Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,491, for James Potter, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Potter, James
S. 33,491
CONTENTS
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Notification sent to Abijah Bigelow Esq. Worcester Mass. 19 Sep. 1820
2087 Massachusetts
James Potter
private Massachusetts line, 1777. 6 years in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Enscribed on the Roll of at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 d of Aug 1818 and sent to Hon. Isaac Puffer Worcester Mass.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept 1818
4 mo 26/31 th 38.93
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
Continued
Abijah Bigelow Esq.

33491 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33491
James Potter Dis. Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 326
[Arrangement of 1870.]

James Potter. Holden
Find him in Col Nixons Regiment (Barnes) Co — Correct DA
Hon. Isaac Parker, Worcester, Mass.

State of
Massachusetts
James Potter
a Citizen of the United States, now resident at
Holden in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the first day of April 1777. I enlisted into the 2 d company commanded by Captain John Wilby Spencer in the 6 th Massachusetts Regt. commanded by Col. Benjamin Tupper. I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the end of the war, when I was discharged in June 1783 at New Windsor near West Point
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the 2 d company and 6 th Massachusetts Regiment as aforesaid. — commanded by Col. Tupper, under Brig d General Rufus Putnam
and that I left the service on the ninth day of June seventeen hundred and eighty three and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of
Sixty years, having had thirteen children My discharge was lost many years since and is not in existence. —
James Potter.
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
James Potter
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Isaac Parker Esq r Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. —
the abovenamed James Potter.
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Witness my hand & seal this day of year aforesaid
Isaac Parker C.J.S.C.

I Increase Stearns and I Samuel Drow of Holder do declan and make oath that for many years we have been acquainted with James Potter within named, and that we were knowing to his serving in the revolutionary army at least three years - and that we believe the within affidavit to be just and true.
Increase Stearns Samuel Drow
Worcester ss. April 9. 1818. Personally appeared Increase Stearns and Samuel Drow, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by them submitted.
Before Isaac Goodwin Jus. of peace

James Potter
2087
Aug 1818
Cont d 18 fip
1820-
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Schedule of the Estate of James Potter, of Holden in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Applicant for a Pension, under the Act of Congress of May 1. 1820.
  1 Swine $4.00   Chest, table & Shovel 2.75   Barrel, set work & pails 1.55   Crockery & Glass ware .60   1 Axe 3/. 2 Barrels 4/. .83   Looking Glass 4/. Shave 3/. 1.17   5 Chairs 5/. Iron ware 15/. 3.50   2 whels 18/. Flat Iron 3/. 2.50   $22.90 
I further state that I have no property other than that above mentioned; that I am a labourer - that I have a wife aged 53 - in a weak state of health; that I have one child Lucy Potter aged 8 years, in very poor health and dependent on me for support; and that from my own bad health I have not been able for more than five years to perform the labour or earn the wages of an able-bodied man.
James Potter
day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale or otherwise, 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.
James Potter
Sworn to and declared, on the tenth day of July , 1820 before the said Court.
day of July , 1820
Attest,
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the 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 Twenty two dollars and ninety cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this tenth day of July 1820.
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this tenth day of July 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, James Foller, aged sixty two years, resident in Holden, in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: Entered the service in April or May 1777, and belonged to Capt Smith's Company, Col. Fiffer's Reg't, and enlisted to serve during the war; in which Company I remained until June 9th 1783, when I was discharged, as will appear by my original declaration dated April 9th 1818. I was at the capitulation of Burgoyne, and of Lord Cornwallis at York town. My certificate is numbered 2,087;—
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.
James Foller.
Sworn to and declared, on the tenth day of July, 1820 before the said Court.
Attest, Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the 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 twenty two dollars and ninety cents. —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this tenth day of July 1820.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.