Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22509, for Luther Shaw, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Shaw, Luther
NUMBER
S. 22509
CONTENTS

Col. Wm. H. Hopkins 20 Feb. 1835 Jesse Gove Apr. 15. '37  Luther Shaw, Jr. Set. to Hon. Wm. Blade, 27 th July 1838.
8524
 Vermont  Luther Shaw 
of Rutland Co. in the State of Vermont, who was a private in the Comp y . commanded by Captain Douglass, of the Reg t . commanded by Col. Brewer, in the Mass s Cont ts . paid for 9 mos s ?
Inserted on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of April 1833 and sent to  R. Temple, Rutland 
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833. $40 00 Pensions, allowance ending 4 Sept " - 15 00 $55 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. L. Williams Clerk Book C Vol. 3 Page 0 

6/21 Litho. Shaw
Nov 29-1844-
assd
Leffler Holland Bonds

BRIEF in the case of  Luther Shaw  of  Rutland  in the State of  Vermont  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 72
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted in Ruler In 1770 1 private Gen. Brattle   Same after his return home 3 Capt. Porter   was drafted June 1777 2 Col. Simonds   Capt. Douglass   Gen. Mearns Brigade   Capt. Stiles Company  
5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Becket
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. D. Dyer Examining Clerk. 24. June 1832

Luther Skura
11651
9 mo July 27, 1892
1000
adm d
9 mo pr
30 3/4

I John Shaw of Rutland in the County of Rutland of lawful age testify and say that during the revolutionary war my brother Stephen Shaw enlisted into the Army and went from home as a soldier at two different times but how long he was gone each time I cannot state (being then quite young) I also recollect that when Benjamin Green came from Canada he went with the Mother and when he returned said he had been sick with the small pox -
Reserve & Probate Court This 10 th July 1872
Dr. Rufus Jones Judge of Probate Ct.
John Shaw

STATE OF VERMONT, RUTLAND COUNTY, ss.
On this 10 day of July A. D. 18 32 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Rutland Court of the United States now sitting, La Rue Shaw a resident of the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 72 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. In 1776 he lived in Bracket, Massachussetts when he entered the service. He served four months in Capt. Porter's Co. Col. Brewer's Regt. - he enlisted in Brattleboro, & marched to Ticonderoga near Pittsfield & Bennington, & was discharged at Mount Hope near Ticonderoga in October. Soon after he returned he enlisted for three months in Capt. Douglass's Company Col. Simonds's Regt. of Vols. & again marched to Ticonderoga, & was discharged at Ticonderoga Nov. 16. March 1777. In the summer of 1777, when Burgoyne came down from Canada, he was drafted & marched to Fort Miller & Fort Edward & joined the Army near Fort. Then he joined Gen. Vose's Brigade - he served two months under Capt. Stevens, but was attached to no Regiment as he knows of - was taken sick with the Rheumatism about 8 miles below Fort Edward - he was supposed to have the small-pox, was carried to the first house near his lodge - relocated to Stillwater, thence to Albany where he had the small-pox in consequence of having been exposed to it at the first house where he lived - & returned home when he recovered. He has no documentary evidence, but can prove his service in part by his brother John Shaw Esq. - He knew Gen. Schuyler and Gen. Wayne - He was born at Schenectady, Connecticut on the 12 th of July 1760 - there is no record of his age that he knows. Since the Revolution he lived in Lanesboro' about eleven years, when he moved to Rutland Vermont, where he now lives - He is known to most of the inhabitants of Rutland - he is a Deacon in the Rev. W. Walker's Church in Rutland, who is now absent -

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Al Royce Reg t
Luther Shaw
We Charles Walker a Clergyman residing in Rutland and Jerusha Plummer residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Duncan Luther Shaw who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Al Royce Reg t
Jerusha Plummer Chas Walker
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies,
that it appears to them that Charles Walker, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in Rutland and that Jerusha Plummer
who has also signed the same, is a resident in Rutland and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Al Royce Al Royce Reg t Clerk of the Court of Plaintiffs do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Luther Shaw for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20 th day of July A. D. 1852
Al Royce Reg t

Bonds
22509 INVALID.
Aug 8 '99 E P Bailey Elmhurst, Ill.
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Luther Shaw
Peter Porter - 76-
4 mo -
found
— Watkins — 3 — original Capt. Douglass
Stowers July 77.
2.
found 26 days

July 5. 1838
Sir
I send herewith an explanatory affidavit of Deane Sutton Shaw which I find among my papers. It which seems to have been sent me some time since. Please upon a reexamination of the case to send Gov. Esq. of Kuttner Respectfully J. H. Slade
J. L. Edwards Esq -

Rutland Vt. 28 July 1836.
Sir
I transmit you herewith the explanatory declaration of Dea. Luther Shaw of this town, and, together with it, the depositions of John Shaw, Levi Burchard, and Naomi Burchard. I send also, as applicable to the claim, the certificate of Chief Justice Williams.
I am very respectfully,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant
Vep r Gove
Hon d . James L. Edwards Comm ee of Pensions City of Washington

Luther Shaw
Rutland Vt.

