Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2000, for Jacob Read, Massachusetts

Continental (Mass)
Read Jacob Rud
W. 2000 B.L.W. 26882-160-55-
Nancy (or Anna)
CONTENTS

3586.
Massachusetts Roll
Enlistment Record
4
private
New Hampshire line - 1776 - 1 year 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 23 rd of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th of Oct r 1818 and sent to Sam l Putnam Esq r Salem Massachusetts -
  Arrears to 4th of  Sept r  1818  40.53    Pemi-ann. all'ee ending  4 Mar  1819  48.00    Arrears 5 mo 2/30  $ 88.53  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Stated - See letter to Boston, B. April 20. 1822.

Jacob Read
3 Apr
Admitted
admitted for Vt. Poly
Not in...
Admitted for Vt. Poly

I Jacob Read of Salem in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts a Soldier of the Continental Army in the revolutionary war do testify & say - That soon after the commencement of hostilities in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy five, I enlisted as a private soldier in the Provincial Army (so called) for the term of eight months, that I served said term of eight months at Cambridge in Massachusetts on Winter hill & in its vicinity. That immediately after the expiration of said eight months Service I enlisted as a Soldier of the Continental Army in the Company commanded by Captain Bell belonging to the Regiment commanded by Col. Enoch Poor of the New Hampshire line to serve for the term of one year - which term of one year I duly served in said Regiment was on duty in Canada and on the frontiers was discharged and allowed to return home at the expiration of said term of one year. And I do further testify That from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support. And I hereby relinquish all right or claim to any Pension or pension legatee grant by the United States.
Jacob
his X Read mark
Subscribed in the presence of S. Putnam Clerk S. J. Court of Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Elez ff. On this third day of April AD 1818 personally came before me Samuel Putnam one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth Jacob Read and subscribed and made Oath to the truth of the foregoing declara- -tion and it appears to my satisfaction that said Jacob Read served more than nine months in the Revolutionary War on the Continental establishment against the common enemy — I do hereby certify & transmit the testimony in the case to the Secretary of the War department.
In Testimony whereof I have caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed, and set my hand this third day of April AD 1818
S. Putnam Just S. J. Court of Mass.

I George Abbot of Salem in the County of Essex in the Commonwealth of Mass s a soldier in the Revolutionary war - do testify and say that I knew the said Jacob Read - named in the annexed affidavit - I belonged to the same Regiment - and I have no doubt but that he served on the continental establishment for one year faithfully, George Abbot by s d Geo Abbot Sworn to before me
J. Putnam Just P. J. Court of Mass s . -

Essex ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts I, Ichabod Tucker Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth aforesaid in and for the County aforesaid to all whom these presents may concern hereby certify that the abovenamed Hon: Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court as aforesaid that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said Court and the signature aforesaid is his proper hand - Attest Ichabod Tucker Clerk

3586
Jacob Read
born
1811
3586
age 65
laborer
disabled
worth $293.-
crippled
Mar 19

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record 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, Jacob Read resident in Salem in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 3586 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Jacob Read late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the third day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
***** * L. S. * *****
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War."
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
  Less than a quarter of an acre of land on Flint Street in Salem, with a small unfinished wooden house on it $ 400.00   Dozen chairs &c. two hoes, beetle, wedges 4.00   Three axes v. 60. Desk & maple bureau $4 4.60   Four maple tables 4.00   412.60   deduct what he owes 130.00   Amount of what he is worth $ 282.60   Add cow ten years old 10.00   $ 292.60 
He is sixty five years old - a day labourer, formerly now nearly disabled by sickness and weakness. Last year he had two fevers, and owes the Doctor a large bill - during the war he received a musket shot in his hand and the ball remained there.

