Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 37638, for Elisha Lord, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Lord, Elisha
S 37638
CONTENTS

11. 580 R Dist. of Maine.
Elisha Lord,
of York county, in the state of Massach'tts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brooks, of the Massach'tts line, for the term of two years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist. of Maine, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9. of June, 1819 and sent to Benjamin Greene, judg. York, Dist. of Maine. —
  Arrears to 4th of March, 1819. —  87.43.     Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. Sept. 2  48 "     10 mo. 24  1819. 8  135.43.    30      8 4      31      { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
524-11 York

37638 Rev  INVALID.
File No. 37638
Elisha Lord
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 248
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
York ss. On this eighteenth day of April A.D. 1819 before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth personally appear David Knox & Joseph Parsons both of Lebanon in said County, two credible and disinterested witnesses, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, they upon their oaths do say that they are well acquainted with Elisha Lord of Lebanon aforesaid, and that he the said Elisha Lord in the fall of the year A.D. 1781 did enlist as a private soldier in the Continental Army, for the term of three years, and that he did serve in Capt. Bates Comp'd Col of Brooks Reg't from the time of his enlistment until the month of December A.D. 1783 when he was honorably discharged at West Point N. York.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the day & year above said - Brady Greene

Eliza Lord (Private)
Brooks Mass. Regt.
1701 to Dec. 1703
of April 10/10
Adm o
proof of Service wanting
This affidavit proves his service by the testimony of Capt Knox & Deputy Hovey, two disinterested & credible witnesses. The certificate of these Admini- tered by myself I have herunto annexed. - Prof. Greene

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. } ON this Seventh day of April A. D. 1818,
before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appears Elisha Lord aged fifty four years resident in Lebanon in said county of York, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration 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:"—
That he the said Elisha Lord in the fall of the year Seventeen hundred & Eighty one for three  enlisted  years , as a private Soldier in the Continental Army under Capt Joseph Bates of the Regiment commanded by Col John Brooks , of the Massachusetts line for the term of Three years, and continued to do his duty in said Company and Regiment untill the close of the war  whole term for which he had enlisted had expired when he was honorably discharged (in the month of December Seventeen hundred & Eighty Three) at West Point,
And the said Elisha Lord further states (a fact proved by the certificates of the Selectmen and overseers of the Poor of the Town of Lebanon)
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj s Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Elisha Lord did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do 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 before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
Twentyfifth day of June
Anno Domini, 1818.
Benj s Greene