Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12069, Amos Bartlet, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Bartlet, Amos or Bartlett
NUMBER
S. 12069
CONTENTS
Carded

21,727
16 adams
Amos Bartle
of Franklin in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Corp commanded by Captain Knapp of the Regt: commanded by Col. — in the Mass line for 6 months
State 200
Entered on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Oct. 1833 and to Amos E. Alvord Greenfield
Arrears to the 4th of Sept $ 50c Semi-ant. allowance ending 1. Dec 10c $ 60c
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. C. Miles Clerk Book E Vol. 11 Page 217
1889 Nov 1. History by M. M. Bartlett Pres
72 Franklin

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN COUNTY ss.
ON THIS Thirteenth day of August A. D. 1833, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas of the said Commonwealth, now sitting at Greenfield within and for the said County of Franklin, Amos Bartlett a resident of Conway in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged Seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
I enlisted into the Massachusetts State Service as a soldier of the revolution about the middle of July in the year of our Lord 1778 for six months, and served that time. as a private I recollect I left home about two weeks after I enlisted. I went direct to Springfield Ms. where I joined my company Staid there four or five days & then we were ordered to Brookfield Ms. to guard the publick stores. there I did not return home until sometime in February A.D. 1779, having performed my term of six months duty after I left home. We had no regimental officers and I only recollect, that Sps. Kemp and Stebbins were the officers of our company. I lived in Conway then in the County of Hampshire since the loss of Franklin when I enlisted. I was dismissed at P. Brookfield and returned home I had no written discharge. nor have I any documentary papers as evidence of service. When I enlisted as above stated I made an agreement with one Caleb Sherman to serve my last three months. and he came to P. Brookfield to take my place & serve the last three months of my enlistment. but the officers of my company refused to accept him as a substitute and I was obliged to serve the full six months. The depositions herein the to be omitted all tell of the service of my service. I was born in Brookfield in the County of Franklin a record of my age at home. I have lived since the revolution only with the exception of few months in Conway in Conway .
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest E. Wood Clerk Amos Bartlett
WE, David Crosby a Benjamin in Simon D. Conway Esq. and William Billings Esq. Justices of the Peace and Joseph Avery both residing in Conway aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Amos Bartlett who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy 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. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest E. Wood Clerk Joseph Avery  William Billings

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 within applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that for Joseph Avery and William Billings Esq who have severally signed the within certificate are residents of the said town of Conway and are persons of the first credibility and that their statement is entitled to full credit - And that the Rev d Daniel Crosby lately a clergyman in said Conway has been dismissed and removed from said Conway and no one being settled in his place is the reason why the certificate of a clergyman is not attached sworn to here in court.
Attest E. Alvord Clerk
I Elijah Alvord Clerk of said court do hereby certify that the within and foregoing contain the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Amos Bartlett for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto the seal of the said court this 11th 12th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three.
E. Alvord Clerk
Respectfully E. Alvord
E. Alvord Esq
Post 6 March St Marks Bakery Boston - Mass
Amos Bartlett 29149

I Daniel Crosby a clergyman residing in Conway in the County of Franklin & State of Massachusetts hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Amos Bartlett who has subscribed this declaration for a pension hereunto annexed that I believe him to be seventy years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the town & neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed this 7 th day of August A.D. 1833 Before me E. Alvord Just. Peace
Daniel Crosby
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss. I Elijah Alvord Justice of the Peace for the said county of Franklin before whom the above certificate was sworn to do hereby certify that Daniel Crosby who has signed and sworn to the said certificate is a clergyman resident in Conway but about to remove from thence without the county before the session of the court at Greenfield next week; and that his statement is entitled to credit
In testimony of my official character as a Justice of the Peace as well as of the facts above stated I the said Elijah Alvord being Clerk for said County of the Court of Common Pleas of said Commonwealth do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Greenfield the seventh day of July August A.D. 1833.
E. Alvord Clerk

The deposition of Calp Sherman for Amos Bartlett—

I Caleb Sherman of Conway County of Frank- lin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being Seventy years of age depose and say that in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight Men were called for from said Conway to go and guard the public Stores at Springfield then Hampshire County and in Brookfield in Worcester County all in Massa- chusetts the deponent did agree with Amos Bar- rett of said Conway that we would jointly do & perform the service of six months duty as a soldier in the Government service above named & the said Amos was to enlist and perform the first three months of the service & then the deponent was to go and take his place - and the Father of the said Amos did take me the deponent to Brookfield where the said Amos was performing duty for the purpose of making the exchange - upon our arrival at the P. Garrison & the proposed exchange being made known to the Of- ficers 1 st & 2 nd Lt. French & Stebbins refused the to have the exchange take place for reasons given by said officers the deponent had to return home & the said Amos was left to, and did complete his six months service he the said Amos enlisted for the said service in the month of July of that year 1878 and further the deponent saith not - Caleb Sherman
Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Franklin ss - Aug Sept 11 th 1882 personally app- eared Caleb Sherman subscribed to the above deposition and made solemn oath that the facts therein stated are true and I the subscriber  Justice said do hereby certify that I have long known the above deponent and his general Reputation for Truth & veracity is good - Before me John Williams Justice of the Peace

I Seduthan Bartlett of Conway in the County of Franklin (formerly County of Hampshire) and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of the age of sixty eight years and about nine months and have lived in said Conway ever since I was four years old, and being  do testify & say that I was brought up under the Pa- ternal roof with Amos Bartlett, and that in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight in the month of July there was a call for men from said Conway for the purpose of guarding the public stores at Springfield then County of Hampshire and at Brookfield in the County of Worcester each in said Commonwealth and that I knew said Amos Bartlett & make an agreement with Caleb Sherman then of said Conway that the said Amos should enlist for the six months required - and that said Sherman was to go at the expiration of the first three months and take the place of the said Amos I believe him - and I further testify that the Father of the said Amos did take said Caleb Sherman and carry him to Brookfield where the Troops were then stationed for the purpose of the exchange - but the Officers for reasons unknown to the deponent refused to make the ex- change as the Father reported upon his return to Conway in- th the said Sherman - and therefore the said Amos did not return to his home till he had served the six months agreeable to his enlistment - and further the deponent saith -
Sed Bartlett
Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Franklin ss - Conway August twenty sixth eight- een hundred and thirty two - Personally appeared Seduthan Bartlett the subscriber of the above instrument and made solemn oath that the facts therein stated are true. Before me John Williams Justice of the Peace I hereby certify that the above deponent is consider- ed a man of Truth & Veracity John Williams J.P.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss. I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the county of Franklin do hereby certify that John Williams Esq. before whom the within and annexed depositions were made and sworn to is a Justice of the Peace for said county. And that his name thereto respectively subscribed appears to me to be his true and proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Greenfield on the twelfth day of September A.D. 1833
E. Alvord Clerk
The deposition of John Williams Then Justice of the Peace for the County of Franklin Massachusetts August 26- 1832

Revtran
12,069 INVALID.
File No. 12,069
Amos Bartlett
Prim Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 22
[Arrangement of 1870.]