Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,982, Jacob Bates, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Bates, Jacob
S. 33,982
CONTENTS

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampden ss.
On this 29 th day of April, 1818, before me the subscriber, Samuel Putnam one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court personally appears Jacob Bates, aged Seventy years, resident in Granville in the county of Commonwealth aforesaid, a citizen of the United States, who being by me duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the Provision made by the late 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".
That at the commencement of the Revolution he enlisted for eight months in the company under the command of Capt. Tobias Ball in the Regiment commanded by Col.
Danielson in the Massachusetts line and served during that time, and when the battle was fought at Bunker Hill he was with the troops upon the opposite side of Boston in Roxbury. Before his term of service was out he was commissioned as an Ensign, to wit, January 1. 1776, in the same company, Regiment & line. The Regiment was then commanded by Col. Ebenezer Learned: and on the 10 th of August of the same year was commissioned as 2 d Lieut.

in the same company in the 3 d Regiment of Foot then under the immediate command of L t Col. William Shepherd, as will appear by the two commissions herewith transmitted.
That immediately upon the expiration of said term of service and without leaving the army he engaged for the further term of one year & proceeded with the Regiment aforesaid from Boston to New York; was at the skirmish in East Chester and at the battle of White Plains.
Through New Jersey the Regiment to which he belonged as aforesaid formed the extreme right of the Continental Army. That he was at the Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, and continued in said capacity with said company & army from one to two months after his term of service had expired, when he left the army in New Jersey in February or March 1777 and returned home; thus completing an entire & continued term of service of more than Twenty one months against the then common enemy of the United States in the War of the Revolution. He remained at home a few months & then volunteered & served as a Lieutenant in a volunteer company under the command of Capt. Aaron Coe in the Regiment commanded by Col. John Mosely in the Northern Army, and was

at the taking of Burgoyne; after which he left and did not again enter the service.
That he is in possession of a Farm valued at about $3000. and with a wife of nearly his age, is dependent solely upon his & her personal labour for support: and aside from the infirmities of age in other respects, has so far lost the sight of both his eyes as to be unable to cultivate his farm. That he is much involved in debt and but for the aid of his children, all of whom live at a distance from him and on whom he has no pecuniary grounds of claim, he could not pay his debts out of the whole of his estate and have anything left, adequate to his present and future support; and that, therefore, he needs the assistance of his country provided in and by said act, for the reasons and for the purpose herein before expressed.
That no pension has been heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States nor has any application ever been made by him therefor. & he relinquishes all claim to any Pension heretofore granted by Law - I is seventy years of age -
Jacob Bates

Hampden ss.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On this twenty ninth day of April A.D. 1818 personally appeared Jacob Bates Esq. within named, before me Samuel Putnam one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of said County - and made oath to the truth of the Declaration above by him signed before me. And it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Jacob Bates served in the Revolutionary war for more than nine months at one period thereof on the continental establishment against the common Enemy, I do hereby transmit the testimony in this case to the Secretary for the department of war. Given under my hand & the seal of said Court the 29. Apr 1818
S. Putnam Just S. J. Court of Mass s }
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss.
I John Ingersoll Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said Commonwealth for the County of Hampden do hereby certify that Samuel Putnam Esquire as a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth that the above signature is his proper hand writing and that the seal hereunto affixed is the seal of said Court
April 29 th 1818
Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
Jacob Bates

659
Massachusetts Roll
Jacob Bates Capt Bell
Lieutenant and Wash. line - 14 months.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War,
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 29 th of April 1818,
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Samuel Putnam, Salem, Mass -
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818 4 months, 6/30 $84.00
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
decision confirmed by Opinion of Atty
Sept. 27 Feb'y 1821

