Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,061, for Silas Perry, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
★ Perry, Silas
S. 41,061
CONTENTS

41061
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 41.061
Miss Mary Miss Mary
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: —Vol. 8 , Page 890
[Arrangement of 1870.]

17.349 A Vermont
Silas Perry
Woodstock in the state of Vermont who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Leonard of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year
Subscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 th of Sept r 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd of June 1820 and sent to Miss C. Welch Esq. Cavendish, Vermont,
Arrears to 4th of March 1820 43. 96 semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Sept r 1820, 48.
5 \frac{4}{30} months $91:96
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Windsor County

I Abisha Weeks of Falmouth in the County of Barnstable & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and declare, that I served as a private Soldier in the American Army in the Revo- lutionary War, & that I well knew Silas Perry formerly of New Bedford in Massachusetts, now of Woodstock in the State of Vermont & know that he served in Capt Nathan Peters Company in Col Larned's Massachusetts Regiment for the period of twelve months I served in the same Company & Regiment that he did, and I was discharged at Peekskill in New York, & tho' I cannot positively say yet I have no doubt he was honorably discharged the same time I was, if he had not been I must have known it, for we enlisted in the year 1776. in the twelve months service, and at the end thereof were all honorably discharged, without any desertion or difficulty whatever Abisha Weeks
Barnstable ss Falmouth November 13 th 1819 Personally ap- peared the above named Abisha Weeks, who is well known to me, & made solemn oath to the truth of the above Decla- ration by him subscribed - And I certify that the above named Abisha Weeks is in my opinion a credible witness Sam d P. Crosswell Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Barnstable ss:
I Abner Davis, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Barnstable, do certify that Samuel P. Crosswell, who hath signed the foregoing disposition of Abisha Weeks, as Justice of the Peace, is a sworn Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable, and full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such; and that the above is the signature of said Samuel P. Crosswell.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of our said Circuit Court of Common Pleas, and subscribed my name at Barnstable, the thirteenth day of November in the year of our LORD, one thousand eight hundred & nineteen.
Abner Davis, { Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for Barnstable County.

Silas Perry
Mass Line
= Col Leonard
Febry 1770-1771
20 Sept. 1819.
He is the
The subject of the the applicant is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and relief
Admitted
To be sent to Uriel C. Hatch, Cavendish, Vermont. Windsor Co. Vt.

State of Vermont } On this twentieth day of September 1819 Windsor County ss } before me the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate for the district of Windsor personally appears Silas Perry aged sixty one years resident in Woodstock in said State who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration 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 revolution or war" that he the said Silas Perry on or about the first day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and seventy six enlisted at Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Capt. Peters in the Regiment commanded by Col d Larned and Lieutenant Colonel William Shepard of the Massachusetts line for the term of one year, that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the expiration of said term of one year when he was honorably discharged from service at Peks kill in the State of New York and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands

in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services -
Silas Perry
Sworn to and subscribed and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Will C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor
I Will C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Silas Perry did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy that he is in reduced circumstances 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 aforesaid act of Congress
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at Cavendish this twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and nineteen
Will C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor

I Will C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor as aforesaid do certify that the said Silas Perry is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support - In testimony whereof
I hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at Concord in said District this twenty sixth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred & twenty
Will C. Hatch Judge of Probate

I Joshua Austin of Reading in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont do testify and say that I served in the American army in the Revolutionary war and belonged to Capt Peters' company in the Regiment commanded by Col o Larned in the Massachusetts line, That I well knew Silas Perry now of Woodstock in the County of Windsor aforesaid and know that he the said Perry enlisted into the company & regiment aforesaid in the winter of 1776 I think in January or February, for the term of one year and I well know that said Perry did serve the said term of one year and I have always been informed and do verily believe that at the end of said term he was honorably discharged Joshua Austin .
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss —
I Will C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor do certify that on this 26 th day of November A.D. 1819 personally appeared Joshua Austin subscriber to the foregoing affidavit and well known to me to be a credible witness and made solemn oath that the said affidavit contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at Cavendish in the District of Windsor the day and year last aforesaid
Will C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor