Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33130, for John Morse, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Morse, John
S 33130
CONTENTS
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11.04
Massachusetts-
John Morse.
of Sherburne in the state of Massachusetts who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vidon of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Six years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 th of April 1818-
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th of May 1819 and sent to John Davis Esq r Judge Boston - Mass t
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 th  \frac{22}{30} \frac{4}{31} - 86:89
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 - 48:-
134:09
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
continued
Notification sent Nov. 10 th 1820 to Abraham Dillaw Cambridge Mass.

No 274 John Morse
Sergeant Col Nixons Regiment Massachusetts Line 1777-6 years
W. M. ...
Francis
on Roll.
Adm. - in -
Boston, Mass.

United States
Massachusetts District
John Morse of Sherburne in the county of Middlesex and
District of Massachusetts a resident citizen of the United States and applicant for a pension from the United States under 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, make the oaths, and and Sergeants that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution for upwards of seven years in manner following, viz. Enlisted in May 1775 in the company commanded by Edward Segraves in the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Reed - and served in said corps eight months - Enlisted in 1776 in the company commanded by Captain Nichols in the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Holman - Enlisted in said corps five months - Enlisted in 1777 in Captain Davenport's company in the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon and served in said corps until the year 1783 when he was honorably discharged and is in such reduced circumstances as to require aid from his country.
John Morse
Massachusetts District ss.
Boston 9. April 1818
Sworn to before me
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
April 19 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, John Morse by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M c Devitt
District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M c Devitt
Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

Massachusetts District ss. Boston 9. April 1818 Sworn to before me
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston April 19 A. D. 1819
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that John Morse subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid. with the accompanying documents marked A & B together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M Daws
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

2.
John Morse 11041
July 19

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of September A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice , and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Morse — resident in Sherburne — in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 11.041 — now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, John Morse — late a Serjeant — in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 9th — day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen “Given at the War Office of the United States, this 24th day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen J. L. Edwards in the absence and on behalf of the  J. C. CALHOUN , Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“Real Estate, None Personal Estate None Income None.”
John Morse.
“And the said John Morse having been first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he enlisted into Elijah Dinsmore's company in Colonel Thomas Nixon's Regiment, Massachusetts line and served in that and other corps in the Revolutionary war more than seven years as a serjeant was in the battle of Harlem heights , both the battles with Gen. Burgoyne's army and White Plains , all which services are more particularly set forth in his original declaration on file in the war office, dated April 9, 1818 — that he is seventy seven years of age a husbandman by occupation but wholly unable to perform

any labour by reason of infirmity of age—that he has no family and has been supported by the town of Sherburne for the last ten years
John Morse.
Declared & sworn to before me
Paul Dana Judge &c. "

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, John Clouse do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me God.
John Clouse -
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. Sept. Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed John Clouse . took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana - Judge of said Court."
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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
nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 30 th day of Sept. 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Morse, John Mass 533130

By Thos. Nixon Esq.
Colonel of the 4 th Regiment of Foot, raised for the Defence of the United States of NORTH AMERICA. To John Morse Greeting.
By virtue of the Power and Authority to be given in and by the Delegates from the said States in Congress assembled, I do by these Presents, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage and good Conduct, constitute and appoint you the said John Morse to be the second Lieutenant in Capt. Elijah Danforth's Company in said Regiment. You are therefore carefully and Diligently to discharge the Duty of a Sergeant in ordering and exercising the Men in the Service aforesaid commanding them to obey you as their Sergeant and yourself to observe such Orders and Instructions, as you shall from Time to Time receive from one or other superior Officers, according to military Rules and Discipline pursuant to the Trust reposed in you, for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant.
Given under my Hand this fourteenth Day of April. Anno Domini 1777.
Thos. Nixon Col. Comd.
Attest Elijah Danforth Capt.

T HIS certifies that John Morse, a Serjeant an inhabitant of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , who belonged to the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by M Col. Thomas Nixon. In Elijah Dinsford's Company in the service of the United States of America , aged fortythree , as appears by Certificates lodged in the Pension- Office, having been examined by me, is found to be disabled in said service by breaking his collar bone of his right shoulder, his fore and middle fingers of his right hand injured . And I do hereby certify that he is entitled to receive Ten Shillings per Month, commencing 17th of March 1786 . agreeably to the Resolution of Congress, of the 7th of June, 1785, and to an Act of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , of the 17th March, 1786. And that said Morse is now fit for guard or garrison duty.
GIVEN under my hand, at BOSTON , this Seventyninth day, of September in the year of our Lord, 1786, and in the Eleventh year of the Independence of the United States of America .
John Lucas Commissary of Pensions.
Secretary's Office } True Copy from the pension Book N o 1711809 } Attest Wm Lloyd Secry of the Commonwealth

33 130 Rey INVALID.
File No. 88,130
John Morse Serg Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 285
[Arrangement of 1870.]