Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33831, David Tucker, Mass.

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Tucker, David
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7662
Massachusetts
David Tucker
of Ipswich in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 March 1818 and sent to Mrs. William By Salem Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1818 $87.43 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48.
$135.43
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Application made October 18. 1820 to John D. Sleeper Esq. Salem Mass.

7662
David Tucker
16 March
1819
Cont d 25 Sep
1820
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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, David Tucker of Ipswich in said Circuit, who is named in resident in Pension Certificate No. 7662 - 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, David Tucker — — — — — 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 seventh day of April — — — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
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“Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixteenth day of March — — — one thousand eight hundred and nineteen .
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,
80 Real Estate
Personal
Six chairs 2 Dolls. 3 tables 75 cents — — — 2,75
One pot 50 cents teakettle 25
Old knives forks and spoons } 2,00 and old earthen ware — — —
4,75
January 10th 1776 enlisted in capt. Nathl. Haskell's Company Col. Henry Jackson's Regiment in the Massachusetts line and on the Continental Establishment for one year and served that year, and enlisted in the same Company & Regiment & line & Establishment for two

years and served the whole of that time and was discharged.
Was at the battle of Newport and at Fort Ann in New York.
Is aged Sixty years is maimed in his right hand with loss of two fingers and is lame in his left leg not able to perform labour - his wife Mary is aged Sixty Three.
His family consists of himself and wife.
David Tucker.
Essex ss. July 12. 1820. Then the above named David Tucker made oath that the schedule and statement above by him subscribed, are true, before me,
Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, David Tucker 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.
David  his  Tucker mark
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed David Tucker took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me
Stephen Minot , 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
four dollars seventy five cents
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.

✓ Dav d Tucker
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Col D r Jackson's Ref- Wapachuritts Line
1777 — 3 years
Alonzo
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I David Tucker a citizen of the United States residing at Ipswich in the District of Massachusetts do on oath testify & declare that in the war of the Revolution On the twelfth day of January in the year of Our Lord Seventeen hundred & seventy seven I entered into the land service of the United States on the Continental establishment for the term of three years & served accordingly in the Massachusetts line of the Army in Colonel Henry Jacks his Regiment in Captain Nathaniel Dows Bells Company against the Common enemy for two years & eleven months when I was discharged on account of sickness, which discharge has been lost by lapse of time ——— That by reason of my reduced circumstances in life & poverty I stand in need of assistance from my Country for support being now seventy  Fifty six years of age & unable to work & without property real or personal — I hereby relinquish all right & claim to every other pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States if any such right I have, or any such pension hath been so allowed of which I am ignorant. —
David Tucker
Be it Remembered that On this seventh day of April in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred & eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States made & passed on the 28 th of March AD 1818 entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" Personally appeared before me, the subscriber one of the Appointed Judges of the Circuit Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit within the State aforesaid & presiding who has seen the above named David Tucker
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& after due examination & caution to testify & declare the whole truth, I am sworn to the declaration aforesaid & subscribers the same in my presence; & on examination duly made by me the Judge it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony whereof I have unto affix my name & the seal of said Court
W m Wetmore

33 831 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33, 831
David Tucker
in Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 22
[Arrangement of 1870.]