Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33151, for Abraham Newport, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Newport, Abraham
S. 33/57
4
CONTENTS

Notification sent September 6th 1820 to Parker H. Hall, Esq. Massachusetts
3361.
Massachusetts.
Abraham Newport Capt Bailey private
Massachusetts Line 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 24 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of Oct 1818 and sent to John Booker, Esq. Springfield, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818. 4 mo. 1/30. 34.93 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4th 1819. 48.00
Warranted $82.93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
5 Years
Lenox, Berkshire

33 151 Rev INVALID.
File No. 88,151
Abraham Newport
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 996
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Leaves from Newport
9-
Admitted
Judge Fisher
Springfield

I Abraham Stewart a black man a citizen of the United States and now resident in Senne in the County of Berkshire & state of Massachusetts do depose & say that I am now sixty seven years of age & that I enlisted at said Senne in May 1779 in the company commanded by Capt Rufus Bailey, of the regiment commanded by Col Sprout and that I continued in the same service under the same officers four years & six months & was discharged in the fall of 1783 but have not now my discharge having left the same - but that Joshua Danforth Esq of the Pittsfield in said County was Lieutenant & Paymaster in the same Regiment & his affidavit is below attesting to the truth of this above statement - and that I was in the Battles of Rhode Island & at the capture of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown - & I do further depose & say that I am in reduced circumstances in life & stand in need of assistance for support from my Country - & that I have no other evidence except what is below  Abraham his Stewart  April 24 th 1818 Attest John Hooker Jr
I Joshua Danforth of Pittsfield in said County do depose & say that I was Lieutenant & Paymaster in the regiment abovementioned & that I knew the above mentioned  him  Abraham Stewart in the service, that he was in that Regiment nine months at least at one time & was in it at the end of the war of the Revolution and that I have his name on my books as Paymaster & find there also a final receipt for his services signed by his mark & attested, taken at the end of the Revolution  Joshua Danforth  April 24.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire
SS.
B
April
IT REMEMBERED, That on the 24 th day of
A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER,
Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Berkshire the above named
Abraham Newhall, I applied for the benefit of the late law of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain pension engagements the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"
made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said
Abraham Newhall
the applicant did serve in the
revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Berkshire
to be affixed hereto, this
24 th
day of April 1818
And I do certify the above as the testimony & proceedings had taken before me on said application & annexed the same to the secretary of the department of war
John Hooker
J. H. Northbridge P.M.

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Abraham Newport. —
3361 Oct. '18
Mar. 1819

District of Massachusetts, ss :
ON this 29 th day of June 1820 ; Personally appeared in open Court before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Lenox, within and for the County of Berkshire, in the Western Circuit, on the 4th Monday of June 1820, the same Court, being a Court of records 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. Abraham Newport aged Seventy Seven years, resident in Lenox in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows ; that he enlisted in the company commanded by Captain Bailey in the regiment commanded by Colonel Root in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment. That his original declaration is dated April 24 th 1818. and that his pension certificate is numbered 3,381.
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner 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 18th day of March, 1818, 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—schedule of property, necessary clothing and bedding excepted—to wit :
one old Table - one old chair & one old chest
That I am by occupation a Farmer - that on account of my infirmities & old age I am unable to labour - that the number of my family residing with me is that their names and ages are as follow: that I have no family that previous to my obtaining my pension I was a State Pauper - Attest - J. Tucker Yrs J. Tucker -
Abraham Newport
Sworn to, and declared on the 29 th day of June 1820, before the said Court - Parker L. Hall Clerk pro tem.
I Parker L. Hall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Berkshire do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the 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 Two dollars and fifty cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this ninth day of August 1820.
Parker L. Hall
CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Newport, Dan GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4761 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Jan. 23, 1799 to Thomas Hull, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.