Thirteen weeks before it was extracted, the bones of his hand are broken and crisified; he has lost the fore finger of his left hand; and two other fingers are stiff and of very little value use in labouring.
He owes one hundred and thirty dollars to the estate of S. Wellman deceased.
His taxes have many years been forgiven him on account of his poverty and infirmities.
He served as a year's man all 1776 in Capt. Bell's Company in Col. Poor's Regiment in the New Hampshire line.
his Jacob X Read mark

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. W m Welmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Jacob Read do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
his Jacob Read mark
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Jacob Read took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
W m Welmore Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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 four hundred and twenty two  three dollars and the amount of what he owes is $130.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D. 1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Widow of Jacob Read Increased to $960.00 Com. 94 Mch 1848, Certif. sent to James Gregory Marblehead Mass Feb. 22, 1851
Died July 27, 1855 P.B.
429. See O.P. Massachusetts Nancy Read - widow of Jacob Read - who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private - N. 76 Dime
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 10 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Nov. 1849, and sent to James Gregory Marblehead Mass.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act March 4, 1848, Page 67 Vol. 1, July 29, 1848. Book D -
Increased See one

No Nancy Read

State of Massachusetts } County of Essex ... } 33.
On this third day of July , A. D. 1849, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate within and for the said County of Essex, Anna Reed, a resident of Danvers, in said County, aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath and from the best of her knowledge and belief, make the following declaration, in order to claim the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed the 29th day of July, A. D. 1849.
That she is the widow of Jacob Reed, alias Read, who was pensioned under the act of March 18th, 1818, for his services in the New Hampshire Continental Line, as a private - at the rate of ninety-six dollars per annum - on the 13th day of October, A. D. 1818, and died on the sixth day of January, A. D. 1825.
And your declarant further testifies and declares that she has no copy of the legal declaration and the evidence of the service upon which he was pensioned, she therefore begs to refer to the records of the War Department, Washington, for all the particulars and in proof of the same.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Read on the twenty-fourth day of July  July , in the year one hundred and ninety-eight; that her husband the aforesaid Jacob Read died on the sixth day of January, A. D. 1825; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the second day of January, eighteen hundred, viz: at the time above stated. She further swears that she is now a widow and has not intermarried since the decease of her said husband, and that she has never before made any application for a pension.
Witness my
George C. Burton
Anna her X Read mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written
Before me,
D. H. Hill
Judge of said Probate Court

Extract from the Record of Marriages of the South Congregational Parish of the City of Salem, in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts.
Seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, August July twenty-fourth, Jacob Reed and Nancy Wellman.
I certify that the above is a true extract from the said Record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in faint illegible letters and figures as follows, viz:
1798 July 24. Jacob Reed and Nancy Wellman Pastor of said Parish
Brown Emerson Pastor of said Parish I, Brown Emerson, above named, depose and say that I am the regular Pastor of the above named Parish, and that the above is a true extract from the Marriage Record of the same, now in my custody, — with the exception above named — as certified by me
Brown Emerson
August 2 d .
Essex ss. Salem, July  August , 1849.
Then personally appeared Brown Emerson, above named, who is well known to me personally as the regular Pastor of the Church of the above named Parish, and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him in my presence subscribed — and I certify that all the attentions and interpellations made in the above were so made before the signing and execution of the same —
Before me, James Gregory, Justice of the Peace

I, Lydia Osborn, of Danvers in the County of Essex, do in my oath testify and declare that I am the sister of Anna Reed who has signed the Declaration herein written, and I do very well know that said Anna Reed's maiden name was Anna Wellman and that the family & others have always been accustomed to call her Nancy .
And I do further testify and declare, that my said sister is the widow of Jacob Reed, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, who sickened and died in Salem, in the said County of Essex, on the sixth day of January, A.D. 1825. I was present at the marriage of my said sister, on the twenty fourth day of July, A.D. 1798, with said Jacob Reed and I do well know that my said sister, Anna Reed, is now a widow and has not intermarried since the decease of her husband, Jacob Reed aforesaid.
L. Lydia Osborn
Essex ss. August 3 d 1849.
Then personally appeared the above named Lydia Osborn, a credible witness, and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the above affidavit by her subscribed -
Before me, James Gregory, Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, September 25 th 1849
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Daniel A. White was judge of the Court of Probate, and James Gregory was a justice of the Peace for the County of Essex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
M c Guire Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.

