Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37267, for Hugh Munrow, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Munrow, Hugh
NUMBER _____
S. 37267
CONTENTS

13. 605 Q
District of Maine
Hugh Munrow
of Thomaston in the state of Me Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 23 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of July 1818 and sent to Ebenezer Thatcher Thomaston D. of Maine
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar. 1819  83. 10    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Sep. 1819.  48. 00    10 Mo. \frac{8}{30} \frac{4}{31}   $131.16  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
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Ms. A. 9. 2. 20 v. 1, p. 18 Ebenezer Thatcher, Thomaston, Maine

133 Hugh Munrow
18.605
The full value of the property must be taken
Sept. 10/19
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STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER, Judges of said Court.
ON this Sixth day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared before Ebenezer Thatcher a Judge of the C.C.C. Pleas 2 d Eastern circuit
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Hugh Munroe aged fifty four years, resident in Thomaston in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Kellums in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Pulmans , in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the twenty third day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 13605 was granted. 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; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Hugh Munrow
Sworn to and declared, on the Sixth day of July A. D. 1820.
BEFORE Ebenezer Thatcher
{ One of the Judges of the said Court.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
One cow, One yearling, two swine eight sheep, also four sheep - a fishing boat six tons \frac{30}{95} - I owe about ninety three dollars debts. Tools - One pair of old cart wheels, one shovel, two axes, two hoes two chains, Furniture. Six chairs, one chest, one pine table Sunday cooking utensils worth about five dollars - two old nets Hugh Munrow
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Hugh Munroe who, by occupation am a fisherman which I am unable to pursue by reason of Sickness having been afflicted with the rheumatism twenty eight years
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Naome 56 years my wife - in health   Jonathan 18 years in health   Anne 14 years in health    Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk Hugh Munrow
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 seventy eight dollars and cents. Dollars.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this July 8 th day of July Augt. A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.  Nat. Coffin { Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

23 rd April 1818 Hugh Munroe Thomastown -
Enlisted in April 1782 in Colonel Putnam's Regt Mass s Line Served till 31 st Dec r 1783
Benjamin Thatcher.
The Judge must certify the credibility of the witnesses, prior claimant service
Admitted

I Hugh Munroe of Thomaston in the County of Lincoln & State of Massachusetts hereby testify & declare that I enlisted as a private Soldier in the Continental Service in the War of the Revolution of America in the 5 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam. & in Captain Joseph Kellams company - That I enlisted as aforesaid in the month of April - A D 1782 and continued to serve actively & faithfully against the Common enemy until the 31 st of December A D 1783 at which time I was discharged at West Point on North River in the State of New York by Major General Henry Knox my Discharge was an honorable Discharge signed by Gen Knox and has lately been forwarded to the War Office as evidence in support of my claim to Bountys Land - I was not in any general battles tho never absent from the service after my enlistment - During my term of service I was transferred from the aforesaid Regiment & Company into the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Vose into Captain Greens company - I have never received any pension & by reason of reduced circum- stances am in need of assistance from my Country for support & therefore respectfully ask to be placed on the Pension list of the United States by virtue of the Act of Congress of March 15 th 1810 entitled an Act to provide for certain persons en- gaged in the land & naval service of the U- nited States in the Revolutionary War"
Hugh Munroe

I Nathan Hancock now of St George in the County of Lincoln & State of Massachusetts, do testify and say, that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary War (so called) in the first Massachusetts Regiments commanded by Col Joseph Ware, that Hugh Munroe was a soldier in said War, and was transferred to the Regiment to which I belonged in November 1782, and that said Munroe was discharged from said service in 1783, by General Knox - Nathan Hancock
State of Massachusetts
Lincoln County ss. July 23. 1818
Personally appeared Nathan Hancock, and made solemn Oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true
Before me
D. S. Fales, Notary
Publick
County of Lincoln - State of Massachusetts
I hereby certify that Nathan Hancock who made & subscribed the above Deposition is a Credible witness - & that David S. Fales Esquire before whom said Deposition was taken - is a No- tary Publick - & also a Justice of the Peace duly qualified to act in both Capacities in the County & State aforesaid & that the above is his own hand writing
Ebenezer G. Hale a Justice of a Peace in the State of Massachusetts

I James Blackinton of Thomaston in the County of Lincoln and State of Mas- sachusetts, do testify and say, that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary War so called, in the First Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col Joseph Vose, that Hugh Munroe was a soldier in said and in the same way with me war, said Munroe was enlisted in the year 1781 and continued in the service as a faithful soldier until the month of December 1783. at the close of the war when he was honourably discharged by Gen Knox James Blackinton
State of Massachusetts Lincoln County, ss
July 31. 1818. Personally appeared James Blackinton to me well known, & made solemn oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true -
Before me
D. S. Hales,
Notary Public
County of Lincoln - State of Massachusetts I hereby certify that James Blackinton who made & subscribed the above deposition is a credible witness & that D. S. Hales before whom said deposition was taken is a Notary Public & & also a justice of the Peace in the County & State aforesaid & duly qualified to act as such & that the above is his own signature.
Ebenezer D. Hales a justice of a Court of Pleas, in the State of Massachusetts

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Hugh Munroe , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Thomaston , in the said County of Lincoln , in the District of Maine, on the twenty third day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the Pension List of the United States, agreeably to the provision of an Act, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War;" passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by said applicant are hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a Private Soldier in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for his support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, this twentieth day of August in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Ebenezer Thatcher
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
LINCOLN, ss.
I the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Lincoln, hereby certify that the Honorable EBENEZER THATCHER , Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:—Dated at Wiscasset, in said County of Lincoln, this twentieth day of August in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Nathl. Coffin
2. 1-66 -13

37 267 Rev INVALID.
File No. 37,267
Hugh Munrow Rev Rev W.D.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 291
[Arrangement of 1870.]

