Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21732, Jacob Burgess, Continental (Mass.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass.)
Burgess Jacob
W. 21732
Burgis
n Burgis
CONTENTS
Sarah

In whom it may concern I William Burgess daughters of Sarah Goff & Hannah Goff both of whom are now deceased testify & say that I well recollect hearing my father & mother when talking of the Revolution say that my uncle Jacob Burgess now deceased was a soldier with him in the war of the Rev- olution & I have heard my mother say that said Jacob Burgess wife Sarah came to be here & staid several weeks while her husband the aforesaid Jacob Burgess was gone in the Army from several incidents mentioned by my mother & father I have no doubt that Jacob Burgess who was a pensioner of the United States was a soldier in the war of the Revolution after he was married to I further testify that the aforesaid Sarah Burgess is the widow of Jacob Burgess & that she has not been married since his decease given under my hand this twenty ninth day of October 1836
William Burgess

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss On this twenty ninth day of October 1836 Personally appeared William Burgess within named & made oath that the within affidavit by him subscribed was true before me I further certify that said William Burgess is a person of good character & that his testimony is entitled to credit
Seth Sprague Jr Jur Bear

249 Massachusetts Sarah Burgess of Plymouth in the State of Mass who was a Mass in the commanded by Captain of the  commanded by in the two for widow Sarah Burgess deceased private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 57 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Nov. 1836 and sent to S. H. Lord Plymouth. Mass.
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1836, $275.00 Pension allowance ending Mar 37 25.00 $300.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. H. Allison Clerk, Book Vol. 1 Page 45

8,830 Massachusetts 4
Jacob Burgees or Burgess
of Duxbury in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dailey of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One year Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of April 1818 and sent to Nahum Mulehall Esq. East Bridgewater Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of March 1818 10 2 / 30 33 83.83
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept 1818 6 mos 48.
$133.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Customed
Heirs of Jacob Burgees or Burgess Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Josiah Moore pastor of the congregational church in Duxbury (whereof the Rev. Zedekiah Sanger was formerly pastor) certify that I find on the 259 th page of said church records of the persons married by the Rev. Zedekiah Sanger "March 25 1779 Jacob Burgess & Sarah Glaus,, I further certify that Sarah Burgess is the widow of Jacob Burgess & that she has not been married since his decease given under my hand this sixth day of October 1836
Josiah Moore
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } October 6 1836 Plymouth County ss Personally appeared the above named Josiah Moore & made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed before me I further certify that the said Josiah Moore is a man of good character & his testimony is entitled to credit
Seth Sprague Jr. Jur. Dean

No 535
3. Sec.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth
On this tenth day of October 1836 personally appeared before the Hon. Nathan Wood Judge of the court of Probate for said County Sarah Burgess a resident in Duxbury in said County aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed July 4, 1836 — That she is the widow of Jacob Burgess late of Duxbury deceased who served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution fifteen months or twelve months in New York in the year 1776 in the Continental Army & three months in the State service at Rhode Island in the year 1780 or 81 I believe he kept house at or near Newton I recollect perfectly well that when he returned home from the last named service he brought home a piece of

Gold which he found while on duty & I also know that I had until within a few years paper money that he brought from Rhode Island which was paid him for his services. She went from home in the latter service in the summer of second I think the latter part of summer. She further declares that she was married to said Jacob Burgess on the 25 th day of March 1779 and that her husband the aforesaid Jacob Burgess died on the 12 th day of September 1823 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof annexed. said Jacob was a pensioner under the act of Congress of 1818 Sarah Burgess
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above written & I certify that said Sarah Burgess by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to travel to attend Court & she is a credible person
Wilkes Wood Judge of Probate for the County of Plymouth

Plymouth J. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Willes Wood Esquire is Judge of the Court of Probate for said County & that the foregoing is his true & genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this fourth day of No- vember A.D. 1836.
Jacob H. Lord

Jacob Burgess Duxbury.
Jacob Burgess

I Jacob Burgess of Duxbury in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
believing myself entitled to the benefit of the Act of Congress of March 18 - 1818 to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war,
do testify and say that I entered into the army and service of the United States some time in the month of December in the year 1775 or in the month of January in the year 1776 for the term of twelve months I joined the company at Duxbury high Boston commanded by Capt Samuel Bradford and the Regiment commanded by Col John Boly the troops of which I made a part were known by the name of the Massachusetts line I marched from Duxbury to New York in the year 1776 and after having served as a private soldier in the army of the United States and on the Continental establishment twelve months being the term of time for which I entered and having the leave of my Captain I returned home I am now in the seventieth year of my age and by reason of age and infirmity am unable to labour and have not property sufficient for my support and from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support. I had no written discharges.
Jacob Burgess
Sworn to April 13. 1818.

Jacob Burgess or Burgeis
0030
Sept 189
Em
Jacob Burgess Lehman's

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this Eighteenth day of July 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Jacob Burges aged seventy two years, resident in Duxbury 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, viz. for the term of twelve months in Capt. Bradford's company Col. Bailey's Regt. and that he has received a pension certificate dated April 3 d 1819 and numbered 8830 in pursuance of his original Declaration made April 13, A.D. 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18 th day 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 18 th 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.
That I am by occupation a fisherman but am wholly unable to pursue the business. In consequence of a fever sore on my left leg I have been unable to labour for fifteen years & the sore is as bad as ever it has been. The number of my family is four besides myself viz my wife Sarah aged 62 years her health is good for a woman of her age & is able to do light work my daughter Patience aged 40 years in good health & able to support herself my daughter Sarah aged 24 years who is in good health & able to support herself & my son Nathaniel A. aged 16 years in good health & able to support himself for years before I received my pension I was assisted by private charity that I am indebted to sundry persons about 80 dollars & have nothing due me. Excepting clothing & bedding I have no property, real or personal other than what is stated below. viz
dwelling house barn & 20 acres of land thine & pasture swamp unimproved & mortgaged for 489 dollars -

That I am by occupation a fisherman but am wholly unable to pursue the business. In consequence of a fever sore on my left leg I have been unable to labour for fifteen years & the sore is as bad as ever it has been. The number of my family is four besides myself viz my wife Sarah aged 62 years her health is good for a woman of her age & is able to do light work my daughter
Patience aged 40 years in good health & able to support herself my daughter Sarah aged 24 years who is in good health & able to support herself & my son Nathaniel A. aged 16 years in good health & able to support himself for years before I received my pension I was assisted by private charity that I am indebted to sundry persons about 80 dollars & have nothing due me. Excepting clothing & bedding I have no property real or personal other than what is stated below. VIZ
Value 129.50
dwelling house & barn & 20 acres of land thin & parts swamp unimproved & mortgaged for 489 dollars - I have 2 cows - 1 hog - 15 old chairs - 3 tables - 1 desk Gold chests - wooden & tin ware - earthen & crockery ware glass ware - looking glasses - table & tea spoons - iron ware clogs - shovel & tongs - farming tools - knives & forks.
Isaac D. Burgess mark
Sworn to, and declared, on the 18th day of July A.D. 1820
before Nathan Mitchell
a Justice of the Court
I, John B Thomas clerk of said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath 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 One hundred Twenty 9 dollars and Fifty cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Twenty ninth day of December 1820
129.50
John B Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21732
Sarah Burgess Widow of Jacob Burgess Dis Rev War
Act _____
Index: Vol. A , Page 106
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Duxbury April 8-1818
This may certify that Jacob Burges enlisted a private Soldier on the last of December 1775 and served as such to the 31 day of December 1776 in a Company commanded by Capt Sam l Bradford in Col o John Baileys Regiment on the Continental establishment.
Judah Hemen. then an officer in said Company —

Sarah Burgess
M'Pachault
ad. 1818
"paid up to 4 Sept 1823"
Ad pm. 15 mo $60.
for term. commencing 4
March 1837. Mass
cont term. Capt Bradford
Col Badger
M Lond Plymouth Mass

Probate Office
Plymouth Mass
Nov 4, 1836
J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
I send herewith the pension application of Sarah Bangs. The certificate may be sent to me.
I am suspicious that in a letter addressed by me to you a few days since in reference to the service of Mr. Gurney of Rochester I omitted his christian name. If so it is Benjamin .
I have had the satisfaction of receiving several certificates from your Office. I hope soon to hear from the papers of Mrs. Bethiah Dyer. They were the first I transmitted & were sent by my memorandum book August 22.
Yours respectfully
J. W. Lord Register
all of 65 Ms. A. 9. 2. 11

To whom it may concern I Lucy Glasp of Duxbury aged seventy seven years & sister to Jacob Burgess late of Duxbury deceased & who was a pensioner of the United States. Testify & say that I remember that it was said by my brother Jacob that he the aforesaid Jacob Burgess brought home a piece of Gold which he found when on duty as a soldier. The place where he was I do not recollect but I do remember that the piece of Gold above was found & brought home by him after he was married and had one child born & must have been in the year 1780 or 81 I remember this from conversation that passed in the family among his connections at that time given under my hand this twenty eighth day of October AD 1836
Lucy her X Glasp mother.
State of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss October 28 1836 personally appeared the above named Lucy Glasp & made oath to the foregoing statement by her subscribed before me I further certify that Lucy Glasp above named is a person of good character & that her testimony is entitled to full credit
Seth Sprague Jr. Justice of the Peace

To whom it may concern I Levi Werton of Duxbury aged seventy nine years testify & say that Jacob Burges late of Duxbury deceased who was a pensioner of the United States was a soldier in the service of the state of Massa- -chusetts at Rhode Island in the year 1780 or 81 I was a soldier at the same place & he being my townsman and neighbour I have a perfect recollection of his being there we were employed in keeping guard & we went in the month of August & I think we were discharged at Newton four cords given under my hand this twenty eighth day of October A 1836
Levi Werton
State of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss. On the day & year above named personally appeared the above named Levi Werton & made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed before me. I further certify that Levi Werton aforesaid is a credible person & his testimony is entitled to credit
Seth Sprague Jr. Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Seth Sprague Junior Esq d is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the signatures to the several annexed certificates purporting to be his are his true & genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this fourth day of Novem- ber A.D. 1836.
Jacob H. Lord

Jacob Burgess private Payley Mass Reg t 1766 Our year April 13
Jacob Burgess Duxbury

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
On this ss. 13 th day of April A. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Jacob Burgefs of Duxbury aged sixty nine years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following  enclosed declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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."

And Major Judah Alden, a man of the strictest honor and veracity, and a respectable Magistrate in the County of Plymouth, appeared and made solemn oath before me the said Judge, that the certificate by him given in favor of the said Burgess, accompanying these papers, is just & true the
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jacob Burgess did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, & that he needs the assistance of his country for support —
Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
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