Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45,594, Amos Blodget, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Blodget, Amos
S 45,594
CONTENTS

18145
From Mass. to New Hampshire
James Dodge
Served in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Russell of the Mass. 19th Regt. Me., for the term of One year.
Disbursed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of March 1820 and sent to Mrs. Deborah Dyer Cambridge Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1821 275.96 semi-ann. all'ce ending 1st Sept 1821 15.
$ 323.96
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. } (1st May 1820)
$ 6.02
Transferred to New Hampshire, 17th Apr. 1826.
111 111 3 11 0 4 84 1 8 1 2 1 13 2 43 75.96

Amos Blodgett

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
twentieth
Be it remembered that on this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Samuel Dana Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit (comprehending the Counties of Suffolk and Middlesex in the Commonwealth aforesaid) Comes Amos Blodget of Lexington of the County of  Suffolk in said County of Middlesex and on oath declares, that he served in the war of the Revolution against the common Enemy two years and nine months. On the fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Six he entered (the service) upon the Continental establishment by enlisting into the Company of Capt. Joseph Muns in Col. Bellinger's Prescott's Regiment Genl. Heath's Brigade in the Massachusetts line, in this Company he proceeded by the way of New London to New York, and was encamped on Governors Island in the harbor of New York, and continued in Capt. Muns Company until the second day of January 1777 when he was discharged and returned to Lexington. In the fall of 1777 he served three months in General Burgoyne's troops at Cambridge. In the month of May 1778 he enlisted into the Company of Capt. Hovey in Col. Tyler's Regiment in the Massachusetts line for 353 months and in this Regiment he served as a Sergeant on Rhode Island, and was again discharged and returned home to Lexington. In the month of May in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and Eighty he enlisted upon Continental establishment for the term of nine months, he was mustered at Springfield in Massachusetts, placed in the Company of Capt. Putnam in Col. Farmer's Regiment in Leonard's Brigade in the Massachusetts line this term he served per- formed in the States of New York and New Jersey and was again discharged and re- turned home. He believes that he has had some discharge, but his packet book was stolen and he lost all his papers and there is none he had, with the other papers he is sixty one years of age destitute of property and
by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his Country for his support.
Amos Blodget
Thus made, subscribed, and sworn to at Groton in said County of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid — Sam l Dana

State of New Hampshire
County of Strafford ss
On this Twenty first day of March 1826 Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Strafford. Personally appeared Amos Blodget who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Joseph Moore in the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Prescott in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Massachusetts from whence he lastly removed that he now resides in the State of New Hampshire where he intends to remain, and wishes his Pension to be there Payable in future, and that his reason for removing to the State of New Hampshire is that his children with whom he lives, all reside in the Town of Sandborntown and County of Strafford aforesaid Amos Blodget
Sworn and Subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid
Matthew Perkins Justice of the Peace

County of Stafford ss
On this Twenty first day of March 1896 Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Stafford personally appeared Simon Lorne who on his oath declares that he is well acquainted with the within named Amos Blodget that his reputation for truth is good and that he well knows him to be the same identical Amos Blodget described in the within affidavit Simeon Lorne Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid
Matthew Perkins Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Simon Lorne the person described in the foregoing affidavit for twenty years last past and his reputation for truth and veracity is good
Matthew Perkins Justice of the Peace

Amas Blodget
This declaration is not true. He served only 6 months in Wilson's regt. Proof of service from official to a year's service in Prescott's regt. required. & the Judge's cer- tificate as to discharge.
Adm c J. S. E.

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen  Amos Blodget personally appeared and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Amos Blodget did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
S. Dana

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 March A. D. 1821
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, Amos Blodget resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No.  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 late a- "48th March, 1818,  in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the "Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of "dollars per month, to commence on the  day of one thousand eight hundred and
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this "day of  one thousand eight hundred and
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 Amos Blodget
And the said Amos Blodget does on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war during the whole of the year 1777 in the company commanded by Capt Joseph Moore of Col William Prescott's Regt Massachusetts line was in the Battle of Saratoga Heights and White Plains & at other times and in other corps as is more particularly set forth in his original declaration herewith transmitted, that he is sixty four years of age, a Husbandman by occupation, but by reason of the common infirmities inseparable from that age, he is unable to support himself by labor, and that he has no family.
Amos Blodget.
Subscribed and sworn to Before Saml Dana Judge.

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, Amos Blodgett 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.
Amos Blodgett.
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. March Term, A. D. 1821
Then the abovenamed Amos Blodgett took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Sam 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 17 th day of March 1821.
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Unrecd. letter to navy Pensioners Bureau.
James Garbour
Secretary of War
Washington
City.
Amos Blodget, Jr. Mansfield
Oct 2 nd 1876
Benjamin F. Shaw
Mail clerk March 28, 1876.

