Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14290, Judah Bearse, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Bearse, Judah or Beares
W. 14290
Rebecca
CONTENTS

79 Nantucket
27199 Massachusetts Judah Beares
of Barnstable in the State of Mass who was a private in the CoMP commanded by Captain Lambert of the _____ commanded by _____ in the line for 10 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 d day of July 1834 — and sent to Hono Reed Yarmouth Mass.
ears to the 4th of March 1834. $99,,97 Pens-ant. allowance ending 4 th Sep " 16 66 $116,,65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk. Book 6 Vol. 2 Page 213

164
Massachusetts
Rebecca Beares
widow of Judah Beares who was a private
in the Massachusetts line for 10. Months.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of May 1843 and sent to
L. A. Stone Boston Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 36.
Let to 3 and Aug 18 th 1889 K. P. Lt. Wm. T. B. Elick Jan 12/1880

86/125
Judah Beane Barnstable
6/11/ 9 1
Adm. 10 Months
Hon. J. Reed
6.

I hereby certify that Judah Brase is the son of Prince & Desire Brase & that he was born in Yarmouth, County of Barnstable & State of Massachusetts January 6. 1755 as appears by the records of the town May 128
Yarmouth Sept 19. 1882
Barnstable & Town Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Barnstable ss. On this twenty second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable N. Marston of the Probate Court Judge now sitting at Barnstable in and for said County, Judah Pearce a resident of Barnstable in said County, aged Seventy seven 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 7th, A. D. 1832.
THAT he was born at Falmouth in said County on the Sixth day of January A. D. 1755, and that there is a record of his birth in the records of said County: that he was in the United States service from the first day of June A. D. 1775, to the first day of December A. D. 1775 as a Private in the Militia or State Service: that he was residing at Barnstable when he entered the service; that he enlisted for six months & marched to Plymouth where he served three months & then marched to Hyannis where he served three months - and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt. James Davis, Ebenezer Lathrop Lieut. both of Barnstable. : that he marched from Barnstable to Plymouth where we remained three months & then returned to Hyannis where we served three months - : that he served with none of the continental or the regular troops; and was acquainted with none of the regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle and at the end of his service received a discharge but not in writing - : that he left the service on first of December A. D. 1775 - and that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Barnstable
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the first day of December A. D. 1775, to the first day of April A. D. 1776 as a Private in the Militia or State Service that he was residing at Barnstable when he entered the service; that he enlisted for four months and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt. Joshua Gray, Daniel Bassett Lieut. & Josiah Miller Ensign : that he marched from Barnstable to Roxbury & when he arrived there he was put under the Regiment of Col. Samuel Bradford : that he served with the Continental Army of the U.S. George Washington the Commander in Chief of the regular troops; and Gen. Washington, Gen. Putnam, Col. Bradford of the regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle and in skirmishes & firing was kept up between the armies that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing - and left the service on the first of April A. D. 1776 -
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from the first day of Jan'y. - A. D. 1778, to the first day of Jan'y. A. D. 1780 as a Private in the Militia or State Service so called that he was residing at Barnstable when he entered the service; that he enlisted for two years and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt. Benjamin Lumbert, James Coleman 1 st Lieut. John Kallie 2 nd Lieut. : that he marched from to Hyannis where he was stationed to guard the coast : that he served with no other Company or with none of the regular troops; and none regular officers were known to him; that he was in no battle that at the end of his service he received a discharge but not in writing and left the service on the first of Jan 1780 -

Also that he was in the United States service from the first day of September A.D. 1777 to the first day of December 1777 - that he was residing at Barnstable when he enlisted for three months & went to Falmouth in Massachusetts adjoining the State of Rhode Island & remained there three months, was engaged in boats transporting men & various articles by order of the government - and I have
Read John M. Spear and Lucas D. Basset and acknowledged with me and saw testimony to my character and reputation of Revolutionary service
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the aforesaid or any State.
Isaac H. Basset
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first aforesaid.
Honor Davis Regr
We John M. Spear a clergyman residing in the Town of Barnstable and Lucas D. Basset residing in said Barnstable hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Judah Bourse 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 neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
Honor Davis Regr
John M. Spear Lucas D. Basset
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that John M. Spear who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the Town of Barnstable; and that Lucas D. Basset who has also signed the same is a resident in said Barnstable and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Honor Davis, Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Judah Bourse for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Honor Davis Regr

