Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,4123, Reuben Burt, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
Continental Mass.
Burt, Reuben
NUMBER
S. 34123
BLt. 10307-160-55
CONTENTS

A, 162
Massachusetts Roll.
Reuben Burt, Capt Hunt Corporal A H Jackson Reg! Mass
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. Continental Mass.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6. of Nov 1818, and sent to John Hooker, Esq. Springfield, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 . . . . $ 39. 20 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Mar. 1819 . . . 48. " an! 4 m 27/30.
$ 87. 20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
2 years 7 mo.
South Hadley, Hampshire 6 th
Approved 4. Oct 1818

Notification sent July 29 th 1820 to John Ingersoll, Springfield, Mass.

90.840
Act March 3/55
April 23/55
Benben Burt Sergeant
Capt. Wm. Wells. Col. H. Jackson.
Enl. about May 1 1780 { Mass dis. Dec 1, 1783 } Mil
Revolutionary War. Prisoner.
Map - M. 19
Corporal -
H. Jackson's Ref Map Line
Ad 160 ac's Nov 22/55
Dodge
Sam
H. S. Moyer. Springfield, Mass.
Vol. B2 137.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampshire ss. B E IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighth day of April A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Hampshire the above named
Reuben Burt in order to obtain the benefit of the late law of 6th inst. entitled 'An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war.'
made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Reuben Burt the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampshire to be affixed hereto, this eighth day of April 1820
I do Therefore hereby certify the above & annexed as the Testimony & proceedings had before me on the application aforesaid & transmit the same to the Secretary of the department of war of the United States - John Hooker

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. I Josiah Dwight Clerk of all the Inferior Courts of said Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire do certify that John Hooker Esq d is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit - that the within signature is his proper hand writing & that the seal hereunto affixed is the proper seal of said Court -
Josiah Dwight
May 20. 1818

Reuben Post Hampekie G
Learet

Hampden's Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered that on this eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me John Hooker Esq. Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the western Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Personally appeared Reuben Burt of South Hadley in the county of Hampshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and made solemn oath that he served as a Corporal in the fourth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson in the army of the United States in the war of the Revolution that he was enlisted for three years and served two years and seven months till at the close of said war he was Honorably discharged on the thirty first day of December in the year Seventeen hundred eighty three by Major General Henry Knox commanding the American forces on Hudson River as will appear by the discharge certificate hereto annexed -- and he the said Reuben made oath that he is now poor & indigent and destitute of property that he the said Reuben has a wife and five children dependant upon him for support that he is during the cold season of the year greatly afflicted with Rheumatism & disabled from labor a good part of the time and is in need of relief and assistance from his country
Reuben Burt

Dear Burh
Sir R. Springfield 6th Nov 1818.
Com
Mar. 1819

COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS.
1820 54 1764
COUNTY of Hampden
ss.
ON this eighteenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas the same being a Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at Springfield within and for said county of Hampden
Reuben Burt aged fifty nine years, resident in Springfield aforesaid who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
In Capt. Hunt's Company, in Col. Henry Jackson's Regiment, in the Massachusetts Line three years. My original declaration is dated April 8, 1818 & my pension certificate is numbered 6,162.
I am a mason by trade but my infirmities are so great & so increasing (very particularly the rheumatism) that I am unable to labour. There are residing with me my wife Bathsheba, aged 56 years, in bad health, having the St Anthony's Dance. My daughter Bathsheba aged 30 years whose physician's bills for the last two years has been over two hundred dollars. My son Reuben aged fourteen. My daughter Abigail aged 12 years.
I have not, in trust for me, any property, or securities, contract, or bond that I have not disclosed by gift, sale, or in any schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
SCHEDULE.
The house one here one axe, one scythe one sickle, a few carpenter's tools & household furniture including three beds. Reuben Burt
Sworn to and declared on the eighteenth day of July before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas
John Ingersoll Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 sixty Dollars and Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this eighteenth day of July 1820 John Ingersoll Clerk of the Courts for the County of Hampden

90.840

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HAMPDEN, ss.
I, George B. Morris, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampden, do certify, that
Horatio S. Hyes Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said
Horatio S. Hyes and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine: also that the instrument hereto annexed, purports to be duly executed and acknowledged, according to the laws of this Commonwealth, for the purposes therein expressed.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas, for said Commonwealth, this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five
George Morris Clerk.

State of Massachusetts - COUNTY OF Hampden } 55
On this six  nineteenth — day of April — A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty five —, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Reuben Burt — aged ninety three years, a resident of Chicopee — in the State of Massachusetts — who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Reuben Burt who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain William Mills in the 11 th — Regiment of Continental Troops commanded by Col. Henry Jackson in the war of the Revolution — and served as stated in his application for pension dated 18 th March, 1818, No. 4,162 — that he enlisted — at Springfield in said State on or about the first — day of May — A. D. 1780 for the term of three years — and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days, and was honorably discharged at Opposite West Point N.Y. on the or about the first — day of December — A. D. 1783
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved March 3d, 1855. He also declares, that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor, and prays that it may be sent to H. S. Noyes Springfield Mass.
Reuben Burt
We, Richard Johnson — and Asenath Hitchcock residents of Chicopee —, in the State of Massachusetts —, upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Reuben Burt — in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
Richard Johnson
Asenath Hitchcock
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Horatio S. Noyes Justice of the Peace.

✓ 10.307
S
Her Am

No. 90840
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 23 rd 1878-
Reuben Burt Sgt. Capt. Wm. Mills Mass-Trib- Rev. War
10007-160-55-
H. S. Hoopes Springfield Mass-

34 123 Pay INVALID.
File No. 34, 123
Reuben Burt
Corp Rev MD
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 99
[Arrangement of 1870.]