Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,204, for Nathaniel Shaw, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Shaw, Nathaniel
18204
Carded
CONTENTS

18.580 Maine Nathaniel Shaw of Buckfield in the State of Maine who was a for Sgt - in the Company commanded by Captain Wade of the Regt. commanded by Col. Cotton - in the Mass. Militia time for 10 major. 14 " Sgt { 3
Inserted on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 103 Dollars 33 Cents per annum. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Sept 1833 and sent to J. F. Brown Buckfield Arrears to the 14th of Sept. 1833. $258.33 Pension, allowances ending 4 March 34. 51.66
$310.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. L. Williams Clerk Book L Vol. 1 Page 51

9037 - 1st. Shaw
April 12 th 1898
Aug 15.
333
Adm 14 mos. Sept. 70 19 " Priv 33.33 103.33 206.66 51.66 258.33 S. F. Brown Esq. Dearborn Bucksport & Maine

BRIEF in the case of  Stephane Shaw  of  Richfield  in the State of  Wisconsin  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Yes  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he?  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 1798 8 Private Col. St. Clair   1796 2 " Col. Harney   '96 8 Sergeant Col. Smith   '97 6 " Col. Allen   1 10 " Col. Churchill  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Richfieldburgh Ohio  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers are not checked within as required 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Living witnesses
Providence Collett Examining Clerk.

9657 Nath. Shaw multiplicata

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Grand ss.
But after this, he enlisted at Newbury, im- mediately after the British left Boston, in the year 1776, under Lieutenant Colonel Dyer, for the term of eight months. He was sent into the Camp, at Cambridge, by Capt. Dyer, to New Bedford, Massachusetts, to take the place of the Regiment that was marched on board General Howe's ships, after the Battle of Bunker's Hill, and still there, in company with Dyer, was ordered to New Bedford, to guard the prisoners.

Companions, he then found his way to playing there a shot from his 2d company with himself, was ordered to Little George to guard  the  prisoners & incumbrance and when the battle was fought on the lake his company was ordered to the rear & went back on the lines then went back to Little George, where he finished his said term of eight months & was discharged. During this last named campaign, and the  time of General  knowing what he was worth to  the  cause  of  the  rebel  cause .
Just after this, he enlisted again with great success at Little George, in the year 1864, into a company  of  the  1st  Regiment  of  the  1st  Infantry Veteran Infantry of the  1st  Infantry Regiment. In six months, as a private  to  go  to  the  front and marched  there  was  the  time  of  the  Battle  of  the  Crater there was  the  time  of  the  Battle  of  the  Crater that, in  the  time  of  the  time  of  the  time there was  the  time  of  the  time  of  the  time he was  discharged  on  the  1st  of  the  month .
And after  the  time  of  the  time  of  the  time as in  the  time  of  the  time  of  the  time of the  time  of  the  time  of  the  time with the  time  of  the  time  of  the  time the time  of  the  time  of  the  time the time  of  the  time  of  the  time

at 7 o'clock
last fortnight after the above named service he deceased was in said service while belonging to the company of soldiers of said Middlesex under the command of Capt. Ezra Church. In which company he served to which company he was attached at Dover, near Dover, and served the term of six weeks and returned home to Middlesex.
And there was that he was born in the year 1845 at Hampton in the County of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts. When the war of rebellion, he voluntarily went to service - that he was living in said Middlesex when called into the service - that he has lived in said Middlesex & said town of Middlesex & in the town of Watford P. County of Oxford, ever since the war & that he now lives in said Middlesex - that he was always a volunteer in the service - that he recollects Col. Brown & his regiment. Col. Merrill who died & was buried on Mount Independence, & his Regiment - General Dole - that he never received any discharge in writing - and he gives John along [? name] as the names of persons to whom he is known in his present residence should be able to testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his service as a soldier of the rebellion.
Isaac H. Hall

