Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,027, Samuel Biglow, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Biglow, Samuel Bigelow or
NUMBER
S. 34.027
CONTENTS

7781
Massachusetts.
Samuel Dighton
of Newton in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of four years War
inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of March 1819 and sent to William Wetmore Esq. Salem Mass
arrears to 4th of March 1819 $ 89.28 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48.
$ 137.28
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
William Wetmore Esq. Salem Mass Hannah Dighton Samuel Dighton

Samuel Beilow.
Col. no. Jackson's Mfg.
Chas. Packard & Co.
1779 - 4 years
Samuel
10

State of Massachusetts
I Samuel Bigelow a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Newton in the County of Middlesex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in the month of July in the Year Seventeen Hundred & seventy nine
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the close of the war, when the Army was disbanded
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company Commanded by Capt John Wiley in Col. Michael Jackson's Regt in the Massachusetts line of the army
and that I left the service on the thirteenth day of June in the Year Seventeen Hundred & Eighty three and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty seven years. - My discharge has by accident been lost - and I have now no other evidence in my power to offer, except what is herewith exhibited
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Sam l Bigelow
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirtyfirst day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within the State aforesaid &
presiding there in the abovenamed Samuel Bigelow and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my name and the seal of said Court, the witnesses hereunto are invisible & disinterested. Wm. Wetmore

Middlesex ss. March 31. 1818
We the subscribers inhabitants of Newton and Citizens of the United States, do Certify & say that we are well acquainted with Samuel Bezelow subscribed to the within written declaration & know him to be a man of truth & veracity, we have no doubt of the truth of the facts therein stated by him & from our knowledge of his reduced circum- stances in life that he stands in need of assistance from his Country for support — Nathan Fuller Colb. Pennsylv.
I the subscriber testify & say that I know Mr. Samuel Bezelow above named & that he was a private Soldier in the Massachusetts line of the Revolutionary Army or the Continental establishment for more than nine months — Nathan Fuller a Lieut Col. in the revo- lutionary army —
Sworn to respectively by all the abovenamed Deponents before me Wm Wetmore, the Judge within named —

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Samuel Biglow
9781
17 Mar '79
Em

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. 182 a
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, Samuel Bigelow resident in Newton in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 7781 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, Samuel Bigelow  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 thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . “Given at the War Office of the United States, this seventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen . L. S.
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,
“One old chest for which he gave three dollars, has no family, is sixty years of age, served four years in the Revolutionary Army in the eighth Massachusetts Reg t commanded by Col Michael Jackson, said Bigelow enlisted under Cap John Wiley soon after served under Cap Sita Pierce. said company was afterwards commanded by Cap Rowens Sam Bigelow Sworn to & declared before M rs Wetmore judge ”

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
11 I, Samuel Bigelow 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.
Sam. Bigelow
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Samuel Bigelow took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore 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
Three Dollars
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 20th day of July 1820 .
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

34027 Pay INVALID.
File No. 84197
Samuel Biglow
His Rev No
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 38
[Arrangement of 1870.]