Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,450, for Joseph Shaw, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Shaw Joseph
NUMBER
S. 29.450
CONTENTS

1388
Maine
Joseph Shaw
Gardaland in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Coombes of the Reg't commanded in the U.S. Forces.
Exhibit A, No 10. M. O.
Seaman's Memo
Enrolled in the Roll of Maine the rate of $15 Dollars 33 Cents per annum commence on the 1st day of March, 1831.
Sergeant of Reserves issued the 2 day of November 1832 and sent to the Secy of War Baltimore Portland Me
It was to the Secy of War 1831 $6799 Sergeant, otherwise entitled $22.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Nov 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. D. Dillworth Clerk. Book D Vol. 1 Page 91

ms. 3728 ms. 3728
admit
10 private
3 m o  Scopus maximum
45.33
for I Anderson Portland

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 verba  die  die  die day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this last  day  of  August  1832 Court before said District Judge Joseph Shaw
and  seventy
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
day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open a resident of  Penobscot in the county of Penobscot in said Maine District, years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath
board the armed brig
passas  left  James  Johnson  at  there  being  port  in  the early part of the present year of 1779 for the expedition against the British in the Penobscot  in  the  port  the  Brigadier  admiral  and  the  British  he  believed  was  in  the  service  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts  that  he  was  in  good  service  from  there  has  been  in  fact  at  that  time  and  was  not  at  the  port  of  Portland  in  August  1779  as  there  was  no  superior  British  force  and  the  Brig  made  her  escape  &  returned  to  the  port  where  he  was  then  present  and  discharged  having  served  there  eight  months  and  Wallace  was  then  and  there  and  there  with  the  fleet  before  the  fleet  afterwards  to  lost  her  gunner  was  killed  and  the  ship  was  burned  That  in  April  or  the  first  of  May  1780  he  again  enlisted  at  Portsmouth  in  said  State  under  left  Detachment  of  three  companies  was  called  to  the  port  and  the  Chamberlain  for  eight  months  was  attached  to  Cambridge  in  said  District  of  Maine  and  remained  there  at  Thomaston  until  the  eight  months  were  completed  when  he  was  hired  by  Michael  and  John  the  latter  to  be  his  clerk  and  he  remained  with  him  Gen. Hale  and  the  army  he  thinks  this  service  was  under  the  State  of  Massachusetts
He  again  enlisted  two  months  in  a  company  stationed  at  Portland  in  1778  in  the  service  of  the  State  of  Maine  the  particular  units  to  a  number  of  officers  he  has  no  recollection  he  remembers  that  the  company  was  composed  of  the  men  who  taken  the  place  of  Richard  Stetson  of  the  Portsmouth  and  remained  out  the  time  in  the  port  at  the  port  and  then  called  to  the  port  and  he  does not know of a single person living who was in said company.
He  was  born  in  said  State  of  Maine  and  has  always  resided  in  that  part  of  said  State  known  as  the  District  of  Maine  He  was  born  on  the  31st  of  March  1762  He  has  a  record  of  his  age  in  an  old  copying  book  of  his  own
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
Joseph Shaw
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before
Asher Ware
U. S. Judge for the District of 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 Joseph Shaw for a pension. That John Anderson Esquire who took the annexed depositions of Emory Prince, Moses Stubbs & William Burdon, is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified & that his official attalations are attested to full faith & credit.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty ninth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
John Nussey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

I was a Master of Cumberland in the County of Cumberland State of Maine aged Twenty four years on oath declare that I have been acquainted with Joseph Haines of said Cumberland since his infancy. That in June 1879 I shipped as a seaman on board the vessel Brig Wallas James Johnson Commander. I shipped at Newburyport in Massachusetts for the expedition against the British called the Bagaduce expedition. I sailed in said Brig after touching at Boston & Nantasket Roads & joining other vessels at Boston & Nantasket Roads where the whole expedition assembled & remained at Bagaduce until the risk of the attack where we lay until the British fleet appeared & the said Wallas being on a short cruise of Monk Desert when the British fleet appeared made her escape & was the only vessel of the whole expedition that returned.
I further say that said Joseph Haines was a seaman on board said Wallas the whole time & returned with her to said Newburyport & was discharged when I was
the seaman on board the vessel according to the best of my recollection & I also infer from the fact of receiving pay for three months the pay the state of Massachusetts.
I further say that said Haines has maintained a good character for the whole of his life has been exemplary in all respects & fully believes in the declaration that any man who is a seaman is a seaman.
Moishe Haines
Cumberland Me. August 29 th 1882
Subscribed before me this day & I certify that above Haines is a man of truth & his statements entitled to full credit.
John D. Sleeper Justice of Peace

I William Buxton, of the residence in the County of Cumberland State of Maine, Esquire aged Sixty nine years do hereby declare that I have been acquainted with Joseph Shaw of said Cumberland from my childhood. I further say that in the Spring of 1780 I enlisted as a soldier for Eight months service under Capt Peter Crowder of New Meadows, now called Brunswick in said County, which I believe was in the State of Massachusetts service, though the service was under Genl Peleg Woodworth who was said to be a Continental Officer. That Enos Chandler was Lieut. of said company at Cambridge in said District of Maine I think in May the Company having been some weeks a short time on duty at Cambridge when I joined it. I know that since Shaw was a soldier in said Company & did duty there & at Thomaston with said Company until said Company was discharged. I was not discharged with the Company but was detained about two weeks to complete my eight months service my discharge was dated the 31st of Jan 1781, which discharge is with my papers in the War Department at Washington. The whole Company were enlisted for eight months the reason of my remaining longer than the rest was my not joining it when the others did. Another say that I had a good character & was a good soldier in said Company. William Buxton
Certificate of August 29th 1832 I subscribed known to be the true & correct copy that the Buxton is a man of good character entitled to full credit the Buxton just as the same

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