Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,520, for Jacob Putnam, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Putnam, Jacob
S. 33,520
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll 1822
Jacob Putnam Private
H. Jackson's Reg t 1701. 1 year. In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 18 of April 1811
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of July 1811 and sent to Hon Sam Putnam Salem. Mass s
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 Semi-annual allowance ending
4 mos 17/30th $ 35.50
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent Oct r 18 th 1822 to Andrew Valen. Mass s

Jacob Putnam
July 1818
Can 625 per 1820
[Large stylized signature or initials, possibly 'C' or 'M']
[Faint vertical text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
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, Jacob Putnam resident in Marblehead - in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1.822 - 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, Jacob Putnam - 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 eighteenth day of April - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
***** "Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixteenth day of July - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . 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, Real Estate.
1/4 of an old dwelling house and garden adjoining, situate in Marblehead valued at one hundred and twenty five dollars. This is held in right of his wife, to whom and to whose heirs it was willed by her mother. $125.00  Personal Estate.
  1 birch bureau $3 - 9 old chairs $2.50 5.50   1 four foot table $2.50 - 1 pine table $1 - knives & forks $1 4.50   Pots & kettles for family use $1.75 - 1 old tea kettle 50 2.25   1 looking-glass $3 - 2 small d. $2 - Handiuns shovel &c. $2.50 - 7.50 7.50   Crockery ware $2.50 - 2 iron candlesicks 50 cts. - 1 Brass D. 50 3.50   1 pair bellows 75 - 6 Razors $2.25 3.00   $26.25   125.00   Whole amount of property - $151.25 
He is in his fifty seventh year, by occupation a Barber is very infirm, and has almost entirely lost the use of one leg

by reason of a rheumatic swelling, or lameness with which he has been so much afflicted for several years past as to deprive him of the means or health to labour for a great proportion of his time. He has a wife who is in her fifty sixth year, and a widowed daughter aged Lydia Proctor aged thirty three, Elizabeth aged eighteen & Mary Ann aged fifteen, and two twin-grand-children viz. Moses and Samuel Proctor aged sixteen all of whom he has to maintain. Has no income except  but what he gets by his occupation, which does not exceed _____ per annum. And from his increasing lameness and infirmity, in all probability will very shortly be unable to labour at all.
Jacob Putnam.
Sworn to & declared before
W m Wetmore, Judge within named.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. William Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Jacob Putnam 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.
Jacob Putnam
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Jacob Putnam took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, 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 one hundred fifty one — dollars twenty five cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D.
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Jacob Putnam -
18 Apr.
Not on Prob.
D. H.
adm d

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Be it remembered, That Jacob Putnam of Marblehead in the County of Essex in the Commonwealth aforesaid, doth make upon oath the following DECLARATION , to wit,
That He the said Jacob Putnam was enlisted as a private Soldier in Capt. Woodbridges Company of the 4 th Reg t . Col. Shepard Commander, in Col. John Glover Brigade, in the month of May seventeen hundred and eighty for six months. In January seven- teen hundred and eighty one he re-enlisted in Capt. Larned's Company of the same Brigade & Regiment and continued therein until the ninth of October seventeen hundred and eighty three, when he was honorably discharged at West Point, and my discharge was signed by General Henry Knox & Col. Henry Jackson, which s d discharge is lost by time & accident. And that the last two years and nine months of his service was upon the Continental establishment - That he is fifty four years of age -
That the Declarant is infirm ; that from his reduced circumstances in life he is now in need of assistance from his country for support ; and that he hereby

AFFIDAVIT.
I John Gasswell Jr  William Greenough of Middlesex in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, Massachusetts do on oath depose and testify,
That I was a Soldier in the same Brigade Regiment some time with the aforesaid Jacob Putnam, and well know that he served in the American Revo- lutionary war I presume the whole time he has stated in his foregoing "affidavit" John Gasswell

ADDITIONAL
PROOF.
I, Nathaniel Stacy , of Middlesex in the County of ESSEX , in the COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHU- SETTS , Solomon do on solemn oath testify and depose, as follows:—
That I well know Jacob Putnam , who sub- scribed the annexed Declaration, that the said Putnam served as a Soldier in the American Rev- olutionary war, in January 1781 he enlisted into Capt. Laurens Company Col. Shepard Reg't and Glover Brigade, and that he continued in s d service until October seventeen hundred & eighty three, and was discharged at West Point. s d service was upon the Continental establishment.
Nathaniel Stacy
Essex J r . June 23 d . 1818. Then Nathaniel Stacy personally subscribed and made solemn oath to the above written affidavit.
Before me Abel Root Henry Root

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
I, SAMUEL PUTNAM, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid, hereby certify, that the aforementioned Deponents, John Garwood jr. & Nathl. Henry
are credible and disinterested witnesses; and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Declarant served in the Revolutionary Army on the continental establishment against the common enemy more than nine months at one period of continued service; and I further certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Declarant is in reduced circumstances in life, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 30 th day of June Anno Domini 1818.
S. Putnam Just S. J. Court of Mass?
I, Ichabod Tucker , Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court aforesaid, do certify, that the Hon. Samuel Putnam is a Judge of said Court, that the above is his signature, that the seal affixed is the seal of said Court, that the within named Ralph H. French Esq. who has certified the aforewritten depositions, is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Essex, duly empowered and qualified to administer oaths.
Ichabod Tucker Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
On this _____ day of April,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before me Samuel Putnam
22 years
one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid
the aforementioned Jacob Putnam  of Gloucester and in my presence severally subscribed and made solemn oath to the aforeswritten Declaration and AFFIDAVIT , by them respectively made as aforesaid:—And it appearing to my satisfaction, that the aforementioned Jacob Putnam served more than NINE MONTHS, to wit, from the  January  day  A. D. 1781 to the ninth day of October  A. D. 1783 at one period of the Revolutionary War, on the Continental Establishment, against the common enemy, I do hereby certify the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the Department of War.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the Court aforesaid, at Marblehead , this eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
S. Putnam Just S. J. Court of Mass ts .

Isaac Putnam
18 Apr
Noton South S. H.
Adm. S.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss
I Ichabod Tucker clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said State in & for the county of Essex, do certify that the Hon Samuel Putnam is a judge of said Supreme Judicial court, that the within signature is his proper hand - writing & that the seal hereto affixed is the Seal of said court
Salem April 20 1818. Atty. Ichabod Tucker, his
not from his county for a proctor.

33 520 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33, 520
Jacob Putnam Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 329
[Arrangement of 1870.]