Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12320, Zachariah Britton, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Britton, Zachariah Zacchariah
S. 12320
carded
CONTENTS
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D o . 001
Massachusetts
Jaccharah Britton
of Norfolk Co in the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Corp. command by Captain Keith - of the Regt. command by Col. Williams in the Mass'tts line for 10 months and 11 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of $34 Dollars 54 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of Decr. 1833 and to E. S. Tolland Roxbury.
Arrears to the 4th of Apr '38 $86.33 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Mch 12.27
$98.62
{ Revolutionary Claim. } Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by Geo Miles Clerk. Book 6 Vol. 2 Page 12.
53 33 1 21 34 54 67 08 17 67 86 35

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Dukes ss. On this twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two three , personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judge of the Court of District now sitting at Winton in and for said County. Ladislas Boston a resident of Dukes in said County, aged eighty five 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 Easton in the County of Bristol in the Twenty six day of May A.D. 1748 & that time is a record to be had in the Town Records of Easton
weeks  the  twelfth day of August A. D. 1775 commencing  to the  twelfth day of April A. D. 1775 three four as a private in the Massachusetts Militia : that he was residing at Easton aforesaid when he entered the service ; that he was a volunteer and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Col John Williams Key
: that he marched from Easton to Weymouth , from Weymouth to Quincy from Quincy to Weymouth  where he was stationed : that he was in no battle
ALSO : that he was in the United States service from the first day of August A. D. 1775, to the twelfth day of November A. D. 1775 3 months as a private in the Massachusetts Militia : that he was residing at Easton when he entered the service ; that he volunteered and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Col Timothy Pickering
: that he marched from Easton to Weymouth , from Weymouth to Quincy from Quincy to Weymouth  where he was stationed : that he was in no battle
ALSO : that he was in the United States service from the first day of December A. D. 1775, to the first day of June A. D. 1776 6 months as a private in the Massachusetts Militia : that he was residing at Easton aforesaid when he entered the service ; that he volunteered and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Matthew Clancey
: that he marched from Easton to Weymouth , from Weymouth to Quincy from Quincy to Weymouth  where he was stationed : that he was in no battle
THAT he upon the pension roll under the act of 18 31 as a private in the Massachusetts Militia and that at the time of his application, he was residing at Easton

And the said Zachariah Britton doth further declare that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of Zachariah Britton
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
J. L. Smith Judge of Probate.
WE, Nathaniel Stone  Kearyman residing in Mansfield in the county of Bristol and Noland Green residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Zachariah Britton who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty five 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.
Nathaniel Stone Noland Green
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
J. L. Smith Judge of Probate.
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 certifies, that it appears to them that Nathaniel Stone who has signed the preceding certificate is a legitimate resident in the town of Mansfield in said County of Bristol, and that Noland Green who has also signed the same is a resident in said town, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. Henry Judge of Probate. Council That the names of the subscribers to the foregoing certificate are the true names of the persons who have subscribed the same and are the persons described in the foregoing certificate. Nathaniel Stone Noland Green
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, {
ss.
I Samuel Haver
Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Zachariah Britton  of Sharon in said County, for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said Court the day and year first above written.
Samuel Haver

Private Edition
2/9/1
Private morning
Arrived
60 of R.L.B
500
100

Also that he was in the United States Service from the first of January 1777 to the eighth of March follow- -ing being two months & eight days as a private in the Mass- -achusetts Militia. That he then resided at said Easton was drafted & served for the period aforesaid under command of Capt. Abiel Bliss of Col. Daggett's Regt. that he marched from said Easton to Hazard's Ferry in Rhode Island, where he was stationed & served with other Continental & Militia Troops, that he was in several skirmishes & at the end of this Service received an honorable discharge; that he has no evidence except the Deposi- -tion of Jeremiah Leonard to prove this service; that since the Revolution has he has resided at said Easton & Sharon.
BRITTON, ZACHARIAS

I Benjamin Buck of Easton in the county of Bristol being seventy one years of age do hereby give evidence testify & say that I have been acquainted with Zachariah Britton for the last sixty years, that in the year 1775 the said Britton was gone from home, occasionally in the two next years he was gone from home, & that I understood, at the time, that he went in the army, & have never heard it contradicted. I further state that I never heard his veracity doubted.
Benjamin Buck
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol County } ss
April 11, 1833. Then per-
sonally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the justices of the Peace, within & for the said county of Bristol, the above named Benjamin Buck, & made solemn oath that the above statement by him subscribed is just & true in all its parts.
Noland Green
Bristol ss. This may certify that the above named Benjamin Buck is in the opinion of the subscriber a credible person, & a disinterested witness. April 11. 1833. Noland Green Justice of the Peace.
Approved by order of Court Isaac Judson Judge of Probate

I, Nehemiah Leonard of Mansfield in the county of Bristol being seventy eight years of age, do hereby give evidence testify & say, that in the year 1774 Zachariah Britton then belonging to Easton, was with me in the revolutionary war & served with me in the company commanded by Capt. Abial Clapp of Mansfield in said county of Bristol - The said service was rendered in the months of January February & March at Howland's Ferry.
Nehemiah Leonard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } Bristol County }
ss. April 25, 1833
Then personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace within & for the said county of Bristol, the above named Nehemiah Leonard & made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just & true in all its parts.
Noland Green
Bristol ss April 25, 1833 This may certify that the subscriber is acquainted with the above named Nehemiah Leonard & that he is the person a credible person, & a disinterested witness.
Noland Green Justice of the Peace
Approved by order of court
License Judge & Probate

Rehans
12320 INVALID.
File No. 12,320
Ynez Maria Britton Phil. Rev. nar.
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 48
[Arrangement of 1870.]