Rutland Vt. 10 Feby. 1835
Dear Sir
Agreeably to instructions from the War Department dated 17 th January 1835 I respectfully represent the following facts, corresponding, as near as I can recollect, with my original Declaration as a Pensioner. to wit.
1 - I served under Capt. Porter of Massachusetts Lieut. Stone and Ensign Wilcox of the same state, in Col. Sam l Brewer's Regiment, part of the Regt. under Col. Simonds of the same state, as a private.
2 - I belonged in the state of Massachusetts, when in service.
3 - I served at Ticonderoga N.Y. part of the time and another part up and down the South River from Fort Anne and Kingsbury - I was engaged in no action. I was under Capt. Porter at Ticonderoga, on the South River under Capt. Glower.
4 - I was employed, the first four months with a force called "four month's men" - I a second time enlisted for three months with the Massachusetts troops, then was employed with the Massachusetts Continental line on the South River.
5 - I served nine months
6 - I resided in Rutland in the state of Vermont when I made application for a pension; previously I removed to Mass. and my testimony was taken before Robert Pierpoint, I suppose as Judge of the Court of Probate and I believe certified by R. C. Royce as Register.
7 th - $30.00 is the amount of my pension per annum, payable in March and September I received payment up to September 1834.
I am Sir
Your Ob st Serv t .
Luther Shaw
Hon. S. S. Edwards Com. of Pensions.

Deacon Luther Shaw of Rutland in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, on this 18 th day of May, 1837, personally appeared before me the subscriber, the Hon. Charles K. Williams, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of said State, and being duly sworn according to law, doth depose, testify and say, in reference to, and in explanation of his two several declarations heretofore made for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of Congress passed the 7 th of June, 1832; that if, in his first declaration it is then stated that the three months service which he performed in the winter of 1776-7, and from which service he was discharged at Secondogus on the 16 th March, 1777, was performed under Captain Douglass, it is a mistake, and was an error of Mr. Temple who drew the said first declaration. That service was performed under Capt. Watkins, to whom Douglass was Lieutenant: this has always been, and is now, the impression and belief of deponent. He has no recollection of the said first declaration being read over to him, after it was reduced to writing by said Temple. As to the Christian names of the said Capt. Watkins and Lieut. Douglass, deponent cannot recollect them, and is not aware that he ever knew them. They were both strangers, and resided in parts of the Country somewhat remote from him. Lt. Douglass was from the town of Hancock, Massachusetts; and was familiarly known, among the soldiery, by the nickname of Lt. Pepper-Pot; on account of a mixed coloured cook that he ordinarily wore. Deponent recollects some other incidents that occurred, while out upon the tour of service in question:—The Regiment to which he belonged was commanded by Col. Simons of Williamstown, Massachusetts, and was

Stationed on the French Line, so called, at said Secondogee. Col. Wayne was at the fort, and had his quarters near the Fort. There were parts of several companies of New Jersey, and Pennsylvania troops there, who, as he understood, had over-staid their times; and, on one occasion, assembled with their officers for the purpose of taking possession of the sutler's stores, then at Mount Hope, in 1776. Col. Samuel Brewer's Regiment was turned out to defend the sutler's stores, and remained under arms one night for two or three hours. The matter was at length settled, without any violence, and the New Jersey and Pennsylvania troops retired. But deponent does not remember whether or not these troops remained at Secondogee, but rather thinks, that some of the men, or parts of companies, were there at the time when Col. Simon's Regiment was discharged, which was on the 16 th of March, 1776 1777. And further this deponent saith not.
Luther Shaw
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year herein first above written. And I do hereby certify, that the said Luther Shaw is a credible witness.
Before me W. Williams Clerk

Mr. W. H. King 1215 1st St N. W. Washington, D. C.

