Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 45067, for James Pearson, Rhode Island

SERVICE
R. J.
Pearson, James
NUMBER
S 45067
CONTENTS
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13,888
R
New Hampshire James Pearson
of Orford in the state of New Hampshire who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hitchcock of the R. Island line, for the term of One year
inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of June 1818 and sent to Ezra Bartlett Esq. Haverhill V. Hamp.
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar 1819.  27 69    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  S. 1819.  48 00    Mo. 25 4/30 31        $13 5. 69  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 4th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent to S d Web- ster Esq 17 th Dec 1820, Haverhill -

45067 Key  INVALID.
File No. 45067
James Pearson Priv. Rev. War
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 391
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Copy James Pearson
(Contd 13,888)
28 June 1819
The same no which the applicant resides as it is set forth
C
J. W. Webster Clerk

District of New Hampshire
County of Grafton
At the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire holden at Waverhill within & for said county of Grafton being a court of record for said county by law established on this twenty sixth day of May in the year of our Lord 1820 personally appeared in Open Court —
James Pearson . . . . . aged sixty one years resident in Orford — in said County of Grafton & District of New Hampshire who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows viz a private Soldier in Capt. Stephen Kimballs Company & Col. Daniel Hitchcocks Regiment in the Rhode Island line that his original declaration was made & dated sixth day of April 1818 that he has received a pension & that his pension certificate is numbered thirteen thousand eight hundred & eighty eight. — And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 18 th 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 & by me subscribed. I further declare that I am by occupation a Miller. I have a cancer on my face a wife aged fifty six and very infirm. I have eight children. Three children at home one of the last is under the Physicians care continually & has been for one year at least & at times for seven years past. One of the last named children by labouring at days works principally supports my family. I also further state that none of my children are able to support me. I have been obliged on account of the ill health of my family & their poverty for fourteen days past to call on the select- men of the Town of Oxford for assistance.
James Pearson —
A Schedule of the property of James Pearson Vis Articles of Kitchen Furniture valued at the most twenty dollars $20.00
James Pearson

Sworn to & declared before the justices of the Superior Court of Judicature for the state of New Hampshire in open Court on this twenty sixth day of May AD 1820
Attest S. P. Webster Clerk
I Stephen Peabody Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the county of Grafton & State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & schedule therein annexed are truly copied from the record of 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 twenty dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 26 th day of May AD 1820 —
S. P. Webster Clerk
Copy James Pearson
Cont'd 13,888
28 June 1819
The property which the applicant resides on it is set forth

James Pearson
private
Col. Hitchcock. Regt. Rhode Island Massachusetts Line
1776 — 11 months
There was no Col. Hitchcock in the Massachusetts Line Rejected
Admitted
6 Ap l 1818 Oxford

Commonwealth of Massachusetts I William Blanchard of Wilmington in the county of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire. Do testify & say: that I served as a Lieutenant in (the United States service) a Regiment of Infantry commanded by Col o Daniel Hitchcock in the Rhode Island line the whole of the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy six. And that James Pearson of Orford in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire. Served the whole of that year as a private soldier in said Regiment in a company command- ed by Capt. Stephen Kimball.
William Blanchard
Middlesex ss. May 26. 1819. Then personally appeared William Blanchard and made oath that the above statement of facts by him subscribed were true before me.
Joshua Root Just ice !
And I her by certify that the said William Blanchard is a man of undoubted veracity. Joshua Root Just ice !

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Witnesseth, That I Abraham D. Dillaway Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County of Middle- sex do certify that Joshua D. Dillaway is a Justice of the peace acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and his name set to the within cer- tificates is his own proper signa- ture. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 28 th day of May 1809.
Abraham Dillaway

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Grafton ss.)
ON this sixth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County
personally appears James Pearson
aged 59 years, resident in
Orford in the said State, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision 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 Pearson enlisted in January 1776 in the State of Rhode Island
in the company commanded by Captain Stephen Kimball of the Regiment commanded by Col Daniel Hitchcock in the line as he thinks ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the last of December 1776
, when he was discharged from service in or near Trenton State of New Jersey ; that he was in the battles of Long Island, White Plains and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; 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.
Ezra Bartlett
I, Ezra Bartlett Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said James Pearson is indigent & stands in need of assistance for his support & 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.
June 20 th 1818.
Ezra Bartlett
The word " Rhode-Island " interlined by me. Ezra Bartlett