Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15,606, Joshua Bradley, Mass.

SERVICE
Naass
Bradley, Joshua Navy
NUMBER _____
11 15,606
CONTENTS

Massachusetts 27, 1837
Joshua Bradley
of Middlesex in the State of Mass who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Varnum of the Regiment commanded by Col. Jackson in the Mass line for
9 months
private
Cont & Mts -
71 M d olery
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 30 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of Jan y . 1834 and sent to Samuel Dana Esq. Groton Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833. $ 75 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 34, 15
$ 90
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 2 Page 42
Index

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Rep d
Massachusetts
Mary Bradley.
widow of Joshua Bradley, Dec d : who was a pensioner under the Act of 7. June, 1832. and who died on the 9 January, 1834 — of Middlesex (In the State of Mass: — who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Varnum of the Reg t — commanded by Col: Jackson in the Mass: — time for 9 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 d day of May 1839 and sent to Knowles, Hooke, Lowell, Mass: —
Arrears to the 14th of Mar. 1839 $90.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 14 Sept — 15.00
$105.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M. Stuart Clerk, Book A — Vol. 1 — Page 72

Declaration of Joshua Bradly.
Mass. Middlesex 27.034
To
ad o 9 th private
Colo Jackson
Cap Varnum
Samuel Dana Esqr per o Groton Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
On this fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three , personally appeared in open Court, before the Honourable Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, now sitting, Joshua Bradley a resident of Lowell in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy 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 7, A. D. 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
That in July A.D. 1780 he enlisted into the Continental Army was in the Company of Capt. James Warren in Col. Michael Jackson's Regt. he went immediately into service and served in that Company for the term of six months, when he joined the Company at New Bedford commanded by Capt. Warren who left the service & the command of the Company devolved on Capt. Green under whom he completed his term and received an honorable discharge from Col. Jackson in the Winter A.D. 1781.
And in the year A.D. 1781 he engaged to go into service at Rhode Island in the State of New York and enlisted in the Company of Capt. Fay in the Summer or Fall of that year his Company was attached to Lieut. Col. Capt. Commandant Webb in which he served three months, when he received an honorable discharge from Col. Webb. — Under the Act of A.D. 1818 he made application to be placed on the Revolutionary Pension list and his Papers were returned inadmissible, not having served nine months under any one enlistment. Last August he made a new statement and annexed his former Declaration to which his two discharges were annexed and put them into the Post Office in Lowell. — Lately his agent Samuel Danalsy has received notice that his Papers can not be found, and his discharges on which prove his service are annexed as aforesaid.
And he now states that he was born in Dracutt in said County of Middlesex on the 10th in October 1762 A.D. 1762.
That he always lived in Dracutt until the year A.D. 1828 when he removed to Lowell where he now resides
That all his services were voluntary and by enlistment.
That while in service, besides the Officers of his own Regiment, he saw and remembers Genl. Washington & Green, and was present at the execution of Major Andre

That he received discharges from both periods of his service which are with his Papers as before stated. —
And that his services as a Soldier in the Revolutionary Army are known to the reputation to the Hon ble John Varnum, Benjamin F. Varnum and Samuel F. Colburn Esqrs all of Lowell Ms. —
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 any state,
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid J. P. May Prob y Joshua Bradley
We, Theodore Edson a clergyman, residing in the Town of Lowell in said County and John Varnum Esq residing in Draughton County hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Joshua Bradley who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; — that we believe him to be seventy years of age: that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Theodore Edson John Varnum
J. P. May Prob y
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-named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify, that it appears to them that Theodore Edson who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in Lowell and that John Varnum who has also signed the same, is a resident in Lowell and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. P. May Prob y
I Isaac Fiske Clerk and Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joshua Bradley for a pension. Also certify that General Dana whose own proper signature is set to the certificate on the deposition of Eldad Worcester, is a person of the hearth within said County. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid. Isaac Fiske

