Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,508, for Eleazer Priest, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Priest, Eleazer Preast or
S. 33,508
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll.
1,543
Eleazer Preast, Capt Moore's Private,
Massachusetts line - 1775. 3 years
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 8 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818, and sent to the Hon. Isaac Parker, Worcester, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
Surviving Widow
4 months 27/30 $ 39.20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued Winburg, Worcester Co.
Notification sent to Abraham Bugbee Esq Cambridge Mass. Nov 13 th 1820

The subscriber hereby certify that Eleazar Priest served as a soldier in the same Regiment with me at the close of the revolutionary war, in the fourth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson, Noah Harrad
Worthing April 13 th 1818 Personally appeared the above named Noah Harrad and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed was true before
Ezekiel Whiting Justice of the Peace

We the subscribers selectmen of Lumberville hereby certify that Eleazer Prentiss is poor. has no real estate. has several times been assisted by the towns in which he has lived, is now is subject to the Rheumatism. That in our opinion from age and infirmity he is unable by bodily labour to procure a competent support to himself, and family. and that he has no other means of support.
April 6 th 1810
Edmund Cushing
David Kilburn

33 508
Rep INVALID.
File No. 33 508
Ebenezer Priest
Lincoln Mass
Act: 18 th March 187
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 328
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Weaver Preast — Lunenburg 8 April Correct JH

State of Massachusetts County of Worcester
I Eleazer Preast a Citizen of the United States now resident in Lunenburg in said County of Worcester do on oath declare, that in the revolutionary war that in April 1775 I entered in the Land Service of the United States on the Continental establishment first in Captain Fuller Company, then I enlisted in Capt Moors Company in Col William Prescott Regiment for a year. After that I enlisted for three months in Capt Lincoln Company then stationed on Gloucester Point, after that I enlisted for three years in Captain Job Sumner Company in Col Graytons Regiment, after that I enlisted in Capt Pattons Company Col Michael Jackson Regiment, for three years, & I continued in the same service during the remainder of the war, and was honorably discharged on the first Jan'y 1781. I having never absent myself during any of my said enlistments had a discharge signed by Col. Henry Jackson but it was destroyed by fire, my house & every thing in it being burnt, about a year after I got home. And I do declare that my circumstances are so reduced, that I stand in need of relief. And I do hereby relinquish any pension which may have heretofore been granted
Eleazer Preast
On this 07 th April 1810 The above named Eleazer Pratt, personally appeared before me the subscriber Chief Justice of Massachusetts, and subscribed the same above declaration in my presence, and made oath to the same, & upon examination of him, I am satisfied of the truth of the facts by him set forth and also certify that the witness whose name is on the other side is a person of good credit -
Isaac Parker C.J.S.

246.
Eleazer Priest
1543

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.
Lincoln 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, Pleaser Priest now resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1.513 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, Pleaser Priest  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 8th day of “ April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen “ Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirteenth “ day of June 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 note of hand $ 1.00  2 water pails 0.40  1 platter 0.10  Lo glass ware 0.40  Lo crockery ware 0.87  Lo lin ware 0.70  1 wooden plate 0.10  Lo kneading trough 0.35  Lo 3 dry casks 0.30  1 small chest 0.50  2 old chairs 1.00  3 baskets 0.50  1 axe 0.33  1 draw plane 0.50  1 soap & 1 bucket tub 0.67  1 wash tub & churn 0.83  1 hand bellows 0.33 

   1 old table - - - -  $0.25    lot iron ware - - - -  1.25    1 gallon bottle - - - -  .30         $10.88   
Ebenezer Priest.
And the said Priest being first duly sworn on oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution more than seven years eight months in 1775 in Capt Fuller's company in Col. Whitcomb's Regiment - one year in Capt Moore's company and Col. Prescott's regiment three months in Capt Hartwell's company and Col. Dike's Regiment - three years in Capt. Job Sumner's company and Col. Grafton's Regiment - three years in Capt Patch's Regiment company and Col. Jackson's Regiment and was honorably discharged at the close of the war - that he is seventy years of age next November - that he has a wife who is of feeble health - that his employment is of that a labourer.
Ebenezer Priest.
Declared and sworn to
Before Saml Dana. 11

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Saml Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, Eleazer Priest 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.
Eleazer Priest.
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Eleazer Priest took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Saml 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
ten dollars & sixty eight 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. Abm Biglow 3