No 87
Jacob Bates
619
May 1818
Oct 18
Not entitled to opportunity

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, begun and holden at Northampton, within and for the County of Hampshire, on Wednesday, the fifth day of July, and de die in diem to the day of said month A. D. 1820 :
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County, created such by the Laws of the Commonwealth, Jacob Dikes aged Seventy two years, resident in Northampton in said County, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows :
I was enlisted in the month of May 1775 & enrolled in Col. William Dikes Company in Col. Dikes Regiment. I was mustered into service accordingly & remained in said Company & in the Regiment commanded by Col. Dikes & Lieut. Col. William Dikes in the Mass. Line of Continental establishment in the summer of 1776. I was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the same Company & Regiment & served something more than a year from the time of my second enlistment, was with the Army in New Jersey in 1776 with the Battle of Brandywine. I am so blind now that I have become unable to discern my own handwriting in that year. I have a wife about 60 years old, my Children will support me but I have a sum upon the interest of the Government. My Commissions are with the War department, my former Certificate is dated Apr 29. 1815 & numbered 619.
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 following schedule by me subscribed.
  One do. Butter & Hams 4.00 1 Chest with drawers 1.50 1 Broad bench .25   100 lbs. 3 Cows 50 91.00 2 Ash tables 125 2.25 2 Stools 1.00   1 pr. Fine Chairs 1.00 1 Small Washer .25 1 Spade .25   3 Chairs 3.00 2 Spring Whirls 1.50 1 Frying Pan .50   2 Iron Chairs & Pins 1.50 1 Reel .25 14 Pans 6.75   100 lbs. 250 Cows 125 14.50 3 Silver Tea Spoons 2 Cags 3.50 Sundry Books 12.00   3 Tables 50 2 Bedsteads 4.00 9.50 1 Saw 50. Hay pump 50 1.00 Sundry Cooking & Pot Ware 6.50   1 Can with drawers 4.00 2 Axes 25. 1 Fork 33 .58 Beds, Bedding 60.50   2 Bedsteads 4.00 1 Box 2.25 7.25 Shut yards 3.00 Mending Apparel 45.00   2 Iron Pots 2.00 2 Wash tubs 1.00 3.00 1 Sp. Bed Press .50   10 Chairs 2.50 1 Round stand 25 2.75 1 Tea Kettle .50   2 pr. fine Cags 1.50 3 Spades 50. 10 Pans 2.50 3.00   2 pr. Shovel & Forks 2.25 3 Pans .50   $993.25 
Sworn to, and declared, on the sixth day of July 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, Josiah Dwight Clerk.
I, JOSIAH DWIGHT, Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule which follows it, 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 Twenty seven hundred ninety three dollars, and twenty five cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this sixth day of July 1820.
Josiah Dwight

Real Estate
A mountain Farm in Granville containing not over 50 Acres with a Barn and the right to one half of a house thereon & the right to cut wood from this land for one fire not appraised but the value thereof proved in Court $1900.00
Plot of pasture land in the same Granville containing about fifty Acres the value thereof proved as aforesaid 600.00
$2500.00
and June 10 D o 1815 to Ebenezer Gurney of Canton Cont. Note dated Dec 14. 1815
for. $355.71
Interest at date
4.16
351.55
Interest on the same to July 14. 1820
96.06
To Isaac Miller of Granville
20.00
" Isaac Bates of D o
money borrowed
340.00
" Boston Bank D o
250.00
" East Parish in Granville
Ministerial Fund
100.00
" Middle Parish D o
D o
266.67
" Widow Wright D o
55.50
" Darius Fitch Esq. B d (my Son & Son in law) being the most of it for Cash they paid for me to Abiel Fitch of East Windsor Court. residue for Soc ty
1485.00
" H c Bates being for Cash he paid for me to George Bliss Esq. of Springfield
1068.44
3333.22

Then the foregoing deduct amount of debts due to Jacob Bates esq, One half of Rodolph Watson Bond, $220.00 Dated Dec 16 1819 $110.00 Interest on the same to July 11 1820 3.66 Patrick Boies Note 5.00 In o W m Babcock 3.00 John Murray & Brown 2.00 Joseph Tiff 5.40 _____ 129.06 3204.16
Total of Real & Personal Estate bro't down      Real $2500.00 Personal 293.25 2793.25
Total Balance against me.      $410.91 and I might further add that since my Pension was granted me in 1818 one of my sons has gratuitously canceled a Note which he held against me given for property I bought of him some years since of $666. and has mainly supported me since so that by my Pension and the rent of my lands I have considerably diminished the amount of my debts since that time. And further that my real estate as mentioned is above its present Cash value thereby for I have not been able to sell it with the offer of a bond at the present state.
Jacob Bates

