Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,598, Samuel Bates, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Bates, Samuel
S 29,598
CONTENTS

10.641. 179 Norfolk 96 Cong 4 Apr 1818 1st 20 Apr 1819
Massachusetts Samuel Bates of Norfolk in the State of Mass who was a Pirate in the company commanded by Captain Gould of the reg't commanded by Col. Grafton in the Mass line for 2 Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Apr 1833 and sent to S t  Island Rosebury Road Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. $160 — Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept " 40 — died Feb. 14, 1838 $200 — see A.B.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. Blair Clerk, Book 6, Vol. 2, Page 5.

Sam Bales
9527
Sep 1819
Nov
entitled
176

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this 14th day of August 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said Circuit - Samuel Baker aged 66 years, resident in Weymouth in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of twelve months in Capt. Jacob Gould's company & Col. Grason's Regt. Massachusetts line and that he has received a pension certificate dated 20th Ap. 1819 and numbered 9527* in pursuance of his original Declaration made April 4th 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
#9527
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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.
I am a farmer but in consequence of having lost my sight, & others in firmities are unable to labour - I have in my family a wife aged 66 yrs. who has been a long time sick & past labour & a daughter whose health is declining & is unable to do any work my wife's name is Sarah my daughter's name is Lydia
Schedule
35 acres land - 1/2 part of an old house - 2000 English hay - 1/2 horse - 2 cows - iron plover & rocking wooden ware - looking glass - Desk - 1 Chest - 1 Musket, 2 Tables - 7 chairs - owe about 389.70 to divers persons
Sworn to, and declared, on the 14th day of August 1820 - before Samuel Baker John B. Thomas Justice of said court
I, John B. Thomas, clerk of said court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the 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 Five hundred & fifteen dollars and Fifty five cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty ninth day of December. 1820
$515.55
John B. Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth

7082 Samuel Bates
Photo 2 years
$80-
Young W.W.B. 53.

7082
BRIEF in the case of Samuel Bates County of Norfolk 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? 77  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.     Enlisted In 1775 May Serv'd till Jan'y '76. private Gen. Capt Jacob Gould, Col. Grelon   " 1776 Jan'y. Serv'd til Jan'y '77. do. Capt Jacob Gould, Col. Grelon   1777-1 st August Serv'd til 1 st March '78. Teamster Capt. P. Pool.    He was on the Pension Roll of March 18 th 1818.
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Weymouth  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Documentary  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Waugh Examining Clerk. Jan'y. 25. 1833.

Samuel Bates
Providence R.I.
Edwin A. Leland Roxbury Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolk ss.
On this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at Quincy in and for said County, Samuel Bates , a resident of Weymouth in said County, aged seventy seven , 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 7th A. D. 1832.
THAT he was born at Weymouth
on the fifth day of November A. D. 1754, and that there is a record of his birth in town Church Office : that he was in the United States service from the 10th day of May A. D. 1775, to the 1st day of Jan A. D. 1776 as a private in the Massachusetts  Massachusetts that he was residing at Weymouth
when he entered the service; that he enlisted
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt Jacob Gould in Col. Greaton's Regiment
: that he marched from Weymouth to Boston , from Boston to Cambridge from Cambridge to Cambridge was stationed there in the vicinity the whole time : that he served at Cambridge with Gen. Washington, Gen. Heath, & Gen. Putnam of the regular troops; and
regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle
and at the end of his service received no written discharge: that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Weymouth and that he has no documentary evidence to prove this service -
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from
the 1st day of Jan A. D. 1776, to the 1st day of Jan A. D. 1777 as a private in the Massachusetts  Massachusetts : that he was residing at Weymouth
when he entered the service; that he enlisted
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Joseph Gould in Col. John Greaton's Regiment
: that he marched from Boston to Cambridge , from Cambridge to New London from New London to New York from New York to Second Brigade & from New Jersey : that he served at all these places with Gen. Heath and Gen. Schuyler of the regular troops; and
regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle
and at the end of his service received no written discharge no documentary evidence to prove this service - but the same has been proved under the laws of 1818 -
ALSO: that he was in the United States service from
the 1st day of Aug A. D. 1777, to the 1st day of Aug A. D. 1778 as a private in the revolutionary army : that he was residing at Weymouth
when he entered the service; that he enlisted
and served for the period aforesaid under the command of Capt Smith
that he detached from the army and selected as a teamster in that capacity the whole team that he marched from Boston to Cambridge , from Cambridge to Philadelphia from Philadelphia to New York
went from Boston to Philadelphia  that he served at  Dorchester with hospital stores - from Boston to Pishkill of the regular troops; and
for the army - carried wood from Boston to Cambridge & the before named regular officers were known to him: that he was in no battle
and at the end of his service received no written discharge. and that he has no documentary evidence and no witness living to prove this last service.

