Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,151, for Sylvanus Shaw, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Shaw, Sylvanus
S 41,151
CONTENTS

Sylvanus Shaw — of Woodstock in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailen of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year 1776.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence the 10 th of April 1812
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th of July 1819 — and sent to William Shaughey Esq. Judge Windsor Vermont
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 M th  \frac{21}{30} \frac{14}{31} — 86:63 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th  Sept. 1819 — 48:— 134:63
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Section 10th Dec 1818 to 10th March 1819 for

Free Baltimore Md Sept 10th 1862 Washington City D.C. 1862
Sylvanus Shaw
The Regt and line in which the claimant performed duty must be specified.

Free British Columbia & War Secretary for the Department of War Washington City Va. 17/10
Sylvanus Shaw
The Regt and line in which the claimants performed duty must be specified.

State of Vermont } In this tenth day of April Anno Domini 1818 Windsor County ss. } before me the Subscriber, one of the Judges of the County Court within and for said Windsor County personally appears Sylvanus Dyer aged Sixty Five years resident in Woodstock in said Windsor County, who being by me first duly sworn according to his duty on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain 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" that the said Sylvanus Dyer enlisted in the summer of 1775 in the company commanded by Captain John Bridgman - said Sylvanus Dyer - Bridgman and served accordingly at Cambridge, Massachusetts, until within about one two months of the end of which was called the eight months service, when he enlisted for one year and served the same under the same officers - and was honorably discharged from said service at Peekskill in the State of New York - by Major Bryan who gave him a written order for his back pay and he received the same on said order at Hartford in the State of Connecticut making about one one year and six months of one continental service - That he was in the battle at Harlem heights  Plains and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service - and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support -
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year first above said
William Strong Judge Windsor County Court
It is hereby certified that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office and of the whole thereof. The foregoing declaration was made before me this day personally appeared Sylvanus Dyer known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing declaration and acknowledged that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. And I more than said the foregoing and testimony taken and held before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress - In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this fifteenth day of June Anno Domini 1818.
William Strong Judge Windsor County Court

State of Vermont ss I Lemuel Richardson of Portland in said Vermont do hereby do testify and say that at Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts in October 1775 - Leviathan Shaw, who made the foregoing declaration, enlisted into the company commanded by Captain Stephen  Stephen or Bridge man  man and Ensign Stephen  Stephen or Bridge man  man a son of said Captain and Regiment commanded by Colonel Stephen  Stephen which was in the Massachusetts line for one year and that the said Shaw served according to said term of one year which was in the war of the Revolution when I left him at Peekskill in the State of New York, I having enlisted for the same term in the same Company and Regiment with the said Shaw and marched with him the whole of said term and until the first day of January 1777 when the said Shaw was honorably discharged with me, I know the said 1776  1775 before me - and that I was well acquainted with said Shaw before and since said service.
Lemuel Richardson
Sworn to and subscribed this 25- day of May 1879 before me Benj in Swan Justice of the Peace

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STATE OF VERMONT, } At a special term of the Supreme Court of Judicature, begun and holden WINDSOR COUNTY....ss. } at Woodstock in the County of Windsor, on the last Monday in July, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty.
ON this thirty first day of July . 1820, being the first day of said term, personally appeared in open Court, (the same Court being a Court of record agreeably to the laws of this State, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c.) Sylvanus Shaw aged Sixty seven years, resident in Woodstock in said County of Windsor, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows: That in the latter part of the summer of 1775 I entered on eight months service at Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts, and served in the Company commanded by Capt John Prideman of which Edward Sparre was Lieutenant, and a son of said Captain was ensign - until within one or two months of the end of said eight months - when I enlisted for one year and served the same under the same officers, first at Roxbury and marched with the army to the City of New York and was honorably discharged at Peekskill in the State of New York by Major Hageman, who gave me no written discharge, but gave me an order to receive my back pay at Hartford in the State of Connecticut -
that he made his original declaration on the tenth day of April 1818 has received a Pension Certificate, No. 12466 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.
14 acres and one half of Land one half of which is woodland $111.11 1 Great Wheel & one foot wheel, old, 33, one plain Table 50 83 1 Looking glass, 33, 1 Pot old, 64, 1 old tea-kettle 50, 1 Dish kettle 40 1.87 1 old Spider 16, 1 flat iron, 25, 1 pair tongs 25, 1 small fire shovel 20 76 1 frame 25, three plain chairs 75, 1 old box 50, one box 50, 1 new chest, 66, 2 old b 2.66 5 cups & saucers, 35, 3 cream colored plates, 20, 3 knives & forks, 20 75 Loan to Arnold Smith 31.50 & to William Lord 66.00 for said Land 97.50 and other debts, $25.00 Amounting to $111.50 - There is nothing due me. That my wife has been sick for a great number of years so that she is unable to do any kind of work, and is aged sixty five years - and that my health is very poor, and hardly able to labour any at all - Sylvanus Shaw
Sworn to and declared on the thirty first day of July 1820, before said Court.
Attest, Deity Green Clerk.
STATE OF VERMONT, } I, Deity Green Clerk of the Supreme Court for WINDSOR COUNTY....ss. } the County of Windsor, 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 Nothing
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, this fifteen day of August 1820.
Deity Green Clerk of the Supreme Court for Windsor County.

I Ephraim Pratt of Carver in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts duly qualified to give evidence do testify and say that Sylvanus Shaw of Woodstock in the State of Vermont enlisted in the revolutionary war, into the company commanded by Capt. John Bridgman belonging to the Regt. commanded by Col. Bailey in the Massachusetts line, for one year, and served the whole year out and was honourably discharged from said service at Pikeskill in the state of New-York on the first day of January 1777. I well know that the above facts are true as I served in the same company with said Shaw the whole time and was, with him, discharged at the same time and place.
Eph m Pratt
Plymouth 16 June 16 th 1819
Then personally appeared Ephraim Pratt and made oath that the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed is just & true. Before me Gabriel Sampson Justice of the Peace
Plymouth June 16 1819
I hereby certify that the aforesaid Eph m Pratt is a credible witness
Gabriel Sampson Justice of the Peace
I Rufus Sherman of Carver in the county of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts duly qualified to give evidence do testify and say that Sylvanus Shaw of Woodstock in the state of Vermont, enlisted in the company of Mr. Bridgman in Col. Bailey's Regiment, in the Massachusetts line, to serve for one year, in the revolutionary war. That he served the one year out; that I belonged to the same company and served with him the whole time, and at the end of said year's service he was discharged, with me at Pikeskill in the state of New York on

The first of January 1777. Rufus Sherman.
Plymouth ss June 21 1819 Then personally appeared Rufus Sherman and made oath that the aforesaid deposition by him subscribed is just & true before me Isaac D. Lempson Justice of the Peace
Plymouth June 21 1819 I hereby certify that the aforesaid Rufus Sherman is a credible witness Isaac D. Lempson Justice of the Peace.
Plymouth ss. June 21 1819 I hereby certify that the aforesaid Isaac D. Lempson is a justice of the Peace within & for the county of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts, and that he is duly commissioned and qualified to discharge the duties of that Office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal Official of said county the day and year last above written
W. B. Thomas Clerk of the courts in the county of Plymouth

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