Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34113, Giles Burrows, Mass.

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Burrows, Giles
S. 34113.
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34 113 Pay INVALID!
File No. 34 113
Giles Burrows
Re: Reo Wad
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 98
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Massachusetts Roll.
1084
Giles Burrows, Private, 4
Mass. Line. 1 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 13 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818, and sent to Sam l . Putnam, Esq. Salem, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
Semi-annual allowance
4 months 22/30 of 37.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued
Salem Essex County
Notifications sent July 26 th 1820 to Schabode Jackson Salem Mass

Giles Burrows
1,084
Salem June 1878
On
age 71 fisherman disabled worth $8.00
Apr 1878
on the the 15th of the said Court, on petition in said Court of Probate to testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the 15th day of June 1878 and the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight the name of the said Court, and I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in the said Court and of the whole thereof the name of the said Court, and I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in the said Court and of the whole thereof

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, Giles Burrows resident in Salem in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1.084 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, Giles Burrows 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 Thirteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
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)
Three chairs, two pine tables - pot - kettle - Spider, knives - forks - Spoons - chest drawers - all in family use $ 4.00
He was formerly a fisherman but is seventy one years old and unable to work much - is afflicted with rheumatism. His wife aged 66 is all his family.
He was wounded at Harlem Heights where he received a ball in his thigh and another across his belly.
He served as a year's man all 1776 in Capt. Barnes' Company in Col. Nixon's Regiment, Massachusetts Line.
Giles Burrows.

Sworn to and declared before
W m Wetmore, Judge within named.

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, Giles Burrows 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.
Giles Burrows.
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Giles Burrows took and subscribed the aforewritten 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
Four 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, fls

I Giles Burrows of Salem, in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, on Salem Oath - Declare -
That in the summer of 1775, I enlisted in Capt Gages Company and served a salis in said Company until December of the same year - That about the first of January 1776 I enlisted in Capt. Thomas Banner's Company, for one year - That I served my time of enlistment, on the Continental establishment, in the Massachusetts Line, in Col. Dixons Regiment, in the war of the Revolution and was discharged in January 1777 - And I further declare, that by reason of my maimed circumstances in life, I need the assistance of my Country for my support; and I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension, heretofore allowed by the P. of the United States - I was in the battle at Harlem heights & was wounded in my side - and was not able to do duty afterwards - as My Doctor - Eustis certified & so I was discharged in Jan. 1777 - I gave my Discharge to the Brother of Dr. Eustis to have him use it for the purpose of obtaining a pension: but I never had any - I am 69 years old - Giles Burrows

I Thomas Barron of Salem, in the County of Essex, on oath declare that Giles Burrows served in my Company, as a soldier of the revolutionary Army, from January 1776 - to January 1777, on the Continental establishment, in the Massachusetts Line, agreeably to his declaration -
Tho s Barron
Additional Affidavit.
I, John Brown Junior of Salem on oath testify that I know Giles Burrows now of Salem served as a soldier from Jan y 1776 to Jan y 1777 in Capt. Barron's Company in Col. Nison's Regiment. He is now poor.
John his + Brown Jun r mark
Essex: June. 9. 1818 Then the above named John Brown Junior subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit - before Benj. Merrill Dist. Soc.:
Essex: I Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of Massachusetts in said County certify that Benjamin Merrill Esq r whose Signature is above, is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified to administer Oaths.
Atty. Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Giles Burrows
13th April
Woburn Road
Concord
Essex ss. I. Ichabod Tucker clerk of all the Judicial courts of said Commonwealth in and for said County certify that the Hon. Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the court aforesaid, that the within is his Signature and that the Seal affixed is the Seal of said court.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk
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