Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24353, for John Noyes, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Noyes, John
W. 24353
Zibeah
Zibiah
Zebial
CONTENTS

Maine
11. 511
John Noyes - - - of Cumberland in the State of Maine - who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hayden of the Regt commanded by Col. Bailey in the Mass. - - - troops Progs. - - - - -
8 Mo Private - - - $26.66.
Inscribed on the Roll of - Maine - - - at the rate of 26 - Dollars 66 - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of May and sent to - 1833 F. Bradford, Pollard, Me.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - - 53.32 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. - 13.33
$ 66.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. S. Sprague - Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 38

Declaration of John Noyes
John Noyes, 18998 ✓

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the twenty second day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE , Judge of said Court.
On this twenty second day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge John Noyes a resident of Poland in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he the said Noyes entered the service
of the United States in the month of April A.D. 1775 at Bridgewater State of Massachusetts and seven eight months in the company commanded by Capt Josiah Hayden of said Bridgewater in the regiment commanded by Col. Dailly and was stationed at Roxbury Mass during all of the said eight months He recollects the following officers Maj Jacobs; first Lieut. Gurney; Ordly Sergeant Watkins; and served during said term of time as a private soldier. That Eleazar Gole of Greenwood State of Maine and James Packard of the same place served with him & can testify for him but he transmits the deposition of Belah Noyes only inasmuch as the others are so far from his residence that he cannot obtain their evidence without considerable expense.
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
John Noyes
Ashur Ware
} U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

That the said Noyes further declares that he was born in Abington Commonwealth of Mass. A.D. 1755 but has no record of his age although the latter was there is a record of his age in the Town of Abington He entered the service as a Volunteer and the names of some of the regular officers of the regiment to which he belonged are mentioned on the preceding page His present place of residence is Poland where he has lived many years John Noyes
Signed at Warsaw & Poland
Aspen Wood
John Noyes List of Names
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Nussey — Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Noyes for a pension.
and that Jonathan Swift & Freeman Bradford Esquires are Justices of the Peace duly qualified & their official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this seventeenth day of November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five
John Nussey } Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
The deponent's character is testified to by Daniel Noyes

I, Bela Voyes of Norway in the County of Oxford and State of Maine a Revolutionary Pensioner do hereby testify before and say that John Voyes was in the United States Service of the Revolutionary War with Great Britain that he enlisted under Capt. Josiah Haden of Bridgewater Massachusetts State, for Eight months, and served his time out and was discharged. I was in the same Company with him for the same time it was in Col. Bailey Regiment, stationed at Roxbury Massachusetts State, in the year - seventeen hundred and seventyfive, commencing in the month of April. The said John Voyes now lives in Poland in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine Norway August 17. 1832. Bela Voyes
Oxford ss. August 17 th 1832. Then personally appeared Bela Voyes above named and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed before me Jonathan Swift. Justice of the Peace

Daniel Noyes of Poland County of Oxford and State of Maine on oath before me say that I have been acquainted with Bela Noyes of Norway County of Oxford who made the deposition annexed to the accusa- tion of John Noyes and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and his state- ment as a witness is entitled to full faith and credit.
Daniel Noyes
State of Maine
On this day personally appeared the above named Daniel Noyes of man well known to me as a person of strict truth and veracity and whose statement as a witness is entitled to full faith and credit and made solemn oath that the above statement by him signed is true
Before me
Freeman Bradford Jus Pacis

Maine - 2932
Abigail Noyes
widow of John Noyes
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 th June 32 and who died on the 24 th Jany 1836 of Oxford in the State of Maine who was a P er in the County commanded by Captain Holgren of the R gt commanded by Bailey in the M ap line for 8 m th
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of May 39, and signed Sam l T h Brown, Bucksfield, Me.
Arrears to the 4 th of March - $79.98
Semi-annual allowance ending 13.33
$93.31
{ Act July 7, } 1838.
Recorded by R Burdick Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 Page 18

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, October 2 d 1858.
I hereby Certify , That Philo Seach Esq. — is a _____ Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth, _____ in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John D. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.

