Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,565, Israel Young, Mass. Privateer

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Privateer
Young, Israel
S 29565
CONTENTS

15133 Massachusetts
Israel Young
Exp Co in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Smith of the Regt commanded by Col. Crafts in the Mass. Militia line for 77 mos per art. 1. 5 5 " per art. 2. }
State Arty & Mil
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 95 Dollars 82 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of May 1833 and sent to W. W. Oakes Newburyport
arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $191.64 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. 47.91
$239.55
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 2 Page 99
died Dec. 22, 1834.
75 8 per 39

Isaac Young Mass
1 year 7 Months Pounds of Arithmetick - 5 Months Pounds of Infy
7/10/3
75.00 4.16 16.66 95.82
4.16 12 45.
W. Morris Newburyport Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Israel Young  Co of Essex  in the State of Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 73.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     20 June In 1795. enlisted 9 Private Capt Smith Col Cobb.   April 1796 1 7 At Liberty Private Capt Gill Col Crafts   May 1798 entered on board the Schooner Chartered by the board of war - and   was captured - kept prisoner 4 or thereabouts she was in the public service   serviced after this on board several private armed vessels as a sailor and gunner but does not say how long in the   private service  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
None mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Wellfleet Barnstable Mass
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
traditional a document and one living witness
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
The periods of service are not exactly given nor the exact length of service
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Payson
Examining Clerk.

Dorad Young
14073.

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.
State of Massachusetts: County of Essex, ss.
On this twelfth day of September, A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the Honorable Daniel Appleton White, Judge of the Court of Probate for the county of Essex. Israel Young, a resident of Newburyport, in the county of Essex, and State of Massachusetts, aged seventy three years and upwards, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth, on his oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
He first enlisted at Wellsfleet, in the county of Barnstable, on the 20th day of June, A.D. 1775, in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Smith, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Elisha Colb, Massachusetts Militia, at that time employed as guards on the sea coast; and served in that company until the last of November following, after which, and in the same month, a volunteer corps were formed, and he enlisted therein, and served in the company commanded by Captain Winslow Lewis, at Cambridge where said company were stationed until April 1776, making full nine months service in said company.
Also in the same month of April 1776 he enlisted in Crafts regiment of Artillery, in the company commanded by Captain John Lill, and did duty therein as a private, at the Fort then called Castle William, and at Boston, until the month of November A.D. 1777. One year and seven months - said company were paid and discharged at Boston, did not receive any written discharge.
Also in the Spring of the year 1778, and to the best of his present recollection, in the month of May of that year, he entered on board the Schooner, which was chartered by the then Board of War, to procure a cargo of flour from the South, for the use of the American Army; that they procured a cargo, which was taken on board at Charleston, from Messrs Day and Fenton, and were returning with the same when they were captured by the enemy, and were made prisoners; that he remained in captivity until September 1781, when he was released, and returned to said Newburyport.
That he was first Officer of several private armed vessels, commissioned by the Government of the United States, to cruise against the enemy, and continued in said service, until he was commissioned on the 20th February 1783, and took the command of a private armed ship called the Discovery, fitted and named by Samuel Daboll and William Nichols, mounting ten carriage guns, and manned with about Twenty men, in which vessel he cruised until the War ended; that the commission annexed to this declaration, is the same which he held as commander of said private armed ship Discovery: - That he was born at Wellsfleet in the year 1759 has no family record of his birth resided at Wellsfleet when he voluntarily enlisted as aforesaid.
That he now resides, in Newburyport aforesaid and has resided there for more than fifty years last past, previous to which he resided at Wellsfleet.
He refers to Robert Jenkins and William Winslow Esqrs for evidence of his veracity, and belief of his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension, or annuity, except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, by said Young, who from bodily infirmity cannot attend Court. D A W White Judge of Probate

We Rev d John Andrews D.D. a Clergyman, residing in Newburyport aforesaid, and Stephen W. Manston Esquire, a Magistrate, residing in Newburyport aforesaid, do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Israel Young who has subscribed, and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three years of age, and upwards; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
John Andrews Stephen W. Manston
Subscribed and sworn to before
W m W m W m Justices of the Peace
And the said Court hereby declares judge, in open  his opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. — And the Court further certifies that Rev d John Andrews D.D. who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in said Newburyport, and that the said Stephen W. Manston Esq r who has also signed the same is a Magistrate, resident at said Newburyport, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
D. H. White Judge of Probate
I Nathaniel Lord Junr. Register for the Court of Probate for the county of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Israel Young for a pension.
I do also certify that William W m W m within named is a Justice of the peace for said county, and that I believe his signature there to affixed, well known to me to be his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twelfth day of September, A.D. 1832.
Nath l Lord Junr.

