Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29033, David Briggs, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Briggs, David
8 29 033
CONTENTS

N o 11,855 Maine
David Briggs of Bucksfield in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Bradford of the Regt. commanded by Col. Cotton in the Mass. Troops done for 10 1/2 months Private $34.99
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 34 Dollars 99 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6. day of July 1833 and sent to S. F. Brown Bucksfield Me.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 69.98 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th Sep. 1833 17.49 $87.47
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Book E. Vol. 1
Clerk,
Page 3

I Percy Bradford of Plympton County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts of the age of Seventy nine years, do testify and say that I was a soldier in the war of the American Revolution and that I served Eight months and upwards at Roxbury near Boston in Capt John Bradford's Company, Jesse Sturtevant first Lieutenant and Thomas Sampson Second do. Col. Cotton's Regiment Gen. Thomas Commander. said Eight mo's service was performed according to the best of my knowledge in the year 1775. I further testify and declare I well knew David Briggs who was from Halifax in so County and in the above Company with me and that he served the said Eight months - and I further testify that I perfectly recollect a number of incidents which occurred when Sd. Briggs and myself were on guard together.
Percy Bradford
Plympton July 31. A.D. 1832.

Plymouth P. July 31. 1832
Then personally affirmed the within named Perez Bradford before me the subscriber and affirmed that the within Deposition by him subscribed is true - I further certify that I believe the statement of Dr. Bradford may be defended upon Wm. H. Sable Justice of the Peace
Commissioner of the Peace Bristol I John Thomas Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in the County of Plymouth hereby certify - that William H. Sable Esq. a Justice of the Peace in the County of Plymouth - whose name is subscribed to the his true and proper signature In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court at Plymouth on the first day of August A.D. 1832
J. B. Mansel

Dana Briggs Application
5 P.m.
Admitted 10½ mos $34.99
J. F. Brown Esq. Puckfield ME
E.

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford ss.
ON this 28 day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, David Briggs a resident of Brookfield in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 83 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, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That in the year
1775 he enlisted as a private at Halifax, in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, into a company commanded by Captain John Bradford, of Col. Colton's Regiment Genl. Thomas Brigade, for eight months & marched to Roxbury, near Boston, where he was stationed and served through said term & was discharged. That he was drafted & re-enlisted again into the service at said Halifax in the year 1776 into a company, commanded by Captain John Walbridge, of which Regiment he cannot now remember, and went to Rhode Island for three months, where he served, according to his best recollection, as much two months and one half of said term, at Bristol, where he was dismissed.
The said Briggs says he was born in said Halifax in the year 1749 when he was born, may be found the record of his age - that he lived in said Halifax when he entered the service, where he lived till he moved to Brookfield - that he never received any written discharge - that he gives the names of Silas Austin & Samuel Brown, both of S. Brookfield, persons to whom he is known in his neighborhood & who can testify as to his character for morality & true belief of his services, as a soldier of the revolution. And said Briggs further says that Peter Bradford whom he deposes is his only surviving witness of his services that he has been able to find and that there is no clergyman in his vicinity who is acquainted with his reputation as a soldier of the revolution.
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.
Witness J. Emery
Before Stephen Emery, Judge
David
Briggs
mark

We Samuel H. Brown & Silas Austin both residing in the town of Brookfield, County of Oxford & State of Maine, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Briggs, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 83 years of age - that he is expected & believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution; and that we concur in that opinion -
Sam H. Brown
Silas Austin
Sworn to the day of your first claim with -
Before Stephen Emery, Judge
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 above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. he having adduced in corroboration of his statement, the deposition of Perez Bradford, under oath duly administered, as also the certif- icates of Samuel H. Brown & Silas Austin, two respectable & credible citizens of said Brookfield - on oath - all which are hereto annexed.
Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Briggs for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 28th day of August A. D. 1833.
Clerk.
Joseph G. Cole Register

I certify that this case may by accident omitted to be forwarded at the time of the application - and that the papers have remained in my possession, since that time, mislaid, or overlooked - that said accident is the cause, why they have not been before transmitted. Stephen Emery, Judge Paris May 24. 1833 -
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29033 Rev INVALID.
File No. 29,033
David Briggs
Rev Jan
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 53
[Arrangement of 1870.]