Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,382, for William Shaw, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Shaw William
S 37,382
CONTENTS

13,021
R
District of Maine
William Shaw
of Bristol in the state of Dist Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Map ts line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of July 1819 and sent to Benjamin Hatcher Esq. Thomaston Dist Maine
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar 1819.  82.89    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Apr 1819.  48.00    10 Mo. 2 1/2      50 31        $130.89  
18/20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

W m Shaw
Sept. 1819
3.621

State of Maine.
I Nathl. Coffin Clerk, for the County of Lincoln of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open 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, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is Nothing dollars and cents ; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is Nothing dollars and cents .
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twelfth day of July 1820.
Nathl. Coffin Clerk of said Court for the County of Lincoln
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.
William Shaw
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz :
No property either real or personal & no family
William Shaw
Lincoln ss. July 11 th 1820.
Subscribed sworn to and declared both the oath & declaration the day & year above written before me
Ebenezer Thatcher a judge of the C.C.P.
Lincoln ss. Circuit Court of Common
2 d Eastern Circuit
Plea July 12. 1820
Rev. S. Tilia Attest Natl. Coffin Clk
Copy. Attest
Nat. Coffin Clerk

State of Maine.
Lincoln
 COUNTY, ss.
ON this eleventh day of July , 1820, personally appeared before Ebenezer Thatcher as Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset , being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, William Shaw aged about 88 years, resident in Bristol in the County of Lincoln within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain James Lawrence and Regiment commanded by Colonel Gouvion of the Sappers & Miners of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years with said Sappers & Miners nearly, a little part of said time he was in Col. Brooks Regt. from which he was transferred to said Sappers & Miners was in the three last years of the war & was at the taking of Cornwallis at Yorktown
that his original declaration was made before Judge Thatcher on the twenty fourth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 13621 . And I, the said William Shaw do further 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. William Shaw
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz :
No property either real or personal & no family
William Shaw
Lincoln ss. July 11 th 1820.
Subscribed. Sworn to and declared both the oath & declaration the day & year above written before me
Ebenezer Thatcher a Judge of the C.C.P. Eastern Circuit
Lincoln ss. Circuit Court of Common
Pleas July 12. 1820
Rev. S. Lillie Attest Nat. Coffin Clk
Copy. Attest Nat. Coffin Clk

William Shaw of Bristol Maine Mass. line Col. Crain Last Decem r 1780 Decem r 1783 - 3 yrs
Annette

William Shaw's Declaration
On the 24 of April A D 1810 William Shaw a Citizen of the United States, and an inhabitant of Bristol in the County of Lincoln & District of Maine made the following declaration — That he is now eighty seven years old — That he enlisted in the Continental Army against the Common enemy the last of December in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred & eighty & served from that time the month of June A D 1783 — at which time he was honorably discharged at West Point by Colonel Coane — That on first entering he was placed on Castle William (then so called) in Boston Harbour, there stationed until the April succeeding the time of his enlistment — Then was marched to West Point enrolled in Capt Days company in Col Brooks Regiment in which he continued but a short time when he was transferred to the corps of Sappers & Miners — That the company of Sappers & Miners to which he was attached was commanded by Capt James Lawrence of the City of York — That he was at Yorktown at the taking of Lord Cornwallis where Colonel Greene commanded the Sappers & Miners — That he kept his discharge till about ten years ago when he sent it to Boston to Daniel Sargeant Esquire Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the purpose of establishing a claim for his services & that it cannot now be found — That he is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his Country for support — That he has never received a pension & relinquishes all claim to any prior to the date of this declaration & now respectfully solicits to be placed on the pension list of the United States by virtue of the Act of Congress of March 1810 entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the

land & Naval forces of the United States in the Revolutionary War
State of Massachusetts
County of Lincoln SS —
On the 24 th of April A D 1810 personally appeared before the subscriber William Shaw of Bristol a man of very advanced age & being duly sworn & carefully examined under the penalty of an oath made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration in all its parts according to the best of his memory — which from his extreme age and infirmity is all the evidence in his power to offer — & also fully satisfied me of his reduced circumstances — & that by reason thereof he is in need of his Country's assistance for his support —
Ebenezer Thatcher Judge of the C.C.C. Pleas in the 2 d Eastern Circuit State of Massachusetts —
A Certificate of the subscriber's official au- thority as Judge is on file in the Office of the War Department from of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts — and will also appear from the seal affixed to former cases of Pension Applications heretofore transmitted
E Thatcher —

37 382 Rey  INVALID.  am
File No. 37 382
William Shaw
Pro Per Daw
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 372
[Arrangement of 1870.]