Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38,574, Jonathan Bradshaw, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Bradshaw, Jonathan,
NUMBER _____
S. 38,574.
CONTENTS

Rhode Island Roll.
1,190v
Jonathan Bradshaw Col Glover Private Massachusetts Line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818. —
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818 and sent to the Hon. Danl. Bradford, Bristol, Rh. Island.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Subsequent allowances
4 months 34/30. $ 41.66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
1776 3 Years 7 mos
Continued
Mary, Sister ( )
Jonathan Bradshaw Rev Dec 16 1820 to Richard Smith Bristol, Rhode Island

38 574 Ray INVALID.
File No. 38 574
Jonathan Bradshaw Dr. Geo. W.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 59
[Arrangement of 1870.]

We the subscribers, who are Assessors of Taxes, in the Town of Warren, having been called upon by Jonathan Bradshaw to appraise and value his Estate, situated in said Town, do hereby certify, That we are well acquainted with the said Estate and do hereby value and appraise the same at the sum of Two hundred and twenty five Dollars.
Warren, R. I. June 5. 1820.
Wm Gove Stephen Mason Samuel Butterworth } Assessors
Town Clerks official Warren June 5th 1820 This is to certify that the above subscribers W m Gove Stephen Mason and Samuel Butterworth have been duly appointed appraisers of Real estate for the town of Warren and legally qualified to act as such
W Samuel Randall Town Clerk

State of Rhode Island &c.
Bristol ss. On this sixth day of June, eighteen hundred & twenty personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of Record for the said County, Jonathan Bradshaw, aged sixty eight years, resident in Warren, in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, that he enlisted in April 1795. in Capt. Templeton's Company Col. Donaldson's Regiment, and served until the January following - enlisted again in the Spring in Capt. Husey's Company Col. Glover's Regiment, to serve until the next January, but was taken down with the fever and ague, and obtained his discharge in November; the January next ensuing enlisted in Capt. Abraham Hunt's Company Col. Joseph Dose's Regiment (all of said Regiments belonging to the Massachusetts line) for three years and received his discharge in January 1780 - returned home entirely destitute and has experienced a series of troubles and misfortunes ever since; That his original declaration application to obtain a pension was dated April 1 st 1818. and his Certificate from the pension Office was N o . 1190. - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18 th 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 hereunto annexed & by me subscribed, viz, A one story wooden house & lot of land containing \frac{3}{8} of an acre, valued as per appraisers Certificate at two hundred & twenty five dollars - One old Maple desk - one dozen old flagged bottom chairs - two old Maple tables - a few coarse earthen dishes - a few articles of tin ware and some other old articles not worth enumerating - That I am a baker by profession, but not finding employ at that calling am now nearly worn out by hard labour - my Wife being for nearly twenty years before her death sick & deranged - the family now consists of myself and a Maiden Sister upwards of seventy years of age unable to procure a living, and that I am indebted by two Notes, given in January 1818. one for two hundred thirty - six dollars & seventy cents, the other for one hundred; no part of either paid except twenty five dollars on account of interest. -
(Signed) Jonathan Bradshaw
Sworn to and declared by the above named Jonathan Bradshaw, on the sixth day of June 1820. before said Court. Witness Richd Smith Clerk
Inventory of the real & personal Estate &c. of the Subscriber taken this first day of June 1820.
A wooden one Story house & lot containing carried over

3/8 th of an Acre valued at - - - - - } $ 225 1 Maple Desk - - - - - 1 Doz n flagg-bottomed Chairs - 2 Maple Tables - - - - - a few coarse earthen dishes - - and a few articles of tin ware - - } all old, valued at - - - - - 181.78 $ 243.78 Also some old articles not worth enumerating - No income whatever Indebted by two Notes dated Jan y 1818. one for - - - - - $ 236.70 the other for - - - - - 100. - $ 336.70 Warren, 1820
(Signed) Jonathan Bradshaw
Rhode Island District Bristol ss. Clerk's Office of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol I Richard Smith Clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing Peth. 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 amount in value of the property enumerated in the aforesaid schedule is Two hundred forty three dollars, and Seventy eight Cents, and that the said Bradshaw is indebted in the sum of Three hundred thirty six dollars & Seventy Cents as above stated. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this Fifth Day of August. A.D. 1820. Rich d Smith Clerk of said Court
Jonathan Bradshaw 1190 [Signature] Sept 16 1820

Iona. Fred's La
Wolf's Mass regt.
Adm d

I Jonathan Bradshaw of Warren in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island do hereby declare that I was engaged as a private Soldier in the land Service of the United States upwards of four years, that I first enlisted at New Bedford in the Month of May 1775 in the Company commanded by Capt. Shipton & served Eight Months at Roxbury, I again enlisted April 1776 in the Company commanded by Capt. Aery in Col. Glover Regiment when I served out the term of my enlistment being nine Months, on the 23 d January 1777 according to my best recollection I again enlisted in the three years Service in the Company commanded by Capt. Abraham Hunt in the Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Doy and was discharged after the term of my enlistment expired agreeably to the accompanying Certificate. I further declare that I am in the Sixty Eight year of my Age, destitute of Property excepting a very small House and lot in Warren of the Value of about five hundred Dollars, that I owe nearly the amount of that sum and am suffocated by the weight of my Creditors to live on & Pensions unmolested, that I am in great Want of Assistance for my support
Jonathan Bradshaw
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Bristol ss at Bristol this 1 st Day of April 1818
Personally appeared Jonathan Bradshaw who subscribed the foregoing declaration and made solemn Oath to the truth of the same before me
Daniel Knappford Ch. Just. C. C. Pleas County of Bristol

We the Subscribers, Overseers of the Poor for the Parish of Durdan in the County of Bristol do hereby declare and say that Jonathan Bradshaw who signed the within & foregoing declaration is an aged Man, destitute of Property, excepting a small House and Garden lot of land with the furniture belonging to the House, that we believe he owns nearly as much as his house & lot would bring him at public Vendue, that he is dependent on his daily labour for his support of family
Wm Carr Joseph Smith, Jr.

Boston Aug. 16. 1792
This may Certify that Jonathan Bradshaw Intitled into my Company in the Regent d Commanded by Col o Joseph Vose, in the Year 1777 and faithfully served as a Soldier for the term of three Years
Abra m Hunt, late Capt
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