Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33811, Louis Touissant, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
★ Louiissant, Louis
S. 33811
CONTENTS

Massachusetts
4,232
4
Louis Touissant Capt Walker Private
Massachusetts Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of November and sent I Putnam Judge to Berkshire by Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818. 3 \frac{25}{31 \frac{4}{30}} 31.51
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 mar 1819 48. -
$ 79.51
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1819. }
Williamstown, (three years) Berkshire Continued
Information sent to Walker & Hall Esq. Devon. Mass. Co. Sept. 1820

33811 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33811
Louis Louisant
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 421
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Louis Touissant.
baret

Commonwealth District of Massachusetts.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY, ss.
ON this Seventh day of May in the year of our Lord 1818 before the subscriber Samuel Putnam Esq one of the Justices of the Sup. Jud. Court of s d Commonwealth personally appeared Louis Toussaint aged 52 years, resident in the Town of Williamstown in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, in the said District—who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the late 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:" That he the said Toussaint enlisted in the near Boston in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Robert Walker of the regiment commanded by Col. Henry Jackson , that he enlisted at the year 1781 and continued to the end of the war and until three years from the time of the enlistment. That he continued to serve in the said company in the service of the United States, until the in service of the United States — when he was discharged from service in Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania — he has lost his discharge —
That he was in the battle of  Several skirmishes — so called ; — and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support;
And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. excepting the annexed certificate sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid. The declarant is a Citizen of the U.S. The Certificate of Rob t Walker annexed is genuine — He was my Captain — S. Putnam Just. S. Court of Mass s I Samuel Putnam Judge of the S. S. Court of Mass s do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Louis Toussaint did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. Given under my hand and the seal of said Court the 7. May 1818 — S. Putnam Just S. S. Court of Mass s
I JOSEPH WOODBRIDGE , Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within & for the County of Berkshire do certify and attest, that the abovenamed Samuel Putnam is one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court aforesaid and that the foregoing is his signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, the day and year first above written.
J. Woodbridge  Off
Town of Windsor County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts =
To whom it may concern — I do hereby certify that in the fall of the year 1781: after I returned from Coatsworth I joined the ninth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Henry Jackson as a Captain in the Regiment that Louis Toussaint a Frenchman was in the Company enlisted for three years on the Continental establishment and served in the Company under my command until the fall of the year 1782 when he was taken out of the Company by the Benson Station as a waiter and I always understood that he remained with the Benson as a waiter until the Brattle Street Place
Robert Walker Captain in the 2 d  Massachusetts Regiment of the Revolutionary war

10
Louis Louissaint
4232 Nov '18
Can
Mar '19

District of Massachusetts, ss :
ON this 28 th day of June — 1820 ; Personally appeared in open Court before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Lenox, within and for the County of Berkshire, in the Western Circuit, on the 4th Monday of June 1820, the same Court, 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,  Louis Toussaint — aged 55 — years, resident in Williamstown in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows ; that he enlisted in the company commanded by Captain Robert Walker — in the regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson in the line of the State of Massachusetts — on the Continental establishment. That his original declaration is dated 7 th May 1818. — and that his pension certificate is numbered 4,232 —
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—schedule of property, necessary clothing and bedding excepted—to wit : Six Chains — one pot — one kettle — one chest — one table — & one Cow —
The value of the Property as follows —    the Six Chains — 4.50   the pot — .75   " kettle — .75   chest — 1.80   table — 2.   Cow — 18.   27.50 
I am frequently afflicted with the rheumatism — That I am by occupation a Baker — that I receive very little support from my business — that the number of my family residing with me is four that their names and ages are as follow : Benjamin West — my father in law aged seventy five & his wife nearly the same age my wife aged forty & partly that  Adams & myself fifty five — (sign?) Louis Toussaint —
Sworn to, and declared on the 28 th day of June — 1820 , before the said Court —  Parker L. Hall Clerk pro tem
I Parker L. Hall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Berkshire 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 twenty eight dollars and fifty — cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this ninth day of August 1820.
Parker L. Hall
CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE.