Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34677, Job Caswell, Mass.

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Gaswell, Job
8.34677 B.L. Mt. 368-100.
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South Carolina Roll.
(Maryland N o 16425)
Job Caswell Capt Alden Private (Massachusetts line)
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of So Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 th of June 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th of June 1818 and delivered to the Pensioner.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Service - 11/30
2 months 11/30 $18.93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
11 Cont d transferred on 30 th Oct r 1820 .77 one years War from 1 st March, 1820.
✓ Recorded
blended
Notifn sent to G o Moore, Ball y

SCHEDULE.
United States of America
(A.) District of Maryland ss.
ON this fifth day of September 182 0 , personally appeared in open court (*) being a court of record , (†) (B.) in the District Court in and _____ for the said (C.) District of Maryland
Job Caswell _____ aged about 57 years, resident in the City of Baltimore in said (D.) District who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he served
in the Revolutionary War, as follows: (E.) That he enlisted at Hanover in the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts in or about the month of February 1777 under Capt. Judah Alden, who soon after resigned and Capt. Luther Bailey succeeded to the Command under whom served to the end of the War, when he was discharged at Head quarters at Windsor from the 2 d Massachusetts Regiment with the Badge of Merit signed by Genl Washington on the 10 th day of June 1783 and countersigned "J. Trumbull Sec y " having served six years and six months on the Continental Establishment that he hath been placed on the pension list of the South Carolina agency at the rate of $8 per month as will appear by his certificate bearing date 24 June 1818 and numbered _____ (no Number)
and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

(F.) That he hath no property of any kind or nature whatsoever, either, real, personal or mixed that he is by profession a seaman or mariner, but being now advanced in years and greatly afflicted with Rheumatic pains he is incapable of doing duty as a seaman, that he obtains the means of subsistence by light labouring or following Jobbing work along shore That he hath no family or any assistance except the pension which he draws from the Government for Revolutionary services and without which he would be unable to support himself except by private or public charity
Job Caswell
SWORN to and declared on the 5 th day of September 1820
BEFORE, the Dist Court aforesaid
I, Philip Moore Clerk of the said Dist Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of 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 _____ Dollars and _____ Cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said court, on this 22 day of Septem r 1820
Philip Moore Clerk of the court for the Dist of Maryland

* The whole of the form prescribed in the first section, to verify the amount of property of the applicant, the oath of the party, and the certificate of the clerk excepted, must be done while the court is in session.
† All are courts of record, within the contemplation of the Act of Congress:
1st, Which are expressly made courts of record by the laws of the State which create them;
2d, Which have been solemnly adjudged, by the tribunals of the several States, to be courts of record;
3d, Which proceed according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount;
4th, Which have the power of fine and imprisonment;
And courts which proceed according to the civil and canon law, having neither of those attributes, are not courts of record, although they may keep a registry of their proceedings, and possess a seal. The court should, in every instance, state, on the face of the proceedings, that it is a court of record, and state why it is such.—( Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States. )
DIRECTIONS FOR FILLING UP THE BLANKS.
A. District,—circuit,—county, or corporation, as the case may be.
B. State why a court of record.
C. After repeating the district, circuit, county, or corporation, insert the declarant's name.
D. District, circuit, county, or corporation.
E. Here set forth the regiment, company and line; or ship, corps or vessel, and the date of the original declaration; and if he has received a pension, the number of his pension-certificate should be inserted.
F. Here enumerate each article of real and personal estate, necessary bedding and clothing excepted, and subscribe the same. The declarant must also mention his occupation, his ability to pursue it, the number and names of his family residing with him, their ages, and their capacity to contribute to their support, in order that the department may be enabled to decide whether the applicant is in such indigent circumstances as to be entitled to the pension. It is the opinion of the Attorney General, that the words of the third section of the Act of the 1st May, 1820, "in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country," comprehend those only, who are incapable of supporting themselves without the aid of the government, except by private or public charity.
Extract of a CIRCULAR LETTER from the War Department, to the several Agents for paying pensions, enclosing the foregoing Form.
"For the guidance of persons already on the pension list, or who may hereafter make application for that purpose, it may be proper to state, explicitly, that, as experience has proved the necessity of a rigid adherence to particular forms in such cases, no instrument of writing drawn up contrary to this form can be admitted as a proper voucher."

