Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,449, for Levi Shaw, New Hampshire

SERVICE
Shaw, Levi
NUMBER
S. 29,449
CONTENTS

Maine
Levi Shaw of Maine in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Turner  Buller of the Reg't commanded by Col. Drake in the War of the Rebellion time for which was 8 days Corporal for 22 days in Buller's Company in Col. Bartlett's Regiment.
Inserted in the Roll of Maine at the rate of 2 1/4 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of October 1832 and sent to Responder Minot etc.
As to 4th of Sept 1832 $ 36.82 Semizant. allowance ending 4th Dec 1833 12.27 $ 39.19
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. S. Brattle Clerk. Book 11 Vol. 1 Page 46

Nº 3215
Declaration of Leviathan
admit that
Private corporal 24.55
sent Penson

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland , within and for said District, on the fourth day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this 14th day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Levi Shaw a resident of Miramichi in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th. 1832. That he
That he the said Shaw enlisted sometime in the last part of the summer of 1779 at West Kingston in the State of New Hampshire and served three months in the company commanded by Capt. Tripp according to the best of his recollection in the regiment commanded by Col. Dake he thinks. The Lieut. Col's name was Gale. That he was at the taking of Burgoyne and after the Battle was marched with said company to a place called New Windsor about one hundred miles from Albany in the vicinity of West Point where he was discharged.
That he the said Shaw again enlisted sometime in the year of 1780 and served three months as a dragoon in the company commanded by Capt. Bullen he thinks that one of the soldiers name was Bagley and was stationed said term of time at West point and was there when Arnold deserted and that he was discharged at West Point aforesaid.
And the said Shaw further declares that he entered the Militia and served in the line of the State of New Hampshire for and during six months as above. That his name is on the rolls of Militia of that State and thinks that it is now in the Department of State at Washington.
Levi Shaw
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before.
Ashur Ware
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

And he the said Shaw says on oath that his native place is Hampton, County of Rockingham State of New Hampshire - and was born in A.D. 1759 That he has a record of his age in a Bible That he was living at East Kingston when he first entered the service, and that he has resided in the town of Minot for more than forty years last past.
Levi Shaw
Signed from life Chas. Warren Clerk for the U. S. Dist. Court (Maine)
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Levi Shaw for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
John Nussey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

WE George Richer a Clergyman residing in the town of Minot and Samuel Varick of Hiram town
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Levi Shaw who has subscribed the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be 73 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before Asahel Wain U.S. Judge for Maine District
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Richer who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident of the town of Minot and that Samuel Varick
who has signed the same is a resident of the same town and is an creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Asahel Wain Judge

INVALID.
File No. 99, 449
Leviathan
1862
Act: June 19 1862
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 208
[Arrangement of 1870.]