Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33744, for Enoch Stocker, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Stocker, Enoch.
8 33 744.
CONTENTS

6,474 Massachusetts
Enoch Stockwell Captain Private 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th of February and sent to Miss Sarah Davis Esq. Boston Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 — 39.20 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 8 Mar — 48. Amount  87.20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Rev'd  30.20 Int'd  28.12 Diff.  13.88 Cash  7.

Respectfully yours to Hon. Bigelow Esq. J. L. ... October 18th. 1840

No 281
Enoch Stocker,
Pensioner
correct by rolls.
Serria admitted

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 10 January 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Enoch Stocker , by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
J. D. Dyer
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss:
Boston June 19 A. D. 1875
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Ebenezer Sleeper 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.
} Judge of the District Court U.S. Massachusetts District.

United States
Mass. Dist.
Enoch Stocker of South Reading, a resident citizen of the United States, makes oath, that he served in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment as a private soldier about three years, first in Capt. Allen's company (Col. Bailey's Regiment), afterwards I was drafted into Capt. Alder's company of light infantry in Gen. Wayne's line to take Stony Point, where I received a wound in my right thigh, for which wound I rec d a pension according to the certificate, a copy of which is hereto annexed & which pension I hereby relinquish. By reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support.
Witness J. Townsend.
Enoch
Stocker
Mark.
Massachusetts District.
Boston 8. April 1818
Sworn to before me
M c Davie notary public Mass. Dist.

160
Enoch Stocker
b. 1774.
March 1819.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice , and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Enoch Stocker , resident in South Reading in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 6474, now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Enoch Stocker , late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the egth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . “Given at the War Office of the United States, this twelfth day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen . [L.S.]
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
4 Said Stocker has no estate or income at all and is now indebted to Capt. Thomas Emerson for board in the sum of thirty six dollars beside Physician bills. Said Stocker served in the army of the Revolution in manner and form as appears by his declaration and documents on file in the Secretarys office and was a former pensioner for wounds received during said service. He is more than sixty four years of age was once a shoemaker, has since been able to labour but little as consequence of his said wounds.

and for seven months has not been able to labour at all in consequence of sickness and is now wholly destitute of the means of support.                      Enoch + Stocker 11 March
Leslie S Minot

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot , a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
11 I, Enoch Stoeher do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Enoch Stoeher March
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Enoch Stoeher took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Stephen Minot , Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto 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
nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July, 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow 30

53744

THIS certifies that Enoch Lockwood a Solouan inhabitant of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who belonged to the Massachusetts Key-Stone Battery commanded by Col. Bailey and in the service of the United States of America , aged seventy five , as appears by Certificates lodged in the Pension-Office, having been examined by me, is found to be disabled in said service by a musket ball in his right thigh .
And I do hereby certify that he is entitled to receive Twenty Dollars per Month, commencing on the 1st of March 1880 agreeably to the Resolution of Congress, of the 7th of June, 1785, and to an Act of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of the 17th March, 1786.
GIVEN under my hand, at BOSTON, this fourth day of November in the year of our Lord, 178 7 and in the year of the Independence of the United States of America.
John Lucas Commissary of Pensions, etc.
Copy attested William Lloyd Secy of War

33 744 Very INVALID.
File No. 33, 744
Enoch Stocker
Li Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 397
[ Attachment of 1870. ]