I Eldad Worcester of Tuftsburg in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do depose and say that I served in the War of the Revolution, and was a Soldier in the Continental Army for the space of six months commencing in July AD 1780 in the Company of Corp: James Karmen in Lt: Michael Jacksons 8 Mass: Reg: towards the latter part of the time the Company was commanded by Corp: Green - And I well know and remember that Joshua Bradley within named who lived near me, and whom I always have known, was, in the same Company and served the same term of time which I did and was regularly discharged from his Company - And I further depose and say that we were both Soldiers in Capt: Trigs Company in Lt: Col: Webbs Continental Regiments and that we served in that Company together for the space of three months AD 1781. at Gallowshill in New York, when we were both discharged from service and returned home.
Eldad Worcester Middlesex ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
June 11. 1833. Personally appeared the above named Eldad Worcester well known to me as a credible and disinterested witness and made solemn Oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed is true. before me Samuel Dana Justice for said County.

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Mary Bradley Mass
P. 6. 2
admitted Pr. 9 th A 30
Knowles & Locke Lowell Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. City of Lowell.
On this seventeenth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and thirtyeight personally appeared before the justice of the Police Court of Lowell in the County of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Mary Bradley , a resident of Lowell in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838, entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows, that she is the widow of Joshua Bradley who was a private in the army of the revolution; she lived in Dracut in said County when he entered the service; she cannot declare because she does not know & has not been informed, the time when he entered the service or the time when he left it; or whether

He was drafted or was a volunteer or a substitute, but she thinks he was a substitute once; that he performed two terms of service as she believes, but when & where she does not know or under what officers, but she believes that once at least he performed service in the State of New York, & she believes at White Plains: she does not recollect of his speaking of being in any battles; she thinks he was in the army when it was disbanded.
She has no documentary evidence to prove her claim; but she thinks that her said husband had some papers & that they were sent to Washington when he procured his pension.
He was a pensioner; as she believes, (though of this she is not certain) under the act of 1832; she means that she knows he was a pensioner, but under what act she is not quite sure.
His pension certificate was left with the pension agent in Boston, as she

is informed, when the arrear of pension was paid after his death.
She further declares that she was married to the said Joshua Bradley on the fourth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and ninety and that her husband the aforesaid Joshua Bradley died on the ninth day of January in the year 18 eighteen hundred and thirty four; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four - viz: at the time above stated. Mary Bradley
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year above written before
Joseph Locke, Justice of the police Court of Lowell
J. Albin Locke Clerk of the Police Court of Lowell in the county of Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hereby certify that Joseph Locke Esquire

Declaration.
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abovenamed is a justice of a court of record and that his signature above is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I hereto put my hand and the seal of said Court this seventeenth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight.
P.C.L.
Henry Bradley Heas
acknowledged
Pr. 9m A30
Horace Stocker Small Not

Proof of marriage

I Samuel Johnson jr depose & say that I am Town Clerk of the Town of Andover in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and have the custody of the Records of said Town, that I find upon the Records of said Town of Andover, the Record of the marriage of Joshua Bradley & Mary Poor, which is in the following words, excepting the date, "In the year of our Lord one thousand "seven hundred and ninety Novem- "ber fourth, Joshua Bradley of Dracut "and Mary Poor of Andover were mar- "-ried by Jonathan French Pastor of the "Church in the South Parish in Andover."
I do hereby certify that the foregoing extract is a true copy of the Record with the ex- -ception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible words & figures as follows "A. D. 1790. Nov r 4."
Samuel Johnson jr. Town Clerk of Andover, aforesaid,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Essex ss. Sept 6 th 1838. Personally appeared the within named Samuel Johnson Jr Town Clerk of Andover & a credible witness and made oath that the within extract from the Records of the Town of Andover is a true copy of said Records with the within specified exception of the date Before me N. Swift Just O.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ESSEX, ss.
I, JOHN PRINCE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Essex, do certify, that
N. Swift Esq r is a Justice of the Peace
within and for said County, and that his signature hereon is genuine.
WITNESS MY HAND, and the Seal of said Court of Common Pleas,
September 6. A. D. 1838.
John Prince Clerk.

