Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10913, for Jedediah Jewett, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Jewett, Jedediah
S. 10913
CONTENTS
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45211.
Massachusetts
Jedediah Gervett
Middletown the State of (Mass) who was a Private in the Company, commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. Robinson in the (Mass) line for 12 (Months)
Inscribed on the Roll of (Mass) at the rate of 1 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of March 1833 and Grant (Mass)
Levis Pepperell (Mass)
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $ 69.99
Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 (March 33) 23.33
$ 93.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by S. L. P. Clerk Book D. Vol. 25 Page 60.
Dup. Cert. of Dec. 18. 35 Sent to Hon. S. Hoar, H.R.
Mid. Story 99

No 5520
Jedediah Jewell
Providence
14 Months
at
$4666
Jas Lewis Esq.
Pittsfield Ms.

BRIEF in the case of  Jedediah Jewett of the County of Middlesex  in the State of Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 78 years  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.     In 1775 — 8 — Private Col. Robinson, Capt. Nutting   "77 Sep. — 3 — Volunt. Col. Read, Capt. Hosley   "78 Sep. — 3 — drafted Col. Coyswell, Capt. Sangley  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Bunker hill & surrender of Burgoyne  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Pepperell  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Depositions  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin Bell Examining Clerk.

I, Moses Blood of Pepperell in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts upwards of Eighty two years of age testify and say that I was a soldier in the Independent Regiment of Pepperell at Cambridge in the eight months service in a Company commanded by Capt. John Nutting in the Regiment of Col. William Prescott and that I was in the battle of Bunker's Hill at Charlestown, and continued in the service, during eight months.
Moses Blood
Middlesex ss. (Perhevel) July 21 st 1832. I, Moses Blood appeared the above named Moses Blood and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed before me the subscriber, and I hereby certify that said Blood is a man of truth and entitled to credit.
John Waltons Jr. Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Middlesex ss. - I, Isaac Fiske Register or Clerk of the Court of Probate for the County of Middlesex do certify, that John Walton is a Justice of the Peace within & for the said County & his name set to the foregoing certificates are his own proper signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this seventeenth day of August A. D. 1832. Isaac Fiske

Thomas Lawrence of Pepperell in the County Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts upwards of Seventy years of age testify and say, that Dedrick Jewett of said Pepperell, with whom I have been acquainted ever since I was a boy was a fellow soldier with me in the revolutionary war in the three months service in the year 1777. He belonged to the same company with me. Our Captain was James Hasley of Lawrence and in said County of Middlesex. Nathaniel Estlin of said Pepperell was the Lieutenant & Col. Reed was the Colonel of the regiment as I believe. In the truth of words Lawrence not.
Middlesex ss. Pepperell July 15 th 1832 Then per- sonally appeared before me the particular Thomas Law- rence and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed; & I certify that said Lawrence is a person of truth and veracity & entitled to credit John Walton Jr. of the County of Middlesex in & for said County of Middlesex

I Ebenezer Ball of Townsend in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in my seventy sixth year of age, testify that I am well acquainted with Jedediah Jewett who formerly lived in Townsend and well remember that he served three months in the Revolution army at Boston in the year A.D. 1775. I think he was in Col. - Cookson's Regiment I remember the Adjutant's name was Flink. I remember that he was stationed on Fort Hill so called - I should think he is nearly eighty years old I recollect he was about three or four years older than I was when we were boys - Ebenezer Ball
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. Augt. 14. 1832. Then personally appeared the above named Ebenezer Ball and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him sub- scribed. And I hereby certify that the said Ebenezer Ball is a man of intelligence and a creditable witness - Aaron Keyes Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. I Isaac Fiske Register on the of the Court of Probate for the County of Middle- do certify that Aaron Keyes is a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County and his name set to the foregoing certificate is his own proper signature - In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this seventeenth day of August A. D. 1832 Isaac Fiske

State of Massachusetts } p. On this seventeenth day of August County of Middlesex } in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before Samuel P.P. Fay Judge of the Court of Probate in said County now sitting Jedediah Jewett a resident of Pepperell in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts aged seventy eight years 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 7. 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated - That in September 1774 being then a resident of Townsend in said County he became a volunteer in a company of minutemen commanded by Capt. James Hosley of which company Richard Wren was Lieutenant and Daniel Adams Ensign. That on the 19 th of April 1775, the day of Concord fight, he marched to Concord from Townsend to Concord thence to Cambridge that two or three days after he enlisted with Capt. John Nutting for eight months & served under the following named officers viz. Col. William Prescott Lieut. Col. Robinson Major Henry Woods field officers - Capt. John Nutting - Nathl. Lakin Lieutenant and Ensign John Maslin Company officers - That he was in Bunker Hill battle June 17. 1775. That he was dismissed at the expiration of his eight months enlistment January 1. 1776 That he lived in said Townsend till September 1777 when he entered the service again as a volunteer under the following named Company officers to wit Capt. James Hosley & Lieut. Nathaniel Santell in Colonel Read's Regt That he was at Bennington in Vt. afterwards at Fort Edward and at Saratoga at the taking of Burgoyne and his troops & that he was one of the guard that escorted them to Charlestown in Massachusetts - That he was in the service at this time three months -