33982 Rev INVALID.
File No. 88,982
Jacob Bates Lieut Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 24
[Arrangement of 1870.]

in his own power, discharged the claimant's debts, except what was due himself and to Daniel Gillett, and in order to pay the claimant from his estate, paid for the claimant $238, more than he had property from the claimant to pay the same with. An inventory Isaac C. Bates to whom the claimant honestly owed $111, which he paid the whole of the debt, and for some it, in addition has done much since towards the support of claimant & his wife. A copy of the deed concerning real estate to S. C. Bates, dated 20th May 1821, is exhibited.
Claimant now owes $1000, and has other property in possession or otherwise than what is contained in last schedule. He is aged 75. Occupation a farmer, but totally unable to pursue it from old age and infirmity. Wife aged 68, no other family.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1835, from 4. Sep to 22 d Oct 1836, Age Notified 4 March 1836 Deed recorded June 16 1823
Gentle
Stoddard, Jr. Northampton, Mass.
Sept. 1818 -
Massachusetts.
Jacob Bates, Lieut. served 4 months from Jan y 1776.
1 st Schedule dated 6 July 1820
  Real estate  $ 2,500.00    Personal estate  293.25     $ 2,793.25  
Exhibits a list of debts, with the names of the creditors $3,333.22.
Schedule under act March 1823.
  Real estate  none    Personal estate consisting of household & kitchen furniture only  $49.67  
Accounts for the decrease of his property by stating that having failed to obtain an annual of his pension, and being needy, blind, and decrepit, and his creditors pressing him for their honest dues, and having been actually sued for a large debt, he was constrained, in order to bring his affairs to a close, to sell and convey all his real estate, and part of his personal estate, mentioned in his first schedule, and did so sell & convey it to Isaac C. Bates, & also transferred to him all the small amounts of debts due to claimant, at a full and fair value of the said real and personal estate; and indeed the property did not have been sold for so much to any person, and by the said Isaac C. Bates with the avails thereof, and by other means.

IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the UNITED COLONIES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, to
Jacob Piates Esquire
W E reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Second Lieutenant of a Company, in the Third Regiment of Foot, Commanded by Col.
in the Army of the United Colonies raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Second Lieutenant by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Second Lieutenant . And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress. Philadelphia August 10; 1776
By Order of the Congress
Attest. Cha s Thomson
John Hancock PRESIDENT.

IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the UNITED COLONIES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, to Jacob Bates Esq r .
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be an Ensign of Captain - Lt. Col. Bells Company in the Third Regiment of Troop, Commanded by Col. Ebenezer Learned -
in the Army of the United Colonies, raised for the Defence of American Liberty , and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of an Ensign by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Ensign of said Company. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress. Jan y 1. 1776
By Order of the Congress,
John Hancock
PRESIDENT.
Attest. Chas. Thomson Secy.

Col. Jacob Bates
Sept. 1815

Commonwealth of Massachusetts — Hampshire ss.
At the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth now held at Northampton within and for said County on this nineteenth day of May 1823 by adjournment from the last Tuesday of April now last past. Personally appeared in open court, the same being the highest court of record of Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction in said Common- wealth — Jacob Dates late of Granville in the County of Hampshire now of Northampton aforesaid aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oaths depose, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows — He entered the service in April 1775 directly after the Lexington Lexington battle and continued in it until January 1 st 1776 when he engaged to serve one year in Capt Dalls Company as an Ensign and in Col o Scarsdales Regiment afterwards commanded by Col o William Shepherd in the Massachusetts line & he continued to serve in said Company and Regiment during the year — He was promoted to a Lieutenancy in August of the same year — his Commissions are now in the Secretaries Office at Washington filed in his original application for a Pension — he was discharged at the end of the year in the State of New Jersey — he with most of the Regiment continued at the request of Gen d Washington in the the service after his time of service had expired — He obtained a pension for the above service under the act of Congress of March 18 th 1818 as by his

Pension Certificate No 619 will appear the number on his Certificate being so written it is difficult to determine whether the number is 619 or 609 — He is a farmer by occupation but by reason of age and being entirely blind with one eye and the other has had a cataract over it which destroyed the sight of that eye. also but by a late operation the cataract is so far removed as that his sight in that eye is partially restored, but he is totally unable to support himself by labour. he has a wife aged sixty eight years. he has no other family. he is unable to support himself without the aid of his Country as by Charity — — — — —
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1828 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 & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1828 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.
my first Schedule of Personal Estate Exhibited July 5 th 1820 at which time I made application for a renewal of my Pension (v) —

