Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45614, Jacob Briggs, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Briggs, Jacob
NUMBER
S. 45614
CONTENTS

14.016 R
New Hampshire
Jacob Briggs
of Lymen in the state of N. Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel M. Jackson of the artillery line, for the term of two years . war
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 th of April , 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 st of July 1819 and sent to Ezra Butts , Esq. Franklin, N. H.
Arrears to 4th of Nov 1819, 10 mos 20 d $ 85.33 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819. 118.00
$203.33
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent the 24 th June 1821 to the Postmaster at Bath,
J. H.

Jacob Briggs
Jacob Briggs Esq. Jacksons Wharf, Regt. 1781 to 1782 or 1783 15 th April 1818.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Grafton ss.)
ON this fifteenth — day of April — 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for
said County personally appears Jacob Briggs — aged seventy two years, resident in
Loyman in the said State, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:" That he the
said Jacob Briggs — enlisted in April 1781 — in the State of Massachusetts —
in the company commanded by Captain Amos Wadsworth — of the 8 th  Massachusetts regiment commanded by Col Michael Jackson
; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the year 1782 or 1783 & does not distinctly recollect which
, when he was discharged from service in West Point State of New York — ; that he was in the battles of
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support ; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Ezra Bartlett
I, Ezra Bartlett Judge of the Court of Common Pleas —
as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jacob Briggs —
did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy ; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
May 25 th — 1818.
Ezra Bartlett
I Ezra Bartlett Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jacob Briggs is so indigent as to need & has rec d assistance from the overseers of the poor in the Town where he resides —
Ezra Bartlett

District of New Hampshire County of Grafton
At the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire held at Haverhill within & for the county of Grafton being a Court of record by the laws of said State on the 29 th day of May A D 1820 personally appeared Jacob Briggs aged seventy four years resident in Lyman in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows viz a private soldier in Capt. Weeks company & Lieutenant Jackson's regiment Massachusetts line, that his original declaration was made & dated the 15 th day of April A D 1818 that he has received a pension the certificate of which is numbered 14015 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March A D 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 & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March A D 1818 — and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contents or debts due to me nor have I any income to any amount whatever not even a shilling's worth except clothing having been a county charge before I had my pension & now supported by it alone — And I further declare, that I am by occupation a farmer in farm & have been unable to do any kind of labor for the several years and that I have no other means of support than by my pension, being supported by the county in which I live previous to my receiving a pension — I live with my son Sylvester Briggs, who is poor & has a large family & under no obligation to support me. Many other children are all of age & scattered every & are poor —
Attest Ira Goodall
Jacob his Briggs mark

Sworn to & read and before the Justices of the Superior Court of Indictment for the State of New Hampshire in open Court on this 29 th day of May 1820
Attest S. P. Webster Clerk
I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Indictment for the county of Grafton do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the statement thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of 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 statement is nothing in value - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 31 st day of May Anno Domini 1820 -
S. P. Webster Clerk

State of New Hampshire } Grafton ss } On this 20 th day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County personally appears Nathaniel Rix of Haverhill in said County who on his oath declares that he joined the Continental army in the spring of 1781 & was annexed to Cap t Silas Pierce's Company in the 8 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col Michael Jackson and that Jacob Briggs now of Lyman in said County joined said Regiment about the time said Rix did and was annexed to Cap t Amos Wade's Company in said Jackson's Regiment, and that he knew said Briggs as a soldier as aforesaid for the most part of the time from his joining said Regiment until the disbanding of the army in May or June 1783.
Ezra Bartlett

State of New Hampshire } Grafton ss } On this 20 th day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County personally appears Nathaniel Rix of Haverhill in said County who on his oath declares that he joined the Continental army in the spring of 1781 & was annexed to Capt. Silas Pierce's Company in the 8 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson and that Jacob Briggs now of Lyman in said County joined said Regiment about the time said Rix did and was annexed to Capt. Amos Wade's Company in said Jackson's Regiment, and that he knew said Briggs as a soldier as above said for the most part of the time from his joining said Regiment until the disbanding of the army in May or June 1783.
Ezra Bartlett

State of New Hampshire Grafton ss } On this 17 th day of July 1819 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County personally appears Nehemiah Holden of Orford in said County who on his oath declares that he is fifty six years of age, that in the month of May or June 1781, enlisted into the revolutionary army in Cap t Wade's Com- pany in Col o Michael Jackson's Regiment in the Massa- chusetts line for three years, that he well remembers Jacob Briggs, (who is now said to reside in Lyman in said Grafton County) as being at that time a Soldier in said Wade's Company and that said Briggs continued to do duty in said Company & Regiment for more than one year.
Ezra Bartlett

Haverhill N.H. July 20 th 1819.
Sir,
In Jacob Briggs' case you state "it does not appear from the additional proof how long the applicant served, or for what term he engaged;" the additional proof referred to is the copy of a judgment of a Judicial Court in the State of Massachusetts, (which copy was not returned to me with his other papers); if I recollect rightly, that record shows conclusively that Briggs did serve one full year; on that fact being proved, only, could he be entitled to a judgment in his favour: in addition to this & the testimony of Major Rix he has procured the testimony of Nehemiah Holden, a person who is placed on the pension list & whose character for truth & veracity is unimpeachable. Briggs, in his declaration, states that he engaged for three years but was discharged before the three years expired.
I am, most respectfully,
Sir,
your obedient servant
Ezra Bartlett
Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

45614 Rev INVALID.
File No. 45614
Jacob Briggs Pm Rev Year
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 62
[Arrangement of 1870.]