Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,586, Jacob Briggs, Mass. R.I.

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Mass. R.I.
Briggs, Jacob
S. 34,586
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34 586 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34, 586
Jacob Briggs Ph Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 56
[Arrangement of 1870.]

4,984 Massachusetts Roll
Jacob Briggs
Majors } Capt Line } Reading Private - 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 th of April 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of Decem r 1818 and sent to Jon r Leavitt Esq re Judge Greenfield Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 4 m 2 11 / 30 — 37:93 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 — 48:—
# 85:93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
One Year
Orange, Franklin Co.
Participation must be received by 23 Sept 1820.
Greenfield Jan 26

4984
Jacob Briggs
4984 Dec 1815 Com 23/9/18 1820
Shaw

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, began and holden at Greenfield, within and for the County of Franklin, on the second Monday the tenth day of July  August , in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, et de die in diem to the eigh  fifteenth day of the same month,
P ERSONALLY appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Franklin, established as such by the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth, Artemas Gollar of Orange in the County of Franklin guardian unto Isaac Briggs a non compos resident in Orange aged eighty five years, resident in and the said Artemas 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: as will appear by his original declaration now in the War Office in Capt. Eleazar Readings Company in Col. Bradfords Regiment in the Massachusetts line which declaration he believes was dated April 21st. 1818 his certificate now in my hands & possession as Guardian aforesaid is dated December 19, 1818 and is number 4984 his family consists of himself and Wife Abigail aged eighty three years he is in a State of second childhood being incapable of doing any labor and is so helpless as to be unable to dress himself - he wife is also helpless and unable to do any kind of labor he has no property real or personal and is entirely dependent upon his pension for support the said Isaac has been a resident in my family about eight years and I have never known of his having any property during that time -

and I do solemnly swear, that the said Jacob I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that he I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of his my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring himself 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 he I have not, nor has any person in trust for him me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to him me, nor have he I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Aslemas Gollar —
Sworn to and declared, on the fourteenth day of July  August A.D. 1820, before the said Court.
Attest,
CLERK.
I ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the aforesaid Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied 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  Said Jacob Briggs has no income or property required by the law to be exhibited
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 21 st  fifteenth day of July, 1820.  August 1820
E. Alvord CLERK.

Jacob Briggs pen
Bradford Mops Reg
1779 to 1780
see Rm
Correct
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I Jacob Briggs, a Citizen of the United States resident in the Town of Orange in the County of Franklin in the State of Massa- chusetts do hereby declare that I belonged to the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War. In 1775 I en- tered the Service for eight Months and served during that time in the Company of Capt. Giddings, in the I directly after my right month was out I joined three months more in the Company of Capt. Giddings Capt. Giddings in the Regiment of Col. Jacob Greenough of Massachusetts. After that I entered the Service again and served with the same as near as I can recollect, in the Company of Capt. Redding in the Regiment of Col. Whitney of the Mass- achusetts Line. After that I joined one year in the Company of Artillery called Major Sawyer's Company of Rhode Island. After that I joined several months in the Company of Capt. Redding before named in Col. Bradford's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line. The last time I joined began in July 1779 and in April 1780 - I was honorably discharged, but if I had been in nothing I have lost it I do not know what has become of it. And by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support. Dated this 24th Day of April 1888 Jacob H Briggs Mark
State of Massachusetts Franklin Co. April 24th A.D. 1888. The above named Jacob Briggs made Butcher

That the Declaration of said by him & also verified as true - Before me Jno. L. Smith, Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas
To the Secretary of the Department of War I the undersigned one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in the State of Massachusetts, which Circuit includes the County of Hampshire as said. do hereby certify that the before named Jacob Briggs did serve in the revolutionary War against the com- mon enemy, as he has set forth in his Declaration of said, as it appears to my satisfaction, on due examina- tion has. It also appears to my satis- faction that, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Court of said this 21 st Day of April A.D. 1828.
Jno. L. Smith, Judge of said

To whom this may concern
We the subscribers selectmen of the town of Orange, Hereby certify that Jacob Briggs is an inhabitant of the sd Town of Orange in the County of Franklin, has become rising of eighty years of age, is unable to labour and is reduced to Indigent Circumstances and really stands in need of relief Given under our hands this 23 rd day of April 1818
Amos Woodward } selectmen Seth Ellis } of Gyles Harrington } Orange

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Briggs, Jacob
Dis. ✓
Residence, Washington Co. R. I.
Invalid pension $48 per annum from March 4, 1789 under Act of June 7, 1785. No papers.