Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33711, for William Starr, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Starr, William
S 33711
CONTENTS

11.266 Q
Massachusetts
William Starr
of Deerfield in the state of Mass ts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradley of the Connecticut line, for the term of Three Years
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 th of January 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of May 1819 and sent to Jonathan Leavitt Esq r Greenfield Massachusetts
  Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819.  12.64    emi-anl. all'ce ending Sep. 1819.  48.00    No. \frac{12}{31}  $60.64  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

33 711 Revg INVALID.
File No. 33 711
William Starr
Pr Rev MV
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 397
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Please Hon. Leavitt, Esq. Greenfield, Mass. Recd. Jan'y 29 th 1819.
William Starr Private 77- 3 Years Bradley's Cont. Regt. dis. 18 th Jan'y 1819 in Roll Admitted

District of Massachusetts, ss.
ON this eighteenth day of January 1819 before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in the State of Massachusetts, which Circuit includes the Counties of Worcester, Hampshire, Hampden, Franklin, and Berkshire, personally appears William Starr a citizen of the United States, aged Sixty two years, resident in the Town of Deerfield in the County of Franklin
in the said District, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:"
That he the said William Starr , in the spring of 1777 , enlisted in Middletown in the state of Connecticut , in the company commanded by captain Sarah of the Connecticut Line that he Col. Philip B. Bradley was continued to serve in that Company for some time, when in consequence of a new arrangement, went into the third company, fifth Connecticut Regiment of that Col. Bradley that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the of January 1780 when he was discharged from service at Monmouth in the state of New Jersey
that he was in the battles of
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. And no pension has ever been allowed him by the laws of the United States. Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid,
subscribed by him William Starr Jon d Leavitt, Judge
To the Secretary of the Department of War.
I, the subscriber Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Starr did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy: and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court aforesaid, this eighteenth day of January A. D. 1819 —
Mr. other certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Starr, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support Jon d Leavitt, Judge

William Starr I.F. 33711
Part of Sgt's - Warrant missing when found on Nov. 1, 1910. M. Rice

To William Starr of the 3 d Company 5 th Connecticut Regiment of Foot in the Service of the United States of America.
G R E E T I N G.
R EPOSING especial Trust and Confidence in your Prudence and good Conduct, I do, by these Presents, appoint you 1 st Serjeant to the 3 d Company in said Reg t in the Service of the United States:---you are, therefore, careful and diligently to discharge and performing all Manner of Things thereinunto belonging: require all Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers, under your Orders, as their Serjeant And you are to observe and conform, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from me, or any other, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in pursuance of the which this shall be your sufficient Warrant.
Given, at New Milford  fifteenth of November one Hundred and Seventy Eight
Geo. Bradley Col d