   1 Old Saddle & Harness 7.00 Sold Jan'y 20 th 1821 To H. Bates   1 Horse 35.00 " " " " "   3 Harness 56.00 " " " " "   3 Chains 3.00 " " " " "   1 pr Horse Chains 1.00 " " " " "   2 Iron Clevis with Pins 50 " " " " "   1 Old Saddle 2.50 " " " " "   1 Clock 12.00 sold since to Lucius Clapp   3 Tables 5.50 included in Schedule of May 17 th 1823   2 Looking Glasses 4.00 " " " "   1 Case with drawers 4.00 " " " "   2 Brass Pottles 14.50 " " " "   1 Iron Do 2.75 " " " "   3 Iron Pots 2.00 " " " "   1 Wash tubs 1.00 " " " "   10 Chains 2.50 " " " "   1 Candle stand 25 " " " "   2 Prs fire dogs 1.50 " " " "   2 Pr Shovel & Tongs 2.25 " " " "   1 Chest with drawers 1.50 " " " "   2 Chests 1.00 " " " "   2 pr Candle sticks 1.25 " " " "   1 Small Mirror 25 " " " "   2 Shiny Whar 1.50 " " " "   1 Reel 25 " " " "  

   5 Silver Tea Spoons 2 d Plats 3.50 sold to Col. Lumber Co   1 Sam 50 " " The Butts Jan'y 20 1821   1 Hoop Skirt 50 " " " "   2 Angins 25 " " " "   1 Work Box 33 " " " "   Bedyard 3.00 " Sarah Clapp   1 pr Bed Iron 50 in new Schedule of May 17 1823   1 New Bottle 50 " " " "   3 Pails 50 " " " "   10 Pans 2 50 " " " "   3 d 50 " " " "   1 Bread Trough 25 " " " "   2 Watches 1 " " " "   1 Spade 25 " " " "   1 Frying Pan 50 " " " "   Sundry Books 12 sold to Thos. Wendenst Bible   Sundry Cookery & Tableware 6.50 in new schedule   Old Building 60.50 just have been sold   Waring apparel 15 just sold & was not spent in my Josephine war   $ 293.25  
First Schedule of Real Estate — viz
A mountain farm in Greenfield containing not over 50 Acres — with a Barn and the right to one half of the house thereon and the right to cut wood from the Land therefor not appraised but the value thereof proved in Court. $ 1900.00

2 A Lot of pasture land in the same Granville containing about 30 acres the value thereof priced as aforesaid 600.00 Total Real and Personal — — — — — $2500.00
And I owe to Dea Solomon Everett of Canton Connecticut. Note dated Dec 14. 1815 for $355.70
Indorsement at date 4.16 $351.55 Interest on the same to July 4 th 1820. 46. 15
To Isaac Miller of Granville — — — — — 20.00
Bothamial Bils of D o (money borrowed) 340.00
Boston Bank. D o — — — — — 350.00
East Parish in Granville (ministerial fund) 100.00
Middle Parish " " " " 266.67
To Milton Wright in Granville — — — — — 55.59
" David Giltell for D o my interest in land being the most of it for Cash they paid for me to find Noalott of East Windsor residence in Grafton — — 785.00
To Isaac B. Bates being for Cash he paid for me to George Bliss Esq. of Springfield 1068.44
$3333.22
From the foregoing deduct the amount of debts due to Jacob Bates Esq. — One half of Wedesbury
Weston land for $220. due Dec 16 th 1819 $100.
Interest on the same to July 4 th 1820. 3.66
Patrick Boies Note — — — — — 5
John W. Babcock D o — — — — — 3
Channing B. Fowler & 2.00 in diff s. 100 7.40 129. 16  3204 16.