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 We the undersigned Samuel F. Brown, Esquire, late of Hartford, in the County of Tolland, State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Thayer who has subscribed thereto to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be eighty seven years of age and that he is respected & beloved by the neighborhood which is generally known to be a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion -
Samuel F. Brown John Loring
Approved & subscribed in open Court -
Stephen Emery Judge -
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 applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, said applicant having adduced the depositions of Daniel Denny, Caleb Cushman, Gideon Cushman, Elias Mount & William Churchill, as also the certificates of Samuel F. Brown, & John Loring, credible per- sons, all under oath duly administered, in confirmation of their declaration.
Stephen Emery Judge -
Joseph G. Cole 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 Nathaniel Thayer for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17 th day of August A. D. 1832.
CLERK.
Joseph G. Cole Register

R 18204 INVALID.
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that
Samuel F. Brown Gay
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of
Nathaniel Shaw
Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 23 d day of April in the year A. D 1833.
R Goodenow
Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

State of Maine } April 20th Oxford County } 1833. —
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace for the County of Oxford State of Maine Nathaniel Shaw of Buckfield in said County who being duly sworn deponeth & saith that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services, but at most no more than he has stated in his application for a pension heretofore made, but according to his best recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades viz for eleven months & one half, he served as a private soldier, and for fourteen months, he served as a sergeant and for such service he claims a pension. And said Shaw further says as an amendment to his original declaration that the reason why he did not produce a clergyman's affidavit is that he could not find any clergyman who was sufficiently acquainted with his history to certify for him and he did not then know that it was necessary to state the fact.
Nathaniel Shaw
Subscribed & sworn to before me
Samuel Brown Justice of the Peace
Sworn to before me the (Name of man) Samuel Brown Justice of the Peace

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, Rufus King Goodenow, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Samuel F. Brown & Simeon Perkins , II
whose genuine signatures are annexed to the foregoing Depositions of Elias Monk , William Churchill , Caleb Cushman & Gideon Cushman are severally Justices of the Peace in and for said county of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this twentieth day of August in the year A. D 1832.
R. K. Goodenow Clerk of Oxford County Courts.
of Col. Root's Regiment, for eight months, which period I served fully through. And I well remember that Nathaniel Shaw now resident in Brookfield in said County of Oxford, was a soldier at the same time & place, but not the same company he belonged to Capt. Amos Wade Company of Col. Colburn's Regiment, and that he then & there served said period of eight months through & was discharged. I have known said Shaw ever since & had for most of the time but a short distance from him and know him to be the same man who served with me as above stated. Elias X Monk Mark Witness, Saml F. Brown
State of Maine County of Oxford. ss. July 12. 1832.
Then the above named Elias Monk personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition before me in presence of Saml F. Brown Justice of the Peace

2? Elias Monk of Hiram in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, aged seventy eight years, hereby say that I served as a soldier in the American Army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, for several periods, among which one of eight months at & near Haverburg, in Massachusetts, in the year 1775. for eight months. I enlisted into the Company commanded by Captain William Briggs, of Col. Keene's Regiment, for eight months, which period I served fully through. And I will remember that Nathaniel Shaw now resident in Buckfield in said County of Oxford, was a soldier at the same time & place, but not the same Company, he belong- ing to Capt. Amos Wade's Company of Col. Colton's Regiment, and that he then & there served said period of eight months through & was discharged. I have known said Shaw ever since & had for most of the time but a short distance from him and know him to be the same man who served with me as above stated. Elias X Monk Mark Witness, David H. Brown
State of Maine County of Oxford. ss. July 12. 1832.
Then the above named Elias Monk personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declara- tion before me in presence of David H. Smith David H. Brown Justice of the Peace —