No 3.
Joshua Bradley N. 15,606

Joshua Bradley a six Month man in the 8 th Massachusetts Regt is this Day Discharged the Service
The Issuing Commissions will furnish him with Provision on his way Home to Scituate
Given under my hand at Weymouth this 8 th Day of Decem r 1780 M c Pherson Col o 8 th Massachusetts Regt.
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Joshua Bradley
No. 15,606
Mass.
No 5.

This may Certify that Joshua Bradley a soldier in the 8 th Massachusetts Regiment has returned his arms and accoutrements to me West Point December 8 th 1780 Benjamin Barron Sgt.

Catherine Folsom's Depos.

I, Catherine Folsom of Lowell in the County of Middlesex & Common- wealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age to testify on oath depose & say as follows:
I am the daughter of Mrs Mary Bradley of Lowell; she is the widow of Joshua Bradley late of Dracut deceased, who died in Lowell Jan'y. 9. 1834; she has never been married since said death but is now his widow. Her maiden name was Mary Poor & she belonged to Andover in the County of Essex & Common- wealth of Massachusetts, & was there married as I have been informed and believe.
Catherine B Folsom

Middlesex ss. Dec. 17. 1838 Sworn to & subscribed before me, John A. Knowles } Justice of the Peace
I. Albert Locke, Clerk of the police Court of Lowell in the county of Middle- sex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hereby certify that Jno. A. Knowles Esquire, abovenamed, is a justice of the peace within & for said county of Middlesex, & that his signature above is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I here to put my name and the seal of said Court this Seventeenth day of December in the year 1838 Albert Locke Clerk P.C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Dec. 4 th 1833.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that Joshua Bradley is borne on a "pay roll" of the six months men that served in the Continental army in A. D. 1780 for the town of Dracutt. Time of service made up for the space of five months and twenty three days from the 26 th of June 1780.
It further appears that he is borne on a pay roll of Capt. Sam l Sayer's Company in Lieut. Col. Webb's regiment. Time of service made up for the space of three months from the 12 th of Septem- 3- ber A. D. 1781. Edward D. Bangs Esq.

Mary Bradley's case.
1. Declaration genl. & refers to pension papers in her husband's case, on file in the pension office. 2. Proof of marriage - Extract from record. 3. Proof of death &c - Catharine Holson's Depn.

Lowell Decr. 24. 1838
J. S. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir - We send enclosed papers in Mrs. Mary Bradley's case for an original pension.
Please return to us as soon as determined.
Respectfully Your obedt. Servts. Knowles & Locke

Joshua Bradley Map. #30, Act 7 June 183~ to what time valid?
Pub Office
Dec 9 th Jan 1834 pot. that period
May 21, 1839
111

Suspended for E. H. Bangs Arrears Nov. 10th 1833

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
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P. O.
Joshua Bradley
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18

Map
Rev  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15606
Mary Bradley Widow of Joel Bradley Pr. Rev War.
Act: July 1 st 38
Index:—Vol. a , Page 88
[Arrangement of 1870.]

add d evidence for Johna Bradley of Mass Dec. 18. 1883
James L. Edwards Esq. Comm. Pleas
Washington

Sir Mar ch Grotton Dec r 4. 1833
In pursuance of the direction in your letter of Nov r 11. th application has been made at the Levy Office in Mass ts for Mr. Jas s Bradley whose case is now under assessment at the Pension Office & a certificate obtained which proves his services substantially as stated the Bm d term appears to be reduced a few days - I have a recollection that his discharge gave him a few days over Bm d - The two discharges were annexed to his first Applic n which was certainly put into the P. Office in Lowell in Aug t 1832 and may yet appear. —
M r B asks that his long protracted Application may receive early attention from the Department -
I am respectfully yr s Sam l Dana
The Com te of Pensions

