Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 582, James Bartlet, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
or Bartlet, James Bartlett
R. 582
CONTENTS

11.195- James Bartlett
Maine —
582
Rejected
See letter to applicant April 19, 1833

11. 195
BRIEF in the case of James Bartlett County of York in the State of Maine (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? 73.  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.     Drafted In 1778 June " 4 " Private. Capt. R. Rogers, Col. J. Girrish   He says, he enlisted for nine months served four and hired as substitute to serve the balance of the time  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? York City. Maine.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? They are not attached to the State's seal as required. 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Waugh Examining Clerk. March 11. 1833.

James Bartlett
11, 195.
Oliver B. North

State of Maine.
COUNTY OF YORK, ss.
ON this Fifteenth day of August A D 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Hon William D Hayer Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at South Berwick  James Bartlett a resident of Ellsworth in the county of York and State of Maine aged seventy 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, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
I entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war in June A D 1778 in Capt Richard Rogers Company of Infantry at Shilly, State of Maine for the term of nine months and was ordered to Shilly Creek in said State to take charge of a deserter at which place I received orders to carry the said deserter to Winter Hill in Cambridge in Massachusetts and join said Company. I arrived at Winter Hill in said Cambridge and joined said Company immediately under the of Col James Gerrish then commanding said station and continued to do my duty in said Company and Regiment for the term of four months and there since a substitute by the name of Shime Emery of Shilly in said District of Maine and (who is now dead) and the said Emery continued to do duty in said Company as my substitute until the time for which I had enlisted had expired as appears by the original Company Roll of the said Captain Richard Rogers now in the possession of Richard Rogers of Shilly son of the aforesaid Capt Richard Rogers the circumstances of my leaving the service personally were that my mother was a widow and had a farm and not having any one to take care of her concern and by her pressing importance I agreed provided she would procure a substitute which she did by giving giving him a large sum of money the sum was I do not now recollect and the said Emery rode a horse to me on which I returned home June 1 st Where and in what year was you born? Ans - I was born on the 24 th day of November A D 1759 at Shilly

Ques 1 st When and in what year was you born?
Ans - I was born on the 24 th day of November A D 1759 at Hitting York County District of Maine
Ques 2 Have you any Record of your age and if so where is it?
Ans - My age is Recorded in the Town Records of Hitting
Ques 3 Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Ans I was living in Hitting York County when called into service I have lived in Hitting ever since the Revolutionary War and I now live in Eliot which was formerly a part of Hitting
Ques 4 th How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Ans - I was drafted the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continual and Militia officers as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service Colonel Gerrish Commanded said Station at that time
Ques 6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Ans - I never did receive a written discharge
Ques 7 th State the names of Persons with whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character and veracity and their belief of your services as a revolutionary soldier
Ans - I further say that no documentary evidence of said service nor if there is any person living by whom I can prove said service but I am well known in my neighborhood to have been in the service 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, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
James Bartlett
WE, Dea d Hammond Innes , a clergyman, residing in the town of Eliot and Charles N. Cogswell Esquire , residing in the town of South Berwick hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with James Bartlett who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three 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 to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Dea d Hammond Innes
Charles N. Cogswell

Jan 6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Ans. I never did receive a written discharge
7 th State the names of Persons with whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character and veracity and their belief of your service as a revolutionary soldier Answer } I further say that no documentary evidence of said service nor of the any person living by which I can prove said service but I am well known in my neighborhood to have been in the service 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, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
James Bartlett
WE, Jon d Hammond Esq r , a clergyman, residing in the town of Eliot and Charles N. Cogswell Esq r , residing in the town of South Berwick hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with James Bartlett who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three 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 to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Jon d Hammond Esq r Charles N. Cogswell
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 beforenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Jonathan Hammond Esq r who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Eliot Maine, and that Charles N. Cogswell, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of South Berwick Maine, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. & there is no clergyman in the applicant's vicinity. I, Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James Bartlett for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fifteenth day of August, A.D. 1832.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate.

1889 No. 1 History by M. M. Bartlett Prior
Ex'r. 582 INVALID.
582
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
James Bartlett
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____