State of Maryland, City of Baltimore ss:
On this sixteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, personally appears before me the undersigned Justice of the peace in and for said City and Residing therein, Job Gaswell, a person who hath been well known to me for upwards of four years past, who after having been by me duly & legally sworn to declare the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth, Deposeth and saith that he in the winter of 1777, when under the age of sixteen years, enlisted as a "Fifer" in the 2 d Regiment of the Massachusetts Line, in a company at that time Commanded by Cap. Judah Alden, and in the same company afterward Commanded by Cap. Luther Baily, in which company continued to act as Fifer until the 10 th day of June in the year 1783, when he received his discharge under the signature of his Excellency Genl. Geo. Washington himself, and countersigned by "J. Trumbull Secy" and registered by "William Tony Assistant" - "Honored with the Badge of Merit for six years faithful service" Sign'd, E. Sprout, L t Col: Com d - all which Original papers are filed in the Department of War at the City of Washington - That on the 24 th June 1818 he was placed on the Revolutionary pension roll of the South Carolina agency at the rate of $8. per month, it was for "faithful service" and not as an invalid - That some time in the summer of the year 1820 deponent having removed to the City of Baltimore in Md o , caused his Pension to be transferred to the Maryland agency where it still remains - but some time about the month of November last, having an inclination to Return to the place of his nativity, made application to William D. Murray Esq: to cause a transfer of his Pension to the State of Massachusetts, being under an impression that there was no  no

agency in the State of Maine - this contemplated transfer never was made, and has caused an appearance of an attempt at fraud on the Government - What the whole circumstances of the case may be are unknown to deponent - but he on his oath declares that he hath not made application for any pension whatever except that for which he was entitled of $10. per month for services rendered in the name of Job Caswell junior, as a fifer in L. Bailey's Comp. 2 d Mass. Regt. - The only way in which Neither hath he been in the State of Massachusetts or Maine since the year 1818 - The only way deponent can account for the misunderstanding is, that his father Job Caswell was a soldier in Foss Regiment, he was enlisted as a private soldier & acted also as barber , and deponent believes was placed on the invalid pension list at (he has understood) at about $6. per month - his father has been dead as he is informed, about 15 years & he himself hath not seen him for 30 years last past - your petitioner or deponent has a brother named Levi Caswell who lives in the Town of Leeds, County of Kennebec, State of Maine, who he has been informed has made attempts to obtain his rights to Revolutionary claims - that he did get Job Caswell Senior's Land through Genl Chandler then a member in Congress, - and at the same time obtained through the same channel the Land Warrant of deponent, which was Numbered 369, against the Location of which I entered a Caveat about the month of Sep. 1820, and has not yet, as deponent believes, been patented - Deponent has nothing further to

observe, or to offer to rebut the slanderous charges and insinuations against his character, who received such distinguished honor from his Officers, even Gen Washington himself, as will be seen by reference to his discharge before alluded to, except a reiteration on oath of the honor of a Soldier that he hath not at any time made any dishonorable or dishonorable applications for pension not his own, that he hath not been in either the State of Maine or Massachusetts more than once within 30 years, then a mariner on board the Sloop Susan belonging to Bath, State of Maine - whence he had sailed from Alexandria D.C. in the summer of 1818 - and early in the winter of same year arrived at Charleston S.C. when he remained until 1820 when he shifted his residence to Bath - but has occasionally made voyages to sea from both places -
Subscribed and sworn to before me the undersigned Justice of the peace in & for the City of Baltimore this 16 th September 1824. M c Farland
Job Carwell
State of Maryland City of Baltimore ss:
On this seventeenth day of September 1824 personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the peace in and for said City William Leafeaver (or Lejeune) who after being duly sworn deponeth that in the year 1777 - he was attached to the Company commanded by Cap. Nathan Goodale in the 5 th Regt. in the Massachusetts Line in the

U. S. Army - That he faithfully recollects a young man of the name of Job Caswell then a serg in the 2 d Regiment who as Job Caswell satisfied & assured is the identical Job Caswell now present, and who has made the aforesaid declaration and deposition ————— William Leferan
Subscribed & sworn to before me a Justice of the peace in Her Said City this 17 th Sept r 1824.
Thos M c Daill
I Certify that I have known Job Caswell & also William Leferan, the latter of whom I prepared his original papers for in the year 1818, that they are both tenants of the City of Baltimore & credible witnesses - the former has to my knowledge drawn a pension for several years the latter from the 18 th Dec r 1818 - Given under my hand Seal at Baltimore this 17 th September 1824.
Thos M c Daill Jus: per for Balt o City
State of Maryland Baltimore County Get
Thereby certify that Thomas Bailey gentleman before whom the foregoing depositions were made and by whom the above certificate was given and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Baltimore County this Eighteenth day of September Eighteen hundred & twenty four
Thos M c Daill (W m Platt? City Court

N o 268.
Job Lawrence Jurat Mass. line
Witnesseth. Nov. 1857 I. D. P. to John Chapman Recd.

