Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33329, for John Hurley, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Hurley, John.
8 33 329
CONTENTS

Massachusetts
John Hurley
Boston in the state of Mass who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Paxon of the Mass ne, for the term of two years
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of Apr 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of July 1819 and But to Judge Davis
Boston
  Arrears to 4th of  March 1819  85.83    Semi-anl. all'ce ending  4 Sep 1819  48    10.50 4/31   $ 133.83  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

I Nathan Woodward of Franklin County of Norfolk Commonwealth of Massachusetts depose and say that in the Revolutionary War the Town of Franklin was classed to raise men for three years or during the War and that John Hurley enlisted for the class of which I was a member for three years and went into the Continental Service and after he had performed the service he returned to Franklin & received the bounty money for the said said service — — — — — Nathan Woodward
I William H. Metcalf of Franklin in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Yeoman on oath do testify and say that I well remember that I belonged to the same class mentioned in the above depo- sition by Mr Woodward and that John Hurley was hired by said class to serve in the Continental army for three years he received a small part of a bounty of three hundred Dollars paid by said Class and when he had performed said service he received the remainder of his bounty. Further your Deponent saith not William H. Metcalf

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk ss. On this Seventh Day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Nineteen personal ly appeareth the above named Nathan Woodward and William H Metcalf before me the subscriber one of the justices of the Peace within and for the said County they being both respectable and credible witnesses, and being by me carefully examined and cautioned were  and sworn in due form of law to the truth of the above depositions by them signed taken at the request of said Henry
James Adams Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk ss. I Horatio Townsend Clerk of the judicial courts in said County of Norfolk, do hereby certify, that James Adams Esquire is a justice of the peace in & for said County duly commissioned by executive authority of the Commonwealth aforesaid, and that the signature to the foregoing certificate is in the hand writing of the said James Adams -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto at my hand & affixed the seal of said County this eighth Day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen Horatio Townsend

A
Filed 10 May 1819

No 380 John Hurley, (Private)
Nixon's Reg! Mass. Line.
2 nd April 1701 till 19 th Jan y . 1704 -
say, 2 Yrs 9 months.
Aff d 13 th April 1880.
Wanted, the certificate of the Judge, that Applicant, in his belief, is in named "circumstances in life, &c."
Yr. proof of Ser vice
New Evidence marked A.

United States of America.
State of Massachusetts, Suffolk ss. Boston April 13 th 1818.
I, John Hurley a citizen of the United States, now resident at Boston in the County of Suffolk in the State aforesaid, do on oath, declare, that I served, in the War of the Revolution, the full term of time required by a Law of the United States, made and passed in the month of March, A. D. 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," as one requisite to entitle me to be placed on the pension list of the said United States, having entered the Land service of the said United States, on the Continental Establishment, and served as a private Soldier against the common enemy; from the 2 o day of April A.D. 1781 , until the 19 th of January A.D. 1784 , and in the Massachusetts Line.
That I belonged to Captain Ebenezer Smith's company, in the sixth Massachusetts Regiment, the same being  the and that I left the service on the said 19 th of January A.D. 1784 , and received an honourable discharge , which honourable discharge I transmitted to the Paymaster to obtain my final settlement, more than thirty years since, but have not heard any thing of it since.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the said United States, if any may be, or hath been, so allowed.
By reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support. John Hurley
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirteenth 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 abovenamed John Hurley 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.
M c Reis Dist ct Judge Fran. Dist.

1 MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
~~~~~ 10. May 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, John Hurley by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
J. D. Dyer
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

Proloc June 12 A. D. 18 18 John Howley
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
[Handwritten signature: J. C. Cushing]
} Judge of the District Court U.S. Massachusetts District.

33. 329 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33, 329
John Harley Lin Rev. Rev
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 198
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hurley, John GRADE Private LINE North Carolina
WARRANT NUMBER 12248 and 13165 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED May 18, 1797 To Gabriel Holmes, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.