Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10612, for Salathiel Tilton, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass. Sea Service
Tilton, Salathiel
R. 10612
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HAMPSHIRE ss. I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that William Ward Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and have no doubt that the Signature annexed to said deposition is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twentieth day of August A. D. 1832.
Sam F. Lyman Register of Probate.

I Elijah Luce of Tadoussac  Williamstown in the County of Hampshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts, age lawful age, Depose & say that in the year 1792 I resided in the Town of Chelmsford in Massachusetts. That I was then acquaint- ed with Salathiel Tilton then of Chelmsford but now of Goshen. And I recollect perfectly well that the said Tilton was at sea about that year and was reputed & believed to have been in the service of the Government by the inhabitants of that place.
Elijah Luce
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss
Aug t 20. 1832
Elijah Luce who subscribed the foregoing affidavit came before me and made oath that it is the truth and I certify that the deponent is an credible witness William Ward Justice of the peace

I Elijah Luce within named further testify & say that I lived many years at Chehannack within mentioned before and after the year 1782 - I have stated in my within Deposition that Salathiel Hilton was at sea about the year 1782 But from the length of time since, I may have stated the year different from what it actually was when he returned from sea, but I do perfectly recollect that he came home from sea, poor, and had a hard & unprofitable voyage. I perfectly recollect he had been absent for several months & that he was at sea in an armed vessel called the Lucy in the service of the United States - and further say not - Elijah Luce
Hampshire ss Feb y 26. 1833 The above named Elijah Luce signed & swore to the above Deposition before me Samuel Hinsdale Judge of Probate for said County
Hon. Lewis C. G. Secy of War Sir
You are not acquainted with me, but I presume to write you only to say I spent a day in looking up the evidence of the service of Tilton on board the Prize Lucy - Capt. Young the Secretary at Boston had no doubt but Tilton is the same person called, by mistake, Jehiel Tilton - Tilton has the reputation of being a honest man. I have for myself, not a doubt but what he performed the service & is the same man - Northampton Mass s . Respectfully Feb y 26, 1833 Samuel Hinsdale

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10.612
P. O. Salaheil Tilton
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract

Naval Officers Continued Nov. 27. 1980

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Jan ry 24. 1833.
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 Jathiel Felton's name is borne on a Roll under Captain Stephen Clay, (of the Brig t Lucy, Commander) and William Ramsdal, Mate's name on the same roll, signed by Stephen Clay, without any the dates of Entry or Service, except viz. "A true list of the above, Sworn to the 27 th day of November, 1780.
Before me, Warwick Palfrey, Nat l Officer
Edward D. Bangs, Esq.
There is no other evidence of the character of the above named vessel, that what results from the single Roll on which the name of Jathiel Felton is found. The title of the Roll is "A List of Officers & Marines on board the Brigg t Lucy, Stephen Clay, Command r " — and it is signed & sworn to by said Stephen Clay before "Warwick Palfrey, Nat l Officer" — Edward D. Bangs Esq.

Tilton, Salobber Mass. 010612
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Salathiel Tilton Goshen Frank Co Mass
10012
Evidence that the "Prig" they were a Public and Vipul must be produced
Dec 21 1832
Reported. vide letter 9 Aug to J Hinckley
10012 10012 73.
Samuel Hinckley Salobber Northampton Frank Co Mass.
Tilton, Salobber Mass. 010612

BRIEF in the case of  Isathiel Tolton  of Hampshire Co. in the State of Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 73 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1781 — 7 — As a seaman Gen. Capt. Clay. Big Lucy  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Same place  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence living witness  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. H. B. Blair Examining Clerk.

% 4 per cent per annum to Hinckley
4760.
Salathiel Tilton
Tilton, Salathiel Mass. R10612
returns to be made to Saml. Hinckley Northampton Mass. 29.
Tilton, Salathiel Mass. R10612

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF Worcester Hampshire ss.
ON this twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before the Hon Samuel Hinkley Judge of Probate for the County of Hampshire now sitting Salathiel Tilton a resident of Goshen in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy three 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 1832..
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That in the Autumn of 1781 I enlisted as a Seaman for a cruise on board the Brig Lucy of Salem Mass. in the service of the United States. At that time commanded by Captain Olay of Middletown Connecticut. (Capt. Hamsdell was Captain of the Marines) at Salem in the State of Massachusetts and went in the Atlantic Sea on a cruise off the West India Islands in company with a Ship of 22 Guns the name of which is forgotten. We touched at Guadalupe & St. Eustatius & cruised off Martinico Hispaniola Turks Island &c.. off Guadalupe our boat was taken by the British & we escaped & returned to Salem soon afterwards in the month of May. 1782. after an absence of seven months without having captured even a plank.
That He does not know of any living witnesses of this service as the crew was made up of residents of different parts of the world.
That he was born in Chilmark in Massachusetts in 1759 as he believes but has no record of his age. and resided there when he performed this service. and has since removed to Goshen where he has lived the last forty years. And he has no recollection of a discharge, if he had one it is lost.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Samuel Hinkley Judge of Probate for said County

We Moses Hallowell a Clergyman residing in the Town of Plainfield - and Elijah Luce residing in West Williamstown hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Salathiel Tilton who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy three years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Moses Hallowell
Before me Samuel Brinkley Elijah Luce Judge of Probate
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 above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Moses Hallowell who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Plainfield - and that Elijah Luce who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Williamstown - and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Samuel Brinkley Judge of Probate
I Samuel F. Lyman Register, Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Salathiel Tilton for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Sam F. Lyman Register