Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33161, for Silas Noyes, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Noyes, Silas
8 33 161
CONTENTS
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12-317 R Massachusetts
See letter 20 Nov 1828 to W Mount
Silas Noyes
of Bradford in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wesson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 of July 1819 and sent to Dan A White Salem Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 103.16 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep r 1819 48.
$131:10
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Revolutionary claim John Brown Salem, Mass.

Silas Nages
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Additional Proof
In support of the declaration of Silas Noyes of Bradford, in his application to the Honorable Daniel C. White on the 23 d of April 1818 for the benefit of the act of Congress of the 18 th of March last providing for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Services of the United States during the revolutionary war.
I Samuel Terry of Bradford in the County of Essex Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath do testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with Silas Noyes of said Bradford who has made application to the Government of the United States for the benefit of the act of Congress of the 18 th of March last providing for certain persons engaged in the Army and Navy during the revolutionary war - I have known him more than thirty years - I do know that he enlisted in the army of the United States in the war of the revolution - he then living in Newbury - but I am unable to say when he enlisted - or at what time he was discharged - so many years having elapsed - but I know the fact generally - that he entered the Army and was when very young employed as a waiter to his father then a lieutenant in Capt. Samuel Barr Company on the Continental establishment and engaged to serve during the war - I have no manner of doubt - from what I know of said Noyes and of his services that he served as he has stated, in his declaration - said Noyes is now infirm - blind and is not possessed of any property whatever whereby he can support himself and is entirely unable to labour. I have no interest whatever in said Noyes application. — Sam l Terry Subscribed to Oct r 23. 1818
I Moses Parker of said Bradford on oath do testify and declare that said Silas Noyes is well known to me - I well remember that he enlisted when very young and entered the Army of the United States to serve during the war and did serve as a waiter to his father who was a lieutenant in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Barr - I am

confident from the recollection I have of him - (and) seeing him in the uniform of the Company as early as the year 1781. that he must have entered in the early part of that year (and) I have no doubt on my mind that he served in said Company on the Continental Establishment - more than nine months in ContINUANCE - he is now infirm - blind (and) very poor - nearly destitute of property - I have no interest whatever in his application
Essex Oct 24 th 1870
Moses Barker
County I Joseph Noyes of Haverhill aforesaid on oath do testify and declare in addition to the declaration by me made before the Honorable Daniel D. White the Judge to whom the within named Silas Noyes has made application for the benefit of the act of Congress of the 18th of March last, and in explanation thereof That I was a lieutenant in Capt. Samuel Gann's Company and served therein in the war of the revolution more than four years - that in March 1781 the said Silas Noyes enlisted in said Company, and served therein (and part of the time as my waiter - until the end of the war - I saw him on duty nearly all the time (and) have no knowledge of his having been absent from duty at any time except on furlough - from having been constantly in the service in the same Company with said Silas Noyes - I feel confident that he served in said Company until the Army was disbanded - he enlisted to serve during the war (and) was hired by a class for that purpose (and) enlisted by one who was at that time recruiting officers (and) I do know that he served in said Company, in the war of the revolution and on the continental establishment more than eighteen months. I have no interest whatever in said Noyes' application - although I am an applicant myself
Essex Feb 3 rd 1870
Joseph Noyes
Common-wealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss Town of Newburyport
Be it known by these presents that on the twenty fourth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscribe Notary Public

for the County of Essex, by legal authority (admitted and sworn and a Justice of the Peace and Quorum in and for said County residing therein personally came Samuel Tenney and Moses Parker within named and made solemn oath to the truth of the within written affidavits by them respectively subscribed. — (and on the third day of November following personally came Joseph Noyes and made solemn oath to the truth of the aforesaid written affidavit by him subscribed. In So do certify that the said Samuel Tenney, Moses Parker and Joseph Noyes are all personally known to me — are credible witnesses and believed by me to be disinterested
In testimony whereof, I have also hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office the day month and year last above written.
W. W. Root Atty Pub
Daniel A. White Judge of the Court of Probate of the said County of Essex do further certify that Samuel Tenney, Moses Parker and Joseph Noyes aforesaid are credible and disinterested witnesses, and that the said Silas Noyes by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for support.
Given under my hand and seal official the Third day of June 1819.
D. A. White