C. J. Gregory Jr. Dec. 26/55
107595
Act March 3/55
April 30/55
Nancy Read loc a of Sacat Road, Price
Capt — — — "
Col. — — — "
Mar of the revolution
U.S. Commissioner Under Sec 1848
May July 48-429
W: 1600 Al. Ma. 2486
[Large stylized signature]
Vol R. Page 37.
Jas Gregory & Son Maplehead Mass

167875 6

State of Massachusetts
COUNTY OF Essex
ss.
On this twenty-first day of April , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five , personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Nancy Read aged Seventy-six years, a resident of Danvers in the State of Massachusetts who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Jacob Read , deceased, who was a Private in the army of the Revolution  in the Company commanded by Captain and a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of March 18th, 1818, Regiment at the rate of $46 per annum in the war with Great Britain,
declared by the United States on the 14th of June, 1812. She further Declares that she herself was pensioned at the same rate as her said late husband in the twenty-second day of February, 1851 - under the provisions of the act of July 29th, 1848 . that her said husband on or about the  day of  A. D. 18 for the term of  and continued in actual service in said war for the term of  and was honorably discharged at on the  day of  A. D. 18 but that, to the best of her knowledge and belief, her husband never received any written or printed discharge.
She further states that she was married to the said Jacob Read in Salem, Massachusetts , on the twenty-fourth day of July A. D. 1797 , by one Daniel Hopkins , a Clergyman , and that her name before her said marriage was Nancy Atkinson ; that her said husband died at said Salem , on the sixth day of January , A. D. 1823 , and that she is now a widow, and she begs to refer to the evidence upon which she was pensioned in proof of all the facts and details of her claim.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "Act approved March 3, 1855," and prays that the certificate thereof may be sent for her to JAMES GREGORY & SON, of Marblehead, Mass.; and declares that she has not received a Bounty Land Warrant under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
Witness my hand Caroline M. Green
her Nancy Read mark

We Nancy R. Burton and Caroline M. Osborne residents of Danners in the State of Massachusetts upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Nancy Read in our presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. and we believe that she is now a widow. Nancy R. Burton Caroline M. Osborne
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be; and that I have no interest in this claim.
James Gregory , Justice of the Peace.
State of
County.
We, _____ and _____ having been duly sworn, depose and say, that we well knew who was a _____ in the war of _____ whose widow now applies for bounty land; that we knew him for more than years before his death, which occurred at _____ about years ago; that we know that he died about that time, because
that we have known his said widow from his death to this time, that she is now unmarried, and that we are disinterested.
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this _____ day of _____ A. D. 18_____
Justice of the Peace.
It is hereby certified, that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, by the affidavits of _____
_____ of the said County and State, know, to be credible persons, and who swear that they have no pecuniary interest in the foregoing application; that _____ the applicant in the foregoing declaration is now unmarried, and that she is the widow of the who was a _____ and that the said _____
WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, this
18_____
Justice of the Peace.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Essex, ss.
To all people to whom these presents shall come.
I Asahel Huntington Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, do certify, that
James Gregory esquire,
before whom the accompanying declaration & affidavit were  was made was , at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly authorized and qualified to administer oaths, and take acknowl- edgements, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, at Salem, on this twenty seventh day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
Huntington , CLERK.

February 1, 1935
XXXXXXXXXXXX
Mr. John O. Buxton 29 Washington Square Salem, Massachusetts
JACOB READ W. 2000 BA-J/MLB
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of recent date, in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jacob Reed, of Salem, Massachusetts, whose widow, Anna Reed, drew a pension until her death in July, 1855.
The record of Jacob Read or Reed follows as shown in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 2000, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not given.
He enlisted in 1775 and served eight months as a private, place of enlistment and names of officers not stated. During this tour he was stationed at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Winter Hill and its vicinity. Immediately upon its expiration, he enlisted at Danvers, Massachusetts, January 1, 1776, served as private in Captain Bell's company, Colonel Enoch Poor's New Hampshire regiment, and was discharged January 1, 1777; during his service he received a musket shot in his left hand, losing the forefinger and crippling that hand.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 3, 1818, while a resident of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. In 1820 he was sixty-five years of age.
The soldier continued to reside in Salem, Massachusetts, where he died January 6, 1825.
Jacob Read or Reed married July 24, 1798, Nancy or Anna Wellman, in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, where their marriage was recorded in the South Congregational Parish.