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable.
Probate Court at Barnstable.
May 31st. A.D. 1834
Personally appeared in Open Court Isaac Bense of Barnstable, who is an applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress of June 7th. A.D. 1832 and who made a Declaration in Probate Court for that pur- pose Sept. 22d. 1832. Who being duly sworn declares & says, that from lapse of time and decay of memory he cannot state with much more precision than he has done in his said Declaration, the services he performed in his two years engagement in the Company Command- -ed by Capt. Benjamin Lumbert, excepting as follows viz - He now recstates and says upon Oath, that he enlisted into that company in January 1778, and he feels assured that he enlisted for two years, but whether he enlisted for a shorter period at first , and afterwards, at the expiration of that enlistment, renewed it, he cannot positively swear, but he knows and is sure, that he served for the period of two years in the said Lumbert's Company. The said company was stationed on the South side of Barnstable and was most of the time engaged in guarding the Coast, there and protecting property that was brought into the harbor; the said harbor was a good one & near the vineyard Sound, and many vessels put in there and very many Prizes were brought in there, and their Cargoes landed there and carted across the town and then freighted to Boston; this was done to avoid the danger of being recaptured (over)

15557_00125 in a passage around Cape Cod; and the said Lumbert's Company was kept constantly guarding the Coast & protecting the said vessels and prizes, except when called, on alarms, to Falmouth, Wood's Hole and Wareham. At one time he marched with the said Company to Wareham on an alarm and was gone three weeks - Once he marched to Falmouth and was gone two weeks, and once to Wood's Hole where he was gone about the same period of time. He was a number of times called & did march to Point Garrison, which was near by where the Company was stationed -
The declarant does not mean to be understood, that the said Company was the whole time under arms, as they might have been in Camp, but their whole time was spent and devoted to this service, and the soldiers were quartered in the houses of the inhabitants. - He further states that the Colonel's name under whom the Regiment was, to which Capt. Lumbert's Company belonged, was Nathaniel Freeman, of Sandwich.
Yours & etc. Subscribed and sworn in open Court the day & year first aforesaid.
Witness, my hand & the seal of the said Probate Court
Almer Davis - Reg.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Wamstables
On this twenty seventh day of august AD 1838,
Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the
County of Barnstable
Rebecca Bearse a resident of Barnstable in the County
of Barnstable aged eighty two 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 of July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay
and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow
of Judah Bearse Late of Barnstable deceased who was a
Private in the war of the Revolution and did receive
under the act of Congress of June 7 1832
Thirty Three Dollars and thirty three cents per annum
during his life which ended the 27 th day of April 1837
in agreeable to his certificate given at the war office
of the united States the second day of July AD 1834 and
Recorded in the Pension office in Book E Vol 2 page 43
by George Taylor Clerk referring to said office for further
proof of his service performed by said Judah Bearse
She further declares that she was married to the said Judah
on the third day of April 1777 and that her husband
the aforesaid Judah Bearse died on the 27 day of
April 1837 that she was not married to him prior to
his leaving the service but the marriage took place
Previous to the first of January nineteen hundred
and ninety four to wit at the time above stated.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written before
Rebecca Bearse
Barnstable Court of Probate - Subscribed and sworn to in open Court the day and year first above written before me Nymphas Marston Judge of Probate

Green Beach Mass
Isaac Dyer New Bedford
Contra wille of Massachusetts Barnstable Co - Court of Probate Aug 27. 1838 I Timothy Read Register of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Barn- stable hereby certify that the signature of John Marston is the true & correct signature of said Court here purporting to have been made by him is his genuine signature af- fixed in my presence
In witness whereof I have here- unto set my hand & the seal of said Court the day above above written
Timothy Read Reg. Probate

Calvin Stetson Town Clerk of Barnstable Certificate of the marriage of Judah Bearfield Rebecca Blish
Cambridge of Massachusetts Barnstable
I Timothy Reed Clerk of the County of Barnstable do hereby certify that within & for the County of Barnstable do hereby certify that Goshaw Govee Esq is a justice of the Peace within & for said County duly commissioned and qualified and was so on the twenty fifth day of August in 1838 and that the within signature purporting to have been made by him is his genuine signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said County this 27th day of August A.D. 1838
Timothy Reed Clerk

of Barnstable Marriage solemnized by the Rev. Oakes Shaw Judah Bense & Rebecca Blish both of this town April 3 d 1777. A true copy. Attest Calvin Stetson } Clerk of the Town of Barnstable
I Calvin Stetson above named depose and say; that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in Barnstable County of Barnstable Commonwealth of Massachu- setts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town as certified by me. Attest Calvin Stetson } Clerk of the Town of Barnstable
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable ss August 25 th 1838 Then the above named Calvin Stetson person- ally appeared and made oath to the truth of the extract from town records of the Town of Barnstable Before me Gosham Lovell justice of the peace

