Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30141, for Clement Sumner, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Sumner, Clement
S. 30141
CONTENTS

2979 Massachusetts
Clement Sumner
of Methuen in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Capt. Clapp of the Regt. commanded by Col. Brann in the Mass line for 3 Mos 10 days of Defensive 6 " 2 " " of Offensive
Inserted on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 36 Dollars 40 Cents per annum, to commence on the 24th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 st day of Jan y 1833 and sent to C. Wife Augusta Maine
Arrears to 24th of Sept. 1832  $54.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Mar. 4, 1833  18.20
$72.81
{ Revolutionary Claim. Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by H. H. Addison Cle Book 4 Vol. 2 a Page 98

INVALID.
Rev 30141
File No. 30,131
Clement Sumner
Rev Rev
Act: June 1 st 89
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 603
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolk ss. On this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judge of the board of Probate now sitting at Rockland in and for said County, Clement Sumner a resident of Norfolk in said County, aged eighty years , who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th A. D. 1832.
THAT he was born at Milton in the County of Norfolk
on the second day of February A. D. 1752, and that there is a record of his birth in Milton : that he was in the United States service from the 10th day of December A. D. 1776, to the 27th day of March A. D. 1777
as a Volunteer in the State Service : that he was
residing at Dorchester then in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts
when he entered the service ; that he enlisted
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Colonel Solomon Lovell - Mass.
Mass. Continental Line : that he marched from Cambridge to
Providence , from there to Dorchester from there to Trenton in New Jersey
then to Princeton : that he served at the aforesaid places with
none of the regular troops ; and
regular officers were known to him : that he was in no battle
and at the end of his service received no written discharge: that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Dorchester
ALSO : that he was in the United States service from
the first day of June A. D. 1780, to the third day of January A. D. 1781
as a private in the Continental Service : that he was
residing at Dorchester then in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts
when he entered the service ; that he enlisted
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of as follows - he enlisted with the Continental
Massachusetts Line : that he marched from Cambridge to
the North River , from there to Red Bank from in New Jersey
then to Red Bank : that he served at the aforesaid places
with Colonel John Brown of the regular troops ; and
regular officers were known to him : that he was in no battle
and at the end of his service received no written discharge.
ALSO : that he was in the United States service from
the day of A. D. 17 , to the day of A. D. 17
in the : that he was
residing at
when he entered the service ; that he
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of
that he marched from to
, from to from to
: that he served at
with of the regular troops ; and
regular officers were known to him : that he was in battle
and at the end of his service received written discharge.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Aug t . 14 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that Clement Sumner of Dorchester, was entitled for six months in the Continental service from the first of July 1780 and continued in service six months and two days from that period
Edward D Bangs Secy
The name of Clement Sumner is not borne on any Roll of any Company or Regiment which I can discover; but on a Document entitled "A payroll for the six months Men for the Town of Dorchester for the year 1780" - On said Roll he is stated to have enlisted July 1. 1780, to be discharged Dec. 20. 1780 - and his service is carried out at 6 months, 2 days, including probably

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except as present, declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
We Thaddeus M. Harris Dorchester near the said Clement Sumner
Clement Sumner a clergyman, residing in the town of
and James Humphrey
residing at Dorchester who has
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Clement Sumner who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
Thaddeus M. Harris
James Humphrey
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that Thaddeus M. Harris , who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the said Dorchester ; and that James Humphrey , who has also signed the same is a resident in Dorchester and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Thurman Selby Judge of Probate
I Samuel H. Hovey , Regt. of the Compt. of Probate aforesaid , do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Clement Sumner , for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Samuel Hovey

I James Humphreys of Dorchester do hereby on oath testify and say that I know the plaintiff Sumner having served as a volunteer in the Revolutionary war the term of time described in the first complaint mentioned within my own personal knowledge.
James Humphreys
Worshipful August 15 th 1832 I submitted & sworn to
before the undersigned judge of Probate.
I Lemuel Pillsbury of Roxbury on oath testify and say that I know the plaintiff Sumner having served as a volunteer in the Revolutionary war the term of time mentioned in the first complaint mentioned within my own personal knowledge.
Lemuel Pillsbury
Worshipful August 15 th 1832 I submitted & sworn to
before the undersigned judge of Probate
Clarence H. Sumner
I certify that I am well acquainted with James Humphreys and Lemuel Pillsbury above named, they are in my opinion credible witnesses & entitled to belief fully. Robert C. Tose
Aug 24 1833
Check
James M. May
Sam M. May
Samuel May
Priscilla May
Abigail May
556.42
W. C. Tose
August 15