45594 INVALID.
Rev
Rev
File No. 45594
Amos Blodgett Rev Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 50
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Rec. No. 5 Sept 4 1891

I, Moses Chase, do depose and say, that I served seven years in the American Revolutionary war, and belonged to the company of Captain Joseph Moore in Col. Wm Prescott's Regiment, stationed on Governor's Island in the harbour of New York in the year 1776. That Amos Blodget now of Lexington in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with whom I was well acquainted, served with me in said Moore's company from the time said Prescott's Regiment was stationed on said Island till the second day of January A.D. 1777.
Moses Chase
Middlesex ss., August 10 th 1820 —
Then the above-named Moses Chase personally appeared before me Samuel Dana, Chief Justice, of the Circuit Court of the Common Pleas for the Middlesex Circuit, and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true; and I do certify, that the said Moses Chase is worthy of full credit in respect to the matter therein contained, and has no interest in the application of Amos Blodget to be placed on the pension list. —
S. Dana

We the subscribers Selectmen of the Town of Burlington in the County Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do certify that in our opinion that Amos Bloelgett late of Burlington but now of Lexington in said County is a man in indigent circumstances
Calvin Simonds, } Mayors James Reed } of the Selectmen
Burlington August 10 th 1819

J. L. Edwards Esquire Secretary to the Board of Commisrs of the Pension Funds
Portsmouth New Hampshire
March 28 th 1826.
Washington City.
Sir,
I had the Honor to address you on the 22 nd Ult o inclosing the Revolutionary Pension Certificate N o 18,145. issued to Amos Blodgett, to which Letter please refer, since which I have been favoured with your Letter of the 28 th February last, returning said Blodgett's Certificate inclosed, and requiring proof of identification &c. and inclosing "a Printed form for his guidance in obtaining the necessary evidence properly authenticated," and inclosed herewith is his Certificate of Pension, and I presume all the proof required by your Department necessary to obtain his Transfer from the Massachusetts agency to that of New-Hampshire.
As the Governor of New-Hampshire & Secretary of State, reside at a great distance from Portsmouth, and it is attended with some expense, and considerable delay in getting their Certificate, would the Certificate of the Attorney, or Clerk of the District & Circuit Courts of the United States, for the District of New-Hampshire, be satisfactory to your Department, to prove that the Magistrate before whom the affidavits are taken, is legally appointed and authorized. will you have the goodness to give me your opinion on this point. — If all the Proofs necessary are inclosed, to obtain the Transfer, I will thank you to inclose the new-Certificate to me, and I will immediately give Mr Blodgett information of it.
I have the Honor to be Sir, with Great Respect,
Yr most Obed t Serv t
Benjamin Pinhallow

I David Clough of Northfield in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire do testify & say that in the year 1776 I served as a private soldier in the the company commanded by Capt. Joseph Moore and Regiment commanded by Col William Prescott of the Massachusetts line from the first of January until the last of December following that I was then acquainted with Amos Blodgett now of Lexington County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachu- setts and and that he served as a private soldier in the aforesaid Company from the aforesaid January 1776 until the last of Decem- ber following when he was discharged from service at Peekskill in the State of New York I am positive the aforesaid Amos Blodgett served all the aforesaid year in said Company because he was in the same Mess with me all the time.
I further testify and say that I have no interest whatever in the aforesaid Blodgett's hitting claim - David Clough February 25 th 1820
State of New Hampshire
Stratford ss February 25 th 1820 Then personally appeared appeared the above named David Clough who is a credible witness and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is the truth before me
William Budger Jus. Peace.-

State of New Hampshire Secretary's Office
April 3. 1820
I hereby certify that William Badger Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the 21. st of Feb. y last and still is, a Justice of the peace for the County of Strafford in said State duly appointed and commissioned and that to his acts and attestations as such, faith and credit are due.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the public seal of the State on the day of the date hereof Sam l  Spurhawk Sec y

State of New-Hampshire.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
David Lawrence Morrill GOVERNOR and Commander in Chief.
To All Whom it may Concern.
KNOW YE, THAT Matthew Perkins , whose name is borne on the two Affidavits herunto annexed and before whom the same were taken, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for our County of Strafford. David Lawrence Morrill
in the said STATE, duly constituted and sworn, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full Faith and Credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court, within and out of the STATE. And that the Signatures purporting to be his, on said Affidavits, are genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the SEAL of the State to be hereunto affixed, this twenty second day of March . Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty six and in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND.
Richard Parlett Secy of State.