Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37620, for Joseph Legrow, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Legrow, Joseph or Legro
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S 37620
CONTENTS

15.652 Q  Abame
Joseph Sargrow
of Hancock in the dis.  state of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Glover of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
scribed on the roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of July 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of Oct 1819 and Rev. M. Kinsley Esq.  Hampden (Maine)
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819  11 09
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Oct 1820  48.
8. 2. 83 1. 6 11 89
159 89
69-20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Hancock
31 21
Continued
31
Notification sent October 11, 1820 to Rev. M. Kinsley, Hampden, Maine

Joseph L. Garrow NO 15.652
W. H. ...
1819
...

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Real Estate none —
Cooking utensils & Small assortment of Brackery ware Few articles of Household Furniture in all of the value of ten dollars —
Annual Income nothing except my Pension
Joseph his Legrow mark
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Joseph Legrow who, by occupation am a Labourer which I am unable to pursue by reason of Rheumatism & extreme debility
NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support. Sarah Legrow 81 Nothing past Labour Joseph his Legrow mark
Hancock
State of Maine
I, MASON SHAW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Third Eastern Circuit, in the County of Hancock and State of Maine, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 ten dollars and  cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighteenth day of July A. D. 1820.
Mason Shaw Clerk of the said Court for the County of Hancock.

STATE OF MAINE.
Hancock ss....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the third Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Coastine within and for the County of Hancock on the second  day of July being the eleventh day of said month and by adjournment from day to day, on the fourteenth day of said month in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable William Crosby & James Campbell Judges of said Court.
ON this fourteenth day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared in Open Court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Joseph Legrow aged sixty nine years, resident in Vinalhaven in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a Private in the company commanded by Capt. Glover in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Glover in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the thirty first day of July A. D. 1819, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 15,032 was granted. 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; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Joseph his Legrow mark
Sworn to and declared, on the 14 th day of July A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE the Court
{ One of the Judges of the said Court.
attest Mason Shaw Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
PENOBSCOT, ss.
ON the twenty first day of July A. D. 1819, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Third Eastern Circuit, of the Court of Common Pleas, in said Commonwealth, including the Counties of Hancock,, Washington and Penobscot : Personally appeared Joseph Legnan who, being by me first duly sworn according to law, on his oath made the statement and declaration by him subscribed, and hereto annexed, 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."
And thereupon, I the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said Joseph Legnan did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in his said declaration against the common enemy, and that he has made it appear to me, that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Which proceedings and the testimony annexed, being all he has been able to produce, I now transmit to the Secretary, for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and caused the seal of said Court to be hereto affixed M. Rinsley Esquire, Judge of the Court as aforesaid.

Joseph Legrow the mass line Col. Glover 1776-1781
The applicant Adm. Comm. pens. 31 July 1819.
Hampden Maine. the willow

I Joseph Legrow of Mt. Desert in the County of Piscataquis & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty eight, do hereby certify & say that on or about the first day of January 1775. I enlisted into the service of the United States in the Continental Army, for one year: in Capt. John Glowers Jr. Company, & Regiment commanded by Col John Glowers, in the Massachusetts Line: I was at the Battle of Trenton capture of the Hessians: and continued in the said Company & Regt. to the end of the year: when I recd. an honorable discharge, but not in writing: I am now under reduced circumstances & stand in need of the assistance of my Country for support. —
I hereby further testify that I made my application to be placed on the Pension list agreeably to the provisions of the Act of Congress, on or about the first of April 1818. But through a misapprehension, it was not made to a judge who was by law authorized to receive & execute it: I now pray that my application may be considered as of that date; and my Pension comm- ence from & after that time. —
Witness M. Kinsley
Joseph his X Legrow Mark

37 620 Rev INVALID.
File No. 87,620
Joseph Legrow Rev Rev 1880
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 508
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Certificate of Lieut. Col. Gabriel Johannot —

I Gabriel Johonnot of Hampden in the County of Penobscot District of Maine, late a Colonel, in the service of the United States do hereby certify that am well acquainted with Joseph Legrow, now of Morristown, an applicant for a Pension as a Revolutionary Soldier; and I hereby certify that the said Joseph Legrow lived in my neighbourhood in the year 1776. and that he enlisted into the fourteenth fourteenth Regiment and into the Company of Capt. John Glover of said Regiment, in the service of the United States, which Regiment was commanded by Col. John Glover, - he enlisted sometime in the month of January 1776 and continued a private soldier in said Regiment until the last of the said year 1776. he was in the Regiment at the capture of the Hessians in Oct. 1776. and performed the duties of a good soldier to the end of his enlistment & was honorably discharged abt. the last day of Decemr. 1776. to the best of my Recollection. Gabriel Johonnot, L t Colonel.
Col Johonnot above named has obtained his certificate of Pension, for his services as L t Colonel in the Regiment and at the time when the said Legrow was a soldier.
Att. M c Kinley J. C. C. S.

Joseph Legros Affidavit
Joseph Legros

I Joseph Legro do testify and say that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six I enlisted enlisted in Capt John Glovers Company in the fourteenth Regiment for the term of one year and served the time that I enlisted for and was discharged by General Order after I returned home I entered on board the Schooner Warren of Eight Tons Commanded by William Burk in the service of the United States on board of said Schooner I served one Cruise and after our return I was discharged
Witness Davis Wasgatt
Joseph his Legro mark
Hancock Is Mount Duxbury 15 th  April 1818 Then the above named Joseph Legro made solemn Oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him. Subscribed as near as he can recollect before me
Davis Wasgatt Justice of the Peace

I Davis Wasgate of Mt. Desert in the County of Hancock Esq. An Oath do hereby say that on the 15 th day of April 1818, Joseph Leger within named applied to me as a Magistrate to procure his Pension as a Revolutionary Soldier: And made the within Declaration for that purpose: And I made & subscribed the within Certificate at that time: Soon after this I learned the process required by Law & informed him of it; he being an obscure man living on an Island 70 miles from Judge Kinsley did not make his application to him till some time the next year: probably thinking that I should be able to perform the service for him —
Davis Wasgate
Subscribed J. A. K. 1819. Then Personally Davis Wasgate above named & made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed. Before me
M. Kinsley J. C. C. Meas.