Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32939, for Isaac Keith, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Keith, Isaac
S. 32939
CONTENTS

7084
S
Massachusetts
Isaac Heath
of Bridgewater in the state of Massachusetts who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel W Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts — at the rate of 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of March 1819 and sent to the Hon W Sampson House of Reps W Hatz
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 — $ 87.19 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819. 48.
$ 135.19
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Bridgewater (Continued)
Let to Hon N.B. Borden W.H. Mar 15. 1836
(Faint vertical text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side)

Isaac Keith
7086
Feb 19
AM

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this seventeenth day of July A.D. 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Isaac Smith aged sixty one years, resident in Bridgewater in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of the last three years in Capt. Smith's company in Col. Michael Jackson's Regt. Massachusetts Line to the close of the war & three months thereafter the close thereof and that he has received a pension certificate dated 5th March 1819 - and numbered 7004 in pursuance of his original Declaration made 8th April A.D. 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
Smith's company in Col. Michael Jackson's Regt. Massachusetts Line to the close of the war & three months thereafter the close thereof and that he has received a pension certificate dated 5th March 1819 - and numbered 7004
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. I am a husbandman but in consequence of infirmity & weakness am unable to do much work. I have in my family a wife aged 59 years both of whom are invalids. A son of mine also lives in my family who is twenty nine years of age. I have due to me about ten dollars some about as much. Schedule &c.
Value 346-75
Real estate I have none. Personal estate viz - 1 chest drawers 1 set chairs 1 set drawers 1 heater, tin cooking iron & wooden ware 1 knives & forks 2 p. Dogs 1 shovel & tongs 1 brass kettle 1 clothes chest 1 pillow 1 cedar barrel 1 axe 1 scythe 1 rake 1 hoe 1 bible & other books 1 looking glass
Sworn to, and declared, on the 17th day of July A.D. 1820 before Mahum Mitchell Justice of Court. Isaac Smith
I, M c D Thomas clerk of said court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the 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 six dollars and 75 cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Twenty fourth day of July A.D. 1820
M c D Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth

I Isaac Keith of Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in my sixtieth year depose set forth and declare that I was a soldier in the war of the revolution against great Britain on the continental establishment and that in 1775 I enlisted into capt Robert Orr's company in Col. John Bailey's regiment and served therein two months at Roxbury in the Massachusetts line - I then enlisted in February 1776 into capt Elisha Mitchell's company in the same regiment and served six weeks at Roxbury and afterwards served two campaigns in Rhode Island - and I then enlisted July 1776 into capt James Allen's company and Col. Simeon Cary's regiment and served five months and same line at New York - I afterwards served three months again at Roxbury - and then I enlisted in January 1781 for three years into Ebenezer Smith's company and the 8 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Michael Jackson and served out the three years, and three months over, and was a sergeant during the whole of the three years aforesaid - and I lost one year pay and cloathing by the failure of the Nelson our paymaster. I have no discharge to exhibit, having sent it to West point to draw my pay, and it having never been returned; and I

have several serjeants' warrants which I now exhibit. In all the instances aforesaid I faithfully served out the terms for which I respectively engaged, and was honorably discharged. While I served in Col. Cady's regiment as aforesaid Doct. Guelph Hitchcock was chief surgeon. Sworn to March 31. 1818. Isaac Keith
I also further declare that I am a citizen of the United States and still resident therein, and from my reduced circumstances need the assistance of my country for support, and therefore desire to ob- tain a pension in pursuance of the late act of Congress of the 18 th of March last, and do relinquish all claim to any pen- sion (if any) heretofore granted me by any law of Congress. — Isaac Keith
Sworn to and declared on oath April 8 th 1818. Before me
Nahum Mitchell: Judge
31. Mar. 8 Ap.
Isaac Keith Barnesville (A)

Discharge ct. from capt. Pillsbury's Co. Col. Smith's regt. in 1780 which soldier states that he sent with declaration. not on file in claim June 28. 1905. M. Wilson

Isaac Keith
Bridgewater Mr
31 March 1818 Sergeant
8 th Reg t M c Jackson Mass
8 th Three years
Wanted further evidence of having served nine months on the continental establishment.
Adm d
Hon. Mr Sampson, H. R.

And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Isaac Keith did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I 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 aforementioned act of Congress.
Nahum Mitchell.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss. On this 31 st day of March A. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Isaac Keith of Bridgewater aged fifty nine years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, 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," etc. See his Declaration of his services at large enclosed and marked (A)

This may certify that Isaac Smith James Willif & Samuel Whitman enlisted into the Service of the United States January Twenty fifth one Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty one for Three years, from the above Date. —
David Kingman Capt.
Bridgewater March 27: 1881 —
Azor Stone enlisted in the above Service, also mustered & marked the same Day with the above named Isaac Smith & others enlisting Capt. D. Kingman Capt.

The within named David Ringman was well known to me, and was a Captain of the standing militia company in Bridgewater out of which Isaac Keith enlisted - Asor Howe belonged to another militia company, but in the same town. Captain Ringman has been dead many years, but I know the within to be his hand writing. —
Nehemiah Mitchell: Judge

32 939 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,939
Isaac Keith
Secy Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 220
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I John Phillips of lawful age to give evidence do testify and say that I was a soldier in the war of the revolution and enlisted and served during the war - that Isaac Keith was one of the last 3 years men, and I saw him in the service in the beginning of 1781 in New Windsor hospital where he was sick for a short time in the State of New York - and that I frequently saw him in the service in that State until the close of the war - that I was in the life guard of the Commander in chief, and of course was not with him only occasionally, but being from the same town with him, I embraced every opportunity to see him, and did in fact see him almost daily - he was in the Massachusetts line, and I think M c Jackson's Regiment - he served his three years out and was discharged honorably with the rest of the army at the close of the war in Nov. 1783. —
John Phillips
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss - Feb. 8. 1819. Personally appeared the above named John Phillips who is a disinterested and credible witness, and made solemn oath that the aforesaid Deposition by him subscribed is just and true in all its parts before me Nahum Mitchell Judge of the For Peace thro' the State.

I Philip Bolton of lawful age to give evidence do testify and say that I was a soldier in the revo- lutionary war - that I served eighteen months in Capt. Ebenezer Smith's Company, S. C. A. M. Jackson's Reg't in the Massachusetts line, during all which time Isaac Keith of Bridgewater served with me in the same company, and we were both hon- orably discharged together at the close of the war in 1783 in November - I did not join his company till about a year and half before the close of the war, but he was one of the three years men and I understood he served faithfully from the begin- ning - he was a sergeant in the company. -
Philip his  Bolton mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Feb. 8. 1819.
Plymouth ss. Personally appeared the above named Philip Bolton who is a disinterested and credible witness, and made solemn oath that the aforesaid affidavit by him signed is just and true in all its parts be- fore me. Nathan Mitchell, Judge &c. and Jus. Peace thro' the Commonwealth.

In addition to the other evidence in the case of Isaac Keith, I can state, that he is an inhabitant of the same town with me as his declaration will shew - and that he was one of the quota of the last 3 years men raised by this town, and I well remember his going and returning on his 3 years service - and am as well satisfied of the fact as I could be by any further evidence whatever. —
N. Mitchell Judge