Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,291, William Daniel, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Daniel, William
S 34,291
CONTENTS

3069-
Massachusetts
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William Daniel Private Capt. Durbank Mass. Cont. Massachusetts Line Three's Reg't until 1 year the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Septem r 1818 and sent to Thomas P. Adams esq r . Plymouth Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Septem r 1818 38.40 4 mo 2/30 Semi-anl. p ee ending 4 March 1819 28.
$ 66.40.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Hingham, Plymouth Continued

Notification sent October 26 1820 A.D. Abraham Bigelow, Cambridge, Mass.

FREE
Collee ... Mr. ... Mass ...
Secretary of the Department of war
Admitted
City of Washington

United States of America.
State of Massachusetts Norfolk Is Quincy April 11 th 1818
I, William Daniel a citizen of the United States, now resident at Hingham in the County of Plymouth in the State aforesaid, do on oath, declare, that I served, in the War of the Revolution, the full term of time required by a Law of the United States, made and passed in the month of March, A. D. 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons en- gaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," as one requisite to entitle me to be placed on the pension list of the said United States, having entered the Land service of the said United States, on the Continental Establishment, and served as a private Soldier against the common enemy; from the beginning of the year 1775 for the term of eight months, in Captain Cranston's Company in Col. Wilt- combs Regiment -
That I belonged to Captain Burbanks' company and served for the term of one year, part of the time under Captain Perkins in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hoxie . and that I left the service by an honorable discharge in writing, which I have since lost or mislaid -
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the said United States, if any may be, or hath been, so allowed.
By reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I stand in need of assistance from my Country for support - William Daniel
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this Eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval ser- vice of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me Thomas B Adams Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit -
the abovenamed William Daniels and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence.
Thomas B Adams

232.
William Daniel
3009
[Signature] 28 Jan 18
[Signature]
1830

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, William Daniel — resident in Newton  county in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. B.069 — now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“ WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. ”
“ I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, William Daniel  Massachusetts line  any army, late a Private in the in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh — day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen — Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty eighth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen —
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“ Real Estate — None
Personal Estate — None.
William Daniel.
And the said William Daniel having been first duly sworn according to law does on his oath declare that he served one year & eight months as a Private in the Revolutionary war, a part of said time viz. in 1778 in Capt. Burbank's company of Col. Knox's Regiment of Artillery, Massachusetts line all which is more particularly set forth in his original declaration on file in the war office — that he is sixty seven years of age a ship carpenter by occupation but totally unable to perform any labour by reason of rheumatic

complaints and other infirmities of age - that he has no family and was supported by the town of Hingham previous to obtaining a pension
William Daniels
Sworn & declared to
Before me L. Dana judge //

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
// I, William Daniel do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me God. William Daniel
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed William Daniel took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana Judge of said Court. //
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the 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 nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820 .
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

34 291 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34 291
William Daniel
Dr Rev No 2
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 103
[Arrangement of 1870.]