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14 290
Rebecca Bears
Widow of
Judah Bears
Prv Rev War
Act: Mar. 8 th 1843
Index:—Vol. A , Page 51
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Massachusetts 1,367
Let Hth Recd Jan 2 39
✓ Rebecca Banes, widow of Israel Banes, decd. who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 th Decr '32, and who died on the 29 th April 1837 of Brattleboro in the State of Vermont who was a Pion in the Comp y commanded by Captain [blank] of the Reg t commanded by [blank] in the [blank] line for [blank]
Inscribed on the Roll of [blank] at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Jan y 28 [blank] and [blank] Banes, decd.
Arrears to the 4 th of [blank] - 83 32 Semi-annual allowance ending [blank] 16 66 99 98
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by [blank] Clerk, Book [blank] Vol. [blank] Page 71.

1780
map 7 July 1838
Penobscot Me.
file
J. Edwards Dug born at Penobscot Washington D.C.

Barnstable Mass. Sept 16. 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq. band of Paris ms
Sir Please examine the en- closed papers of Rebecca Dearborn and make return to me and oblige yrs respectfully
Dorothy Root

11.15 9 3/4
13.18.1 1/2 20
8) 2 / 8 (34.75
2.44 2.30 5.20
2.44 20
8) 4.44 5.50
500) 3475 ( 6.95 5000 11750
6) 2 / 8 ( 47.00
6) 444 ( 73.33
700) 47.50 ( 6.78 4398 3520

Treasury Department Third Auditor's Office June 9. 1860.
Sir:
Agreeably with your request of the 7 th inst. I herewith return the papers in the case of N. 14790 Indah Rebecca Blair received from your Office on the 22 d of August 1859.
Very Respectfully Yours P. H. Sw. R. Johnson Auditor
Rev. S. H. Huling Esq. Comm te of Pensions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, March 24 1834.
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 the name of Judah Berse, as a private, is borne on the Pay and Muster Rolls of Capt. James Davis' Company, where he is allowed for service from the 1 st July to 31 st Dec. 1775 six months
ms. 6
Judah Berse claims for services in 1775 and 1778, under Capt. Gray and Green- bert - but the rolls he describes are not found in this office.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

Isaac Bears - Mass. abt June 32. when cast up? G.M.C.
8 Dec 38
10 th March 1837
JH

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable h.
Probate Court at Barnstable May 31 st A. D. 1834.
Personally appeared in open Court George Lewis of Barnstable aged seventy nine years, who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he well knows Judah Bourse of said Barnstable and that said Bourse was a soldier in the Revolutionary war in the company commanded by Capt Benjamin Lumbert stationed at in the South side of Barnstable, having often seen him in said company in the year 1778, when the deponent was the bearer of orders to Capt Lumbert from Brigadier Joseph Olin, with whom the deponent was in service in the years 1777 & 1778. and that he also saw said Bourse in company in the year 1779 after the deponent left the service of Brigadier Olin —
George Lewis
Subscribed & sworn in open Court Witness my hand & the seal of the said Probate Court at Barnstable the day & year first aforesaid — And I further certify that the said George Lewis is in the opinion of the said Court a credible Witness
Almon Davis, Reg

I Ira Baxter of Barnstable in the county of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts, master mariner of lawful age for to give evidence do depose Testify and say that I have been acquainted with Rebecca Bearse of Barnstable in the county aforesaid Widow of Judah Bearse of said Barnstable deceased ever since she was left a widow and that she still remains a widow up to the present time and has never been married since the death of the said Judah Bearse further the said deponent saith not
Ira Baxter
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable ss August 27 AD 1838 then the above named Ira Baxter personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above written affidavit by him subscribed
Before me Gosham Lovell justice of the peace I further certify that I am well acquainted with the aforesaid Ira Baxter is a man of truth and is a credible witness Gosham Lovell justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable ss. Timothy Rice clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Barnstable and hereunto made aforesaid hereby certify that Gorbam Lovell Esq. is a justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the within signature purporting to have been made by him is his genuine signature -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this
27 th August A.D. 1838
Timothy Rice clerk

1780 Application of Rebecca Beards for Pension
act July 3 82
m 77-d. 37.
70035 p272
adm'd 10 mo pnt
$33.33/100
Died 27 apl 38.
pen: com 28 apl 38.
J. Reed Barnstable Mass

