Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,488, for John Pope, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Pope, John
S. 33,488
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll.
1,109
John Pope, Capt Richardson Private
Massachusetts line - 1776. 1 st year In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 rd of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818 and sent to Sam l Putnam, Esq. Salem, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
Service rendered
4 months 32/30. $ 40.53
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
2 Continued
Massachusetts line - 1776. 1 st year In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

33488 INVALID. Rev
File No. 33488
John Pope
Br Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 326
[Arrangement of 1870.]

In c Pope . —
3rd
Not on rolls
St. —

John Pope of Salem in the county of Essex in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, baker, upon Oath makes the following declaration: -
That on the first day of January, A.D. 1776 he enlisted as a private in Captain Addison Richardson's Company in Col. Israel Hutchinson's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, and served accordingly in the Revolutionary War from that time till the sixteenth day of November following when he was taken prisoner at Fort Washington and kept in captivity till about the first day of January A.D. 1777 when he was liberated on his parole and returned to Salem: - that he is sixty years of age, infirm, and from his reduced circumstances in life stands in need of assistance from his country for support; and that he hereby relinquishes all his claim to any pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States: that he never had any written discharge. John Pope
Apr. 3. 1818 [ Additional Affidavit ]
I Jonathan Neal of Salem Merchant, on oath testify that I well know John Pope, above named, and I know that he served with me, in Capt. Richardson's Company in Hutchinson's Regiment all the year 1776, we were taken prisoners in Fort Washington, and released in Jan'y 1777 - we enlisted for a year.
Jon d Neal
E/322/5: June. 10. 1818
Then Jonathan Neal Esq r subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit before me Br d Merrill Asst. Rec d

I Moses Townsend of Salem aforesaid Esquire, do on oath depose that I am well acquainted with John Pope, who has subscribed the aforesaid declaration, and I served on the Continental establishment one year with him and know he served in the manner he has stated within: we were taken prisoners at the same time. He is poor and infirm.
M. Townsend
Essex: I, Samuel Putnam, a Judge of the Sup. Jud. Court of Massachusetts further certify that Moses Townsend and Jonathan Neal, Esqrs are credible and disinterested Gentlemen and that said John Pope is very poor and destitute of property - June. 15. 1818
S. Putnam Just
S. J. Court of Mass ts .
I Ichabod Tucker Clerk of the Courts of Massachusetts in Essex County certify that Benjamin Merrill Esq r is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned to administer Oaths and that the aforesaid is his Signature.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, S ecretary : On this third day of April A. D. 1818 personally came before me Samuel Putnam one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth John Pope and Moses Townsend Esq s and severally subscribed and made oath to the Declaration and Affidavit by them respectively made. and it appearing to my satisfaction that said John Pope served more than nine months in the Revolutionary Army on the Continental establishment against the common enemy, I herewith certify and transmit the testimony in the case to the Department of War. In witness whereof I have caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed by my hand. this third day of April A. D. 1818.
S. Putnam Just. S. J. C. Court of Mass t . — 3
I Ichabod Tucker Clerk of said Court certify that Hon. Samuel Putnam is a Judge of said Court, that the above is his handwriting, and that the Seal affixed is the Seal of said Court.
Attest Ichabod Tucker Clerk

John Pope
1109.
June 1818
62 years old
Married 24 - 1800 Daughter 21 - 1805 Son 16 - 1810 Daughter 12 - 1814
lived in the same house
age 63
no occupation now
worth $46-
infirm.
his property was sold
Aug 1818

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
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 Pope resident in Salem in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1,109 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 Pope - - - - - 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 per month, to commence on the third - - - - - day of April - - - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
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"Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth - - - - - day of June - - - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
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,
(No Real Estate.)
Two tables - a desk - and irons - - - - - $7.50 Dozen old chairs - 6 knives & forks - - - - - 6.75 { An old horse $17. Wagon $15 to get } brush out of pasture for fuel - - - - - 32.00 $45.95
He is Sixty three years old - formerly a baker, now too infirm to labour - drives his neighbour's cows to pasture.
His family are his daughter Sophia aged 24. Joseph 21 - Sarah 12 - and Thomas 16 years old.
He owes large sums which his creditors do not call for on account of his poverty. He served as a rear's man all 1776 in Col. Hutchinson's Regiment . John Pope

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. W m Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, John Pope — 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 Pope
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed John Pope took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me
W m Wetmore Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, 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
forty six — dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July — A. D.
1820,
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Cler.