Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33420, for Isaac Patch, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Patch, Isaac
NUMBER
S. 33420
CONTENTS
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4,548
Massachusetts.
Isaac Patch, Capt. Fowle private, Massachusetts line - 1782 - 1 1/2 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts - at the rate of - 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th of Nov r 1818, and sent to Samuel Dana Esq. Groton, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818. amt. 5/30. 41. 83 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Mar 1819. 48. 00 89. 83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued
Westford, Middlesex Co
Notification sent to Abraham Biglow Esq. Cambridge Mass Oct 13 th 1820.

Isaac Datch junr
Judge's certificate - Code Warrant
To see further cert: annexed -
Admitted
S Dana Grotan

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BE it remembered, that on this fourth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me, SAMUEL DANA , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid) comes Isaac Patch junr. of Westford in said county of Middlesex and on oath declares, that he served in the War of the revolution for the space of two years & two months that having served fourteen months , in two several terms - In the Spring of the year One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty two , he was engaged by the Town of Westford aforesaid to go into the Army of the United States upon the Continental establishment - He was directed to go to Boston where he was mustered, as he believes by one Capt. Dallingill , and ordered to Westpoint on North River , where he arrived in April or May then next, and was placed in the Company of Capt. John Darrow and he believes in Col. Jackson's Regiment , being the Third Regiment in the Massachusetts line in this Company he remained doing duty in New York and New Jersey , until the close of the war, when he received a discharge from the Command in Chief by the hands of his Captain, having served more than one full year, he returned home, in the month of June - He is now fifty five years old, is destitute of property, has no means of subsistence, only his daily labor, which by reason of hard service, is declining so that This discharge he has lost by time or accident -
so that he by reason of his reduced circumstances in life stands in need of assistance from his country for his support.
Thus, made, subscribed, and sworn to, at Linton in said county of Middlesex , the day and year aforesaid.
Sam d Dana  Isaac Patch

We the subscribers Selectmen of the Town of Westford do hereby certify that Isaac Patch junr. of said Westford is very poor and indigent, and that the said town has within one year by direction of the overseers of the poor of said town contributed towards the maintenance and support of one of his children living in his family
Nov. 9 th 1818.
John Abbott
John Cummings
Sam l Wright Jr.
Selectmen
of
Westford
I Samuel Dana Chief justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas as described in the annexed certificates
Do hereby further to the Hon Levy for as that the above named Selectmen, are all of them respectable persons to whose Certificates made in their official capacity full credit is and ought to be given, and I do therefore certify that the said Isaac Patch is in reduced and indigent circumstances & that he stands in need of assistance from his country for support. . . . Given under my hand the eleventh day of November A.D. 1818. —
Sam l Dana

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the fourth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personally appeared Isaac Patch junior and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Isaac Patch junr did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months. Upon the Continental establishment
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the fourth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
Sam d Dana

Isaac Patch
45 1/4
David Lane
Chas Wood

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
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, Isaac Patete resident in Westford in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 4546. 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, Isaac Patete 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 fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. “Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty fourth day of November 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,
  1 axe 0 75 1 shovel & hoe 50 1 25   1 scythe & snaths 75 1 rake 10 0 85   1 dung fork 40 one rake 0 20 0 60   Part of a set of shoemakers tools 1 00   1 chest 0 60 1 table 0 60 1 20   Wooden boxes 0 30 1 light stand 0 50 0 80   1 looking glass 0 50 8 old chains & 1 pail 1 50 2 00   Two old wheels 2 50   Iron ware 1 00 ironery ware 0 50 1 50   Glass ware 0 25 pewter ware 1 00 1 25   Coarse earthen ware 0 50 tin ware 0 25 0 75   1 pair of handirns 0 75 shovel & tongs 1 25 2 00   Grinder 0 25 dry ears 50 0 75   2 tubs & 3 cedar buckets 2 00   2 old baskets 50 hand saw & shave 40 0 90   Isaac Patete 19 35 

And the said Isaac Patete further states and declares upon oath that his family consists of his wife and two daughters that he is fifty seven years old, his wife fifty six, his oldest daughter twenty three and his other daughter eleven years old, that they are dependant on him for support & maintenance and that he has no means of doing it except by his occupation which is that of a labourer, that he served in the Revolutionary war on the Continental establishment in the three years service and other terms of service, being in the three years service in Cap t John Horatio's company in the 3rd Reg t in the Mass a line and was honorably discharged as will more particularly appear by his original declaration on file in the War office, he was also in service nine months in the years 1779 & 1780
Isaac Patete"

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana Esq e a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
// I, Isaac Palet 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.
Isaac Palet
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Isaac Palet took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Sam d Dana Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, 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
nineteen dollars & thirty five cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820.
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

In reply to your request of _____, received _____, for a statement of the military history of Isaac Patch a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. F. 33,420.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1779 & 1780 14 mos. Pri. officers not stated —   Spring, 1782 Aver a yr. " John Fowles. Jackson Mass.  
Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, April 4, 1818 His claim was al.
Residence at date of application, Westford, Middlesex Co., Mass.
Age at date of application, Aged 57 yrs. in 1820.
Remarks: In 1818 soldier is referred to as Isaac Patch, Jr.
In 1820, his wife was 56 yrs of age and he had two daughters, one 23 and the other 11 yrs. of age, no names mentioned.

Ad.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by Geo M. Moore
Claim No. Jan 29. 1910.
Certificate No. _____ Gf Westford, Erton and Peppull, Mass. Claimant _____
Soldier Isaac Patch.
Service Rev.
Additional Service _____
No _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No O. W. S. W. or R. as above. I.F. 33420. Gf Westford Mass.

33 420 Rev. INVALID.
File No. 33, 420
Isaac Patch
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 316
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1910, Feb. 7, To Mrs Julia Hastings Emery. Letter with S.F. 30,809, Aaron Wright. Fr