Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,522, Samuel Conrey, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Conrey, Samuel
NUMBER
S. 12,522
CONTENTS
carded

Rev. War
12522 INVALID.
File No. 12,522
Samuel Conrey Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 11
[Arrangement of 1870.]

6834
New Hampshire
Samuel Correy
of Holl in the State of N H who was a Pirate in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the [blank] line for [blank]
★ Mass. Line.
Records corrected Sept. 19/05 p.
Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Mar 1833 and sent Docu- Dana of North Prison - Arrears to 4th of Mar 1833 $60 - Pemi=ant. allowance ending 4 Sept - 15 -
$75 -
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. Blair Clerk Book D - Vol. 1 st Page 148.

1 Declaration of Samuel Leoney.
No. 79.
app't. sworn
20663

State of New Hampshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Hillsborough Middlesex ss.
On this twenty seventh day of August — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honourable Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for the County of Hillsborough  Hillsborough aforesaid, now sitting, at Amherst  Samuel Cony a resident of Holles in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of  Hillsborough  Massachusetts , aged seventy nine 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, A. D. 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
That he was enlisted on May AD 1775 in the Company of Captain Joseph  Moors in Colonel  Prenett's Regt of the Massachusetts forces, and repaired to Cambridge and was encamped near the College, and he remained with his Company until he had served out his term of eight months and Captain Moors having enlisted into the Massachusetts service, I continued one month longer by the request of the Commander in Chief, and was finally dismissed at Cambridge in the month of February AD 1776 having been in service nine months from the time I entered the Company) imperson of Samuel D. Dyer of Holmes  Mass  Samuel Cony + mark
And at the same Court the following interrogatories were proposed to him to wit:
1 When and in what year were you born?
Ans r : I was born in Brookline in Mass on the 24 th day of April AD 1754
2 Have you any record of your age and where is it?
I have a family record of my age in my household
3 Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live
Ans r : I was living in Holmes when I was called into service and have always lived here since I went into service —
4 When were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom —
I enlisted and my service was voluntary

5 State the names of some of the Officers you saw etc.
Ans r . I saw Genl Washington & other Genls at this Gate.
6 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier in the Revolution.
Ans d . Mr Jesse Worcester Esq r David Bailey, Betsy Mark Harley and Betsy Pooling.
Impressed
Sam d Dana of Grafton Mr.
Sam d Conner + mark (Blind)
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 any state,
Sam d Conner mark + Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate.
We, Eli Smith a clergyman, residing in the Town of Holliston in said County and I, Jesse Worcester residing in the same Town hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel Conner who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; — that we believe him to be seventy nine 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.
Eli Smith
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Betsy Pooling, Justice of Peace Jesse Worcester
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 certify, that it appears to them that Eli Smith who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in said Holliston and that Jesse Worcester who has also signed the same, is a resident in said Holliston and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate
I Charles H. Atherton Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Conner for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid, at Cambridge in said County of Middlesex, this thirteenth day of Sept r in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
C. H. Atherton Reg d
And I further certify that Betsy Pooling whose name and office appears in the preceding Certificate is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and that the same appears to be her proper signature.
Sept r 13 th 1832
C. H. Atherton Reg d

I Timothy Woods of Groton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty five years, do depose and say, that I served in the war of the Revolution as by my Declaration on file in the Pension Of- fice, will appear:
And I do further testify and declare that I well knew and remember one Samuel Bonney of Hollis in the State of New Hampshire who served as a Soldier in that war, in the year AD 1775 that he was a private Soldier, in the Company of Capt. Joseph Mears in Colo. Prescott's Regiment, in which Company, I also served. I well recollect the said Samuel Bonney was in the Company when I joined it, or soon after as I often saw him from the commencement to the end of the eight months service, when the eight months men were discharged from service, all the Soldiers that did not engage in the year service were dismissed nearly at the same time this service commenced in April or May 1775 the previous day of my own engagement I have no means of knowing, but remember that I was dismissed in December AD 1775 or in part of January AD 1776 and I remember said Bonney came from the Camp in Cambridge when the Company were discharged Timothy Woods
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Middlesex to wit December 10 th AD. 1832.
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for all the Counties in said Commonwealth Timothy Woods well known to me as a credi- ble witness entitled to full faith
who subscribes the above deposition and made solemn Oath, that the same is just and true in all its particulars, according to the best of his knowledge and belief. Saml. Dana

Rev. Woods for Sam Conway
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex ss. I Elias Phinney Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, being a Court within said county of Mid- dlesex, do certify that Samuel Dana Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace within said County of Middlesex, and that his name set to the within certificate is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the Eighteenth day of December 1832.
E. Phinney

Sam Conney 20.663
Mrs. Private Cam'a
$30-
Sam Dana Esq Groton Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Sam l Conney  of  Wools  in the State of  New Hampshire  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 79 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. As a Gen.     May In 1775 " 9 " Private Capt. Wools Col. Prescott  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Wools  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 1 Living witness, & traditionary evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correction every particular 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
L. C. Woodson Examining Clerk.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Conrod, Charles GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9206 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED September 26, 1791 To John McCleland, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.