Total of Real and Personal estate (throughs) down
Real 2500.00 Personal 293.25 $ 2793.25
Total Balance against me 410.90
And I further say on my oath aforesaid that on the 20 th day of June 1821 having failed of obtaining a renewal of my Pension, and being needy, blind, and debilitated by reason of old age, and my Creditors pressing me for their just dues and having been actually sued for a large debt I was constrained in order to bring my affairs to a close to sell and convey all my real estate and part of my personal estate mentioned in the schedule aforesaid which I then did to Isaac C Bates Esq. and also transfer to him all the small accounts of debts due to me at a full and fair value of said real and personal estate and credits, and indeed the property aforesaid could not have been sold for so much to any other Person as he gave therefor, and he with the avails thereof and by other means within his own power discharged my debts above mentioned except what was due to him and Daniel G. Pettett Jr my son in law and in doing it to free me from imprisonment paid for me two hundred thirty eight Dollars 18/100 more than he had Property of me to pay the same with. And furthermore my son J. C. Bates to whom I nominally owed a debt of six hundred sixty six Dollars, other than as stated above waived the whole of it and forgave it to me and in addition, has done much for me & my wife

since towards our support — A Copy of my deed to Isaac Bates is herewith transmitted to the Secretary of War. I now owe to my said son and son in law not far from $1000. I have no other property in possession or expectancy than that contained in the following Schedule.
Second Schedule May 17 th 1823
We the subscribers testify and say that we have appraised the several articles hereinafter named shown to us by Isaac Bates of Northampton as his property and are of opinion that the sums set against the respective items are their full value viz
   3 old Tables 5. 50 2 Spring wheels 1. 50   2 Lockey Glass 4. — 1 Peat 25   Wardrobe with drawers 4. — 1 ss Bed Iron 50   2 Brass Wedes 4. 50 1 Tea Kettle 50   Iron Kettle 2 75 3 pails 50   2 Iron pots 2. — 10 pams 2. 50   2 Wash tubs 1. — 3. 2 c 50   10 Chairs 2. 50 1 Bread trough 25   1 Candle Stand 1. 25 2 Hatchets 1. —   2 ss fine dogs 1. 50 1 Spade 25   2 " shovel & tongs 2. 25 1 Frying Pan 50   1 Chest with drawers 1. 50 4 Boxes 67   2 Chests 1. — Sum of small articles   2 Candle sticks 1. 25 Crockery & Glass ware 6. 50   1 small mirror 25     $ 119. 67   Isaac Bates   Daniel Stebbins   Isaac Dorman   Appraisers  

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss May, 17 th 1823 Personally appeared the above named Daniel Stetson & Isaac Denson known to me to be the  the credit able and disinterested Witnesses and made solemn Oath that they have appraised the above Personal estate contained in the above Schedule by them subscribed at the present true value thereof, faithfully & impartially according to the best of their judgment
Before me Samuel Howland Justice of the Peace
I hereby request the Honorable J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War that I may be reinstated upon the Pension list of the Massachusetts agency in pursuance of the acts of Congress of March 18 th 1818 of May 1 st 1820 and of March 1 st 1823 for the reasons set forth in the foregoing declaration and as in duty bound forever
Isaac Bates
Ebenezer A. Doolittle Esq. Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Hampshire do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Isaac Bates did since in the foregoing declaration in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under an engagement in the Continental establishment I also certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are true copies from the records 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 forty nine Dollars sixty seven cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty second day of May 1823
S. Stoddard Esq. Clerk

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Feb'y 1 st 1843.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The adn or of Jacob Bates, dec d , a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Twenty — Dollars and — Cents per month  annum , under the law of the 18 th March, 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept r — to the 22 d Oct r 1836,
Respectfully, yours,
William B. Vans Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.

