Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33779, for David Tarr, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Tarr, David
8 33779
CONTENTS

7554 Massachusetts
David Saw
of Gloucester in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of six years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 March 1819 and sent to Mrs. Atkinson by Salem Mass
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $ 88.29 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept. 1819 48.
$136.49
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

33 779 Perj INVALID.
File No. 33, 779
David Law
Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 314
[Arrangement of 1870.]

✓ D r Tarr
Col. M. Jackson
Regiment
Massachusetts Line
1774 — 6 years
Alm t

State of Massachusetts
David Tarr — a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gloucester in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven
I entered and was engaged in the land — service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the end of the Revolutionary war.
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Captain Cleaveland's Company, in Colonel Michael Jackson's Regiment in the Massachusetts line
and that I left the service on the close of the war being then honorably discharged — and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty seven years My discharge has been lost by lapse of time & I have no other evidence in my power to offer than what is herewith exhibited —
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
David Tarr
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit within the State aforesaid per me vice
the abovenamed David Tarr and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made to the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court. I also certify that the within named Deponents are credible witnesses & have been duly sworn.
Wm Wetmore

We the Subscribers inhabitants of the town of Gloucester do testify & say that we are acquainted with the within named Declarant & believe him to be in his circumstances in life reduced & indigent & in need of assistance from his country for support & we now read his character for veracity called in question.
Isaac Shwell
Charles L Roberts
} Selectmen
Sworn to before me
Wm Witherspoon Judge etc.