Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,921, Joshua Winter, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Kinter, Joshua
S. 33,921
CONTENTS

6,452 Wapachusett
Joshua Weston Capt Trotten Private Mass Line War
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Wapachusett at the rate of — 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th of June 1819 and sent to John Lewis Esq. Boston Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 — 42.09 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Mar 1819 48.00
Due 4/30 4/30. $80.09
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued —
Notice sent to S. Blagg Boston July 19 1821 Ex. P. C.

33921 Joshua Winter
Mar. 28. 1818 - 65 Boston Mass
Apr. 79 - - - mass
Capt. Jos. Prall Col. Rufus Putnam Pvt. H. Jones
No Bat

No 20
John Winsten Priv. Putnam's Mass. Regt.
1779. During the War
Correct by all
The necessity of the act in favor of the Applicant must be proven or conceded by the facts that he is in reduced circumstances.

United States
Massachusetts District.
Joshua Winter of Boston in the County of Suffolk in the District of Massachusetts, application for a pension from the United States Under 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" which oath ends says that he joined in the war of the revolution as a private soldier for the term of four years - that he enlisted on the fourteenth day of April A.D. 1779. before during the war, and entered the company of John Trotter in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Rufus Putnam and continued in said company until the close of the war when he was honorably discharged - I got my discharge more than twenty years ago, when I was doing duty as a soldier, at Castle William. Before it was ended by the United
States
Joshua Winter
Mass'ts Dist. March 28. 1810
Never to be paid by the Government Dis'ble

The within declaration was also support- ed by the testimony of Joseph Whistler, Jr., who well knew the applicant, in the Army — M c Devitt Dist Judge Md
He also further testifies and says that he is in such reduced circumstances in life as to need the assistance of his country, for support. Joshua Weston
Sworn before me May 21. 1815
M c Devitt Dist Judge US Md Dist

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 5 A. D. 18 18
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Joshua Winter , subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M Davis } Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 18 January 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Joshua Winter by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M Davis } District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

Joshua Winter
Confe 6452
29 Jan'y 1819
Con

District of Massachusetts, ss.
ON this Monday day of June 1820 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record, viz. a Special District Court of the United States for the said District, Joshua Winter aged Sixty Five years, resident in Boston in the County of Suffolk, in said District, Farmer who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: as a Private in Capt. Scituate Company in the 5 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Putnam. My declaration was dated on the 28 March 1818. My Pension Certificate 29 January 1819. and Number 9452
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.
Joshua Winter
Sworn to and declared, on the Monday day of June A. D. 1820 before
W. Davis { Judge of the Massachusetts District Court.
I, JOHN WATSON DAVIS, Clerk of the Massachusetts District Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto 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 _____ dollars and _____ cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Monday day of June 1820
W. Davis { Clerk of the U. S. District Court, for the Massachusetts District.

Schedule of Property belonging to the Subscribed late a Private in the Army of the United States
Real Estate None
Personal Estate None
Original Occupation a Farmer but unable to work in consequence of my age & infirmities excepting in occasional sales in carrying small articles to Farnsworth from the Market. Family - None
Signed
Joshua Winton

33921 INVALID.
Pay
File No. 33,921
Joshua Winter
His Rev. Mrs.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 2156
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Oct. 18, 1901 Mrs. G. S. Woodside Denver, Colo.