Commonwealth of Mass s ad ms ts Barnstable, ss. I, Almon Davis, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, in the County of Barnstable, do hereby certify that Josiah Whitman, Esquire, before whom the within deposition was executed, is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable. And that I believe his name thereto subscribed to be his true & proper signa- -ture. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court, at Barnstable, on this twen- -ty first day of September, one thousand eight hundred & thirty-two.
Almon Davis, Clerk.

I Jeremiah Newcomb of Wellfleet in the County of Barnstable Commonwealth of Massachusetts of Lawfull age to give evidence do testify & say That in the Spring of the 1776. I together with Israel Young then of this Town, but now of Newburyport in this State Enlisted under John Gills, and went to Boston where we assisted in building the Fort on Williams Island opposite to Boston Town, then said Gills Received a Captains Commission in the Artillery, in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Crafts, we then went to Castle William in Boston Harbour, and there we continued to Guard the Harbour untill, my time of enlistment was out twelve months, I was well acquainted with said Israel Young and he held the office of Bombardier in the Company. Whether said Young left the Company when I did or continued longer I do not now recollect but that he was in service in said Company twelve months, I do positively know Jeremiah Newcomb
Wellfleet September 19 th 1832.
Barnstable 23 September 19 th 1832.
Then the above named Jeremiah Newcomb personally appeared and made Oath that the deposition by him subscribed was true before me Josiah Whitman Justice of the Peace
I do hereby Certify that I have been personally acquainted with Jeremiah Newcomb above named for thirty years, and that he is a man of truth and respectable although poor.
Josiah Whitman Justice of the Peace

29565 INVALID.
File No. 29,565
Israel Young Rev Mr
Act: June 7, 32
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 39
[Arrangement of 1870.]

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED,
To ALL to whom these PRESENTS shall come, send GREETING.
KNOW YE,
THAT we have granted, and by these PRESENTS do grant licence and authority to Israel Young _____ Mariner, Commander of the Ship _____ called the Recovery _____ of the burthen of one hundred and sixty — tons or thereabouts, belonging to Samuel Batchelder and William Nichols Merchants, of Newburyport in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, mounting Ten _____ carriage guns, and navigated by Twenty _____ men, to fit out and set forth the said Ship _____ in a warlike manner, and by and with the said Ship _____ and the Officers and Crew thereof, by force of arms to attack, subdue, seize, and take all ships and other vessels, goods, wares and merchandizes, belonging to the King or Crown of Great-Britain, or to his Subjects, or to others inhabiting within any of the territories or possessions of the aforesaid King of Great-Britain, or any other ships or vessels, goods, wares or merchandizes to whomsoever belonging, which are or shall be declared to be Subjects of Capre by any Ordinance of the United States in Congress assembled, or which are so deemed by the Law of NATIONS. And the said ships and vessels, goods, wares and merchandizes so apprehended as aforesaid, and as prizetaken, to bring into Port, in order that proceedings may be had concerning such captures in due Form of Law, and as to Right and Justice appertaineth. And we request all Kings, Princes, States and Potentates, being in Friendship or Alliance with Us, and others to whom it shall appertain, to give the said Israel Young _____ all aid, assistance and succour in their Ports, with his said vessel, company and prizes, We engaging to do the like to all the Subjects of such Kings, Princes, States, and Potentates, who shall come into any of our Ports. And we will and require all our Officers whatsoever, to give to the said Israel Young _____ all necessary aid, succour and assistance in the premises. This Commission shall continue in force during the pleasure of the United States in Congress assembled, and no longer.
IN TESTIMONY whereof, We have caused the Seal of the Admiralty of the United States in Congress assembled, to be affixed hereto.
WITNESSES His Excellency John Hanson _____ Esquire, President of the United States in Congress assembled at Philadelphia — this twenty eighth day of February _____ in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty three and in the seventh _____ Year of our Independence.
John Hanson
Passed the ADMIRALTY OFFICE,
Secretary.
Chas Thomson Secy.

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