Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,520, Samuel Weston, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Weston, Samuel
NUMBER
8.37520
CONTENTS

11.398
District of Maine
Samuel Weston
of Warren in the state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of June 1818 and sent to Ebenezer Thatcher Lincoln District Maine
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar 1819.  86.63    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  4 Sep. 1819.  48.00    10 Mo \frac{21}{30}  \frac{4}{31}   $134.63  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Notification sent September 18 th 1820 to
Ebenezer Thatcher, Thomaston, Maine

Sam l Weston, 158
11.398 5
Sept. 1819
The whole amount of the property in apple cents possession must be stated
Con

Omit STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER, Judges of said Court.
ON this Sixth day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared before Eben r . Thatcher a judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Samuel Weston aged Sixty seven years, resident in Warren in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz., as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Samuel Bradford in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Bailey in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the tenth day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 11393 was granted. 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; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Samuel Weston
Sworn to and declared, on the Sixth day of July A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Eben r Thatcher
{ One of the Judges of the said Court.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
2 Acres of land, worth 20 $ per acre under a mortgage for $ 400, which much exceeds its value & the equity of redemption worth nothing $4.50 1 Work house $15 1 barn $30 1 cow & calf $20.3 1 sheep $1 1 pig $2 1 Lamb $1. 6 Common shares $2. 2 pine tables $2 Sundry working tools worth about eight dollars - Sundry cooking utensils worth about four dollars Crockery ware three dollars - I am indebted two hundred dollars for other demands against me - I have one note due me $11.50 Samuel Weston
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Sam d Weston who, by occupation am a Shipwright , which I am un able to pursue by reason of infirmity of body being afflicted with the rheumatism and unable to labour
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     No family Samuel Weston   Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk  
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 Ninety  Ninety dollars and two  two dollars of fifty cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 8th  8th day of July  July August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat. Coffin
Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

Sam l Weston.

I Samuel Weston of Warren in the County of Lincoln & State of Mas- sachusetts testify and declare that I served more than nine months in the Revolu- tionary War of America on the Continent- al establishment and Massachusetts line - That I served in said War against the common enemy That I never have received any pension nor have I claimed any from the United States and hereby re- linquish all claim to any, prior to the present time - and further that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my fam- ily for support & therefore respectfully claim to be placed on the Pension list of the United States as a private by virtue of the Act of Congress of March the eighteenth last past entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the U- nites in the Revolutionary War - I further testify & declare that the service which constituted the above nine months was a term of eight months which I served beginning in June A.D. one Thousand Seven hundred and seventy five and ending the first of January next following & also another term of one year commencing the month

of January last mentioned and ending the first of January A.D. 1877 - and that in said first term of service I was in Captain Elijah Brooks company Colonel Bailey Regiment that in said last mentioned term of service viz the years service I was in Capt Samuel Bradford's company and in said Colonel Bailey's Regiment and that for part of said years service I was put into a Company of Michan- ics commanded by Capt Ayres or Col Brooks Regiment - I received my discharge from said first term of service by Capt n Brooks who gave me a pass in writing which I cannot now find it from the last term of service I think I was discharged by a written pass from the Major at at Windsor in North Ridge but have lost said pass -
Samuel Weston

TELEPHONE 150
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ESTABLISHED 1831
John P. Weston,
MANTELS, GRATES, MARBLE & GRANITE
MANTEL SHOWROOMS & OFFICE.
55 SOUTH CLINTON ST.
FORMELY HEBARD MANTEL & MARBLE WORKS.
DESIGNERS, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS FOREIGN & DOMESTIC MARBLES & GRANITE FOR BUILDINGS AND MONUMENTS.
STATUETTES, Marble & Granite Monuments. Head Stones &c. 324 MT. HOPE AVE.
Rochester, N.Y. Oct. 12 1897
W A
Commissions of Pensions
Dept. of Old war & Navy record
Dear Sir;
Will you kindly give me the family and military record of the following, also if the application for service or pensions were accompanied by any documentary records such as loans from family bibles etc. This information is desired for history & genealogical record.
Sidney Owen Weston (my father) Company F 151st. New York
Volunteers. Private, Sergeant, Lieut.
William Andrews Weston His pension certificate number was
2602 War of 1812 survivors pension
Samuel Weston from Dartmouth Mass. (now New Bedford) In
Isaac Weston " " " " " " " " " "
Alfred Hathaway from Clarendon Vermont
Revolutionary war
Yours respectfully John P. Weston

