Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,527, for Samuel Raymond, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Raymond, Samuel
S. 33,527
CONTENTS

Samuel Paymonds affid -
4.936.
March 1819
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SCHEDULE.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY, } ss. Hunterdon county,
ON this fourth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared, in open court of common pleas, being a court of record so declared by the laws and constitution of said State for the said county, Samuel Raymond aged sixty four years, resident in Lawrence township 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: that he enlisted in 1776 in Captain Gibbs company General Washington's guards, for eighteen months that he then enlisted for three years in Capt Geo H Lewis's troop 1 st Regiment cavalry commanded by Col. Baylor, from which he was discharged on 13 December 1779 at Schuylkill Hablis, that he served out his several terms of enlistment, that he was in the battle on Long Island, the battle Haerlem Heights at White Plains at Brandywine, at Germantown at Monmouth besides several skirmishes agreeably to his original declaration dated about the 25 th March 1818, on which he obtained a pension certificate N o 4936.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 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.
Schedule of the property of Samuel Raymond.
No goods nor chattels. There is due to me from one person twenty five cents, another four cents - another seventy seven cents, another thirty cents, another ten cents, another two dollars, another two dollars, another two dollars - one I owe three dollars & thirty eight cents -
And this deponent further saith that he is a Burr mill stone maker by trade, but from old age and the fracture of his leg and other infirmities, he is able to do very little for his support and has been compelled to apply for & receive the support of the township in which he resides; and that he has no family residing with him and stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support -
Sworn to, and declared, on the fourth day of August 1820. before me one of the judges of said court
Elmer Taylor
Sam l Raymond
I JOHN T. BLACKWELL, Clerk of Hunterdon Pleas, do hereby certify, that the foregoing 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 four dollars and eight cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fourth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty
J Blackwell Clerk of the Court for the county of Hunterdon.

New Jersey Roll.
4,935
Samuel Raymond, Huntingdon Co. Private, Capt. Gibbs Virginia Line. Byron to Dec 1799
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 th of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of Dec r 1818 and forwarded to Jas. Ewing, Esq. Trenton, New Jersey. —
Arrears to 4 th of Sept r 1818 . . . . $ 42. 86 Semi-ann. all ve ending Mar. 4. 1819 . . . 48. " an o 5 m o 7/31 4/70 $ 90. 86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18 th March, 1818. }
Continued.
Pensions on sent to John S. Bloore, 49 3rd St
Harrington, New Jersey

I am personally acquainted with the within named Samuel Raymond, he is ad- vanced in life and in low circumstances, I am fully satisfied both from the within Testimony, and from other circumstances which have come to my knowledge, that he served in the Revolution- ary War against the common enemy, as herein stated Witness my hand Mar 25: 1810 J. G. King.
Original true
Admitted
[For seal, see reverse]
Raymonds declara-
tion
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County ss. Before me James Swig one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County, personally appeared Samuel Raymond of the township of Lawrence in said County who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he served the United States in the War of the American Revolution, that he served as a Volunteer under Capt Isaac Danks for one year, in the year 1775, in the State of Massachusetts, that he then enlisted in Genl Washington's Guards under Capt Gibbs and was discharged from the Guards on the 13 day of December 1776 and again enlisted on the same day in the company of Horse commanded by Capt Lewis in Col. Baileys Regiment in the Virginia Line, in which Regiment he served his full term of three years, and was honorably discharged in the city of Philadelphia on the 13 day of December 1779. Samuel Raymond
Samuel Raymond further saith that his discharge has been lost or destroyed, and that from his recollection of his service he has one of the aforesaid of his country for support
Sworn at Trenton in said County March 25. 1810 before me J. Swig
State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County ss. Before me James Swig one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County, personally appeared Jonathan Bryant of the city of Trenton a person to me well known to be of credit who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is personally acquainted with Samuel Raymond, that they served together for three years in Capt Lewis's company in Col. Baileys Regiment of Virginia Horse having enlisted on the same day being discharged together on the 13 day of December 1779.
Sworn at Trenton in said County March 25. 1810 before me J. Swig
J. Bryant

33527 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33,527
Samuel Raymond
Rev War
Washington's Guards
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 333
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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