Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,457, for James Peck, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Peck, James
S. 33,457
CONTENTS
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Dead.
3202.
Massachusetts Roll
James Peck, 4
Private.
Massachusetts line - 1777. 3 years
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 27 th of April 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of October 1818 and sent to John Hooker Esq r Judge - Springfield Mass s
Arrears to 4th of September 1818 - 34:13
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th March 1819 48: -
4 x \frac{8}{30}
$ 82:13
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Sheffield. Berkshire Co

33 457 Pay INVALID.
Mar. 13-1902 Rev. F. L. Rounds, Bound Brook N.J.
File No. 33 457
James Pick
His Per mis
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 320
[Arrangement of 1870.]

James Peck
Affidavit
Ward's Mass. regt.
adm d
Correct
Mass ts Sept r 15. 1810 I John Hooker within named do hereby certify from very credible testimony to me exhibited, I am satisfied that the within Applicant James Peck has no property, is in reduced circumstances in life & stands in need of Assistance from his country for support —
John Hooker

District of Massachusetts.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY, ss.
ON this 24 th day of April in the year of our Lord 181 8 before the subscriber Clerk of the Circuit Court in & State including 1 st County personally appeared James Peak aged 70 years, resident in the Town of Sheffield in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, in the said District—who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the late 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:" That he the said James Peak enlisted in January 1776. at Sheffield in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Wm. King
Colonel Mays Regiment of the Massachusetts Line for one year and on the 1 st January 1777 enlisted in Capt. Bartlett's Company for Colonel West. Regiment That he continued to serve in the said corps, in the service of the United States, until the 1 st January same line for 1780 three years. when he was discharged from service in West Point State of New York which is worn out and destroyed
That he was in the battle of Harlem Heights & White Plains from New York Manhattan so called;—and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support; Isaac Verburg Solomon Ransford witnesses And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
JOHN HOOKER
James Peak
I John Hooker Clerk of the Circuit Court do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said James Peak did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
John Hooker
I JOSEPH WOODBRIDGE, Clerk of the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts do certify and attest, that the abovenamed John Hooker is Clerk of said Court and that the foregoing is his signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, the day and year first above written.
J. Woodbridge Clerk

Abigail Allen & Co.
Certificate's
Hon. H. W. Dwight
H. Rep t

Abigail Allen of Sheffield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, late widow of James Pack a Revolutionary Pensioner late of Sheffield deceased, doth hereby declare and say that Patty wife of David Austin of Boston in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth aforesaid is the only living child and heir at law of S d James Pack; and that S d David Austin did furnish the principal part of all articles consumed by us in our family for several years previous to S d James Pack's last sickness, & that S d Austin did discharge from his own funds all the expenses of S d James Pack's last sickness. I do further say that said Austin is justly entitled and has my full consent to receive all monies that may be due, or was due at the decease of S d James Pack as a Revolutionary Pensioner, on a certificate granted at the War Department of the U. States, in favor of S d James
Town of Sheffield } Jan. 26 th 1825. }
Abigail Allen
Berkshire ss.
Jan. 26 th 1825 }
Then the above named Abigail Allen, well known by me to be the late wife of James Pack late of Sheffield deceased, and came before me read oath to the facts stated in the above declaration by her subscribed, & that she made the same freely voluntarily and of her own accord.
Robert H. Bournard Jus. of the Peace
David Allen of Sheffield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby declare, that Abigail Allen my present wife was, before our intermarriage the widow of James Pack late of Sheffield deceased, who was, as I have always understood a Revolutionary Pensioner. That the facts stated in the above declaration by her subscribed in relation to David Austin and Patty his wife, he believes to be strictly true, & that I, David Allen, am fully content to what she has done. David Allen

We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Sheffield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. do certify, that we have been acquainted with James Park late of Sheffield, dec. and also acquainted with David Austin of Boston in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth aforesaid the husband of Patty, daughter of S. James Park, dec. that we have had a general acquaintance with the situation of James Park and his family for many years before his death. That S. James was very poor, and as we have always understood, and widely believe, was sup- -ported almost wholly by S. David Austin for many years before his death particularly in his last sickness. the S. Austin discharged all his expenses. We further certify, that S. David Austin in our opinion is the only person equitably or legally intitled to whatever sum, may now or be due to S. James an pension certificate granted S. James Park as a Revolution- -ary Pensioner, at his decease - That the distance S. Austin lives from the place where application for administration must be made. The time & expense which it must require to take administration on S. James Park's estate, would exhaust the little sum due on S. Pension certificate & leave nothing to apply upon S. Austin's claim. We therefore have no hesitation in saying, that should it be within the discretion of the Hon. Secretary of the War Department, to dispense with an admin- -istration, and to direct the agent at Boston upon satisfactory evidence being furnished to him, of the time of decease of S. James Park, to pay to S. David Austin the arrearages of Pension money due S. James Park it would in fact be applied to the only debt against James Park which by the law of this Commonwealth, it would be applied under an ad- -ministration, & in some degree lessen the meritorious services of a worthy citizen -
David Warner } Selectmen Nathl. Preston } of Moses Baver } Sheffield
Sheffield Jan'y 26 th 1825 -

Berkshire ss.
I hereby certify that David Warner, Nathaniel Puelton and Oliver Allen whose names are subscribed to the annexed certificate, are a major part of the Board of Select- men of the town of Sheffield for the present year, & that they did subscribe their names to the same at the re- quest of David Austin of Boston, who I also well know to be the son in law of James Pule 1 st , a Revolution- ary Pensioner -
Robert H. Dana, Not. Pub. c Iss. of the Peace & Town Clerk
Sheffield Jan 7. 20 th 1828