Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4976, Isaac Burrell, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Burrell, Isaac
S 4976
Carded
CONTENTS

15511.
Massachusetts
Isaac Burrell
Plymouth in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by Col _____ in the Mass line for 8 Mos 5 Days Mile
Inscribed on the Roll of _____ at the rate of 27 Dollars 21 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of June 1833 and June 1836 Said Plymouth
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $ 54,42 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 Sept 13.60 $68.02
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H McBlain Clerk, Book 4. Vol. 2, Page 7.
Isaac Burrell

206 Ly Grace Russell Mass
March 8 Mrs 5 days
I H Gould Plymouth Mass
mentioned.
2. I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
3. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication; and if so, in what respect?
4. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the roll?
5. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
6. In what battle was he engaged?
   Regt. Comp. Disch. Age Res.     10th Mass C 1865 21 Plymouth   10th Mass C 1865 21 Plymouth   10th Mass C 1865 21 Plymouth  
7. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
(Not All June, 1865)
8. Where in the case of
in the name of

BRIEF in the case of  Isaac Burrall  County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 83 Years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Vol. In 1776 — 5. 15. private Gen. Capt. Poole & Clary   Asst 1777-88 — 1— 20 — — Col. Beal   — — — — 1. 10 — — Beal  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Plymouth Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Serving witness to his first service and confirmed as credible  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Can not attached with the sea 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. Clapp Examining Clerk

Isaac Burrill's Statement
20054

State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth ss.
On this twenty second day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Hon ble Wilkis Wood, Judge of the Court of Probate for the said County of Plymouth, now sitting at Hanover in said County Isaac Burrell a Resident of Scituate in the said County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, aged eighty three 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 7 th A.D. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated, to wit:
1 st In the summer of the year 1776 he entered said service, as a private in the Company commanded by Jacob Pool, Lieut John Ford, Ensign Samuel Royes, and was attached to Col l Cury's Regiment marched thro' Providence, New Haven to New York City where he was stationed until the British took possession of the City, then retreated to White Plains, and having served five and a half months, was discharged and returned home. He can prove this service by Jacob Pool the Captain of said Company now living and his deposition is annexed.
2 d In the summer of the year 1777 or 1778, when the British troops were on Rhode Island, he entered said service as a private in Captain Edward Cobb's Company, the other officers not recollected, and marched to Tiverton and from there to Little Compton where he was stationed and served forty days, was then discharged and returned home. he knows of no one living, by whom he can prove this service.
3 d In the winter following the last Campaign as he thinks he entered said service as a private in the Company commanded by Ben n Beals, Lieut. Ben n Bates, marched to Providence then to North Kingston and was stationed there, his duty to keep guard, and having served forty days, was discharged and returned home. he knows of no one living by whom he can prove this service.
He served in all as aforesaid eight months and five days besides being called out frequently several days at a time, which he cannot now describe and can make no account of. He never received a written discharge, nor has he any documentary evidence of his service. He was born in Weymouth the 4 th day of April A.D. 1749. He has no record of his birth. He lived in Abington in the said County of Plymouth and has lived there the most of his life, the present summer he moved to Scituate where he now lives. He volunteered or enlisted for the first campaign and was drafted as he thinks, for the two last. He was in no case a substitute. He has named all the Officers under whom he served that he now recollects, also all the important circumstances of his service. He is known in the neighbourhood where he has resided

the most of his life until the last two months to the Rev d Lucius Alden and Mr Nathan Beal and others who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest
Jacob H. Lord
Register
Isaac Burrell
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named Isaac Burrell was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the said Court do further certify that it appears to them that the Rev d Lucius Alden is a Clergyman resident in the town of Abington & that Mr. Nathan Beal is a resident in the same town, they both having subscribed & made oath to a Certificate which is enclosed, both being credible persons & that their statement is entitled to full credit.
By the Court Attest
Jacob H. Lord Register
I Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Burrell for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twenty second day of August A. D. 1832.
Jacob H. Lord

We Lucius Alden a clergyman, residing in the town of Wington, and Nathan Beal residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Beisell, who is an applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress of the 7 th of June A.D. 1832, that we believe him to be eighty three years of age, that he is reported & believed, in his neighbourhood where he has recently resided, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Lucius Alden Clergyman Nathan Beal
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss July 25 th 1832 Then the above named Lucius Alden and Nathan Beal made oath that the above certificate by them subscribed is true. — Micah Pool Just. Peace

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4976
INVALID.
File No. 4976
Isaac Burrell
Print Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1837.
Index:—Vol. M , Page 50
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Jacob Pool of Hanson in the County of Plymouth and state of Massachusetts aged ninety one years on oath do testify & say that in the summer of the year 1776 Isaac Burrell now of Pittsfield but formerly of Abington in said County of Plymouth entered the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution in a Company of which I the said Jacob Pool had the command the Lieutenant was John Foss the Ensign was Samuel Roger said Company marched from Abington thro' Connecticut to New York City and there continued until the British troops took possession said Burrell served in said Company five and a half months and then returned home having been absent six months and further saith not
Jacob Pool
Plymouth ss. Jan. 7 th 1832 Then the above named Jacob Pool made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
before me Jonathan Dyer
I certify that the above named Jacob Pool is reputed to be a man of truth & veracity, Jacob H. Lord Register

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Jared Whitman Esquire is a Justice of the Peace for said County & that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & the seal of said Court this twentieth day of December A. D. 1832.
Jacob H. Lord

Incub Park Sep - Isaac Burnell
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Isaac Burrill which require further proof or explanation.
1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? ys II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? ys III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? ys V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? ys VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? ys VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? ys VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? ys IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? ys X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? ys

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? ys
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? _____
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? to the first term only
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? ys
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? ys
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? ys
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.