Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35701, Davis Wasgatt, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wasgatt, Davis or Wasgate
S.35701
CONTENTS

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 th March 1838. Act ratified 3 Jan 1838
Cop for Land Off
to Newland Bathurst, 14 Augt. 1838.
10 P cy
9,156
Maine. II
Davis Wasgate.
of Dist. Maine of Dist. Maine in the state of Maine who was a Sergt. in the regiment commanded by Colonel Suppers of the Mass  Mass ne, for the term of three years .
inscribed on the Roll of Dist. of Maine at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of Apr. 1819 and sent to Mr. Kinsley Esq. Hampden, Maine
  Arrears to 4th of March 1819  82.09    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819  48 —    10. 4/30 of 3/30  $130.09  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office, December 28 th , 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Davis Wargate, _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Portland, Maine, Agency, at the rate of eight _____ Dollars and _____ Cents per month  annum , under the law of the 18 th March, 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of Sept. 1837- to the 1 st March, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Davis Wasgate
Private Col Benjamin Tiffey's Regiment
1781 - 2 years

I Davis Wargate of Mount Desert in the county of Hancock do testify & say that in the month of May 1778, I enlisted into the Revolutionary war in Capt Joel Greene Company Col Ezra Woods Regt. & Nixon's Brigade: for the term of Eight months: We joined our Regt. at Pikeskills N.Y. We were stationed at the White Plains: I continued there during the term of my enlistment & was regularly discharged: — In the month of June 1780. I enlisted again for six months in Capt. John Tufts company Col Putnam's Regt. I joined my Regt. again at Pikeskills; We were stationed in the Jerseys where I served the term of my enlistment & was regularly discharged:
In March 1781. I enlisted again for three years in Capt. Jon a Farnsworth Company, Col Brig a Tappans Regt. I joined my Regt. at West Point: We were stationed at different places on the North River: And at West Point: I was transferred to 5 th Regt. in 1782. and in May or June 1783 I was transferred from the 5 th to the first: from which I received an honorable discharge; which is herewith instored. I am now under reduced circum- =stances, & need the assistance of my country for support. —
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Davis Wargate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
NOBSCOT, ss.
ON the 27 th day of April A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Third Eastern Circuit, of the Court of Common Pleas, in said Commonwealth, including the Counties of Hancock, Washington and Penobscot : Personally appeared Davis Wasgate who, being by me first duly sworn according to law, on his oath made the statement and declaration by him subscribed, and hereto annexed, in order to obtain the provision 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."
And thereupon, I the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said Davis did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in his said declaration, against the common enemy, and that he has made it appear to me, that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Which proceedings and the testimony annexed, being all he has been able to produce, I now transmit to the Secretary, for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and caused the seal of said Court to be hereto affixed M c Kinley Esquire, Judge of the Court as aforesaid.

I Davis Wasgatt accepted the office of Deputy Collector of the United States Direct Tax in 1815 which by adopting too lenient a policy by endeavoring to assist and accommodate others involved myself and eventuated in the sacrifice of all my Real and Personal Estate - Since which by the assistance of the Government by way of my Pension and a rigid system of Economy I have retrieved my Estate so far as is exhibited in the Schedule on the other side -
But in addition to this I now owe to the late Firm of Adams & Rhodes $80.00
and to William Norwood 82.00
making together the sum of one hundred & sixty two Dollars - Besides which I owe sundry small debts to the amount of twenty Dollars of which I make no account as I have probably about a similar amount due to me which I shall realize - 151.00
Neither myself or wife are able to labour for our support and we are obliged to hire help both on the Farm and in the House
Davis Wasgatt

STATE OF MAINE.
Hancock ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Third Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Castine within and for the County of Hancock on the second Tuesday of July being the eleventh day of July and by adjournment from day to day, on the fourteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable William Crosby and James Campbell Judges of said Court.
Income tax $10.00 annually $10.00
ON this fourteenth day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared in open Court
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, Davis Wasgatt aged sixty nine years, resident in Mount Desert 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 Serjeant in the company commanded by Capt. Marshall in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Vose 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 twenty seventh day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 9.156- 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.
Davis Wasgatt
Sworn to and declared, on the 14 day of July A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
William Crosby Esq. James Campbell Esq.
One of the Judges of the said Court.
attest Nelson Shews Clerk

