Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 15399, for Consider Studly, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Study consider or Studley Oliver
W 15399
CONTENTS

Consider Study...
3644
Oct 1895
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Schedule of the Estate of Consider Studly, of Lancaster in the County of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of May 1. 1820.
Real Estate. 22 acres 800 rods of plain land, badly fenced, with a poor low house thereon } $225.00
Personal Property, viz    12 Chairs  2.00    3 Tables  2.00    1 Case of drawers  1.50    Andirons, Shovel & Tongs  1.20    Iron Ware  1.25    1 Brass Kettle  4.50    Crockery Ware  1.50    Pewter, Knives & Forks  1.50    1 Cow  16.00     258.45  
Note against Martin Purper 130.00
$386.45
I am by occupation a Farmer, but owing to a spasmodic affection, as well as age, I am unable to do but little labour. My family consists of myself, wife, and one daughter. My wife is nearly fifty eight years of age, and so feeble and infirm that she can do no great to contribute towards her support. My daughter is 15 years old, and is of a weakly constitution & unable by her labour to support herself. And if I should be deprived of my pension, I should not be able to support myself and family without the aid of publick or private charity. I am indebted to divers individuals to the amount of $200. over and above what I have due to me.
Consider Studly

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this tenth day of July 1820,
personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, Consider Steadly aged fifty nine years, resident in Leicester 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 into the land service of the United States as a private in the month of June 1781, and served as such until the 24th day of July 1782, when I rec d an honorable discharge which accompanied my original application. I belonged to Capt. Abner Dyer's company in the 10th reg t of Mass. Line, commanded by Col. Benjamin Tupper. Under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, I rec d a Pension Certificate numbered 3,644, and my original application bore date the 13th day of April 1818.
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.
Consider Steadly
Sworn to and declared, on the tenth day of July, 1820 before the said Court.
Attest, Abijah Bigelow. Clk.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the 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 three hundred & eighty six dollars and forty five cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this tenth day of July 1820.
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

3644.
Massachusetts Roll
Consider Studley, 4
Corporal.
Massachusetts line - 1781. 1 year In the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of Oct 1818 and sent to the Hon. Isaac Parker Worcester Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sept - 1818 37.86 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 48.00
Arrear to No 22/30 $ 85.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
Discontinued
Leicester, Worcester Co.
Information sent to Mr. [illegible] dated 19 Sep. 1820. [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]

Consider Study— Lancaster
Not on Roll
DM
Admitted

State of Massachusetts
Converse Studley — a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Leicester in the County of Worcester — in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the middle of April in the year 1781.
I entered and was engaged in the Land — service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to to the 21. of July 1782
as a Soldier & a Corporal — against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Captain Gaylord's Company, in the 10 th Mass ts Regiment, commanded by Col n Benjamin Tupper , that previous to this I served about two years in various corps against the same enemy unlawful and that I left the service on the 21. day of July, 1782 —
and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of about fifty eight years
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Converse Studley.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18 th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Isaac Parker Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Converse Studley the abovenamed Converse Studley and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Witness my hand at the seat of said Court the day aforesaid Isaac Parker C.J.

No 37.
Massachusetts -
Olive Studley, deceased, widow of Comider Studley, who was a private & corporal, in the Massachusetts line. -
Mass Increased from $44 per ann.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 69 Dollars 16
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. & ending on the 2 d March, 1845, when she
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Sept: 1845 - and sent to Elijah Clark,
Brighton, Massachusetts.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
& 17 th June, 1844
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 35
18 th Sept: 1845, repd.
agt. by letter -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } County of Middlesex } ss.
On this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Hon. Samuel P.P. Gay Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Middlesex State aforesaid, Olive Studly a resident of Groton County of Middlesex State aforesaid, aged Seventy Six years who being first duly sworn according to law with on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision 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 Consider Studly late of Lancaster County of Worcester State aforesaid, deceased, that said Consider her late husband served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution as stated in his declaration for a pension under Act of Congress passed the 18 th of March 1818 which pension he the said Consider received until his death save a short interval during which an investigation was had as to the amount of his property.
all of which will more fully appear on reference to the records on file in the War Department and to the papers and documents which the said Consider forwarded to the Department in order to establish his claim to a pension under act of Congress passed March 18 th 1818.
She further declares that she was married to the said Consider Studly on the twenty seventh day of October in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty five that her husband the aforesaid Consider died on the twenty eighth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, and that she has not been married since his decease as will more fully appear on reference to the proofs herewith annexed; That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four - B3 - at the time above stated -
Olive Studly Subscribed Sworn to in open Court by said Olive Studly the day & year first above written J. P. Gay Judge of Probate

Declarations of 2669 Sincerely for order i.e. & c July 18th
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H. G. Lamson C. Cambridge
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middletown ss I Isaac Fisher Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that Samuel P. D. Fay Esq. is the judge of said Court of Probate & that his signature written on the foregoing paper is his genuine signature: - I also certify that Bradford Russell Esq. is a justice of the Peace within & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that his signature written on the annexed paper is his genuine signature. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court - This twenty sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight Isaac Fisher Reg

