Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 666, Joseph Bearce, Conn. Continental N. Y. Sea Service

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Conn. Continental N.Y. Sea Service.
★ Bearce, Joseph or Bass
P. 666
CONTENTS

Ex'r.
INVALID.
100-100-100 RECEIVED
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1863.
Joseph Pearce
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Joseph Bearce.
666

Original claim.
Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension List under the act of the 18 th March 1818.
County of Worcester. On this sixteenth day of March 1827 personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas. being a Court of Record for the County of Worcester.
Joseph Bearce resident in said County, aged seventy two years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818. and the 1 st of May 1820. that he the said Joseph enlisted for the term of eight months some time during the month of May as he believes, in the year 1775. in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Peter Parrot in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb in the line of the State of Connecticut on the eight months Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps during the said term of eight months and then enlisted into the same corps for the term of three years on the three years Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said corps, except when detached to serve in the water service on board the Gally Lady Washington under Robert Cook on the North River during the summer of 1776, till July 1777. when he was transferred into a company of Artillery under the command of Captain James Funnival in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Campbell, but whether he was by such transfer discharged from the Regiment commanded by Colonel Webb he cannot now say. He served in the Continental service and in Captain Funnival's Company after joining it in July 1777. till the latter part of the year 1778. the precise time he cannot state, when he was discharged from the service in the State of New Jersey that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, that his name is not on the roll of any State except Connecticut unless it should be on the roll of Campbell's regiment. And that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension in the present form viz. Soon after the passage of the Act of 18 th March 1818. he made a declaration before a Court of competent jurisdiction in order to be placed on the Pension list but the papers in the case were lost or mislaid by the gentleman with whom he entrusted the management of his claim. This loss

he did not learn till some time after and one of the witnesses upon whom he chiefly relied for proof of his claim died before he attempted again to make declaration. He has however concluded to make this application in hopes that the rolls of the Continental Army may be sufficient to substantiate his claim without the aid of that witness.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May, 1820, I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) 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, since the 18 th of March, 1818, no material changes have been made in my property.
Joseph Beare
Sworn to, and declared, on the sixteenth day of March 1827, before the Court aforesaid.
Attest. Abijah Bigelow, (clerk)
I Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Joseph Beare did serve in in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing oath (or affirmation,) and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 twenty one Dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this sixteenth day of March, 1827.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Worcester.

Schedule of Property belonging to Joseph Bearce, March 12. 1827.
My wearing apparel worth . . . . . $20.00. 1 Chest of the value - - - - - 1.00 and no more - - - - - $21.00.
Joseph Bearce.
A Copy, Attest. Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.

Pension Office Revolutionary Claims
Hon James Harbourn Esq Secretary War Department Washington
Henry Marshall Esq At Secy War Dept
FREE
20,305- Joseph Beane at 16. March 1832
20,305 Joseph Beane Prof at 1832

Leicester (Mass) April 30 1827
Hon James Barbour Esq
Sir I have the honor of enclosing the application of Joseph Brace to be placed on the Pension roll of the Revolutionary Army. He is an aged and poor man and deserving so far as poverty and dependence render any soldier of the revolution deserving, the liberality of the provisions for their support. I do not forward any voucher of his having been a soldier of the Revolution as I suppose his name will be found on the Rolls in the War department. The applicant is illiterate and but poorly capable of sending at this late day the vouchers which may be necessary if his name is not found on the Roll of his regiment.
One thing it may be proper to state. He applied some time since for a pension under the name of Bap but that name not being found on the roll, the papers were returned. The reason of the application in that name was that he has always been in the habit of writing his name and of being called Bap for nearly forty years and had forgotten that he spelled his name Brace till reminded of it by an old acquaintance who knew him before his enlistment into the Revolutionary army.
If any information is desired in explanation of the application I will endeavor to procure it and a line addressed to me shall be promptly attended to.
With great respect I subscribe you
off your obt servt
Emory Washburn