Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29498, for Asa Tapley, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Noass.
NUMBER _____
S. 29498
Tapley, Asa
CONTENTS

21014 Massachusetts
Asa Tappley
Asa Tappley in the State of Mass. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Greenwood of the Regt. commanded by Col. Gerrish in the War of line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of the Massachusetts at the rate of 26 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Aug 1833 and sent to Merrill Salem Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $53.94 Semi-annual allowance ending 4th of March 1833 13.58
$67.52
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. H. Adams Clerk. Book E Vol. 2 Page 81

Asa Tupper Massachusetts No 6389.
Paid 8 months
14. 11. 56
Apl 26 1833
P. 357
Nathl Lord Esq Salem Mass

BRIEF in the case of Asa Tapley of Epsom County in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court,  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70 Years,  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Nov In 1777 Enlisted " — 5 — 11 Private Gen. Col. Gerrish's Regt Capt Greenwood's Compy Massachusetts Militia   Oct 1779 " " 3 — — " Col. Gerrish's Regt Capt. Scituate's Compy   8 Mo.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? —  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Dunstable, Massachusetts,  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Two Living witnesses Revolutionary  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Clayman's Certificate not annexed 5 th interrogatory not answered — 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
C. Little Examining Clerk.

Asa Daphne
No 6389.
Errors corrected
Please reply to Merrill Palmer

State of Massachusetts Essex County ss
On this fourteenth day of August A D 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Daniel A White Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at Salem in said County, Asa Fapley, resident at Danvers in the County and State aforesaid aged 70 years, who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following Officers and served  therein stated viz: He was born at Danvers in 1762 and has always lived there; he has no record of birth.
That he enlisted as a private Soldier in Capt Greenwood's Company in Col Garrison's Regiment of Massachusetts Militia and served therein for the Term of Five months following Nov. 1777 at Winter Hill guarding Brimstone's prisoner troops at Cambridge: He was a Volunteer in this and near close of duty: he enlisted at Danvers.
That he again enlisted on 20 th Oct. 1779 as a private Soldier in Col Garrison's Regiment in Capt. Prady's Company and served therein Three months agreeably to his enlistment and was honorably discharged near Albany at Greenbush.

He is known to And w Nichols Esq. & to Rev M. P. Braman a Clergyman, both of Danvers. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the army of any state. The Exact dates & times he cannot remember, nor names of other officers. Asa Tapley
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid And I the said Judge do certify my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrog- atories prescribed by the War Department that the abovenamed Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier as he states.
J. H. H. White Judge of Probate
I Nathaniel Lord Jr Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the origi- nal proceedings of the said Court in this matter of the application of Asa Tapley for a pension. I further certify that Benjamin Merrill is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly qualified to administer oaths. and his signatures on the annexed depositions are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourteenth day of August A. D. 1832
Benj. Lord Jr.

Asa Tappley
Mr. William Lloyd for the new house craft

I, Rogers Mourse, of Danvers, aged 70, oath testify. That I know Asa Taphley of Danvers served as a soldier in Capt Greenwood's Company in Col. Gerrish's Regi- ment of Mass ts Militia for the term of five months ending Nov. 1777. He was a Townsmen of mine - I served at the same time at Cambridge in another company.
Rogers Mourse
State of Massachusetts Essex County ss: July 31. 1822 Then the above named Rogers Mourse subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit before
Br. Merrill Just. Peace
I further certify that the said Rogers Mourse is a credible & disinterested witness Br. Merrill Just. Peace

Asa Tahley

I, Edmund Perkins, of Lyndeborough in New Hampshire, aged 72, do on oath testify that I know that Asa Fapley, now of Danvers in Massachusetts on 20th Oct. 1779 enlisted as a soldier to serve three months in Capt. King Peabody's Company in Col. Gerrish's Regiment in the Militia of Massachusetts and served therein agreeably to his enlistment and at the expiration of said term was honorably discharged near Albany at Greenbush. He served in the Continental service.
Edmund Perkins
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. June 30. 1832 In the above- named Edmund Perkins who is a credi- ble & disinterested witness, subscribed and made oath to the above before Rev. Merrill Just. Peace & Jurors

Signed and sealed anew this seventeenth day of May, A.D. 1833.
Math. Lord Jr. D.D.

29 498 Recy INVALID.
File No. 29,498
Asia Lepleg
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Act: June 7 85
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 413
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Tapley, Thomas GRADE Private LINE Virginia
WARRANT NUMBER 12608 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED April 13, 1791 to James Reynolds, 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.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Taplin, John GRADE Private "in the artillery" LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 10519 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February 4, 1796 To Christian Hess, 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.