Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,312, John Davis, Mass.

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Mass
Davis, John
S 34,312
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Massachusetts Rolls.
1,602
John Davis, Capt Smith Private Mass Line - Byers
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 d of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818 and sent to the Hon. Sam d Dana, Boston, Massa.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Ser d 1818
4 months 32/30. $ 40.53
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
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Henry Woodard 69

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BE it remembered, that on this Third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me, SAMUEL DANA , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid) comes John Davis of Shirley in said county of Middlesex and on oath declares, that he served in the Revolution , against the common enemy for the space of four years and six months. He served on Continental establishment one year, commencing the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, and was honorably discharged. He enlisted upon the same establishment for the term of three years in the Company of Capt. Sylvanus Smith, in the 12 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Timothy Bigelow, in which he served for the full term of three years, and at Camp Highlands on the fourteenth day of March 1780 was again received an honorable discharge. — He is now fifty nine years old, has a family of eleven Children which have recently been visited with sickness, sickness, his property is greatly impaired, and he has not health and strength to profit by his labor, and at this period, of his life .
By reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for his support.
Middlesex
Thus, made, subscribed, and sworn to, at
Groton
in said county of
John Davis
Sam d Dana

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the third day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  John Davis Personally appeared and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed. and at the same time he exhibited to me, the discharge therein mentioned
from which it appears to me, that the said John Davis did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months. upon the continental establishment
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration & the discharge aforesaid to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
Sam d Dana

John Davis Mason
S 34 312

T HIS certifieth, That John Davis — Private has served Three Years in the 15 th Massachusetts Regiment, being the full Term of his Inlistment ; has conducted himself as a good and faithful Soldier, and is hereby discharged the service.
Given under my Hand, at Camp Highland, this 14 th Day of March 1780.
Tim c Byglow

John Davis
Discharge

34 312 Pay INVALID.
File No. 34, 312
John Davis Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 108
[Arrangement of 1870.]