Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7029, for Nathaniel Matthews, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Mathews, Nathaniel Mercy
W. 7029
CONTENTS

1784 Henry Matthews 1784 Nathaniel Destination & Evidence
Mass
act 7. July 38
M. 80
Vol. 36: 15. 16: 57 no 20
J. Reed Barnstable Mass.

State of Massachusetts County of Barnstable
On this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Eight personally appeared before the undersigned  Court Judges of Probate a court of Record within and for said County of Barnstable Mercy Matthews a resident of Yarmouth in said County aged Eighty years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by an Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay to certain Widows: That she is the Widow of Nathaniel Matthews of said Yarmouth who was a private in the Militia in the service of the State of Massachusetts: That he enlisted in said service as she believes in the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Five for six months in a company of Militia commanded by Capt Joshua Gray of said Yarmouth and that he there served for said term of six months
Doc 36. 14. 1838. 10. July
She further declares that she was married to said Nathaniel Matthews on the Twenty Fifth day of November in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty: That her husband the aforesaid Nathaniel died on the Twentieth day of May in the year Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Eight That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January in the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Four viz. at the time above stated
Witness Timothy Read      Mercy her Matthews Mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day the  first  six  year  above  above written before me of  in  court  in  court Nymphas Marshall Judge Probate
I am an unsworn mate of Massachusetts Nathaniel Matthews probate Aug. 14 1838 I Timothy Read Register of the Court

of Books in and for said County of Barnstable hereby certify that the Hon. Symphes Marston is the Judge of said Court and that the within signature purporting to have been made by him is his genuine signature made in my presence
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court the day and year first written Norah T. D. B. B.
[Faint, illegible handwriting at the bottom of the page]

"Marcy Hodge born October twenty seventh Seventeen Hundred and Fifty Seven"
The above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows
"Oct. 27, 1857"
Attest, Simeon Gowell
"Marriages Solemnized by Revd Timothy Alden" "Nathaniel Matthews & Marcy Hodge married November the twenty fifth Seventeen Hundred and Eighty"
The above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows - "Nov. 25, 1880."
Attest Simeon Gowell
"Nathaniel Matthews died May Twentieth Eighteen Hundred and Twenty Eight" - The above is
a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows - "May 20, 1828."
Attest, Simeon Gowell

State of Massachusetts Barnstable ss Yarmouth August 30 th 1838.
I Simeon Crowell above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, Town and State aforesaid and that the above are true Extracts from the records of said Town with the Exceptions above named as certified by me
Affirmed to before me, Simeon Crowell Town Clerk Simeon Crowell Esq. Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable ss. - I Timothy Reed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Barnstable and do hereby certify that Sim- eon Crowell Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and was on the 30 th August last and that I believe the above signature purporting to have been made by him to be his genuine signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 13 th Sept r . 1838
Timothy Reed Clerk

I Samuel Taylor of Yarmouth in County of Barnstable and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of Eighty Two years depose and say that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary War for the term of nearly five years. That I well knew Nathaniel Matthews of Yarmouth aforesaid, and that I always knew him from a boy as we were born and always lived in the same town and near each other. I well know and remember that that the said Nathaniel Matthews, then  he enlisted on or about the first of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and  Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Five in the company of State Militia under the command of Captain Joshua Gray of said Yarmouth for the term of six months and I well remember and know that the said Matthews served as aforesaid for said term of six months having enlisted in the same company and at the same time with the said Matthews. I also know Mercy Matthews widow of said Nathaniel and that the said Mercy has ever remained his widow and that the said Mercy is the identical person who has this day in my presence in Probate Court filed her declaration for the purpose of the retaining a pension
Samuel Taylor Barnstable Co. Court of Probate August 14 th 1838 sworn to and subscribed in open court on the day & year above written Timothy Read Register Prob.

and she can't believe the within named Samuel Taylor to be a man of truth and entitled to full credit unless my hand & J. Timothy Read & the Bots of said bank.

W Rejected (1784) Mercy Matthews Mass. Act 7 July, 1838. See let. to T. Reed. Dec. 10, 1838.
7029

April 1, 1900, and March 6, 1905.
REJECTED
71129.
P.O. _____
Moery Matthews
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

1784 Sept 22. Mass. July 1836
Constable Mr. Sept. 17.
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J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions Washington City D.C.
1784

Barnstable Mass. Sept. 16, 1838
J. Edwards Esq. Owner of Pensions
Sir Please examine the enclosed papers of Henry Mat- thews and make return to me - I oblige you respectfully
Timothy Read

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Matthews, Peter GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7444 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED May 14, 1793
To Thomas Russell, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.