Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5153, for David Pike, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Pike, David
S 5153.
Carded
CONTENTS

3056.
Massachusetts
David Pike
of Worcester in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain of the reg t commanded by Col Butman in the Mass line for 2 (years)
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Dec 1832 and sent George Tolson of Worcester Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1832 $120-- Pemi=ant. allowance ending 4 th Mar 33 40--
$160--
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. Blair Clerk. Book D, Vol. 2 nd Page 75.

David Pike Application
David Pike
Private
2 years
$80.
George Folsom Esq.
Minister
Mop

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this 14 day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Nathaniel Paine Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting David Pike a resident of Phillipston in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy three 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.
I was born in Hopkinton Massachusetts in 1759 and removed when young to what is now Phillipston. where I enlisted for the term of three years in the Continental establishment in 1777 I think. I enlisted at Phillipston in the company of Captain Benjamin Gates, in Colonel Rufus Putnam's Regiment. I served out my term of enlistment & was regularly discharged tho' I have not the same in my possession.
A pension was granted me under the law of 1818 the the certificate whereof was dated December 19th 1818. and after receiving the same a short time I was informed that my name was stricken from the Roll of the Pensioners. And I refer to the evidence there is in the war department of my having done service as aforesaid
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.
David Pike

We _____ a Clergyman residing in the _____ and residing in _____ hereby certify 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 and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl. Jones Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Thos. Wheeler Register , Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Pike for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this 14 th day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two
Thos. Wheeler Register of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts
Genl. Adm. Ex. Mass. Dept. Mass.
$80.-
David Pike Application Mass. Dept. Pike Mass.

David Pike prev Putnam's Mass Reg 1777 to 1780
See Robt
Correct

4,980 Massachusetts Roll
David Pike
Mass ts } Line }
Private 4 80
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 the 24 th of April 1818 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of Dec r 1818 and sent to Jow n Leavitt Esq r Judge Greenfield Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818  4 m 8 1/2/30 — 34:9 Semi-ann l all ee ending 4 th March 1819 — 48:
$ 82:93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Three years
Phillipstown C ty Worcester

Reahan
5153
INVALID.
File No. 5153
David Pike
First Civil War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: Vol. M , Page 296
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Darius Pike -
Payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March --- next, at the U. States Branch bank Boston -
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, _____
_____ David Pike _____ late a Private _____ _____ in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pen- sion List, Roll of the Massachusetts _____ Agency, at the rate of Eight _____ dollars per month, to commence on the 24 th _____ day of April _____ one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this _____ 19 th _____ day of December one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen _____
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

State of Massachusetts, I David Pike a citizen of the United States, now resident at Wittsburgh  Wittsburgh in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid do on Oath testify & declare that in the War of the Revolution, in the Month of April or May, I enlisted for the term of three Years A.D. 1777
I entered and was engaged in the Land Service of the United States, on the Continental establishment and served accordingly from that time to April A.D. 1780, at which time I took my discharge and returned home, but thinking my discharge of no value, have destroyed it, but are my term out
Against the common Enemy without any inter- ruption or Absence — that I left the service, in in April A.D. 1780, after serving my full term of time — as a private Soldier
that I belonged to Capt. Berry's Gats Company and Col. Rufus Putnam Regt.
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 eight Years, and that I have a Wife and eight Children, five of which rely on me for Support, 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 —
David Pike
State of Massachusetts Worcester ss. April 21 st A.D. 1878 — The above named David Pike made Oath that the foregoing Declaration by him given is true
Before me John L. Jewett Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas
David Pike

We the subscribers, being Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, and were out at the time the within named David Pike, was in the service, and know of his being in Capt. Berry's Gates Company, 1st Col. Rufus Putnam Regiment, and have no doubt but he served the full term of three years according to his enlistment
Earl Cutting Zacheus Rich Noah Bates
Worcester ss, April 24 1810 Personally appeared the above named Earl Cutting Zacheus Rich and Noah Bates and made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate
Before me James Humphreys Jus Peace
This witness that for several years past I have known know the within named David Pike, and believe him to be a man of strict veracity.
James Humphreys Jus Peace to the Day of year last of and Before me Josiah Learith, Judge of Peace
To the Secretary of the Department of War I the subscriber one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in the State of Mass- achusetts, which Circuit includes the County of Worcester do hereby certify that on due examination had it appears to my satisfaction that the within named David Pike did in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemies of the country, get forth in his Declaration of Independence and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support. In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Court of the this 24th Day of April 1810 Josiah Learith, Judge of Peace