Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18240, for Nathaniel Tay, Massachusetts

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Tay or Nathaniel Toy
S. 18240
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18 240 INVALID.
File No. 18240
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Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 445
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Joshua Hott of Greenfield in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire aged seven four years before that I served in army of the Revolution from the nineteenth of April to till the close of the year and belonged to Benjamin Ames's company in Col. Fogg's Regiment. and I well remember that Nathaniel Jay son of Lyndeborough in said County was a soldier with me in the same company during the whole time. The said Jay is present at the taking of this affidavit Joshua Hott
State of New Hampshire Hillsborough County ss. August 15 1832 Then the above named Joshua Hott personally appeared and made oath in due form of law that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me Titus Brown Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named deponent is a reputable person and entitled credit as a witness.
Titus Brown Justice of the Peace
I Andrew Wallace, clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire, certify that Titus Brown is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Hillsborough and that the within and foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my name, this fourth day of December in the year of our Lord 1832.
A. Wallace Clerk

I Jacob McIntire of Peterborough in the county of Hillsborough and State of New-Hampshire aged seventy five years deposed that in the Spring of 1775 lived with & worked for David Blunt of Andover in the State of Massachusetts. Nathaniel Day now of Lyndeborough in said county of Hillsborough boarded at that time in said Blunt's family. In the month of April, on the day of the Lexington fight the said Day left home to go into the service and was absent as was believed by the family in the army. The day before the Battle of Bunkerhill I went to Cambridge stock the place of the said Blunt who was a soldier in the eight months service so called, and served out the residue of the said Blunt's time in Capt. Ames company in Col. Frye's Regiment. The said Day, who is present at the taking of the deposition was fellow soldier with me in the same company from the time I entered till the expiration of the eight months and I further deposed that the next year after the eight months service expired the said Day was absent, as was reported, in the year service - and I will remember hearing before the eight months were out that he had enlisted for a year.
Jacob McIntire
State of New Hampshire Hillsborough ss. August 15 - 1832 Then the above named Jacob McIntire personally appeared and made oath in due form of law that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Peter Brown Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named deponent is entitled to credit as a witness.
Peter Brown Justice of the Peace

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Natke Jay
Fetus Brown
C. H. Alhantus
Francis
W.H.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Nathaniel Jay or Loy which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? no
The official character & signature of the magistrate not certified
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes except as to the testimony of the living witnesses
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____ ; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
† QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
‡ QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.