Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18800, Jeremiah Dean, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Dean, Jeremiah
8 18 800
Carded
CONTENTS

Vermont 2784
New Hampshire
Jeremiah Dean
of Chester in the State of N.H.
who was a Private in the Company
by Captain Gile of the Reg't
by Grafton in the N.H. Line
time for 12 mos & 13 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 418 Dollars 113 Cents per ann to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of Sept 1832 and deliv'd to the New Hampshire Representative
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $12.10 Semi-ann. allowance ending 11 Mar 33 20.70
$82.80
{ Revolutionary Claims Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. H. Morrison Clerk Book D Vol. 15 Page 150

on the 24 th same month
3 rd May '34 - see let to Apt: also to stand the the Heald of Chester Vermont - same day - Mr Heald's letter handed to Mr Burdine - on same day - to answer an inquiry about Lake Harris 2  names are not being in the roll.

In the case of Jeremiah Dean, he formerly lived in Unity near Claremont line, having done his business mostly in Claremont for something like forty years. His acquaintance with Stephen Perkins and Ebenezer Sperry commenced soon after his commencing in Unity. The Ministers in Claremont are all of recent settlement, he has no acquaintance with them nor they with him, nor has he formed but very little acquaintance in Chester in Vermont - which was the cause of his coming to this place to have his Declaration made -
At the time of making the Declaration there was only one person then known who could testify to his service; since that time the right month Lewis Colburn of Dickson who served with him, has been here; and his deposition obtained, which is all the evidence as yet which can be found -
Abiel Dean

Mah
12 Mos & 13 days
attm
H. Hubbard
H. J. Phip
$241.43
Will Due to account

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7,
State of New-Hampshire, } ss. County of Sullivan
This first day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Probate , now sitting, Jeremiah Dean a resident of Chester in the County of Windsor and State of N.H. aged 76 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 Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated
That in the year 1775 I was a Minute man in Capt. Guilds Company of Militia in Dedham Massachusetts in the Regt commanded by Col. Grayson, on the alarm of the British leaving Boston for Lexington and Concord we marched in pursuit of them - and came in contact with them near Little Cambridge, and was in the engagement until they got in to Boston - We were then stationed in Roxbury. I there entered for Eight months the first days of May 1775 under Capt. Guild when we remained until the night of 17 June when we marched on to Prospect Hill in Charlestown - from there to Dorchester where we remained until the first of August, from there to Cambridge in to No 2 fort where I remained until January 1776 I was then discharged and returned home to Dedham. In the month of July 1776 I volunteered for two months under Capt. Guild to Machiavish command the Regt we marched into a fort in Roxbury called Lamb's Dam where I remained during the time of my engagement and was discharged - In July 1778 I volunteered for two months under Capt. Guild we marched to Roxbury into the same Fort where I was stationed in 1776 I remained there during the term of my engagement and returned home to Dedham making in the whole twelve months and ten or twelve days service - I was born in Dedham in the County of Norfolk Mass. in the year 1756 - I have no record of my age I was living in Dedham when called into service. In removed to Unity in the County of Oxford Me. in the year 1779 where I lived until I moved to Chester in the year 1831 where I now live
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, I have no documentary evidence of the claim nor is there any known evidence to my knowledge by which proof of the whole I have written evidence the deposition of William Pitts for a part of the time who was present with me -
Sworn to and subscribed, the Jeremiah Dean
Jeremiah Dean , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 76 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the
Frederick A. Sumner Judge of Probate
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 certifies, that it appears to them that Alexander Perkins who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the town of Windsor and that Johnathan Sperry , who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Windsor and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Frederick A. Sumner Judge of Probate I, Aaron Littleton Clerk of the court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Dean for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this first day of August A.D. 1832
Aaron Littleton Register of Probate

For Transfer
How A. Hubbard

Lu n Dean
appn
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

State of New Hampshire Sullivan County ss
On this Eighth day of September 1833 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Sullivan personally appeared Jeremiah Keen, whom his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company com- -manded by Captain Joseph Grafton in the Regiment com- -manded by Colonel John Grayson in the Massachusetts line, in the service of the United States during the war of the Revolution, that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of New Hampshire under the act of Congress of June 1832. He has since removed from said State

That he was resident in Chester in the State of Vermont where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there pay- -able in future - That he at present receives forty one Dollars & 43 Cents per Annum That he has purchased a small house and a small piece of land there and it would be for his interest there to reside and for that reason he wishes to be transferred.
Jemimah Dean
I return and enclose a copy in the day and Yours obediently
Henry Brewster J. Dean

This may certify that I am well acquainted with Jer- -emiah Dyer the person who has subscribed the afore- -going affidavit and I know him to be the same person therein mentioned
Henry Burroughs
Apr 8 th 1833 Mark of Cross

18 800 INVALID.
File No. 18,800
Jeremiah Dean
Bi Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mrs. Patten Departure

I William Pitts of Glanvont in the County of Sullivan and State of Northampshin aged 78 years testify and say that was a soldier at the Fort called Lamb dam in Roxbury near Boston in February and March 1776 I was there acquainted with Jeremiah Dean who was then a soldier with me during the two months that I engaged for, the same Jeremiah Dean is now present with me -
I have been acquainted with him since that time he sustains a good character as to truth and veracity.
William Pitts
State of Northampshin } Glanvont July 31. 1832 Sullivan ss.
Personally appeared before me Uriel Dean one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, William Pitts and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true -
Uriel Dean
I hereby certify that the above named William Pitts is a credible witness - Uriel Dean Jus Pax
I Aaron Nettleton Jr Register of the court of Probate for the County of Sullivan and State of Northampshin do hereby certify that Uriel Dean is a Justice of the Peace and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine -
Witness my hand and the seal of the Court of Probate this 19th day of September 1832 -
Aaron Nettleton Jr Register of Probate

To whom it may concern.
I Lewis Colburn of Dedham in the County of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts Gent r being now eighty years of age, do hereby testify and say - That Jeremiah Dean formerly of said Dedham and now of Chester in the state of Vermont, served in the eight months service with me, as a Soldier, in the Company commanded by Cap t . Joseph Guild in Col. John Greaton's Regiment, —————, that this service was rendered at Cambridge and Roxbury, and that this service was performed during the period from the commencement of Hostilities in the Month of April 1775 and the Month of January 1776 —.
Dedham August 16 th 1832 - Lewis Colburn
Mass.
Norfolk SS. August 16-1832. Then the above named Lewis Colburn personally appeared and made oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is true -
Before W m Wallis Justice of the Peace
And I further certify that from personal knowledge, the above named Lewis Colburn is a man of veracity.
W m Wallis

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk ss.
I James Ware Clerk of the Judicial Court within and for said County of Norfolk, hereby certify that William Ellis Esquire before whom the within deposition was taken, is a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly appointed Commissioned and qualified to discharge the duties of said Office, and that his signature within are genuine and true.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth this sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two. at Dedham in said County.
James Ware.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Sept 8 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that Jeremiah Dean of Dedham served in Capt Joseph Gwill company thirteen days from 19 th of April 1775 Edward D Bangs, Secy