Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33716, for Samuel Streeter, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Streeter, Samuel
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S 33716
CONTENTS

8894
Massachusetts.
Samuel Streeter,
of Plainfield, in the state of Mass ts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bond, of the Massach ts ia, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17. of March, 1819. and sent to Samuel Hinkley, judg. Northampton  in Massachusetts.
  Arrears to 4th of March, 1819.  81.57.    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Sept. 2. 1819.  48. " "    10 mos. \frac{8}{30} & \frac{4}{31} . }  $:129.57.    { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
sent to Northampton Mass ts
No. 1000 - 1818 - to be paid to Samuel Hinkley

Library of Congress
Washington 20 April 30
Free
Honble J. C. Calhoun
Secretary for the war department.
Washington
application of Samuel Sturtevant for a Union taken sealed up and forwarded by Samuel H. Wiselby, Judge

I Samuel Streater of Plainfield in the County of Hampshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts being sixty four years of age, testify and say, that about the last of April 1775 I enlisted as a private soldier in the Company of Capt. Mountain in the Regiment of Col. Leonard at Roxbury in said Massachussetts near Boston and I continued in service there and near Boston untill the first of January in the year of our Lord 1776 when my enlistment expired and I was honorably discharged, and I again enlisted in the same month of January as a private soldier in the company of Capt. Harris in the Regiment commanded by Col. Rand and in March following the Regiment was ordered to New York and I continued in said Company & Regiment until January 1777 when my second enlistment was out and I was honorably discharged at Fort George in the State of New York, having served in both campaigns nearly two years in the Continental establishment and in the Massachusetts Line. My first discharge I lost out of my possession, and my second discharge at the end of my second years service I brought home with me, and it was burnt with my other papers and effects when my house was burnt which was in the time of the revolutionary war, but the year I have forgotten - and that I am in reduced circumstances and stand in need of the assistance of my Country in support - April 29 th 1810 Samuel Streater
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss April 29 th 1810 Samuel Streater, came before me the Subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate of Will & being a Court of Record, within and for said County, and being carefully examined and cautioned to testify the whole truth made solemn oath that the foregoing declaration and deposition is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and from my personal knowledge of S t . Streater I have no doubt but his statement is true and that it appears to my satisfaction that he served in the revolutionary war as a private soldier as he has above stated against the common enemy & that he is in reduced and indigent circumstances, I also know to be true. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the day & year above said. Samuel H. Wilkey Judge of the Court aforesaid.

I Asa Street of Gennington in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Testify and say I well remember that Samuel Street signer of the within deponal deposition engaged as a private soldier in the first and second years of the Revolutionary war - that after he was ordered to march to the State of New York which was early in the Spring of the year 1776 and on his way there from Boston he called at his father's and spent one night with his Parents, and then went on to join the Regiment, and I understood at that time and at several times during his absence, that he was in the Army in the State of New York, and that in the winter following he returned home, his time of enlistment having expired - and I further say I have no doubt but his statement on the other side in his deposition is true - Asa Street April 29. 1815
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss April 29. 1815 Asa Street signer of the above deposition personally appears before me the subscriber and makes solemn Oath that the above deposition of him the said Asa is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth - Samuel H. Wilkey Judge of the Court. Probate within said County

Samuel Streeter application for a renewal of his Pension -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampshire ss.
Samuel Street of Plainfield in said County otherwise On the twenty eighth day of September in the year of our Lord 1822 Personally appeared before the Hon. Benjamin Russell Esquire now held at Northampton within said County in open Court, being a Court of Record in & through the Commonwealth aforesaid, the said Samuel Street being sixty eight years of age, and being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows. He enlisted into the Company of Col. Drown in the Regiment commanded by Col. Drown in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment, on the first day of February in the year 1776 at Cambridge near Boston in said Massachusetts for the term of one year & that he continued to serve in said Company & Regiment until the first of February in the year 1777 when he was regularly discharged from service at Fort George in the State of New York that he was in the battle near Chamblee in the Canada expedition in the same year. Having served one full year in said Company & Regiment, as will appear more fully in his original application for a Pension granted to him by the United States under the act of Congress of 18th March 1818 - his Certificate bearing the number of 8894 and that he has no other evidence in his possession of his service and discharge his Certificate bearing the number of 8894 and that he has a Wife aged and infirm and he has no other means of subsistence but his labour as a husbandman, or labourer, and has become unable to support himself & Wife by labour.
Samuel Street
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 any 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.
Samuel Street

