Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31228, for Jacob Marshall, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Marshall, Jacob
S. 31228
CONTENTS

6086
Massachusetts
Jacob Marshall
of Dunksbury in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Harmer of the left commanded by Col. Gerrish in the Massachusetts line for 14 months & 18 days
State Cont.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 48 Dollars 64 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Feb. 1832 and sent to James Dana Esq. Present
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 77.96 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 24.32
$97.28
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Book D
Daniel Boyd Clerk Vol. 2 Page 97

[Arrangement of 1890.]

Declaration
Jacob Marshall
Leeksbury
Please to send the Receipt to Sam Davis Esq. Lynton Ms
19476
Pwals
14 Months & 18 days
Alm
Map $48.64
Farmer Gerrish
James Dana Esq.
Present

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Middlesex
ss.
A.D. 1832.
On this seventeenth
day of August  Probate
Concord
personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Concord in the Commonwealth within and for the County of Middlesex
aforesaid
Jacob Marshall of Heiko  in  Concord aged 72 years
Who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say
1 That he engaged to go into service for three months and enlisted in the Company of Capt. Edward Taiman in Adolph's Btl. near New Bedford, Isaac Babbitt was a Sergeant and the Company was in Col. Ferris's Regt. of Mass. Forces he joined his Company in the neighborhood of Boston and there did duty guarding the ships and the publick property until he served his term of three months and was discharged.
2 In the same year Ad 1778 he engaged to go to Rhode Island for three months  six months and enlisted in the Company of Capt. John Hunt of Chatham , his Lt. was Warren and his Company in Col. Wadsworth's Regt. of Mass. Forces. he returned to Rhode Island with his Company and there did duty till he completed his term of six months and was discharged.
3 In Ad 1780 after his return from Rhode Island he agreed to go into the Continental service as directed by Ensign Benjamin Heine (lately Genl. of Wethersfield ) in Col. Michael Safford's Regt. of the Mass. Line and there he served for the space of six months the term of his engagement when he received a discharge. but he has long since lost it not deeming a paper which it was necessary for him to preserve worth much care.
14. No.

He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever except, the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Sworn to and Jacob Marshall mark 9
In presence of James Davis J.P. Chase Clerk of the Court
Commonwealth of Massachusetts we Jacob Coggin a Clergyman residing in the town of Swansea in the county of Middlesex and Peter Hunt of the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Marshall who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be seventy years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Jacob Coggin Before me James Davis Justice of the Peace  Peter Hunt for all the Counties in said Commonwealth.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Rev. Jacob Coggin who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Trumbull and that Peter Hunt is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. P. Chase Clerk of the Court of James Davis President I do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings, of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Jacob Marshall for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at office this seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two
Isaac Fisher

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex, to wit,
At the Court of Probate begun and holden at Concord within and for the County of Middlesex on the seventh day of August A. D. 1832. On the application of Jacob Marshall claiming to be a Soldier of the Revolution, the following Interrogatories were propounded to him to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer, I was born at Chelmsford Ms on the 10 th day of June A.D. 1762.
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer,
I have no family record but there is a record
of my age on Chelmsford records
3. Did you ever receive a system discharge from service? Ans? I did not receive any such discharge from the State service, but did receive a discharge from the Continental service as I have stated in my declaration.
4. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? Answer,
When I went into service I was living in Chelmsford, from there I went to Tewksbury about 42 years since and now live in Tewksbury
5. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom? Answer,
All my services were voluntary and of my own accord
6. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer, I saw Genl. Washington at West Point, and I saw Genl. Arnold at West Point
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer,
Rev. Jacob Coggin - Capt. Peter Hunt, William Rogers Esq. George Brown & Jew Clark 2 d Selectmen of Tewksbury. in presence of Jacob Marshall mark & signature James Dana sworn to it J. M. May. Prob S

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Nov. 28 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Jacob Marshall is borne on "a pay roll of pay due to Capt. Edward James company, in the regiment of Gaus in the service of the United States of America, doing duty on Bunker hill, commanded by Col. Jacob Gausk" for the space of 3. months from the 20 th of February to the 20 th of May 1776—
Again, his name is borne on "A Muster Roll of the 6. months men, which was raised in 1780 by the town of Shelburne, to join the Continental army at the North river, agreeable to a resolve of the authority of this Commonwealth of Massachusetts" for the space of 6. months and 14. days. Time to return home included, from the 30 th of June. 1780. Date of Discharge. January 2 d

Again, the name of Jacob Marshall is borne on "A pay roll of the states pay of capt. Joseph Boynton's company in Col Mades regiment in the service of the United States at Rhode Island 1776. made up to January 1777 p." for the space of 5 months and 22 days time to return home included, from the 1 st of July 1776.—
Again Jacob Marshall is borne on a Pay roll for the six months pay from the town of Shelburne 1780 for the space of 6 months and 3 days from the 30 th of June 1780. Edward D Bangs, Secy
Jacob Marshall

Affidavits of John Brosly in the case of Jacob Marshall

I John Crosley of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy two years, do depose and say, that I served in the war of the Revolution as by my Declaration on file in the Pension Office, will appear: And I do further testify and declare that I well knew Jacob Marshall of Stockbridge who
served as a Soldier in that war, that he was a private Soldier, in the Company of Edward Framer in Colo. Regiment, in which Company, I also served.
In AD 1778 I enlisted in Capt. Framer's Company and (as I believe on the 20 th of February) marched to Boston and there did duty part of the time of three months (for which I enlisted), part of the time at Dorchester, and part at Bunker Hill, during this period I well remember Jacob Marshall and knew that he joined the Company on his way from Stockbridge to Boston and that he served with me, the whole time and as well as I can recollect we were both discharged on the 20 th of May 1778. —
John Crosley
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Middlesex to wit October 13 th . . . . . AD. 1832.
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for all the Counties in said Commonwealth John Crosley . . . .
who subscribed the above deposition and made solemn Oath, that the same is just and true in all its particulars, according to the best of his knowledge and belief. Sam l Dana