Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5154, for Amos Pierce, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Pierce, Amos
5 1 5 4
carded
CONTENTS

2185
Massachusetts
Amos Pierce
of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Smith, of the Reg't commanded by Col. Jackson in the Massachusetts line for 2 Years & more
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of November 1832 and del d to L Folsom of Worcester, Mass. Present
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $120.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '33 40.00
$160.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Geo. C. Hiles Clerk Book D Vol. 2 Page 75

Amos Peirce's Application.

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty - two - - - personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Nathl Paine, Judge of the Court of Probate , now sitting, Amos Peirce a resident of Millbury , in the County of Worcester , and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty nine 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 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he, the said Amos Peirce , being a resident of Sutton, County of Worcester , Commonwealth aforesaid enlisted in the Army of the Revolution for a term of nine months , as a Private , in the Company commanded by Capt. Washburn , Regiment of Col. Henry Jackson , which term he served out at West Point , on Hudson River & its vicinity. That he afterwards again enlisted at Paxton, County of Worcester Commonwealth aforesaid, for three years , as a Private , & joined the Army at West Point  in the Company under the command of Capt. Kilby Smith , Regiment of Col. Michael Jackson . In consequence of sickness, he received his discharge in the month of October , five months before the expiration of the time of enlistment, which discharge has been forwarded on a previous occasion to the Department of War . That he received the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed March eighteenth, A.D. one thousand eight hundred eighteen, until a new construction was given to that Act, when his name was stricken from the Pension Roll . That at the time of his former application he was a resident of Millbury aforesaid, where he still continues to reside. That he has not applied for the benefit of any other Act passed for the relief of the surviving officers & soldiers of the Army of the Revolution. That his discharge after his second period of service, being a term of two years & about seven months , was forwarded to the Department of War when his former application was made, and has not been returned to him.
The name of the Col. is in his own hand & seems to be wrong instead of Jackson, probably Smith.
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.
Before Nathl Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester  Amos Peirce

We  a Clergyman residing in the  residing in  and thereby testify that we are well acquainted with  who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be  years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
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 mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that  who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the  and that who has also signed the same is a resident in the credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
NATHL. FAYNE. Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester.
I 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 Amos  Decree for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office  the Court of Probate the 8 th day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts.
Amos Pierce's Application.

By the Honorable Major General Bragg Commanding the Dept upon Hudson River and their Dependencies —
Andres Perez Salazar in the second Regiment of Rifles — having been reported by a Board of officers appointed to examine the Invalids of the Army as unfit for duty — and supposed to continue so during the time he has to serve (being six months) — is hereby discharged from the Service of the United States Given under my Hand at West Point This eleventh Day of October 1863 —
By the Generals Command J. Lillie Aide de Camp.
H. Knox M c General.
Registered in the Books of the Regiment J. P. Sapper Adjutant

Payable on the 4 th March and 4 th Sept. of each year at the W. S. Branch Bank in Boston
$80 per ann
Recorded
Amos Dins

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18 th of March, 1818, Amos Pierce, 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  cents per month, to commence on the 28 th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this a 25 day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
L. C. Calhoun Secretary of War

Jan 23
Can.
Miss Pierce May 18
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions Washington

Concord Mass. Feby. 18. 1837
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
Application has been made to me to ask for a Corretion of a mistake in the Journal of Amos Pierce of this State, a pensioner under the Act of 1832 at $80. per annum. He informs me that he was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 at $96 per annum; that his services were in fact three years nine months & that his discharge and other documentary evidence in the department show the fact. If such shall appear to be the case, I suppose the mistake may be corrected without further evidence; - if the requisite evidence is not on file, it will be furnished. The applicant informs me that the reason he has not applied for a Corretion before is, that he did not know till recently that he was entitled to 96. per annum under the law of '32. A reply may be sent to me
Very Respectfully
John Barlow

Reexam
5154
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INVALID.
File No. 5154
Ames Pierce
But Re War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: —Vol. M , Page 296
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Oliver Amos Pierce, Worcester, Private - Smith. Jackson. Maples
24 months & more
S. Holman
S. G. Hiles

Amos Peirce
28 Apr
And I have the honor to inform you that the within is a true copy of the original as shown to the Board of Directors.
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas, the within copy of a resolution passed by the Board of Directors of the Company on the day and year first above written, is a true and correct copy of the original thereof, as shown to the Board of Directors.

State of Massachusetts Amos Pierce a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Millbury in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on  in the month of March 1781 —
I entered and was engaged in the Sand service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to October, 1783
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to Capt. John Riley's Smith's Company, Col. Smith's Regiment, and upon a new arrangement of the Army, to the Second Regiment in the Massachusetts Line
and that I left the service on the 11 th day of October, 1783 —
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
fifty five years; —
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.
Amos Pierce
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 28 th 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 18 th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Edward Bangs one of
the judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts —
the abovenamed Amos Pierce 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 du- ly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Edw Bangs

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Massachusetts Roll
Amos Pierce,
4
Private
Massachusetts line -- 1st. 2 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of May 1818. and sent to Hon. Edward Bangs, Worcester, Mass.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818 4 months 7/30 $ 33.86
{ Revolutionary claims, { Act 18th March, 1818, }
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Williamstown Mass.