34 677 Reoy INVALID.
File No. 34 677
Job Caswell Pri Rev Mr
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 66
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Vide letter to G. Greene Pa. Agt Boston Oct. 27. 1829
Sept 18

To what time, was and what rate, was Job Eastwell, an Invalid, of Massachusetts, last paid? He is now dead. place
J. L. E.
Please furnish the information requested by order of the Comptroller. J. M. Cutts Esq.

He was placed on Mass; roll - at 8 $ - no payment made him on that roll - he was transferred to Sol a from 4 th Mar 1824. From Sol a to Maryland & there p d regularly at 8 $ to 4 th Sept 1829.

Suspended See letter to the South Carolina Agent, July 6. 1824 - p. 265 - Vol. XV. letter book. Job Caswell, Rev. Rev. is now paid at the Maryland Agency. The letter above mentioned was intended to prevent him from drawing the Pension of Job Cas- well, sen r formerly of Massachusetts, who is now dead, and who was paid to March 4. 1809. See letter from Massachusetts Agent, Nov. 2. 1829.
Maryland Roll. placed on Roll, June 1818.
Job Caswell, Rev Invalide , Maryland See letters to
W. H. Murray, Aug t 10 th 1824 - an answer rec d 19 Aug t 1824, which is within. - Letter to Job Caswell, Sept r 9 th 1824. - Gave Job Caswell a copy of the Discharge, Aug t 18. 1824. See letter of 20 th Sept r 1824, applying, copy of to Thomas Bailey, Esq r . Baltimore -

From Massachusetts to S. Carolina.
Job Caswell, Private, in the U. States Army.
Inscribed on the roll of the Massachusetts Agency at $5, and increased to $8 per mo. by act 24 th April, 1816.
Job Caswell invalid, is supposed to be dead
See affidavit of Job Caswell rev. on claim roll - by whom the written affi- davit was made - the explanation also wheres above alluded to. The transfer of the said Job Caswell should not have been made
Job Caswell, Invalid, formerly of Mass. dec d paid to 4 March 1809. The S. Carolina Pension Agent was directed not to pay him. See letter dated July 6. 1824. recorded in letter book Vol. XV. page 265.

The Judge must certify that he is satisfied that the claimant is in indigent circumstances

District of Columbia , ss.
On this 24 th day of June 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the said district, personally appears Job Caswell aged 56 years, resident in Washington in the said district, who being by me first 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 he the said Job Caswell enlisted in 1779 in Hanover in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Judah Alden of the 2 d Massachusetts Reg. t ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the end of the war in 1783 , when he was discharged from service in New Windsor Hut, state of New York ; that he was in the battles of Monmouth  at the taking of Burgoyne, and in several skirmishes , and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, having lost his discharge .
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
I certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the declarant is in indigent circumstances. B. Houston
I, Buckner Houston Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Job Caswell did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. given under my hand this 24 th June 1818 .
B. Houston
To the Honble
The Secretary of War
[Signature]

Gaswold wishes to be placed on the S. Carolina Roll - as he intends to make Charleston  that his place of residence in future - he says that he is a poor wanderer and can hardly call any place his home -

Job Caswell -
Application for transfer - from South Carolina to Maryland. from 4 Mar: 1820
Transf. on 30: October, 1820. sent
to P. Moore. Clk in d. Rts
Sept 18

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
County of Baltimore ss.
On this twenty sixth day of October 1820, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Baltimore — personally appeared Job Caswell — who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Luther Bailey — in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Sprout in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of South Carolina from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of Maryland — where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.
Job Caswell
Sworn and subscribed to, before } me, the day and year aforesaid. }
Oliver Doyl
NOTE. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

State of Maryland
Baltimore County ss
I hereby certify that Owen Dorsey Gentleman before whom the foregoing deposition was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my
office this twenty sixth day of October Eighteen hundred and twenty
William Lloyd
Note. The seal to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

Job Caswell must make an affidavit agreeably to the within form, and trans- mit it, properly authenti- cated , to the War Dept. be- fore he can be transferred.
8 May 1824.

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
State of South Carolina County of City of Charleston.
On this Eighteenth day of May 1824, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of personally appeared Job Caswell late of Massachusetts who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Arthur Bealey in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Bealey in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Massachusetts from whence he has lately removed: that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of South Carolina in the City of Charleston where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Job Caswell
J. W. Mitchell Not. Pub.
WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, August 13, 1818. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated, by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office.