We the subscribers of Plainfield in the County of Hampshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby appraise under Oath the following property belonging to Samuel Shute of said Plainfield viz
One Iron Kettle worth $4. 65 Iron Pot & two small kettles 2. 37
Table from 18 inches to 6 ft. Small fire stove & legs 1. 20 Kitchen Table 1. 00
Iron Chest 1. 17. Gold Chain 3. 62. one small Looking Glass . 69 pair small flasks . 62 1 foot Wheel 1. 00. Great wheel . 30 100 Saw 5. 00 ————— $23. 29
Samuel Shute
John Packard
W m W m Butler
Daniel Shute
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss September 27 th 1822 Personally appeared John Packard W m W m Butler and Daniel Shute all of Plainfield against subscription to the above schedule of the property and estate of the above named Samuel Shute known to me to be one and the same described schedule and made solemn Oath that the above is, in their opinion a just and perfect schedule of the property & estate of said Shute, and that they have appraised the same at the present true value thereof, as above stated.
Cyrus Joy In Pairs.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss
Seal
I Solomon Studdard Jr. Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the said Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire do hereby certify that Cyrus Joy whose signature is affixed to the within Subornment is one of the Justices of the Peace within the said County duly commissioned & qualified under the authority of this Commonwealth & that full faith & credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestation done in that capacity. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County this 28 th day of Sept r A D 1822
H. S. Studdard Jr. Clerk

I Solomon Stoddard Jr. Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly co- pied 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 twenty three dollars, and twenty nine cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court in this first day of October A D 1822
S Stoddard Jr
Clerk of the Court for the County of Hampshire -

33716 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33,716
Samuel Street
Pr. Rev. Inc
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 397
[Arrangement of 1870.]

F. Green Esq. Deposition

United States,
Massachusetts District
I Francis Green of Boston in the same District of lawful age testify and say. That in the year 1776. I was ordered by sergeant in a company commanded by Captain Harris and afterwards by Captain Frow in the Massachusetts regiment commanded by Colonel Bond. and afterwards was raised in a company commanded by Captain Hatch in the same regiment, and well know Samuel Streeter to have served as a private soldier in the company commanded first by Harr. is and afterwards by Frow in the same regiment. and I have served more than nine months in that company during that year.
Francis Green
Subscribed - Boston February 17 th 1819. Personally appeared the above named Francis Green and made oath to the truth of the statement by him above subscribed before me, and I certify the said Francis Green to be in my opinion a credible witness - Stephen Hopper for Paris -
It is said that Francis Green Esq r . The above deponent holds some office under the Government. and that his signature will be known in the Secretarys Office at Washington - J. Winslow, Judge

Oct 4
File
Oct 28 Dec 18 1861
Ms. A. 9. 2. 134 1
Hon. L. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington

M aj Fuller's Deposition

Middlesex ss -
I Nathan Fuller of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age, testify and say, that I was Major of the Massachusetts regiment, commanded by Colonel Bond, in the year 1776 - and will draw Samuel Streeter, to have served during that year, as a private soldier, in the company commanded by Harris, and afterwards by Captain Frow, in the same regiment, and to have served in said company more than nine months at one time, in the same year.
Nathan Fuller
Newton Feb y 18 th 1819
Middlesex ss -
Personally appeared the above named Nathan Fuller whom I certify to be in my opinion a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the statement by him above subscribed.
Before me
Newton Feb y 18 th 1819
Josiah Bacon Jus Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. I Abraham Wylow Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the county of Middlesex, do certify that Josiah Bacon is a Justice of the peace acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, & his name subscribed to the foregoing certificate is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, this eighteenth day of February 1819.
(Abraham Wylow)