Jacob Bates Deed to Isaac C Bates copy
HAMPDEN ss.
By
Received and Registered. Lib.
Fol.
and examined
Register.
182
HAMPDEN ss.
Then
personally appearing, acknowledged the within instrument to be
Before
Deed,
within named,
Justice of the Peace.
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To all People to whom these presents shall come: GREETING.
KNOW Ye , That I Jacob Bates of Northampton in the County of Hampshire Gentleman
For and in consideration of the sum of twenty two hundred & fifty Dollars current money of the Commonwealth aforesaid, to him in hand paid, before the ensealing hereof, by Isaac Bates of Northampton aforesaid Esquire
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, and am fully satisfied, contented and paid: Have given, granted, bargained, sold, aliened, released, conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do freely, clearly and absolutely give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, release, convey and confirm unto him the said
Isaac Bates his
Heirs and Assigns forever.
That part of the homestead whereon I lately lived in Granville which I now own lying in the South lane so called upon the West side of the County road containing about fifty acres with my Buildings & interest in the House thereon standing with the right I have of Cutting & taking wood from the East side of said road for the use of one fire & all the other privileges & appurtenances thereunto belonging. Also the cornwell lot so called in said Granville meaning all the land I own upon the cornwell Street, lying the East side thereof and comprising about fifty acres more or less together with my right in the cedar Mill in said Granville in the South lane.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD , the before granted Premises, with the Appurtenances and Privileges thereto belonging, to him the said Isaac Bates his
Heirs and Assigns: to him and their own proper use, benefit and behoof for evermore. And I the said Isaac Bates for my self & my
Heirs, Executors and Administrators, do covenant, promise and grant unto, and with the said Isaac Bates his Heirs and Assigns forever, that before and until the ensealing hereof, I am the true, sole, proper and lawful owner and possessor of the before granted Premises, with the Appurtenances—And have in me good right, full power and lawful authority to give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, release, convey and confirm the same as aforesaid; and that free and clear, and freely and clearly, executed, acquitted and discharged of and from all former and other gifts, grants, bargains, sales, leases, mortgages, wills, entails, jointures, dowries, thirds, executions and incumbrances whatsoever.
AND FURTHERMORE , I the said Isaac Bates for my self & my Heirs, Executors and Administrators, do hereby covenant, promise and engage the before granted Premises, with the Appurtenances, unto him the said
Isaac Bates his
Heirs and Assigns forever, to warrant, secure and defend against the lawful claims and demands of any person or persons whatsoever. In witness whereof , excepting the claim of Dower which my wife Ruth Bates may have to the granted premises
In witness whereof I
have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one .
Signed, sealed and delivered, } in presence of }
H. W. Shepard J. C. Cooley
Jacob Bates & Seal

Hampshire ss Jan 23. 1821 Then personally appeared Jacob Bats and acknowledged the within Deed to be his free act
Before Daniel Stebbins Justice Peace
Rec d May 6 th 1823 and Registered from the Original
By Edward Pynchon Reg r
True copy of Record Attest Edward Pynchon Reg r —

Personally appears Col. Jacob Bates now of North- Hampton in the county of Hampshire, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts; but lately of Granville in the county of Hampden; and on oath says, that since he exhibited a schedule of his property to the Circuit Court of Common Pleas holden by special appointment at Northampton, within and for the county of Hampshire in July last, which schedule upon the files of said Court was numbered .87, and a copy thereof transmitted to the War Department by the Clerk of said Court; he hath sold and conveyed all the real estate therein named, being all the real estate whereof he was then or has since been the pro- prietor; and hath also sold of the personal estate therein exhibited, all except the wearing apparel and household furniture; and that he hath also sold and assigned his interest in the bond of Frederick Norton, the other four small debts having been collected and expended; and hath in all this acted in good faith, and appropriated the whole proceeds of said several sales and of said assign- ment to the payment of his just debts; and that all the property whereof he is now the owner or possessor, or upon which he has any claim, express, or reserve, certain or con- tingent, is the remaining part of the inventory of his personal estate, viz. clothes  clothes & furniture, amounting

as appraised in July aforesaid to the sum of one hundred eighty six dollars sixty seven cents , and that he now owes something more than five hundred dollars, for which he has not been able to make any provisions.
Jacob Bates
Hampshire Is. Jan'y 23. 1821.
Then personally appeared Jacob Bates, to me well known, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him, subscribed, before me
Before J Stoddard Jr Justice of Peace
Hampshire Is Jan'y 23. 1821.
I hereby certify that Solomon Stoddard Esquire who certifies as above is a Justice of the Peace within & for the county of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that full faith and credit are due to his signatures as such. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said circuit court of common pleas, within and for the county whereof I am Clerk,
E. H. Mills Member of Senate of the U States

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Dates, Jacob GRADE Fifer LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 3743 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Aug. 10, 1789 to Richard Platt, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.