The following Copy from the Book of Records of Marriages belonging to the Town of Bridgewater in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
November seventeenth seventeen hundred and seventy six, John Noyes and Sibiah Pratt married by Mr. James Porter
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in full, legible figures as follows "Nov 30 th 1776"
Mitchell Smith Town Clerk
I Mitchell Smith above named, do hereby certify, that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named, as certified by me
Mitchell Smith Town Clerk of Bridgewater Massachusetts
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss. } Oct. 2. 1838
Sworn to before me
Philo Leach J. of the Peace

State of Maine.
COUNTY OF Oxford
On this twentieth fourth day of October A.D. 1838 personally appeared before Stephen Emery Judge of the Court of Probate in Oxford County, at a Special Term there, held at Danforth
Abiah Noyes a resident of Poland
in the County of Cumberland and State or District of Maine, aged Eighty three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
That she is the widow of John Noyes
who was a Soldier
of the Revolution and served in the American Army, during the war, according to her best knowledge & belief, for several terms of service of which, however, she has no personal knowledge. She therefore refers to the evidence on file in the Pension Department, on which a pension was granted to the said John Noyes, pursuant to the provisions of the Pension Act of Congress of 1832, he having been a pensioner of the United States under that law.
She further declares, that she was married to the said John Noyes on the seventeenth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six and that her husband, the aforesaid John Noyes died on the 19th day of January A.D. 1838, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated.
Abiah Noyes
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written:
Before
Stephen Emery, Judge

Liliah Stoyes
4410
all 17 Aug 35
M 76. a 36
admed
Stno. fac.
26.66-
No deduction
State of Maine
Before me, I Levi Stowells Register of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Oxford hereby certify that Stephen Emery before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Liliah Stoyes for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eighth day of December A. D. 1858.
Levi Stowells.

John Noice Maine
Winter S. mo's 36.68
1898
J. Bradford Portland Me

BRIEF in the case of John Noyes  60. of Cumberland in the State of Maine  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open courts  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 77  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. Gen.     April In 1798 volunteer 8 Private Gen. Hays Col. Bailey  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bridgewater Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional two living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? one witness executed as credible the other not 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Dyer
Examining Clerk.

Boston May 18/97
To the
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
S
Have you any record in your office of a William Swan (whose wife was Bethiah (Pratt) Swan ) who is supposed to have served in the Revolutionary War from Hoburn, Mass. and later removed to Paris, Maine
The above William Swan is supposed to have received a pension. Any information you may have will be great- ly received by
Yours respectfully
Wm Locke Swan
42 Pearl St Boston Mass

Boston, May 18 th , 1897
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Have you any record of a John Royes (whose wife was Gibia Brett Royes) who is supposed to have served in the Revolutionary War from Bridgewater, Mass and who is supposed to have received a pension for his service.
Any information you may be able to furnish will be gratefully received by
Yours respectfully Wm Lock Swain
#42 Pearl St Boston, Mass

John Joyce M c at 7 June 32 when last fed? G.M.P.
13 May 39
Since 24 th Jan. 1826 p to that period JH

Rev war
Dept. of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Can you give me the date of the pension claim of
Benjamin Foyed Bone
April 29, 1772 and
John Foyed B. April 20 1720, served in the Rev.
From A. H. Town of Bow
or Sherburne
Mrs Burn & Peck New Haven Conn 116 High St

tory 42 Pearl
24-353 WIDOW, &c.
June 10. 1897 - His Hq Mr. W m L. Swan. St - Boston, Mass.
File No. 24853 Abial Moyes wid of John Moyes Dis Mass Line
Dec. 4-1901 Mrs. B. S. Peak New Haven Conn
Act July 7 th 88 Index: Vol 11 , Page 89
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Portland Nov 17. 1832
Sir I herewith transmit the declaration & evidence relating to the revolutionary claim of John Noyes. The pension certificate if awarded may be forwarded to the Subscriber
H. Hon Lewis Cass.
Secretary of War
I am respectfully your Obt Servt
Freeman Bradford Portland Maine

Nov. 22
Revolutionary claims
FREE
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.
Ms. 18998

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commission of Pension Washington

Richfield Me Dec. 18. 1838.
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
I herewith forward the application of the widow Tzibah Noyes for a pension. You will please to forward the Certificate you may grant, or any other communication you may make in relation to this case, to me.
W. Kent.
Sam. L. Brown

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Noyes, Jonathan GRADE Sergeant LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4771 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Dec. 3, 1789
To not shown
*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.