I Joseph Noyes of Haverhill in the County of Essex do hereby and say that Silas Noyes of Bradford, who is now making application to the Government of the United States for a pension, is personally known to me - he served as a private in the Army of the United States in the war of the revolution, in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Carr in which Company Silas Lieutened & I am knowing to his having served in said Company which was on the continental establishment from March 1781 to the end of the war which was in 1783 - for the term of Eighteen months.
Joseph Noyes

New Haven
Bradford West
Further evidence required, showing the total sum of the applicant, for the time stated in the declaration,

Bradford April 15 th 1814
This may Certify to Whome it may Concern that it appears that Peter Hoyer of said Bradford enlisted as a Soldier under Lt Joseph Hoyer in March 1781. During the war, and it further appears that the Army was disbanded in the year 1783 and we think Lt Hoyer is intitled to the pension lately granted by Congress
Sam l Lewis John Hopkinson } attested

I Samuel Tenny of Bradford in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify and say that I am one of the subscribers of the within written Certificate and am one of the Selectmen of said Bradford and that John Haskell also one of the subscribers to the said Certificate is another of the Selectmen of said Bradford. I have no doubt that the facts stated in said Certificate are true.
Sam d Tenny
Apr. 23. 1810.

I Silas Nages of Bradford in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify and declare as follows viz I served in the Army of the United States in the war of the revolution in the Continental Establishment for the term of Eighteen Months viz I enlisted in March 1781 in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Carr, Colonel James Webb's regiment, General Loomis's brigade, Massachusetts line to serve during the war - and did serve in said Company until the end thereof (and) the Army was discharged. That a written discharge was at that time given to me - It was burnt with my father's papers when he lost his house a number of years ago. I do further swear, that by reason of my reduced circumstances I am now in need of the assistance of my Country for support - being blind and unable to labour.
Witness my hand
Silas Nages Mark
June 2, 1831
102. 22. 1/3

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Essex ss.
I Daniel A White Judge of the Court of Probate of the said County of Essex, do certify, that Silas Noyes of Bradford in said County personally appeared on the Twenty third day of April A.D. 1848, and made the declaration aforesaid by him signed under oath be- fore me. That Joseph Noyes also made oath before me to the truth of the annex- ed affidavit by him signed, as did also Samuel Tenny to the truth of the annexed affidavit by him signed; and that it ap- pears to my satisfaction that the said Si- las Noyes served in the Revolutionary war, as set forth in his said declaration.
Given under my hand & the seal of the said Court the fifth day of May in the year aforesaid.
D A White.

Silas Noyes
12317
July 1817 Con'd Sept 25 1820
LM

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, Silas Noyes resident in Bradford in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 12317 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, Silas Noyes 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 twenty third day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
***** "Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ." 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 estate, real or personal, nothing but his wearing apparel and walking staff.
That he is Sixty years old, entirely blind, and altogether dependent on the bounty of Government and the charitable assistance of the benevolent for support.
That he served in the army of the United States in the war of the revolution, and on the continental establishment as he stated in his declaration, on his application for a pension 23 d April 1818.
Teste S. Minot
Silas Noyes mark
Essex ss July 10. 1820 Then the above named Silas Noyes made

oath that the above Schedule & Statement by him subscribed are true before me.
Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Silas Noyes 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.
his Silas Noyes mark
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Silas Noyes took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me
Stephen Minot 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
dollars  nothing
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, Clerk

33 161 Rev INVALID.
File No. 88 161
Silas Noyes
Rev Rev War
Act: 15 th March 1815 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 800
[Arraignment of 1870.]