Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32945, for Lemuel King, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Has.
King, Daniel
NUMBER _____
S 32945
CONTENTS

6492 Massachusetts
Samuel King
of Cambridge in the state of Mass: who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wasson of the Mass: Line line, for the term of three years - 80
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of Jan y 1819 and sent to John Davis Esquire Boston. Massachusetts.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818. 5m th 31 st 3c - 41:31
Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Mar ch 1819 = 48: -
89:31
Ex d Bk Beale
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Application sent to Abraham Dyer Esq r 23 d September, 1820. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

197. Lemuel King Cambridge 6,492
Jan'y 1819 Cont d Sep 22 1820

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 182 0
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Colonel Rice , resident at Cambridge in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 6492 , now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the “18th March, 1818, Colonel Rice , late a “ Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the “Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight “dollars per month, to commence on the first day of “ March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen “Given at the War Office of the United States, this tenth  month “day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“One looking Glass, six chairs, two tables, two iron pots, one tea kettle, one jug, two wash tubs, of the value of $75.00 . Said King is indebted to divers people in about one hundred dollars, is aged sixty four is a labourer has no family is not able to work much and can only work a little in his garden, said King served in the Revolutionary war in the Massachusetts line enlisted for three years and served the said three years a part of the time in the north Regt commanded by Col. Jones, Vessie in the company commanded by Capt. Dyer

and was thence transferred to the eighth Regt under the command of Col Michael Jackson from which he was honorable discharged at the expiration of his term as will appear by his discharge on file in the office of the War Department. Samuel King
Sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore Judge etc.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore , a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, Levi Root , do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Levi Root ,
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Levi Root , took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore . Judge of said Court."
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and 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
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820.
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

No 86
Samuel King - priv.
Col. Wasson's Mass. 14
Regt. 1777 served 3 Years
Correck

Samuel King of Cambridge in the County of Middlesex Commonwealth a residing Citizen of the United States of Massachusetts, Lawful age do testify & declare that I entered the Continental Army in the service of the United States of America as a private soldier in the Massachusetts North Massachusetts Bay Regiment in the Company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Dix - in the month of February of our Lord Seventeen hundred & seventy seven - in which company I ser- ved three years until the fifteenth of February Seventeen hundred & eighty when I was regularly & honorably discharged - That said North Regiment was commanded by Colonel James Wesson. That I am now a Citizen of the United States - That I am in need of assistance from my Country for support - and that I have never had any pension allowed me by the United States of America - Samuel King
Massachusetts District P.Q. Boston 31 March 1818
Sworn to before me J. Davis Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 18 January 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Samuel King by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M c Quar { District Judge U. S. { Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 6 June
A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Samuel King 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 a 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.
M. D. D. [Signature]
} Judge of the District Court U. S. } Massachusetts District.

King, Lemuel Mass S 32945

Leffel King a Soldier in Capt. Nath l Dyer's Comp y . in the Ninth Massachusetts Bay Regiment in the Service of the United States of AMERICA Has Served out the Full Time of his engagement of three Years is Hereby Discharged from the Army and Has Leave to Pass home to Said State With his arms and is also entitled to all Privileges that May arise to the three Years Men from the Mass ts or the United States.
To Whom it May concern West Point February 15 th 1780
J. Wilson

Mass.
King, Lemuel
S. 32945
dis.

32 945 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,945
Lemuel King In Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 228
[Arrangement of 1870.]