Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,043, for Philemon Priest, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Priest, Philémon
L 30,043
CONTENTS

10.025.
Massachusetts
Philemon Priest
of Worcester in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Paytes of the Regt commanded by Col Dyke in the War line for 2 Mos Private
3 " Corporal Miles
Inserted on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 24 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of Mar 1833, and first paid Date of Action Spa
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $48.66 Semi-annual allowance ending 2 Sept " 12.16
$60.82
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H Blain Clerk, Book h , Vol. 27 Page 63 .
81 March

Declaration of William Priest x v
Please to direct to Sam. Dana Esq. Groton Ms
4 months Private 3 " Corporal 7 " Adm'd C.B.
$24.33.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Worcester.
ss.
On this fourteenth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting at Worcester within and for the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth
aforesaid
Philemon Priest of, Namely in said County aged seventy nine years
Who being 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 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say
 1 That he enlisted in 1776 for a Campaign to Dorchester. Us for four months in Capt. Mansel Sawyer's Company of Col. Sawin's of Westminster, in Col. Nicholas Dyer's Regiment, he marched to Dorchester and was there stationed, and did duty guarding the lines and fortifying on Castle Island, now Fort Independence for the term of 4 months when he was discharged. Soon after he returned home to Hawley.  2 He enlisted for three months in the Company of Capt. David Moore of Col. L. Mason's of Sterling. David Moore was his orderly Sergeant, and himself a Corporal, for three months to go to New Jersey, he was stationed at a place called Bridgewater, bound brook, his Company was in Col. John Whitney's Regt. L. Col. Carter of Leominster, when he served out his term of three months and was allowed 14 days as his other wages were, fourteen days to return from New Jersey to Hawley, so that he computes his service at seven months and fourteen days. No discharge was given to him at the expiration of either Campaign. 
He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever except, the present, and declares that his name is not, on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, the day and year aforesaid
Sworn to and subscribed
Philemon Priest
We Alonzo Hall
a Clergyman residing in the town of Worcester
in the county of Worcester & Calvin Willard hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Capt. Philemon Priest who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before Nathaniel Dyer Esq. Probate for the County of Worcester
Alonzo Hall Calvin Willard

And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion, that 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:
Nathl Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that alongo see Philamon Priest who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Worcester in said County and that Calvinuel head of the same Worcester Eng. is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Theophilus Wheeler Register ————— Clerk of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester ————— do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains, the original proceedings, of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Philamon Priest for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office ————— the first of Probate the 11th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two
Theophilus Wheeler Register of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts
The said Theophilus Wheeler Register of Probate do first certify that Hon. Samuel Dana is, I believe, a Justice of the Peace through the State, and that Isaac Whitney is a Justice of the Peace in for the said County of Worcester, and that their names affixed to the annexed affidavits, are in their own hand writing — and that the said affidavits are procured and hereto annexed since my certificate as above, was made —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Probate Court the thirtieth day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three
Theophilus Wheeler Register of said Court

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester Notice , to wit,
At the Court of Probate begun and held at Worcester within and for the County of Worcester on the 10th day of February A. D. 1832 On the application of Philemon Priest claiming to be a Soldier of the Revolution, the following Interrogatories were propounded to him to wit :
1 Where, and in what year, were you born  then ? Answer, I was born in Haverd on the 18 th of February A D 1753
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it ? Answer, I have no family record, but there is a record of my age on Haverd record
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since  lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live ? Answer, In Haverd where I always have lived, except when in service and I now live there
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom ? Answer, all my services were voluntary and of my own accord
5 Did you ever receive any written discharge from service ? Ans r I never in any such discharge
6 State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental, and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service ? Answer, I knew Col o Henry Haskell at Dorchester, The Rev d Mr Johnson then of Haverd Chaplain, Capt Manasseh Sawyer of Sterling Mr
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution ? Answer, The Rev d George Weston, Capt Aaron Whitney Dator Ephraim Stone, George Gentry Major Harrod and Lewis Melland. Selectmen of Haverd In presence of Sam Dana of Gorton Ms. Philemon Priest

Deft o Salmon Whitney in the Care of a Philemon Priest,

I Salmon Whitney of Harvard in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of seventy two years, do testify and say that in the month of August in the year 1776 Mr Philemon Priest, myself and others enlisted into the American service as soldiers for the term of three months and immediately after joined a company at Dorchester in said state commanded by Captain Menasseh Sawyer of Sterling our company belonged to the regiment that was commanded by Col. Dyke, we served together in the company during the term of three months Salmon Whitney
Worcester ss. January 3 d 1833.
Then personally appeared the above named Salmon Whitney and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed.
Before Isaac Whitney Justice of the Peace
I certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Salmon Whitney for many years and have ever considered him a man whose veracity was not to be disputed in any case.
Harvard January 3 d 1833.
Isaac Whitney Justice of the Peace.

Solomon Haskell for Philemon Priest

I Solomon Haskell of Fitchburg in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty two years Do depose & say that I served in the War of the revolution — That I lived in Harvard in said County in 1776, and on the first of December I enlisted in the Company of Capt. David Nourse of Bolton in the Regt. of Col. Josiah Whitney to serve for the term of three months in the State of New York, said Company was mustered at Peekskill under Capt. Nourse. Lt. Ephra. Davis of Harvard and I remember and well know that Philemon Priest of the same Harvard was a Soldier in that Company that he was mustered with them at Peekskill and that he served his term of three months and was discharged with the Company at Bound Brook in New Jersey in the Spring of 1777.
1777
Solomon Haskell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester
ss. December 21 st 1832
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace, within and for all the Counties in said Commonwealth Solomon Haskell
who subscribed the annexed Deposition / and is a credible witness and disinterested
and made solemn Oath, that the same is just and true in all its particulars according to the best of his knowledge and belief
Saml. Dana

30043 Rev INVALID.
File No. 30,043
Philemon Priest
Rev War
Act: June 7 n 39 m
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 328
[Arrangement of 1870.]