I Melinda Eldridge of Barnstable in the County of Barnstable, Massachusetts of lawful age depose and say that I was acquainted with Judah Bearn late of said Barnstable who was a Pen- sioner of the United States under the act of Congress of 1832 June 7 th & that he died at said Barnstable on the twenty seventh day of April A.D. 1837 and I was present this 27 th August 1838 when Rebecca Bearn made declaration in the probate court in order to procure a pension and know she is the widow of the said Judah Bearn
Melinda Eldridge
Barnstable to Court of Probate Aug. 27. 1838 Subscribed & sworn to in open court this 27 th day of August A.D. 1837 and the court believe the said Melinda Eldridge to be a credible witness - testimony heard at the said open court Timothy Root Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable County } ss.
Be it known that on this third day of April 1843 personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Rebecca Beane a resident of Barnstable in said County and Commonwealth aged eighty-five 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 on the 3 d day of March 1833, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of Judah Beane who was a Private in the Revolutionary War and served as she verily believes as stated by her in her original declaration for a pension under the law of the 1 th of July 1838, to which declaration and the papers accompanying the same now on file in the War Department, she would refer for a more particular statement of her services, for the proof of her marriage, identity, and the time of her husband's death.
She further declares that she was pensioned under said Act, at the rate of Thirty Three 33 / 100 Doll s per annum, which amount she received from the 4 th of March 1836 to the 4 th of March 1841 at the Agency in Boston Massachusetts, and at the time of receiving her last payment, surrendered the Pension Certificate granted to her under said Act, to the Pension Agent at the said City of Boston, agreeably to the rules of the Department.
And this declarant further alleges that she has not remarried since the decease of her said husband, but is now, and ever since has been, the Widow of said Judah Beane deceased as will fully appear by the proof hereto annexed.
And further she saith not.
Notary. Alex d G. Dyer Richard D. Dridge
Rebecca Beane mark

Sworn to and subscribed on this day and year first within written. And I certify that the applicant is personally known to me to be the person within described.
Before me,
Seth Hallett Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Secty's Office April 13 th 1843
I hereby certify that at the date of the above attestation Seth Hallett was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable.
Witness the Seal of the State.
Jno. A. Bolles
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Indah  Bacon of Barnstable in the County of Barnstable Commonwealth - wealth of Massachusetts aged about seventy five years depose & say that during the revolutionary war & ever since I was & have been acquainted with Indah Brase of said Barnstable who is an applicant for a pension and will know that he was in the United States service at Linstons in the State of Rhode Island from the first of September A.D. 1777 to the first of December of the same year - we were in the same company & I saw him daily Joby Bacon

Parasat. J.
Probate Court at Parasat in Said County Sept. 22 A.D. 1832
Personally appeared in open court Sabra Bacon and made oath to the truth of the within deposition before me subscribed in court, and I certify that the said Sabra is in the opinion of the court a credible witness. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the court, the day & year aforesaid.
Stearns Davis Register

Barnstable
Probate Court at Barnstable September 22 nd 1832
Personally appeared in open Court
Deposition of Jahiz Bacon & Prince Burge for Judah Burd

We Jabez Bacon aged Seventy five years & Prince Beane aged Seventy three years testify & say that we well know Judah Beane that we were in the same company with him two years commencing the first of Jan. 1778 to the first of Jan. 1780 under the command of Col: Benjamin Doolittle we were stationed at Hyannis to guard the coast & further the deponents say not ————— Both the deponents are of Barnstable in the State of Massachusetts — Jabez Bacon Prince Beane
5. Barnstable ss.
Probate Court at Barnstable September 22 d A D 1832.
Personally appeared in open court Jabez Bacon & Prince Beane and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by them subscribed in court. And I certify that in the opinion of the court the said Jabez & Prince are credible witnesses. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the court the day & year aforesaid
Almon Davis, Registr.

Deposited John Bacon Geo. Linn for Judah Bearse

I George Lewis aged Seventy eight & I Isaiah Bacon aged Seventy five both of Barnstable in the State of Massachusetts, testify & say that we are well acquainted with Judah Bearse and have always known him from a boy - We were Soldiers in the war of the Revolution & Judah Bearse served with us - He served six months in the Company commanded by Capt. James Davis The service commenced the first of June 1775 & ended the first of December A.D. 1775. Judah Bearse served three months at Plymouth & three months at Hyannis -
We further testify & state that said Judah Bearse served in the militia four months from the first day of December A.D. 1775 to the first of April A.D. 1776. He served in the same company with us at Roxbury under the command of Capt. Joshua Gray, Col. Bradford Regiment - Genl. Washington's Commander in Chief & further the deponents say not
Isaiah Bacon George Lewis

Pamphile J.
Probate Court at Pamphile Sept. 22 A 1832
Personally appeared in open court James Bacon & George Lewis and made oath to the truth of the within Deposition by them severally subscribed in Court. And I hereby certify that in the opinion of the Court the said James & George are credible witnesses. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court the day & year aforesaid
Almon Davis, Register
Deposition