Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33002, for Joseph Loring, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Navy
Loring, Joseph
NUMBER
S. 33002
CONTENTS
Res. - Mass.

18091 Massachusetts
Joseph Spring
of Boston in the State of Mass ts who was a Boston Light Marine in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Col Tucker of the Mass - line, for the term of 10 months Navy
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass ts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 d of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th of March and sent to Abraham Dyer Cambridge Mass ts
Arrears to 4th of March 1821 204 70 Semi-ann. all ce ending 1 Sept r 1821 405
32 29 4 / 30 31
$ 312 76
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. } (1 May 1820)
Vol 2 - p 121
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Joseph Loring
Abraham Biglow Agt. Cambridge, Mass: Recd. 31 Jan: 1821

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex Ss.
At the circuit court of common pleas for the Middle circuit begun and holden at Cambridge within and for the county of Middlesex on the second Monday of December A. D. 1820 & continued by adjournment to Jan'y 15 th A. D. 1821.
Before the Hon. Samuel Dana Esq. Chief Justice & William Wetmore Esq. Associate & Stephen Minot Justices of said Court.
In open court here being a court of record for said circuit 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 Loring resident in Groton in said county and circuit appears and exhibits to the court here a schedule subscribed by him as follows to wit
Schedule:-
containing his whole estate and income his necessary clothing and bedding excepted to wit:
Real Estate, None.
Personal Estate - None.
Income, nothing.
Joseph Loring
And the said Joseph Loring does on his oath declare that he is seventy four years of age - that he is a husbandman by occupation but by reason of infirmities of age is wholly unable to support himself by labour and that he has no family. Samuel Dana Ch. Jus. as aforesaid.

And at the same time he produces to the court here the following oath taken and subscribed by him before the Hon. Samuel Dana a judge of said court as aforesaid to wit:-
I Joseph Loring do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and 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 an 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 & by me subscribed. So help me God.
Joseph Loring
Middlesex ss. b. b. b. s. Dec. Term A.D. 1820
Then the above named Joseph Loring took and subscribed the aforesaid oath before me,
Samuel Dana,
Judge of said court.
[Handwritten initials]

I, Abraham Biglow clerk of the court afore- said do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are true- ly 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 afore- said schedule is nothing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Cambridge in said county of Middlesex on this twenty third day of January 1821. —

Joseph Lotung
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

Commonwealth of Massachussetts
Be it known remembered, that on the second day of June in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and eighteen before me Samuel Dana Chief justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middle in the Commonwealth aforesaid being a Court of record duly established by Law Comrs Joseph Loring now President at Townsend in said County of Middlesex and on Oath declares, that he served in the War of the revolution against the common Enemy seven  thirteen months — That in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight  hundred and seventy nine  eighty being then a resident of Lexington in said County of Middlesex, he enlisted into the Naval service of the United States upon the Continental establishment, about the last of August in that year he was  enlisted as a Marine under Capt. Dalmes, Capt. of Marines on board the Boston Frigate then commanded by Samuel Tucker Esq. & then lying in the Harbor of Boston, he immediately went on board, & remained in the Harbor about 10 weeks (as well as he can recollect) & proceeded to the Gulf of Mexico where they experienced a violent storm & went into Charleston South Carolina harbor, when the ship was refitted, she did not proceed to sea, but was kept in Port until the British Fleet arrived, & the Boston was hauled up to the wharf, her Guns taken out, & carried to the Fort, and she was finally surrendered at the Capture of Genl. Lord Cornwallis, the Crew of the Boston was put on board the Prison Ships where this Declarant remained about one month, and then was carried to Philadelphia, & went into Barracks, where he remained till the next July, when he was informed that he was at liberty to return home — on the first day of July the crew all departed & having about twenty of his Ship mates, arrived at New Bedford by Land in about fifteen days — He is now Seventy years old, and so destitute of property that he stands in need of assistance from his family for support — since On the nineteenth of April Seventeen hundred and and Seventy, at Lexington Battle, his Brothers have since been & all

his personal property including the tools of the Farm and the cloathing of the family were destroyed, and he has never fully regained his loss at that period —
1808
Thus made, taken, subscribed and sworn to at Boston in the County of Middlesex, the day and year aforesaid —
Sam. Dana
Joseph Loring

