Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32962, for John Lakeman, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Lakeman, John
NUMBER _____
S. 32962
CONTENTS

32 962 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,962
John Lakeman Sci Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 287
[Arrangement of 1870.]

7666
Massachusetts.
John Darriman of Ipswich in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gitch of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th March 1819; and sent to William Wetmore Esquire Salem Mass
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $ 87.43 Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 48.
$ 135.43
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Notification sent October 18. 1820 to Scholar Suckler Salem, Massachusetts

Moses Little Esq m . Colonel of the 12 Regiment of Foot Praised by the Thirteen United Free and Independent States of North America
To John Lake man Greeting
By virtue of the power and Authority to me given, in and by the Delegates From the said States, in Congress Assembled. I do by these presents By the consent and approbation of your captain, reposing special Trust and confidence in your Loyalty, Courage and Good Conduct. &c. And appoint you the s d John Lake man to be first Serj t in a Comp y in said regiment commanded by Abraham Dodge Esq m . you are Therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a serjeant In ordering and exercising s d Company in the service aforesaid commanding them to obey you as their serj t - and you are to Observe such orders and instructions as you shall from time to time receive from me or others of your Superior officers according To the Military rules and discipline, pursuant to the trust reposed In you for which this shall be your Sufficient Warrant Given
Under My Hand at Cambridge this 20 th Jenuy. 1776 Moses Little Col o

✓ John Lakeman 2
Enlisted Apr l 17 75
20 months
Admitted
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State of Massachusetts
I John Lake man a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Ipswich in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in the month of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred & seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of January in the year Seventeen hundred & seventy seven being one year & eight months
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Captain Abraham Dodge in Colonel Little's Regiment in the Massachusetts line
and that I left the service on the expiration of the term aforesaid being honorably discharged 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 eighty eight years - I have no other evidence in my power to offer than is herewith exhibited, being my appointment as a sergeant in said company. Jan'y 20, 1776.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
John Lake man
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this seventh 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 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the Subscriber One of the Associate Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit, within the State aforesaid & presiding pro re vice
the abovenamed John Lake man 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. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court
Wm Wetmore

7666.
John Lukeman
March 16 1819
Contd Sept 25 1820
Cash

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
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, John Lakeman of Ipswich resident in in said Circuit , who is named in Pension Certificate No. 7666 — now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, John Lakeman — — — — — late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight — — — — — dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of April — — — — — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
***** * L. S. * *****
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixteenth day of March — — — — — one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ."
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
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,
No Real Estate
No Personal Estate of any kind is dependent on charity for a support. Enlisted in April 1795 for eight months in Capt. Abraham Dodge's Company & Col. Moses Little's Regiment for eight months and served that term and in January 1776 enlisted again in the same Company & Regiment in the Massachusetts line on the Continental Establishment for one year and served the whole of the year and was discharged. Was in the battles

of Bunker hill & Long Island, was wounded in the knee in the latter battle.
Is aged eighty one years and unable to labour - has no wife or family.
John Lakeman.
Essex ss. July 12. 1820. Then the within named John Lakeman made oath that the said schedule and statement, by him subscribed, are true, before me,
Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, John Lakeman 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 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 and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
John Lakeman
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed John Lakeman took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me
Stephen Minot , Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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
dollars
nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July — A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk