Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45077, for John Pool, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Pool, John, Poole or
S 45077
CONTENTS
This soldier's widow was pensioned on account of service of her former husband, David Smith. Claim No. 21987

3461
New Hampshire Roll.
John Poole -
Capt Redding Private -
Massachusetts line 1777. 3 yrs
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire — at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th of October 1812 and delivered to Edward Evans at Washington City -
Arrears to 4th of Sept - 1818 - - - - - 31:77
Semi-ann. all'ee ending 1 st March 1819 - - - 48: -
9 Mos - - - 24
26 - - - - - 6:70:9
4 - - - - - 1:6:6
$ 79:77
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Resided at Plainfield, Ct of Cheshire
Notification sent to David Hale, Newport
M. H. Sept 19 th 1820
He was stricken full date of death not on a B

John Poole
Connecticut

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Cheshire SS.)
ON this sixth day of May 181 8 , before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas in the Second District in said State comprising the county of Cheshire personally appears John Pool a citizen of the United States aged about 68 years, resident in Plainfield in the said State, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following  herewith annexed 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 revolutionary war:" declaring among other things That he the said John Pool enlisted in the month of April 1777 in the Massachusetts line in the State  Continental  Army of the revolution in the company commanded by Captain Lib. Neilings of the regiment of Col: G. Bradford & Genl. Pattersons Brigade ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the  about the sixth day of April 1780 — — — — —, when he was discharged from service and received a  State certificate thereof and that he that he was in the battle of  has lost the same by time and accident  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, except the annexed affidavit Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Wm H Woodward
I, Wm H Woodward Judge of the Courts of Common Pleas
as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Pool for a longer time  term than nine months at one period did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; 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.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court. no particular impression being used therefor, the day and year first before written
Wm H Woodward

John Paule of Plainfield in the County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts a citizen of the United States Former, upon oath makes the following declarations that the said Paule some time in the Month of April or May A.D. 1775 enlisted as a private for the term of eight Months in Capt. Peter in the war of the Revolution  Stephens Company of foot in Col. Walker's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, and faithfully served the whole of said term in said company and was honorably discharged That the said John Paule in the beginning of the beginning of the year A.D. 1776 enlisted as a private for the term of one year in Capt. Moses Dyer's Company in the same service upon the Continental establishment in Col. Bond's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, and faithfully served the whole of said term and was honorably discharged That the declarant some time in the Month of April A.D. 1777 ; according to the best of his recollection, again enlisted as private for the term of three years in Capt. Zeb. Readings Company of foot in the 14 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Gamaliel Bradford in Gen. John Patterson's Brigade in the Massachusetts line in the same service that the said Paule faithfully served the whole of said last mentioned term and on or about the 6 th day of March A.D. 1780 was honorably discharged that the said John Paule each time received written certificates of his discharge and that he has lost the same by time and accident and that the said Paule soon after in the year A.D. 1780 enlisted in the said Z. Readings Company and the said Col. Bradford Regiment for the term of six months and faithfully served the whole of said term of six months and honorably discharged That the said Paule is sixty one years of age informs and from his reduced circumstances in life is now in need of assistance from his Country for support and the said Paule has no other evidence in his power than affidavit of Sylvanus Bryant to substantiate the above declaration
John Pool

I Sylvanus Bryant of Cambridg in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire do hereby make oath and say - That John Pool of Plainfield in the County of Cheshire afore- said was a private soldier in three years service in the revolutionary war - he belonged to Capt. Zebulon Reading com- pany of Col. Gammalil Bradford's Massa- chusetts Regiment then called the 12 th Regi- ment. I first saw him just at Scituate Mass in June 1777 he had then been there some time - He and Pool continued at Scituate till after the taking of Burgoyne - He went from there to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania the same fall - the next spring he went to Monmouth and from there to White Plains - and from there to West Point and in short he con- tinued with said company till he was dis- charged in 1780 at West Point. This depo- nent also belonged to the same Regiment and he well remembers that said Pool was always considered a good soldier -
Sylvanus Bryant
State of New Hampshire Cheshire ss. Cambridg May 2 nd 1818 Then Sylvanus Bryant personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affi- davit by him subscribed is just and true Before me H. Chase Jus. Peace

John Pool
B/H 61
March 10/19.
not entitled

Cheshire
68.] STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
ON this eighteenth day of July A. D. 1820 personally appeared
in open Court before the Justices
of the Court of Common Pleas in the county of Cheshire being a Court of Record, in and for the said county,
having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Pool aged sixty four years, resident in Plainfield 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.
That he the said Pool served in the company commanded by Zebedee Rice in the Regiment commanded by Col Bradford in the line of Massachusetts for the full term of three years, on the continental establishment. Prior to this I served in Capt. Dyer's Company Col. Bond's Regiment same line for the term of one year.
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 6 th day of May A.D. 1818. The number of my pension certificate is 3461. I have received a Pension. 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. My occupation is a farmer or husbandman of sufficient ability to pursue it by reason of age & a painful or weak limb, in my side and a general debility of body. My family residing with me consists of a wife aged 49 years, and my mother aged 90 very feeble and infirm - of no capacity to maintain herself. David Smith aged 27 yrs who is a cripple and weak, with intellects incapable to support himself. Nancy Smith aged 20 years of feeble constitution & incapable of maintaining herself. Hannah K Smith aged 14 years as capable as children of her age. My debts due to several persons are $552, 27.
John Pool
Subscribed to and declared at Newport in said County, on the 18 th day of July A. D. 1820, before
Elisha Huntley
Judge of the said Court.
Salma Hale
Clerk of the Court of Common
for the County of Cheshire, 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 in the aforesaid schedule, is 1122 dollars and 98 cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 24 th day of July A. D. 1820
S. Hale
Clerk of the said Court.

SCHEDULE,
CONTAINING the whole estate and income of John Poole (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscribed, exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Rockingham in the State of New-Hampshire, on the 18 th day of  July 1820, and annexed to his oath, viz.
  1 old horse 12 - one old cow 11.50 23.50   3 Swine 13 - 1 2 year old steer 11.50 24.50   3 Yearlings 18 - 3 calves 6 - 9 small calves 9 33   3 Pigs - 2.25 - 5 bushels of corn 3.00 2 1/2 of wheat 3.50 8.75   3 bushels of Potatoes 50 - about 100 lbs of pork 10 10.50   Sundry old casks & tubs 4 - 2 old sloughs 13.50 17.50   1 Old cart 3.50 - 2 old ploughs 1 4.50   2 old sleds 75 - 1 old harrow 1.25 - chains 1.50 3.50   2 old sickles 25 - old harness 1. old horse 33 1.58   1 old sythe stackle 1. - Rakes & pitchforks 1.25 2.25   1 old grindstone 2.50 - 1 ox yoke 75 axe 1 4.25   Hollow ware 3.50 - Old earthen ware 50 4   3 old pails 50 - tin ware 1.34 - 2 old baskets 34 2.18   1 P of old andirons 1.75 - 1 Shovel & tongs 75 2.50   Tridents & forks 1.00 - 1 old sorting iron 30 1.30   Old tubs, casks, & chains 5.50 - Old loom 31 3/4 8.67   1 old wheel 50 - Old winnowing mill 2 2.50   1 old Saddle & Saddle bag 3 3   Hay in the barn 20 20   90 acres of land with poor building, 945.   1122.98 
The debts which I owe to sundry persons consists of five hundred and fifty two dollars and twenty seven cents.
John Pool

45077
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 45077
John Poole
Prin Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 399
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Sylvanus Martin of Plainfield in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire Physician do on oath testify that I live a right neighbour to John Paul of said Plainfield and consider him infirm upwards of sixty years of age in reduced circumstances and believe him to need assistance from his country Sylvanus Martin
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss } on this eighteenth day of June 1818 personally appeared before me the above named Sylvanus Martin signed and made oath to the above written affidavit John Harris Justice Peace

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Pool, John GRADE Private LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8643 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED November 16, 1791 To Adam Nutt, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.