Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,040, Josiah Blood, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Blood, Josiah
S. 34,040
CONTENTS

11.311 R Massachusetts.
Josiah Blood,
of 4 Middlesex co: in the state of Massach ts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey , of the Massach ts line, for the term of the revolut n . war.
Ascribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4. of June, 1819 and sent to Samuel Dana, judge Groton, Middlesex Co: Mass ts
arrears to 4th of March, 1819. $: 86.90. semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Sept: 48. " 10 mo: 22 1819. } $: 134.90. 30 8 4 31 } { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. } 31
Revolutionary War Pension John Blood

Josiah Blood

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered, that on this ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred, and eighteen, before me Samuel Dana Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the common wealth aforesaid) comes Josiah Blood of Pepperell in said County of Middlesex and in oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution. Six years, and eight months, against the common enemy. He engaged at the commencement of that war, for eight months, under the State of Massachusetts. On the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, Seven Hundred, and Ninety Six, he enlisted upon the Continental establishment, for one year, in the Company of Capt. Hugh Mannwell in Col. William Prescott's Regiment which later he consolidated. — Before his year expired, he enlisted again into Capt. Mannwell's Company dur- ing the war, this Company was annexed to Col. Briley's Regiment, in the Massachusetts line, he was taken sick, at Valley Forge, in the month of June Seventeen hundred, and Ninety eight, was carried into the Hospital where he remained, some time, and then joined his Regiment, left by reason of a sore, on his Arm, he was first furloughed, and then discharged from the Army. But he resumed his health, and in the month of June in the year, Seventeen hundred, and eighty one, as he believes, he was hired by a class of men, in the Town of Chelmsford, to enlist into the Continental Army. For three years, he was received, in Boston by an Officer of the Army who ordered him, to West Point, and he joined Capt. Pike's Company, in Patten's Regiment, where he remained some time, and was then trans- ferred to Capt. Smith's Company, in Col. Sprague's Regiment, where he remained eighteen months, from the time he joined the Army, and was discharged. All the time he was in the Army, he was not entitled to any pay, by reason of his reduced circumstances since years old and in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for his support. —
Josiah Blood
Thus made, subscribed, and sworn to at Pepperell in said County of Middlesex the day and year afore said.
Sam d Dana

Josiah Blood
on rolls of Bailey's act 2 ym
Adm.
The buffer certificate as to indigen marked

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the ninth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personally appeared Josiah Blood and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Josiah Blood did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
Sam d Dana
I Samuel Dana Chief justice above described - Do further certify that Josiah Blood who subscribed the above declaration is a poor man in indigent circumstances, entitled to the benefit of the Act of Congress aforesaid. — Sam d Dana May 11 th 1819.

Josiah Blood Peppercorn 11311 June 1/9
The full value of the Real Estate must be stated
Full value of the Real Estate must be stated in the event of sale or mortgage the amount of the loan must be stated
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Josiah Blood resident in Coppsell in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 11. 311 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the "18th March, 1818, Josiah Blood of Middlesex county Mass ts late a "Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the "Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight "dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of "April - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this day of fourth one thousand eight hundred and "nineteen J. L. Edwards in the absence from "behalf of the J. C. CALHOUN , Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
   " Annual income of wife's blinds - - - - - $ 20.00   one cow & calf at - - - - - 23. -   one cow & calf at - - - - - 21. -   Two small pigs - - - - - 2.50   Iron hollow ware - - - - - 1.75   brockery ware - - - - - 1.00   Pewter ware - - - - - 1.50   Glass ware - - - - - .53   Hand irons, shovels & tongs - - - - - 1.00   Knives & forks - - - - - .25   One chest of drawers - - - - - 1.00   Six old chairs - - - - - .50   one axe - - - - - .50   one old shovel - - - - - .93   one hoe - - - - - .25   one dining fork - - - - - .25   Carried over $ 85.98  

  Brought over - - - - - $85. 30   Two old tables - - - - - . 50   Tin ware - - - - - . 25   One old looking glass - - - - - . 25   Two old pails - - - - - . 17   Two old milk pans - - - - - . 10   $88. 07   Income - - - - - 30. 00   Exclusive of income - Personal Estate - - - $58. 07   Josiah Blood. " 
"I Josiah Blood aforenamed do on oath declare that I am seventy eight years of age that I served as a noncommissioned officer and private nearly six years in the army of the Revolution viz in the years 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1781, 1782, & 1783 all which is more particularly set forth in my original declaration on file in the war office dated April 9 th 1818 - three years of said time in Col. Bailey's Regiment - that I am a husbandman by occupation but by infirmities of age totally unable to labour - that I have no family except my wife Elizabeth aged eighty four years and unable to perform the least labour.
Josiah Blood.
Sworn & declared to before me
S. Dana. "

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, Josiah Blood do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD. Josiah Blood
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Josiah Blood took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana Judge of said Court. //
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW , Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and 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 fifty six dollars & sixty nine cents
exclusive of an income of thirty dollars a year during the life of his wife
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820 .
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

34.040 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34.040
Josiah Blood His Rev. Mrs
Act: 16 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 48
[Arrangement of 1870.]

To whom it may concern
and Residuary of Mrs. Poole
We the subscribers, Select Men of the Town of Pepperell in Massachusetts do certify whom it may concern that Francis Blood of Pepperell, who it is said was a Sol- dier in the Army of the Revolution is now a pauper in indigent circumstances.
Pepperell. May 10 th 1819
John Walton Abel Jewett W m Buttrick