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex
I Joseph Bugg of Groton County and State aforesaid do upon oath testify and declare that I am forty three years of age that I was formerly well acquainted with Consider Steady late of Lancaster County of Worcester State aforesaid deceased that he was a Pensioner of the United States that he died about five years ago - that his widow Olive Steady is still living - was always reputed his lawful wife - I has not been married since the decease of her late husband the aforesaid Consider Steady -
Joseph Bugg
Middlesex ss. August 11 th 1838. Then personally appeared Joseph Bugg known to me to be a credible witness, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed before me.
Bradford Russell Justice of the Peace & License in for said County

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex
ss. On this twenty eighth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty five, personally, before George S. Doolittle, a justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid, appeared Olive Rugg a resident of Grafton, County and State aforesaid, aged fifty years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress of the 11th of July 1838, and March 3rd 1843 which declaration she makes in behalf of herself and Oliver Studley her brother, and Sarah M. Studley her sister the only surviving children of Consider Studley and Olive Studley late deceased pensioners of the United States. That according to her best knowledge and belief her late father the said Consider Studley was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and that said service was performed by him while a resident of the town of Wrentham, then in the County of Suffolk but now in the County of Norfolk, State aforesaid; that in the year 1780 he served at West Point, for the term of six or seven months; that in the year 1781 he served at Scituate in the State of Rhode Island and in the same year he enlisted in the service of the service of the United States for the period of three years and served in the Regiment of Col. Benjamin Tupper until he was discharged; that at the time of his decease he was a pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818; that her late mother, Olive Studley drew a pension of forty four dollars per annum under the act of 1838; and the act of 1843. And she now claims an increase of the pension of her said mother agreeably to the proof which may

be furnished of the additional service of her said father; and she further declared that her mother the said Olive Studley was married to the said Consider Studley in the town of Franklin in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, and that the said Consider Studley died in Lancaster in said State in the year 1832, and her mother the said Olive Studley died at Groton in said State on the second day of March in the year one thousand, eight hundred and forty five.
In presence of
Olive Rugg
On the day and year above written personally appeared the above named Olive Rugg and having first subscribed the foregoing declaration made oath to the truth of the same. I also certify that said Olive Rugg is personally known to me and is a credible witness. The enclosure on the first page of the words "of the service" was made before the deponent affixed her signature.
Geo. S. Brattle Justice of the Peace 1. H. Court of Middlesex.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston August 16 th 1843
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation George S. Boutwell was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex.
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey. Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } ss. County of Norfolk }
Town of Franklin August seventh eighteen Hundred and thirty eight
I Nathaniel Emmons, Pastor of the first congregational Society in the town of Franklin County and Commonwealth aforesaid, make the following extract from records of marriages made by me, and now in my possession Viz. October twenty seventh Seventeen hundred eighty five, married Consider Studley and Olive Mann of Wrentham.
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows. October 27-1785 married Consider Studley & Olive Mann of Wrentham.
I Nathaniel Emmons above named, depose and say, that I am Minister of the parish in Franklin aforesaid, and have in my possession the records of the church, and that the above is a true extract from the records, with the exceptions above named, as certified by me -
Nathaniel Emmons.
Pastor of the first Congregational Society in the town of Franklin County and Commonwealth aforesaid
Sworn before me
A. E. Daniels Just Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secy's Office Sept. 26. 1828.
I hereby certify that the within Alfred C. Daniels is a portion of the Penn law to the benefit of the poor Witness the Seal of the State.
John P. Bigelow
Secy of the Commonwealth

M.E.E.
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
July 23, 1928
J. C. L. Clark Lancaster Massachusetts
Sir:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 18399 , it appears that Consider Studly or Studley stated in April, 1818, that he was aged about fifty-eight years, in July, 1820, that he was fifty-nine years old, and stated in April, 1823, that he was aged sixty-three years. The place of his birth and the names of his parents are not given.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

Highbridge
Studly Consider Mass W 15399
Consider Studly Mass W. 15399
Highbridge

Confederate States Colored Troops. Another Col. Garrison says, in his 19th Mass. Regiment having served the full term of his engagement, is hereby discharged therefrom by the United States.
from your loving hand Bomb Supper held at the residence of the 20th Regt of Ind. Vol. Inf.
I verify that Lord Dudley hath turned in his Arms Ammunition and clothing.
John Taylor Co.

M c Truck M c William Zeufenburg Mrs. Conklin —
W 15349
Benjamin ... Southamp...
6/19/19
any that and

Permit the bearer Corporal Studley to pass to Danbury after a Deserter, and return as soon as he has accomplished his business New Hampshire State March 5 th 1862
Moses Knap Major Comd - with Mass. Key St.

1928-July 23, J.C.L. Clark advised age of sol. and list his place of birth and parents names also not in class - m.E.E.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15399
Clare Studley Widow of Consider Studley Esq.
Act: Mar 3 rd 1843-June 7, 1844
Index:—Vol. M , Page 245
[Arrangement of 1870.]