10 th April 1810 Sam Weston Warren
Enlisted in Jan y 1776 in Col Bailey's Regt. Mass s Line and Served to Jan y 1777-
Over Thatchers.
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Samuel Weston , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Warren , in the said County of Lincoln , in the District of Maine, on the tenth day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the Pension List of the United States, agreeably to the provision of an Act, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by said applicant are hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a Soldier in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for his support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, this first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Ebenezer Thatcher
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
LINCOLN, ss.
I the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Lincoln, hereby certify that the Honorable EBENEZER THATCHER , Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:—Dated at Wiscasset, in said County of Lincoln, this first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
Nathl. Coffin

Judah Alden of Duxbury in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts - but late a first lieutenant, in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Bradford in Colonel John Bowleys Regiment - in the Army of the American Revolutionary War - in the Massachusetts line & on the continental establishment - testify & say that I am well acquainted with Samuel Weston of Warren in the County of Lincoln & state aforesaid - that said Weston enlisted as a Soldier in said Company & Regiment on the first day of January A d 1776 and served in the same with me from said time of enlistment untill the first day of January A d 1777 being the full term of one year that said Weston served actually and faithfully during said term & at the close thereof was honorably discharged from service & that I know him to be the same person who now makes application for a pension for said service Judah Alden
Plymouth ss.
On this twelfth day of November A d 1810 personally appeared Judah Alden Esquire of Duxbury in said County and late a Lieutenant in Captain Bradfords Company & Col Bowleys Regiment in the Army of the Revolutionary War Massachusetts line and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts contained in the above Deposition by him subscribed before me Seth Sprague Justice of the Peace
Plymouth ss.
I then & Thomas Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Plymouth certify that Seth Sprague Esquire is a justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly qualified to administer oaths; that his aforewritten signature is genuine and that the seal hereunto affixed is the seal of said Court & which I have hereunto affixed this twelfth day of November A d 1810
Thos B Thomas

O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
DEC. 14, 1905
Searched by A. O. G.
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, Samuel Weston
Service, Mass
Rev. War
Remarks: No other claim than Inv. File 37 5-20
_____ Chief of Division.

56 Barrington Street - Rochester - New York.
Commission of Pensions -
I am a descendant of Samuel + Elizabeth (Andrews) Weston, of Dympton - Mass.
I desire the family + military history of the above Samuel Weston - who was a soldier in

The Revolutionary War - Windy and Rainy - see above address.
Miss Cynthia C. Porter
November 27-1905.

37 520 Rev INVALID.
File No. 37 520
Samuel Weston
Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 333
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Oct. 25/97 John P. Weston Rochester, N.Y.
1905 Dec. 15. History to Cyrene L. Porter. M.B.H.
1930 May 3. Photo mailed to Edw. N. Gould. See Matthew Beveridge, 1832 9104

Samuel Weston.
May 1. 1818.
Warren, Lincoln Co. Maine Mass., there in 1820.
Where
When June 1775.
Term Jan 1 1776
as Private
Capt Elijah Grover.
Col John Bailey
State Mass Line.
Where
When Jan. 1776 -
Term 1 year
as
Capt Samuel Bradford - Capt Ayers
Col John Bailey - Col Pomeroy,
State Mass Line
No family data.
A careful search of the records of this Bureau fails to show that a claim was filed for the rev. service of any S. W. other than the above

See request in Matthew Beveridge, W. 25232.
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