Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32973, for Joseph Lee, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Hand
Will, Joseph
NUMBER _____
S. 32973
CONTENTS

Application sent July 28th 1820 to Deborah Tucker, Salem, Massachusetts
7357
Massachusetts
Joseph Lee
of Manchester in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Mass. line, for the term of 11 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 30 of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of March 1818 and sent to Wm Wetmore Esq. Boston
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 11 mos \frac{6}{31} 89.54 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819. 48
$ 137.54
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Joseph De private Putnam's Map Reg t
11 mo. 78 - 30 March 1818
See Notes
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State of Massachusetts
I Joseph Lee a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Manchester in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on July in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & seventy eight
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to sometime in the Month of June in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & seventy nine Having served eleven months as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Captain White in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hutchinson & afterwards by Colonel Putnam.
and that I left the service on the 5 th Month of June 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 five years. My certificate of 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.
Joseph Lee
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirtieth day of March 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 Subscribed One of the Associate Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit within the State aforesaid & presiding pro hac vice the abovenamed Joseph Lee 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 by me 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
Wm Wetmore

I the Subscriber do testify & say that I will know the within Joseph Lee, living in the same town of Manchester with him and that he served in the army of the United States as he has within declared, I having served with him in the same Company & regiment,
Solomon Lee
Sworn to before me,
Wm Withmore, the judge within named

Joseph Lee
7357 Camarillo
March 1871
not yet
age 67 graves digger infirmary
Sep 1871

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
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, Joseph Lee resident in Manchester — in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 7357 — 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, Joseph Lee — — — — — 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 thirtieth day of March — — — one thousand eight hundred and sixteen ."
***** * L. S. * *****
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixth — — — day of March — — — 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,
Twenty eight acres of land in Manchester, consisting of sufficient tillage to produce hay for one cow, the rest pasture, rocks & bushes with a hut and barn — — — — — $ 380,00 A cow $20 — a pig sick worth nothing, tables 1. — — — — — 21,00 A loom 4. two wheels 1,40, drawers 3,00. stand 2,20 — — — 8,60 Ten chairs 2. two tables 0,40. pine desk 1,50. wash tub 0,20. 4,10 Pewter, tin & iron ware for family use 2,00. axe 1,00 — — — 3,00 Half gallery pew, meeting house — — — — — 15,00 $ 431,70
He is sixty seven years old, very infirm with the cramp and rheumatism. He is a grave digger by trade and owns the tools of his trade, spade, and pick axe.

He has a wife aged 63 and no children residing in his family.
He served in Capt. Whiles Company in Col. Putnam's Regiment in the Mass s line from last 1777 to near the end of 1778.
Joseph Lee.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. W m Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Joseph Lee 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.
Joseph Lee
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Joseph Lee took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
W m Wetmore , Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, 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 four hundred & thirty five dollars 670
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D. 1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Manchester March 30. 1818.
This may Certify that Joseph Lee of Manchester in the County of Essex and State of Massachu- setts is now a citizen of the United States and is a person of indigent circumstances and justly entitled on that account. to the pension allowed by the government of the united States for services rendered in the Revolutionary War —
Sworn to
Wm Wetmore Judge
Israel Forster } Selectmen Pyles Parsons } of Manchester

32 973 Pay INVALID. en
File No. 82,978
Joseph Lee P. Rev. Rev.
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 241
[Arrangement of 1870.]