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
My right in equity of Redeeming 40 acres of land in Mount Desert now improved by me valued @ 75$ 75.00 3 Cows 40$ 16 Sheep 20$ 2 yearlings 2$ 64.00 2 Pigs 5$ old Horse 5$ Plough 9$ Hoe 1/6 ax 3/ 12.25 chain 6/ Shovel 3/ Kettle 3/ Tea Kettle 3/ 7.50 2 Chests Trunk Box Table Spice Mill 2.50 Laws of Massachusetts & sundry small Books 6.00 Bible 1/ Coffee Pot Lantern & Fire ware 1/ 3.50 Plates Cups Bowls & Cooking ware 1/ Milk Pans 1/ 3.00 Tumblers & Glass ware 4/6 Candles Tub & wooden ware 3/ 2.25 Knives & Forks & Spoons 7/6 set old chairs & Table 7/6 2.50 Shave Combs etc of sundry small Tools 7/6 wheel 3/ Glaze 3/ 2.25 Pease Beans & Peas w/ Potatoes Butter & other provisions 1/ 3.50 Razors & sundry small articles 1/ 3.50  SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Davis Wasgatt  192.21 
who, by occupation am a Farmer which I am unable to pursue by reason of constitutional debility and the infirmities incident to old age
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Rachel Wasgatt 67 past Labour - very weak & infirm   David Hadley 22 Hired man   Deborah Gott 25 Hired woman   P Davis Wasgatt  
STATE OF MAINE.
I, Mason Shaw ss. the county of Hancock that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is one hundred & ninety two dollars and Twenty five cents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court, on this Eighteenth day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto an- nexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court ; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court
 Mason Shaw Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Hancock 

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
MGS/ELM
January 24, 1930.
Ella F. Elliot 59 Oxford Street Somerville Massachusetts.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 35701, it appears that Davis Wasgatt enlisted in May 1778, place not stated, and served eight months as Quartermaster Sergeant in Captain Joel Green's Company in Colonel Ezra Wood's Massachusetts Regiment. He enlisted in June 1780 and served six months in Captain John Trotter's Company in Colonel Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment. He enlisted in March 1781 in Captain Jonathan Turner's Company Colonel Benjamin Tupper's Massachusetts Regiment; in the fall of 1782 his company was transferred to the 5th Massachusetts Regiment and he was appointed Sergeant of said company; in May or June 1783 he was transferred and served as Sergeant in Captain Marshall's Company in Colonel Vose's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged December 24, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 27, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Mount Desert, Maine District.
In 1820 he was sixty-nine years of age and he then referred to his wife Rachel, aged sixty-seven years.
Due to the large number of inquiries similar to yours and the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, this Bureau is unable to furnish more than two histories of soldiers of the Revolution to each inquirer.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Davis Waegatt a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
S. File 35,701.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 1778 8 mos. Quartermaster Joel Green Ezra Wood Mass.   March 1780 6 mos. ✓ John Trotter Rufus Putnam "   March 1781 nearly 3 yrs. ✓ Jonathan Turner Benj. Dummer "   July 1782 transf sergt ✓ ✓ 5 th "   June 1783 " sergt. Marshall Webb 1 st "  
discharged Dec. 24, 1783.
Battles engaged in, none stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated.
Date of application for pension, Apr 27, 1818. Ald.
Residence at date of application, Mount Desert, Maine.
Age at date of application, in 1820: sixty-nine years.
Remarks: In 1820 he referred to wife Rachel Waegatt as 67 yrs.
Very respectfully,

35 701
Rev INVALID.
File No. 35 701
Davis Wasgate Sergt Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 89
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jany 7. 1896, Mil. Kiery to Mrs. Jos. H. Barnes East Boston, Mass.
1912 Oct. 26. To Miss Helen A. Nasgatt. 1918 Jany. 28. Hist. to Mrs. P. J. McHugh 1920 Jan 24. In st. to Ella F. Elliot. See letter in case of Butler Lombard. L. 27636. m.c.s.

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Louis Nuyvelt in the 1st Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the twenty fourth Day of December
1788.
H. Knox
By the General's Command,
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Br. H. F. Banks
Capt & Adj't

W + N.Y. To the
Wm. Heath - 39666-8 111 Green St - East Boston December 16. '9- Davis Weygate, 35701-8
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir,
I am very anxious to know if W m  Heath had a pension, and also if one was given to Davis or David Weygate , both of Deer Isle, Me - their grand son & grand nephew tells me that his father was in the habit of receiving pension, or bounty, money to them from the town

of Castine, Me - (the shire town, at that time, of Hancock Co.) between the years 1835-45.
He has a certificate (copy) signed by Gen. Washington stating that "W m Heath was in the N. H. Detachment for four years & honorably discharged June 1783."
W m . Heath's name and Daniel Wargats' name appear in a list of "Names of Soldiers of the American Revolution, who applied for State Bounty - Resolves of March 17, 1835, 36-38"

(3) as appears in second of Land Office - Wm Heath p. 29. David Wargatt p. 47. If their names do not appear on the W.S. pension rolls the money paid at Castine was probably stolen bounty for pension - An answer will be very much obliged
Yours
Very respectfully
Anna D. Barnes
(Mrs Joseph H)

Everett, Mass.
Feb. 15, 1912
D. W. & N. Division, Department of Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir,
Kindly send me any information that you have concerning Davis Wasgatt, who applied for a pension from Mt. Desert, Maine., on April 27, 1818. I shall be very grateful for what information you can give me.
Yours truly,
(Miss) Helen A. Wasgatt, 180 Hancock St., Everett, Massachusetts.

