible. I resided in Scituate twenty two years, and then removed to Randolph an adjoining town in the County of Norfolk, where I resided —

twenty four years, and then removed to said North Bridge water in the County of Plymouth aforesaid, where I have constantly resided on the same spot to the present time, and I am well known to the citizens of North Bridge water aforesaid -
In the Month of December 1775 I enlisted as a private in the State Militia of Massachusetts, to do service at Roxbury near Boston for three months in a Company commanded by Stephen Purriman the Lieutenants were Abner Gname, and William Hayden. Having served three full months in this company I was discharged, in March 1776 I was in no particular engagement, and received no written discharge - On the eighteenth day of December 1776 I again enlisted into the service of the United States as a private in a company commanded by Capt. Beecher and regiment by Col. Lavelle. to do service in the State of New York and New Jersey for three months I passed on to New York by the way of Providence, in Rhode Island, Danbury in Connecticut, and Gray in New York &c and having done duty at several places chiefly in the State of New York for three full Months, I was discharged in 1777. - I was in no engagement during this service, and received no written discharge -
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Attest Thomas Walos Jacob Howland Rec d .

We Eliphalet Crafts and a clergyman residing in East Bridgewater and Jesse Perkins Esq. a magistrate residing in the Town of North Bridgewater hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Thomas Wales, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Eliphalet D. Crafts Jesse Perkins
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court to further certify, that it appears to them, that Eliphalet Crafts, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the town of East Bridgewater, and that Jesse Perkins Esq. who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of North Bridgewater, and is an credible person and that their statement is correct and entitled to credit.
By the Court Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
I Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains

the Original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Wales for a Pen- sion.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand & seal of Office this second day of October in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred, and thirty two.
Jacob H. Loud

30184 INVALID. Ray
File No. 30164
Thomas Miles
Rev. Rev. Miles
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 497
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Thomas Wales
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By his Excellency LEVI LINCOLN , Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Know Ye, That Eliah Whitman , is a Justice of the Peace, for the County of Plymouth — and that Aaron Prescott is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Norfolk.
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to their Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this tenth day of August A. D. 1832, and in the fifty Seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor,
Edward D. Bangs Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Samuel Ludden of Randolph in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman of lawful age do testify and say that I have personally known Thomas Wales of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth for more than fifty years and have personal knowledge that said Wales served in the state militia as a private soldier, at Roxbury in said County of Norfolk for the term of three full months in commencing in December A.D. 1775 and ending in March A.D. 1776. That said Wales served in the company commanded by Capt Stephen Penniman, & Abm. Crane & William Hayden Lieutenants. That I served as a private soldier in the same company, at the same time with said Wales
Attest Aaron Prescott Samuel his + Ludden Mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk ss Randolph 6th August A.D. 1830
Then personally appeared the above named Samuel Ludden and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the abovewritten deposition
Aaron Prescott Justice of the
Peace within and for said County of Norfolk
Norfolk ss. 6th July 1833 I hereby certify that the above named Samuel Ludden is reputed and known to be a man of truth and veracity
Aaron Prescott Justice of the Peace as aforesaid

I Vinson Curtis of Plainfield County of Hampshire, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age do testify and say - That I have been acquainted with Thomas Wales of North Bridge water Plymouth County and Commonwealth aforesaid, for fifty years past. That I have a personal knowledge, that said Thomas Wales did duty in the state service in the war of the revolution, as a private, for the space of three full months, commencing the latter part of December 1776 and ending in March 1777. in the State of New York and New Jersey. The company in which said Wales did the above service, was command- -ed by Capt. Levi Belcher, under the regiment by Col. Laurel. I was a private at the same time and places with said Wales, and actually know, that he did the service as I have stated.
Vinson Curtis
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss. July 31. 1832 Personally appeared the above named Vinson Curtis, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declarations, by him subscribed And I further certify, that I have reason to believe that said Deponent is considered and reported to be, a person of truth and veracity -
Deab Whitman Justice