State of Vermont } Rutland County, ss }
On the 25 th day of September, 1835, personally came before the undersigned authority, Luther Shaw of Rutland in said County, to me well known, who being duly sworn, doth depose and say, in addition to, and in explanation of, his former declaration made under the act of Congress, of 7 th June, 1832, as follows: That in the month of June, 1776, he enlisted as a private in Capt. Peter Porter's Company in Becket, County of Berkshire, Massachusetts — Lieut. Stone, Lt. Todd, and En d Wilcox, in Col. Samuel Brewer's Regiment. Lt. Todd went out, but was soon taken ill, unfit for duty, and returned home. Marched to Pittsfield, and there passed muster under the inspection of a Muster Master by the name of Hyde from Lenox. Thence marched with the Regiment, through Bennington, Manchester, Pawlet, and Granville, to Whitehall, and from thence passed by boats, to Mount Hope, about 1½ miles northwesterly from Ticonderoga; where, at the close of the term of 4 months, they were discharged. Was employed at Mount Hope, in erecting breastworks on the Mount, and other duties. While there, the British came out, and destroyed Arnold's fleet on Lake Champlain. It was on Sunday. Could hear the report of the Cannon, and see the smoke. Three men from the Company to which he belonged, to wit — me — Strong, Paul Ewer, and — Davis, had leave, enlisted, and went aboard of the American row-galleys at that battle on the lake. At that time there was on Mount Hope, besides the regiment from Massachusetts, an other Regiment from New Hampshire, commanded as this deponent now thinks by a Col. Willard. Deponent was discharged at this place, he believes, in the latter part of October of 1776.
That about 3 weeks after he got home from the former trip, deponent enlisted again for 3 months, under Capt. Watkins, and Lt. Douglass (no other Company Officers) in a Regiment commanded by Col. Simons of Williamstown, Massachusetts — were marched immediately, back, to Ticonderoga, and were stationed on what was then called the French lines. At the close of the term of enlistment, deponent was dismissed there with the other troops.
In 1777, when Burgoyne was marching through the Country, from Whitehall, deponent was drafted in the Militia at said Becket, for two months. Left home

on the 1. July, in the Company commanded by Capt. v — Stowers of the town of Washington in said b County of Berkshire. They had no Lieutenant, nor ensign; and deponent recollects only one other officer of the Company — a Sergeant, Royal Ashley from Washing- ton aforesaid, then called Hartwood. They marched from said Becket, northward, and joined Nipon's Brigade, between Kingsbury and Fort Ann, New York. They proceeded to Fort Ann, where the Brigade was divided into two parties: one, in which deponent was, con- sisted of a Regiment, which was commanded by Col. Nipon; and was ordered up the river to the west of Fort Ann, a short distance, to attack a block house on the north side of the stream — but the bridge having been destroyed, and there being no fording place near, they returned to Fort Ann: the other party were ordered down the river, towards Whitehall, to fell trees into the stream, in order to obstruct the passage of the British Boats. This service performed, the two parties united, and moved back to the place where deponent's company joined the Brigade, and thence to Kingsbury; where they halted several days. From Kingsbury, they marched to Fort Edward; where we stayed 2 or 3 days. While there, the picket guard was greatly reduced by the Indians; 7 out of 15, only escaping alive — the rest having been shot on their posts. From Fort Edward, they marched down the North River, about 5 or 6 miles, and halted, on the east side — stayed there 5 or 6 days. While there, Miss M c>Rea who had been killed by the Indians, was brought in, and the body laid out in an Officer's Marquee. Deponent saw the body there, and the wound of the tomahawk that had been struck into the breast. After the army moved down the river from this last place, deponent was taken ill of the small pox, and was sent forward to a hospital on an island in the river, near near Saratoga — before deponent got well of the small pox, the time was out, for which he was drafted. On his return home, deponent was taken up at Greenbush, N.Y. and carried before General Nipon, for examination, who gave deponent a verbal discharge, and told him he might proceed on his journey. Deponent recollects, that there was a Company of Stockbridge Indians with Genl. Nipon; and when at Kingsbury, they brought in, as deponent understood one or more prisoners, and received their bounty — had an

Indian name there etc. At the place above mention, 5 or 6 miles below Fort Edward, deponent recollects, that at one time, a scouting party was paraded there — General Arnold then came out in front, and deponent heard him bid up a bounty of 50 dollars, for every scalp they should take.
And deponent doth not know of any persons now living who were acquainted with any of his services above mentioned, excepting John Shaw, Levi Burchard, and Naomi Burchard, whose depositions are herewith transmitted.
Luther Shaw
Subscribed and sworn to by the said Luther Shaw, this 25. day of September, 1835. And I do hereby certify that the said Luther Shaw is a credible witness.
William Page
Justin Page.

