Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,102, Nathan Brooks, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Brooks, Nathan
NUMBER
S. 34/102
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll.
1,589
Nathan Brooks,
Capt Stoddard Private , 4
Mass Line, Har. 6 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818 and sent to Jno Hooker, Esq. Springfield, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Service 11 months
4 months 28/30. $39.46.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Fort Hampton Hampshire Co.
Notification sent July 28th 1820 to Sarah Daughy, Mother of Nathan, Mass.
Date of death not on Q.B.

34 102 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34, 102
Nathan Brooks
Pr Rev Mtd
Act: 18 th March 187
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 58-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No 27
Nathan Brooks
1589 East Hampton
June 1818.
COR
Sep. 1818

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, begun and holden at Northampton, within and for the County of Hampshire, on Wednesday, the fifth day of July, and de die in diem to the Sixth day of said month A. D. 1820 :
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County, created such by the Laws of the Commonwealth, Nathan Brooks in said County, who, aged fifty eight years, resident in Northampton being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows : he enlisted as a private Feb y 20 1777 in Capt Orange Scott's Company in Col o  Ware's Reg t for three years or during the War first Dept t Reg t he served six years & four Months and was discharged at Snake Hill in the State of New York and he made his application for a Pension on the seventh day of April 1818 and obtained his Certificate No 1589. from the Secretary at War
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 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 18th 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 following schedule by me subscribed.
14 Cows 60 per. cow 840.00 Old Crockery 1.50 1 Acre 50. per. 25.00 Shade & house 45.00 Log books 50.00 1 Sythe 50.00 barrels 30.00 = $5.40.
I have a Wife aged 64 years in ill health One Son named Levi aged 15 years but he is sickly and unable to support himself I am a day labourer but cannot do much work on account of ill health I live on Charity in part even with what my Pension has afforded me
Nathan Brooks
Sworn to, and declared, on the fifth day of July 1820, before the said Court. Attest, Josiah Dwight Clerk.
I, JOSIAH DWIGHT, Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule which follows it, 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 Five dollars, and forty cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Sixth day of July 1820.
Josiah Dwight

Nathan Brooks
Correct.
Brooks

The deposition of Nathan Brooks now living in East Hampton in the County of Hampshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is as follows that he enlisted into the army of the United States in February in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven at West Springfield in the County of now Hampshire into the company of Orange  Hosford in the Regiment of Infantry commanded by Colonel Joseph Vose and served in said company & Regiment during the remainder of the Revolutionary War and at the close of said war he was Honorably discharged having served more than six years in said Army during the Revolutionary war - The discharge of the said Nathan he kept till it was worn out so that he it could not be read & has since lost it - his discharge was countersigned by as Colonel  Ralph Colles  Joseph Vose & adjutant Joseph Vose - The said Nathan says he was discharged at Newburgh the June 9 1783 - and that he is in reduced circumstances & by reason thereof stands in need of support from his country for support Nathan Brooks  Springfield April 7 1880
April 7. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss April 7 1880 Then Nathan Brooks above named personally appeared & made solemn oaths to the truth of the foregoing deposition & affidavit by him sub. in bed before George P. Bliss Justice of the Peace
I Simon Brooks of West Springfield in the County of Hampshire do hereby depose & say that I knew the above named Nathan Brooks & that he came to his father's in West Springfield in the winter of the year 1780 on furlough as he said - that he wore the uniform of a soldier in the continental army - that in the spring of that year he returned to the army, & after the conclusion of the war he returned again to West Springfield where the family then lived
Simon Brooks
April 8. I John Hays of West Springfield do hereby depose & say that I knew of the said Nathan Brooks: enlisting into the army in the continental establishment with one Phinehas  Hays a sergeant in the continental army who had enlistment orders & that I knew of his coming to West Springfield to his father's about 1780 on furlough which I saw & being unwell was about June 18th & I knew of his going out to regain the army & that he was about till the conclusion of the war -
J. Hays
April 9.

I Gideon Jones of West Springfield do depose that I served in Col Shepard Regiment & was in the same brigade with Col Vose's regiment - & that I was well acquainted with Nathan Meeks & knew of his services several years & that he continued in the service to the end of the revolutionary war -
April 2.
Gideon Jones

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampden
SS. B E IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh 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 Hampden the above named Nathan Brooks the applicant & Simon Brooks on the 8 th day of April the said John Harky & Gideon Jones severally
made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits, respectively by them subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Nathan Brooks 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 Hampden to be affixed hereto, this eighth day of April 1818.
I do therefore hereby certify the above & annexed in the testimony & proceedings had before me in the application of said Nathan Brooks to the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States
John Hooker