Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6472, for Samuel Lovejoy, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Lovejoy, Samuel Esther
R 6472
CONTENTS
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Ester Lovijay
14.969.

State of Indiana Decatur County S.C.
On this ninth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Judges of the Decatur Circuit Court for the County & State aforesaid, Esther Lovejoy a resident of said County and State aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declarations, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," that she is the widow of Samuel Lovejoy , who was, as she was informed by him a private in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary War that said Samuel Lovejoy enlisted in the early part of the war and served at different periods during said war, that he was engaged in battles at various places during said war the names of which are not now recollected by her that said Samuel enlisted at the town of Billerica in the State of Massachusetts at the time above stated - this deponent does not know the names of the officers under whom said Samuel served - That said Samuel at the time he so so served and enlisted was a native of Essex County in said State of Massachusetts - that this deponent has no documentary evidence of her claim to said half pay or pension
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Lovejoy on the twenty seventh day of November one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight at Essex County in said State of Massachusetts - that her said husband the above said Samuel Lovejoy died on the thirteenth day

of September - one thousand eight hundred and twenty two - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service - but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four - viz - at the time above stated
Esther h X Lovejoy mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me the undersigned on the day and year above written, And I hereby further certify that said deponent from bodily infirmity is unable to attend in open court to make the above declaration
Samuel Ellis one of the Judges of the Decatur Circuit Court
State of Indiana S set Decatur County ss
I Henry H. Sallatt Clerk of the Decatur Circuit Court, in and for said County and State, do hereby certify that Samuel Ellis, whose official signature appears to the above declaration now is, and at the date of the execution thereof, was, one of the Judges of said Decatur Circuit Court, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above, is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, at Greensburg, in said County and State, this thirteenth day of January A.D. 1851.
Henry H. Sallatt Clerk

State of Indiana Decatur County 3 rd Sect
On this eleventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me the undersigned a Notary Public in and for said County and State, James S. Lovejoy who being lay me duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he was acquainted with Sam- uel Lovejoy the Soldier named in the foregoing Declaration of Esther Lovejoy - that he was present at the death of said Samuel Lovejoy, which occurred at Decatur County Indiana on the thirteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, and further says not James S. Lovejoy
Sworn to and subscribed before me the date last named. Witness my hand and official seal at Greensburg in said County and State.
John S. Scohey Notary Public

Seventeen hundred eighty eight November twenty seventh
Methuen Marriages Samuel Lovejoy & Esther Morse
by whom joined Rev. Mr. Williams
The foregoing is a true copy of the "record of marriages of the several towns in the County of Essex", on file in this office, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows - 1788. Novem r . 27.
E. Millaber { Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, County of Essex, State of Mass.

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No 14,969. Esther Lovejoy, widow of Samuel
Ind.
Suspended
Sit Invs. Seby Sept 8. 1853
Hon T. A. Hendricks Jan'y 4. 1854
Same " 20. "
enclosing copy of papers Hon. J. A. Lane 13 th March 1854.
Act July 7. 1838

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1472.
P. O.
Esther Lovejoy.
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, made by the Widow of the party who rendered the service.
County of Sceatur State of Indiana Township of Adams
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Samuel Lovejoy in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Andover in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts
He enlisted from the Town of Billerica in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts in the year 1775 as a private soldier in the Company commanded by Captain in
Regiment and he served as follows,* viz:—
He was at the battle of Lexington, Concord and other battles, and also he lost a horse at the battle of Lexington he put his horse up before he went into battle & the American Artillery men took the horse and he never recovered him afterwards. Affiant further states that she believes he served as much as three years in all during the war of the Revolution and affiant further states that she recollects that her husband Samuel Lovejoy had one or more regular discharges from his officers in the service of the Revolution and that she recollects of her husband burning up said discharges in the State of Maine some in the year 1803 as he at that time considered said papers useless.
* Here describe as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank, &c., of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
June 27. 1853.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that The name of Samuel Severy is borne on pay roll of Capt. Joshua Hott, April 19. 1775. Mustered from their alarm post to Cambridge and back. 2 1/2 days as private.
Also in Muster roll of Capt. Nathaniel Larkin's (comp. Col. John Robinson's Regt.) "engaged for six months, from July 1. 1777." Said Samuel "Enlisted on the 7. of July 1777."
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
C. W. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I am now seventy years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
WITNESS my hand, this 14 th day of June A. D. 18 53 Esther Lovejoy  Mark
Signed by said Esther Lovejoy in my presence, Samuel Todd } JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
of Adams Township Decatur County Indiana
CERTIFICATE.]
[SOLD BY WM. SHEETS, INDIANAPOLIS.]
STATE OF INDIANA, Decatur County, } SS:
I, Henry N. Talbott Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the county of Decatur aforesaid, do hereby certify that Samuel Todd whose certificate of acknowledgment appears to the Application to which this is attached, was, on the date and at the time of making said certificate, to-wit, the 14 th day of June 18 53 , a Justice of the peace within and for said county of Decatur duly elected, commissioned, and qualified, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his official acts.
In Witness of Which, I hereunto affix the seal of said Court, and subscribe my name, at Greencastle this 17 th day of June A. D. 18 53
Henry N. Talbott Clerk.

Washington city
March 6. 1852
Sir
Enclosed find letter of inquiry from Mr. Sonjuy — I have no other money to dispose of such matters, than by reference to your Dept —
Respectfully
G. H. Lane
Hon S. P. Waldo
Commissioner Revisions
Washington city

Washington City - Dec 30 - 1852
Sir
Will you be good enough to inform me what is the condition of Mrs Esther Lovejoy's application for a pension, or what prevents its allowance. Her husband was a soldier in the Revolution, as was, I believe a pension - The application was sent from Indiana
Very Respectfully
Your ob t Serv t
Thos. A. Hendricks
Hon. Com r of Pensions Washington City -

Greensboro Ind July 20. 1853
Comr. of Pensions Sir,
Herewith I send you the declaration of Ester Lovejoy a Widow of a Revolutionary Soldier, for a pension. Also evidence of her marriage with the said Soldier & of his death - Also evidence from the Muster rolls of his service. The case has been some time on hand owing to delay in getting these papers prepared.
Please correspond with me in relation thereto. I think the case is perhaps made out by the papers herewith sent. You will know best about that very truly your obed. Servt. J. S. Scobey