Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33183, for Samuel Temple, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Temple, Samuel
S 33183
CONTENTS

Indication on Roll 20. 1820 to Shaham Eugene, Mays
Massachusetts Rolls.
292
Samuel Temple, 4
Capt Grant
Private
Massachusetts line '80 - 3 years
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 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th of June 1818 and sent to the Hon. Sam d . Dana, Boston.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r . 1818.
4 months 22/30. $37.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Acton Middlesex Co.

Samuel Temple

Common Wealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered, that on this thirteenth — day of April 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 Middlesex, being a Court of Record duly established by law, within the Commonwealth aforesaid) comes Samuel Temple — of Acton — in said County of Middlesex, and on Oath declares, that he served in the war of the Revolution, against the common enemy
for the space of five years, and months seven, he served three months at Rhode Island in Capt. Grants Company of Col. Norths Regiment. He went again to Rhode Island two months under Capt. Bartimaster, in Col. Prince Regiment. In the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty ninety nine, he served nine months in Col. Biglows Regiment. He then went six months into Col. Brooks Regiment. During this year the Town of Acton procured him, to go into the Army for three years upon the Continental establishment, he was ordered into the Company of Capt. John Kelley, in the Massachusetts Artillery, where he served three years and was honorably discharged by Major Genl. Know on the twenty second day of December 1783.
He is now lately six years old, is destitute of property and
— by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he stands in need of assistance, from his country for support. —
Isorell Temple
Thus made, taken, subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid at Acton — in said County of Middlesex
Sam d Dana

1444
Samuel Temple
442 Roxbury June 1818
AM

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA , Esquire, Chief Justice,
and WILLIAM WETMORE , and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT , Esquires, } 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, Samuel Temple resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 992 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, Samuel Temple 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 thirteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen “Given at the War Office of the United States, this eleventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen L. S. 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,
Real Estate - none.
Personal Estate viz,
  4 swine of the value of 20.00 1 scythe 1.00 $21.00   2 sickles .99 2 axes 1.50 1 hoe .17 shovel .50 2.50   1 dung fork .50 crockery glass & pewter ware 3.00 3.50   Tea spoons .50 brown earthen .70 4 chains .34 1.59   knives & forks .75 8 tables 1.00 chest of drawers .67 2.42   Looking glass .99 iron ware 4.25 wooden ware .75 5.39   2 bandlesticks .25 paddious .50 shovel & tongs .67 1.42   Bellows .25 table cloth .42 .67   $38.43 
Samuel Temple
And the said Samuel Temple having been first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served about three years and eleven months as a Private in the Revolutionary war, the

two last years and eight months of said time in Capt. John Lilly's company of Artillery in the Regi- ment commanded by Col. John Train Massachusetts line all which services are more particularly specified in his original declaration on file in the war office dated April 13, 1818 - that he is sixty eight years of age a husbandman by occupation but is unable to per- form much labour by reason of infirmities of age - that his family consists of his wife Jerusha aged sixty years and his son Elisha aged sixteen years.
Samuel Pemple.
Sworn & declared to before me
Sam l Dana Judge.

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,
4 I, Samuel Temple 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.
Samuel Temple
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Samuel Temple took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana, Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, 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
forty eight dollars & fifty three cents
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 20 th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

33 183 Rev INVALID.
File No. 88,188
Samuel Temple
Rev War
Act: March 18 th 1818
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 415
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Samuel Temple in the Massachusetts Artillery Regiment, being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the Twentyfirst Day of December
1783
By the General's Command,
Wm M c Leod
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment
Sam d Cooper adjut t

Samuel Temple
Correct by Genl. Knox Discharge and on Roll for 9 months

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department 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 thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  Samuel Temple Personally appeared and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed. And at the same time he exhibited to me, the discharge therein described —
from which it appears to me, that the said Samuel Temple did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, more than nine months. Upon the Continental establishment —
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 & the discharge aforesaid 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 thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Sam d Dana