Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34130, Jeremiah Burnham, Mass. Navy

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass. Navy
Burnham, Jeremiah
S. 34130
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11. 258 P
Massachusetts
Jeremiah Burnham
of Gloucester in the state of Mass'ts who was a Mariner on board the Magie's Schoon Colonel  Manly of the U.S. Navy , commander line, for the term of Eleven Months Mar 1
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 rd of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 st of May 1818 and sent to William Wetmore Esq. Boston Massachusetts
  Arrears to 4th of  March 1819.  88. 40    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Sep. 1819  48. 00    10 Mo 28 4      30 31       $136.49  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Jeremiah Burnham Supplementary Evidence
Application transmitted Judge Wetmore of Boston, Mass. etc.

We Zebulon Elwell & Solomon Row both of Worcester County of Mass. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Maine, do on solemn oath depone & testify: That Jeremiah Burnham did to our personal knowledge serve on board the Gaielle Hancock commanded by John Manly Esq. from the month of March A.D. 1797. to the month of July following, when the said Vessel was taken & carried to Halifax: & the said Burnham was there a prisoner about seven months.
Zebulon Elwell Solomon Row
Subs. January 9. 1819. Then personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Essex, & made solemn oath to the truth of the certificate by them severally subscribed. I also certify that the above named Dependants are credible & disinterested witnesses.
Henry Phelps Jus. Pacis.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss January 22 nd 1819
I Ichabod Tucker Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said State in & for said County hereby certify that Henry Phelps Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly qualified to administer oaths that his signature above written is genuine and that the seal affixed is the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State
W m Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Mr. Burham & Scammon on Board the Frigate Hancock.
Manly commands
Admitted

State of Massachusetts
I Jeremiah Burnham Gloucester in the County of Essex,
a Citizen of the United States, now resident at in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the year A. D. 1775 and in the month of April,
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the year 1777. that in the year 1777 I entered on board the Continental Frigate Hancock, John Manly Esq commander as a mariner served against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the company of Capt Nath Warner & Col. Moses Little's regiment, in the Massachusetts Line of the army, while in the land service, to wit, for the first eight months, for the year's service ensuing: that I entered on board the sd Frigate in March, which was captured and that I left the service in July following & carried to Halifax, where I remained a prisoner seven months & was then exchanged. and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty five years; I also declare that I served the periods respectively in the land service for which I enlisted & was honourably discharged.
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Jeremiah Burnham
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third 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 service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within the sd State & presiding pro hac vice
the abovenamed Jeremiah Burnham 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; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Wm Wetmore

Mr. Burnham & Seaman on Board the Frigate Hancock.
Manly commander
Admitted

Invalid
WILLIAM H. HARRIS
Mary
File No. _____
34130
Jeremiah Burnham Maine Infants Hancock Rev War
Act _____
March 18-1818
Index: Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]