Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33721, for Nathaniel Stearns, Massachusetts

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Stearns, Nathaniel
S 33721
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14.383
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Stearns of Billerica in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts — at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence the 7 th of April 1818 —
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th of Sept 1819 and sent to Samuel Dana Esq r Groton Mass s
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819. 16 m. & 29 / 30 — 135:14 3/4 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1820 — 48: —
$183:14 3/4
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent to Abraham Phipps Oct 13. 1820 Cambridge Mass.

Nathaniel Stearns

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BE it remembered, that on this Seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me, SAMUEL DANA , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid) comes Nathaniel Stearns of Billerica in said county of Middlesex and on oath declares, that he served in the War of the Revolution three years - That in the spring of the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven hundred, and Seventy , he enlisted into the Army of the United States upon the Continental establishment for the term of three years under Capt. Elijah Danforth in Leake's  Vermont Regiment in the Massachusetts line Genl. Vernon's Brigade. He went to Cambridge in Massachusetts and was there mustered, he was afterwards at Boston marched to Albany - and his Regiment was generally on the North River and having served full three years, at Budd's Creek  Camden  New  York he received a discharge signed by Brigade Major Lawwood and returned home - this discharge he lost among the Papers of his Father, where it was lost - He is now Sixtyfour years of age is in indigent circumstances, and has power to labor declining to that
by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for his support, in presence of Edmund Dana , Nath Stearns mark Thus, made, subscribed, and sworn to, at Chelsea in said county of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid.
Sam d Dana

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Nathaniel Hearn
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184. Nathaniel Hearn

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Nathaniel Stearns resident in Carlisle in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 14 383 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“ WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. ”
“ I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Nathaniel Stearns late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Given at the War Office of the United States, this seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
1 swine 6 00 3 small sheep 3 00 $9 00 Tea kettle 0 50 spider 0 25 shovel & shovel 0 75 2 chairs 25 sold ax 117 plates & cups 50 1 92 Nath Stearns $11 67
And said Nathaniel Stearns says that he served as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution three years in Capt Elijah Dinsfield's company in Col Nixon's Reg t Infantry as set forth in his declaration now on file in the War office, And said Nathaniel Stearns says that his family now consists of himself aged sixty five and his wife aged Lydia aged fifty four and four children

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. to wit Patty aged fourteen Betsey aged twelve Hannah aged eight and Josiah aged six years, and that he has no means of supporting his family but that of working as a common day labourer. Walter Stearns. "

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
11 I Nathaniel Stearn do 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. So help me GOD.
Nath Stearn
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Nathaniel Stearn took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and 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
eleven dollars sixty seven cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820
Attr. Abraham Biglow

Nathaniel Stearns
on rolls, 3 years, Nixon's Regt.
Certificate of Selectmen of Billerica, proof of intelligence
Adm.?

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the Seventh - - - day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen - - - Personally appeared Nathaniel Stearns - - - - - and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
and at the same he exhibited to me the Certificate of Samuel Whiting and John Ballou Selectmen of Belknap and said County and known by me to be Citizens of good credit & character
from which it appears to me, that the said Nathaniel Stearns did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the Seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Sam d Dana
I Samuel Dana Chief Justice above described, Do certify that it appears to me, from the Selectmen of Belknap & Certificate sent to the Pension Office and from the Certificate of the Selectmen of Carlisle, that the above named Nathaniel Stearns is a poor man in indigent circumstances. Sam d Dana
Aug t 1819

We the subscribers, selectmen of the Town of Billerica, certify that Nathaniel Stearns of said Town was a soldier in the revolutionary war & is in indigent cir- cumstances
April 3. 1818.
Samuel Whiting John Baldwin

We the Subscribers, Selectmen of the Town of Carlisle Mass s . Do certify that Nathaniel Stearns of Billerica, now living in said Carlisle (whom it is said) served as a Soldier in the War- of the Revolution - is a poor man, in indigent circumstances - Carlisle August 22 d . 1819 - Jon al Thald Aaron Fletcher

33 721 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33,721
Nathaniel Stearns
Rev Rev Mr
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 898
[Arrangement of 1879.]