Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30026, for Zenas Phinney, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Phinney, Jenas
S 30026
CONTENTS

1407-
Massachusetts
Zenas Phinney
of Hardwick in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Starwood of the Regt - commanded by Col. Larned in the War here for 1 Year
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 10 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of Nov 1832 and sent Chairman Hardwick (Mass)
Arrears to 4th of Sep-1832 $ 60 - Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Mar 33 - 20 - $ 80.
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. McBlain Clerk Book D. Vol. 2 nd Page 75.

Zina Pheaney Pine 1890 Col Samuel Mayhew

To the Secretary of the War Department of the Government of the United States -
The following is a statement which I the subscriber make under oath, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 -
I have once been on the Pension Roll under the act of March 18 th 1818, & have since been struck from the same on account of property.
I joined the Regular troops, (having previously enlisted) on the first day of January A.D. 1776 - I served in a Massachusetts Regiment, (the number of which I do not now recollect) under the command of Colonel Samson. The name of the Lieut. Colonel, was Shepard .
In this Regiment I did duty one year as a private -
I now reside at Hardwick in the County of Worcester, Massachusetts, & did reside at said Hardwick when I first made application under the act of March 18. 1818 -
Hardwick July 23. 1832 -
Zenas Phinney
Worcester ss. July 23. 1832 Then the above named Zenas Phinney personally appeared, & made oath to the truth of the foregoing statements, & subscribed the same
Before me Jos. Knox Jdg. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcesters. I Abijah Bigelow, clerk of the Judicial courts, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that Joseph Knapp, Esquire, before whom the within declaration of Lenaus Phinney was made and sworn to, is a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County of Worcester, and that his signature thereto appears to me to be in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County Seal of said County, this twenty fifth day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.

30 026 Rev INVALID.
File No. 30,026
Zenas Shinnery Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 n
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 321
[Arrangement of 1870.]

5,035 Massachusetts Roll -
Jenas Pinney
Maso } Line }
Private
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 21 st of May 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d of Dec r 1818 - and sent to E. D. Bangs Esq r Worcester Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818, 3 M th  \frac{4}{31} + \frac{1}{30} - 27:89 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 - 48 -
$ 75:89
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Claimant
One year
Hardwick
Mass.
Hardwick Nov 87

Payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March — next, at the United States Branch Bank Boston
Recorded Thomas P. Whitney

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, _____
Lenas Phinney _____ 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 21 st day of May _____ one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this _____ 22 d day of December one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Zenas Phinney priest
Learned's Mass Reg. 1776 to 1777.
admitted
Zenas Phinney

State of Massachusetts - W. I. Jenas Phinney a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Hardwick in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the 1 st January, 1776
I entered and was engaged in the Sand service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to for the term of one Year
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to Capt. Peter Harwood's Company, Col. Searner's Regiment, Massachusetts Line -
and that I left the service on or about the first of January, 1777 having enlisted for one year, all the men in the Year's service being discharged together and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty five years, and eight months,
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Jenas Phinney
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 21 st day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Edward Bangs one of the judges of the C. C. C. P. for the Western Circuit of Mass- chusetts
the abovenamed Jenas Phinney and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination du- ly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Edw Bangs

I George Webb of Worcester in the County of Worcester on oath testify and declare, that I was a Lieutenant in Capt. Barwood's Company, Col. Darnes's Regiment, in the Year's service from Jan'y. 1776 to Jan'y. 1777; that I knew the within named Lemas Phinney, who was a soldier in the same Company, and served his country as he has within stated.
George Webb
Worcester ss. May, 21. 1818. Personally appeared the said George Webb, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Declaration by him subscribed Before me, Edes. D Bangs Jus Pacis.