Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33883, Jacob Weston, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Weston, Jacob
S 33883
CONTENTS

33 883 Recy  INVALID.
File No. 88,888
Jacob Weston His Rev no.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 888
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Duxbury April 1 - 1818
This may certify that Jacob Werten enlisted as a private soldier about the 17 th day of November 1775 and continued in the Continental service to December 31 st 1776 in a Regiment commanded by Col o John Bailey & Company commanded by Capt s Samuel Bradford, in which Company the subscriber was first Lieut e . And that the said Werten is now much reduced in his circumstances
Judah Alden

I know nothing of Jacob Weston excepting what is contained in these papers. I can therefore make no certificate respecting his circumstances - only that Maj r Alden's certificate, as within given, is fully entitled to credit both as to the service and circumstances of the claimant - said Alden having been an officer during all the revolution and is now a very respectable Magistrate in his county -
Nahum Mitchell: Judge Yrs

I Jacob Weston of Duxbury in the County of Plymouth Massachusetts, do further set forth and declare that from reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support, and am desirous of obtain- ing a pension under the late act of Congress of the 18 th of March last.
Jacob Weston
Sworn to before me
Vahum Mitchell: Judge

Hon. Nahum Mitchell
Bridgewater

Duxbury May 5 th 1818. —
Sir, I have been verbally informed that it was requisite that my Age should be given in order to entitle me to the pension which is to be paid on those who served in the Revolution war. I was born on the 19 th Day of July 1760. — I was in Boston when it was besieged by the British, I was in New-York when it was evacuated by them, I was in the battle at Harlem Heights & in the battle at White Plains, and I was discharged from the service at Peekskill on the Hudson on the day mentioned in my certificate and declaration, You, Sir, will make full use of this communication as you may think proper. Yacob Weston

10,025
Massachusetts
Jacob Weston II
of Duxbury in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baily of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the third of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of Ap. l 1819 and sent to Mrs. Sarah Weston East Bridgewater Mass
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819. 88.96
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep. 4 th 1819. 48.00
$136.96
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

See letter to Peninsular July 31. 1830
Notes sent to Genl B Thomas Esq 13th January 1821. Plymouth Mass

Jacob Weston Duxbury — 1776
76-147
Baily Map to Neg Nantucket

United States of America.
State of Massachusetts
I, Jacob Weston, aged fifty seven years, a citizen of the United States, now resident at Duxbury in the County of Plymouth in the State aforesaid, do on oath, 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 engaged 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 about the 17 th of November 1775. to December 1776
That I belonged to Capt. Samuel Bradfords Company and Col. John Bailey's Regiment and Massachusetts Line and that I left the service the thirty first day of Dec r 1776. The term for which I enlisted having then expired. This embraced part of the eight months at Roxbury, and all the year's service in and about New York. — Col. Cotton commanded the Regiment part of the time at Roxbury. —
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.
Jacob Weston
Massachusetts Plymouth ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third 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 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 above named Jacob Weston the subscriber one of Judges of the Circuit Court of Common pleas for the Southern Circuit of Massachusetts
the abovenamed Jacob Weston 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.
Nahum Mitchell

Jacob Weston's
Schedule
Duxbury 10025-
Apr 19
Con

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this Twentieth day of November 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 Jacob Weston aged sixty years, resident in Duxbury 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 twelve months in Capt Saml Bracford's company Col John Bailey's Regt and that he has received a pension certificate dated 30th April 1819 and numbered 10,025, in pursuance of his original Declaration made 3rd day of April AD. 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 28th 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.
Real Estate none Personal estate viz 6 chairs 1 brood axe 1 bible 1 bow 1 pig iron & crockery ware & 2 beds
My family consists of myself & wife who is 59 years of age health only passable. I have laboured under a rupture for 5 years which impairs my ability to labour I have no children under me Jacob Weston
Sworn to, and declared, on the 21st day of November AD 1820 before Nathan Mitchell Justice of said Court
I, John B Thomas clerk of said court 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 Forty eight dollars and cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 25th day of December 1820
John B Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth