Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,083, John Brinckly, Navy

SERVICE
NUMBER
Navy
Brinckly John or Brinckly
S. 34,083
Residence and Agency - Mass.
CONTENTS

7,130
Massachusetts.
John Brinckley*
of Charleston in the state of Massachusetts who was a Marine on board the Alfred in the regiment commanded by Colonel Capt. Hinman of the U.S. Navy for the term of Nine months.
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1810.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of March 1819 and sent to the Honb le S. Davis Boston, Massachusetts.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 11 3/4 09. 13. semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Oct r 1819. 40. 00
* Brinckley B: 137 : 13 W. R. S. Jun. 22, 07.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued Middlesex County.
Specification sent to Abraham Dighton Esq r 22 nd Sept r 1820. Cambridge Mass

John Brinckly
No 135 (Mariner)
U.S. Ship "Alfred", Capt. Heman.
July 1777 - 9 months -
1 st April 1810.
Submitted.

I John Brinckly of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Boatbuilder do hereby declare that during the Revolutionary war between America and Great Britain in the month of July in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy seven I shipped as Carpenter's Mate on board the Ship Alfred of 20 Guns Capt. Elijah Heman sailed from Boston to Portsmouth N.H. in August and thence in company with the Rawleigh Capt. Thompson about the first of September we sail'd on a cruise - captured a ship & brig and carried them into L'Orient in France laid there about two months to repair, sail'd from thence and on the cruise touch'd at St. Jago, Cape de Verde for water thence along the coast of Africa, touch'd at Gorée, thence on a cruise was captured by his Majesty's ship and sloop of war Ariadne & Ceres, off Barbadoes where we were carried in and imprisoned about a week, then got over to Martinico and then sail'd in the Brig Resistance 18 Guns for Boston and arrived as I believe in July 1778. I continued to serve on board of her until July of the same year.
Boston April 1 st 1818 - John Brinckly
Masters Dist. Ct. B. Boston 1. April 1818.
Sworn to before me
M c Waver Dist. Judge Mass Dist.
We the subscribers certify, that we were on board the Ship Alfred, as above, with Mr John Brinckly during the time stated by him; and that his declaration is correct according to our best recollection.
Boston April 1. 1818 -
Robert Lash
James Capell
John Brinckly
Masters Dist. Ct. B. Boston 1. April 1818
Sworn to before me
M c Waver Dist. Judge Mass Dist.

The within named John Brinkley Now petitioner on oath declares that he is in such reduced circumstances of life as to stand in need of assistance from his Country for support
John Brinkley
Wren. Dist. S. March 30. Jany. 1819 Learn to love me
Mr Davis { Dist. Judge Wren District

43. John Brinckley Charlestown
7130
March 1819 Cont'd 1820 1821

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 June A. D. 1828.
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, John Brinsley resident at Charlestown in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 7130, 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 Brinsley  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 first  day of “ April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen “ Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifth “ day of March one thousand eight hundred and “ nineteen
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,
“ One marble desk 5.00 one maple table 4.00 one chair, 5.00 looking glass 2.00 one pair handiron shovel and tongs 3.00 two round tables 6.00 one case of drawers 3.00 two chests 8.00 one trunk 2.50 one tea tray 50 cts one clock 8.00 one glass ware 1.50, cooking utensils 4.00, six tea spoons 1.00 one brass kettle 1.00 making in the whole thirty nine dollars, has no real estate.
Got here my living, by doing errands, and by a pension from Government of eight dollars per month his occupation is a Boatbuilder called on board of the Continental Ship Alfred Elisha Hemenway Concord, as carpenter's journeyman & Mariner in the beginning of August 1777 sailed from

Boston, September following, stopped at Portsmouth for the Raleigh Frigate sail'd in company was taken by two English ships carried into Barbadoes returned. home in a brig of the United States left here in Boston the last of July 1778 has remained in Massachusetts ever since is unable to labour is sixty one years of age and his sight is poor, has a wife who has been sick for two years last past, and one daughter to pro- vide for and no income but his pension.
John Brinekley
Sworn to & declared before Mrs. Wetmore Judge etc 11

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore . a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, John Brinekey 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 Brinekey
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed John Brinekey took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore 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
Thirty nine dollars
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 20th day of July, 1820 .
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Maralid WILLIAM, 1871
File No. 34083 Brinkley*
John Brinkley Mariner Frigate "Alfred" Reston
Act March 18 1878
Index: Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]
* W.W.H. June 22, 07

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
February 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, John Brinckly — by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
McDowells
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 1 February
A. D. 1819
John Brinckerhoff
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that John Brinckerhoff subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
McDowell
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

These certify whom it may concern. That Mr John Brinsley of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusett who has applied for a Pension from the United States; is in indegent circumstances, & stands in need of support from the United States
Charlestown Jany 29 th 1811
Oliver Holden
Respect ly W. Jewett } Overseer of the Poor