Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33181, for Joseph Taft, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Taft, Joseph
S. 33181
CONTENTS

11.887 R Massachusetts
Joseph Taft
of Norfolk Co. in the state of Massachusetts who was a musician in the regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney - of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th of June 1819 and sent to Princess Ware Esq. Wrentham, Norfolk County Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 , g.m. $79.48
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep. 1819  48
$127.48
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Joseph Taft Norfolk Co. Mass. 1818

33 181 Reg INVALID.
File No. 33, 181
Joseph Loft Musician Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 44
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Copy Deed of Joseph Taft
1134887 June 1819 Cont 25 Sep 1820
on
Sep '19

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
NORFOLK, ss.—CIRCUIT COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, SPECIAL SESSION, JULY 17, 1820.
On this Eighteenth day of July 1820 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record for said County, 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 Daff aged sixty two years, resident in Randolph in said County, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: I enlisted
in the month of January in the year 1776 under Captain Peter Witte Col. Dunning's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, and served more than eleven months my pension certificate is dated 1 May Seventh 1818 No. 11,887
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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.
Joseph Daff
Sworn to and declared, on the 18th day of July A. D. 1820 before
James Ward Judge of C.C.P. Thomas G. St. Circuit.
Horatio Townsend Clerk of the said Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of 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
and fifty cents. twenty four dollars
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty first day of July 1820
Horatio Townsend Clerk.

Schedule of my property is as follows, I have nothing except one shoe maker bench 1.50 and cash of pension money about 20.00 and the clothes on my back or wearing apparel
My occupation a shoe maker I have no family that depend on me for a livelihood and am not able to labor sufficient to earn 20 cents per day
Joseph Taft

Joseph Taft
not a note.
Proof of service in 1798
wanted.
Adm l

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk
ss.
On this twelfth day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Isaac Dyer of Wadsworth aged sixty years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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."
I, Isaac Dyer of Wadsworth in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby declare that I enlisted as a fifer in the war of the revolution against the common enemy for the term of one year on the continental establishment in the Massachusetts line under the command of Capt. Elias Wild and in the Regiment commanded by Col. Kimney in which I remained eleven months in the year 1776 at which time I was discharged for the remaining months of the year service by furlough at which time I again enlisted under Lieut. afterward Capt. Frost for the term of three years or during the war soon after which in consequence of ill health I received an honorable discharge from General William Heath at Boston I further declare that I am a citizen of the United States and that

I possess regular original discharges from the commanding Officers of the army which I have left - and that by reason of reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my Country for support and at this time have no further evidence to offer
Joseph Dast
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Joseph Dast did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com- mon enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. And I further certify that the said Joseph Dast is in reduced circumstances now, as he has done.
Guinus Ware
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss. 1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above cer- tificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

Additional Evidence

I Ziba Hayden of Canton in the county of Norfolk, a Pensioner of the United States, on oath declare that I served as a Soldier from Jan y 1 1776 to Jan y 1777 in Capt Elijah Vose Company in Col Greville's Reg t Mass: Line. That I well knew Joseph Taft of Randolph who served as a Soldier in Capt Silas Wilds Company in Col Fanny Regiment. He commenced his service in Jan y 1776 and continued in the Army till Nov r or December following when being sick he had leave to return home Ziba Hayden.
I Joshua Clarke of Randolph in the county of Norfolk on oath declare that I well knew Joseph Taft of 8 th Randolph - That in Jan y 1776 he enlisted in the Army of the U States at Cambridge for one year, he served in Capt Wilds Company in Col Fanny's Reg t Mass: Line, and continued in the Army till Nov r or December following when he had a furlough (being sick) I was in the Army at that time and know that he then left it Joshua Clarke
Comm th of Massachusetts
Norfolk ss Apr: 29. 1819. The above named Ziba Hayden & Joshua Clarke whom I believe to be disinterested & credible witnesses made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by them subscribed
Before me Jairus Ware Judge