Soldier's widow, Nancy or Anna Read or Reed, was allowed pension on her application executed July 3, 1849, at which time she was aged seventy years and residing in Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts; the date and place of her birth were not given. She was still residing in Danvers, Massachusetts, in 1855 and died July 27, 1855.
The family of the soldier was referred to but names of children, if any, were not given.
In 1824, Desire E. Webber, wife of John P. Webber, of Beverly, Massachusetts, referred to her parents, Ezekiel Wellman who had been dead seven years, and his wife, Elizabeth Wellman, of Salem, Massachusetts.
In 1849, Lydia Osborn, sister of soldier's wife, Nancy or Anna, was a resident of Danvers, Massachusetts, the given name of her husband not shown. In that year, also, one George C. Buxton acted as witness for soldier's widow, and in 1850, one Nancy R. Buxton acted as witness for her; their places of residence and relationship to the family not stated. In 1855, Nancy R. Buxton and one Caroline M. Osborn (her relationship to Lydia not shown) were both residents of Danvers, Massachusetts.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

26.882
Rev. Amos
Mass. Hall Oct 11 March 1819. Jacob Read, spec $8 per month To what time last paid?
paid to 4 th March 1820. W. S.

26.882
Skor Am
21 Mar 1920

an authenticated copy of Dec & within -
Claimant aged 68 y. has not been able to pursue any business for a number of years in consequence of a wound rec d by a musket ball which took off 4 of his fingers. — no family —
Ichabod Tucker Esq Salem
Mr. A. B. Authenticated affidavits of Jacob Reed's creditors exhibited, shewing that he was indebted to them in the amount set forth in schedule under act 1 st March 1825 and that they have rec d the amounts due them from s d Reed, Mar. 18 1825.
Massachusetts Jacob Reed, priv. serv. & 1 st yr. 1798
1 st Sched: dated July 1820 Real Estate — $400 — Personal — 22.60 Total $422.60 Indebted — $130. resid ue the Doctor's bill
Sched: under Act Mar 1823 dated June 17. 1823. Exhibits — $28.15 accounts for the decrease of property, by sale of Real Estate on the 19 th May 1823. for $425 — to Timothy Hawkes & paid Debts (names of creditors & the amount each given) to the amt. of $415. 45. — Still owes for a load of wood. — over

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of _____ a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1777 1778 Private at Cambridge Mass.   1778 1779 Col. Bell Genl. Poor Connecticut  
During the war he received a musket shot in the knee.
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
Date of application for pension, _____
Residence at date of application, _____
Age at date of application, _____
Remarks: _____
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

29 Washington Sq. Salem Mass.
Jan. 12 1935
U.S. Pension Office Washington D.C.
Gentlemen
I wish to know the record of Jacob Reed of Salem, a Revolutionary pensioner. I think he died about 1850, probably some time before that date. I know that his widow, Anna Reed, had a pension until her death July 1855.
What I wish to know is whether he served on land or sea, whether he was a soldier or sailor. Thanking you for  for the information I am
Sincerely yours
John O Buxton

1935 Feb 1-3rd to Jno. O. Burston M.B. 1935 Feb 1-3rd to Jno. O. Burston M.B.
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2000
Nancy Read, Widow Jacob Read, Pno Rev. Wan.
Act: July 29, 1848.
Index — Vol. M. Page 153
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Sept 15: Feby 23. 1824 I certify that Benjamin Merrill is a notary of the Peace in and for the County of Essex duly qualified & admitted in Oaths and his signatures within written are genuine
Shabod Tucker Clerk of the Judicial Court for said County
further proof in the case of Jacob Reed Revolutionary Ins. Salem Mass ts

I, Desire E. Webber, of Broerly, wife of John P. Webber, testify, that my husband now and for several years has kept a shop in Broerly and that I was a great part of the time the shopkeeper - previous to 1821 I had delivered to Jacob Reed, of Salem, or to his wife, or some one of his family goods for the support of his family from our shop to the amount of more than one hundred dollars. I settled with him in March, 1821 and he gave a note dated March, 11, 1821 for the amount due, and in the fall of last year 1823 I received payment from the purchase of Jacob Reed's estate of what was due to my husband, which was over one hundred & twenty dollars.
I also know that Jacob Reed was indebted to my late Father Ezekiel Wellman of Salem, who died seven years ago, to the amount of about two hundred dollars: and that he gave a note for the balance due on settlement to my mother Eliz a Wellman, and when Jacob Reed's estate was sold last fall that note was taken up by him: the amount then due was about one hundred and sixty or seventy dollars.