About the middle of September 1778 says that he was drafted for three months to go to Rhode Island - That about a week afterwards he was ordered to Boston where he went immediately - That he was stationed near Fort Hill in Boston & served there as a guard in Col. Cogswell's Regiment under the following named company officers, Capt. Edmund Langley Lieut. Weeks & Ensign Panken, till the expiration of the three months which was about January 1. 1779 when he was dismissed that he has no documentary evidence of either term of service having never received a written discharge
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a 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 Jedediah Jewett
We James Howe a clergyman residing in said Pepperell and Asa F. Lawrence of the same Pepperell hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jedediah Jewett who has subscribed to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion - Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
J. Howe A. F. Lawrence
and the said Court thereupon proceeded to propound the following interrogatories which he answered under oath as follows

1 st Where and in what year were you born? Answer I was born in Pepperell aforesaid April 22 nd A. D. 1754 -
2 nd Have you any record of your birth and where is it? Answer The time of my birth is recorded in the Town Clerk's office in said Pepperell
3 rd Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer I lived in Townsend in said County of Middlesex when called into service since the Revolution I have lived in Townsend & Shirley in said County of Middlesex in Attleborough in the County of Bristol in Mass. and I now live in said Pepperell
4 How were you called into the service , were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom?
Answer I entered the service each of the two first terms above mentioned as a volunteer - the third and last term I was drafted.
5 State the names of some of the regular officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer I have stated the same as fully as I now recollect in my declaration.
6 Did you ever receive a discharge from the service; if so by whom was it given & what has become of it?
Answer I never did receive any discharge -
7 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution?
Answer Eli Baynton Benj m F. Jewett Samuel Tucker Moses Blood & others Isaac Jewett

and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that after the investigation of the matter, and 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 it appears to them that Jedediah Jewett , James Howe, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Pepperell aforesaid and that Asa F. Lawner who has also signed the same of said Pepperell is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. P. O'Neil Clerk
I Isaac Fiske Register of the court of Probate in a for said County of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jedediah Jewett of Pepperell aforesaid for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two -
Isaac Fiske

Rehrung
10.913 INVALID.
File No. 10.913
Jedediah Smith Br. Rev. Br.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. a , Page 192
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dec 15.
Medical Faculty University of Pittsburgh 4541
Comm. directs a Certifi- cate to be signed at the William J. Martin Dec 18 35
H. Hoar H.R.

I Jedediah Jewett of Pepperell in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty one years testify & say that my name is on the pension Roll of the army in the State of Massachu- setts - That I am the identical Jedediah Jewett named in an original certificate which was issued in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7 th June, 1832 - I further testify & say that on the second day of September 1835 I went from said Pepperell to Boston to receive the last semiannual payment which by said certificate became due on the 4 th of said September - That on my ar- rival at Boston I discovered that I had lost said original pension certificate & that from that time to the present I have been unable to find the same - That by said cer- tificate I was entitled to a pension of forty six Dollars & sixty six cents per annum , on account of my services rendered to the United States during the Revolutionary War - Jedediah Jewett
State of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss
Be it known, That on the second day of November eighteen hundred & thirty five, before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County personally appear- ed the above named Jedediah Jewett and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed - I further certify that I am personally acquainted with said Jewett. That in my opinion the above statement is entitled to full credit - That I assisted said Jewett in making out the necessary papers & in procuring the above mentioned original pension certificate & that as his Attorney I have received his semiannual payments at the pension office in Boston in every instance I believe from the date of said certificate up to the 4 th day of March now last past
Asa F. Lawrence Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the F. Lawrence within named is a Justice of the Peace with and for the County of Middlesex & Com- monwealth of Massachusetts —
Samuel H. Hearn —
15. Dec r 1833.

Jedediah Jewett Application for Pension
5520

No 5520 Jedediah Jewett
Lat Lewis Esq. Pepperill Mr.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Jedediah Jewett which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes. VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes.

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? yes
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.