I William Churchill now residing in Haysen of the County of Kennebec & State of Maine aged sixty nine years of age, testify & say that I served as a soldier in the American Army, during the Revolutionary war with Great Britain for several period, among which was one of six weeks on Rhode Island under the command of Captain Perez Churchill of Middle borough in Massachusetts - the year I do not now recollect, but I well remember it was during the time the French troops were on the island, & I further say that Nathaniel Shaw, now residing in Knapp's, in the County of Oxford State of Maine, was there with me for the same company & period for said period of six weeks, when we were discharged. I have been acquainted with said Shaw ever since I was a boy & well knows him to be the same man who served in said Company with me as above declared -
Witness Saml H Brown
William X Churchill Mark
State of Maine. County of Oxford July 12 1832. Then the abovenamed William Churchill personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him submitted before me, he being repeated to be a man of truth. Saml H Brown Justice of the Peace

I Caleb Cushman of Mechanic County of Oxford State of Maine seventy six years of age, testify and say that I served in the American Army during the Revolutionary war with Great Britain and that in the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven Nathaniel Shaw of Brookfield in Oxford County served as a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Capt Nehemiah Allen of Middleborough State of Massachusetts which Company belonged to the Regiment under the command of Col Cotton and I am certain that Mr Shaw served one month in that Company  Capacity and have reason to believe that Mr Shaw served six months in the American Army It was in the month of October seventeen hundred and seventy seven that I was in the Army.
Caleb Cushman
State of Maine County of Oxford July 20 th 1832 the above named Caleb Cushman known to me as a man of truth personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above Affidavit by him subscribed before me.
Simeon Perkins Jus of Peace

The within named Caleb Bushman further say that the service in which I was engaged was for one month & at Rhode Island where I knew that Shaw to be in the service as within State. & I also know that the service in which said Shaw was then engaged & acted as sergeant, was a six months service, although I do not positively know that he served that term through. I was on duty in different places & he might have served that term & I not have known it.
Caleb Bushman
State of Maine County of Oxford
August 8. 1833. Then the above named Caleb Bushman, a witness of undoubted credibility personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me.
Samuel H. Drown Justice of the Peace
Caleb Bushman

I Gideon Cushman of Oxford County of Oxford State of Maine aged eight yrs testify I say that I was a Soldier in the American Army during the Revolutionary war in the year 1776 and that Nathaniel Shaw of Buck- field in the County of Oxford was a Soldier with me in the Company commanded by Capt Nathaniel Wood belonging to Col' Caney's Regiment Station'd at Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts and began his cam- paign the first of February 1776. and served two months February & March Gideon Cushman
State of Maine County of Oxford July 20 1832 — Then personally appeared the above named Gideon Cushman made oath to the truth of the above Affidavit by him subscribed before me Simson Perkins Jus of Peace

C. Cushman D. L.
Affidavit of C. Cushman C. Cushman

I Enoch Perkins of Minot in the County of the Cumberland State of Maine hereby certify and say that I was a Soldier in the American Army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain for Eight months at Ticonderoga and there about in the year 1776 that I enlisted at Bridgewater in Massachusetts into the Company commanded by Capt. Joseph Keith of the Regiment Commanded by Col. William of Massachusetts Troops for eight months and marched to Ticonderoga thence to Lake George to guard Prisoner thence back to the line thence to Lake George Where I was discharged after serving said Eight months through and I further say that to my knowledge Nathaniel Shaw who now lives in Jackfield in the County of Oxford was a Soldier with me in the same service that he enlisted about the same time with me and was put into the Company and marched with us from Bridgewater to New York State and served with me the hole of said term through and was discharged the same time I have known said Shaw ever since he lived in Maine and will know him to be the man by the name of Nathaniel Shaw who is now making application for a Pension to be the same man who served with me as above described
Enoch Perkins
State of Maine
Cumberland County ss August 18 th 1832 then the above named Enoch Perkins to me well known as a man of truth personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me.
Philomen Farrow Justice of the peace
Peace —

State of Maine.
Cumberland County ss.
I William J. Vaughan Clerk of the Court Cumberland County do certify that Philmon Harlow is a magis- trate as within, and that I believe the foregoing signature pur- porting to be his to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this thirty first day of August A. D. 1832.
Wm J. Vaughan