Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40305, for Elijah Putnam, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Putnam, Elijah
S. 40305
CONTENTS

40305
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 40305
Elijah Putnam
Rev New Eng
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 506
[Arrangement of 1870.]

12.065 R
Pennsylvania
Elijah Putnam
of Tioga, Co in the state of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bigelow of the Mass. line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th of June 1819 and sent to Ira Hibburn Esqr Tioga Tioga County Pa
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819 9 mo 1/31 = 76.38 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1819 48.
$124.38
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Stephenson sent May 28 th 1821. to Wm. H. Spence Esqr Tioga, Pa.

Elijah Putnam Massachusetts line.
found on the rolls. Service admitted.
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary of the Department (at Washington City) Judge's certificate of the adduced circum- -stances of the appli- -cant, wanted.

State of Pennsylvania Tioga County ss.
On this nineteenth day of May 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tioga in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally appears Elijah Putnam in habitation of said County aged fifty seven years, resident in this said County of Tioga and sworn according to law, doth on his oath make 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 he the said Elijah Putnam in list on the 27 th of February 1777 in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Sylvanus Smith of the fifteenth Regiment commanded by Colonel Timothy Bigelow and general — Glover that he continued to serve in the said corps three years in the service of the United States, until the 27 th of February 1780 when he was discharged from service in the State of New York that he was in the battles of Stillwater and taking of Burgoyne, in the battle of Saratoga his Captain killed who commanded the platoon and the deponents bayonet shot off — and at the battle on Rhode Island in General Sullivan's expedition, was in the heat of the battle and discharged his piece between forty and fifty times.
And that he is a cripple and a few years past was in very good circumstances as to

property but by an unfortunate speculation in lands is reduced to indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Committee for support - and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service his said discharge from service being lost Elijah Putnam
Sworn to, subscribed and declared, before me the said nineteenth day of May and year aforesaid Ira Hillburn A. Judge
I Ira Hillburn one of the associate judges in and for the county of Tioga in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do certify, that that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Elijah Putnam Esq r did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the Common enemy, and that now trans- the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress. Tioga County May 19 th 1818
Ira Hillburn A. Judge
And the deponent further declares and says that that at the time of his discharge he was under the command of Captain Brown - same colonel same detachment - Ira Hillburn associate judge

State of Pennsylvania Tioga County ss Prothonotarys Office
I Do hereby certify that the within named Ira Hilburn Esq was on the nineteenth Day of May Inst and now is Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said county Duly appointed commissioned and sworn and that his Official acts are entitled to full faith and credit as such Testimony whereof I have here unto affixed the Seal of said County and set my Hand this nineteenth Day of May onethousand eighthundred and eighteen Uriah Spencer Prothonotary
I assert that Elijah Putnam the above claimant is old, poor and lame and is in want of assistance from his country for support. May 1st 1819 - Ira Hilburn A. Judge

Elizah Butnor copy of record
120 65.
Feb '19
[Large stylized signature or monogram]
J.S.E.

District of Pennsylvania County of Tioga
On this 16 th day of February A D 1821 personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas held in Wellsborough for the County of Lycoming Tioga, being a Court of Record proceeding accor- ding to the course of common law with a Juri- -diction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of proceedings Elyah Putnam aged Sixty years resident in Tioga County in said District who being Duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the eighteenth of March A D 1818 and first of May 1820 That he served in the Revolutionary War in the Compa- -ny commanded by Capt Salvenus Smith in the Regiment commanded by Col Timothy Bregalow in the line of the State of Massachusetts for three years and has obtained a pension under the act of the 18 th of March 1818 his Certificate being numbered
and Dated _____ to Commence on the
and I Do Solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th Day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provided for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revo- -lutionary war passed on the 18 th Day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time nor has any person in trust for me any property of secure by contract or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule herunto

annexed and by me Subscribed Sworn and Subscribed in Open Court February 15 th 1821 Uriah Spencer
Elizabeth Pulnam
I have no property Save my bedding and necessary Clothing
I am not indebted but have the following Sum Due me 100(100) — $40.00
my occupation is that of a farmer but by age and infirmary am unable to pursue that occupation I have no family Except my wife and Lucy aged Sixty three years and infirm like my self I live in the family with my Daughter
Sworn and Subscribed in Elizabeth Pulnam Open Court the 16 th Day of February A.D. 1821 Uriah Spencer
War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 15 th of March, 1818, —
Elizah Pulnam late a private in the Army of the Revolu- -tion, is inscribed on the Pension, Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency, at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to com- -mence on the Nineteenth Day of May one thousand Eight hundred and eighteen given at the War Office of the United States, this 15 th Day of June one thousand eight hundred and nineteen J. L. Edwards, in the Absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War

Tioga County ss
I Uriah Spencer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County Do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereunto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in bequeath of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is nothing at all In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Millsborough the 16 th Day of February AD 1821 —
Uriah Spencer Noty