Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34149, Peter Cary, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Gary, Peter
S. 34149
CONTENTS

Massachusetts
4,306
Peter Gary 41 Capt Ashley Private Mass. Line - 2 years 77
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 13 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th of Nov 1818 and sent John Davis Esq.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818 at \frac{22}{30} 37.88 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 mar 1819 - 48.
$ 85.88
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Shrewsbury,
Worcester Co
Continued
Information sent October 14. 1820 to Abiah Gage, Worcester, Massachusetts.

State of Massachusetts
I Peter Gary a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Hunsbury in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the first of December 1775 in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the con- tinental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the fourth day of July seventeen hundred and seventy seven
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Ashby's Company, Patterson's Reg- iment, Massachusetts line, was taken prisoner (when employed in the expedition against St. John's Canada) May 20, 1776 and was exchanged at Halifax in the month of June in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy seven and that I left the service on the fourth day of July A.D. 1777
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty eight years, and having a family to support - that being enlisted for one year and having been taken prisoner and not exchanged till after my time of enlistment had expired I was not afterwards called upon to join the Continental Army and so received no discharge, but was afterwards brought off by Capt. Ashby -
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Peter Gary
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 13 th 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 service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me
Isaac Parker Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts
the abovenamed Peter Gary 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; and, on examination duly made said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court the day & year aforesaid Isaac Parker C.J.S.

I Jonah Howe of Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire of lawful age do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Peter Coss within named and have no doubt of the truth of the facts by him within stated, having been out myself a considerable length of time in the said Revolutionary war on similar service in behalf of the United States
Jonah Howe
Worcester ss Aprils 13. 1810 then personally appeared Jonah Howe Esq and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me - Andrew H Ward Justice Peace
Peter Coss Shrewsbury
Jonathan
Stephen
Peter Coss Shrewsbury

Dear Sir,
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Schedule of the Estate of Peter Lary of Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Applicant for a Pension, under the Act of Congress of May 1. 1820.
   a poor old house $20. - a small building improved as  $35. -    a barn $15 - - - - -     1 bow $17. - one bureau $7. - two tables $3. 50 - - -  27. 50    7 chairs $2. - light stand $1. - cooking utensils (iron) $3 -  6. -    Cram, Shovel Stones, and irons - - - - -  4. -    Crockery, Glass & Pewter $4 Braf Kettle $4. pr flat iron, 50  8. 50    Milk tub & churn $1. 75 - 2 old chests .75 - - - - -  2. 50    2 pails .40 4 Milk pans .50 1 looking Glass small 1. 50 -  1. 40    2 spinning wheels $2. 50 4 Earthen pots .40 - - - - -  2. 90    knives Forks .33 1 Basket .33 Pillows .25 - - - - -  . 91    2 old Barrels, 67 old iron, 30 1 Gun $2. 50 - - - - -  3. 47    axe, scythe, hoe, saw, shawl Hammer - - - - -  2. -    loom &ackle 5. 50 - 50 lb Salt Pork $3 - - - - -  10. 50    2 Bushels meal $1. 67 Cask $1. 87 - - - - -  3. 54     $108. 22   
I have a wife aged 49 - who is in very low state of health - and one daughter Harriet aged 18 - of feeble constitution and quite out of health without a prospect of her ever being better. Thus composed all my family. I am by occupation a labourer but not able to do much.
Peter Lary

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this tenth day of July 1820,
personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, Peter Gary aged sixty one years, resident in Shrewsbury . in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as
follows: I enlisted into Capt. Ashley's Company, Patterson's Regt. Mass. Line in December 1775, for one year, was sent in a detachment under Major Sherburne to reinforce the "federal" where the detachment was defeated, the fort having been taken before we arrived; I was taken prisoner and carried by the Indians and kept by them at Grenadier's Island about 2 months; - was then redeemed by a British Offr. Foster, and thence I was sent to Montreal, Quebec and to Halifax where I came in a cartel to Boston 4 th July, 1777, where I was exchanged. - I was in the Militia at the taking of Burgoyne, and served in the Artillery which was just before taken at Bennington. My first declaration was made about the 13 day of April 1818, and my pension certificate is number 4,306;
and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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.
Peter Gary
Sworn to and declared, on the tenth day of July, 1820 before the said Court.
Attest, Abijah Bigelow
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the 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 one hundred eight dollars and twenty two cents. —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this tenth day of July 1820.
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of, the Court for the County of Worcester.