PRINTED BY A. E. MILLER, 4 BROAD-STREET, CHARLESTON.
State of South-Carolina.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
John L. Wilson
Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the State aforesaid:
John L. Wilson
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME.
Know Ye, That J. H. Mitchell
Esquire, whose Seal and Signature appear to the Instrument of Writing, hereunto annexed, is one of the Justices of the Quorum, assigned to keep the Peace for the said State, and Notary Public, Commissioned by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the State.
THEREFORE, all due Faith, Credit and Authority is and ought to be, had and given to his Proceedings and Certificates as such.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, in the city of Charleston the nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four - and in the forty eighth - year of the Independence of the United States of America,
BY THE GOVERNOR.
M. Laval
Secretary of State.

Ms. B. 6. 1. 1824
J. L. Edwards Esq.
War Department Washington

U S Bank Bank Pensions
Boston 29 th June 1824
Sir, A Power of Attorney has been transmitted from Charleston, S. Carolina, to the Cashier, of the Branch Bank here, to obtain Job Caswell's pension, the same person, whom you cautioned me to be particular in the examination of the vouchers, &c. when presented. It appears, from the a certified copy of his Original pension certificate, which accompanies the power of Attorney, that he is now , on the Roll, of the S. Carolina  Army in conformity of the law of the U States, of 18 March 1818, at the rate of 8 Dollars, per month, commencing 24 th of June, 1818. There appear to be some explanation necessary on this subject, before we pay the amount due him, as it appears, on our Books , from the 4 th March 1809, to the 4 th March 1824, a long period of 15 years. please to give me your advice
I am very Respectfully,
Yr Hum Serv
John V. Lillie P.C.
H on Edward D. of
War Department

James L. Edwards Esquire

Office Bank U States Baltimore 21 st August 1824
James L. Edvards Esq War Dept. Pension office Sir
It is not in my power to give you much information respecting Job Caswell.
On receiving his pension in December last he expressed a wish to be paid in future in the State of Maine where he said he meant to reside with some relatives. I offered to obtain a transfer for him but observed that I thought there was no Pension Agency in Maine; he then agreed to be transferred to that of Massachusetts. Nothing passed between us to induce a suspicion on my part that he had any dishonest view in being transferred. He left Baltimore before I was informed by you that he could not be placed on the Massachusetts Roll and I had no opportunity afterwards of communicating the failure of the application - It is probable that he sent a

Power of Atty to Boston to receive his Pension there under the impression that the transfer had been made.
From the coincidence of names the Agent may have supposed him to be the Invalid to whom the large arrearage appeared to be due & informed him of it and his temptation may have proved too strong for our modern Job's integrity.
Perhaps however I ought merely to state the facts into which you have enquired without offering any conjectures -
I am very truly & respectfully
Your ob t . serv t
W m H. Murray

Baltimore 18 th September 1824
Sir,
Agreeably to the intimation in the letter which you did me the honor to write under date 8 th Inst. I have made a statement which I hope will be satisfactory, and enable me to receive the arrearage which I stand greatly in need of - I have asked nothing but what I was honorably entitled to by the laws of my Country, - if dishonorable conduct has been used the fault is not with me, I spurn with indignance any aspersion on my character either as a Soldier or Citizen, and defy the world to prove to the contrary* - Hoping to receive your order to Mr. Murray to pay my demand I remain Sir your respectful Ob d Serv t
By Request of Job Caswell & on his behalf — Edward
J. L. Edwards Esq.
* This observation is not intended to apply to Col. Edwards whom we know to be an honorable gentleman

Mr. Edwards His for transfer
Rec. 26 May 1824 Southam City of Washington
File

Charleston S.C. 19 May 1824
Sir I herewith enclose the Certificate you require, for the transfer of Job Cassidy's Pension from the State of Massachusetts, to our Office in that in Charleston, and am very respectfully Yours, &c. &c. &c. J. H. Mitchell

These Certify that Job Canwell Junior did enlist for, & served during the war, and was Honorably Discharged, he served in my Company as fifer 2 d Mass: Reg t . Luther Bailey Captain Test. David Stockbridge Hanson Mass a May 1 st A D 1867
Plymouth 30 May 1 st ————— 1867 then personally appeared the above named Luther Bailey & made oath to the truth of the above Certificate before me
David Stockbridge Justice of the peace

By His EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Job Eastman in the Second Massachusetts Regiment, having faith- ly served the United States Six years and six months — and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS tenth day of June 1783
G Washington
By His EXCELLENCY Command.
General Putnam
REGISTERED in the Book of the Regiment,
William Dorrance Adjutant.
THE above Job Eastman has been honored with the BAPON of MERIT for six Years faithful Service.
By General Putnam
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