CACHE LA POUDRE CHAPTER FT. COLLINS, COLORADO
Rev Sec am
Jan. 18-1915
The Pension Office Washington D.C.
Dear Sir —
Please give me information concerning Revolutionary Pension of Davis Wasgatt, Or. (Capt.)
of Mt. Desert - Maine -
Pension applied for Apr. 27-1818 age - 67 - Claim allowed.
Thanking you for many favors
I am, Very truly yours
Mrs P. J. M. Hugh 215 E. Oak St. Chapter Regent.

Copy of discharge fur- nished Mr. Wargate 18 Aug 1830
Mr James L. Edwards Chief Clerk Pension office

Washington D. C.
August 18 th 1830
Mr James L. Edwards
Sir Please to give me the copy of the Discharge of Davis Wargatt a revolutionary soldier and now a resident of Maine as he has given me power of attorney to receive his Bounty land if any belonged to him and you will oblige yours &c. Davis Wargatt 32 / 11

111 Trenton St- East Boston Mass
To H. N. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Please inform me in regard to date of pension of the following named men -
William Heath - enlisted in New Hampshire - died at - Mt. Desert Me. September 6-1840-
Davis Wasgatt - enlisted at Moulton, Mass; died at Mt Desert Me.
I am Very Respectfully (Mrs Joseph H) A. D. Barnes

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
O. W. & N. Div. F. S. M. E. C.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., January 7, 1896.
Madam:
Replying to your request for the military record of William Heath and Davis Wasgatt, soldiers of the Revolutionary war, you will find enclosed an official statement of the services rendered by Davis Wasgatt.
It appears that William Heath, whose history you wish to establish, was granted a pension by the government, under the act of June 7, 1832, for his services as a private in the war above mentioned but the Bureau is unable to furnish the details of his services for the reason that all of his pension papers appear to have been lost from the files of this Bureau many years ago.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mrs. Joseph H. Barnes, 111 Trenton St., East Boston, Mass.

Reuben Baldwin
No 47 Court St
Boston
vol 26. 334. holon

State of Maine
Hancock Is
I Davis Wargatt of Mount Desert in the County of Hancock and State of Maine being sworn do on Oath testify - depose and say that I am in eighty seven th year of my age and that I was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution and served in the Massachusetts line, in the year 1778 I served as a quartermaster sergeant in Colo Ezra Wood, regiment six months, and was dischar- -ged and returned home 1779 I tarrried at home in 1780 I enlisted as a Soldier for six months and joined Colo Rufus Putnam's Regt and served my time out and was discharged In the year 1781 I enlisted as a Soldier for three years and joined Colo Benj r Tappern Regiment and Capt Jonathan Hurners Company, in the year 1782 in the fall there an arrangement took took place and the Company that I was in joined the fifth Regt in that Regt I was appointed a Sergeant and served in capacity ten months and was then honorably discharged
Davis Wargatt
Hancock County Is Mount Desert, 18 th day of December A.D. 1856
These personally appeared Davis Wargatt above named who made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed
Before me William S. Richardson. Just of the Peace I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Davis Wargatt Esq r and know him to be a person of unimpeach- able character and he is a pensioner of the United States as he has stated
Wm S. Richardson

State of Maine
Hancock ss.
I, Sewall Watson, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the County of Hancock in the State of Maine, do hereby certify that William L. Richardson Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was at the time, a Justice of the Peace for said County, and duly empowered to administer oaths - And that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said W m L. Richardson, and have no doubt that the signature purporting to be his, is genuine -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said County this twenty second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight -
Sewall Watson

Boston Massachusetts
June 9th 1838
Sir
I herewith transmit the Declaration of Davis Waggott, of Mount Desert Island in the State of Maine, claiming an increase of pension, for his services as a Sergeant 16 months in the War of the Revolution, agreeably to the provision of the Act of June 7. 1832. — Accompanying his declaration written by himself, is his original pension Certificate. If this claim is admitted be pleased to forward his Certificate to me at this place.
Very respectfully
Sir Your Obedt
Reuben Baldwin
J. L. Edw. Esq. Commr of Pensions Washington