Joshua Bradley

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered that on the eighth 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 Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid comes Joshua Bradley of Dracut in said county of Middlesex, and on oath declares that he served in the War of the Revolution full nine months, against the Common Enemy. He entered upon Continental establishment, the first of June in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, Seven hundred and eighty in the Company of Capt. James Tarratt, in Col. Michael Jackson's Regiment the eighth, Massachusetts line, in this Company he completed full six months service, and then received an honorable discharge. — On the last of August in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one he again enlisted upon the same establishment, for three months, in Capt. Fays Company, in Col. Webb's Regiment, in the Massachusetts line, he served this term out, and at Camp Highlands, he received a discharge from Capt. Ralph Thompson, then Commanding the Regt on the second of December of that year. — Since he left the service, he has enjoyed property to a competency, which by misfortunes he has lost, he is now fifty five years of age, and such is his present situation, that by reason of his reduced circumstances, in life, he stands in need of assistance, from his Country for support. —
Joshua Bradley
Thus made, taken, subscribed and sworn to at Chelmsford in said County of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid. —
Sam d Dana

No 2.
Joshua Bradley
Act 18 th March 1818
Massachusetts —
rejected
Inadmissible, not having served nine months at one period of en- listment —
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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 eighth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  Joshua Bradley personally appeared and made and subscribed the declaration which is herunto annexed. And at the same time he exhibited to me the two discharges therein described, and also a certain certificate signed by Bay Barron  Leyt .
from which it appears to me, that the said Joshua Bradley did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, nine months. Upon the Continental establishment.
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 & the documents aforesaid 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 eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen .
Sam d Dana

Declaration Joshua Bradley
This call contains six pa- pers Nos 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. —
Please to send the pension certificate to Rev. Dana Day Grafton Ms.
P6
When you see

To the Secy of War.
Joshua Bradley of Lowell in the County of Mid- dlessex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts - represents that he served in the war of the revolution for the space of nine months. —
1 That he enlisted in the Spring of AD 1780 in the Continental service, and was ordered into the Company of Capt. James Varnum in Col. Michael Jackson's Mass a Reg t when he served a full term of eight  ser months and was honorably discharged 2 In the fall AD 1781. he again enlisted in the same ser- vice, and was again ordered into Capt. Foy's Company in the same Regiment - when he served the full term of three months and was again honorably discharged. —
On the 3 rd of April 1818 he made application to the then Secretary of War to be admitted to the benefits of the Act of March 18. 1818, and his claim was examined and sources found to be proved as he had stated them - but his claim was rejected and deemed inadmissible not having served nine months at one period of enlistment. Since his former application he has removed from Dracut where he then resided to the Town of Lowell aforesaid where he now resides, he is sixty nine years of age. —
And he now prays that his claim may be examined in conformity with the regulations issued from the De- partment of War Pension Office June 27. 1832, and herewith exhibits his former application, with his two original dis- charges and a certificate of Benjamin Barron Secy t And he hereby releases every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except that provided by the Act of June 7. 1832, and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the Agency of any State.
Wherefore he

Wherefore he prays that he may (as soon as well may be) be admitted to the benefits of the Act aforesaid, and be paid at the Massachusetts Agency. —
Dated at Lowell the third day of August AD 1832. —
In presence of
John Russell of Lowell
Sam Dana of Guto.
} M ca
Joshua Bradley
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex August 3 d 1832
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss. August 3 d 1832
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace, within and for all the Counties in said Commonwealth
Joshua Bradley who subscribed the annexed Deposition Declaration
and made solemn Oath that the same is just and true in all its particulars according to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Samuel Dana

Wherefore he prays that he may (as soon as well may be) be admitted to the benefits of the Act aforesaid, and be paid at the Massachusetts Agency. —
Dated at Lowell the third day of August AD 1832. —
In presence of
John Russell of Lowell } Maria Joffina Bradley Sam Dana of Grafton }
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex August 3 d 1832
Personally appeared Joffina Bradley and acknowledged the foregoing release to be her voluntary act. — Before me Sam Dana just here

Joshua Bradley, N. 15, 606 Mass.
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Joshua Bradley N. 15, 606 Mass.

This may certify that Joshua Bradley a soldier in the 8th Regt. Va. Inf'ty. R. G. furnished himself with a blanket given at West Point the 8th day of Decr 1864 B. Barron Keyes
Camp Highland December 2 nd 1864 This may certify that Joshua Bradley a private soldier in Capt. Day's company is Discharged the Service to all concerned Ralph Thompson Capt & Comd
BRADLEY, JOSHUA