Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,477, for Israel Sweat, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Nass
Sweat, Israel or Sweet.
NUMBER _____
NUMBER 8 37477
CONTENTS

10.366
Maine Q
Israel Sweet Sweat or of Westbrook dist: in the state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dose of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years -
Enscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of April 1810
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of May 1819 - and sent to Mrs. Mary Sweet Portland, Maine.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - $11 3/4 / 50 81.03 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819. - 48.00
$129.03
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Account Continued
Application for July 3 1820 to Mrs. Mary Sweet Portland, Maine

N153. Great Sweat
Copy
(10.300) (10.300) DISCOUNT.
THE DISHONOR

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixth . . day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the fourteenth day of June . . in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS , Judge of said Court.
ON this fourteenth day of June . . in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Isreal Sweat . . aged sixty two . . years, resident in Portland . . in said District, 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. George Smith in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Dose 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 twenty eighth day of April . . A. D. 1810, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 10365 . . 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.
Isreal Sweat
Sworn to and declared, on the fourteenth day of June . A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Albion K. Parris
} U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate — I have none —
Personal estate — a few articles of necessary household furniture.
Isreal Sweat
Sworn to June 14, 1820
Before Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Isreal Sweat, . . . . . who, by occupation am a joiner . . . . . which I am not able to pursue by reason of a constant rheumatism
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Marcia Sweat (wife) 56 as well as women of her age generally are   Isreal Sweat (son) about 21 is able & willing to aid in the support of his father and family   Mary Sweat daughter " 20 is healthy & willing to work   Huldah Sweat — " — " 16 " — " — " —   Abigail Sweat — " — " 13 as well as children of this age  
Isreal Sweat
Sworn to Before Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 four . . . . . dollars and eighty five . . . cents. and no more
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fourteenth . . . day of June . . . A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Junr
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$4.85

Israel Swett Private Bkly Map. line 1777-3 year dec 28' April 1818
Roll.
Admitted.

To the Honorable WILLIAM WIDGERY , one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
Israel Swift of Westbrook in the Maine District, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicant's reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support.
And your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a private soldier to the Company of the First Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the 10th day of July one thousand seven hundred and 75 and that he left said service on or about the 10th day of July one thousand seven hundred and 82
WHEREFORE, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions of the Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Dated at PORTLAND, this 10th day of March 1818.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the 28th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, WILLIAM WIDGERY , one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District—the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Israel Swift the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Israel Swift farther offered in evidence the deposition of John S. L. ... with the annexed Certificate.
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Israel Swift served in the revolutionary war as alleged in his application, against the common enemy.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this 28th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second.
Wm Widgery
{ Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
CUMBERLAND, ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said county, certify that Hon. WILLIAM WIDGERY , is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is his own proper signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court, this 30th day of July A. D. 1818.
Geo. Bradbury

I John Sanborn of Standish in the District of Maine being now sixty years of age testify & say that I am personally acquainted with Israel Sweet now present, that I enlisted in May 1877 in West Smith Company C. 1 st Vols. I engaged and served in the same for three years, that said Sweet belonged to the company I joined, when I joined it, and served in the same till within a few months before I was discharged, when he left it, his time of service having expired, was honorably discharged.
John Sanborn
Signed & sworn to before me this 11 th July 1888
Sam Wadsworth Judge
I James Webb of Westbrook in the District of Maine being now sixty three years of age testify and say that I am personally acquainted with the writer in named Israel Sweet, that I am knowing to his having enlisted as he has stated in his declaration and served the period of his enlistment from the discharge of the company during the whole period of his service.
James Webb
Sworn to before me this 11 th day of July 1888 Asa H. Dinsmore
Notary that the above named James Webb is the person described in and who executed the foregoing affidavit.
Asa H. Dinsmore
Commissioner of the Superior Court.
Sworn to before me this 11 th day of July 1888 I the undersigned Clerk of the court in said cause, certify that the above named Asa H. Dinsmore was at the time when he administered the oath to the above named James Webb a magistrate duly qualified to administer the same and that the signature to the above is his own true and correct signature.
Isaac

S1216 - Inch 10. 38
Pension Office
Con.
me Sept 19
Dr. Washington City
Hon. Secretary of War

Portland, March 3, 1838.
To the Hon Secretary of War.
Sir - Having served in the War of the Revolution, as a Soldier in the cause of Liberty. I became, about the year 1819, a Pensioner of the United States, and have received my Pension regularly, of the Agent at this place, he exacting for his services, since the time of my first receiving said Pension, between thirty and forty dollars. My object in writing this letter, is to inquire whether he has any right to make the above named exaction, as I have been informed that he is paid for his services by Government.
By informing me in relation to the above you will confer a lasting favor upon an old man who actually needs all that his country has seen fit to award him to subsist upon
Your Obedt Servt, Israel Sweat. Hon Sec'y of War of the U. S. of America }

37 477 Recy  INVALID.
File No. 37,477
Israel Street
Rev Rev Ind
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 410
[Arrangement of 1870.]