Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33201, for Nathaniel Tilden, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Tilden, Nathaniel S. 33201
CONTENTS

I Luther Bailey of lawful age now here present before the judge together with Nathaniel Tilden testify and say that I was an Adjutant and acting as Brig d Major in the war of the Revolution at the time when the said Tilden was in the service of the U. States and knew him and saw him in the service at Princeton and Trenton and Harlem Heights in 1776 and 1777 and he was in the same Brigade with me. —
Luther Bailey
Sworn to this 5 th day of May A.D. 1818
Before me. Nahum Mitchell: Judge

10.599
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Tilden
of Hanover in the state of Mass., who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey of the Mass., line, for the term of one year.
Enscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 th of May, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th of May, 1819, and sent to Nathan Miller Esq. Esq. East Bridgewater Mass.
  Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 10 mos.  80.00    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819  48.00     $128:00  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Cont.
Application of Nathaniel Tilden for a pension dated 10th March 1819

33 201 Reg INVALID.
File No. 33,201
Nathaniel Tilden
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 19
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Nathaniel Tilden Hanover
1776
Private Col Baileys Regiment Massachusetts Line
1776 - 1 year
Service too early for Roll -
Admitted.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Plymouth
ss.
On this fifth day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Nathaniel Tilden of Hanover Co. of Plymouth aged sixty seven years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, which was read , 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." viz — That he served the first eight months at Roxbury in 1775 — & then in the the beginning of January without 1776 without leaving the service enlisted at Roxbury into Capt. Wm Reed's company and Col. Bailey's Regiment in the Massachusetts line for one year & continued to serve in said Regiment till the end of the year, and by the solicitation of Genl. Sullivan, continued six weeks longer, and was in the battles of Trenton & Princeton, and was discharged at New Jersey near Morristown — but had no written discharge, but a warrant as a ser- geant, which if he can find he will forward — that he was in a continued service of twenty one months & a half — and Major Lee then Bailey can testify to his services — &

That he has no further evidence of his services in his power - and that from his reduced cir- cumstances he needs the assistance of his Country for support - —
Sworn to and declared on oath the day and year aforesaid
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Nathaniel Tilden did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com- mon 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 cer- tificate 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

Math c Tilden
Nathaniel Tilden
10599 Sep. 19
Con
L. G. E.

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this seventeenth day of July 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 Nathaniel Tilden aged sixty nine years, resident in Hanover 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 one year in  Cap t . M c Intosh's company Col t Bailey's Reg t Massachusett's line and that he has received a pension certificate dated 13 th May 1819 and numbered 10,549 in pursuance of his original Declaration made 5 th May 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
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 farmer but wholly unable to work. I have no wife nor child. I owe $45.81 cents
Schedule
The improvement during my natural life of the one half of about twenty four acres of land & one half of the dwelling house & one half of a barn & the fee simple of about three acres of land & my wearing apparel Nathaniel Tilden
Value $25 annually
Sworn to, and declared, on the seventeenth day of July A.D. 1820 before Nahum Mitchell J te . Justice of said Court
I, John B 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 Twenty five dollars and 25.00 cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this thirtieth day of July A.D. 1820
John B Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth