Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39, 770, for Nathan Jackson, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Jackson, Nathan
S. 39,770
CONTENTS

10.812
Vermont
Nathan Jackson
born in the state of Vermont who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 6 years 1777-
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of May 1819 and sent to Judge J Doolittle Middlebury, Addison Co. Vt.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. Wm 3 8/31. 90. 6 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1819. 48 -
$138.6
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued under law 1 st May 1820
Notes here in sent to Sam Dwyer Esq.
Middlebury Vermont Oct 22 1820

Matthew Jackson.
6 W. 8th
Vermont
the Clerk
Continue
10812 Cornwall
May 19
Mortgage sent on 22 July 1820

STATE OF VERMONT.
COUNTY OF ADDISON, ss.—On this Thirteenth day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record (having the power of fine and imprisonment) for the said County Nathan Jackson aged fifty eight years, resident in Cornwall 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 in March 1777 for three years & served in Capt. Daniels Company, Colonel Nixon's regiment General Nixon's brigade of the Massachusetts line, for the period aforesaid; that just before that time expired he enlisted for during the war, and served in Capt. Smith's company in the same regiment until he was discharged on the 9th day of June 1783:—
that the date of his original declaration is the 28 th — day of March 1818, the number of his pension certificate is 10,812 .
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.
The are (during co-occupation) of fifty acres of land in the Town of Cornwall, the property of my wife, which descended to her from her father. (Valued by Court at 15 Dollars per year)
  4 Common kitchen chairs 67   1 iron kettle, broken 30   1 Tea kettle 75   4 Tea cups & saucers 10   1 Tea pot 17   6 Knives & Forks 30   4 bowls 25   1 Axe 75   1 Shovel 50   2 Old hoes 50   1 scythe, 50 lds & 20. rake, 10 80   1 old sickle, 25 l. old fire shovel 25   374 
his Nathan Jackson mark.

And the said declarant, on his oath of said further states that he is by occupation a farmer, and is not, except from age, disabled from pursuing that occupation; that he has a wife and children residing in his family, the names of which are, Waitstill, a daughter aged 17 years, Esther Sackett, aged 14 years, Laura aged 11 years, Bethsheba aged 7 years, George Washington aged 5 years, Sarah Freeman aged two years - that his eldest daughter Waitstill, by reason of a lame arm, has occasioned him great expense, and is not able to assist much in the maintenance of his family, that none of the others, on account of their ages, are able to afford much assistance for that purpose: that by reason of the sickness of his wife and family, he has contracted debts to a considerable amount, a part of which he is now confined to the liberties of the jail in said County, and therefore prevented from residing with his family upon cultivating the land mentioned in his schedule. Sworn to & declared on the 13 th day of June 1820, before the Court aforesaid,
Samuel Swift Clerk
I, SAMUEL SWIFT, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the 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 Five Dollars and 74 Cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 3 rd day of July 1820.
Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison.

Nathan Jackson
Declaration de vt
77 war
Nixon's Chaps Regt
Found on Roll in Capt Daniels Comp. J. Nixon Regt

I Nathan Jackson of Cornwall in the county of Addison and State of Vermont, on oath do declare & say, that I served in the war of the Revolution, in the army of the United States on the continental establishment against the common enemy, for the term of six years four months and nine days. That is to say I enlisted into the service of the United States in the year AD 1777. in the Company of Capt. Samuel Craggan, in the Regiment of Col. --- Nixon - and Genl. John Nixon, Brigade. in the Massachusetts line - for the period of three years, which period of service I faithfully performed, at the white plains, the Highlands, & West-point - chiefly at West-point - and at the expiration of the period of my enlistment as above stated - I again enlisted into said service, for the period of during the war, which service I faithfully performed, and at the close of the war in AD 1783, I received an honourable discharge, and left the service Cornwall March 28 1818 Nathan Jackson mark
State of Vermont Middlebury March 28 th 1818 Personally appeared Nathan Jackson, known to me, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration and statement by him subscribed Before me Joel Doolittle Judge Supreme Court

State of Vermont
Joel Doolittle Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont. do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Nathan Jackson did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings, testimony had and taken before me to the Secretary of the Department of War, in order to his the said Nathan Jackson, obtaining 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," pursuant to the directions of said Act.
Joel Doolittle
Joel Doolittle Judge as aforesaid, on full and satisfactory proof. Do certify that the said Nathan Jackson is in indigent reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for subsistence.
Joel Doolittle

State of Vermont Addison Jo. 5
I Darius Matthews Clerk of the supreme Court of the state of Vermont within and for the county of Addison Do certify that the Hon. Joel Doolittle is a judge of the said Supreme Court and that the fore- going is his signature.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Supreme Court this 14 th day of August A.D. 1818
Darius Matthews

39770
INVALID.
Key
File No. 39770
Nathan Jackson
Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 257
[Arrangement of 1870.]

U. S. Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir -
APR 22 1884
The regent of
Evansville Indiana D.A.R. directs me to apply to your office for records of the service of my Grandfather Nathaniel Jacobs of the Massachusetts Continental Line who was granted a pension in June of 1823 - at the age of seventy two -
Any information which you can give me of

This ancestor will be most gratefully received and fully appreciated -
Hopeing for an early reply I remain
Mrs. Edward M. Bush 816 Riverside Ave Evansville Ind -
Saturday April the fifteenth Nineteen hundred Four.