Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33042, for Lemuel Macomber, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Macomber, Lemuel
S 33042
CONTENTS
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1960
Massachusetts.
Lemuel Macomber,
Capt Perkins } private,
Massachusetts line 1777 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 th of April , 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28. of July , 1818, and sent to the care of Edward H. Bangs, Esq; Westminster, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818. $: 37. 07.
Semi-annual ending
4 months, 19 / 30 $: 37. 07.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
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1960
Samuel Macomber New Salem
New Salem 1960
July 1960 New Salem
1920
Can
1910

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, began and holden at Greenfield, within and for the County of Franklin, on Monday the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, et de die in diem to the fifteenth day of the same month,
PERSONALLY appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Franklin, established as such by the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth, Samuel Macomber aged sixty two years, resident in New Salem in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
He enlisted March 3. 1777 at Boston for three years in the artillery company commanded by Capt W m Perkins & regiment under the command of Col. John Crane in the Massachusetts line & Abner Continental establishment. He was attached to the Brigade under the command of Gen. Henry Knox. That he served the said term of three year in the same company all the time, under the command of the said Perkins & one John Callender was his successor; and was honourably discharged at Morristown State of New Jersey on the 3 d day of March A.D. 1780. Was in the battles at Brandywine & Germantown at Red Bank Fort and at Butts hill Rhode Island. My certificate for a pension is numbered 1960. dated July 28. 1818. Original declaration made April 16. 1818

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 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 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 Macomber
Sworn to and declared, on the tenth day of July A. D. 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, E. Alvord CLERK.
I ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the aforesaid Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 fifty four dollars and twenty eight cents
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of July, 1820.
E. Alvord CLERK.

Schedule of the estate of Lemuel Macumber of New Salem in the county of Franklin & State of Massachusetts, applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of May 1. 1820
   1 Yearling Heifer 8.00 - 1 Calf 3. 2 Shoats 6.50  17.50    1 Horse waggon old & worn & Harness -  24.00    1 Axe 1.00 - Iron Shovel, 83 Breaking up Hoe, 25  2.08    Tire sets 1.08 - 6 Old Chairs 1.50 - 1 Case of Drawers 1.  3.58    1 Old Chest, 50 - Pewter 1.00 - Iron ware 2.00  3.50    Glass & Earthen Ware 1.00 - 2 Pails, 62 - Sundries 1.00  2.62    1 Old Leather Box - - - - -  1.00     $54,28   
Lemuel Macumber

33042 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33,042
Semmel Macomber
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 282
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Edward Bangs, Esq.; Judge, Westminster, Worcester County, Massach'tts
Lemuel Macomber, Col: Grane's reg't Art'y. Massachusetts line, Revolutionary claim.
found on the rolls.
Correct.

State of Massachusetts.
I, Lemuel Macomber, a Citizen of the United States, now resident at New Salem in the County of Franklin in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven, at Boston,
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time for the term of three years next following.
as a private in the artillery against the common enemy, without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to the company of William Perkins, when I first enlisted, and afterwards, in the company of Captain John Ballender, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Crane, and General Henry Knox's Division, in the Massachusetts line,
and that I left the service on or about the third day of March, A.D. 1780, and received a regular discharge at Morristown in New Jersey, which said discharge I have lost, and do not know the same is now in existence 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 Sixty years; I was in the engagements at Brandywine, at Germantown and Red Bank Fort; and at a battle in Rhode- Island, being detached under the command of General Sullivan, in the latter engagement;
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.
Lemuel Macomber
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this sixteenth 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 appeareth before me,
George C. C. C. Commissioner of the United States for the District of Columbia the abovenamed Lemuel Macomber
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.
with the seal of the Court.
Edw Bangs

J. Charles Frazar of Raynham, in the County of Bristol, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts formerly a Corporal in the Artillery in the service of the United States of America for a certain period during the war of the Revolution, do on oath testify and declare that Lemuel Macomber now of New Salem in the County of Franklin & Commonwealth aforesaid did serve in a Company of Artillery, in which Company I was a Corporal as aforesaid, and was commanded by Captain William Perkins, and afterwards by Captain Lieutenant John Colbender Colbender, and in a Regiment commanded by Colonel John Coane belonging to the Massachusetts line, and on the continental establishment. And I do know that he served in said Company during the war of the Revolution more than nine months, and to the best of my recollection from May 1779 to March 1780. And I further testify, and say that he received an honorable discharge from the service of the United States, under the hand of Major General Henry Knox, which discharge I have seen.
Charles Frazar
Bristol 20 th April 1818.
Then before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Bristol Commonwealth of Massachusetts came Charles Frazar and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true and true in all its parts.
Francis Baylies
Francis Baylies Justice of the Peace