Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,894, for John Keyes, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Keyes, John
NUMBER
S.40894
Mass
CONTENTS
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40894
INVALID.
Pay
File No. 40894
John Hedges Herz Herz
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 8 , Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3564.
Vermont Roll.
John Hayes, 4 Nixon's R t Sergeant. Massachusetts Line in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th of May 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th of October 1818 and sent to Dudley Chase Esq r Judge Randolph, Orange County Vermont.
Arrears to 4 th of September 1818. . . . . 31: 26: - Semi-annual P ee ending 4 th March 1819 - - - 48: -
3 m s - 24 24/31 - - 6:19:3 4/30 - - 1:6:6 31:25:9
X 79:26
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 19th March, 1818. }
3 years
Randolph, Orange Co. Pension Dept. Randolph.

Decl n of John Keyes Esq r of Randolph Orange Co. Vermont. 8 May

State of Vermont } Orange County ss }
On this 8 th day of May A D 1818. before me the sub- -scriber Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont personally appeared John Heyes aged 63 years resident in Randolph Orange County & State of Vermont, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late acts of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" That he the said John Heyes at the commencement of the American Revolution resided in Chelmsford State of Massachusetts & served in A D 1775 in the vicinity of Boston in the United States Army for eight months against the common enemy; That about the first of January A D 1776 he enlisted into the regular Army of the United States for one year & served the whole period of his said enlistment in Captain William H. Ballards Company, Col Asa Whitcomb Regiment Massachusetts Line and on the first of January A D 1777 that he was honourably discharged at Ticonderoga but he does not remember whether in writing or not; That he returned home and in A D 1777 he believes in March again enlisted, for three years in the Army of the United States; That he faithfully served in the Company at first commanded by Capt Lane, afterwards by Lieut Chambers, Col. Thos Nixons Regiment, Massachusetts Line & was honourably discharged by the S d Col. Nixon at a place about three miles above Peeks-kill which the soldiers called "Soldiers Fortune."

That he has unfortunately lost his said discharge; that his last aforesaid discharge took place on the 1 st of January A D 1780 & from that date, his said three years service being considered as having commenced the 1 st of January A D 1777 although he did not enlist until about the 1 st of March A D 1777; that he performed his aforesaid services during this said enlistment for one year as a corporal, & during his said enlistment for three years as a sergeant, in the War of the Revolution & on the Continental establishment; that he was in the Battle of Bunkers Hill, at the evacuation of Boston by the British, at the 2 d battle that preceded the capture of Burgoyne, & on the morning succeeding this last said battle one of his comrades had his head carried off by a cannon ball and a piece of his skull or jaw bone struck him, the said Heyes in the head & deprived him ever since of the sight of his right eye; that he was at the surrender of Burgoyne & sundry unimportant skirmishes; that he is a resident citizen of the United States & by reason of his reduced circumstances stands in need of the assistance of his country for support & that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to & declared before me, this 8 th of May A D 1878
Dudley Chase Ch'f Judge Sup. Court State Vermont
I Dudley Chase Chief Judge of the Supreme Court, State of Vermont, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Heyes did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration

against the common enemy for the term of three years as is herein before specified on the Continental Establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken I had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress.
Q Dudley Chase Col. Judge S. C. S. V.