34 149 Recy INVALID.
File No. 34,149
Peter Gary P. Rev. Mr.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9, Page 65-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I William Cary of Oxford in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say, that Peter Cary of Shrewsbury in said County who has applied for a pension by virtue of, and under, an act of Congress passed March last and whose statement has been returned for further evidence his name "not on the rolls" enlisted a few days previous to the first of January A.D. 1776 for a years service in the Massachusetts line, Captain Sibleys Company Pattersons Reg. and on the first day of January aforesaid entered the service under said enlistment and was taken prisoner with Maj- Sheppards in attempting to reinforce the Redans at the North some  after months after his said enlistment and that he was landed at Boston early in the month of July A.D. 1777 from a Cartel of prisoners from Halifax and further say that the said Peter Cary again entered the service of the United States at the taking of Burgoyne and that in said was at the taking of Burgoyne and that the said Peter Cary there saw Capt. Sibley afore named who there in my presence paid the said Peter Cary for the years service afore said —
Worcester Sept. 25. 1810 Then (the above named) William Cary subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit before me — and I further certify that the said William Cary is a man of veracity. — Andrew H. Ward Jus. Pacis —

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, holden within and for said County of Worcester, certify, that Andrew H. Wash Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit has been made, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this eighth day of October A. D. 181 8.
Abijah Bigelow, Clk.
Application of Peter Lurey

We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts do hereby certify that Peter Cary now is and has been for more than twenty years a resident of said town, and that he is in low and needy circumstances and has no means of support but by hiring out by the day - and we do also certify, that we have no doubt but the statement made by him as to his services in the Continental army in the Revolutionary war are correct and true -
Shrewsbury Sept. 29 th 1818
William Howe Ephraim Maynard Isaac Netherby Jr

I Daniel Bernis of Newton in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify & say that Peter Cary, now resident in Shrewsbury in the county of Worcester & Commonwealth aforesaid, either in the latter of April or the forepart of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and seventy five, enlisted into the service of the American Revolutionary War, in a company commanded by Captain Nathan Fuller, at said Weston; said company belonged to a Regiment commanded by Col. — Gardner; & served at this enlistment for the term of eight months, during which time I was a soldier in the same company; — I do further testify & say that after the expiration of said time the said Cary again enlisted into the Continental service, sometime in the month of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred & seventy six; He enlisted out of the company of which I was a member, into a company belonging to Col. Patterson's Regiment: He was enlisted by Lieutenant Job Priest; who the captain of said company was, I do not remember. The term of this enlistment was one year: I do further testify that the said Cary marched from Cambridge to the city of New York; from thence to Albany & from thence to Canada, under the command of General Thompson; & that in the month of May or June he was taken prisoner by the British or Indians, & was then reported, carried captive to Quebec & from thence to Halifax: & was released in the month of June or July in the year 1777: — During the times aforesaid until he the said Cary was made prisoner I served as a soldier in the same Brigade with the said Cary & further
I say not.
Daniel Bernis
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. September 28 th 1818. — I, Isaac Tuske of Weston in said county Esquire, am

of the Justices assigned to keep the peace within and for said county, do certify that Daniel Morris before named personally appeared before me & made oaths to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed; I do further certify that the said Daniel Morris is a man of veracity and worthy of credit.
Isaac Huske, Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex: ss.
I Abraham Duglow Clerk of the judicial Courts in the County of Middlesex, do certify that Isaac Huske Esquire, whose signature is set to the foregoing certificate, is a Justice of the peace, acting under the authority of this Com- monwealth, & his name thereto subscribed is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas this fifth day of Oc- tober in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & eighteen.
Abraham Duglow