Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,533, for Abner Raymond, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Raymond, Abner
S. 33,533
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Massachusetts Roll
Abner Raymond Capt Porter
Private
Massachusetts Line 3d Regt In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Samuel Putnam, Salem, Mass.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818 4 months 29/30 $ 39.46
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }

Handwritten text in cursive script, possibly in Arabic or Persian. The text is partially obscured by a large, faint rectangular stamp or watermark.

Abner Raymond

To The Honourable Samuel Severyn, one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Abner Raymond of Salem in the county of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath makes the following Declaration.
That he was a private soldier in the service of the United States during the War of the Revolution, having enlisted therein for the term of three years, and that he served for the said term of three years in the Light Infantry Company of the First Massa- chusetts Regiment, and on the twenty- second day of December 1783 was honorably discharged from the said service, as will appear by his original Discharge given by Major General Henry Knox which is herewith annexed.
That your Declarant, since he was discharged as aforesaid, has had one of his hands blown off, and from his reduced circumstances in life is now in need of assistance from his country for support, and that he has never had any pension allowed him by the laws of the United States, but if he has been entitled to any such heretofore allowed, he doth hereby relinquish his claim thereto.
Wherefore he prays, that the requisite certificate in the premises may be granted in order that he may be placed upon
the

the Pension List of the United States according to the Act of Congress in that case made and provided.
Alma Raymond
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Yrs. On this seventh day of April A.D. 1818
before me Samuel Putnam one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Common- wealth aforesaid, personally appeared the above- named Alma Raymond, and in my presence subscribed and made oath to the above written Declaration by him made; and it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Alma Ray- mond served for the term of more than nine months, to wit, for the term of three years ending on the twenty second of December in the year 1783 at one period of the War of the Revolution with the Continental Establishment against the common enemy, I hereby certify the testimony in the case and the proceedings had thereon to the Secretary of the Department of War. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this seventh day of April A.D. 1818.
S. Putnam } J. S. J. Court } of Mass n .

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL K N O X, Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Abner Lyman a soldier — in the light Infantry Company 3 d Massachusetts Regiment , being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York, the 22 o — Day of December 1783 —
By the General's Command,
John M c Lean
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
John B. Staphora Adj t [Signature]

Essex p.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Ichabod Tucker clerk of all the Judicial courts of said State in & for the county of Essex do certify that the Hon Samuel Putnam is a judge of said Supreme judicial Court, that the above signature is his proper hand writing & that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said court
Salem April 20 1818. Ichabod Tucker Clerk

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Abner Raymond
18 May 1818
Abner
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age 69
lost one hand
worth $15.
Apr 1818

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Abner Raymond resident in Salem in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 596 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Abner Raymond - - - - - late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight - - - - - dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of April - - - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
***** * L. S. * *****
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this eighteenth day of May - - - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War."
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
No Real Estate
 Old house furniture -  Six chairs - birch desk -  Table - looking glass -  iron pot - kettle - frying pan -  Andirons - shovel - tongs -  knives - forks - spoons - plates for use of himself and wife.  Wood saw - axe - beetle - wedges & wheelbarrow 
He declares he is sixty years of age. That he is a cripple and has lost his left hand. That his wife aged 53 is all his family.

He served seven years and six months to wit, all 1776 in Capt. Porter's Company in Col. Francis' Regiment which was commanded by Col. Tupper after Col. Francis'; deat. then in 1777 for three years in Capt. White's Company in Col. Jackson's Regiment both in Massachusetts Line.
Abner Raymond.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Abner Raymond do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Abner Raymond.
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Abner Raymond took and subscribed the forewritten Oath before me
Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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 exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is fifteen dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17th day of July A. D. 1820
Attr. Ichabod Tucker Clk

33533 Ray INVALID.
File No. 33,533
Abner Raymond P. O. Box 100
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 333
[Arrangement of 1870.]