The deposition of John Shaw of Rutland in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged sixty six years, who being sworn according to law, deposes and says, that Luther Shaw of the same Rutland who is a petitioner of the United States, is the brother of this deponent - that during the revolutionary war, their father resided in the town of Becket in the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts, and that the said Luther enlisted as a soldier before he was sixteen years old, under Capt. Peter Porter of Becket, with which his father was dissatisfied, and went and got him back - that the next summer, when he was about sixteen years of age, the said Luther enlisted again under the same Capt. Porter, and his father let him go; but this deponent does not recollect, for how long a term his brother then enlisted. Deponent recollects, that his brother went into the service, several times, as a soldier, and has always had the impression, and does now verily believe, that he was out in the whole, something like nine or ten months. Deponent recollects, that when his brother last returned from the service, he had then just recovered from the small pox, and that his father had removed from said Becket to Lansdown in said County of Berkshire. And further this deponent saith not.
John Shaw
State of Vermont } Rutland County }
Be it known, that on this 22 day of September, 1835, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, personally appeared John Shaw, who subscribed the preceding deposition in my presence, and made solemn oath that the facts therein stated contain the truth, and nothing but the truth. And I do hereby certify that the said deponent is a credible witness.
Edgar O. Brown Justice Peace.

State of Vermont Rutland County
Robert Peipon's Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland Certify that William Cogg & Edgar L. Gurney are justices of the peace for said County, and that their signatures to the foregoing certificates are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this 17 th day of Nov A.D. 1835
R. Peipon

Hon. Ch. K. Williams Boston Mass

I, Charles K. Williams, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont, do hereby certify to whom it may concern, that I have been personally acquainted with Revm Luther Shaw ever since his residence in this town, which is now over forty years, and that during all that time he has uniformly maintained the reputation of an upright, honest man, and of a pious and exemplary christian - and I should not hesitate to place the implicit confidence in any thing he might state. I have perused his explanatory declaration for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7. June, 1832, and from my acquaintance with Rev. Shaw, do believe the same to be true.
Dated at Rutland this 28. th July, 1836.
C. K. Williams

Levi Burchard and Naomi Burchard's Deposition.

State of Vermont Chittenden County ss
I David Buckner of Shurton in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged seventy four years and upwards do hereby certify that during the Revolutionary War, I resided in the Town of Pitsfield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts where I was then acquainted with one Luther Shaw who then resided in Pitsfield, and that I well recollect that the said Luther Shaw went into the service of the united States as a soldier as it was then reported and that according to the best of my recollection he was absent from home on two or three campaigns in the years 1776. and 1777. but do not recollect the number of months or weeks that the said Luther Shaw was absent from home on said service and that from my present impression I very likely that the said Luther Shaw served as a soldier in the Continental army nine months. That I understand that said Luther Shaw now resides in Rutland in the State of Vermont and further say that
Luther Birchard
Sworn and Subscribed this 18th day of September 1835
Before me Adonai H. Doolittle Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont ss. Given under my hand and seal this 18th day of September 1835. I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the person described above and that he is a credible witness. Attest Adonai H. Doolittle Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont Addison County ss. I, Naomi Burchard of Pownal in the County of Addison and State of Vermont age sixty five years and upwards do hereby certify that during the war of the Revolution I resided in Berkley in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts that I was then acquainted with Luther Shaw who then lived in said Berkley. That according to my best recollection the said Luther Shaw went into the service of the United States as a Soldier in the years 1776. and 1777. but am unable to state how long the said Luther Shaw was out, but according to my present recollection he was absent several months from home as a Soldier. That I understand that the said Luther Shaw now resides in Pownal in the State of Vermont and further say not sworn and subscribed this 18 th day of September 1835 Naomi Burchard Before me Sidney H. Evens Justice Peace
State of Vermont Addison County ss. I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Naomi Burchard that she is a credible witness. Attest Sidney H. Evens Justice Peace
State of Vermont Addison County ss. I, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court, for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that Sidney H. Evens before whom the foregoing affidavits of Levi Burchard and Naomi Burchard were made was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name subscribed thereto is his own signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty sixth day of September 1835 Samuel Swift Clerk

O. W. & N. OH MAY 29 1899 RECEIVED.

Chicago May 24. 1899
Hon. H. Clay Evans Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir.
I am endeavoring to trace the genealogy of my mother whose maiden name was Shaw. As an aid in the work I desire to obtain from your office a copy of the application of Luther Shaw for a pension. He enlisted from Lancaster Mass. in Asa Stevens Company. and served in Revolutionary War July 1777. He had previously been in service in another Company from Dec. 17. 1776 to Feb 25. 1777.
As such an application is on file in your office I will esteem it a great favor if you will send me a copy of it. Yours respectfully
Edward P. Bailey Elmhurst Du Page Co. Illinois