Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7065, for Winslow Maynard, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Waynard, Winslow
98. 7065
CONTENTS
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REJECTED
70607
P. O. Winslow Maynard
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Hon: Benj. Adams
1 old case
March 15. 1820
Entered
Winslow Maynard
Upton - Mass.
Rejected
Made
Argument

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester , certify, that Samuel Brainerd Esquire before whom the annexed Affidavit has been made, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this fourth day of November A. D. 1818.
Affidavit of Winslow Maynard
Abijah Bigelow, Clk.

I Jeffry Hemenway state a soldier in army of the revolution do on oath declare that I well knew Winslow Maynard to whom declaration this is annexed, in the service, he being in the same company with me, & I do know that the enlistment for one year, & served more than nine months when he was regularly discharged with the rest of the company & I further declare that I have no interest in said Maynard procuring a pension —
Attest James Praser
Jeffry
his
mark
Hemenway
Worcester ss. Nov. 2. 1818
Then personally appeared
Jeffry Hemenway and made that the above affidavit by him subscribed in my presence contains the truth & I certify that he is well known to me to be a credible witness — Before me Samuel Praser Justice Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester , certify, that Edward D. Bangs Esq. before whom the annexed Affidavit has been made, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this twenty third day of November A. D. 1818.
Application of Winslow Maynard
Abijah Bigelow, Clk.

State of Massachusetts - I Winlow Maynard a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Upton in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the beginning of April seventeen hundred and seventy eight
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to January, seventeen hundred and seventy nine, being nine full months as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to Capt. Ebenezer Dethnaps' Com- pany, Col. Wood's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line
and that I left the service on January 1779; and have not since discharge and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty five years -
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Winlow Maynard
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeared Edward Bangs the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State comprising said County of Worcester . Appeared the abovenamed Winlow Maynard and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination du- ly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. I have affixed the seal of said Court.
Edw. Bangs.

I Francis Wilson of Holden in the County of Worcester testify and say, that in the Revolutionary War I was a Major in Col. Wade's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line on the Continental Establishment, I knew Winslow Maynard, who was a soldier in my Regiment, and know that he served in said Regiment for nine months; at the end of which time the whole Regiment was discharged.
Francis Wilson
Worcester - April 14, 1818 -
Personally appeared the above named Francis Wilson Francis Wilson to the truth
of the above description by him subscribed - Edward Bangs, Esq; Judge Westminster, Worcester County, Massach'tts. 7866 Winslow Maynard Massachusetts Line Revolutionary Claim. Not found on the Massachusetts rolls. See letter to Hon. Jonathan Russell, No. 107, Feb. 4, 1823. See endorsement in the case of Benjamin Nichols. Wade's was not a Continental Reg. Rejected Mr. Adams, H.R.
I certify that Maj. Francis Wilson, the above witness, is known to me to be a credible and disinterested witness, and I understand has received his Certificate under the late Act of Congress. Edu. D. Bangs, Justice of the Peace. Nov. 23, 1818 -