The exact amount I cannot recollect.
Desire E. Webber
I, Elizabeth Hawkes, wife of Timothy Hawkes of Salem testify that my husband is a seafaring man and is now absent on a voyage: I know that often when the wife of said Reed has been in want of money to purchase necessaries for the support of her family, she was in the habit of sending to me to borrow during several years past, as they were very poor: I lent her what amounted in settlement to nearly seventy dollars; but I agreed to receive a note for, I think, sixty dollars in full: that note was given to me about two years ago: and was due my husband when he bought Mr. Jacob Read's Real Estate. I also know that my husband at that time agreed to pay Mr. Stephen Fogg about 40 or 50 dollars which Mr. Reed owed Fogg.
Elizabeth Hawkes
Essex: Feby 20 th 1824 Then the above named Desire E. Webber and Elizabeth Hawkes, who are credible and disinterested witnesses, subscribed and made oath to the above written Depositions by them respectively subscribed before me
By: Merrih Inst. Peace

I, Stephen Driver, Junior, of Salem in Massachusetts, on oath testify that I am well acquainted with Jacob Reed, of said Salem, late a U.S. Revolutionary Pensioner, and know that from his infirmities, age, and poverty he is unable to support himself and wife without assistance and pecuniary aid from the public. I live in the same neighborhood with him and know his situation is the subject of sympathy among his neighbors. Stephen Driver Jr
I, Jacob Reed, late a U.S. Pensioner in Salem Massachusetts, do on oath declare that I am lame, infirm and poor, and need assistance for my support, as I trust is fully shown in the late application I forwarded from the Court agreeably to law
Jacob his x Reed mark
Essays: Feb. 21. 1824 Then the above named Stephen Driver Junior, who is a credible & disinterested witness, and the said Reed the Applicant, personally appeared and made oath that the Affidavits by them subscribed are true, before
By Merrill Eastman,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss: Feby 23. 1824 I certify that Benjamin Merrill is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Essex duly qualified to administer oaths and his signatures within written are genuine
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said County
Further proof in the case of Jacob Reed Revolutionary War Salem Mass.

1 March 1823,
Mass.
Jacob Reed
Rec. 10 Mar: 1824
Hon. B. W. Crowninshield
John H. R.
leg of war Washington

Dear Sir,
Be so good as to inform me if the papers of Jacob Brant, will entitle him to a pension?
I am, very Respectfully
Hon.
Mr. Calhoun
Secy of War
W. B. 3- M c Swainsfield P. March 1824

FREE
The Honble
Benjamin W. Crowninshield
Rep't in Congress
Washington-City

Salem, Feby, 23 1822
Dear Sir,
I observe a Bill is now pending, which if passed in S.C. will probably give relief to Mrs. Greene. She is very lame and unable to earn a living, so that she thinks she shall in all event be entitled to a Pension.
Jacob Reed, an old accepted soldier, informs me he spoke to you before you left Salem in relation to his case; and that you were pleased to direct him to forward his books & documents, and you would do what could be done.
I accordingly now send some Affidavits, which, I think, with what is already on file in the War Department will be sufficient to show he is entitled to aid.
I am very respectfully your Servt
J. P. Merrill

No 555.
Nancy Head, widow of Jacob Head
Act 29 July 1848
Maria 1798 Husband died 1828
Adm 1 yr & 6 mos per J. H. H. per annum £ 40 per share
James Gregory dark head Mass,

Marblehead, October 23 d 1849.
Honored Sir:
I have the Honor to forward herewith the Declaration of Anna, alias Nancy Reed, widow of Jacob Reed, alias Read — a Revolutionary Pensioner under the law of March 18 th , 1818, deceased — claiming the benefit of the law of July 29 th , 1848.
I am, with very great respect, Your Honor's humble servt. James Gregory
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.