That he was upon the pension roll under the act of 1818 as a private in the Army of the Revolution and that at the time of his application, he was residing at Weymouth aforesaid and was stricken therefrom on account of property-
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 first aforesaid.
Samuel Bates
We Jonas Perkins
a clergyman, residing in the town
Braintree in said County
and Fisher A Kingsbury
residing
Weymouth hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Bates who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides to have been a soldier in the army of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed as aforesaid.
Jonas Perkins Fisher A Kingsbury
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that Jonas Perkins, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the Braintree; and that Fisher A Kingsbury who has also signed the same is a resident in Weymouth and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Sherman Seland Judge of Probate
I Samuel Hovey, Reg t 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 Samuel Bates for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Samuel Hovey

I Job Nash of Weymouth aforesaid aged twenty seven years testify and say that Samuel Bates within named was a soldier in the Army for one year from Jan 1776 to Jan 1777 as stated in his declaration and to my knowledge served therein as by him stated - Job Nash
Weymouth August 17 th 1832 Subscribed & sworn to before S. Lee and Judge of Probate
I Abner Blanchard Weymouth aforesaid aged twenty four testify and say that Samuel Bates within named was a soldier in the war of the revolution and to my knowledge served therein from May 1775 to Jan 1776 as stated in his declaration - Abner Blanchard
Weymouth August 17 th 1832 Subscribed & sworn to before S. Lee and Judge of Probate

29598 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 29,598
Samuel Bates
Li Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 25
[Arrangement of 1870.]

9524
Massachusetts. Samuel Bates.
of Weymouth in the state of Mass — who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Grooton of the Mass — line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts. at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of April 1819 and sent to Samuel Mitchell Esq. East Bridgewater, Mass
Arrears to 4th of Dec. 1819. 11 mo. 2/30. 88. 26 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 11 th Dec. 1819 48. 00
$136 : 26
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Samuel Bates, late of Weymouth, Mass. Pensioned at the rate of 8 dollars per month for the term of one year, commencing on the 4th day of April 1818.

United States of America.
State of Massachusetts
I, Samuel Bates a citizen of the United States, now resident at Weymouth in the County of Norfolk in the State aforesaid, do on oath, declare, that I served, in the War of the Revolution, the full term of time required by a T passed in the month of March, A. D. 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons en- gaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," as one requisite to entitle me to be placed on the pension list of the said United States, having entered the land service of the said United States, on the Continental Establishment, and served as a private soldier against the common enemy; from May 1775 to January 1777. - That I first entered the service in Capt. Jacob Gould's Company and Col. Heath's Regiment & that That I belonged to Massachusetts Line and served eight months - and immediately, without leaving the service, enlisted into the same Company and Col. Green's Regiment and some line and that I left the service for one year, and marched to Canada and elsewhere and served out the year and was discharged at Morristown in New Jersey. I had no written discharge. Lieutenant Elijah Shaw was an officer in my company during all the time. I am reduced in my circumstances & stand in need of assistance from my country for support. - And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the said United States, if any may be, or hath been, so allowed.
Samuel Bates
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this fourth day of April 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 ser- vice of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, one of the judges of the circuit court of common pleas for the southern circuit of Massa- chusetts including the Counties of Plymouth, Bristol, Norfolk, Barnstable, Nantucket & Dukes - the abovenamed Samuel Bates 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.
Nahum Mitchell

Samuel Bates Weymouth
Friend
One year. in Greaton, regt.
1775
And I the said Judge do certify that the within named Samuel Bates, although not absolutely poor, is a man of but small real estate, and without his own personal labor, would not support himself & family, and as he is now old and nearly past labor the pension he seeks would render him much more comfortable, and therefore in my opinion needs the assistance of his country for support —
Nahum Mitchell.

Elijah Shaw & William Ripley's Deposition

We Elijah Shaw & William Ripley do depose, testify, and declare that Samuel Bates was a private Soldier in Cap. Jacob Gould's Company and Col. John Greaton's Regiment in The Massachusetts Line in the Revolutionary War that the said Bates did actually serve as a private Soldier in said Company in a campaign of Twelve months in N. Jersey and different parts of the State of N. York that he continued in said company during the whole of said campaign Elijah Shaw Wm Ripley
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. July 9 th 1818.
Then the above named Elijah Shaw and William Ripley personally appeared and made oath that the above deposition by them subscribed is just and true in all its parts.
Before me
Nathan Gurney Jr Justice of Peace
The abovenamed Elijah Shaw and William Ripley are credible Witnesses and Nathan Gurney Jr. is a respectable Magistrate, and authorized by law to take Depositions, and the above is his genuine handwriting and signature, with which I am well acquainted.
Nathan Mitchell } Judge in

Samuel Bates
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Boston, at the Branch Bank . U.S.
Recorded

9527

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, M. C.
Samuel Bates 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 com- mence on the fourth day of April , one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twentieth day of April , one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Sam l Bates

War Department, 9527.
PENSION OFFICE,
May 31 1821.
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the Secretary of War does not, on account of the amount of your property, consider you entitled to a Pension under the Acts of the 18th March, 1818, and 1st May, 1820; and has, therefore, directed your name to be stricken from the Pension List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. Samuel Bates,
Plymouth County,
Mass.