37267
High Munro
Munro
13605
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Periodical Examinations by Citizen Surgeons.
The act of March 3, 1859, requires, every two years, commencing with September 4, 1859, that invalid pensioners shall present this certificate, properly executed, with their vouchers, unless their pension has been allowed by a special act of Congress, or for the loss of an arm, a leg, or for no other disability than the loss of a finger, a toe, an eye, (not eyesight,) or privation of some like essential part of pensioner's body. When a new army pension, or an increase, commences on or after March 4, 1867, or a new navy pension, or an increase, commences on or after July 1, 1837, the biennial examination will not be required of the former until September 4, 1859, nor of the latter until January 1, 1870. A description of the present condition of a disability, and how it affects the pensioner, as well as the estimate of the degree, must be in the handwriting of one of the surgeons signing the certificate, and strictly confined to that for which the pension is believed to have been originally allowed. The degree of disability for obtaining subsistence by manual labor should be expressed as amounting to one-fourth, one-third, one-half, two-thirds, three-fourths, or total, as the case may be. If Examining Surgeons do not reside in the same town, the residence of both should be given in their certificate. The fees of Examining Surgeons not appointed for the duty must be paid by the pensioner.
This blank may be used when no appointed or Army or Navy surgeon is within thirty miles of an invalid pensioner.
STATE OF Province of Nova Scotia , COUNTY OF Pictou , 88:
The subscribers, practicing physicians or surgeons in the town of River John do hereby certify that we have carefully examined M c Hugh Munro who states that he is to be paid an invalid pension at the agency in Concord , in the State of N.S.
That we find that his disability still continues & rather increasing from year to year. His disability is the result of a gunshot-wound of the left arm fracturing the arm, carrying away a portion of the ulna of which there remains an ununited fracture, the power of supination and pronation being nearly lost, and the power of flexion in the arm limited.
and that his present disability for obtaining subsistence by manual labor amounts to $10 per month
Dated at River John November 26 th  James R. Collier } M. D. 26 th day of September , 187 7 . } John I. Cameron }
Sworn to and subscribed before me; and I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above-named Doctors James R. Collier and John I. Cameron and know their reputation for skill and integrity is good.
John Gollan , J. P.
COUNTY OF _____, 88:
Certificates of the official character of John Gollan the Magistrate whose name is hereto signed are already in file in the office

Periodical Examinations by Citizen Surgeons.
The act of March 3, 1859, requires, every two years, commencing with September 4, 1859, that invalid pensioners shall present this certificate, properly executed, with their vouchers, unless their pension has been allowed by a special act of Congress, or for the loss of an arm, a leg, or for no other disability than the loss of a finger, a toe, an eye, (not eyesight,) or privation of some like essential part of pensioner's body. When a new army pension, or an increase, commences on or after March 4, 1867, or a new navy pension, or an increase, commences on or after July 1, 1837, the biennial examination will not be required of the former until September 4, 1859, nor of the latter until January 1, 1870. A description of the present condition of a disability, and how it affects the pensioner, as well as the estimate of the degree, must be in the handwriting of one of the surgeons signing the certificate, and strictly confined to that for which the pension is believed to have been originally allowed. The degree of disability for obtaining subsistence by manual labor should be expressed as amounting to one-fourth, one-third, one-half, two-thirds, three-fourths, or total, as the case may be. If Examining Surgeons do not reside in the same town, the residence of both should be given in their certificate. The fees of Examining Surgeons not appointed for the duty must be paid by the pensioner.
This blank may be used when no appointed or Army or Navy surgeon is within thirty miles of an invalid pensioner.
STATE OF Providence & Rhode Island , COUNTY OF Pictou , ss:
The subscribers, practicing physicians or surgeons in the town of River John do hereby certify that we have carefully examined Mr Hugh Munro who states that he is to be paid an invalid pension at the agency in Concord , in the State of N.C.
That we find that his disability still continues & rather increasing from year to year His disability is the result of a gunshot-wound of the left arm fracturing the arm, carrying away a portion of the ulna of which there remains an ununited fracture, the power of supination and pronation being nearly lost, and the power of flexion in the arm limited.
and that his present disability for obtaining subsistence by manual labor amounts to $10 per month
Dated at River John November 26th day of September , 187 4 . } James R. Collic } M. D. } John T. Cameron }
Sworn to and subscribed before me; and I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above-named Doctors James R. Collic and John T. Cameron and know their reputation for skill and integrity is good.
John Gollans , J. P.
STATE OF _____, COUNTY OF _____, ss: I, _____, Clerk of the _____ Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that _____ is _____, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the _____ day of _____, 18____, and will expire on the _____ day of _____, 18____; and that his signature above written is genuine.
GIVEN under my hand and the seal of said County, this _____ day of _____, 187____.
, Clerk.