Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18091, for Joseph Long, Massachusetts

SERVICE
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★ Leong, Joseph
S. 18091
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CONTENTS

New Hampshire
Joseph Long
of Chester in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by Col. Jerush in the (Nat) Troops line for 8 Mo (May) 1775-
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of October 1832 and sent to Samuel Belle Chester N.H.
Arrears to 14th of Sep r 1832 $ 39.99 Pemi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 13.33
$53.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. S. Blair Clerk Book 20 Vol. 121 Page 167.

I 18091
INVALID.
File No. 18091
Joseph Long
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 228
[Arrangement of 1870.]

5873
Joseph Lang
Prate 8 Mths
$28 33.
Adm d J. L. E.

5873
BRIEF in the case of Joseph Song of Chester in the State of New Hampshire (Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 79
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.     In 1775: 20 th  July ~ 8 ~ Private Gen. Col: Gerrish. Maj: S. Cook  
5. In what battles was he engaged? None Mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Chester, N.H.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? by the testimony of two credible witnesses -
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The Clerk of the Court has not attached his Seal to his Certificate in one place where it should appear
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
B. L. D. Seal Examining Clerk.

Joseph Long 29 Exh. 2 5873.
Joseph Long

reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that We concur in that opinion.
Michael Wooten
William Moore
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Chadwick Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the before named applicant was a Revolution- ary Soldier and served as he states.
I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham afore- said do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Joseph Long for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this fifth day of August AD 1832 Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County
I Jacob Elliot of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged seventy-six years in the month of November last past testify and declare that I went from said Chester to Mystic, now Medford, in Massachusetts the twentieth day of April 1775 and arrived at said Medford the 21 st day of April 1775. I remained, serving as a volunteer until the first of May 1775 and then enlisted as a private soldier in Captain Thomas Coggeswell's company and Colonel Samuel Gerrish's Massachusetts Regiment for the term of eight months and served out my enlistment in the vicinity of Boston in said Massachusetts and was discharged the first of January 1776. Joseph Long of said Chester marched from Chester to Medford with me, and served as a private soldier in the same company and Regiment with me and belonged to the same mess with me in Captain Thomas Coggeswell's company eight months and was discharged from said service the first of January 1776. Chester August 4, 1832. Jacob Elliot
State of New Hampshire ss. Then personally appearing the above named Jacob Elliot made solemn oath that the above deposition is just and true. Before me Samuel Aiken Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Jacob Elliot is a credible witness and that his statement is entitled to belief Samuel Aiken Jus. Peace

I Jeremiah Richardson of the town of Haverhill in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawful age testify and say that Joseph Long of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary Army for the term of eight months in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five in the vicinity of Boston in the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Loggsmell of Haverhill in said State of Massachusetts, and in the Regiment, commanded by Col. Samuel Gerrish during the first part of said eight months - said Regiment, was afterwards commanded during the last part of said campaign by Colonel Prescott of Dunstable - I was born within three quarters of a mile of the place where said Long was born in said Chester and where he now lives. I was bred up and educated in the same neighborhood with said Long and was well acquainted with him when he was in the Army as aforesaid, and belonged to the same company & Regiment.
Chester July 9 th 1832. Jeremiah Richardson
State of New Hampshire Rockingham County ss. Chester July 9 th 1832
Then personally appearing the abovenamed Jeremiah Richardson made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is just and true
Before me Samuel Aiken Justice Peace
This may certify that the abovenamed Jeremiah Richardson is a credible witness and entitled to belief
Samuel Aiken Jus. Peace

I Peter Chadwick clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Samuel Aiken is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Rockingham and that I believe that the signatures to the within certificates are in his own hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this thirteenth day of August Anno Domini 1842
Peter Chadwick clerk of the Court Rockingham County

State of New Hampshire Rockingham County ss.
On this Seventh day of August A.D. 1832.
personally appeared in open court, before the Superior Court of Judicature now sitting at Exeter within and for said county of Rockingham Joseph Long a resident of Chester in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged seventy nine years in September last past, who being first 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 named Officers, and served as herein stated. He the said Joseph Long marched from said Chester on the 20 th day of April 1775 and arrived at Mystick now Medford in Massachusetts on the 21 st day of April 1775 and remained in the vicinity of Boston until the month of May 1775. He the said Joseph Long enlisted as a Volunteer in said Month of May 1775 into Captain Thomas Cogswell's company and Colonel Samuel Gerrish's Regiment of Massachusetts troops for the term of eight months said Captain Thomas Cogswell's company was stationed most of the summer and Fall at a place called Sewall's point in Brookline in the vicinity of Boston. Colonel Loammi Baldwin commanded our Regiment after Bunker hill battle and a Major or Colonel Prescott. He further declares that he served as a private soldier in said company and Regiment during the whole time for which he enlisted, being eight months, and was discharged from the Army at Brookline aforesaid in the month of January 1776. He further declares that he resided in Chester aforesaid before he marched to enter the service in the vicinity of Boston as aforesaid. he further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service, and that Jeremiah Richardson now of Hartland in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont (but then of said Chester) served in the same company with him and at the same time and also Jacob Elliot of Chester aforesaid served as a private soldier at the same time in said company and belonged to the same mess. said Jeremiah Richardson's deposition is herunto annexed.
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 agency of any State.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Arthur Chadwick Clerk
Joseph Long
We Michael Worthen and William Moore both residing in the town of Chester and county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Long who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and reside in the same neighborhood with him. that We believe him to be seventy nine years old last September; that he is reputed