Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,116, John Bullard, Continental (Mass.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Continental (Mass.)
Bullard, John
S. 34,116
CONTENTS

18903 Massachusetts
John Bullard 2 co
of Boston in the State of Massachusetts who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Moore of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott in the Mass. — line, for the term of 1 year (1776)
inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 of March 1823
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of April 1823 and Jennie W. Davis Esq. Boston, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1823 — 1. 3 Semi anl. all'ce ending 6 Sep 1823 48
$49. 51
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
March 1823

John Millard
admitted

District of Massachusetts ss.
On this eighteenth day of January A.D. 1823, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, viz: The District Court of the United States for the said District, John Bullard, aged Sixty six years, resident in Boston in said District, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818, and the 1 st of May 1820. That he the said Bullard enlisted for the term of one year as a Serjeant, on the first of January A.D. 1776 in the State of Massachusetts, in the Company commanded by Captain Joseph Morse, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Prescott, General Heath's Brigade, in the Line of the State of Massachusetts, on the Continental Establishment, and served as a Serjeant in said Company till the last day of December A.D. 1776, when he was honorably discharged, which discharge he has lost. That he was in the battle of White Plain in the State of New York.
And in pursuance of the Act of first of May A.D. 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of any 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," named on the eighteenth 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, & by me subscribed.
John Bullard
Sworn to and declared on the eighteenth day of January A.D. 1823
Before John Davis Judge of the Massachusetts District Court.

Schedule of Property referred to in the within Affidavit.
I have no family living with me. I have one daughter married in Baltimore - I now live with my Daughter in law (wife of my son deceased) who supports me. I have no property or means of support whatever.
John Bullard
I John Watson Davis, Clerk of the Massachusetts District 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 nothing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twentieth day of January A.D. 1823.
John Watson Davis Clerk of the District Court for the Mass'ts District

34 116 Ray INVALID.
File No. 34, 116
John Ballard Suz Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 99
[Arrangement of 1870.]

18,719
W Bullard
at Delancey
Mass.
Springfield
John W. Davis
Boston, Mass.
Recd. 30 Jan. 1823.
very

We Samuel Clark and William Clark both of Hobbs in the County of Middlesex and State of Massa- chusetts of lawful age testify and say. That we served as soldiers in the Armies of the United States in the Revo- lutionary war between Great Britain and the United States of America. in Capt. Joseph Morse Company in Col. William Prescotts Reg t and in Gen d William Heath Brigade (a part of the Army) for the term of one year beginning on the the first day of January in the year 1776. and ending the last day of December in the same year. That John Bullard formerly of Needham in said State of Massachusetts. entered the said Army at the same time we did. and served as a Sergeant in the same Company, Reg t and Brigade with ourselves during the whole time we were in the Army during that enlistment being one full year.
Samuel Clark William Clark
Middlesex ss. On the fourth day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Twenty Three the aforesaid deponents were examined, cautioned and sworn to the disposition aforesaid by them subscribed before me Calvin Sanger Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with said deponents. that they are of good reputation and that full faith & credit is given to their attestations.
Calvin Sanger Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex: ss. I Abraham Biglow clerk of the judicial Courts in the County of Mid- dlesex, do certify that Calvin Sanger is a justice of the peace, acting under the authority of the Commonwealth, & his name subscribed to the two certificates on the first page of this sheet, is his own proper signature. —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Courts, this 25 th day of January 1823. —
Abraham Biglow.