Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1982-100, for John Oaks, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Oaks, John or Oakes
B.L. No. 1982-100
CONTENTS

For further evidence of the identity and services of Mr. Baker refer to the Affidavit of Mr. Eaton, on file with the papers connected with Warrant No. 1981, if 15 th Nov 1833.
Deposition of Daniel Green

I Daniel Green of Stoneham in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Seventy two years do testify and say that I was well acquainted with John Bakes late of Medford in said County deceased. (That the said John Bakes was well known and generally reported to have been a soldier who enlisted and served through the War of the revolution ) That the said John Bakes after the termination of the war aforesaid returned to the said town of Medford where he married to a lady by the name of Rebecca Bennett with whom he lived some ten or twelve years, and died leaving no issue; that the widow of said Bakes has subsequently deceased - and that the only heir at law to said John Bakes deceased, is the Widow Joanna Green now residing in South Reading in said County. And further I say not.
Middlesex ss. Oct. 21, 1833.
Daniel Green.
Then personally appeared Daniel Green and made oath that the above Deposition by him is true, subscribed is true.
Before me Hadassah Spaulding Justice Peace

For further evidence of the identity and services of Mr. Oakes refer to the Affidavit of Mr. Eatons, on file with the papers connected with Warrant No. 1981, of 15 th Nov. 1833.
Opposition of Daniel Green

John Oakes N o 1982.

At a special session of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston in the County of Suffolk of Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the said County, on the 20 th day of October Anno Domini, 1833, before Peter O. Thacher, Judge of the same.
Satisfactory evidence was this day adduced to the court, that Joanna Green of South Reading, in the County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth aforesaid, Widow of Daniel Green deceased, as as and is the sister and only heir at Law of John Baker, deceased, who was a soldier of the Massachusetts Line in the Revolutionary Army.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name on the day and year aforesaid.
Peter O. Thacher Judge of the
Municipal Court

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk p
I, Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston in the county of Suffolk, do hereby certify that said Court is a Court of Record legally established within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; that, Honorable Peter O. Thacher, is sole Judge of said Court; that the signature upon the opposite side of this sheet, purporting to be his, is genuine and that the proceedings set forth by said Judge on the opposite side of this sheet were done in said Municipal Court. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Boston this twenty eighth day of October A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three. —
Thomas W Phillips, Clerk of said Municipal Court. —

Heirs of John Oakley

Jn. Oakes - Drum - Dixie Co. Col. J. Wesson 9 th Reg Major's line - 1 Mar 1777 for 3 yrs - re-enlisted for the war Drum Major Jan 21. 1780

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
State of Massachusetts } ss. Middlesex County. }
I, Joanna Green a sister and only heir at law to John Oakes deceased, do upon oath testify and declare, that to the best of my knowledge and belief, John Oakes aforesaid, about, or in the year 1777 entered, or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of "During the War:" and that he continued in the service aforesaid, until the close of the same, when he received an honorable discharge at the termination thereof, from the Eighth Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Colonel Michael Jackson and when he was a Drummer . I further testify and declare that John Oakes aforesaid departed this life in the town of Medford in said County over thirty years since and died intestate leaving no issue
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to John Oakes aforesaid, on the part of the United States, nor do I believe he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever:
Therefore, KNOW All Men By these Presents, that I Joanna Green aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Stephen Baldwin of Greenville in the State of New York my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a Warrant for the quantity of Bounty Land due me the only heir at law of John Oakes aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 19 day of October in the year 1833.
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, in presence of
Thaddeus Shurding
Joanna Green
Middlesex County, ss.
Be it known that on this fifteenth day of October in the year 1833 Before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Joanna Green subscriber to the above declaration, who made solemn oath to the truth of the same: and likewise acknowledged the power of attorney thereunto subjoined, to be her free act and deed; dated at South Reading in said County the day and year above mentioned.
Thaddeus Shurding Justice of the Peace.
State of Massachusetts } ss. Middlesex County. }
I, Elias Munsey Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas County, do hereby certify, that Thaddeus Shurding — before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn, and the subjoined power of attorney purports to have been acknowledged, is and was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the County of Middlesex — duly commissioned sworn and qualified by law to take affidavits, &c. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court and subscribed my name Gamaliel this 23 day of October in the year 1833.
E. Munsey