Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,727, Samuel Davis, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Davis, Samuel.
8. 21. 727
CONTENTS

N o . 11.773 Vermont
Samuel Davis
of Windham Co. in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Warren of the Reg t commanded by Col. Rand in the Mass. Troops time for 10 Months 24 days Pwage $36.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 36 Dollars ————— Cents per annum; to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of June 1833 and sent to Eliza Ely. Putney Vt.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 72.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep. 1833 18.00
$90.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown
Clerk,
Book E.
Vol. 3
Page 60

Wintham County Vt Samuel Davis' Deed For Renting Aug. 6 th 1832
8485.
Please to make return to P. White Pittsfield Vt-

County of Windham ss. 2 District of Westminster
STATE OF VERMONT.
Get a Probate Court held at Townshend in said District on the fourth day of August A.D. 1832 being a Court of Record, for the trial of a case of a Clerk
On this fourth
day of August
A.D. 1832—Personally appeared in open Court,
Proceedings Hon. Peter M. Lapham Judge At Townshend in said District
Before said Probate Court, within and for said District now sitting— Samuel Davis a resident of Wardsboro' in the county of Windham and State of Vermont, aged Eighty years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832—That he entered into the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
He declares and says that in April 1775 immediately on hearing of the Lexington Battle, he was residing in the town of Milford in the state of Massachusetts, and volunteered and went to Roxbury near Boston and soon after he arrived there he enlisted for the term of eight months and entered the company of Capt. Samuel Warren in the Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Read of the Massachusetts Troops and faithfully served out the term of eight months and at the expiration of the term he served one month longer in the same Company and Regiment and was dismissed at Roxbury April 1776 but received no written discharge — And that afterwards in the summer of 1777 he volunteered and went to Trenton in the state of Pennsylvania and staid there six weeks — the officers he does not recollect — and was dismissed — and afterwards in the summer of 1778 he again volunteered and went to Rhode Island in the company of Capt. Thomas Baker — he does not recollect the name of Field Officers — was there at the time of the battle and retreated off — and was dismissed after being out six weeks — he has some evidence to prove his services —
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
To the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, he answers, upon his said oath, as follows:
 1. He was born in Milford in the 1752  2. He has a record of his age in his family Bible, which he made himself —  3. He lived at Milford when he went out — afterwards moved to Hopkinton Mass — & has lived for the last fifty years in Wardsboro' where he now lives —  4. He volunteered & enlisted as he has before stated —  5. He recollects the name of Brigadier General — his recollection is failed  6. He never received a written discharge —  7. Samuel Chaplin — Ebenezer Lapham 
Samuel Davis
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Peter M. Lapham Judge
We Samuel Chaplin a clergyman, residing in the town of Acton in said County and Ebenezer Lapham of Wardsboro' in said County hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel Davis who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Eighty years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Ebenezer Lapham
Samuel Chaplin
Before Peter M. Lapham Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Samuel Chaplin who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the said town of Acton and that Ebenezer Lapham who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Wardsboro' in said county, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit and that the Court assigns of record the two foregoing to examine the accuracy of the foregoing.
I Ezra Brainerd Clerk
of the Probate
Court, within and for
the District of Westminster aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Davis for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fourth day of August A.D. 1832.
Ezra Brainerd

No. 8485
Sant. Davis
admitted
10 mo. 24 days Private $36:00

BRIEF in the case of Samuel Davis  of Windham Co. in the State of Vermont  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Probate Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 80 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1775 April " 8 " Private Gen. Capt. Warren, Col. Rand. Meigs } troops   addl. 1 " " " " " " "   1777 Summer " " 42 " Officers not recollected. Vol.   1778 " " " 42 " Capt. Baker,   10 24  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Wilford, Meigs,  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living & traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? improperly attached 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D. Brown
Examining Clerk.