Payment to be made at Boston Mass. by Franklin Warren Esq Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Massachusetts
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act January 1848 , Page 67 Vol. 1 B. D. July 29 th 1848 Henry Robinson Clerk.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 29 th  February 1848, Nancy Read widow of Jacob Read who was a Private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Sixty Six dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior the Twenty Second day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty Nine.
T. Emine
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Marblehead, November 26th, 1850.
Honored Sir:
I have the Honor to forward herewith a Declaration of Nancy Read of the neighboring town of Danvers, a pensioner under the law of July 29. 1848, and the widow of Jacob Read, who was a pensioner under the law of March 18th, 1818.
Mrs. Read is now in the receipt of a pension under the said law of July 29. '48, at the rate of $66.66 per annum, and she now presents this Declaration with the view of claiming the difference between her present allowance and that which her said husband received under the law of 1818, aforesaid.
Mrs. Reads' pension Certificate is also herewith enclosed.
I am, with very great respect, Your Honor's humble servt. James Gregory James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

Ld 8 to f 96 for annu Dec 9 f 66 1/4 for annu Caring 21 March 1848.
James Gregory Macklehead Mass

State of Massachusetts County of Essex. } 55.
On this twenty-first day of November, A. D. 1850, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Essex, personally appeared Nancy Read, and made oath in due form of law that she is the widow of Jacob Read, who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution; that she herself is now receiving a pension from the United States, at the rate of sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents per annum, under the Act of July 29th 1848; that her husband, aforesaid, drew a pension at the rate of ninety-six dollars per annum under the Act of March 18th 1818; and she makes this declaration with the view of obtaining an increase of her present pension, for any amount to which she may be found entitled under any and all the Acts and Resolutions of Congress which are applicable to her case.
She further declares that she is now a resident of Danvers in the said County of Essex, and is still a widow, and is in the seventy-second year of her age.
Witness my Nancy Robertson
Nancy her Read mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written —
Before me, James Gregory, Justice of the Peace, I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Nancy Read, and that she is the same person she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
Attest, James Gregory, Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, November 23 d . 1850.
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestations hereunto attached, James Gregory was Justice of the peace for the County of Essex.
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
J. H. Colcham
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Declaration of Jacob Read
Ichabod Tucker Esq. Salem Mass ts

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss
At the court of Common Pleas begun and held at Salem within and for the County of Essex on the third Monday of June A.D. 1823
On this seventeenth day of June 1823 personally appeared in open court here, the same being a court of Record, 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, Jacob Read, resident in said County, aged 68 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of the eighteenth of March 1818, the 1 st May 1820 and the 1 st March 1823, that he the said Read enlisted at Danvers for the term of one year on the first day of January 1776 in the company commanded by Capt. Bell, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Poor in the service of the state of New Hampshire on the continental establishment and that he continued to serve in the corps until the 1 st Jan y . 1777 when he was discharged from the said service at Ticonderoga.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 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 was contained in my former Schedule; and that since the exhibition of that Schedule the following changes have been made in my property:
On the 19 th May last I sold and conveyed to Timothy Hawkes all my land and House mentioned in that Schedule for four hundred and twenty five dollars;
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of which he retained sixty one Dollars and forty cents which I owed him by a note; and of the residue he paid to Stephen Fogg $31.36 which I owed to said Fogg on a Note of hand, and $14.62 1/2 which I owed to said Fogg on account; and said Hawkes also paid to John S. Webber $124.70 the amount of a note of hand dated March 11. 1821 on interest which said Webber held against me, and $164.71 cts to Elizabeth Wellman, the amount of my note to her, amounting in all to four hundred and five Doll s & 45 cts: and the balance he paid to me: with which I have paid ten doll s , for bread to Ezekiel Goldthwait, a baker, and I owe James Brown for a load of wood.
I was by occupation a day laborer; but have many years been disabled by infirmities and sickness, so that I have been obliged to take up the necessaries of life on the credit of my Real Estate: my hand and fingers were crippled by a wound from a musket ball; I am so poor and helpless that I stand in need of assistance from my country for support
his Jacob X Read mark.
Sworn in open court before John M. Williams judge, C.C. Pleas
I, Ichabod Tucker Clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and Schedule have been admitted to 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 twenty eight dollars fifteen cents.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this seventeenth day of June 1823.
Ichabod Tucker, { Clerk of the Court for the county of Essex

