Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32975, for George Leach, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Beach, George
S. 32975
CONTENTS
Beach, George Mass. Colby na- R

Massachusetts Roll.
1092
George Leach, Capt Cramton Private Massachusetts line 1776-1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818, and sent to Sam l Putnam, Esq. Salem, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
Semi-annual ending
4 months 31/30. $ 40.26.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued Salem, Essex Co.
State of Mass. Dec. 21. 1820 to Mary Colborne
Salem
Mass

32975 Pay INVALID.
File No. 32,975
George Leach P. Rev. War
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 241
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I George Leach, of Salem, in the County of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on solemn Oath declare, That in the month of May 1775, I enlisted a Soldier in Capt Bronson's Company, and served eight months - That in January 1776, I enlisted for one year in Captain Addison Richardson's Company, Col. Hutchinson's Regiment, and served the term of one year, on the Continental establishment, in the war of the revolution, in the Massachusetts Line, was taken in Fort Washington, exchanged, and in the month of January 1777 was discharged from the service - I further declare, that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I need the assistance of my Country for support; - And I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension, heretofore allowed by the laws of the United States -
George his  Leach mark
Signed before
S. Putnam. J. S. Hous of Mass ts
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I Joseph Felt of Salem, in the County of Essex on Oath declare - That I was with George Leach, in the war of the revolution, and know that he served in Col Hutchinsons Regiment from January 1776 to January 1777 - we were discharged from prison, after being taken in Fort Washington, & came home in Company, in the month of January 1777.
Joseph Felt
Additional Affidavits. ]
I John Pope of Salem, baker, on oath testify that I know George Leach, now of Salem, served as a Soldier in Capt. Richardson's Company in Col. Hutchinson's Regiment in the Continental establishment from Jan. 4 1776 till we were taken prisoners at Fort Washington - I was in the same Company and we were released from captivity about the first of January. 1777 - we enlisted for a year.
John Pope
I Jonathan Neal of Salem, Merchant, on oath testify that I know that George Leach of Salem served as a private one year from Jan. 4 1776 to Jan. 4 1777 as a private in Capt. Richardson's Company in Hutchinson's Regiment on the continental establishment. Leach and I were in the same Company and taken prisoners at Fort Washington and released on parole in Jan. 4 1777.
Jonathan Neal
E/522/3: June. 10. 1818 Then Jonathan Neal Esq. and Mr. John Pope subscribed and made oath to the above affidavits - before me
Brig. Merrill Dist. Pac. S.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ss. On this fourth day of April A.D. 1818, before me Samuel Putnam, one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth, Personally appeared, George Leach, and Joseph Felt and severalty subscribed and made Oath to the truth of their declarations annexed - and it appears to my satisfaction that the said George Leach, served more than nine months in the War of the revolution, on the Continental Establishment against the common Enemy - and I hereby certify and transmit the Testimony in the case to the Hon. Secretary of the War Department.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand, and cause the seal of the said Court to be affixed, the day & year above written -
S. Putnam Just } S. J. Court of Mass. }
I further certify that Joseph Felt, John Pope and Jonathan Neal are credible and disinter- ested Witnesses, and that said Leach is very poor and destitute of property
S. Putnam Just. } S. J. Court of Mass. }

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex Js.
I, Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth aforesaid in + for the County aforesaid hereby certify to all whom these presents may concern that the aforesaid Hon: Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court as aforesaid, that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said Court and the signature aforesaid is his proper hand
Attest " Ichabod Tucker, Clk.
E/Sect 15: I further certify that Benjamin Merrill Esq. who has certified the aforesaid Affidavits of Neal and Pope is a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to administer oaths - and that the aforesaid is his signature
Ichabod Tucker, Clk.
George Beach
24p
not on rolls
Collet

No. 1092 George Leach
Salem Essex Co Sep 18
aged 64 fishman crippled? worth $7.50.
Adp. taken Oct 20 N.B. Please to address in reply
to Bray Merrill Salem.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Essex ss. At the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth, begun and held at Salem within and for the County of Essex on the fifth Tuesday of October A. D. 1820.
Present Hon. Isaac Parker, Chief Justice George Thatcher Charles Jackson Samuel Putnam & Samuel S. Wilde, Associate Justices.
In open court here, being a Court of record for said Commonwealth within said County, proceeding according to the course of the Common Law with a jurisdiction un- limited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and impris- onment, George Leach, resident in Salem in said County, who is named in Pension certificate N o 1092 under seal of the War Department of the United States, dated June 30 th 1818. issued on his application made on 4 th April 1818. and now in his possession, appears and exhibits the following.
Schedule
containing the whole of his estate and income, his necessary clothing & bedding excepted, to wit,
An old table $2.00. 6. old chairs $2.50. . . . . $4.50 3 prints, old, of Gen ls Washington, Putnam, & Lee. . . . . " 75 P ce and irons 0.50. battle, wedges, axes & saw, 1.50 - 2.00
And the said Leach declares that he is sixty four years of age - by occupation he is a fisherman - that he has one arm stiff and disabled by a fall from the mast-head of the Privateer Tyran- icide in 1777. That he has no real estate, and no family except a wife - That his brother, for  brother Capt Williams, from motives of charity permits them to occupy one room in a house rent free.
Signed George X Leach mark
and

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him before The Hon. William Wetmore Samuel Putnam, a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I George Leach do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred & 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,
his George X Leach mark Essex Jp. S.T.C. Oct. Term, 1820.
Subscribed and sworn to before me by said Leach P. Putnam, Judge of the Court aforesaid
Whereupon all and singular the premises being seen and fully understood by the Court, the Court here is of opinion that the value of the property contained in the said schedule is seven dollars and twenty five cents.
Wm. Schadd Tucker, Clerk.

To all people,
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 seven dollars twenty five cents —
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 twenty second day of November A.D. 1820.
Attest, Ichabod Tucker, Clerk.