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Samuel Davis a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. File 21727
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apl. 1775 to Jan. 1, 1776 Priv. Samuel Warren Joseph Read Mass.   Summer 77 6 mos. ✓ to Winton, R.I. "   * Nov. 78 6 mos. Thomas Baker ✓ "  
Battles engaged in, * Rhode Is. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Milford, Mass. Date of application for pension, Aug. 6, 1832 Residence at date of application, Wardsboro', Windham Co., Vt. Age at date of application, Born in 1752 at Milford, Mass.
Remarks:

1908 Nov. 3. Hist. to Parke H. Davis & Co.
Reversion
21727 INVALID.
File No. 21,727
Samuel Davis
Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 110
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Watt. Cheyney's Affidavit in favor of Sam l . Davis
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Watt. Cheyney's Affidavit in favor of Sam l . Davis

The affecianed of Nathaniel Cheney of Lyndon in the county of Windham and State of Vermont aged 73 years who testifies and says that in the year 1775 he lived in Milford in the state of Massachusetts that he lived near neighbor to a well known Samuel Dennis then of said Milford now of Mansfield in said Windham County, that in the evening after the Lexington fight according to his best recollection, the said Samuel Dennis with others volunteered and there was to fight the British and went to Newbury where he served as the Defendant understood, through the summer, and in the autumn that in the month of October that Defendant joined the army in the service of the country with said Dennis till the first day of January following when the defendant went home and left him in service and understood that he served till the last of January 1776 - August 6, 1832
Nath l Cheney
State of Vermont Windham County ss Second recollection this 6th day of August 1832 Before me Sam L. Hays & Justin Root
I certify that the foregoing Nath l Cheney is an man of truth & veracity to whom testimony full faith & credit ought to be given - Sam L. Hays & Justin Root

I Adams Chapin of Milford in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire Eighty two years of age do testify and say that Samuel Davis now resident of Wardsborough in the county of Windham and State of Vermont enlisted a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war of the United States in the month of April seventeen hundred and seventy five and that he served in the army nine months from said enlistment in the company of Capt Samuel Warren and regiment of Colonel Joseph Read of Roxbridge in said county of Worcester and I likewise served in said Capt Samuel Warrens company as orderly sergeant at the same time Adams Chapin
Worcester ss.
on the fourth Day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two The aforesaid deponent was examined cautious and sworn agreeable to law to the Deposition aforesaid by him subscribed taken at the request of Nathaniel Gehring Esq by me
John Chapin Jr Justice of the Peace

on the fourth Day of July in the year one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two The aforesaid deponent was examined cautioned and sworn agreeable to law to the Deposition aforesaid by him subscribed taken at the request of Nathaniel Cherry Esq by me
John Bliss Jr Justice of the Peace
I Edward Bowker of Milford in county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of Lawfull age do Testify and say that Samuel Davis was a resident of Wood- borough in the county of Windham and state of Vermont enlisted a soldier in the Revolutionary War of United States in the month of April seventeen Hundred and seventy five and that he served in the said army about about nine months from said enlistment in the company commanded by Capt Samuel Warren and the regiment of Colonel Joseph Read of Wabridge in said county of Worcester and likewise served in said Capt Samuel Warrens company at the same time
Worcester ss.
on the fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two the aforesaid deponent was examined cautioned and sworn agreeable to law to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed taken at the request of Nathaniel Cherry Esquire by me
John Bliss Jr Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that the within named Adam Chapin and Edmund Bowker are reported persons of undoubted truth and veracity to whose testimony full faith & credence ought to be given -
John Chapin Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Abijah Bigelow, clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Worcester, certify, That John Chapin, Junr Esquire, before whom the annexed affidavits of Adams Chapin and Edmund Bowker were signed and sworn to, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County; and that his signature to the same appears to be in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the County Seal, this twenty second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk

71 PARKE H. DAVIS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 22 SO. THIRD STREET, EASTON, PENNA.
To the Hon. the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
My dear sir:
I beg to ask if applications for pensions were made to your department by the soldiers of the Revolutionary War whose names are given below and if so to have a brief of these applications as issued by your department.
Samuel Davis, Wardsboro, Vermont, a soldier in a Massachusetts Regiment, originally residing at Milford, Mass.
Aaron Davis, Wardsboro, Vermont or Surrey, New Hampshire, a soldier in a Massachusetts Regiment originally residing at Milford, Mass.
Thanking you very cordially for the courtesy of your assistance,
I am,
Very respectfully,
Oct. 26, 1908.
Parke Davis