Know, all Men, by these Presents, That
Jacob Reed of Salem in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts yeoman
in consideration of Four hundred and twenty five dollars paid me by Timothy Hawkes of the same Salem otherwise
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto the said Timothy Hawkes and his heirs and assigns forever a certain lot of land in Salem aforesaid with the dwelling house and all other buildings thereon beginning at the North-easterly corner thereof on Flint Street, then running southerly on that Street sixty feet, then running westerly by land of William H. Oliver Two hundred and two feet and five inches, then running Northerly by land of George Johnson sixty five feet and six inches, then running easterly by land of Perkins Dodge and others Two hundred and twenty five feet and ten inches. Together with all the privileges and appurtenances.
To have and to hold the granted premises with the appurtenances to the said Timothy Hawkes his heirs and assigns , to his and their use and benefit forever. And I the said Jacob Reed for my self my heirs, executors and administrators, do hereby covenant with the said Timothy Hawkes his heirs and assigns , That I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises: that they are free of all incumbrances: that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Timothy in fee simple and that I will, and my heirs, executors and administrators shall, warrant and defend the same to the said Timothy his heirs and assigns , forever, against the lawful claims and demands of any persons.
In witness whereof, I the said Jacob Reed have hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us, Anna Choate William J. Phipps jun
Jacob Reed 
True copy of the original which was received and entered for record in the Registry of Deeds for the County of Essex July 9. 1825
Abel Choate Regr
ESSEX ss. May 12. 1825 Jacob Reed acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed, before me. Anna Choate Just Peace

Essex: July 24. 1823 I certify that Amos Choate Esq is Register of Deeds for the county of Essex duly chosen and sworn and that his within written signature is genuine.
Attest
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of the Judicial Courts
Declaration of Jacob Read
Ichabod Tucker Esq Salem Mass

Jacob Read
The Secy of War has on file a Duplicate of this, accompanied by a Certificate signed by the Town Officers & other respectable Inhs. of Salem, making known their opinion that Jacob Read is a proper object of the bounty of Government.
Please to call the attention of the Secy to that paper.
There is a copy of this paper to the Secy of War J. D. D. Barstow

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record 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, Jacob Read - - - - resident in Salem - - - - in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 3586 - - - - now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Jacob Read - - - - late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight - - - - dollars per month, to commence on the third - - - - day of April - - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
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L. S.
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"Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirteenth day of October - - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War."
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, less than a quarter of an acre of land on Flint Street in Salem, with a small unfinished wooden house on it - - - - $ 400.00
dozen chairs $3. two hoes, battle, wages - - - - 4.00
three axes 0.60. Desk & maple bureau $4.00 - - - - 4.60
four maple tables - - - - - - - - 4.00
deduct what he owes - - - - $ 412.60
Amount of what he is worth - - - - $ 282.60
add cow ten years old - - - - 10.00
$ 292.60
He is sixty five years old a day labourer formerly, now nearly disabled by sickness and weakness, last year he had two fevers, and owes the Doctor a large bill. during the war he received a musket shot in his hand and the ball remained

remained there thirteen weeks before it was extracted, the bones of his hand are broken and crippled; - he has lost the forefinger of his left hand; and two other fingers are stiff and of little use in labouring -
He owes one hundred and thirty dollars to the estate of E. Wellman dec? -
His taxes have many years been forgiven him on account of his poverty and infirmities.
He served as a year's man all 1776 in capt. Bell's company Col. Poor's Regiment in the New Hampshire line
his Jacob X Read
Mark Sworn to and declared before W m Wetmore, Judge within named.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. W m Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
1. Jacob Read do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Jacob Read his mark
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Jacob Read took and subscribed the forewritten Oath before me
W m Wetmore , Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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 four hundred & twenty
two — dollars 60 cents as the amount of what he owes is $130.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk
A true copy of record
Attr. Ichabod Tucker, Clerk