A copy of the origl. Pension certificate issued to Loring, was sent to the Hon: J Locke, 3 Jan: 1825 -

Wish for a copy of certificate for pension for Jos. Loring of Massachusetts line The original is detained by a person to whom it was delivered and a suit is now pending to recover damages, and a certified copy is wanted — as evidence to support the suit —
Yours sincerely M c Lean
Minister of Health & Pensions

Joseph Loring
10 mis. Boston fugate
Proof of service and Judges certificate of indigence wanted.
Evidence adduced
Ref d J. Ham d ?
27 March 1821

To the Secy of War
Sir I again send the application of Joseph Loring to be placed on the pension list - the long delay which has been suffered by the Applicant may require some explanation. When he made his application to me in June 1818, he knew not what proof he could procure & did not know how far his own declaration w d answer - Last Winter I learned that Capt. Tucker was alive at Bristol in Maine, & I wrote him on the subject, he had no roll of his Crew in the Boston Frigate and could not identify the Marine, unless he saw him, he pointed out of his Crew in Boston last upon inquiry it appeared that he had Lieut. Bristol is more than 200 miles from Falmouth & old Mr L despair of ever getting there - But Capt. Tucker being appointed an Editor of Dist ct & so went him to Portland last Week, & I advised Mr L's Son, to carry his Father there 120 miles which he did & succeeded in getting his Disch ce which appears to be very full, & it is hoped will be satisfactory - Capt. Tucker, & Mr Jones late Gov r of Rhode Island & Mr L. are the only known Survivors of the Crew of the Boston Frigate which was surrendered at Charleston in 1779. - I have certified his indigence as required by the indorsement on his Papers. -
I am with high respect & great esteem y r Obed Serv t
Boston Nov. 13. 1820
Jam. Dana

ment of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the second day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  Joseph Loring personally appeared and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
I, Samuel Tucker of Bristol in the District of Maine being duly sworn, depose and say, that in the revolutionary war, I commanded the Boston Frigate, being a vessel in the continental service. — Some time about the first of October in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine Joseph Loring, now residing in Townsend in the State of Massachusetts entered in the continental service as a marine on board said Frigate; — that said Loring continued in said service as a marine sometimes doing duty as an officer of Marines until said Frigate was taken at the siege of Charleston, South Carolina; that said Loring was then taken a prisoner and continued a prisoner until the last of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty when he was exchanged at Philadelphia and was soon after discharged

by order of the continental congress. —
And I do further state that I am not positive as to the exact time said Loring was in the service; it must have been ten months at least, and according to the best of my recollection all who went with me on that cruise were in the continental service not far from eleven months. — And I do further declare that the said Joseph Loring who served with me is now here present, and to my certain knowledge is the same person who signed the application herunto annexed
Samuel Tucker
United States of America Maine District ss.
Be it remembered that on the eighth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty

personally came Samuel Guelker, above named to me well known as a person of undoubted credibility and made oath that the facts by him stated in the foregoing affidavit are wholly true
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused my official seal to be affixed -
Albion H. Parris Judge of the United States, in and for said Maine District

ment of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the second day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personally appeared Joseph Loring and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Joseph Loring did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the second day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Sam d Dana
I Samuel Dana Chief justice as described in the foregoing Certificate - Do hereby certify to the Secretary of War, that I am personally well acquainted with Joseph Loring before named who is the Father of my Tenant John H. Loring, and

and with his circumstances, and I well know that he is wholly destitute of property, by reason of his great age is unable to labor, & is supported by the bounty of his said Son assisted in a small degree by one of his Sisters. — Given under my hand at Boston the 13 th of Decr AD 1820. —
Sam. Dana
Joseph Loring
Proof of service and proper certificate of intelligence wanted.
Evidence advanced
Rev. Geo. A. D. 1821
27 March 1821

Invalid WIDOW, &c.
Mary File No. 33002
Joseph Loring & Marine Inmate "Boston" Rev War
Act 18th March 1818
Index : Vol. 2 , Page 121
[Arrangement of 1870.]